New Home Card

Today’s share is a 'New Home' card that the recipient should have by now, so I'm safe publishing it to my blog.

Basic premise for this card was CASED, but being an idiot, I can't remember where from, (if you know, please tell me so I can give due credit – thanks!), and I’ve tweaked it a little bit as I was doing it from memory.

The paper was old Stampin’ Up paper that I had in my stash that I’m trying to use up. The image is from the 'Neighbourhood' jumbo wheel that I stamped onto Water colour paper in versamark ink and heat embossed using a mixture of black and gold embossing powder, which give a really cool two-tone effect. I coloured in the image using my blender pen, which I love doing, using the colours from the paper and then added three co-ordinating brads and some Marina Mist grosgrain ribbon.

The sentiment is from the 'Sincere Salutations' stamp set.


I liked the card so much that I'm in the middle of making another one to put in my stash of cards that are ready to go for when a last minute 'New Home' card is needed.

Cheerio for now, until we chat again xx

Sorry for the lack of posts...

Firstly, I want to say sorry for not posting over the last couple of weeks, but unfortunately, as some of my readers know, I’ve had a bereavement of a close family member and I’m sure you can appreciate that blogging has been the last thing on my mind. I do have to say that that pretty paper and cute stamps have been a life saver. It’s been great to be able to hide away in my little craft room and lose myself in little projects.

Today I’m going to share some cards I’ve made over the last few days to thank people for coming to the funeral, which was in central London, which is a nightmare to get into whatever mode of transport you are using and I wanted to make sure that the realised how much I appreciated them being there.

I kept the colour palette really simple and classic, using 'Marina Mist', 'Old Olive', 'Baja Breeze' and 'Garden Green' markers for the images. I used 'Very Vanilla' and 'Sahara Sand' for the card blanks and the 'Thanks for Caring' stamp set which is in the Summer Mini catalogue at the moment, Oh, and I also used a little 1/4" Grosgrain in Marina Mist.

Hope you like the cards, I found it very therapeutic and feel very lucky to have such a wonderful hobby.

take care of yourselves!



Big crafty hugs, xx

Hummingbird Template

Early post today as I am off to see my Mum this morning. She is just out of hospital and still not very well, so I'm trying to spend a bit of time with her to cheer her up unfortunately that means going over to Notting Hill in the rush hour which is defiantly one of my least favourite things to do!!

So on to the sample I would like to share with you today, it started with the Hummingbird.

I downloaded the template from a magazine website, re-sized it and cut it out of "Springtime Vintage" DSP, (Summer Mini Cat Ref; 121782, Pg 17), I love this paper!

Then I left it sitting on my desk for a while whilst I wondered what I was going to do with it. I then choose my trusty "Fast & Fabulous" Lv 2 hostes stamp set, (which means it's FREE!), which I stamped using the "Night of Navy" marker as I don't have any of the 'Regal' ink pads yet, and "Rose Red" ink onto "Very Vanilla" cardstock. This was matted onto "Baja Breeze" and "Night of Navy" card stock then adhered to a "Crumb Cake" card blank. I then stamped a sentiment from the "Hello, You" stamp set, (Cat Ref; 117118, Pg 86), which is a lovely little stamp set and very affordable.

I then left it for a while, actually quite a long while! There was definatly something very missing, but really couldn't put my finger on what else it needed. Finally, on Saturday afternoon I grabbed my trusty glue pen, scribbled in the centre of the flowers and drizzled over some "Dazzling Diamonds" glitter which gave it just that something extra that it needed.

I love the movement and dimension of the hummingbird and it's defiantly a template that I will happily use again and again







So, in the end, this card took about 20 mins to actually, physically put together, but, from start to finish, it took ~ I breakfast, ~ 2 lunches, ~ 1 dinner, ~ 5 cups of tea, oh, and not forgetting a packet of Walkers Crinkles crisps - Sea Salt flavour, (love them!!), but I am now, mostly, satisfied with it! Do you every have projects like that???

If you would like any further information on the products used or any in the 'Stampin Up' range, please do not hesitate to get it contact. Alternatively, if you want to check out the full product range for yourself, please click on the catalogue images on the left to download the latest catalogues. These are also available as hard copies, The Idea Book & Catalogue 2010/2011 is £5.95 and the Summer Mini is 80p. Both of these are free to any customers of mine once they have spent £100 or over, not including shipping costs.

Anyway, must dash, lots of crafty hugs until we chat again....

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

Hello there,

A really quick post today, we are having major technical trauma's with the computers in our house today ~ too long and dull to go into, but wanted to quickly post something in this moment of actually being able to get on the internet on one of the machines as I haven't been able to post for a few days :-(

Anyway, todays sample is a very easy card. It started with the card blank, which is one that I had in my stash and for the life of me, I can't remember where I got it from. It has the little blue flowers already printed on it. Now I'm not really a fan of pre-printed cardstock for a card blank as they can be so pretty that I don't want to put anything over the top but this design works really well as a background I embossed a rectangle on some 'Marina Mist' cardstock, then stamped on some 'Whisper White card stock. The stamp I used is from the "Engraved Greetings" set. I used 'Marina Mist' and 'Real Red' markers to colour the stamp and then added a blob of 'Crystal Effects' in the center of the image for additional decoration. I used 'Snail' to adhere the stamped image to the 'Marina Mist' then 'Stampin' Dimensional' to adhere that to the card blank.

My brother-in-law got this one, he likes flowers, bright colours and patterns, so hopefully he liked this one. My next post will be what I made for him for my DS to send.

Take care ... xx

'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" 1 layer Challenge card

Hello,

Still having problems with my blog interface, but hopefully this post will actually post!

Today I would like to share with you a card I made to enter into the "Less is More" challenge. The challenge was to make a 1 layered card that includes a frame of some sort.

I used Very Vanilla card stock for the card blank and to stamp the word "love" I used "Schoolbook Serif alphabet" stamps and Rose Red classic stamp pad. The tiny "you" within the 'O' is from the "Tiny Tags" stamp set and I used Night of Navy marker pen. I also used a Rose Red marker pen to draw the lines that make up the 'frame' part of the card.

That's all for now as the interface I'm using is driving me up the wall!!

Take care xx