Thinking about Easter

Easter will be along soon and is celebrated by many in various ways.  For some it is a deeply religious event and for others it is simply a long weekend off work and school.  There are several Easter themed dies in the February Frantic Stamper release and the range from cute vintage animals to a more religious tone.  Something for everyone no matter what Easter represents for you.

Todays card is a cute little Easter lamb dressed in her shiny bells and bow.  I have added a lot of glitter but you will have to take my word for it as it doesn't really show in the photo. I have made  a vintage inspired card by adding a scalloped background and a ruffled edge, both older Frantic Stamper dies.  Final touch was some little pastel coloured blossoms.  The lambs features and hooves are coloured in pencil and I poked a pin through the back in places to pop out the wool for a little dimension.

See you soon

Karen

xo

Lilacs, Clean and simple.

Lilacs are not really clean and simple they are beautiful and bold.  There are several blooms both single stems and trios of blooms in the February release from Frantic Stamper.  This is the Lilac from on if the trios and I have paired it with the bucket from th bucket and pitcher set.  I die cut the bloom 3 times and have placed them in the bucket at varying heights by cutting the stems and using foam to pop them up.  I also used a pin to poke through from the back to make some of the little petals pop out to give it lots of dimension.

So its probably more a clean and layered card than clean and simple but its pretty none the less.

See you soon

Karen

xo

Anything Goes at Southern Girls

Its time for a new challenge at Southern Girls Challenge blog and its Anything Goes.  Always a favourite and always fun.  Whatever you may be working on fits the brief so pop on over and enter for the chance of a prize.

See you there 

Karen

xo

February Release Frantic Stamper... I think this means Im up to date.

Yes I do I think this means I am up to date.  I am posting February cards and it is February.  Sao the February release from Frantic Stamper is all about Spring and Easter.  Lots of florals from blooms to borders and medallions and cute easter dies with a vintage feel to them.

Todays card is a lovely floral and gingham combo featuring the Spring Swag builder and Floral edger.  These 2 die sets are really made for each other and go together so perfectly.  I can see these being used in lots of projects.  And of course I do have a thing for gingham.

Thanks for popping in.

Karen

xo

January release at Frantic Stamper.

I did say we were up to date but of course it is now February and I'm showing you January dies.  But thats ok next post will have us back on track for sure.  January was a bit of a celebrations release incorporating the Southwest.  So Mardi Gra, St Patrick's, cowboys and cactus.

January is summer for us and even though we knew all about the horrendous fires that were burning in Australia and the human and animal suffering that was taking place it all became very real one afternoon when the skies above Auckland turned orange from the smoke and the day became night very early.  It was very very eerie and made us all realise how our Australian neighbours must be struggling.  Australia and New Zealand have a very healthy neighbourly rivalry when it comes to things like sports but when it comes to tragedy we are also there with open hearts and open arms ready to do what ever we can to help each other.

We saw groups of firefighters arrive on the ground from NZ and around the world.  Medical personnel and vets and vet nurses gave up holidays to help and crafters picked up their needles and dusted off their sewing machines to make nests and pouches and wraps for all the injured and rescued animals. It has been amazing and humbling to watch not only NZ but the rest of the world come together in unity.  There are some very important lessons to be learnt here.

Anyway cards for January... I chose these two celebrating Mardi Gra and St Patricks.  Two quite unique and different celebrations.

See you back again soon

Karen

xo

Almost up to date!!

Tes I am almost up to date with Frantic Stamper releases.  December brought us a Love and friendship release.  We aren't too far away from valentines day so some nice dies and stencils for valentines day along with some great friendship/shopping dies.  A really cool corset and a Paris flower shop window front were included.

So here s the corset.  Its a big die that uses the whole card front but its really snazzy with the lacing.  Could also be used for girls night, hens party cards/invitations.

This was one of the valentines Love sentiment dies, not just limited to valentines day.  The background is made using a new stencil with embellishment mousse, so it has dimension.

Also in this release were 2 set of mannequin forms and dresses.  I loved the style of this dress and chose some retro papers to cut them.  I thought they went perfectly with that sentiment...which made me laugh so I had to use it.

So that brings us up to date.

Next post January 2020.

Karen

xo

November at Frantic Stamper

Still catching up with Frantic Stamper brings us to November 2019 when yet another Christmas release hit the store.  This time Winter Wishes with lots of little snow man and penguins and a set of tiny tags.  The tiny tags are a set I have pulled out several times since November as they just add that little extra without being too much.  Lots of not specifically Christmas but winter themed dies including a new slender alphabet set,.  Alphabet sets are always very handy to have.

This card features the Folksy Gnomes, there is a male version as well as this female version.  So cute and so easy to cut and use to make a quick and easy card.  Love this set.

Second up is the Smitten with a Mitten set is comes with little extra dies to add to the front of the mitten including the snowflake I used in the background.  This card also uses one of the tiny tags from the set.  There is a circle a heart a star and quite a few other little tags.

The last card I am sharing from November features the very fun stacking penguins.  They are cleverly designed to stack and form anythjing  from this to a pyramid.  Love this idea and again really fun to use.

Countdown will continue with December soon.

Karen

xo