"Choose Happy" Close to my Heart Birthday Cards

Hello! 

I'm sharing lots of birthday cards today!

I made this set of cards following the same sketch, just using lots of different coloured papers.

If you want to follow the sketch you can head over to Chris' Facebook Page to see it and you can win a lovely prize.  I really wanted to build my birthday card collection up a little....it takes such a workout! Each month I send out lots of cards, so I am always on the look out for birthday card ideas.  And it is always easier to copy the same design a few times to make a few more cards quickly.

I used Copic markers to colour the border around the sentiment to match the colours in the papers.

I only have three of the Close to My Heart markers and I used those three colours in this card below.

I'm linking up to Heart 2 Heart Challenges - Your Favourite Sketch

I love entering their challenges.  Its a lovely community on that blog : )

I made the top two cards first, then I kept going a few days later and made some more!

I liked these colours...yellow, purple and blue.

The yellow ribbon and green ribbon below are not Close to My Heart Products.  They are from my stash, but everything else is Close to My Heart.

This last green and black card was a different colour combination for me.  But I actually liked how it turned out.

Feel free to copy my sketch and whip up some of your own! Happy crafting and thank you for stopping by my blog today : )

Edited to add: I was a March Favourite in the Heart 2 Heart Sketch Challenge for this set of cards!!

Amy Tangerine Card

Just popping on quickly this morning to share the card I made at Spotlight when I saw Amy Tangerine last week.  I slapped this together in about 3 minutes.
Amy was talking about a challenge her and some friends were doing where you had to scrapbook a layout within 15 minutes and only were allowed to use a certain amount of products.  The goal was to encourage people with a limited amount of time to scrapbook (that would be nearly all of us!) and also to not get too caught up on what products to use.  Well, you know me, I loved that idea.  I love making things fast and I love making things with limited products.  So this card was inspired by that "lets just get it done and get it done fast" sort of approach.  There wasn't enough paper cutters to go around so you can see I hand cut this paper.  Amy challenged us to use one of her paper clips and a sticker or two.
I think I could make twenty cards like this in about 20 minutes. That would get my birthday stash up and running!!!  Maybe I should challenge myself to this!
Here is another Amy Tangerine card I made awhile back. And lots more Amy Tangerine cards on this post.  You might be interested in having a look at her papers.
Thank you so much for your encouragement on my lounge recovering project.  It felt so good to have your confidence behind me! I am making good progress.  I have done the base of the lounge.  Now I am up to the cushions.  (Left the hardest part till last!) I will blog a post about it.  It is looking good so far.  When you see the before photos you will understand why almost anything would be an improvement on the original ha ah!
Have a great weekend,

I met Amy Tangerine!!

Hello!
Today I am popping in for a quick little post. I went into Spotlight today to meet Amy Tangerine!! She is so glamorous, beautiful and friendly! We made a little card and I also picked up ten metres of furnishing fabric.
I am recovering our lounge - eek!! I have wanted to do it for so long.  I saw some fabric on sale and bought it! Now I just need to pull it off ; ) Its totally DIY... so I will have to share how it goes. I am more than a little nervous, but I just keep saying to myself I can do it! LOL
I have been making so many cards and blogging none. I hope to improve my blogging.
Hope you are well xxx

Free "Thank You" Printable Sentiment

My sister asked me to make this card.  She had lots of requests.  I couldn't work them all in to the one card lol!  One request was for it to have a little boy in a red hat as that is the uniform they wear.  I came up with this design.

The card is for the Pre-Prep teachers her son learns from.  He has started Pre-Prep this year and my sister is very grateful for how happy her little boy is now, compared to how he was at his previous day-care centre.  My sister works full time and she says these ladies are making their lives so much better.  They are all happier - and happiness is so important!

The Sarah Kay image is here.

I coloured it with these Copics:

B93, B95, B97

YG11, YG41, YG23, YG63, YG67

RV04, Y08, YR04, C-5

R37, R17, R05

E37, E15, E33, E00

The sentiment I made myself.  I ended up printing two and overlapping with three-dimensional tape.

The first sentiment I made in this font.

 Then I changed it to this font.

You are most welcome to take both and see if you can pop one on a card.

Thanks for stopping by,

Pink Paislee Solstice Publication

I wanted to share a Publication from Australian Cardmaking Stamping and Papercraft Magazine, Volume 21, No 5.
I made these cards as clean and simple, masculine cards. These have become one of my favourite sets. I love the clean and simple look - it refreshes me and its so simple and easy to create. I love the nautical feel of these cards and I think the way they have styled and photographed this set is amazing.

This is a photo I took of them on my desk before they were posted off to the magazine.
They were made from the Pink Paislee Solstice Collection.
I hope you had a lovely weekend. Thank you so much for stopping by,