More Cards For The Gallery.

Regular readers of this blog will know that I supply cards to a smart, if quirky, gallery in Millthorpe, NSW.

How fabulous does it look? What a great home for my cards!

You can read how all this came about and see a sample of the other cards I have supplied here.

And here are a couple more to show you.

My first go at these paper roses and now my new favourite technique!

And a closeup of the gorgeous Purple Pumpkin flower.

Red Roses Card

Bazzill Cardstock - Black, Red Rock

G45 PP - Mechanical Mind

Gears - Scrapmatts CB1078 Gears 05, CB5011 Gear Frames 02

Prima Rose Trim - Red 

Brad - Bo Bunny Timepiece

Ink - Black, Red, Gold

Walnut Antiquing Spray

Black Feather, Glossy Accents.

Mechanical Leg Card

Bazzill Cardstock - Black

G45 PP - Nouveau Artistry, Fantasy Floral, Steampunk Debutante, Eclectic Emporium, Victorian Transformers

Fabric Flowers - Purple Pumpkin

Kaisercraft Rhinestones - Black

Paper Doily, Ink, Black Ribbon, Feather.

Large Gear Card

Bazzill Cardstock - Black

G45 PP - Victorian Transformers, Nouveau Artistry, Fantasy Floral, Time Flies

Gear - Scrapmatts CB5005 Gear Frame 01, CB1078 Gears 05

Ink - Black, Red, Gold

Walnut Antiquing Spray

Glossy Accents.

Have a great weekend!

Bo Bunny "Timepiece".

I really like this collection for male cards. I love the worn look of the paper.

You can't see from the photo below, but I Glossy Accented the frame around the clock very thickly which gave it a lovely smooth, raised look.

I also adhered the bead chain with Glossy Accents. Just love that stuff!!!

Love to use it for giving the appearance of glass too, like on the little second keeper in the photo below.

For this next one I've used lots of fussy cutting and layers.

Both Cards

Bazzill Cardstock - White

Bo Bunny PP - Timepiece Home, Timepiece Tick Tock, Timepiece Cut Outs

Glossy Accents

Gold bead chain

2 Ways With Purple Pumpkin Spotty Buttons.

For those of you who don't already know Purple Pumpkin, where ya bin??? As soon as you've finished checking out my cards (not before, you hear) get yourselves over there to have a look. There is heaps of great eye candy from the DT and a sale of handmade embellishments, like the buttons you are about to see, on a regular basis.

Now, I said "2" ways with spotty buttons and here is the first. I chose this Bo Bunny PP specifically to use with the spotty buttons but when I put them together the buttons were just to bright. The white spots were very well...ummm...white! What to do? What to do? Reach for the antiquing spritz and dauber of course! 

A teeny spray on the dauber, a rub on scrap paper to remove most of it again, making the dauber nearly dry, and then a rub on the buttons. Voila! 

The little orange doily, Purple Pumpkin again, also got a spritz of the antiquing spray.

Here's the inside of the card also. I always forget to include a photo of the inside but I'm going to try really hard to remember from now on.

OK, that was one way. The next is soooo easy.

Did you spot it?? Excuse the pun.......lol.....

Top of the class if you thought they were unaltered! Yep, spotty buttons in their "pure" form. Bright, bright, bright and so exactly JUST RIGHT for this fun card.

And look! All the way to the end of the post I hadn't forgotten to include the inside!

Just one more thing before you pop over to Purple Pumpkin.

I've been very remiss about giving you a list of supplies with my posts so from now on I'm going to list what I use at the end of each post and if I ever have time I'll try and edit previous posts as well.

OK, you can go and have a look at Purple Pumkin now.

Happy papercrafting!

Dream Card

Bazzill Cardstock - Tanner, Desert Marigold

PP - Bo Bunny - Flower Child and Flower Child Hippy

Scrapmatts - CB1115 Leaves 01

Kaisercraft rubon flourishes

Paper flowers

Purple Pumpkin spotty buttons and doily.

Tweet Day Card

Bazzill Cardstock - White

PP - Kaisercraft - Funfair

Purple Pumpkin spotty buttons.

Exciting News To Tell You!

Warning: Lots of photos.

A few weeks ago I was approached by Linda, who found me via my Madeit store, to sell my cards on consignment through her gallery, Galvanised At Millthorpe. How exciting! Of course I said YES!

Look at this gorgeous place.

Linda describes her gallery as a place to "showcase unique, Australian, handmade and quirky things". She particularly liked my Steampunk designs and we decided on 6 to start and see how they went.

This is what I sent her.

I used Glossy Accents on the light bulbs to give the illusion of glass.

The next one is my particular favourite I think. The clock brad in her ear is Bo Bunny.

More Glossy Accents. Would you believe I've only just discovered this stuff and boy, is it getting a workout!

Another Bo Bunny brad in the center of the flying clock.

And here they are all packaged up and ready for their new home.

They went on display this weekend and yesterday morning I received word that two had sold already! Linda is marketing them as "handmade, keepsake, art cards for special occasions." Too cool!!.

I hope to have a photo of the display soon and will share it with you as soon as I get it.