If friends were flowers, I'd pick you!

Hi everyone!

I just wanted to quickly post a card that I have made this evening, for one of my best friends.  She has recently helped me through a difficult time, and I wanted to show her my appreciation.  I love the sentiment on my stamp:

     "If friends were flowers, I'd pick you!"

It really sums up our friendship.  

I've cut out a paperdoll at 3.5", used PKS Funshine Faces stamp, cut out the wedding dress on PDDU and highlighted it with my white gel pen.  I also cut out the flower strip from Plantin Schoolbook twice, once in green and once in pink and just cut off the flowers.  There's a bit of Pebbles Chalks to highlight my girl's cheeks, some metallic silver gel pen to give her earrings and a necklace, and some other metallic gel pen highlights.  The base of the card is a yellow/cream Bazzill Weave, with a background of Creative Memories Gazebo paper (it has a pale green soft pattern through it).

Hope you like it!

Deb. xoxo

Flaunt It Friday - Challenge #2: "Deb's Silhouette"

 Good evening Friday Flaunters (it's Saturday here in Melbourne, lol!)  I LOVE this particular Flaunt, as the PDDU cart is pretty much my all-time favourite!  Check out the challenge to 'Flaunt' the sleigh on P.74 of the Paper Doll Dress Up cartridge at  http://flauntitfridays.blogspot.com/2010/12/fif-2-blog-hop-1-winner.html

Oh, and congrats to Erika for last week's win!  Woohoo!!  This blog stuff is fun!! :)

Here is my effort for this week: a 12x12 layout, with "Space" paper from Disney/Pixar as the background, using the cloud-covered moon from the Disney - Princesses Dreams Come True cartridge.  I then used the reindeer from the Christmas cartridge, copied and welded in pairs using my ever-wonderful Gypsy (of course!), and the blackout head and Santa hat from the PDDU cartridge, (welded it into the sleigh) - all in black to give the 'silhouette against the moon' look.  I added some feature to the clouds using Pebbles chalks, and used a some Kindyglitz in Crystalina to highlight the sleigh.  Hope you guys like it!

This layout is inspired by one of my happiest (and possibly earliest) Christmas memories - when I was about 6, I got out of bed on Christmas Eve and looked at the moon, and to this day I still believe I saw the silhouette of Santa's sleigh and reindeer pass by.  It's such a lovely thought, and I wanted to share it!

Deb. xoxo

I LOVE Paperdolls!

My favourite cartridges at the moment are definitely the Paperdolls!  I have been using them for Friday afternoon craft sessions at my son's school - Grade 1/2s.  The first set of paperdolls we made were from the Paper Doll Dress Up cartridge, and we made Knights, Mermaids, Princesses, Sailor Boys, Cowboys and Cowgirls (all at 9").  Recently, I have made "Occupation" paperdolls, from the Everyday Paper Dolls cartridge.  I will upload the photos from the classroom shortly, but below are two samples I made to show the kids what they would look like.  We made a total of 27 paperdolls with backgrounds, all at either 5.5" or 6".  I have also introduced my Peachy Keen Stamps to this recent endeavour, with my face stamps - LOVE THEM TOO!! :)

I have really gotten alot out of my Friday afternoon craft sessions with the kids, and I truly believe they have valued it too.  There is no 'right' or 'wrong' with our craft work, but there is listening and taking pride in our work, and each child in the class, regardless of their abilities, has truly blossomed.  They are all amazing, and their work is amazing too!  Can't wait to post a photo of it all!
D.