Rule UK!

As many of you will know, today is the Queen's birthday, so I thought I would make a patriotic card.

As you can see, it's a one-layer card made by using lots and lots of masking and is very much a tone-on-tone style of card.

I hand drew the flag and cut out the sections in such a way as to make the basic pattern of the Union flag. I used a couple of different wheels to do the crosses and versamark ink to produce the solid colour on the cross.  I used the small circles in the "Confetti" stamp set in the triangular sections.

I was really pleased with how it came out, not sure on what occasion I would send it to someone so I might just keep it for myself and pop it on the wall!

Oh, and I should say, the "Love Blossoms" wheel is in the current Spring Mini catalogue which ends at the end of this month, so you only have just over a week to get your hands on this gorgeous little wheel.

Have a great day ... xx

 
Project Ingredients

Stamp Sets : "Confetti"; "Love Blossoms" wheel; "Decor" wheel
Card stock : "Crumb Cake" 
Colour:  "Crumb Cake"; "Soft Suede" & Versamark ink
Tools : Standard wheel handle; Wheel Guide

Birthday Card for a VIP

Hi there, hope you had a good weekend,

Just before Christmas it was my son Benjamin's birthday.  Now we all know how difficult it can be to do male cards, but for such a VIP, impossible!   So, I decided to just kept it very simple in layout and let the sentiment and the words inside make my statement.

I used the "Happiest Birthday Wishes" stamp set for the sentiment on the front, no surprise there you might think, as I have shared quite a few cards that I've used this set on, but actually, I knew I wanted this set for this exact stamp as I knew I had to use it on my son's card.  He was born on the evening of the 23rd Dec and I've always told him that he is the best Christmas present I've ever had, so I knew this stamp was perfect for a card for him.

I used the "Sanded" background stamp, which is now retired, but you could used the "Texture" jumbo wheel for the same type of effect and the "Confetti" set in Versamark ink on the strip of "Night of Navy" cardstock to break up the plainness of the cardstock.

I also wrote something suitably embarrassing inside, as only mum's are allowed to do, so hopefully the card showed him how special he is to me always on his special day.

Hope you have a great day.. xx

 

Project Ingredients

Stamp Sets : "Happiest Birthday Wishes; "Confetti" & "Sanded" background stamp - RETIRED
Card stock : "Whisper White"; "Crumb Cake"; "Tempting Turquoise" & "Night of Navy"

Colour : Versamark ink; "Soft Suede" classic ink pad;  "Night of Navy" & "Tempting Turquoise" marker pens.
Tools : "SNAIL" adhesive & Dimensional Adhesive.

Yet more stamping with the "Confetti" stamp set...

Hi there,

I hope that you've been able to keep cool over the last couple of days, it's been so hot in Twickenham It's been too hot to go into my crafting room during the day as the sun shines directly into the window and the room becomes the hottest in the house!

I would like to share with you today a couple of very simple cards and I'm using the "Confetti" stamp set again. You can probably tell that I love this set, it's so versatile. All I've done is punched out squares of coloured cardstock and then used that colour to stamp various images from the "Confetti" stamp set. I then 'wrapped' the presents with some Bakers Twine from my stash

The first card has a more feminine colour scheme using "Baja Breeze", "Pink Pirouette" and "So Saffron" colour palette and "Whisper white" cardstock.

.. and the second card has more of a masculine feel I think achieved by using "Old Olive", "Poppy Parade" and "Concord Crush" colour palette and using "Sahara Sand" cardstock.

Both cards use an A6 kraft card blank from Papermania

'Nature' type card

Hello all, hope you are well and that the sun is shining wherever you are.

Today, the card I would like to share with you today was made using the "Every Moment" stamp set. Now I would not consider this stamp set part of my usual style at all, but the benefit of a company like Stampin' Up is they cater for all tastes and therefore you find yourself browsing through the catalogue and starting to like things you would never normal be drawn to. This was the case with this stamp set and I have to say I really like it and I'm enjoying playing with it at the moment.

This cards also uses the "Confetti" stamp set as a background stamp, going over the solid leaves with a Versamarker and heat embossing with clear embossing powder. I used 'Crumb Cake' from the card base, used the 'Scallop Trim Border' punch on 1 edge of 'Cajun Craze' cardstock and tore the edges on the others and stamped the images onto 'Very Vanilla' cardstock and, once again, tore the edges. I coloured the images with a blender pen, which has to be one of my favourite tools ever! I also added a hint of sparkle on the butterfly with the Dazzling Diamonds glitter.

I was please with my attempts at trying a different genre of stamps, hope you like it too.

take care, and big hugs ~ until we chat again ...xx

"Less is More" Challenge card

Sorry not to post for a while, just a really really quick post today.

This is my entry for this weeks "Less is More" challenge, which is to create a 1 layered card with embossing on.

I used Baja Breeze cardstock for the card blank which was embossed in the centre using a piece of card stuck on the front then using a bone folder to fell round the edges on the inside of the card to create the embossing.  I stamped the leaves pattern from the "Confetti" stamp set, (Cat ref: 120465, Pg 60),  round the outer, unembossed section of the card and stamped the larger flower from the "Growing Green" stamp set, (Cat Ref: 120624, Pg 56), and heat embossed both using clear embossing powder.  I used the Rose Red marker pen to colour in the flower and Chocolate Chip marker pen for the dashed lines and for the Friend to Friend sentiment, which is from the "Pocket Silhouettes" stamp set, (Cat Ref: 111672, Pg 45)

Take care, and chat more soon - promise :o)