Ice lolly card

Hi there,

I met a family member in Waterloo station on Monday and the station staff there was giving away ice lollies, which was a very nice and sensible thing to do, it also inspired me to do a little crafting when I got home.

 

 As you can see, it's an Ice Lolly card, well, actually, it's a cherry flavoured ice lolly ...

... and using the fabulous Stampin' Up Scented Embossing Powder, it even smells like cherries.

 

  To make the lolly's stick, I used "Sahara Sand" cardstock and the "Woodgrain" stamp and round the ends with the 1" circle punch, but I put the cardstock in through the punch's whole so that I could just punch the end of the cardstock to give it that nice curve.

I also made an envelope for it using the "Simply Scored Scoring Tool" & Diagonal scoring plate.  These are wonderful tools, I really don't know how I managed without them, especially when you have unusual sized cards such as this one.

I made mine a birthday card but this style of card would be great for summer soirées and kids parties. Hope you like it.

Take care ... xx





Project Ingredients

Stamp Sets : "Button Buddies" & "Woodgrain"
Card stock : "Sahara Sand"; "Real Red" & "Whisper White"
Accessories :  "Old Olive" 3/8" Taffeta Ribbon - retired; "Cherry" scented embossing powder.  For Envelope - "Old Olive" sheet from Brights Collection paper stacks.
Colour:  StazOn Ink & "Real Red" classic ink
Tools : Tape runner adhesive;  Dimensional Adhesive; Glue dots; Scallop Punch; Versa Marker pen; Heat Tool; Corner rounder punch.  For Envelope - "Simply Scored Scoring Tool" & Diagonal scoring plate

Cherry Scented card

Hello,

Not got a lot of time at the moment for some reason, but I did want to quickly share this card with you.

It's using the Note card & Envelope set again as I love this size but the real fab part of this card is the cherries ~ they smell!

No, really, they do smell of cherries.  Stampin' Up have launched a range of scented clear embossing powders, you can get "Vanilla", "Cherry" or "Melon" ~ now seriously, how fantastic is that!

Ooo, all shiny!

I used marker pens to ink up the Cherry stamp from the "Button Buddies" stamp set then went over the cherries with the VersaMarker pen before adding the "Cherry" clear embossing powder.  So quick and easy to add a real surprise 'WOW' factor to your crafting.

Have a great day.... xx

 
Project Ingredients

Stamp Sets : "Button Buddies" & "Sweet Cake"
Card stock : "Basic Black" & "Whisper White"
Accessories : "Cards & Envelopes Note" pack; "Cherry" Scented Stampin' Emboss Powder
Colour:   "Old Olive", "Real Red", Soft Suede" marker pens; Versa Marker pen & StazOn ink
Tools : Tape runner adhesive; Heat tool.

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

Mother's Day projects - No.3

Now I have to be honest and say that this is a scheduled post as I wanted a lay-in this morning but still wanted to make sure that my post went up at a reasonable time ~ well, it is Sunday!  :o)

Today's Mother's day project is a quick little item that can be whipped up in minutes.

They are little mini-size post-it note holders, perfect size for carrying around in a purse or handbag when all you need is a little bit of paper to make a quick note on.

I used Versamark ink and clear embossing powder with the the Sale-a-bration stamp set "Sprinkled Expressions for the floral image and the sentiment from the "Delightful Dozen" stamp set ~ again, I know, but it's such a lovely sentiment.

Inside I stamped the coordinating image from "Sprinkled Expressions" in black StazOn ink, added a little stack of small post-it notes.  I used my Crop-a-dile to punch the hole, then used stitched poly ribbon in matching colour.

This is a really cute little item and can easily be adapted for any occasion.

Enjoy your Sunday everyone! ... xx

 

Project Ingredients

Stamp Sets : "Sprinkled Expressions" & "Delightful Dozen"
Card stock : "Poppy Parade"; "Blushing Bride"; "Peach Parfait" & "Pear Pizzazz"
Accessories: Stitched-poly ribbon in "Poppy Parade"; "Blushing Bride"; "Peach Parfait" & "Pear Pizzazz"
Colour  StazOn Ink, "Old Olive"; "Rich Razzlebury"; "Tangerine Tango" & "Concord Crush" classic ink
Tools : "SNAIL" adhesive; Crop-a-dile

Retro Sketches Challenge No.1

My share today is a project I made to enter the challenge over at Retro Sketches  They are a new challenge site and I loved their first sketch, so obviously I wanted to join in.

Challenge Sketch

For my card I turned the sketch  by 90 degrees so that I could make a portrait card.

I used "Spice Cake" DSP, which is new in the Spring Mini catalogue. This paper is absolutely gorgeous in design and colour palette.  I stamped the sentiment with "Soft Suede" ink, then used the "Stamp-a-ma-jig" to get perfect alignment then stamped again using Versamark ink so that I could heat emboss using clear embossing powder.  This makes the sentiment lovely and shiny, not that you can see it in this photo, unfortunately. The main image is the "Triple Treat" stamp, it's one of the "a la carte" stamps which means it's really affordable, but by using the punches that coordinate with it perfectly, you can be really creative with it.  (see project ingredients for the punches used).
This card came together really quickly and I was really please how it came out, though I think I made have gone a bit mad with the basic pearls ~ lol!

Hope you like it. .....  xx


 

Project Ingredients

Stamp Sets : "Happiest Birthday Wishes" & "Triple Treat Flower"
Card stock : "Pool Party"; "Whisper White"; "Soft Suede" & "Very Vanilla"
Accessories: Basic Pearls; "Spice Cake" DSP; "Pool Party" ruffled ribbon & clear embossing powder
Colour :"Soft Suede"; "Pool Party"; "More Mustard" & Versamark ink
Tools : "SNAIL" adhesive; Dimensional Adhesive; "5-petal Flower" punch; "Fancy Flower" punch; 1/2" circle punch & Heat Tool

Valentine's day ideas - No.5

Hi,

Another frustrating day with my internet connection dying, but I do just want to quickly share another Valentine's project with you before it goes again!

It's a little treat box with handle.

Close up of the front of the box

 I used the "Poppy Parade" & "First Edition" Speciality DSP combination that I think looks great.

I put in lots of lovely "Love Heart" sweeties, well, what else would you put in a Valentine's treat box?? I know, I know, diamonds would be better, but I did add a rhinestone jewel to the heart, unfortunately that's the best I can do.   

Side view with heat embossed large heart.

I added two sizes of heart on this project and used the "Heart to Heart" punch and the "Full Heart" punches.  I used VersaMark ink to stamp on the floral image from the "Clearly for You" stamp set and heat embossed using clear embossing powder.

As you can see from the above picture, the box is quite roomy inside, so you can be quite generous with the amount of treats you put inside.

Hope you like it, remember, if you would like to learn how to make a treat box like this or any of the projects that I share whilst staying in the comfort of your own home, then get in contact and arrange a workshop for you and your friends, who knows what you could find yourself creating!

Take care and hopefully chat again tomorrow ~ Internet willing    xx

 
Project Ingredients

Stamp Sets : "Clearly for You"
Card stock : "Poppy Parade"
Accessories : Clear Embossing powder; "First Edition" Speciality DSP; "Poppy Parade" Stitched-Poly ribbon; Rhinestone jewels & Window sheets.
Colour : VersaMark ink pad.
Tools : "SNAIL" adhesive; Dimensional Adhesive; Glue dots;  "Full Heart" punch; "Heart to heart" punch

Also: Velcro from my local art supply shop.

Valentine's day ideas - No.4

Hello again,

Well, I can't find the photo's for the project I wanted to show you, so I will share this one with you instead.  As you can see, it's another card, but this time a full sized A6 card.

I used "Poppy Parade" cardstock and the "First Edition" DSP, which I think work wonderfully together.  I used the heart punches to create a 'kite' effect, with the linen thread as the kite string.

I heat embossed the image from the "Always Elegant" stamp set onto the cardstock before using the large heart punch so that I could get a symmetrical image on the heart.

I used the mat pack and the paper piecing tool to put holes all around the card and used a black marker to make the faux stitching.

I really like this card, hope you do too.


 

Project Ingredients

Stamp Sets : "Always Elegant"
Card stock : "Poppy Parade"
Accessories : Clear Embossing poweder; "First Edition" Speciality DSP & Linen thread.
Colour : VersaMark ink pads & "Baisc Black" marker pen.
Tools : "SNAIL" adhesive; Dimensional Adhesive; "Full Heart" punch; "Small Heart" punch; "Heart to heart" punch;"lace Ribbon" border punch; Mat pack & Piercing tool.

Halloween Ideas - The good twin

Hello again,

Quickly wanted to share with you my "Good Brother" Halloween project.  You may remember my evil twin brother project from last week, ( see HERE ), well, this is the good twin.

He's a bit goofy lookin' you can see that this little chap wouldn't hurt a fly, or that little bat in the corner, but why is he the good brother do I hear you asking??

Well ... it's 'cos he gives presents...

Hopefully something more exciting that an Oyster card ~ lol!

Hope you like him...  :o)


 

Project Ingredients

Stamp Sets : "Delightful Dozen" & "Every Little Bit" Stamp Set.
Card stock : "Basic Black"; "River Rock" & "Pumpkin Pie" cardstock
Accessories :  Patterns designer series paper pack - Neutrals collection
Colour : "Soft Suede" Classic Ink pad & "Tangerine Tango" marker pen
Tools : Dimensional adhesive; VersaMarker pen; Versamark ink; Black &  white embossing powder and black & silver embossing powder mixed together..

Halloween Ideas ~ Day 2

Hello, and welcome to day 2 in my week of Halloween projects.  I hope sharing these projects will give you some ideas for your Halloween crafting.

Today's share is a very simple card using the new jumbo wheel "Haunting Hill".  All I've done is use "Basic Black" classic ink to run the image over a piece of "Whisper White" cardstock, matted it onto some "Basic Black" cardstock and then adhered it to a "Basic Grey" card blank and used white embossing powder to heat emboss the sentiment.

This card can then be given, with a few colouring pens or pencils to a child to colour in rather than giving them loads of sweets on Halloween.  This card is also really easy to replicate quickly if your child wants to give out Halloween 'goodies' to their friends or classmates.

Hope you like it, as tomorrow is Saturday it will be a  "Countdown to Christmas" project, so the next Halloween project will be on Sunday... xx

Halloween Ideas ~ Day 1

Today is the first day of a 5 day mini-series where I will be sharing some Halloween projects to, hopefully, give you some ideas for your Halloween crafting.

My first little project is a scary pumpkin card.

I  drew a pumpkin shape on some "Pumpkin Pie" card stock, (well, what other colour would you use??), cut it out and drew on the ridges of the pumpkin using a marker pen.  Then, using a Versa Marker, I drew on a scary mouth and eyes shapes and heat embossing using black embossing powder.  I used a scrap of "Soft Suede" for the little knob on the top of the pumpkin.

This pumpkin is a twin, and as you might know all twins have one good one and one evil one, well, at Halloween they do, so, as today's share was obviously the evil twin I still have the good twin to show you, which I will do later in the week.  Until then, happy crafting :o)  xx




Project Ingredients

Stamp Sets : "Delightful Dozen Stamp Set.
Card stock : "Basic Black"; "Soft Suede" & "Pumpkin Pie" cardstock
Accessories :  Patterns designer series paper pack - Neutrals collection
Colour : "Soft Suede" Classic Ink pad & "Tangerine Tango" marker pen
Tools : Dimensional adhesive; VersaMarker pen; Versamark ink; Black &  white embossing powder.

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
 

Count down to Christmas ~ Wk 4 (& 1/2)

Hello,

So sorry not to have posted for the last couple of days, I thought I'd set up some auto posts whilst I was visiting my lovely Stampin' Up! upline Sarah-Jane, but I hadn't set them up properly ~ D'oh!  Oh well, better late then never.
I had a wonderful time at Sarah-Jane's, we were playing with some of the new products that will be available from 1st October. As Stampin' Up! demonstrators we are privileged to be able to get our hands on products early and they are fab and I can't wait to be able to share them with you.

Anyway, onto today's project, and it's the delayed Xmas project

As you can see, it's a box, just for a change from my usual cards.

The ribbon is wrapped around a belly band, what do you mean, you don't know how I did the belly band - you'll have to come back on 1st October to find out ;o) 

 .. and when you take off the lid,

the four sides actually open up to reveal the goodies inside. I was inspired by a box of fudge I got from Sainsbury's, the fudge was awful but, like all good crafters, I wanted to re-make the box.
Inside this box are 8 little Lindor chocolate balls, (yum, yum!), they fit perfectly and are just enough to make a decent size gift or stocking filler, oh, and underneath the goodies is one final little message.

As a little extra detail I also heat embossed using clear embossing powder on the DSP on the sides of the box.

Many of the products I used on this box are on Stampin' Up's retirement list, (see below for which ones), which means that come 1st Oct they will no longer be available which is a shame as I love all of them, but room needs to be made for all the lovely need goodies, one of which you've got a sneak-peek of on this project  :o)
If you would like any of the products on the retirement list, please contact me as soon as possible as things do sell out before the 30th Sept and I wouldn't want you to miss out before they are gone forever.  Of if you would like more information on how to become a Stampin' Up! demonstrator so that you too could get your hands on new products before the catalogues are published, then please drop me a line at the email address detailed in the left hand panel, you know how I love to chat!

I hope you like todays project, I love reading all your comments, so please don't be shy about leaving a comment, until next time, take care xxx

 
Project Ingredients

Stamp Sets : "So Swirly" Jumbo wheel (** RETIRING **), "Afterthoughts" Level 1 Hostess Stamp Set (** RETIRING **), & "Dasher"
Card stock : "Naturals Ivory", "Cherry Cobbler", "Very Vanilla" & "Old Olive" Cardstock.
Accessories : 3/8" "Very Vanilla" Taffeta Ribbon (** RETIRING **), Clear embossing powder, "Jolly Holidays" DSP (** RETIRING **), "Dazzling Diamonds" glitter
Colour : "StazOn ink; "Old Olive" marker pen
Tools : Stampin' Dimensionals SNAIL Adhesive; 2-way glue pen, 1 3/4" Scallop circle punch, 1 3/8" Circle punch, & XXXX (?? revealed on 1st October!)

A simple little card

Hello again, hope your week is going well so far.

My share today is a very simple little card using a wonderful stamp set that is sadly on the retirement list, that means that come the 1st October it will no longer be available so if you like this one please place an order as soon as possible so you don't miss out.

The card is one of those that comes together quite easily.  Firstly I embossed a square on the front using a bit of cardstock and a bone folder.  Then inked up my clear block and stamped the shape within the embossed area.  I love this technique, so easy and a great way of getting the most out of your supplies. I then stamped the main sentiment on the bottom right hand corner and the heart sentiment using StazOn ink, let to dry for quite a while as I wanted to heat emboss.  I used by embossing buddy, which is a great little tool for reducing static on cards and stopping embossing powder sticking to strange places.  Then I stamped the heart, added clear embossing powder and heat embossed.

This card is part of a series I'm doing for "Support our Soldiers" appeal who send handmade cards to the scary places where our armed forces are deployed so that they have the opportunity to have cards that they can send home as there are not many WHSmiths in Afghanistan!!  I'm aiming to do about 30 by the end of the month so I'll keep you updated on that.  If you are interested, you can find out more about this charity HERE

That's it for today, hope yours is a good one!  xx



Project Ingredients

Stamp Sets :  "Simply Said"
Card stock : "Whisper White"
Colour : "Baja Breeze" ink pad, StazOn ink
Tools : Stampin' Up! clear mount block - size "C"; Clear embossing powder; Heat tool

'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