a little stocking filler for Greg

Hello I made this cute little box for Greg with hot chilli and cocoa tea bags in as a little stocking filler. I cut the box on my Cricut and the little Chilli on the front. I added a Peachy Keen Stamp face to make it cute and added a little greeting. I think it turned out really cute thanks for looking.

Birthday card with a different fold

Hello everyone Happy Saturday, hope you are having a nice weekend, we are having a nice weekend it's hot and sunny here in far north Queensland and today we have been out to Port Douglas and Mossman and done the food shopping and stopped for a frozen yogurt and tonight we are putting up our Christmas tree so that will be fun.
I made this card for Greg's mom's birthday it has a different fold in it, I saw it in my Cardmaking and Papercraft magazine so I thought I'd try it, it turned out so nice I added some patterned paper to the card and also stamped on the two outer folds with purple ink. I went through my stash and found these daisies and butterfly which I've had for a long time but they were the perfect addition to this. I stamped the greeting as well. Thanks for looking.

Christmas tree table decoration

Hello I have been making a Christmas centrepiece for our table over the past week or so. I got a Polystyrene cone from Lincraft and then set to work on my Cricut cutting out all the leaves. I used the Flower Shoppe cartridge and cut the leaves in two shades of green at 2". I found I ran out of the card halfway through so I had to get some more the next time we were in Cairns. Greg had a great idea to put the tree on a "stand" so we found this cute red glittery basket in Lincraft 50% off. I also got some tinsel to wrap around. It took a while to hot glue all the leaves on but so worth it. I also made the star in two shades of gold on my Cricut from the 3D ornaments cartridge and this was hot glued on. Now I just need to find our Christmas table runner in our room of boxes and it will be complete. I'm so proud of this and Greg loves it too.

Pink Christmas tree card

Hello Happy Friday well Friday is almost over here and I'm looking forward to the weekend, grocery shopping and maybe some pool time tomorrow then some Christmas shopping in Cairns on Sunday. We've been at the block today playing with concrete, it was another good day of getting things done in preparation for our house : ).

I made this card last night for the neighbours we have met on the one side of where our house will be. They are nice and so I thought I'd make a card, not to elaborate but a nice one all the same. I made the colors non traditional for a change with pink and lighter greens. I used my Art Philosophy cartridge for this card with the cut out trees and I put some striped paper behind it. I added some gems to the trees and used my flower/star punch to make the stars out of a scrap of glitter paper. I used my Cricut pens to write my greeting. Have a nice weekend.

Christmas Wreath

Hello everyone, I have my wreath to show you for our door this year. I started this a few weeks back before our shipping container arrived, I wanted to have something fun to make whilst I was waiting so I got a Polystyrene wreath form and some burlap and set to work. The burlap is cut into 4 x 4 squares and then glued and twisted into a bubble then pinned on. I got some lovely wire edged ribbon from Spotlight and made a bow from that. I found a box of baubles at my local Woolworths and hot glued those on. I wanted to make our wreath in a Christmas yet beachy theme as we live near the beach and I couldn't find any starfish or shells in the shops so my very clever husband suggested I get some FIMO and use one of his cake decorating molds and make them, genius. So tonight I decided to finish it, to be honest I'm exhausted, Greg and I have been at our block working the last two days in full sun heat digging but I wanted to finish it so I made my FIMO starfish and shells. Two of the shells are actually two shells from our block of land that we found whilst digging, they were in perfect condition so I took them home and washed them and glued them on so now we have a bit of our future home in the wreath. Thanks for looking.

Another Santa Card

Hello I have another card today that I made Friday night, only just getting around to putting it on the blog now, been busy on the weekend and today Greg and I were busy working on the block of land getting it ready for the retaining wall to go up. It's very hard work but I'm also very proud as I wasn't sure I'd last out there in the heat shovelling dirt but I did and I make a great team with Greg.

Sorry about the shadow on this, I made this one using the same CTMH stamp set. I randomly stamped the HO HO HO stamp in Green Distress Ink all over the background then used my Cricut to cut out the scalloped circle in green then a plain circle in white to which I then stamped. I used a star from another stamp set to stamp gold stars around Santa and I colored him in. Thanks for looking.

My wonderful craft room

Hello here are pictures of my half of the study (my craft area), Greg did a great job of getting this together for me. In the first photo I've since moved out the 4 small red boxes, it housed A4 size card and I've put all that paper in the drawers shown in the second photo. I have 2 desks, one is a working desk and the other is a desk folded down and it has my Cricut and my laptop so I can flick between the two desks. It's been fun organizing it all and nice i have somewhere to craft now. Once the new house is all built our shared office/craft room is going to be even better with even more space and storage, can't wait for that one but for now I'm really happy with my little half room here!

My first card in my new craft room

Hi there from my new craft room. Well it's actually a room I share with my lovely husband and his office but I am so happy about that I'd rather be crafting and in here with him than in a room on my own. I will have a picture soon of my half of the room. Greg has come up with some wonderful ideas to maximise the space in here and has built me sets of drawers and my desks we got from IKEA before we left the U.S. I've been enjoying organizing it all and putting things away. But today I got to make a Christmas card and it was so much fun. I used a red card base and then embossed the green layer. Last time we were in Cairns I went to Lincraft and they had 40% off the store so I got a bargain. I used my new Close to My Heart (Reindeer Bells) stamp set for the sentiment and the Santa. I used a holly border punch on some gold glitter card and a red sticker border. I added some glitter pen and white glitter to Santa after coloring him with pencils. Thanks for looking and it's nice to be back : )