Altered Pop Top Cans

Last week at Stamp Club I taught the girls to make these altered pop top cans. I have been saving my pineapple tins for quite awhile so I would have enough for everyone to make one.
we used the designer paper holiday harmony to cover them and this one is decorated using the retired wheel gifts galore. I used my new stamp set Tag Time for the tag.

Make it Monday Chocolate Box

I managed to try out the Make it Monday that Makeesha has each week. It is a really easy box to make and looks great filled with Christmas chocolates. The little scalloped piece on the top just evolved as I was punching and folding the scalloped circle. I folded each piece in a tea bag fold and then just stuck them together until it looked ok.
You can find the MIM here

Carousel Notes

For the past week I have been busy playing with all the new stamp sets from the Summer mini. I had a launch last night and had a great night. I thought it was about time I showed you some of the cards and this box that I have made. I saw this idea on SCS and after trying to figure out what I wanted to do with these carousel notes I thought this was a good idea. It took a bit of figuring out what size to make the box and where to score for the lid but this is what it turned out like. I have used the new Afternoon tea papers to make a dahlia fold for the top and some of my new silver Hodgepodge as well. I also used the Crop-a-dile to faux emboss the scalloped edge.

Then I decided to add a card to the back of this one and cased the design on the front from SCS.

It seems like I only get the chance to post about once a week so dont hold your breath waiting for me will you. Maybe I will get more time after Christmas. I will post a few of my other cards later in the week.

Skye

It has been some time since I have shown you any pictures of Skye so here she is. She is now 6 months old and has grown into a lovely little puppy. She had her first clip about a month agao and we were told that she isnt a maltese Shih Tzu cross. She is actually a Chinese Crested powder puff cross with Maltese. She has spots all over her skin and after her clip she no longer has the black patch on her body. For now she still has black on her ears and a little in her tail as I havent had that trimmed at all. Im not sure if she will end up all white with a little champagne colour in her or maybe keep the black on her ears. Anyway I gave her a bath today and she is all clean and fluffy here. As you can see she still loves her toys.

Stamping Camp

It has been some time since I have had a chance to post on my blog. I have had problems with my back and also busy with organising our stamping camp. It was a wonderful weekend away with 12 of us for the weekend and my good friend came for the day on Sunday. The venue was great and the food yummy and we just stamped to our hearts content.

Im really looking forward to going again early next year.

Remember the cool Christmas card that I made and posted not long ago. Well I still had a couple of kits for it and I needed to make some cards for my mum while on camp, so just added the Oh so Lovley flower and this is what it looks like. I was very happy with the result.

At last stamp club I was telling the girls that I was disappointed that my puppy was no longer Black and white since she was clipped so 2 of my lovely ladies, Dale and Nic bought me this black and white dog that will never change. His name is Finley and he kept me company all weekend and even went off to bed with me each night. This isnt the most flattering picture of him but he was sitting on my shoulder when Amy took this photo.

here is a pic of everyone busy making all the swaps that we had organised. We enjoyed making all of the cards. Thank you to everyone for making the camp such a fun one.

Artfully Asian

This lovely card is one that we did on WCMD. I cased this card from Averil who had it as a swap at Regionals. I changed a couple of tiny things but loved it as it was really. I love the soft sky and the designer paper is Spring Silhouettes.

A Weekend Away in Manjimup

I have just had a 3 day weekend with my friends at my family farm in Manjimup. We were looked after so wonderfully by my mum while we had a card making weekend. We also had a tour of the avocado farm and the forest behind the farm. It was a great weekend. I have a few photos to show you that I took. I apologize for not posting for a couple of weeks. I had a cortisone injection into my elbow last week (tennis elbow) so wasnt able to use my arm for a couple of days but now it feels great so I can get back into things.

View over the Dam

the avocado's are ready to be picked. The trees have hundreds of avocados on them.

The irises in the garden and magnificant.

Two trees were hit by lightening last week. This is one.

A line of trees along the track.