Happy Sunday everyone. Sorry i’ve been absent for a while, my body is still trying to adjust to this new working mom lifestyle and as such i’ve been hitting the sack early feeling pretty exhausted. But time is a healer of all things, and with every passing day I am adjusting better and better-er!

So lets share some crafting! 🙂

It was mums birthday on a few weeks back, and one of the awesome things about being a mummy is that I get to make two cards for occasions such as these- one for mum, one for Nanny. Double the fun!

This card was inspired by a card posted on twitter which was made using a gorgeous grey tone, and as I was leafing through my 6×6 pack of SEI papers (6×6 Poppy paper stack) this pretty grey striped paper caught my eye. To make the grey panel, I rubbed some pumice stone distress ink straight onto card, and I also used the same ink pad when stamping. The letters are from the hero arts monogram clear stamps. I love this set – it’s so useful.

To add some colour I cut some flowers from pattern paper from the same SEI paper pad and embellished using Enamel Accents.

For the Nanny card I wanted brighter colours to add a more playful element. Here I took papers from the togetherness paper pad by cosmo cricket- I love that mustard yellow colour- it reminds me of my own Nannie who always added a little scoop of English mustard to the edge of her plate every Sunday.

Once again I’ve turned to the Trimcraft ‘relatives’ stamp set for the word Nanny- what a great set! And not expensive either!

And don’t worry, i didn’t forget (merely delayed)…the Scrapbook Magazine goes to LISA WILLIAMS. Congrats Lisa -send me your address.

Also, can I please take a moment to have a huge shout out to Heidi from Simon Says Stamps! Thank you sooooo much, you know the reason why! (its because she is awesome!) 🙂

Hi everyone,

(Giveaway for the Scrapbook magazine still open below)

Hope you are having a great weekend!

One of my friends from Baby Days group is an Army wife and they recently were waiting to hear where their next posting would be. They had their fingers crossed for Germany, but they could have been sent a number of places. They found out, and guess what – their wish came true!

So i decided that a congratulations card was in order, and definitely one with a German theme, and this was the end result.

I used an American Crafts black card base, and ran it through the cuttlebug using the swiss dots embossing folder. To make the panel I stamped the Hero Arts friend definition ( love this stamp) with some Fired Brick distress ink and then used a template to cut out the label shape. For the flag I simply rubbed three colours of distress inn (black soot, fired brick & mustard seed) onto white card stock then used a square punch to create squares. I over lapped the squares using sticky tape and trimmed off the excess so that the flag was a rectangle. For the flag pole, i dipped the end of a cocktail stick into some tacky glue and poked it into a bead, and set it aside to dry for an hour. Then it didn’t take long to assemble everything together.

{Funny thing is that i was convinced that the german flag had vertical stripes so originally made a flag like that. Once it was done something seemed off, it didnt feel right, so i had to google the German flag – good thing i did otherwise i would have had it completely wrong! haha!}

The congratulations greeting is also a Hero Arts favourite of mine, and I made the arrow head cuts using the corner of the square punch.

Thanks for stopping by.

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