Cheryl's 4th Stampin' Up! Anniversary.

Cheryl came to monthly workshop today and I havent seen her for two months

as she was on holiday at the end of May, so I gave her this card

made specially to celebrate her being a SU Demo for 4 years,

earlier this month.

I have used a piece of the awesomely beautiful 

Petal Promenade  DSP 

and the Number of Years stamp set, 

with a die cut 4 from the matching dies.

Matted onto a piec of Mossy Meadow cardstock

then onto  a 7" x 5" base card.

Congratulations Cheryl

xx

Lyn's Birthday card

Today is one of my crafting friends - Lyn's birthday

and here's the card that I made for her.

The base card sentiment was computer generated.

Colour combo is Highland Heather (new!) and White

with a Wink of Stella, which unfortunately doesn't show on the photo!

Stamp sets are :

Wood Words - background flowers ,which are stamped in Versamark

 and heat embossed with White embossing powder.

The daisy and leaves are stamped with the Daisy Delight stamps

again in Versamark and White embossig powder.

A few tiny rhinestones just finishes it off nicely!

Happy Birthday Lyn - have a great day!

Another of Chris's bit box card

As promised, here is another in the series of Bit Box cards

that Chris has used featuring scraps of DSP put to good use!!

Scraps of the beautiful Share What You Love DSP.

A stitched shapes Framelits circle

stamped with the flower from Love What You Do stamp set.

Amazing what yoiu can do with scraps!

Kathleen's Birthday

Today it's Barry and Chris's cousin, Kathleen's birthday.

Heres the card I have made for her.

The Springtime Impressions Thinlits dies were used to cut out the flowers

with Whisper White card.  These were then inked individually.

using an inkpad and a sponge dauber.

The colours used are Melon Mambo, Coastal Cabana and

Daffodil Delight for the flowers and Granny Apple Green for the leaves.

The sentiment is from Happy Birthday Gorgeous and the background 

is just splatters using a little Melon Mambo with water, splattered with a paintbrush!

Mmmm love these colours!

Happy Birthday Kathleen!!

A glass of wine makes life divine.......

.... thats what it says on the label!

Here's a card that Chris has made and is happy to share 

as it's one that my ladies will love to copy!

A super 6" x 6" card using the stampset "Half Full"

and one of the 6x6 sheets of  Wood Textures DSP stack.

This is going to be very popular I can tell!!

Botanical Tags plus bit box scraps card.

A combination of old  and new here - old (retired) Colourful Theory

 DSP scraps and the new Botanical Tags Thinlits Dies. 

the sentiments are from the new Very Vintage Hostess stamp set.

I used a punched scallop circle as a stencil with a sponge and White ink to make the clouds.

I love this tag, and can see me getting lots of use from it!!

Garden Impressions

I do love Night of Navy and So Saffron together, and thats the theme for this card.

Folded flat for posting

Front view stood up for display

Angled view showing fold.

The paper is Garden Impressions 6"x6" DSP.

The sentiment from Very Vintage,

Stitched Labels Framelits Die for front panel in So Saffron.

Floral Stamp from Beautiful Promenade

Sentiment from Very Vintage stamp set.

Really pleased with this card.

Another of Chris's bit box cards.

Isnt it amazing what you can do with a couple of small pieces

 of DSP and some scraps of card and ribbon.  

Chris has done a whole series of cards for her ladies doing just that!

She has made some fabulous "bit box cards" and is happy to share them with us!

Thanks for sharing Chris !

Janice's Birthday

It's Barry's younger sister - Janice's birthday on Sunday,

so Chris and David, Barry and me are off out to lunch 

with her today to celebrate the occasion.
(it was the only day we could all get together!)

Janice absolutely adores Panda's and her favourite colour is red -

so here's the card I have made for her

Happy Birthday for Sunday Janice!!

Springtime Expressions Thinlits dies embossed!!

Here's a card that Chris and I made yesterday using one of the

Springtime Impressions Thinlits dies to emboss!!

We watched a video on YouTube by Rachel Tessman, who demostrated how dies can be used

 to emboss, by using the Sizzix Big Shot for Stampin' Up! Embossing Mats.

I think that the photo shows quite well how crisp the embossing has come out

using the large die from Sprintime Expressions on the Grapefruit Grove Layer.

Whilst the butterfly die from the same set has been die cut using vellum for 

the bottom set of wings and Grapefruit Grove for the top set.

Colour combo is Calypso Coral Grapefruit Grove and Black on a 

Very Vanilla 7" x 5" base card.  

The sentiment is from Love What You Do stamp set.

I am really impressed with the principle of how this works, and will

be trying it out with my other Thinlits dies now!

Chris's Bit Box cards

Today I am going to feature a bit box card that Chris (sis-in-law) has made.

As Chris doesn't blog, but does craft, she has agreed that I can blog her cards,

 sort of a Guest Design Team member!!

So heres to the first of many bit box cards,

which by the way, Chris donates these to a charity every month.

Springtime Impressions.

Here's a card I made today using the new Springtime Expressions Thinlits Dies.

I used a 7x5 Very Vanilla Base Card with a Mint Macaron layer on top. 

A piece of Share What You Love Speciality DSP cut with the 

Banner Triple punch at each end was then glued in the middle.

One of the Touches of Texture stamps was used top left and bottom right. .

I then stuck some (retired) Lacy Mint Macaron ribbon around the middle.

The butterfly from Springtime Impressions Thinlits dies was cut with

petal pink card and a matching Share What You Love Artisan Pearl

was stuck on the butterfly's head.

I do love the colour combinations in this DSP, dont you!

Boys Christening Card

Here's my Boy's version of the Christening card

same design, different mat and layering.

This time a White Cross on a layer of Balmy Blue,

on a card base 7" x 5"

Stitched shapes Framelits in Balmy Blue used to stamp sentiment on

and Layering Ovals scalloped oval for underneathit.

I can't decide whether I like the coloured cross on white card (like the Girl's card)

or a white cross on coloured card as above.

What do you think?

Lady Captain's Captains' Day card.

Yesterday was Captains' Day at the golf Club - Waterfront Golf!

The ladies asked if I would make a card for the Lady Captain -

here's what I came up with.

It's an 8" x 8" card (which is not a size that I normally do) 

but we needed it large enough for the ladies to write their special messages 

to Gail, so I decided it had better be big!

I had some pearlised card blanks that weere 8 x 8, so I used one as the

base card in a paler pink and another card in a deeper shade of pink,

I cut to use as mats on top of the base card.
The papers - Painted with Love Speciality  DSP are sadly now retired,
 but I love the richness of the pinks and golds that show up quite well on this photo

The personalised sentiment was computer generated, and the stamp is one

 of my growing collection of golfing stamps that I use for various golfing

 occasions or golfers birthdays!

(This is the Stamp that I used to make my own Lady Captain's

greeting cards way back in 2010!!)
I don't think that I blogged it at the time so here's what it looked like!!

I still love pink!!

Girls Christening card.

On Wednesday one of the ladies wanted to make a Christening card, 

I showed her what I used to make mine and made another one yesterday afternoon.

Very CAS, the cross was made using Powder Pink card with one of the 

Flourish Thinlits dies, by cutting two lengths of the flourish strip. 

I then shortened one of them and glued them onto white card to form the cross.

I stamped the sentiment using separate words as I don't have a stamp

with the full sentiment on (apologies if it looks a little crooked).

I then cut this out with the smallest of the oval  Stitched Shapes Frames Thinlits,

and matted it onto a pink scalloped oval.

thids was then glued in the centre of the cross.

The white card with the added cross was then layered onto pink card, 

which in turn was matted onto a 7" x 5" Card Base.

I do like the simplicity of this - what do you think?

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Bit Box Card # 6 - Dylan's birthday

Today is my great nephew Dylan's 4th birthday.

Here's the card that I made for him using oddments from my bit box.

The DSP was a  retired , odd shaped piece of striped paper

obviously too good to throw away!

The image was already stamped but had an ink splodge on it, 

I just cut the image down a tad shorter - splodge gone!

- all I had to do was colour it in, stick it on top of the striped DSP,

layer it onto Old Olive card stock, then onto a 7" x 5"  Card base.

I cut out his name using the retired Little Numbers dies -

you can see they were a perfect fit!

You're Inspiring - any occasion card

This is one of those cards you can have on hand for emergencies - 

it can be used for any occasion and is so useful.

I don't put a greeting on the front and leave the centre blank too!

Card closed for posting

Card open, showing mechanics of Z fold

I am sure you will agree how well this lends itself to use for any occasion.

A Z fold card, with asimple colour combo of Daffodil Delight and Old Olive

The Daffodils are from the You're Inspiring stamp set,

Old Olive and Whisper White card stock

Basket Weave 3D Dynamic  Textured Impressions Embossing Folder.

I have a couple of these in my box just for any occasion

 that arises out of the blue.

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Catherine's 5th Stampin' Up! Anniversary

Yesterday I met up with a friend who is also one of my Stampin' Up! downline, Catherine.

We haven't seen each other in a long time, so it was lovely to meet up and catch up on things.

This is the card that I made her to congratulate her on her

5th Stampin Up Anniversary in March this year.

Most of the products used on this card are retired, but I find them so useful

for doing these Anniversary cards.

Congratulations Catherine, long may it last!!

xxx

Sympathy Card

Here's a sympathy card for one of my Wednesday class ladies

whose Mother-in-law passed away last week

Here are the details :
Coastal Cabana. Black and Whisper White cardstock.
Memento Black and Coastal Cabana ink.
Love What You Do stampset
Stitched Shape Framelits
Layering Ovals Framelits.
I am really enjoying colouring in at the moment, but don't look too closely!!

More Share What You Love Suite.

I do love this suite of papers cards, stamps, embellishments etc.

Its so easy to design a card with all these beautiful products.

Here's my latest....

I have stamped the background in Versamark on mint Macaron card,

using the Love What You Do stampset.

Cut a pearl Doilly in half and placed bottom left and top right.

Matted a piece of the Share What You Love Speciality DSP onto a layer of 

Whisper White, then glued on top of the Mint Macaron card.

This was then stockm onto a 7" x 5" White base card.

I think that these colours look lovely - clean and fresh.

A Christmas card!!

I thought that as it was June already, I really ought to

start thinking about making a start on this year's cards.

Here's one that Chris and I made at our last get-together.

The stamp set is "At Home With You" and the dies are the "At Home" Framelits dies.

The brickwork background was made by sponging using one of the

"Pattern Party Decorative Masks"

Colours used areSoft Suede , Cherry CobblerDaffodil Delight and Old Olive.

There we are ... Christmas card number 1!!

Charleen's Pool Party Dragonfly slotted card

Charleen from my Thursday class, wanted to make the Dragonfly slotted card 

in a different colourway, and chose to use Pool Party

in place of the Rich Razzleberry.

Here's her version

She added a few extra dragonflies on the side panel

and used pearls instead of the black Rhinestones, as it needed

a more subtle, delicate look for this colour combination.

Thanks for sharing this with us Charleen.

Fabulous colour choice!

Tufted Dynamic Embossing Folder

If you're wondering what fits the description of "Tufted"

have a look at the embossed background of this card to see.

I might describe it as quilted or padded - how would you describe it?

I have stamped the sentiment from "Love What You Do" in Highland Heather ink,

onto a die cut using the Stitched Labels Framelits dies.

I added the little flower spray top and bottom from the old Sale-a-bration

stamp set "Lovely Lavender" and coloured with ink and Aqua painter.

Then I embossed the background using Highland Heather cardstock 

with the "Tufted DynamicEmbossing Folder" and I have to say I am pretty impressed!!

Simply matted the "Tufted background onto a 7" x 5" card base,

stuck on the stamped Stitched Framelits die cut

and voila - there you have it- a really quick, but effective card!!

Love it!

May Thank you cards

Here is a selection of Thank you cards that I made for the customers

 who placed otrders in May.

I have featured the new In Colours

  Top Left - Grapefruit Grove    Top Right- Pineapple Punch
Bottom Left - Blueberry Bushel      Bottom Right - Lovely Lipstick

And here's a close up shot that shows the detail on this single rose stamp

and the leaves  from the new Healing Hugs Stamp set.

The sentiment is from Thankful Thoughts

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Just Because

I like to have a few "all occasion" cards to hand not only for

when you need a card in a hurry, but for those occasions 

when there aren't the right words that you want to say stamps!

I find this old retired "Just Because" stamp invaluable,

 so I have a few cards made using retired papers as well as

current papers. (because I hold on the beautiful papers

for so long - just looking at them and stroking them and

then can't bear to cut them until the week before they retire usually!!)

Any how...... here's one of the Just Because... cards I have made.

Using the (now retired!!) Petal Passion DSP

Black and White card

Layering Oval Frames Thinlits

Black Ribbon

Smoky Slate Stampin Blends pens

Wink of Stella - on the flowers,  which you may or may not notice!

Chris's Lovely Floral card

This is the same design as the card I did, but Chris used pink 

instead of the Rich Razzleberry,

I think the embossing stands out more on the paler card.

Chris used the stamp from Love What You Do for her background,

after three failed attempts at this I plumped for Water Brush and ink!!

Chris's Arrow card

Here's a card that Chris brought to show me on Wednesday,

its called an arrow card - can't think why!

Card stood up on display

Side view

Card folded flat for posting.

Isn't this a super card - so different!!

Love it Chris xx

(Slotted) Dragonfly Dreams meets Share What you Love

Todays card is one that I had nor seen before, Chris found it on the internet

 and we both had a go at making it!

Really pleased with the result and the ladies love it!

Its not as hard as it looks.

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This shows the card closed and you can hardly see the slot behind the dragonfly

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This next one shows the card opening and the dragonfly 

disappearing through the slot which you can see pretty clearly

on this photo

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And this next one shows the card opened with the dragonfly

inside the card and the slot clearly visible 

Isn't it a clever idea, sadly not mine!

Will try to find out whose design we copied to make this

and pop a link on here later!

Lovely Floral Dynamic Embossing Folder

Here's a card I made to showcase the "Lovely Floral" Dynamic Embossing folders

its one that embosses quite deeply, which I think the photo shows.

I wanted to show odff the embossing, so kept the design quite simple.

A Stitched Shape Framelits oval die was cut out of whisper White card stock.

I used a waterbrush and Crumb Cake ink for the background.

Stamped the flower from "Love What You Do" stamp set in black,

then coloured it with Rich Razleberry Stampin Blends Pens.

Just badded a few Rhinestones et voila!!

I love the classy clean and simple effect - dont you?

More Share what you love

Needed a quick thank you card , this is what Chris and I did on Wednesday, fitted the bill nicely!!

Just a little bit of the beautiful Share What You love DSP.  

The matching "Lovely Floral" Dynamic Embossing Folder

and matching cardstock in Mossy Meadow and Rich Razzleberry.