Final Calendar Pics

Hello again everyone. Well here I am on another day with another calendar post and it is the last one lol. This has been so much fun to make. As I said yesterday the tag at the side of each month is to explain what the stars are in each month. Therefore In January we have New Years Day and Australia Day and the red stars on those days indicate a public holiday, special event or birthday.

I just love October. The skeleton trinket my husband found in his rounds at work on the ground so he brought in home for me and said here is something for your mini's Shell lol. He knows me well that man lol. The skeleton may be missing a bone on one side but it gives him character hehehe. I have also added some skeleton ribbon and a small black bat brad in the flower which are things I got in my huge RAK from Mel. Of course I had to put an orange and black flower as they are traditional colours of Halloween. We don't celebrate Halloween as a nation here in Australia but we, as a family, celebrate it.

This is December with a candy cane, a resin tile for Dec 25th and a Poinsettia down the bottom. So many days in this month - my birthday, Elijahs, his dad's Paul and my dad as well as Christmas and Boxing Day. Okay that is the post for now and I might be back with another one later on in the day or evening.

In the meantime. . . .

Walk about your day with absolute beauty.

The Gypsy

More Calendar Pics

Hi everyone. Well as promised tonight I have some more pics of my 2010 desk calendar for you to see. If I did not do this post tonight Sherry was going to have my head on a plate lol and she meant business people!!! She is a much better blogger than me so I still have 2 days to catch up on so tomorrow I will get my own whip out and crack it so that I get that done and up here. I am heading towards 30,000 visits to my blog and with that comes. . . . .a blog candy!!! Not sure what is going to be going into the blog candy but it will be some nice things for sure, so when the time gets closer I will do a blog candy post.

February of course has Valentines Day in it so I had this silver heart trinket that I alcohol inked in Cranberry and placed it over the 14. I think it looks rather cute lol

April has of course the Easter break in it therefore I had some Beatrix Potter chipboard stickers that I got for free on a craft magazine so I put him on the Good Friday showing him making his way to Easter Sunday chewing a carrot on his journey and then I put this cute little brad on Easter Sunday saying "Bunny Crossing" far too cute. This is one of the many, many brads that Mel sent me in a RAK parcel which I cannot thank her enough for such a generous warm chick.

May has of course Mothers Day in it and therefore I put a large rhinestone flower on that day but it was pink so again I alcohol inked it in Currant. I also put a tag behind that months calendar so stay tuned for tomorrow nights entry (final calendar pics) to find out what the tag is for in the meantime it is secret squirrel.

June, July and August are fairly ordinary but I will jazz them up some more just could not think of anything else to do on them just yet, I was a bit brain dead lol. So that is my post today.

In the meantime. . . .

Walk about your day with absolute beauty.

The Gypsy

My 2010 Desk Calendar

Here is a 2010 Desk Calendar which I made today using my 7 Gypsies 6x6 paper pad that Sherry sent me in my christmas parcel along with lots of other goodies of course lol. I purchased the digital calendar file from the House of 3 for Heidi Swapp and Teresa Collins which they did together as part of a joint project. I absolutely love the calendar as it is vintage but a little grungy which is of course right up my alley. I distressed around the edges of each chipboard page and each calendar page. I will decorate the months accordingly if there happens to be a holiday in that month.

I will post more pics of finished pages tomorrow.

In the meantime. . . . .

Walk about your day with absolute beauty.

The Gypsy

Finished Front Cover of my Journal

Hello everyone here is my finished front cover for my Lifes Questions Journal that I did. I used antique music sheet paper for my flowers and Distress Ink and I love how they have turned out. I also tore a piece and Mod Podged it onto the cover. I have used Distress ink on the letters and then covered them in Glossy Accents. I stamped the background with the SU French Flair background stamp which has now retired and it is a real shame lol. The only thing I could kick myself for is not distressing the edges of the music sheet that I laid onto the cover. . .DOH!!! And I should have run gold acrylic around the edges of the cover what do you think?

Let me know what you think about the cover and now I am starting to work on the first question.

In the meantime. . . .

Walk about your day with absolute beauty.

The Gypsy

Brand New Project I am working on. . . .

I found a you tube video last night on creating a journal with your old christmas cards. You paint your cardstock with Gesso and then acrylics etc and then create what you like on the page answering the prompt each week and your page will be your interpretation of the prompt in art form and or journalling. There will be a different prompt every week. The journal is titled "Life Q's as in Life Questions. The questions will make you look inside yourself and through art discover who you are and what you want in your life and or what is important, your dreams, goals etc. It really appealed to me on a personal front so I am in for the long haul and madly ran around getting my cards organised etc. My eldest daughter Courtney has also decided to make one. I will regularly post progress of my journal throughout the coming year to show you what it is looking like. The first pic is the front cover which I have just laid the letters down and well as the half top note cut outs.

The second pic shows you what the journal looks like with your cards before they are painted over.
And this third one shows that nothing on the cover is stuck down yet I was just placing them to see how they looked. Need to embellish my cover with some other things yet.
That is my blog post tonight.

In the meantime. . . .

Walk about your day with absolute beauty.

The Gypsy

365 Cards - #312 - Metal Mania

Over at 365 Cards today Pam wants us to include metal on our card in the words of Pam "I'm talking about putting a piece of metal of your card. Any size, shape or amount will do, as long as there's some metal on your card." So on my card I used three metal brads. I was going to put eyelets but then changed my mind. This card is to show a friend that I can do other cards other than vintage lol. I have stamped underneath the 3D butterfly in grey on the base card piece but you cannot set it but it looks like a shadow.

All supplies used in my card today are Stampin' Up! If you would like to know anything about the card please don't hesitate to email me. That is all from me tonight I am tired and heading off to bed as I am babysitting my little grandaughter and she awakens rather early lol.

In the meantime. . . .

Walk about your day with absolute beauty.

The Gypsy

SASC - 3x3 Notecard Box

Hi everyone well it is another day and I have missed two days already shame on me hey!! I will just have to make up for it and do something else today and post it. I chose to do the Stamps and Smiles challenge today for their Project Tuesday challenge which was to make a notecard box with 3x3 cards inside it. I used all SU supplies for my project except for the rhinestones and ribbon. I used the Parisan Breeze heavy duty DSP and it is the first time I have been able to bring myself to use it lol and I gotta say I love it but only have the one pack so will have to use it sparingly.

This last pic is a tad blurry sorry folks. Taking a pic one handed ain't easy for me lol. Okay until my next entry. . . .

Walk about your day with absolute beauty.

The Gypsy

365 Cards - #309 Super Sketchy Sunday

Hello everyone, well another project and since I was out for most of the day today I did not feel like getting stuck into something more involved that a card tonight and what better way to kick off the week but with a sketch from 365 Cards. Pam chose a sketch today that appealed to me very much so I got straight into it.

This is my interpretation of the above sketch.

Most of what you see on this card tonight came in my christmas parcel from Sherry, thanks so much Sherry for the lovely scrappy gifts. I will treasure them but use them lol. A standing joke between us hehehehe. That is all from me tonight.

In the meantime. . . .

Walk about your day with absolute beauty.

The Gypsy

Keepsake Box

Hello there. As promised I am posting another project tonight but it is not quite finished as the day today was rainy which made trying to set Crystal Effects from SU a little hard to do so still waiting on some of my embellishments to set. I have chosen these lovely flowers I got at Spotlight from the wedding section and they were off white so I sprayed them with glimmer mist in Suede. The vintage lace has also been tea dyed to give it that vintage look and in the middle of the lace is a Hodgepodge ribbon slide in aged copper which is now defunct in the catalogue. I bought the beading from my local fabric store in town and it fits with the whole vintage look. Please don't forget if you would like to order any SU supplies please shoot me off an email and I will get back to you asap with prices, delivery dates etc.

These next two pics show the inside of the box and you can use it for keepsake things like love letters and pics of your loved one, or as a photo box and label the sections with either years or events. You could also use it as a recipe box. Thanks to Marion from A Piece Of Craft for providing the instructions for this keepsake box.

Okay another day another project down . . . . well almost anyway lol.

In the meantime. . . .

Walk about your day with absolute beauty.

The Gypsy

My Toilet Roll Mini Album

Hi everyone. Well here it is 2.37am on the 2nd Jan 2010 and I am doing a blog post because Sherry and I decided we were not going to let a day go past without doing a blog post this year. So yesterday I did a New Years post and today I thought I would post the pics of the new little mini I completed this morning. It is a toilet roll mini album utilising the inner cardboard roll after the paper has finished which we normally would throw away but now we can make something from them. I will re-film my first video in the morning and post that on as well but for now the pics will have to do. So please enjoy.

Okay for today that is it from me.

In the meantime. . . .

Walk about your day with absolute beauty.

The Gypsy

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Hey everyone,

I would just like to wish all my followers and everyone out there who comes to my blog the very best of new yearS to you all. My wish is that this year brings each of us the success and health that we all deserve and should have. May the Goddess shine her light on all of you.

Walk about your day with absolute beauty

The Gypsy

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

365 Cards - #303 - With A Flourish

Well Bloggers here I am finally doing a card after such a long while. I have been so busy doing other things like getting christmas orders completed and sent out and making a mini album for my first mini album swap. . . .which was so exciting to be involved in and I received mine but cannot post about it or post pics of mine until the recipient receives hers in the mail lol. I hope you all had a wonderful christmas as did I. I got the best pressie of all time which was a video camera from my man and my youngest daughter so that I can start making you tube videos on tutorials etc. I have to say though I have done a couple of practise runs and I gotta say I sound like a bit of a dick (sorry but the only word that fitted lol) so I deleted them but will keep practising until I am happy with the outcome and then I will upload them.

Today over at 365 Cards Pam has asked that our card include 3 flourishes and they can be stamped, rub-ons, patterned paper etc. Two weeks ago I received in the mail from a lovely chick down in Adelaide a bag of Top Note die cuts from SU which is not available yet in Australia but will be next year. . . .yay!!!! Mel bought hers on E Bay and posted one of each cardstock colour that SU has to me. Is that not the nicest thing girls? Mel also sent me so many different brads that I thought it was christmas (which it was) and then the very next week she sent me another parcel which was so full to the brim of all sorts of scrapbooking goodies and I was totally blown away by her generosity. . . . thanks so much Mel. So I had to make use of them and use one in my first card for a while today. I have two stamped flourishes and two die cut flourishes on my card so I have four in total just to cover myself hehehe.

Okay girls that is all from me today. I am now going to read a bit of my christmas book that I got from my daughter and son in law, which is Matthew Reilly's newest book which I have been waiting for, for two years. It is non stoppable action packed reading and I cannot put it down.

In the meantime. . . .

Walk about your day with beauty.

The Gypsy

Another Order Completed. . . .

Another christmas order ready to go out. The request was to make it a little vintage and I think I achieved that. . . .well I'm hoping I have lol. This goes into the post tomorrow. Now all I have left is my Mums christmas presents to make and then orders are completed. I sent off a parcel to the US this afternoon to a wonderful friend so I hope she enjoys all the goodies inside when it arrives.

Okay I am off to bed now as I have a day in the shop tomorrow doing several massages and also have an aromatherapy consultation for an aging Mum who has arthritis and also wants her hands massaged. I am looking forward to this as I know my own Mum gets so much relief from having her arthritic hands massaged by me. So if I can help this woman alleviate the pain in some small way it will make my day that much better. Whatever you do do it well.

In the meantime. . . .

Walk about your day with beauty.

The Gypsy

Simple Doodles Guest Designer

For the month of December I was chosen to be a guest designer over on Simple Doodles. Due to family crisis I have been unable to fulfil my obligations up until now and my sincere apologies go to Trish the owner of Simple Doodles. I will try and post regularly from now until the end of the month. Trish has been very generous in providing me with lots of digital images and Santa below is a new image for her. So I decided to play with him as it is the season lol. The red fibre on the side of the card I bought at Spotlight and it has a glittery type look to it which is so groovy for this time of year so I bought a green one as well. Both will be nice on my mini album swap I am doing with a girl in the US. I also ran the edges of the Riding Hood Red cardstock the Versamark pad and then put gold embossing powder on the edges. I have always liked this uneven look and was doing it to my cards about 18 years ago lol. Everything comes back sooner or later do you agree? When I showed a beautiful friend of mine the card for her to critique she said to add in white gel pen the words Ho Ho Ho which I did and I normally have nice handwriting but do you think I could do it nicely for the card?. . . . . NO OF COURSE NOT LOL!! Needless to say I was stuck with it. The designer paper is from SU Ski Slope paper pack which I just love.

Okay I think that is it people. Don't forget to leave comments as I just want to know that there are people out there who visit my blog even though I have been tardy of late, I will try to make up for it.

In the meantime. . . .

Walk about your day with beauty.

The Gypsy

Hi everyone. I guess you have all been wondering where I have been lately. There has been so much happening in my life lately with sickness in the family to trying to get christmas orders out. I have not had time to make any cards. . .oh well I tell a little lie there today I made one for Simple Doodles but I cannot show you yet so you will have to wait for that little gem to get approved first. My first pic is of a grocery pad which has magnets on the back so you can put it on your fridge. I forgot to add some ribbon to the side as a pen holder on this particular one which is my own creation, after some modification of Angie's over at Chic n Scratch's blog.

The second one is a post it note organiser and this pic is of the inside of the organiser with a pouch on the left side for receipts etc or stamps.

This is the front cover of the post it note organiser and I made this one a little vintage as it is an order.

These next three cards were a workshop I just did recently and I had so much fun completing them. The flourish is amazing and can be used on all sorts of projects.

This is my second creation in the workshop. . .

And this is the last one I made from the workshop. Aren't they just the prettiest cards, I really love how they turned out.

Sorry that I have been absent from my blog for so long everyone but it could not be helped. I hope to get back into the swing of things in the next week or so. So please keep coming back as you may be surprised what you see next time around *grins*.

In the meantime. . . .

Walk about your day with beauty.

The Gypsy

Our Creative Corner Sketch Challenge

I thought this challenge looked great today so I decided to sit at my workstation and put a card together. The sketch is from Our Creative Corner and what the design team created inspired me to put my card together.

This is my interpretation of the above sketch. I hope you enjoy it. I had a lot of fun making it which is a good thing as I have been rather out of sorts with my cardmaking lately so I need to get back in the saddle and get cracking on some creativity.

In the meantime. . . .

Walk about your day with beauty.

The Gypsy

All supplies used are Stampin' Up! except the gold cord which is from my stash.