My exciting news....

OK I'll end the suspense for those of you waiting for my news....

Deborah from Whimsy Stamps contacted me to ask me to join the

 Whimsy Digi Design Team!

That's all the details I have at the moment except the gig starts on 1st May, no idea when my first project will go live, but stay tuned and you'll see it!

 Whimsy Inspiration Blog

Cheers,

Kasey ~ in Oz

For Mother...

Where do I start with this card?  This has been a project and a half!  Grab a cuppa, you're in for a long read....LOL

I decided to use my Tim Holtz distress inks to make some background papers.  

If you don't really want to know how this card was made, feel free to jump to the end, I'd love to read your comments, so please stop to say hi.

Paper number 1 was created by using SU Confetti White, Distress ink pads and plastic wrap, I used Victorian Velvet, Tattered Rose and a little bit of Aged Mahogany then I spritzed it with water.  When it was dry, I added just a little more Victorian Velvet to the mix.  Once it was completely dry I used a flower outline stamp from SU Greenhouse garden and stamped it randomly with Victorian Velvet.  I then spritzed it all with Champagne Mist shimmer paint to add some luscious sparkle.  Edges are sponged with Aged Mahogany

Paper number 2 was created by using the blending tool to rub inks into the Confetti White, this time I used Victorian Velvet, Tattered Rose and Tea Dye.  Spritzed with water and once dry I stamped French Script by Darkroom Door in Victorian Velvet.  I layered these papers onto SU Bravo Burgundy

I decided I'd try to watercolour with the distress inks (my very first attempt) Note to self:  Wait for the layers to dry before you go adding the background blue!  I made the green bleed into it in places and thought I'd just make it worse if I played around too much.

I've used my new Zinnia stamp from Flourishes.  I won this set in a recent blog hop for Copic Oz as they are the new distributor for Flourishes stamps in Australia.

I cut the image out with a Labels 4 Nestie and then cut two more the same size from the burgundy card.  Each of these were disected in 4 at various ponts to allow me to create the narrow frame as I'd used the largest one on the image so I couldn't cut another larger one as a mat.  I did the same with the sentiment.

I've used a couple of Cheery Lynne flourish dies to decorate, as the image is a flower it didn't seem right adding paper flowers to the card.  I've finished it off with some rose pink rhinestones.

I'm really happy with my first attempt at watercolouring with distress inks, I may need a bit more practice and perhaps a few more online tutorials before I will try to graduate to people images!

Thanks for stopping by and sticking with this long post.

This card is being entered into the following challenges.

Make It Monday ~ Linky Party

Flourishes ~ For Mother (opps missed the deadline!)

Wags 'n Whiskers ~ Distressing
Cheery Lynne ~  For Mum

I'm also supporting Southern Girls 'Get Your Girly On' Challenge this week as I'm one of their new DT members and I'm on Team Trace, this week is Team Lou.  So you'll have to wait to see my first Southern Girls post.

If you've made it this far, I have one more thing, a teaser if you like......I have some exciting news and I'm just waiting on approval to release it.....stay tuned....LOL

Cheers,

Kasey ~ in Oz

Friday Mashup Graduates!

OK, we are not really Graduating, but I'm sure there are special people in your life who are or will.  Kim brings us the Friday Mashup challenge this week to use a Graduation Theme or Text/Definition stamps.  It's that easy!  I don't have anyone graduating from any schooling or university so I didn't mash it up this week.

I've used Natrual Ivory as my base, Newsprint retired papers and some twine and twill tape.  Teamed with this lovely image by Chrissy Armstrong and a Life Definitions stamp.

So here is the "Mashup" Challenge :

1. Make a project for "Graduation".
2. Or Make a project using " Text or Definition Stamps and/or Paper".
3. Or "Mash it Up" and create a " Graduation project with Text or Definition stamps/papers".

Copics used are...

Skin: E50, 51, 53 & 93
Hair: E25, 19 & 21
Shirt: YR31 & 12
Jeans: B60, 63 & 66
Puppy: C3 and R12 &14 for his collar 


Cheers,
Kasey ~ in Oz

PLG Inspiration Photo #29

Welcome to a new inspiration photo challenge with the Paper Lovin' Gals.

 These tulips are just so lovely such a pretty coral colour.  The inspiration for me was flowers and the gorgeous colour and colour I did!  I coloured this new digi Tutu Sweet from Meljens Designs.  She's totally sweet.  

This little sweetie is also going into the following challenges.

Copic Oz has a fabulous flowers challenge this month, I've already got one card in, but had to post this one as well.

Fussy and Fancy have asked for Dies and Punches in their current challenge, so I cut two frames from Calypso Coral SU card using my Spellbinders labels 24 Nesties and linked them together to create this flower like frame for Tutu Sweet.

Make It Monday is a fabulous challenge site that has a Linky Party each week. Anything goes, so I like to play along.  The challenge here is to comment on other entries for the chance to win a prize!  This is a fabulous way to visit other blogs and see some amazing creative work.

Copics used.

Skin: R00, R01, R21
Hair: E21, E!5 & E19
Tutu: R11, R12, R14, R27 R29.  Lipstick spica
Top and flower YR12, YR31.  G02 & G05 Gold spica

Come on over to the Paper Lovin' Gals and join in the fun.

Cheers,

Kasey ~ in Oz

My last 4 Crafy Chicks Guest Designer post

Gosh this past two months seems to have flown by!  As the saying goes....all good things must end, and so it is for my guest spot with the team at 4 Crafty Chicks.  I've had such a great time as a guest designer with this team of talented ladies.

This week's challenge is 'No stamping!'  That sent me scurrying in the direction of a scrapbook page, while I have done cards with no stamping on them, I don't do anywhere near enough scrap pages so this was an ideal opportunity.

Have you ever done a project based on an embellishment?  I did this page based on these swirly little brads! 

The page is Elegant Eggplant from SU and the gold is a pearlised card that I had in my stash.  Then I went searching through the chipboard for something and found the two different flowers I've painted them up with Twinkling H2Os and then raided the rhinestone collection.

This is an old photo of my little miss, she's a big 3 and a half now!  She was two in this pic.  I also located my title chipboard in the stash and painted it up with pale green copic marker and more Twinkling H2Os.

Thanks Lori, Leanne, Melissa and Tamie for a fabulous time playing along with the 4 Crafty Chicks each week for the past two months!  It was fabulous sharing April with Heather too!

Come on over to the 4 Crafty Chicks and get creative with our No Stamping challenge!

Cheers,

Kasey ~ in Oz

Sweet Flying Tilda

I was touring around the blog-o-sphere and came across the Copic Marker Europe site.  Oh MY!  talk about some amazing work posted there, I took an extended tour of the blog and looked into some of the tutorials there as well. A M A Z I N G stuff. 

I was particularly taken with the tutorial about Sepia colouring so decided to try it on my little Flying Tilda. It's been ages since I've posted a Tilda card.  I also did the little dots background that I've seen being used lately, both new techniques that I'm pretty happy with.

I used the Sketch from Sketch Saturdays and colours from CR84FN and am so happy with the combination that this has created.

Copics used.

Hair, dress, wings and shoes:  E40. E42, E43, E44 Sand spica

Skin: E50, E51, E53 & E93  BV000 for shadows (still perfecting this technique!)

Background:  R81, R83 & R84, blossom spica

Entering this little cutie into the following challenges.

Sketch Saturdays - Sketch 

CR84FN - Colours - Medium Pink, Tan and Cream

Wags n' Whiskers Stamps - Anything Goes

Make it Monday - Linky Party

Copic Oz - Flowers

Hope you have a great day.

Cheers,

Kasey ~ in Oz

Honoured three times!

Wow, what can I say?  I've been honoured by the Leibster Award once again, not once but twice. 

Firstly my very good friend Monique from Stamping With Monique presented me with this award a few days ago.    Quite a few years ago, we became friends when Monique's husband moved to Canberra to work at the same organisation I worked at, we had a mutual friend and because he was new to town, we included him in our social gatherings.  Mon then joined her hubby and fell into a ready made social circle, we got on like a house on fire!  Monique has blamed me, accused me, ummm.... applauded me for reigniting her love of paper craft.  Not so sure her husband has though!

Pia from Pias Papir og Perler is a recent blend (blog friend) and left me a comment to tell me about the award, Pia also became my 100th follower today!  I'm amazed and honoured that so many talented artists out there choose to follow my work.  Thank you all so much for that lovely compliment.

 This makes if 5 times that I have received this award! 

Now the hard part is finding people out there who I haven't already passed this on to, so I'm coping out a bit here, but I'm not going to pass this on to anyone specifically.  

If you have visited my blog, see this post and have under 200 followers....Please take this award and post it to your blog, award it on to others as you see fit.

All crafters who post regularly to their blogs and visit others to seek inspiration are deserving of being recognised.

Thank you to both Pia and Monique.  And thank you for visiting and for leaving your lovely comments and also for becoming followers of blogs.  Spread the love!

Cheers,

Kasey ~ in Oz

Friday Mashup Challenge

Hi there blends and visitors.  The challenge this week is bought to you by Rita.

So here is the "Mashup" Challenge :

1. Make a project using the " Sketch ".
2. Or Make a project using the " Ghosting (aka VersaMark Resist) Technique".
3. Or "Mash it Up" and create a project using the " Sketch & the Ghosting Technique". 

 I chose to make a tag on my card using this fabulous Sweet Pea image Opalite by Rachel Anderson.  There is lots of sand and gold spica used on this image and she sparkles and shines.

I did some dry embossing and matted the layers with Calypso Coral to pick up that lovely soft orange in her dress and wings.  Unfortunately I didn't write down all the colours I've used.  Sorry!

The Friday Mashup design team has lots of lovely inspiration for you so head on over to our blog and check it all out!

This card is also being entered into the following challenges.

The Pink Elephant - Colour Inspiration photo
Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Ribbons or Twine

Thanks for visiting.

Cheers,
Kasey ~ in Oz


Cheers,
Kasey ~ in Oz

ANZAC Day tribute

The 25th of April means so much to Australians and New Zealanders.  We commemorate ANZAC day.  ANZAC stands for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps.

Below is an excerpt from the Australian War Memorial site explaining very briefly  what ANZAC day is all about.

Wednesday 25 April 2012

ANZAC Day goes beyond the anniversary of the landing on Gallipoli in 1915. It is the day we remember all Australians who served and died in all wars, conflicts, and peacekeeping operations. The spirit of ANZAC, with its human qualities of courage, mateship, and sacrifice, continues to have meaning and relevance for our sense of national identity. On ANZAC day, ceremonies are held in towns and cities across the nation to acknowledge the service of our veterans.

Lest we Forget...

When I saw that La La Land stamps had a Little Aussie Digger Luka, I just had to have it, I recently won a La La Land stamp from Mad for Markers blog hop and selected this I hope I've done him justice although I'm not so sure about that disruptive pattern on his uniform. (pity he's wearing an American hat it would have been so much better had he had the famous slouch hat on!)

This fits in so well for the Boys Dig It! challenge at the 4 Crafty Chicks this week.  This is my second last post as a guest designer for their challenge, hope to see you joining in.

I'm also linking this card up to Make it Monday ~ Linky party


Kasey ~ in Oz

PLG new week

Hi all, I've been a bit MIA in this past week.  So much going on.  Worked for hours in the garden last Saturday and then I rearranged my whole craft room!  Yes shifting lots of stuff, meant emptying cupboards and shelves etc.  I blame Kate for it!  She is reorganising her space and posting each day different storage ideas etc.  So....it's ALL Kate's fault!  Still my space is a little more room, somehow though I didn't get the extra 3 metres I need nor did I end up with the shelves I would love.....sigh!  I'll post some photos on My Creative Space page, it's not that much difference though!

On to this weeks Paper Lovin' Gals photo inspiration challenge, I think Michele like orange!  This would have to be the fifth photo featuring orange!  Oh well, I just went with it.  I took the heart and orange and black.  You could take the tree, silhouettes, the sunset whatever inspires you from this picture, we can't wait to see your entry!

This has a Cheery Lynne heart die and a Marianne border die and very little stamping so it was fairly quick and easy, for which I'm grateful as I had little time available for making my inspiration card.

Check out what the other DT members have created by heading over to the Paper Lovin' Gals site.

Cheers,
Kasey ~ in Oz

Who is your favourite Muppet?

Holly is having a great deal of fun with this week's Friday Mashup by asking us to choose our favourite Muppet and make a card using those colours.  You have to name your Muppet too.

 I had this fabulous idea to do the little dragon, then it kinda grew into creating a pile of treasure for him, then a bit more thinking and ...... oh yes put him in a cave! ....so I created the embossed card and clear embossed it to make the rocks, then it was all a bit stark .....some more thinking and I added the branches to hide the cave entrance.  LOL  Talk about an evolving creation!  He's cute though.

You really need to go check out what the DT has for you at the Friday Mashup.  We all love the Muppets!  And my Muppet inspiration was Kermit!

Cheers,

Kasey ~ in Oz

Rachel Anderson's Queen of Hearts!

Yes, that's right, another Queen of Hearts, this time a Sweet Pea stamp by Rachel Anderson.  She's stunning!

The skirt here is covered with sparkle, you can see slight sparkles on the top photo.  the shimmer is fabulous IRL (in real life)  

One of the great things about being on a design team is the opportunity to visit all these amazing blogs out there, in the process of leaving comments I get to see amazing artwork and discover other challenges that I didn't know about before.

So this card is being entered into the following challenges...

Pink Elephant ~ Flowers
Wags N Whiskers ~ Say it with Flowers

Cheers,

Kasey ~ in Oz

4 Crafty Chicks using Fabric

Hello there Blends, here is something new for me, the 4 Crafty Chicks challenge this week is to use fabric on your project, yes I have used ribbons but not fabric.  I really went into a slight panic over this one as I haven't done much sewing for ages and didn't think I would have any fabric.  Anyway I did find some, I'd made a bag for my Mum to use to carry her rather heavy bible to church. 

As I wanted a sturdy bag, we'd bought some tapestry fabric and this just turned out to be perfect for this challenge.

I love these heritage colours and it was perfect for the tapestry fabric.  I've even sewed on the card as well.  Something I don't usually do either!

Hope you're inspired to use Fabric on your projects this week and link up to the 4 Crafty Chicks challenge.

Cheers,
Kasey ~ in Oz

Paper Lovin' Gals Challenge #27

I can't believe it, we're up to challenge number 27 already at the Paper Lovin' Gals!

I've used an exclusive CC designs Brigitta digi image.  This one is ONLY available when you take part in the Copic Workshop 2 with Mandi-Lee from Copic Me.  There was an adorable Kiki image with Workshop 1!  They are so cute!

This is my before image, there will be an after one as well, one that I do using all the tips and tricks that Mandi-Lee passes on in the workshop!  I love doing this online course, it's $35 Aussie dollars and you have access to the classroom for three months!

Head over to the Paper Lovin' Gals blog to see what the other DT girls have for you.

Cheers,

Kasey ~ in Oz

Sweet Pea feature

I sent some of my cards in to Sweet Pea to see if they would feature one of them in their customer gallery......The are showing all of them!  How exciting!

To celebrate I coloured up a new Sweet Pea stamp it's Blue Eye Fairy by Ching-Chou Kuik.  Stunning image and I followed the picture for inspiration and used multi colours on her hair.  LOVE the way she turned out.

You can see some of the shine and sparkly from the various spica pens that I used on her hair.  I think she looks so fabulous.  Hope you like her too.

I am entering this sweet fairy into the following challenges.

Make it Monday ~ linky party

Totally Paper Crafts ~  Blue, Lilac & Pink

Cheers,

Kasey ~ in Oz