Elephants out to dry!

Here’s a quick little tutorial for a card I made for a friend’s sons Baptism last week. It was my first Instagram tutorial. I love this colour combination. Orange and navy blue were used on Luke’s Baptism invitation – as it turned out it was carried right through, coordinating chocolate favours given at church, the balloons, centre pieces and […]

Flowers and helicopters

Last Saturday my mum and I attended the Stitches and Craft Show in Sydney. We had a great time as always. We came away with a few goodies, some fat quarters, crochet pin markers, cutting dies and some double sided sticky tape [but that’s boring to photograph]. Here are my goodies… I fell in love […]

SIC – 2nd month

SIC = self imposed challenge, check out why I imposed this on myself here. So onto my second month. OK – wasn’t too adventurous on the cooking front [ as I made cookies last month] but volunteered for morning tea at my little man’s playgroup and my BFF was coming over so these biscuits looked […]

One monkey and six dragonflies

We were invited to a baptism on the weekend and I made this display card for little James. I used a burnt orange textured background paper. Used my cuttlebug to cut a brown felt monkey and mini tag to create my main embellishment. I glued the monkey to the background paper but used foam tape […]

Thank you! Gracias! Danke! Obrigado! Merci!

I bought these cute embossing folders at the show recently and of course needed an excuse to try them out. A couple of weeks back my son received a huge bundle of Wiggle’s gear, T-shirt, back pack, books, DVDs and puzzles from a family friend’s son [who is a big boy now ;)]. I wanted […]