Colour Q challenge

I have had a busy day preparing for my Boys Workshop on the weekend, so I took some time out to make a card for the Colour Q challenge.

WOW the colours scream summer pitty that it's winter in Australia & we are freezing our butts off. I decided on a flower for the card only because I didn't have any Green Galore card stock only a marker, although as I am typing I have had a brain wave for another card if it comes to fruition I will certainly post it, if not I will be back tomorrow I might even start sharing my Boys cards I have been working on.

Thanks for dropping by

Happy Stamping
Fiona

Circle Circus

Today is another card for the Less is More Circle Challenge & also for the Paper Players Challenge.

This time I have used Circle Circus from SU, sentiment from PTI. I am really happy with how it turned out & it's another card to add to the stash

Thanks for dropping by,

Happy Stamping
Fiona

CAS Dot Spot

Wow where are the weeks going, I can't believe my kids only have 1 week of school holidays left. They have been having a great time catching up with friends, although that did not equate to any spare time for crafting.
I spent the last 2 days helping my Mum & Dad with a garage sale prior to them moving in 2 weeks & I must say today I am not feeling 100% so I spent some time Blog surfing & found a couple of challenges to inspire me.

The first one is from the Less is More

CIRCLES

Please note that this is in the plural... we need to see more than one circle, so not just a circular card base or the odd circle thrown in just to qualify... we need you to think circles and see what you can come up with. Whilst you're thinking of your design however, we don't want you to forget the white space element and the CAS feel for your card.

The second one if from CRE84FN

I have the Dot Spot stamp set from PTI & sentiment is one from the Think Big range also from PTI.

Thanks for dropping by I hope you enjoy my card.

Happy Stamping
Fiona

Today I have two simple & elegant cards I made to add to my stash. I have used a cream & peach parfait for one & white & kraft for the other. Sentiments from Botanical Silhouettes & Enjoy the Ride. Flower is Simple Flower embosslit.

                           

Thanks for dropping by

Happy Stamping

Fiona

Quick set of Cards

 Today I would like to share a set of quick cards I made to give to my mum for her stash. I used the in Colours from SU & the Beautiful Blooms die from PTI.

Hopefully in a few days I should be back to regular posting although the school holidays are now playing havic with my time management, but I will try not to make anymore excuses.

Try not to take much notice of my watermark on the photos I was playing with text, colour & placement to find something I was happy with.

Bye For now

Happy Stamping
Fiona

Just Sip & Relax

Hi Everyone,

Still no crafting for me just a card from the archive although you may have noticed I have been playing around on a free photo editing website called piknik & have added my name & blog to the picture.

 OMG this site is so simple to use from those of us who are technically challenged. I have also changed the settings on my camera so hopefully between both these things you should be seeing some better quality photos.

This card uses the Tea for Two stamp set from Papertrey Ink, if you would like anymore details feel free to drop me an Email.

Bye For Now

Happy Stamping

Fiona

Baby Miley

Well it's been a very hectic week in the Platzer household, with EOFY paperwork, two birthdays & two new babies.

The card I would like to share with you is for my Niece Kristel & her husband Adrian who celebrated the birth of their first child a daughter named "Miley Louise" & how much fun did I have shopping for all things girly yesterday.

 THE CARD

The Gift Tag & bag

& just a photo for my overseas readers this group of cheeky Kangaroos were grazing just of my back Veranda & were in no hurry to move on.



I am not sure if I will get back this weekend with a new baby visit planned tonight , another tomorrow during the day, a birthday party tomorrow evening & a birthday lunch on Sunday & my most important job all the paperwork for 2 businesses needs to be finished by 8.30am Monday morning for when the Accountant arrives. AH yeh forgot to add I haven't made the birthday cards yet so I can add that to the list as well.

Happy Stamping

Fiona

A Very quick card

Hi ladies
I just have to say, this would have to be one of the quickest cards I have ever made. After just lamenting on my last post about no creative Mojo, I took a quick look at the Less is More challenge blog this week as I thought I should be able to make a CAS card at least.

 The challenge this week was SHADES OF BLUE & I knew instantly I wanted to make a card with the butterfly embosslit. I cut out 4 butterflies in Night of Navy , Marina Mist, Baja Breeze & Bashful Blue & placed them on the card in order of saturation. I have used the shimmery white card stock from SU & sentiment from PTI.

Not one of my best card, but it is the only card I have made in about 4 weeks.

Would love to here your comments.

Bye for now &

Happy Stamping

Fiona

Celebrate with Birdie

Just you just love my cheesy title, it's about as good as my creative Mojo. non existent!!!!

So with the need to update my blog I dug deep into the archive to find another card I haven't shared with you all yet. I made this card to a sketch a little while ago & now don't remember which one, must be old age.

Hope you have enjoyed my card, this time I won't make any promises to be back.

Happy Stamping

Fiona

LOADS MORE SEAM BINDING

Hello Everyone,

Well as promised I have loads more colours of the seam binding For Sale 30 colours to be exact.

I am selling it at $2.50 for 5m + Postage with Free Postage if you order 10 or more.

Just click on the Tab at the top of the page under the Blog Title.

I have also listed it on Ebay, so I am not sure how long it will last, maybe if it sells out I can order some more.

As promised in an earlier a post I will do a tutorial in the next 2 weeks on how to dye & make your own vintage style seam binding.

Happy stamping

Fiona

Papertrey Ink June Blog Hop

Hello Ladies,

Well it's Papertrey Ink Blog Hop time again & the challenge this time was the Inspiration picture below.

While I loved the photo lots of gorgeous colour, I struggled to make only one card. I set out to do lots of creating the after my last post but our holiday has not been great for the MOJO it's definitely gone AWOL maybe I left it in Bali lol.

For today's card I have used the Signature Dress form die & sentiment from the Flower Fusion 3 stamp set, both from Papertrey Ink.

I have use the Papertey Ink Felt which is just fab in the colours of Raspberry Fizz, Hawaiian Shore & Simply Chartreuse.I have then hand drawn a border with a felt tip fineliner (not bad for my first ever attempt).

Be sure to pop over to Nichole Heady's blog to check out all the other fabulous creations, whilst you are there check out the rest of Nichole's blog she does some amazing work along with the rest of the design team.

Thanks for dropping by, I would love to know what you think.

Happy Stamping

 Fiona

Deadline missed

 Just  a quick post to share a card I made earlier in the week for the Sweet Sunday Sketch but missed the deadline to post it.

It's a sweet little digi image I had on file not sure where it's from, but she sure is cute. This was one of the first images I coloured with my Copics. I still have a few more that need to be made into cards, not sure when that will happen though.

I have also made a card for the Papertrey Ink Blog home which goes live at 12 midnight Australian time so please do pop back to check it out.

 Bye for now

Happy Stamping

Fiona

From the archive

 Today's card is one I found in my file that I hadn't got around to posting, the card was made using a sketch from the Clean & Simple challenge blog.

Off to do my first bit of stamping since returning from holidays, I've got some challenges printed out so hopefully that will get the Mojo flowing.

Bye for now

Happy Stamping

Fiona

Back to Reality

We are finally back home to reality after spending 10  nights in Bali for our nieces wedding, & the hardest part of coming home was leaving the 30degree days to arrive home to a freezing 7 degrees  at 11am yesterday, not funny !!!!!!!!

We had a lovely time in Bali, The wedding was held at the Grand Hyatt in Nusa Dua & was just beautiful unfortunately the reception got rained out just as we were finishing the main meal, we then had to wait in a downstairs restaurant whilst they prepared a function room for us, the party continued with lots of dancing & singing & was still going strong when we left at 1am, we only left then because we had to check out of our hotel at 11am. Can you believe it hadn't rained or even looked like rain in the 8 days we had already spent there.

We didn't venture far from our resort the Novotel Nusa Dua, although we spent the first full day in Kuta at the shops & markets, that was a real eye opener. Emily was absolutely petrified at the markets as the vendors really targeted her & would grab at her to look at something or try to get her into their stall for a girl who's favourite pastime is shopping she never wanted to go again she even stayed in the apartment for the morning when Robert James & I went to the markets at the front gates to Nusa Dua. We also spent another day at the Waterbom water park with cousins & another family we met at our resort.

For some reason all the photos I took look quite grainy, so I have only a few to share with you & the best photo I have of the bride & groom is one I have cropped another couple out of.

The gorgeous couple

Nadia & Josip

 The pool area at the Novotel

 Robert & I dressed in our wedding finery I definately need to loose those kilos!!

 Emily James & I. A rare photo of me with the kids as I am normally the one taking the photo.

 One of the many gorgeous flowers at the resort.

Wow its now 11.30pm & I better hit the sack, the kids are back to school tomorrow & i am sure they will need a little prodding in the morning to get ready by 7.30am.

I hope to get back some time this week with some cards although I am not feeling the MOJO lol!!!!

Happy Stamping

Fiona

A CASE & Fav Colour Combo

I hope you are enjoying my scheduled posts, at the time of this post going live our family should be celebrating the wedding of my husbands niece in BALI & possibly dieing from the heat.We head home tomorrow & so I will have some photos to share.

The last of my Peach Parfait & Very vanilla cards is a case of a card from the Splitcoaststanpers website, this is a link to the card. As soon as I saw it I new I wanted to case it. I haven't really changed anything other than using the seam binding & placement of the sentiment & of course the colour.

The card uses the Strength & Hope stamp set from SU.

This card is also a great layout if you wanted to mass produce some cards, just personalise it with your chosen image & sentiment.

Thanks for dropping by & for the lovely comments.

Happy Stamping

Fiona

CAS & Current Fav Colour Combo

As the title says a CAS (Clean and Simple)  card using one of my current favourite colour combos.

This card uses the Beautiful blooms flower die & sentiment from Papertrey ink, Card stock & ribbon from SU.

This is a great card to mass produce, as it is very quick & could be personalised with any number of sentiments & the flower could be substituted for any punched flower. 

Hope you are enjoying my regular posts, I have one more card to show using this colour combo, so do please drop back.

Happy Stamping

Fiona

A new favourite Colour Combo

Todays card is one I have made using my new favourite colour combo, Peach Parfait & Very Vanilla.

I have used the Strength & Hope set from SU which is a really pretty set, with some of the proceeds of the sale going to The Breast Cancer Research Foundation.

The gorgeous cream seam binding & pearls add a soft & luxurious feel to the card & once all assembled I have spritzed the whole card with some glimmer mist.

 In case you wandering the butterfly antennae are made from slivers of card stock.

I have two more cards to share over the next few days using this same colour combo.

Thanks for dropping by.

Happy Stamping

Fiona

Another Class Creation

This fortnights cards were definitely CAS cards, I based this one on an Earlier card I had made for the Papertery Ink Blog Hop. The ladies just personalised it with their chosen sentiment.

I have used the images from the Larger then Life set & sentiment from Signature Greetings both are Paperteyr Ink sets. Colours were Old Olive & Concord Crush from SU.

Thanks for dropping by & for your lovely comments.

Happy Stamping

Fiona

Party This Way

Today I would like to share another of the cards we have made at my classes, it uses the Party This Way SU set & Celebrations DSP from SU.

Thanks for dropping by & for all the lovely comments you have been leaving.

I So LOVE COMMENTS!!!!!!

Happy Stamping

Fiona

Sweet Stop Challenge

My second card for the evening is for the Sweet Stop Sketch Challenge.
Sorry it's a short post but time is slipping by at great speed & I have loads of work to do.

The card uses On the Couch stamp set & dies from Papertrey Ink, DP from Kaisercraft, card stock from SU.

Thanks for stopping by.

Happy Stamping

Fiona

Clean & simple Challenge

I have just been a naughty girl with so much to do before Monday morning, I snuck out to my craft room for an hour to create a couple of cards. It has only been a couple of days since I last made something but I was already suffering with withdrawl symptoms. lol How am I going to cope!!!!!.

The first card I have to share is for the Clean & Simple challenge.

It uses the Aviary stamp set from SU & sentiment from Papertrey Ink.
Colours are Sahara Sand & Kiwi Kiss.

Thanks for stopping by & for leaving a lovely comment.

Happy Stamping
Fiona

Mothers Day card

I know it's a little late for Mothers day but thought I should still share with you a card I made for my Mother in law for Mothers Day, well actually hubby chose it from several samples I had made.

 Unfortunately it is not an original idea I found it on the Splitcoast stampers website, the original card was made by Kirsteen Gill. Being an easel card it stands up well, I have added a different butterfly &
 heaps of Dazzling diamonds so it really glitters, otherwise it is pretty much the same as I thought it was such beautiful card just the way it was.

Many Thanks Kirsteen my Mother in law loved it.

Happy Stamping
Fiona