My Friend

Can you believe that it is WWWU#14 ?  How time flies!

Julie challenged us to use our Convention Goodies (which were all Gold!) with Black this week.

Here's what I came up with.

Black square base card, My Friend stamp set, inked with Versamark and

heat embossed with Gold Embossing powder.

Watercolour Wonder Designer Washi Tape down the left hand side.

I originally used the gold striped washi tape, but it didn't show up very well on the black,

so I put a strip of plain gold washi on top of it.

A strip of Gold Sequin Trim down either side of the washi tape

and three "Beautiful Wings" butterflies die cut out of Gold foil sheet,

the only embellishment it needed.

Lexie's Congratulations card

Lexie has been taking part in a Dance Festival this weekend. so I made her

a congratulations card in advance;

I was quite right to do so as she came second in her ballet yesterday (out of 12) 

and second in her Modern today (out of 27!)

Didn't she do well!

Here's the card that I made for her.

The colour combo is Elegant Eggplant, Perfect Plum and Wisteria Wonder.

(Lexie's favourite colour is purple)

The colours don't show up very well on this photo though.

Once again I have used the lovely Petite Petals stampset and I have 

cut the butterflies out from the Subtles DSP stack using the Beautiful Wings Embosslit.

The sentiment is from Sweet Essentials,

Purple coloured gemstones from my stash for the flower centres.

All other items are Stampin' Up!

So Very Grateful

As I did the rounds of the blogs that I regularly read, the other day, I spotted 

a card on Zoe's blog that reminded me of a technique that I hadn't used in a while.

Thus inspired, yesterday, Chris (sis-in-law) and myself set about making a couple of cards

utilising this technique.  Here's one of my cards.

Basically, what you do is stamp your image in Versamark, then heat emboss with 

White embossing Powder.  Colour everything in with White Re-Inker and an Aqua Painter.

Allow to dry, then colour in your image as desired.

I chose to leave the flowers white, and just paint the leaves with Old Olive ink.

Two tiny butterflies cut using the Beautiful Wings Embosslits die, and embellished

with tiny Basic Pearls finish this card off nicely.

Colour combo is Crumb Cake and White with a hint of Old Olive

and the stamp set used is "So Very Grateful"

All products used are Stampin' Up!

I have once again left the card without a sentiment, but will add a small sentiment

when I decide what occasion I will be sending the card for.

Come back tomorrow and I'll show you another card that both Chris and I made

and I'll show you them both.

August Customers' Thank you cards

This is the card that I have chosen for my thank you cards for customers whom placed orders in August.

It is the same design as a previous card, but I have changed the colours used to this years In Colours - Baked Brown Sugar, Coastal Cabana, Crisp Canteloupe, Pistachio Pudding and Strawberry Slush.

The sentiment is from Petite Pairs and the butterflies are cut with the Beautiful Wings Embosslits die.

I would like to enter this card in the 

Crafty Bloggers Network Challenge

http://craftybloggersnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/september-challenge-sponsored-by.html

Here are some more of the same design, but I just changed the colour sequence of the butterflies.

I hope that my customers like these!