WWWU#15

This Monday saw the start of week 15 of our Jems' Team WWWU

(Wades Weekly Warm Up)

Our Stampin' Up! sister, Julie Wade, picks a colour combo and we all then

make our cards and share them on the Jems' facebook page.

This week the colours are:

 Basic Grey, Perfect Plum, Smoky Slate and Coastal Cabana. 

and here's my offering.

Stamp sets used, Gorgeous Grunge, Clockworks, Banner Greetings, 

The Chevron punch was used to cut the Perfect Plum chevrons out,

and the sentiments were fussy cut.

Thanks for the colour combo Julie - love it!!

Happy Birthday Adam

Today is my nephew Adam's birthday.  As always I have problems coming up with ideas

for male themed cards, but I got inspiration from a swap that I received at one of 

our quarterly training days last year.  It was a card made by a fellow Julies Jem - Caroline 

(you can see a version of the card she did by following the link.)

Caroline had not had time to finish off her swaps, 

so I sat and played around for a while and came up with this.

I used the Gorgeous Grunge stamp set to add some more splodges in Basic Gray 

and Raspberry Ripple.  I added the letter A from the Morning Post stamp set,

then wrote the rest of his name by hand.

 I then added a few more cogs and voila!

I am really pleased with the result!

(Plus I am getting more into this grunge look!)

Thanks for the inspiration Caroline - much appreciated xx

Telford Make and take

Here's the little notebook that we made a cover for when we went to the 

Telford event two weeks ago - really enjoyed making this.

The stamp set is "Clockworks"

Colour combo is Basic Gray, Pool Party and Calypso Coral, 

with touches of Gumball Green and More Mustard..

Embellished with Vintage Faceted Designer Buttons and Bakers Twine.

Clockworks

Have been playing with a stamp set that I think will be suitable for mens' cards today.

At our next all day training, our swaps have to be Male oriented, so I thought

that I had better get a bit of practice in.

The colour combo is Rich Razzleberry, Soft Suede, Gold and Pewter (on an Ivory base card)

The stamp set used is Clockworks.

Some of the images I have stamped in Rich Razzleberry and others I have heat embossed

 in either Gold or Pewter embossing powder.

The sentiment is from Teeny Tiny Wishes.

All products are Stampin' Up!

I am quite pleased with this as a first attempt - what do you think?