Shade Tex Texture Rubbing Plates

Have you tried the fantastic shade tex rubbing plates, they can be used on paper, foil and even clay. They are quite simple to use, just place your paper on top of the texture plate and draw directly onto your paper leaving an imprint of the texture sheet underneath.

They are great for use with cardmaking and scrapbooking as well as for use with polymer clay, the texture sheets can be rolled through a past machine with the clay or a roller or brayer can be used instead, just remember to use water or talcum powder as a release agent for the clay so that they don't stick to the texture sheets.

They are available in 5 different sets, each with 6 different texture plates.

We now stock them in store they can be found at the following locatiin

http://stores.ebay.com.au/KMCrafts/Stamps-and-Texture-Sheets-/_i.html?_fsub=4870179011&_sid=908559981&_trksid=p4634.c0.m322

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Please share your experiences with shade tex texture plates below

New Sculpey Products for 2014: Silk Screen Kit and new Moulds

I am very excited to share with you today some of the new products that polyform have introduced and i absolutly can not wait to try them out. There a couple of new moulds out, The bezel shapes and the cabochon shapes as pictured below:

With these moulds you can quickly and easily create beautiful and unique jewellery pieces. These moulds include 4 different shapes in 3 different sizes, perfect for all types of jewellery from earrings to necklaces. They include, Triangle, Round, Tear Drop and Donut. They work great with each other also.

Then there is the awesome brand new sculpey silk screen kit.This is a fun an easy way to personalise your craft projects. This kit includes everything that clayers need to get started. It comes with 14 different patterns to choose from, a squeegee, gold and silver paint, ensuring that a variety of different looks can be created. The silkscreen designs include, 2 full designs and 2 sheets of 6 1.75" medallions that are perfect for making pendants. There is only a limited quantity available but they can be found at the following link

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=281406273507&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT

So grab one before they are gone and start creating with these fabulous silk screens today, cant wait to try these.

Hope you all have a fabulous and crafty weekend

Freshly Made Sketches #91

Last night i had some time to create another card for this weeks Freshly Made Sketches Challenge, if you would like to play along you can click on the link above, happy stamping and hope you all have a creative week.

 

Card Stock: Pumpkin Pie, Real Red, Whisper White, Pacific Point

Ink: Pacific Point, Versamark

Stamps: By the seashore, Baroque Border (Retired)

Accessories: Gold Embossing Powder, Hot Fix Crystals

Techniques: Heat Embossing

Retiring stamp set - Parlor Prints

Here is a couple of cards i created using the new stampin up products i received in the mail last week, some are retiring products and some are newer, don't forgtet you only have until the end of this month to orger any retiring products from the 2012/2013 Annual catalogue before they are gone.

Card Stock: Elegant Eggplant, Whisper White

Stamps: Parlour Prints (Background Stamp) Papillion Potpouri, Beautiful Birthday

Ink: Elegant Eggplant, Melon Mambo

Accessories: Butterfly Punch, Top Note Bigz Die

 

Card Stock: Pink Pirouette, Chocolate Chip, Whispter White

Stamps: Fancy Flower (Retired) Parlour Prints (Background stamp), Beautiful Birthday

Ink: Regal Rose, Baja Breeze

Accessories: Fancy Flower Punch, Fancy Fan Embossing Folder

 

Card Stock: Baja Breeze, Not Quite Navy, whisper White

Stamps: By the Seashore, Beautiful Birthday

Ink: Baja Breeze

Accessories: Top Note Bigs Die

Something else i also been working on this week is my polymer clay, i made some new beads and some pendants, hope you like them and hope you all have a creative week

Bordering on Romance

This week i decided to use one of my new stamps that i haven't yet used Bordering on Romance, i really like the way it turned out, i am playing along with Freshly Made Sketches today. I hope you all have a creative week and happy stamping

Here is this weeks card sketch and below is the card that i created:

Card Stock: River Rock, Melon Mambo, Whisper White

Ink: Elegant Eggplant

DSP: Paisley Petals

Accessories: River Rock Ribbon

Stampin Write Markers: Rich Razzleberry, Daffodil Delight, Old Olive

Posy Punch Card

Good Morning, hope you are all having a creative week and a fabulous valentines day, i know i sure am, i managed to find some time this week to whip up another card plus make some polymer clay beads, the posy punch card was inspired from splitcoast stampers and it turned out quite well.

Recipe:

CardStock: Pretty in Pink, Certainly Celery, Whisper White

Ink: Regal Rose, Baja Breeze

Stamps: Posy Punch, Happiest Birthday Wishes

Accessories: Fancy Flower Punch, Paisley Petals Embossing Folder

Beautiful Swirled lentil beads, they turned out really well, now all i got to do is put the holes in them and work out what i am going to use them for

Butterfly Prints

Well it's the end of another weekend. back to reality tomorrow. It has actually been a pretty uneventful weekend with my fiance working yesterday, so i had the house to myself and managed to get in some much needed crafting yesterday and today. This week i made a card for the Freshly Made Sketches Challenge.

Recipe:

Card Stock: Pacific Point, Whisper White, Rich Razzleberry

Stamps: Butterfly Prints

Accessories: Paisley Petal DSP, Butterfly Punch

Thanks for Stopping by

Creative Cards

I know it's been a while in between posts, but it's been a busy month or so which means less time for crafting and blogging, been busy doing some wedding planning among other things, we finally managed to book in a celebrant which is a hugh relief.

Over the last couple of week i have however been able to attend a couple of stampin up craft classes with the girls, it was so much fun we made some awesome cards and learned a great new technique the wax resist technique, i really love this, think i will have to get myself a brayer. Here is what we created

Birds in a Cage Card

I created this card for this weeks Freshly Made Sketches I hope you like it. I used the new Birdcage Cottage Cutz die that i got for Christmas, i love this new technique.

Recipe:

Cardstock: Marina Mist, Perfect Plum, Rose Red
Stamps:`Short and Sweet
Accessories: Subtles DSP, Big Shot
Techniques: Die Cutting, embossing

Posy Punch Birthday Card - by Karmi84 on madeit

Posy Punch Birthday Card - by Karmi84 on madeit

Something Special

Well i haven't blogged in a few days as it has been quite a busy couple of days, firstly i have some news, i got engaged on the weekend to my wonderful partner now fiance. You can see a picture of my engagement ring that he picked all by himself below, i was blown away, very surprised and shocked. Then sunday we spent the day at the hot springs for my birthday, it was fantastic, if you have never been i highly recommend it.

On another note the winner of my 150 facebook fan giveaway is Margaret from Chica es Artísticaso congratulations, please contact me with your address so i can get this great prize out to you.

Don't forget there is only 9 days left to order your favourites from the stampin up retiring list before they are gone forever so make sure you take a look and grab them before it's too late

Retiring Stamps and Accessories List

Friday MadeIt Finds

Happy Friday everyone, hope you all have had a creative week. The theme for Friday MadeIt Finds this week is Jewellery, so here is what i have come up with.

Green and Silver by SnickerDoodles

Beautiful Swarovski Crystal Bracelet by Lola Shoppe

Pink Swarovski Crystal And Pearl Sterling Silver Bracelet by Dehnike Designs

Chocolate Eclair Earrings by sweetpetiti

Aqua Glitter - small resin bangle by Rainbow Memories

My Creative Space

Not a lot happening over in my creative space this week, last night i worked on my crescendo necklace again, i think i am finally getting the hang of how to do this necklace, although the instructions still confuse me a litte. My Skinner blend turned out a lot better except for when i tried to turn the clay and stretch out the blend it still didn't turn out quite right, i got a different kind of effect which still looked alright but i think i will leave that part out next time i try. Hopefully i will have some photos up of the new version that i made soon.

This is the necklace out of the book Polymer Clay The Art of Jewellery, this is how it should look but i have learnt that you can't always get things the same.

You can find instructions for this project in the above book

I also got a new Ott Lite this week, very exciting my old pink one decided to stop working so i now have a lovely new blue one to play around with

 

Hope you all have a creative week

 

150 Facebook Fan Giveaway

Yay, i have now reached 150 fans on my facebook page. As a thankyou to all of my new and old likers i am having a giveaway. I am going to be giving away a copy of the 2011/2012 Stampin up idea book and catalogue. This book has some great ideas and lots of inspiration for fantastic paper crafts and lots of card ideas. It is a not to be missed item. To enter the giveaway, you need to either follow my blog or be a liker on my facebook page, then just leave me a comment below for your chance to win this great item.

Classic Shepherd's Pie

I thought i would try and cook something a little different last week, so we cooked up a shepherd's pie which turned out to be absolutly delicious so thought i would share this recipe with all of you so you can have a go to and see just how easy it is.

I found the recipe on exclusively Foods so you can check it out and take a look at many other great recipes too

This was our beautiful shepherds pie below

We substituted the tomato paste for gravox, i think this adds a little more flavor, we also took out the parsley, instead we added corn into the meat micture with the peas.

Enjoy

Meat Layer
20ml (1 tablespoon) oil
1 large (200g) onion, peeled and diced
1 large (200g) carrot, peeled and diced
1 large garlic clove, peeled and crushed
1kg raw minced lamb or beef (or 800g chopped cooked meat)
60ml (3 tablespoons) tomato paste
12g (1 tablespoon) plain flour
250ml (1 cup) chicken stock
40ml (2 tablespoons) Worcestershire sauce
400g canned crushed tomatoes
Salt and pepper
128g (1 cup) fresh or frozen peas
2 tablespoons chopped parsley

•  Heat oil in a large heavy-based pan or saucepan over medium heat. Add onion, carrot and garlic to pan. Cook, stirring occasionally, for about 10 minutes, or until vegetables have softened. 
  
  

•  If you are using raw meat, increase heat to high and add mince to the vegetables. Cook, stirring and mashing mince, until the mince has changed colour and most of the liquid has evaporated. If you are using meat that is already cooked, add the chopped meat to the vegetables and continue to the next step.

• 
  Over medium heat, add tomato paste and flour to meat mixture and cook, stirring constantly, for one minute.

• Add stock, Worcestershire sauce, crushed tomatoes, salt and pepper.

• Reduce heat to low and simmer, stirring occasionally, until liquid has reduced (about 15 to 20 minutes).

• Cook potatoes (see directions below) while the meat mixture is cooking.
  
  Preheat oven to 210 degrees Celsius (190 degrees Celsius fan-forced).
  
  Stir peas and parsley into meat mixture and pour into a 2.5 litre capacity ovenproof dish.
  
  Top filling with mashed potato. Use a fork to create peaks in potato; sprinkle potato with cheese.
• If the dish you are using is quite full, sit it on a baking tray in case any of the sauce overflows during baking. Bake pie for about 20 minutes, or until sauce is bubbling and cheese is golden brown.

Mashed Potato Topping
1kg potatoes, peeled and chopped
50g (2 1/2 tablespoons) butter
Salt, to taste
About 125ml (1/2 cup) milk (the amount needed will vary, depending on the type of potatoes used)
100g (1 cup, firmly packed) grated cheese (we used a combination of mozzarella, cheddar and parmesan)
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Freshly Made Sketches #47

Time for another Freshly Made Sketch Challenge, here is this weeks design

I used Butterfly Prints Stamp set and Short and Sweet. I don't have a circle punch so i improvides with a circle stencil i purchased until i can buy myself a circle punch. I used the butterfly punch to cut out the butterfly's and my paper trimmer to square up the various paper shapes

Stamps: Butterfly Prints, Short and Sweet

Card Stock: Regal Rose, Daffodil Delight, Tempting Turquiose, Whisper White.

Ink: Regal Rose, Basic Black.

Accessories: Brights Collection Brads, Butterfly Punch, Subtles Collection DSP

My Memories Suite, Digital Scrapbooking Software

My Memories Suite kindly gave me a trial version of there digital scrapbooking software to trial and review. I have now had a little bit of a play with there product, the final piece i created is shown below. It is only something fairly simple but if i had some more time i could sit and play a lot more.

With this softwate you can create great scrapbooking layouts, greeting card calendars amongst many more.

It has many different background papers to choose from or if creating a card and you want just a simple colour it also has many to choose from along with different shapes and embellishments including, ribbons, buttons and brads.

You can create your own design from scratch or you can use one of the many designed pre made templates that are already done for you. If none of these are for you then perhaps you could consider buying a featured design from MyMemories.com

I highly recommend this product for scrapbooking and greeting card enthusiasts a like, at the moment they are offereng $10 off, you can find the coupon code for this in the side bar.

Hope you all have a great night

Friday MadeIt Finds

Happy Friday everyone, hope you all have some exciting things planned for the weekend, i have dinner plans for sat night but the rest of the time i think i might have some time to do some crafting, it's the perfect weather for it at the moment so hope you all stay dry. The theme for this weeks Friday MadeIt Finds is Jewellery, this is what i have found on MadeIt

Reversible Printed Abstract Pendants by  Wendy Lee: Adventures in glass and metal

Keep Calm Scrabble Tile Pendant by Enchanted Creations

Fancy Filigree Butterfly - Teal Ear wires by Nomstar Designs

Owl Earrings by Starry Girl by Starzyia

Pastel Rainbow Rose Polymer Clay Earrings by Sew340