Pun fun with love!

Sorry guys!!! I haven't had much time this week to stamp or even update my poor blog! Anyways this is the card I made for the UStamp New Zealand card swap! I so love this stamp set! Our card had to be pink or red with the theme with love! I ended up using chocolate chip, kraft, pixie pink and whisper white. This was what I ended up with;-).

I hope to get abit of time in the weekend and catch up on a little stamping fingers crossed!!! Well I'm off to bed, hope everyone has a fantastic weekend!

Thanks for stopping by!

Tracey

My UStamp holiday swaps

Thought I'd show you the holiday swaps I sent to Beth Kern from the US. We had to make a home made gift and a Christmas card and also send some treats from your country! I decided to make a calender for next year for my gift and I made a double pocket bag and filled one side with favorite chocolates and for the other side I made a Christmas card. I always do the swaps its just great fun receiving something in the post!! And you make a new friend too;-)!!!

Tracey

September calendar page

I have a group of friends that I meet with every month or 2 and we decided to do a calendar swap. There is 6 of us and we are each creating 2 pages and making 6 of each of them. In the end we will each get a complete calendar back!!! This is the page I made for my September month. I don't know why I put off doing my pages for so long. I guess I work better under pressure. he he. I can't wait till I get the other pages from our calendar page swap. I will show them to you once I have them all:) If you want to see my June calendar page go here.

Supplies:

Stamps: simple friendship

Inks: bravo burgundy, close to cocoa and old olive

Card: bravo burgundy, close to cocoa, old olive and whisper white

DSP: Close to cocoa and old olive from 2008-2009 catalogue

Embellishments: old olive ribbon and 1/2 pearls

Thanks for stopping by!!!

Tracey

June Calender Page

I have a group of friends that I get together with every month or so. We do swaps every 2 months which are always fun! This time we decided to do a calender together. We each had to make 2 months and make 6 of each month. And me being me left it till the last minute to do mine even though we have had 5 months to do them.he he. I got back from my holiday on Wednesday night and made this page and another page for a calender swap Thursday and Friday night! I finished putting some finishing touches on them on Saturday! There is nothing like a deadline to make you work hard.lol. I will post the other page I have made in the next few days:)

Supplies:

DSP: Spring fling

Stamps: Inspired by nature and great friend

Ink: Certainly celery, so saffron and always artichoke

Card: Certainly Celery, so saffron and whisper white

Ribbon: So saffron.

I better get ready, I'm off to do some stamping and hand in my pages.

Thanks for stopping by!

Tracey

SWAPS FROM THE U.S

My swaps arrived this week from Kim Steiner who is my swap sister from the US. We had to make 2 cards/3d items for the swap. The first is a folder full of note cards and envelopes with my embossed initial in two different colours. How cool is that!!

And the second is a card. I love the flowers with the jumbo brads in the middle. Blue bayou was an in colour from last years catty and one of my favorites!! I like the saying happy birthday since it was my birthday last week, not that Kim probably new. lol!!

I will post my swaps I sent to Kim tomorrow.

Hope everyone is having a fantastic week!

Tracey

Swaps for my swap sister

These are the 2 projects I made for my UStamp swap sister Debbie Keane who lives in Virginia Beach, USA. I was in such a hurry to post them off that I forgot to take photos of them, these are the ones that Debbie took for me. First I decided to make a free standing calender something useful to use that you can put anywhere. Its hard to see from the photo that the bag is a double pocket bag . I made a matching card for one side and filled the other side with cadbury favorite's chocolates. I got a few requests for the instructions of the bag so here is a easy to follow tutorial.

If you haven't already, leave a comment in on my blog candy post to be in to win a free UStamp pass for the next session in September. I will be drawing a winner on Friday morning!!

Tracey

Boatloads of love

Man it feels like ages since I posted, its been a bad week. I have had the flue and I am off to bed straight after this post. I felt like doing a wee bit of stamping this afternoon and thought I better finish my boys swap that is way over due. I have used old olive and always artichoke and no ribbon(can you believe it!). I have popped out the puffs of smoke with some dimensionals and used puff paint on them. Sorry about the very short post I will be back when I feel a little better.

Thanks for looking.

Tracey

Baroque Motifs

This is a card I made for a swap, it was a colour challenge Old Olive and Elegant Eggplant. Love these colours together. I started with Whisper White card scored some lines to give a tiled effect then double stamped the swirly stamp using Old Olive and Elegant Eggplant. Used the Photo corners punch and the mat pack in the corner, crimped some card to give a little texture, then added the ribbon to match. Stamped and paper tolled out the flowers. Its funny when you get a idea and off you go, then you end up with something that is completely different. What ever works I say.lol .
I am working on a project at the moment didn't quite get it finished last night. I will finish it tonight, and if I can get a good photo at night I will do another post tonight, otherwise I'll post tomorrow.
Tracey

Swap

This is a card I made for a swap that my upline Megan had for all her downline. We had to make a card with the colours real red, chocolate chip and creamy caramel.
Stamps I used: Boho Backgrounds, Sweet Serendipity(out of the spring mini).
Ink: Chocolate Chip. Punches: as many as possible lol. Ribbon: 5/8" Grosgrain Chocolate Chip.
Hardware: Pewter Hodgepodge


Its hard to see from the picture but I have papertolled out the circles.