.. and another Christmas Card

Hello again,

Well I have another Christmas card for you today, I have so many to make it's difficult to find time for anything else, but I will hopefully show you something different in a day or two.

It's another one that's quite easy to produce lots of but still looks special due to the embossing, the die cut ornaments and the shimmer.

So far I've made this card in two colours, the gorgeous In Colour "Midnight Muse", I love blue for Christmas cards.,

and also in In Colour "Gumball Green"; you can never go wrong with green where Christmas cards are concerned.

This shot really highlights that great embossing folder and the shimmer and shine you get from the Smooch sprays.  I used "Vanilla Shimmer" again, as I think it makes a card look all frosty but these strays also come in "Gold Glow" and "Silver Foil" if you want to go for a slightly different feel.

Have a great day, until next time ... xx

A couple of Ornamental Christmas cards

Hello there,

I hope your Bonfire night was full of fun and lovely hot things to eat and drink.

My share for you today is a Christmas card, well, now it's November it feels as though lots of Christmasy things are allowed.

For my base card I used "Naturals White" cardstock and I used the lovely new stamp set "Ornament Keepsakes" to stamp out the 2 ornament elements.

This is a lovely stamp set and comes with coordinating "Holiday Ornaments" framelits dies. What's even better about this coordinating products is that Stampin' Up as selling them either individually or as a "Ornament Keepsakes" bundle, which works out cheaper - yay!

I used just two ornament stamps and dies for these cards but there are 9 stamps in this set in total.

I used the "Music Notes" wheel for the background, which I love and is perfect for Christmas cards but also I think it would be great for male cards.

The sentiment is from "Curly Cute" - seriously, how great is this stamp set, defiantly one that every stamper should have in their inventory.  I heat embossed this in white onto a piece of "Midnight Muse" cardstock.

I only made these in "Midnight Muse" but I am defiantly going to be replicating these in a few more colours over the next few days.

Enjoy!    xx

"Holiday Ornament" framelit die

"Ornament Keepsakes" stamp set

Manly 'Thank You'

Hello there,

I'm a bit late getting going today so I'm going to be brief, so such to do at the moment that I'm finding it hard to find much time to attend to my blog :-(

Anyway, my share with you today is a card I made for my Uncle Alan to thank him for letting me and my cousin Gillian go through his old photo's a nick a few to scan in.

I made it pretty plain and simple and stuck to blue shades to be on the safe side.  I also used the Stamp-a-ma-jig to line up the sentiment as this stamp from the "Curly Cute" stamp set is all on one line.

I enjoyed making this style of card so I thought I would have a go at making a more feminine version

As you can hopefully see from this shot, I also used the "Love Blossoms" wheel, which can be found in the new catalogue that comes out on 1st October.

A quick and simple card that's just a bit different in shape to make it interesting, perfect when you need to whip up a card in a hurry.

Retiring Designer Series Paper

Hello there,

Just wanted to quickly share with you a couple of cards I've made in the last few days that uses some of the great retiring DSP from the 2011/12 Stampin' Up catalogue. Also, all DSP is currently reduced in price by  25 or 40% ~ yay!

This first card uses the Christmas themed "Holly Berry" Speciality DSP, which is currently 40% off, so making it just £6.90 per pack.

My 2nd share today is a Halloween themed card using the "Frightful Sight" DSP, which is also currently 40% off, making it just £5.97 per pack

I used the Oval punches to make the pumpkins and drew on the Jack-o-lantern faces, for some reason I really like drawing these faces on myself!

You only have until the end of this month to get these great paper collections as the new catalogue is launched on the 1st October.

If you would like more information on what products are retiring at the end of this month or how to book a demonstration or have any questions regarding any Stampin' Up product, please do not hesitate to get in contact.

cheerio xx

Really quick and easy card

Just wanted to pop on and post this really quick and easy card.

I punched out the paper 'ribbon' using the "Lace Ribbon Border" punch, put little bits of coloured cardstock behind the central images and stamped the sentiment using the "Curly Cute" stamp set, which really should be a staple in every crafters collection.  I added a few coloured gems from my personal stash and job done.

This would be a great "Thank You" card as it was so easy to do and would be easy to make up loads really quickly, with appropriate sentiment of course, but the "Curly Cute" has a 'Thank You' sentiment too.

enjoy the rest of your day.... xx

 
Project Ingredients

Stamp Sets : "Curly Cute"
Card stock : "Whisper White"; "Rich Razzlebury" & "Rose Red"
Colour:   "Rich Razzlebury" classic ink pad
Tools : Tombow Mono Multi Glue & "Lace Ribbon Border" punch

Congratulation Card

Hello there, hope you had a wonderful Easter, I can't believe it's over it seem to fly by in no time, luckily I got some crafting done with my new Stampin' Up goodies that I will share with you later in the month as I used some new products that are not available until the beginning of next month  ;-)

My share for today is a 'Congratulaions' card that I sent to my lovely Stampin' Up upline Sarah-Jane  
she made Silver 2 in promotion last month so obviously I had to send her a card to congratulate her as she works so hard and is a great friend and inspiration.

Now I knew I had to use the silver embossing powder but it took me absolute ages to decide what colours to use with it.  In the end I went for a "Basic Gray" card blank and "Concord Crush" top layer ~ love this colour.  I had to use my lovely "Stylish Star" stamp, because she is a little Star!

Ooo, shiny!

I embossed all the edges of the "Concord Crush by rubbing the Versamark ink pad directly to the edges and matted it onto "Basic Black cardstock to make the silver stand out even more.

I was quite pleased how it turned out in the end, even if this card did take the longest I've ever taken over a card ~ lol!

have a great day ... xx


 

Project Ingredients

Stamp Sets : "Stylish Star" & "Curly Cute"
Card stock : "Concord Crush"; "Basic Black" & "Basic Gray"
Colour:  Versamark Ink;
Tools : Silver embossing powder; Heat tool

Another last minute "Sale-a-bration" project

Here is the 2nd post for today and as promised, it's another quick project using "Sale-a-bration" products as I want to show you as many as I can before they disappear forever!

As you can see, it's a quick and simple birthday card.  I stamped the "Triple Treat Flower" stamp 3 times in the 3 colours and used the "Fancy Flower", "5-Petal Flower" and 1/2" Circle punch to punch out the various elements of the stamped image and layered them up with dimensional between each layer

I love the simplicity of this card but it looks much more ornate but this is down to the lovely stamped image and the prettiness of the DSP.

Hope you like it, chat again tomorrow, have a lovely evening .... xx

Countdown to Christmas ~ Wk 11

Hello again,

A really quick share with you today.

Fancy Fold card

This is a fancy star fold card that is really easy to do from 1 sheet of 12" DSP. I used "Holly Berry Bouquet" speciality paper for mine.

Close up of the some of the detail, I used a couple of mini tags punched using the Jewellery tag punch







and when the card is opened...

I will put together a tutorial on how to fold this card as soon as life allows :o) but in the meantime, if you would like me to come to your home and demo this card, (or anything else pretty paper related),  to you and your friends, please do not hesitate to get in contact.

take care...  xx

 
Project Ingredients

Stamp Sets : "Curly Cute" & "Tiny Tags"
Card stock : "Very Vanilla"
Accessories : "Holly Berry Bouquet" speciality DSP, 1/4" Grosgrain ribbon in "Chocolate Chip" (Retired - could use "Early Espresso" instead); Linen thread;
Colour : "Chocolate Chip" & "Wild Wasabi" classic ink pads & StazOn Ink
Tools : "SNAIL" adhesive; "Jewellery Tag" punch

Thank you Card.

Hi there,

A really brief post from me today as I've not been feeling well and my bed is calling me back but I really wanted to share this card with you.

Thank You card

It's a card that I made for my upline, Sarah-Jane, to thank her for her hospitality when I went to visit a few weeks ago.

It's actually a see through card, as I cut out a section of the front and replaced it with acetate so that you could read the sentiment on the inside of the card.  It's still just a regular A6 size card, but I feel this little change really steps it up.  The silhouette images are where just cut out of the very wonderful new DSP called "Timeless Portrait", which I think are just lovely.  Also, the ribbon is just the "Whisper White" organza ribbon dyed using a "Cherry Cobbler" classic ink pad to make it fit in with the colour palette.

Dyed ribbon close up

Obviously I also used lots of lovely new products ~ any excuse  :o)  Hope you like it, please feel free to leave a comment, I love reading them.

So that's it from me today, thanks a lot for stopping by and take very good care of yourselves....  xx

 

Project Ingredients

Stamp Sets : "Curly Cute" Stamp Set.
Card stock : "Naturals Ivory", "Whisper White" & "Basic Black" cardstock
Accessories :"Filigree" designer brads; 5/8" Organza Ribbon; "Jewels Basic Pearl" & "Timeless Portrait" DSP
Colour : "Cherry Cobbler" Classic Ink pad & StazOn Ink
Tools : Tombow Mono Adhesive; Glue dots & SNAIL adhesive
 

More birthday card inspiration.

Hello there, well, I had a lovely day yesterday shame you have to injure being a year older to have a special day - lol!

Anyway, I would like to share with you the other 2 cards I made after being inspired by my birthday card from Stampin' Up!

As you can see, it's basically the same as yesterdays only I just stepped it up a little bit by using the "Elegant Bouquet" embossing folder and running the "Whisper White" card stock through the Big Shot.  This helps add some interest to the top right hand corner that seemed a bit empty on my first card.

My second card is basically the same again, only this time I added a gift parcel and thread with a button and changed the placement of the sentiment, all of which, along with the colour palette, gives it a more mascaline feel I think.

I don't have anyone to give these cards to, I was just playing which sometimes is all you want to do rather than have the presure of wanting to create something perfect so that it's good enough for recipient.

Another thing, I've had a comment and a couple of messages about doing a tutorial for the box I showed you earlier in the week, from my "Countdown to Christmas series.  The current plan is to have one ready to publish on Sunday, so stay tuned.

That's all from me, hope you have a fabulous day....xx


Project Ingredients

Stamp Sets : "Curly Cute", "Playful Pieces" Hostess set (** RETIRING **)
Card stock : "Naturals Ivory", "Soft Suede", "Tangerine Tango" & "Whisper White" Cardstock.
Accessories : Clear embossing powder, "Sweet Stitches" DSP (** RETIRING **) & "Elegant Soiree" DSP (** RETIRING **), Flower Button from "Neutrals" collection. & Linen Thread. 
Colour : "Tangerine Tango", "Melon Manbo", "Soft Suede", & "Baja Breeze" Ink pads
Tools : SNAIL Adhesive, heat tool & Glue dots

Happy Birthday to me!

Yep, today is my birthday, I won't tell you the number, I don't mind saying it out load it just looks really depressing to see it written down - lol!

There are many great things about being a Stampin' Up! demonstrator, but one of them is they send you a birthday card and give you extra discount on any item in the catalogue - yay!

Stampin' Up! birthday card

It's a lovely little card which I found inspiring and I ended up making three cards based on it, one of which I will share with you today and I'll share the others over the next few days.

This was the first card I came up with

I cut out a scallop border and used this as a mask to sponge over some "Perfect Plum" ink to leave the impression of a scalloped border on the "Whisper White" card stock.  I then stamped Happy Birthday with "Rose Red" ink and, once completely dry, ink over again with versamark and used clear embossing powder to heat emboss with.  I used the "Stamp-a-ma-jig" to make sure I got perfect alignment on the Happy Birthday.  I made the faux ribbon using "Springtime Vintage" DSP, which is just gorgeous and will be missed by many when it retires at the end of the month.

I hope you like it, I'm just off as my son is cooking me breakfast and is treating me to afternoon tea at Patisserie Valerie, diet starts tomorrow - lol!


 

Project Ingredients

Stamp Sets : "Curly Cute"
Card stock : "Naturals Ivory", "Rose Red" & "Whisper White" Cardstock.
Accessories : Clear embossing powder, "Springtime Vintage" DSP (** RETIRING **)
Colour : "Rose Red" & "Perfect Plum" Ink pads
Tools : SNAIL Adhesive, heat tool & Glue dots