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Good morning all, Apologies for being so quite and not posting anything on my blog but I have been really busy with lots of other things. I have made a few cards which I will put all in one post.

The first card I got my inspiration from the new Docrafts Creativity magazine. It shows you how to make a camera shutter that moves. I made the shutter but then took it further but making it a complete camera. The rays above the camera are meant to be the flash,

The card with the shutter closed

The shutter is half open and you can now see the arm that you open it up with

The shutter complete open!! I absolutely love this card and it was made for a very special friend Tracy, that had a birthday last Sunday.

 The second card is also for a family member. Its a plain white linen cardstock, the branch is a die from Couture Creations and the owl is a Rosies stamp bought from the Warehouse and coloured in with my Spectrum Noir markers and then embossed with clear embossing powder.

The last card is very similar to one I made a few weeks ago for a friends husband. This card is also for a friends husband that happens to also enjoy fishing. I tried to make it look like the trout that is locally caught here but of course the fish stamp is not of a trout but figured I would be forgiven as its the closet I had to a trout. The gone fishing again sign is hanging on a piece of bakers twine, and the fish and background stamp is from the Kaisercraft Hunt and gather stamp set.

Gone fishing again.

Thank you for looking and I hope I have inspired somebody with my creations.

See ya

Kaisercraft Hunt and Gather stamp set

Greetings all, This is another one of the stamp sets I bought off E-bay in Australia and with a friends husbands birthday coming up this week I figured I would play around with this Hunt and Gather stamp set to make him card.

I wanted to keep the card very plain and because he enjoys going fishing I decided to make the fish the focal point of the card. I started with a white linen card stock base. Stamped "Happy Birthday" on the front and then on a piece of scrap white linen card stock I stamped the fish and coloured it in with my Spectrum Noir markers. I then embossed the fish with thick enamel clear embossing powder and while still hot I sprinkled over Twinklets diamond dust to give it some sparkle and represent the scales of the fish. Cut out the fish and adhered to the front of the card using gut and a gold bead so as to look like the fish had been hooked. I folded the washi tape to look like a flag. and Faux stitching and three green pearls completed the card.

The stamp set:

Thank you for looking and do come back again soon

Valerie