Fry Box Santa

I really do enjoy making gift boxes ad this one is no exception!

My friend and down-line Carol brought the die for me to cut the fry box out the other week.

We made the box base together using the Fry Box Bigz L die and 

Cherry Cobbler, Black and Gold card stock and Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer Paper.

Later last weekend, after doing the rounds of fellow Julies' Jems team blogs, 

I happened across this punch art Santa's head that

 Amanda from The Craft Spa had made

then I knew I had to make one for myself.

I didn't have the moustache die that Amanda used,  so I improvised using 

the bird's wings from the bird Builder punch.

Side view

Front view

I just love it!

What do you reckon Amanda??

Christmas Door Wreath

I have just done a new version of an old card, bringing it up to date using new stamps and punches.

The door is stamped with Crumb Cake ink on Crumb Cake card stock using the Hardwood stamp

and matted onto a Very Vanilla base card.

The wreath is made using the leaves from the Bird Builder punch and Old Olive C/S,

 and the flowers are cut with the shamrock from the Itty Bitty Accents Punch Pack and Real Red C/S.

The snow is just torn card, with frosted accents using Dazzling Details.

The flower centres are done with Cherry Cobbler Dazzling Details.

I'm quite happy with this updated version of an old favourite -

and that's another Christmas card completed!!

Congratulations

Stampin' Up! are running a July Sales challenge and my newest team member and downline - Cheryl ,

has already achieved this, so I made a congratulations card for her.

One of my firm favourite stamp sets - Gorgeous Grunge is featured here,

along with flowers punched in the newest In-Colours of

Lost Lagoon. Hello Honey, Blackberry Bliss and Tangelo Twist,

using the little shamrock shaped punch from the Itty Bitty Accents Punch Pack.

The leaves are punched with the Bird Builder punch and Mossy Meadow cardstock.

Sentiment from Itty Bitty Banners stamp set and cut with the matching Framelits.

Tiny Basic Rhinestones form the flower centres.

Congratulations Cheryl - well done!

Sneak Peek - Fantasy Flowers

Hello everyone - today I have some fantasy flowers to show you -

punched (mainly) using the new In Colours card stock,

most of the parts are simply punched -

parts of these are made with the triangle punch - can you spot which bits?

The new colours are:

Lost Lagoon, Mossy Meadow, Blackberry Bliss, Hello Honey and Tangelo Twist.

I am quite pleased with how these have turned out.

What do you reckon?

Congratulations

Here is a card that I have made for my down-line Trisha, who promoted to Bronze 2

and achieved Stampin Start part 1 last month.

Didn't she do well - she only joined as a demonstrator at the end of February!

I have used my new toy - the Triangle punch to create this card,

but also have used 3 of the new In Colours that you will be able to have for yourselves

when the new catalogue launches next month, on 1st July.

The colour combo is -

Blackberry Bliss, Mossy Meadow and Lost Lagoon

(the new colours_ along with Perfect Plum and Wisteria Wonder.

Punches used are Triangle, Bird Builder and Itty Bitty Flower.

Sentiments from Happy Watercolour and Sweet Essentials.

Congratulations and Well Done Trisha - way to go!!

WWWU#19

Usually I am a little earlier in the week in posting my card, but here's mine now for  WWWU#19.

This week the colour combo that Julie has chosen is 

Soft Sky, Rose Red and Pear Pizzaz.

Stamp sets used - Happy Day, for the sentiments Petite Pairs.

Punches used Label Bracket , Bird Builder, Boho Blossoms, 1" circle and 7/8 inch Scallop Circle.

Basic Pearl embellishments for flower centres.

Frugal Friday #2 Challenge

I am really enjoying these Frugal Friday Challenges, and if you would like to know more,

or even join in, you will find Lizy's challenge HERE.

Basically, you take a pile of scraps from your desk and make something with them.

Here's what I made today with some of yesterdays scraps.

The colour combo was Real Red and White with a hint of Silver Glimmer.

Here's the pile of scraps that I used.

The piece of Fresh Prints DSP that was a left over, wasn't big enough to use as the central mat,

on this card, so I pieced it together with a scrap of White which I embossed with

the Textured Impressions Delicate Designs embossing folder

 (it looks like a patchwork quilt on the back of this layer!).

I punched an Extra Large Oval out of this piece of DSP before I layered it onto a piece of Whisper White card stock from my scrap box (it had a dirty mark in the middle) which I had gutted and used the

reverse side of the middle piece for the Oval Designer frame which was embossed and then fussy cut out.

The extra large oval piece of DSP was then glued into the oval frame.

I shaped the punched Petite Petal flowers and punched and shaped 1/4" circles for the flower centres,

and cut leaves out (with the Bird Builder Punch) from the scraps of Silver Glimmer Paper.

The sentiment from Teeny Tiny Wishes was stamped then punched with the Word Window punch. 

This was then stuck onto a piece of Real Red (which was punched from the piece of

card stock used for the first layer) using the Modern Label punch.

This was a really Frugal Friday card!!

I did use a completely new white base card - otherwise the other bits were all left overs.

I would like to enter this into

Frugal Friday Challenge #2
and
 Our Creative Corner Challenge- Love those leftovers

WWWU#16

It's that time of week again - Wade's weekly Warm Up

and this week the colour combo is

Raspberry Ripple, Pool Party and Strawberry Slush.

Here's my card.

I punched one triangle with Raspberry Ripple, two triangles with Pool Party,

the three triangles with Strawberry Slush card stock (using the Triangle punch - if you didn't guess!)

and glued them onto a 10 cm square base card in a pyramid shape.

I then stamped the Petite Petals flowers in Strawberry Slush and Pool Party ,

and cut with the matching punch, then glued them in the white triangular spaces.

A 1/4" punched white circle was then shaped and glued in the flower centres.

Leaves were added, cut with the Bird Builder punch.

I've used the (retired) Just Because sentiment as I am trying to do cards

 that will suit many occasions and I think this one fits the bill perfectly.

Mmmm - I like this one - thanks for the colour combo Julie!!

Just Because.........

Sometimes it's nice to send a card to a friend just because...... for any number of reasons.

So I do like to have a few of these cards that will fit the bill if I don't have a specific occasion card.

This little card was made from scraps left on my desk before I tidied up today,

and this design just asked to be made up!

It's a  10 cm square base card with a colour combo is Strawberry Slush, Silver and White.

Made quite simply from 4 scraps of Strawberry Slush DSP from the In Colour 2013-2015 Collection

a stamped and punched Petite Petal flower,

and a couple of reject silver leaves punched with the Bird Builder punch.

(rejected as the stems weren't long enough for the project - they are fine for this one!!)

The sentiment is a retired stamp that I won't part with as its so useful.

All products are Stampin' Up!

I have just realised I should have taken a photo of the scraps first - as it's too late for that

here is a piccie of what was left after!!

I would like to enter this in

http://lizyshouseofcards.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/frugal-friday-1.html

Home Tweet Home

I needed another new home card this week, then remembered that I had made this one at Chris's the other week, when we made a few cards with - yes you've guessed - the Hardwood stamp!

This one was cased from my SU Mummy, Julie's Blog

Cardstock used: Tempting Turquoise, Soft Suede, Pear Pizzazz, So Saffron, Pink Pirouette and White.

Hardwood stamp, inked with Early Espresso.

Bird and leaves cut with Bird Builder punch.  Flowers with Itty Bitty Punch set.

The sign is handwritten on a Ticket punched piece of card

and for the flower centres I have used Dazzling Details Silver Sparkle.

Thanks Julie!!

Get Well Cara

One of my Stampers 10 customers, Cara,  has recently been in hospital for over a week, 

so now she is home and recuperating, I made this get well card for her.

Colour combo is Coastal cabana, Baked Brown Sugar, Tangerine Tango and So Saffron.

The frame was fussy cut after using the  Textured Impressions Designer frames Embossing Folder, 

The flowers were stamped with Petite Petals stamp set and cut with the matching punch.

The flower centres are cut using the Itty Bitty Flower punch, and the white centre is the cut out tiny dots

after using the Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border punch. Leaves cut with the Bird Builder punch.

Sentiment from teeny Tiny Wishes.

Here's wishing you a speedy recovery Cara!

All Occasion Card

My greeting card tin is getting a little short of all occasions cards i.e. cards where I can simply

add a greeting suitable for the occasion (as opposed to general birthday cards)

To out it right I have made a few of these today.

Chris (sis-in-law) has been over today and she made 5 cards whilst I only managed 4!

I'll show you two of them.

This first one is cased from my Stampin Up sister and fellow Julies' Jems team member, Julie Wade.

You will have seen that she does a weekly colour combo challenge for us every week -

Wades Weekly Warm Up or WWWU as we call it.

This week she had challenged us to use the Convention goodies that we received in November

(these were basically gold items) along with black.

She shared the card that I have cased (with her permission of course) 

above, with a slight alteration to the flower centres

And here is another one where I have swapped the colours around somewhat

i.e. black for white and white for black.

Don't know which one I like the best.

I have left them without a sentiment, and will just add one as and when I send the card.

I Used Basic Black, Whisper White and Brushed Gold card stock.

Versamark and Gold Embossing Powder for heat embossing the flowers

which were stamped with Flower Shop stamp set and cut with Pansy Punch

and Petite Petals with matching punch. 

 The Lattice Bigz die was used with the Brushed gold card.

The flower centres were punched with the Itty Bitty Circle punch and a 1/4" circle punch

in Brushed Gold card and shaped.

And there's more! .......

I can understand why this Hardwood stamp is so popular, once you start  making cards with it, 

you just can't stop - so here's another card that I made at Christine's on Wednesday.

Colour Combo is Old Olive, Daffodil Delight and Crushed Curry

The fence is Crumb Cake cardstock with Early Espresso Ink

using the Hardwood stamp.

The large flowers are stamped in Pistachio Pudding using the Betsy's Blooms stamp set

Flowers are from the Flower Shop stamp set cut with the Pansy Punch

and Petite Petals cut with the matching Punch

and the tiny flowers cut with the Itty Bitty Flower punch

flower centres embellished with tiny Basic Rhinestones.

Leaves punched with the Bird Builder punch.

Sentiment from Petite Pairs.

Darling Wife

I was asked by a friend to make a birthday card for his wife.

Here's what I came up with.

Colour Combo is raspberry Ripple, Silver and White.

Flowers stamped using "Flower Shop" stamp set and cut with matching Pansy punch.

"Petite Petals" stamp set with matching punch.

Basic pearls for flower centres

Leaves punched with Bird Builder punch.

Textured Impressions Fancy Fan embossing folder.

Circles cut with Circle Collection Framelits.

Sentiment computer generated.

I am quite safe posting it on here as she doesn't blog.

All products Stampin' Up!

Easter aperture card

I am really enjoying making these aperture cards, so I thought that I would

design an Easter card using this technique.

I am highly delighted with this CAS Easter card.

The aperture was cut using one of the Squares Collection Framelits.

Sentiments from Teeny Tiny Wishes and Express Yourself.

Flowers stamped in Crushed Curry ink using the Petite Petals stamp set 

and cut with the matching punch.

Basic Rhinestones for flower centres and leaves cut with Bird Builder Punch.

My Tuesday ladies really enjoyed making this quicky Easter greetings card today.

(Probably as much as I did too!!)

WWWU#8 Best Friend

Despite being late blogging today, I am relatively early in making  my card

for the Wade's Weekly Warm Up colour combo challenge.

I am normally on the last push with this, so I thought that I would

get in early doors this week.

The colours this week are

Island Indigo, Pool Party, Summer Starfruit and Sahara Sand.

Wasn't sure  how I was going to put these together, but I do believe 

that they have worked perfectly on this design.

I used a dauber to colour the doily with Island Indigo ink.

I punched a 2.3/8" scallop circle for the centrepiece and stamped

the sentiment from "Label Love" Stampset.

I stamped and punched 3 Petite Petals flowers and punched one Pansy from

Summer Starfruit card stock.

I then punched Itty Bitty flowers in matching card stock for the 3 flower middles.

The leaves were punched using the Bird Builder Punch.

Small Basic Pearls were used for the flower centres.

Thanks for this colour combo Julie - love it!!

In case you are interested - Glynis and I played golf today in the final of 

the Crowther Doubles Matchplay at Sandhill -

AND WON!! Ta Da!!

It was a lovely day, a great game, and fabulous company.

Petite Petals

Today I have been to Chris's and made 3 cards!

She had quite a few for me to choose from - it was difficult to decide which to make.

Here's the first one

Colour Combo of Crisp Cantaloupe, Pool Party and Summer Starfruit

(with a little bit of Cherry Cobbler and Gumball Green))

I used the brand spanking new Petite Petals stamp set and matching punch

(from the new Spring Summer Seasonal catalogue) for the flowers .

The Sale-a-bration Banner Blast stamp set and matching punch for the bunting.

The SAB Sweet Sorbet Accessory Pack Pool Party Twine.

The Bird Builder punch was used for the leaves.

Sentiment from Petite Pairs.

Now who shall I send this to?

Pop back tomorrow to see the rest of the cards that I made.

Postcrossing - Handmade card swap

Here's the card that I have posted off to Lillian in Sweden for the

Postcrossing - Handmade card swap.

Colour combo is Night of Navy and Daffodil Delight- one of my all time favourites!

Stamp sets used are Morning Meadow (Hostess set) ,

Papillon Potpourri and the sentiment from Loving thoughts.

The sentiment was stamped on a background from the Morning Meadow set,

then cut using an Apothecary Accents Framelit die and edged in Night of Navy ink.

The flowers are punched using the Pansy Punch, the butterfly with the Elegant Butterfly Punch

and the leaves using the Bird Builder punch.

Basic Rhinestone embellishments.

Hope that Lillian likes this!!

Congratulations Anita

Here's a card that I made at Chris's on Wednesday - it was to celebrate her downline Anita's promotion to Bronze 2 -  as I am her Stampin Up Nannan, I wanted to send her the card to say well done.

Card open

Card Closed

Very CAS card - colour combo Coastal Cabana and White.
Flower Shop stamp set used for flowers then cut with Pansy punch.
Sentiment from Curly Cute (retired - but I wanted a big greeting!)
Leaves punched with Bird Builder Punch.
Congratulations Anita!!

Sandy from Scrapbook Blessings Club suggested I enter this in their
Tutorial Challenge #2 - Circle Easel card
http://scrapbookblessings.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/tutorial-challenge-2-circle-easel-card.html#.UkkttNK-oQM(not sure if an oval counts, but here goes!)

Bird Builder Punch Christmas wreath

I do like to utilise my stamps and punches and so love to use an item for something

other than it's original purpose.

I received a swap a couple of years ago of a wreath made out of the wing 

of the Bird Builder punch, so I thought I would give it a try with up to date papers and colours.

The colour combo is Cherry Cobbler, Wild Wassabi and White.

the stamp in the centre is from Snowflake Soiree

The sentiment is from greetings of the Season.

The papers are from the Seasons of Style DSP Paper Stack in the Autumn Winter Catalogue.

Once again I have used the fabulous Frosted Finishes Embellishments

for the centre of the snowflake.