A little milestone - thanks

I am not sure if any of you have noticed, but the visitor count to my little blog site has just reached over 10,000 visitors.  Now I realise that probably most of that would be from me and my family, but thank you anyway.  

This card was made for my sister's recent birthday, a country garden theme for a country dweller.  This would have to be one of my favourite cards made recently and it was fun to make as well.  Lots of stamp sets were used, and apart from the sentiment and butterfly, all were second generation images.  This means that the stamp was inked up and stamped on scrap paper and then stamped again on the card front for a more subtle and subdued effect.  There is also something elegant about the vanilla on vanilla colour scheme too in my opinion.  I just like the way it looks, and then the sponging sets it off as well.  Hope you agree. 

 

Have you had a chance to check out the 2014 catalogue yet?  There is a link to it on the left side of the screen if you want to look.  My parcel of goods only recently arrived, so hopefully soon I will be able to put up some cards made with new stamps.  

A thank you card

Again, this isn't one of the greatest cards ever made, but I am just playing with ideas at the moment.  I recently saw a Halloween card with what looked like a strip torn out of the centre of the card with the characters from Googly Ghouls in the Holiday Catalogue peeking out, and wanted to try the effect.  Characters or animals would look better peeking through, but this set was on the desk so that's what got used. 

A different Silhouette

Well, I went to the Craft Sale on the weekend organised by a group of Stampin' Up demonstrators (not my group).  Each year they have a big clean out and sell of their retired stamp sets, cardstock, punches and accessories.  There were some great buys and I was able to find the two retired sets I have wanted for a while; Pocket Silhouettes and Fox and Friends as well as a tab punch that I thought would come in handy.  I also managed to pick up a few re-inkers for ink pads and a punch my M-I-L was after, but after I got home I kept on thinking I should have bought this and that. I blame this on my father.  He always taught us to be careful with our money and not waste it, but I really missed out on some good buys like ribbon, cardstock and patterned papers.  So next year my mantra will be, if you can use it, get it.  Sorry Dad.   

Anyway back to stamping.  As I said, I finally have Pocket Silhouettes so had a little play on Sunday.  

Simple things first, like squares.  

Fairly plain and simple and not one of the greatest.  Have used Calypso Coral, Soft Suede and Lucky Limeade on the squares with a bit of the Sale-a-bration ribbon (that I also bought) wrapped around the card.  

While I was playing my daughter decided to clean out the glasses cupboard cause there was something sticky on the bottom, and 6 hours later she had cleaned out a few other cupboards, replaced the paper liner, cleaned the old paper off the top of the cupboards, cleaned off the greasy gunk and replaced the paper, cleaned the glass splashback and also under the cupboards above the bench.  Somehow Greg got involved too (he says he only came to the kitchen to get a glass of water), and now the fridge has been pulled out and cleaned behind and on top.  I was planning on making some banana bread, but couldn't get in the kitchen.  But I am not complaining.