This blogging thing is new to me and all a bit scary really.

Crafting has been something I have been doing for years and T, my 7 yr old DD has been doing it with me for a few years now. 

We love creating and desire that our crafts be used to encourage others and bring joy into people's lives so we strive for quality and good workmanship in what we make. All our non-kinetic cards have white inner paper so that any message you write is easily readable and the card is packaged with an envelope in a cellophane bag to ensure it is kept looking its best. With our kinetic cards we seek to ensure that there is room for your message to be written.

I originally got into card making enthusiastically at our local church craft group years ago, being taught to use gift wrap to provide the images for the cards. Since then I have moved on to stamping, not very successfully, more recently digi stamps, napkin art & painted pieces on my cards. We have tried all sorts of card designs and use Crafter's Companion's Ultimate Pro, a Big Shot and my new Silver Bullet Electronic Die Cutting Machine in our crafting.

When I began downloading and saving digi stamps I was not intending to sell our cards so didn't save the images according to what could be used on cards we sell and cards we make to give away. As a result we are now only using digi stamps that been have downloaded more recently and that we know we are free to use on cards we want to sell. (Unless we are making a card we know is for a person we will be giving it to, in which case we may use an older image.) We are also moving away from the use of digi stamps and endeavouring to use more napkin art, pieces of T's artwork or our playing with paints and distress inks, melted wax crayons & our own designs of die cuts and embossing folders. Thus our cards are generally going to be one off's - some of the designs may be used often but the results will always be different depending on what elements we put together for the finished product.

Our desire is that this blog will be used to share our creations and provide an opportunity for people to purchase them if they so desire. (Any prices quoted will be in Australian dollars.)

This baby card was designed and cut on the Silver Bullet by T.  It is blank inside. $5.00

                                                       

This is a blank "Thank You" card 

with an overlay of flowers cut with the Silver Bullet

and the background is made from paper napkins. $6.00 

 A friend asked me to make a couple of engagement cards for her and this is one of them.

Cut files for these figures came from Brittany's SVG files at:http://svgfiles.blogspot.com.au/2009_06_01_archive.html

A simple card, embossed, bow added & words mounted up. $4.00

Melted crayon background for the wording which was cut with the Silver Bullet. $6.00

 Another simple card, not going to sell this one as it

just doesn't have enough pazzazz.

This card and the following three have

mounted up painted background for simple 

 cards. 

$4.00

 $4.00

 This card is a combination of Silver Bullet and crayon art. N/A

The diamonds on this card are cut with the Silver Bullet and the 

image is napkin art.  $6.00

This large easel card uses some painting backgrounds on the letters

and feature.  $6.00

A "Thank You" card for someone you can count on.  $4.00

Embossing, layered & mounted flowers and ribbon

weaving complete this birthday card. The lettering was

done with a pen in the Silver Bullet. N/A

Ribbon, handmade flower, glitter tag and rhinestones mounted on 

the results of one of our painting days. N/A

I love this fish painting that T did for this card. 

The bubbles have been  highlighted with crystal effects. N/A

T had painted some faces after being inspired by a 

friend's collage pages and painted some for cards. 

The flower on this card had a centre added before it was sold. N/A

A card designed & cut with the Silver Bullet and de-bossed with the Big Shot.

The lovely image on the front is from another napkin. Can put a number in the arch if desired.

$6.00

 A melted crayon card. N/A

Melted crayon with one of T's paintings. (Sorry the photo is not so good.) 

N/A

A vintage feel is created by the use of the pale painted pieces used on this simple card.
$3.00

Big Shot die, variegated coloured ribbon from Halycon Steppe

(http://www.halcyonsteppe.com.au) 

and a painted background give these cards an old world charm.

$4.00 each 

A very feminine card with lots of pinks and purples and a little blue.

Done with Big Shot. $4.00

This is  a blank card, diamonds cut with Silver Bullet and 

the feature is made from paper napkins. $6.00

These next few cards are ones created with the hope that they will be given to people you might want to encourage. Each card contains a verse of two from the Bible and are $6.00 each.

First Grace card in the Cards of Encouragement series that

contain a bible verse.

First of the Mercy cards in the Cards of Encouragement series of cards.

Second go at a Grace card for the Cards of Encouragement series that contain bible verses.     

                                                      

 Also a second design of the Rest cards for the Cards of Encouragement series.

Psalm 62: 1 & 2 

Another first of the Mercy cards for the Cards of Encouragement series.

Thank you for stopping by. Please leave a comment below to let us know what you think.

Cheers,

T-Rox.