Butterflies and Bling at Make it Crafty

Hi there everyone, this is really exciting to have my first inspiration post for Make it Crafty.  I've posted in two blog hops so far but this is the first time being featured on the store blog!  It's sooo cool.  I've used Crystal Digi stamp and done her up in fresh and light colours.

  The Butterflies have been painted with a shimmery white then I went over them with a lilac mica spray to give the slight hint of colour and of course all the bling.

(sorry, blogger is not cooperating on this second pic)

 

Make it Crafty products used

Crystal Digi stamp

Delicate Butterflies

Make it Colour blending card

Copic colours used

Skin:  E0000, E00, E01 & E11

Hair: E21, E50, E51, E53 & E33

Dress and Shoes: B60, B63 B66, BV0000, Y000, Y11 & Y15

Rose: YG63, YG67, RV52 & RV55

Background: B0000, B00, V000, V01 & 0

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers,

Kasey

Celebrate

Stop Press!  This little Gypsy scooped a prize in the Paper Shelter's Celebration challenge!   Woooo Hooooo!
 

Hi everyone, well I managed to get into the craft room and guess what?  Only ONE card was made.  I can't believe it took me so long to clear a space to colour!   I saw that the Paper Shelter is celebrating their 100th challenge so I decided to give it a shot, I also picked out a sketch to use but that challenge had closed.

I used Gypsy Dance for my image she's such a cutie.  Love the flowing dress and hair.  I thought she needed a red rose in her hair too.  Lots of shimmery spica pen on her top and necklace and earrings too.

Here is the full card, I've used the bohemian range from Kaiser as it fit the gypsy theme so well.  I've kept the card fairly simple as there are a few layers and busy papers.  

Copic colours used

Hair:  C3, 5, 7 & 9
Skin:  E000, 00, 01 & 11
Dress:  R59, 46, 17, 14 & 12.  Y26 & 28
Clear and Gold spica pens

Thanks for dropping by to say hello.

Cheers,
Kasey

Make it Crafty ~ Gift for a friend blog hop

Hi everyone, I'm really excited to be taking part in this Make it Crafty blog hop!  We have some amazing projects to show you today, I'm so honoured to be working along side these awesomely talented ladies.

Today's post is really exciting for me, I've had a play with the fabulous Make it Crafty 3D Chipboard kit using Shadow Box Square Frame Kit.  It was awesome to put together, the finish is so neat and perfectly aligned.  I also have used the Antique Flourish chipboard set, I love the flourishes and the heart is just stunning.


If you visit my blog regularly, you would have seen that my daughter recently got married, her niece was flower girl and I just LOVED this photo of her collecting shells on the beach when the bridal party went to have some photos taken.

 I put the frame together, leaving the stand until last, gave it a coat of metallic gray acrylic paint.  The chipboard was painted with Platinum paint and the photo was printed and mounted on a mat of Gray card with a fine shimmer and then on the blue metallic paper that I'd used on the wedding invitations.

 Some closeup shots of the embellishments, a little cluster of roses, some blue rhinestones and strings of pearls.
 The heart is so delicate and gorgeous, I really love how elegant all this gorgeous chipboard is.

 This picture is taken on the angle to show you the depth of the shadowbox frame.  I hope you're inspired to try one of these amazing kits yourself.

Next in the line is....Åsa

And in case you need it, here is the list of DT Lovelies who are participating in this bloghop

Kasey - You are here

Åsa

Aeryn

Ruby

Trudie

Stephanie 

Jennifer 

I just know you're going to enjoy this bloghop!

Thanks for leaving your lovely comments, they are very much appreciated.

Cheers,
Kasey ~ in Oz

A Sad farewell to Delicious Doodles DT from me

Hello everyone, this is my last post for Delicious Doodles, Teri has kindly agreed to allow me to step down from the team. Life is a little too hectic for me lately and it doesn't seem to be slowing down at all so something has to give.  (currently on crutches as I tore something in my knee, pending results with Dr next week) 


There are a few of us who have stepped down, but that is good news for you if you're keen to join a fabulous design team and work with Teri's amazing artwork, check out the Design Team Call.  I've loved working with these gorgeous digi's and the team are amazing bunch of girls.  I will miss them all! You will still see me using Delicious Doodles images as I love them so much.

The challenge this week is Flowers for Spring.   

My card is a Thank You card, for Teri, for the Design Team and for you for dropping by my blog each challenge to leave me lovely comments.  THANK YOU All.

I've used one of Teri's latest images here, the amazing Lily and Butterfly.  It's got this gorgeous frame which I've coloured over the gray design

There is a whole new range of these lovely flower frames with different flowers, frames and butterflies.  You will LOVE them too!  Check them out for yourself over at Delicious Doodles store.

I hope you'll join our challenge and show us some Spring Flowers!

Cheers,

Kasey ~ in Oz

Just playing

Hello there, I've been playing!  I love being able to try out new techniques and also making my own background papers.  I picked up some Impasto Paste and have been playing around with it and made this textured background.

For this background I spread a thin layer of Impasto paste over a 5 x 5 piece of white card.  then I bunched up a piece of plastic kitchen wrap and dabbed it over the wet paste to create an abstract texture.

Once this was dry, I sprayed some of my much loved Lindy's Stamp Gang mica sprays on it and let it dry again.  I chose colours that would compliment this fabulous image from Make it Crafty.

Anastasia is the image I've used here, it's a Make it Crafty digi, she has been in my collection for a while now, with all those curls and little flowers I've been a little daunted by her but I finally took the plunge and coloured her up.  I hope you like what you see.

 I've taken a few pictures on different angles to try and pick up that shimmer and shine that has collected in the texture.

This final picture shows the Make it Crafty chipboard corner, I sprayed it with the same gold mica spray.  I love how delicate this chipboard is, gorgeous to work with.

I am entering Anastasia into the following challenges.

No Matter Which Challenges - Ribbons and Bows
Dream Valley Challenges - Ribbon and Bling  - My bling is the mica spray and spica pen glitter on the image. 
Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by to say hello.  I appreciate your visit and love reading your comments.

Cheers,
Kasey ~ in Oz

Mysterious Valentine

Hi everyone, I've got a little smash book page to show you today.  I've picked up some Prismacolour pencils and here what I came up with in my first play with them.  I used Ruby, a fabulous Make it Crafty image from the new masquerade range.  

Ruby comes with two different masks and you can use a program like paint.net or photoshop to put her mask on or like me you print it out and pop it up on top.  I cut tiny little holes to put the stem of the mask in her hand.

 This is the full page, I had this idea going round my head to make a fan, I have images from the movies of masquerade balls with gorgeous dresses, lace fans and glittering masks.  I used some textured pink butterfly paper that I've had for an age as it fit the theme perfectly.

The chipboard here is from Make it Crafty I love how delicate Zoe makes her chippies.  Gorgeous to work with and perfect for cards.  Here I've coloured the butterfly with BG13 and BG57 then coated it with clear spica pen, it's gone a very different colour with the spica over the top, it seems to have added more yellow.  still they do look so pretty.

The corners are painted with nail polish!  two coats of colour and one of clear to bring  out the shine just like you would paint your nails!  

I'm entering Ruby into the following challenges.

Our Creative Corner - Picture inspiration - Mask
Make it Monday - Anything Goes
Flutter By Wednesday - Anything Goes (butterfly or fairy)
In the Pink - Pink Valentine  (Valentine's are usually a mystery hence the mask)

Thanks for stopping by, it feels really good to be back creating for challenges again!

Cheers,
Kasey ~ in Oz

Delicious Doodles Challenge #22

Hi everyone, the Delicious Doodles challenge this week is to not use patterned paper.  For me that's pretty easy, I have stacks of paper and quite often, I forget to use it as I usually use inks and stamps to make my own papers or I use embossing folders for texture.

I've used Steampunk Fairy and teamed her with some Tim Holtz Weathered clock and gears dies and embossing folder, sponged a little gray ink and added some netting and a lovely metal corner and some fancy metal flowers and brads.  all done!  simple and easy.  Again, I seem to still be leaving off the sentiments.

My Steampunk Fairy has been coloured with Copic markers. 

Hope to see you joining in at the Delicious Doodles challenge this week.

Cheers,
Kasey ~in Oz

Bling it! with the Southern Girls

Hello everyone, I'm sure you can all relate to hectic times happening and demanding your time, that's been me for the past few months, but I finally got some creating time in the craft room and made my DT card for Southern Girls Challenges.

This creation is using up some papers I made myself, the butterfly is cut using Marianne Designs Craftables CR1205 and I had some papers I'd made using the mica sprays and water colour paper love that shimmer.  Then I mounted it on some paper I made with distress inks.  I've also used some DCWV Far East stack.  I really like the way it turned out.  Lately I've taken to not putting sentiments on some of my cards, this way I can add the appropriate one when I want to use the card!

Come along and join the Bling this challenge at Southern Girls.

Cheers,

Kasey ~ in Oz

This is the reason why I've been so quiet lately!

 My beautiful daughter got married on Australia Day!  Here is Rebecca and I just before we left her house, things got a bit emotional at times so my eyes were a tad red here.

 The wedding invitations I made for them.

 These are the bridal vehicles!  All decked out in netting and flowers
This is my grandson Blake with his cousin Danielle the flower girl, then came Whitey driving the beautiful bridesmaid Amber and Gary driving Becca.

It was a beach wedding, the storms and rain from Cyclone Oswald had passed a few days before and Saturday dawned with fairly clear blue skies, but sooooo darn hot and humid. 

Yes the boys wore thongs on their feet as did the bride and bridesmaid, it was a beach wedding after all.  Here they are giving the thumbs up.

 The wedding party on the beach, love the relaxed feel this beautiful wedding had.

Yep, she's a great catch.

Just goes to show you that you can have a beautiful romantic wedding on a budget of less than $3,000.  Congratulations to the Metcalfe family Shayne, Rebecca and Blake. 

 Cheers,
Kasey ~ in Oz

All you need is love....

Hello and welcome to my new followers, thanks a bunch for choosing to follow my blog.  Sorry I've been a bit lax in my posts lately, lots going on but I hope it all settles down soon and I'll be back to posting each week or more.

Today, I have the Delicious Doodles challenge # 20 All you need is Love for you.  I thought these Seahorses looked so cute with their tails hooked together that this said Love to me as much as any other of Teri's gorgeous images would. 

Looks like I'm still in my green and purple phase, Love these colours together.  Lots of lovely techniques used here with the copic markers.  

The background is quite time consuming and done in several layers, firstly lots of dots and dabs with blues and blue greens scattered all over, I made it darker at the base fading up to lighter to give some depth to the card.  Then I just did lots of splodges of 0 on the dots, the card got quite wet as I had just juiced up the marker before I started.  Then I let that dry and started all over again with more dabbing of colour then splodges of 0.  The idea was to soften the edges of the dabs and dots to blend them out a little and fade the edges.  If you click on the picture you'll see a larger image.

The seahorses were coloured using Alyce from Kit and Clowder's Mermaid tail tutorial from Youtube.  I'm really happy how it translated to the seahorses and I think I will be trying this on a dragon image soon!  Teri has some amazing Dragons in her shop.

I've used the following copic markers 
Seahorses: V0000; 000;01; 04; 06; 09  BG 0000; 01; 05; 09 11; 13; 15; 18
Seaweed: YG61; 63; 67
Background:  B0000;00;02; BG0000; 00; 10; 11 and 0

Make it Crafty chipboard which has been embossed with Obsidian Teal, looks black but depending on the way the light hits it, you get teal highlights.  Inside the little circles is glue and teal glitter.
Rose and Heart charm are from Wild Orchid Crafts a the
Ribbon is Stampin' Up! 
Sentiment is Lily of the Valley.
I've used a Spellbinders embossing folder on the white background and added some glitter paper for some sparkle.
EK Success punch

If you want any more details, happy for you to contact me.

Cheers,

Kasey ~ in Oz

Oh so exciting!

Well the call went out and I ummed and ahed for ages then sent an email in to the lovely Zoe and took a chance at applying for a spot on her Design Team for Make it Crafty.

Well I nearly fell off my chair when Zoe emailed me to say I'd been selected.  I'm thrilled to be joining the talented girls in her team.  I am sure that there were very many talented artists who applied and it would have been a very difficult choice. 

Please visit the Make it Crafty store blog to see a list of all the Design Team.

The MiC Design Team participating in the New Beginnings blog hop are

 

Zoe

Trudie

Amanda

Viv

Kasey (you are here)

Babara

Jenn Dove

Åsa

Alyce

Rhea

Mary J
Aeryn

Kat

As the inspiration we are providing you with this week is New Beginnings, I selected Little Baby Fairy and this is what I came up with

A lovely new baby card, I kept it fairly simple as I wanted the image to shine, but of course I couldn't help but add a little bit of bling in the form of glittered up Ornate Swirls chipboard pieces.  I coloured them with G43 first, then coated the swirls with Crystal Lacquer and then sprinkled some light and mid green glitters on the wet glue and left it aside to dry before adding it to the card front.  I also coloured some clear rhinestones with G99, I've found gems need a darker copic ink to give the colour you need.

 Here is a closer look at the Little Baby Fairy, I think she's adorable, she was a pleasure to colour. 

I hope you're inspired to head on over to Make it Crafty and pick up some of Zoe's delightful images or her super fine chipboard pieces.

Copics used 
 Flower: RV00, 63, 66; YG61, 63, 67; Y000, 02. 06, 35 & 38
 Skin:  E0000, 000, 01; R 20
Hair:  E40, 43 Sand Spica, Clear Star Jelly Roll
Hat: E30, 31, 33 & 35
Blanket:  V0000 & 01
Nightshirt: B0000 & 0  
 Background:  B00


Cheers,
Kasey ~ in Oz

Thank you kindly

At Southern Girls Challenge this fortnight, we're up for saying Thank You Kindly.  In an age where plain good manners seem to be going by the wayside, it's nice to say thank you to someone who has done something for you and what better way than with a Thank You card?

I chose the elegant Vintage Water Lily Dress image from A Day for Daisies for my card and coloured her in blue greens and blue violets, my all time favourite colour combinations.

I've used Marianne doily die and a matching edge, double layered the doily and spritzed it with Champagne Shimmer mist, love the sparkle this adds.

Hope you're inspired to join us for our

 Thank You Kindly challenge @ Southern Girls.

Cheers,
Kasey ~ in Oz

Sparkle and Shine

Hello to all my blog followers and welcome to my new friends!  Thank you for choosing to follow my creative journey.  If you're just visiting, welcome, I hope you enjoy your visit.

Happy New Year!  Wow!  How fast are the years flying by?  I am amazed how quickly time flies past as I get older.  It seems that we waited forever for special things like birthdays and Christmas when were were kids.  Probably not telling you anything new here.  

New beginnings for a new year, and at Delicious Doodles challenges this week we are asking you to Sparkle and Shine.  

For me, I can't think of a better way than using one of my all time favourite colour combinations AND butterflies!  Butterflies represent new beginnings for me as they are transformed from a caterpillars  into a thing of beauty, stunning colours and patterns on their wings. 

I've used Teri's gorgeous Butterfly image and lots of subtle glitter, as I've used my mica spray on the background and spica pens on the butterflies.  Glitter glue on the lace and of course bling. 

The backing paper for the sentiment was Lindy's Stamp Gang mica sprays on watercolour paper, the colours were perfect for this project.

I've used a spellbinders embossing folder and then lightly sponged the some SU Pool Party ink on them, the little flowers are coloured in BV0000 copic marker.

Colours used on the butterflies are BG11, 13, 15 and BV0000, 01, 11, E71, 74
Turquoise, Lilac and Clear spica pens.

I hope you will join us for this week's Sparkle and Shine challenge.

Cheers,
Kasey ~ in Oz

Stronger

Yes just one word 'Stronger'  That's my new year resolution and I am going to apply it to all aspects of my life.

For me, I find I give in or give up too easily, I say yes too often and overload myself, I avoid those difficult conversations and I forget to look after myself.

So for 2013 my key word is Stronger.  
I will be physically stronger by undertaking regular exercise.  
I will be mentally stronger by undertaking further education such as a short course at tafe or an online course.  
I will be emotionally stronger by looking after myself and my needs so I then have the strength to look after those around me
I will be financially stronger by really thinking Need versus Want before I shop! (yes good luck with that one where the craft stash is concerned!)
I will be a stronger friend by being in touch more regularly with my friends
I will be creatively stronger by trying new techniques and products (there goes the financial strength!!!)
I will be stronger in setting my goals and in my motivation to work towards them

I'm sure that I can come up with more, but this is the affirmation made publicly, here on my blog.  Now all I need to do is draw on my inner strength and build it so I can achieve all of this.  

It is only ONE word so I think I should be able to manage it, if there are some areas where the strength fails me temporarily, that's ok, cause I know there will be other areas where I'll surprise myself with the power of my strength.
 

What resolution are you making?

 Cheers,
Kasey ~ in Oz

Happy New Year!

Update:  This project was selected as a runner up at Eclectic Ellapu!  Thank you so much.

Hi everyone, I hope you managed to celebrate the arrival of 2013.  I spent a lovely time in my craft room just colouring images and popping them into my little A5 pocket folder along with the list of colours I used, ready for when I need a quick card made.

This little one however I decided to add to my smash book, I've been putting copic images in there to use when I want a colour combination inspiration.

 Here is a close up of Fairy Dahlia from Make it Crafty, she's super cute!  I tried a multi coloured dotty background and I think it really makes her pop on the page.

 I was also playing around with some dies, and cut out several La Rue Flourishes from Memory Box and then cut them up and made the corners and backing mat for the image.  I'm really happy with how it looks so delicate and of course I did add bling, actually the dies and the kraft page are spritzed with Champagne shimmer mist.  LOVE that stuff for shimmer.

Here is a pic of the two Pink Pages together.  These little beauties just look so adorable in pink!

I'm entering this smashbook page into the following challenges.

Eclectic Ellapu - Anything Goes
ABC Challenges - New Year Sparkle
Make it Monday - Anything Goes
Digi Makeover Challenge - Anything Goes

Thank you for visiting, I wish you all the best 2013 has to offer you.  Make it a fabulous year.

Cheers,
Kasey ~ in Oz