About Time for some Art!

How about I put up last years Christmas Cards for some inspiration. I made the same design but in varied colours. I made about 50 and I don't think there were 2 exactly the same. And no, I haven't started on this year's cards.

Time Flies By ....

Has it really been this long since I posted.   Obviously it has.  Life! Bahh!

Well I can show you a whole heap of cards, atc's and so much more in one lot.  I almost forgot I had webshots albums and it has so much of my work from 2002 - 2007 (before blogs took over!).  Some of the work looks dated now, even though at the time I thought it was okay.

Here's the link
http://community.webshots.com/user/debmuraus

Stamped Cards

Here are a few cards I have made over the last few months.   My lovely niece Maddison turned 6 earlier in the year and I had to go girly and pink - not my normal style!

The anniversary card is one of my favs.  How can you go wrong with basic grey papers, browns, stitching and the beautiful bird stamp?

The other 2 cards have been made as secret sister cards.  The theme for the first one was stitching and animals.  I have stitched the grass, hills and bush on the sewing machine.  This technique is something I would like to explore and play with some more.  The next one was using using a sketch layout.  Had to get stitching on there somewhere too!

About time for some updates, don't you think?

Here are a few cards I have made in the last couple of months all for a monthly Secret Sister Group I am in. Still not as much time as I would like for stamping and art, but you take what you can get. I did have an awesome time a couple of weeks ago at a scrapbooking retreat with my sister. We try to do it every year and it is a nice relaxing time well spent together. I will photograph some of the pages and get them up here at some time.

My Scrapbook Page

A few of you may know I was lucky enough to win the Grand Champion Scrapbook Prize at our local show in June. I won a few prizes with various pages and was absolutely surprised and honoured to win. There were quite a lot of entries for a small town - probably at least 100 total in the various categories. Well here is the page. I'm really happy with the blend of colours. I am really monochromatic when it comes to stamping and crafting. In other words, I don't use a huge selection of colours, but stick to one colour way.

The top picture is of a card I entered. The entries had to be in by 3pm and I started the card at 2.30pm. Nothing like the last minute. Anyway, it won 2nd prize!

ACTSA Canberra Stamp Camp

I had the most wonderful relaxing time last weekend in Canberra. It wasn't even cold. Thanks so much to my very special friends Grace, Michelle and Cheryll for inviting me to attend, for organising me and putting me up (or is that putting up with me?). I also want to thank the lovely Helen Brown for rooming with us at camp. You are such a wonderful person and it was great to get to know you a little bit. Thanks to my buddy Dianne, Lorelle and Lorraine for making me feel welcome at your table at camp.

To all the other friends that visited and took time out to catch up with me, thankyou. I value your friendship Kaeren, Bron and Raewyn. It was also great to catch up with Jacki, Raewyn's family, Lana Murray, Lorraine Fletcher and so many others and to get to know Nola.

Thank you to the ACTSA Committee for such a well organised and inspiring weekend. Last but certainly not least thank you to the wonderful Julie Van Oosten. You have encouraged me to create once again. Your down to earth attitude, your generosity and creativity is truly inspiring.

The class kits that you organised were right up my alley and allowed be to really enjoy just creating. In this post are the three cards we created.

My Christmas Cards 2008

Well here are what I did for Christmas cards for this past year. They were done the weekend before Christmas - you know, all the good plans of mice and men! I chose to stay with the one design and just do different colours. Gotta love those alcohol inks!