Old Houses

These cards were made using a photo stamp by Darkroom Door called Country Cottage. I've named the title of my post Old Houses because this house is just like some of the ones you see around this district on the older cattle properties and cane farms.
I must give credit to a very talented lady called Lisa Somerville. This is the card that inspired me to make the four cards below.

Once again, I used Versafine ink to stamp these images. The first two in Sepia and the bottom two in black with green brushed around the edges. All the edges have been distressed lightly to accentuate the 'country' feel of them. The purple/red weathered paint look paper is by Paper Inklings and the green/black paper is from Basic Grey's Origins range.

It's been sunny here again today but there is quite a breeze blowing. A bit of cloud around but it doesn't look like rain at this stage. Yesterday was reasonably productive and I hope to get some more cards done this afternoon.
Thanks for visiting and have a great day.

For The Men

Two more for the men in our lives. Again using Basic Grey Boxer papers but this time with a different stamp and sketch. The stamp is by Stamp It called Landrover. Again this stamp lends itself brilliantly to Versafine ink. I did try water based dye inks with this stamp and they just didn't cut it. The sketch is SCS262 with a couple of alterations. At this stage I like one with and one without the greeting but that may change.
Thanks for taking the time to look.

Oh and my other piece of news, last weekend Charlie and I went to Brisbane. Saturday night saw us at the AC/DC concert and it was AWESOME!!!!!!! They played for two hours straight and it was raining some of that time. The stage was getting wet and so were the people in the pit. Glad we were under cover. I'd go again in a heartbeat. Loved it. Thousands of people and before the concert the excitement and build up of the people there was fantastic.

Another sunny day here in Koumala. I'm off to make some cards, robots and rock stars this time. Again thanks for visiting my blog and all the comments you take the time to leave.

Over The Hill!!!!!

This is one of the male cards that I completed a few weeks ago when I had a male cardmaking frenzy on!! The papers are Boxer by Basic Grey and the stamps are by Darkroom Door. The sketch I used is one of Mercy's Tuesday Morning Sketch Challenges. Instead of the ribbon embellishment in the sketch, I added three black brads to the top RH corner instead.

The solid stamps I've been using lately really stamp beautifully with Versafine ink. The ink adheres to the rubber without beading like a lot of the waterbased dye inks tend to do on solid stamps. So instead of a patchy image you end up with a fabulous solid image as it should be.
The Boxer papers are fabulous and use earthy reds, blues, greens in the range, which as the name suggests, reminds one of the patterns used on mens boxer shorts.

The second day of full sun here which is drying up the soaked ground a bit. Thankfully there aren't any floods here but I feel for the people are flood bound further south. The washing is being hung out and dried in the sun for the first time in days and I do love sun dried towels.
Enjoy the rest of your day everyone and thanks for visiting.

Vintage Ladies

This is a card I made for Jan to give to another girlfriend, Heather. Heather loves maroon/burgundy and she also likes old doilies so I thought this image would be appropriate. That papers I've used are again like the Thatched Cottage from Papermania, this time the Regency collection. The card sketch that inspired my card is this one by Janneke .
I didn't distress any of the edges because I feel distressing is an acquired taste and I don't think my friends would like it very much.
Anyway when I gave it to Jan she was very happy with it. Actually I am too. lol
Flowers and lace are from my stash. The pins are from UK, USA and Australia and the charm was purchased from the UK. The chain that the charm is hanging from came from a fabulous beading shop here in Mackay.
Hope you like my 'vintage' card.
Thanks for visiting.

Thatched cottage and roses

I love this image which is actually a clear sticker from the latest Docrafts range. I wanted to use some embellishments but also not to overpower the picture. So that's why I've used small roses and buds. A friend requested this card for her sister's birthday.
The sun is out here occasionally so things may start to dry up a bit.
Take care all.

Lilac Avenue with a Flourish!!

This is the card I made for Jean's birthday. I used the brand new Flourishes set that Jean herself had given me for my birthday, a Year of Flowers, Calendar set 1. I used the sketch from the Flourishes Timeless Tuesday Challenge 52A and Cindy Haffner's idea of cutting my background pieces with Nesties. The flower is a Crocus and I have no idea whether you can get purple ones or not. These are because they matched the papers. lol
Ribbon is from my stash and matched perfectly. Jean absolutely loved her card.
It's still raining here but the sun has just come out. Wonder if it will last?
Have a wonderful day everyone and once again thanks for visiting.

Cross and Blossoms

Another sympathy card needed for a wonderful friend of mine. I don't mind admitting that although the finished card may not look difficult, I struggled badly with it. The image I knew I had to use but as I wanted to keep it simple but effective and without embellishments, it took me a few hours of trying different papers etc before I ended up with the card you see.

It's still raining here and goodness knows when we'll be able to get a mower on the yard. Oh well, better than drought.
Enjoy the rest of your day everyone.

Good Bye/Luck, New Home

A friend asked me to make her a card for a lady who is moving to a new area and a new home. I was a bit stumped actually until I remembered this PSX stamp that I've had for some time and hadn't used. So I coloured it using Prismas in the colours to match the papers I chose. The fence I thought was a great touch using the Martha Stewart picket fench punch.
Here's the sketch I used and slightly changed, it's from Carol's Sketch Fun. All in all, after a dodgey start, I'm quite happy with this card and Jan was stoked.

It seems to have rained all night here and there's a heck of a lot of water around.
I'm off today to Sue and Robyn's in Sarina to make cards all day, cool hey!! All my stuff is packed and ready to go. lol
Have a good day everyone and thanks for visiting.

Back again!

Yes, my blog has been neglected. Sorry about that. For the two weeks before this I've been on a cardmaking frenzy. April is coming up very fast and Jean and I must have a decent display.
Amongst others, which I'll put on my blog gradually, these are four male cards I've managed.
The first one I silver embossed the tyres, then with the other three, I used black Versafine with black embossing powder. Versafine is a fabulous ink to use for photo and solid stamps. It doesn't 'bead' on the stamp and stamps beautifully.
I've kept the cards a bit regimented with straight lines which I feel suited the sketches I used and also the Kaisercraft designer paper.

For the first card I used this sketch SCS259.
The second card uses this sketch SASSC48.
The third and fourth cards uses a sketch from the 2 sketches 4 You site, Kazan's sketch 43.

Onto other news, we've had rain for so long, that our feet are now webbed. pmsl I love the rain and to see green grass is fabulous. I hope the parts of Australia that need rain get it soon.
My son ended up in hospital with Glandular Fever the weekend before last so that was another episode to deal with. Thankfully, there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with him now.

Once again, sorry about my absence. I have been checking up on all my blogs that I follow but rarely commenting at the moment. All your cards are wonderful. Hope you all have a happy day and thanks for visiting.

Kylie's very belated birthday card

I made this card using this sketch by Mary Jo. Much the same as this card but I do like this one much better. The dp is Lilac Avenue with the c/s from SU. I love the sprinkles from Annabelle, they are gorgeous. Flowers, pearls, lace etc from my stash. Both the girl and the sentiment stamps are by Stamp It. Kylie has now received the card and says she loves it.
It's not raining so much here now. We've had around 8 or so inches here in the last few days. Very wet.

Today 26th January, is Australia Day, the day that the First Fleet landed at Sydney Cove. Nowadays it's a day to celebrate what's great about Australia and being Australian.
So hope everyone is enjoying their day.
Take care,