Lynda's birthday

As well as it being Ethan's birthday today, it is also the birthdays of two of my

Stampin Up sisters' birthdays - Lynda and Julie.

I will show you Lynda's card today and Julie's tomorrow.

Colour combo, Primrose Petals, Raspberrry Ripple and White.
Stamp set of the moment - Flowering Flourishes.
Aperture cut with 2.1/2" circle
The layered flower in the circle aperture is stamped with the Quint-Essential Flower stamp.
Sentiment from Curly Cute
Primrose Petals 3/8" Stitched Satin Ribbon bow
Basic Rhinestone embellishments
Inspiration from Pinterest!
Happy Birthfday Lynda!!

Matt's birthday card

Next weekend it's my niece's husband's birthday, and being as how I am always 

at a loss for ideas for men's cards I had to resort to a bunting card.

I also decided that as three of my "masculine" colours will be retired in July, 

that I had better make an effort to use up the cardstock that I have in these colours -

More Mustard, Bravo Burgundy and Not Quite Navy.

(I will really miss the More Mustard as it beautiful for Autumnal colours)

I used one of the Hearts a Flutter dies to make the bunting and stamped them

using the Lovely Letters alphabet stamp set.

The sentiment is from Curly Cute

and the only embellishments are gold brads.

Mmmm - I'm quite pleased with this!

Hope that Matt likes it!

Established Elegance

Went to a team shoe box swap at the beginning of March, and there were a couple of projects
that I didn't manage to finish on the day (what's new!)
This afternoon I managed to finish this little squash book that Chris Chamberlain
designed for us to make - I am well pleased with it.

Closed view

Open view,

                                                     Colour Combo is Early Espresso, Regal Rose and Very Vanilla.

Stamp sets used are Established Elegance and Curly Cute.

Thanks for this Chris!!

Secret Garden

Went to Training Morning yesterday with Chris (sis-in-law) and had a great time.

Did some lovely projects, but we were inspired to come home and try out a different technique.

This card is made by stamping the flowers from the Secret Garden stamp set

in Versamark ink and then heat embossing with White embossing Powder. 

The flowers are then coloured in using  Whisper White ink (using a Re-inker)

with an Aqua painter.  This is then allowed to dry naturally, or if you are in a hurry

it can be dried using a heat gun.

The flowers are then coloured in with the colour of your choice - above you see Midnight Muse - it produces a beautiful shaded effect with not too much trouble.

The card stock I used was Sahara Sand (which I picked up by mistake, thinking it was Crumb Cake) -

a happy accident as I think it matches perfectly.  The sentiment is from Curly Cute stamp set,

stamped onto on an Apothecary Accents Framelit die cut.

I used a length of Crochet Trim and a couplke of Basic Pearls as simple embellishments

 as I thought that was all that was needed.

You can see the card that inspired us HERE on Julie's Blog.

Thanks Julie - love this card!!

P.S.  I have just realised that today is my 1000th Blogaversary-
 I have done 1000 posts on my blog today.
 To celebrate this event, for anyone who puts a comment on this post,
 I will put everyone's name into a hat and I will send this card to the person
whose name is drawn out on Saturday.

Eileen's card

Now don't be misled by the title of this card -this is a card that one of my crafting ladies

(Eileen) has made using her Stampin' Up supplies.  I particularly like this card as I do not have the stamp set , so that's another one to be added to my wish list - I am sure you will agree!

The stamp sets that Eileen used are Serene Silhouettes,

and  for the sentiment Curly Cute.

the butterflies are cut using the Beautiful Wings embosslit dies,  

and the colour combo is Basic Black Bashful Blue and White.

Fabulous Eileen!!

Evelyn's birthday

Today is Evelyn's birthday - (another one of Julies' Jems team) - my SU sister.

We have such a big family now!!

Here's the card that I have made for her.

I have used one of the stamp sets that we received FREE at Convention - Summer Silhouettes

I have used the newest In Colours on this card :- Gumball Green, Summer Starfruit and

Primrose Petals.  The sentiment is from Curly cute and the ribbon is 3/8"Stitched Satin in Gumball Green.

Happy Birthday Evelyn!!  Have a great day.

Carol's Card

Carol is one of my Thursday Craft Club ladies, and she needed a 70th birthday card

for someone special this week, so I came up with this design and here is Carol's finished card - 

hasn't she done a magnificent job of this!!  I am sure her friend will treasure this.

The card base has computer generated border printed on it.

Colour Combo is Melon Mambo and Whisper White.

Background stamped using Creative Elements.

Flowers and label stamped using Everything Eleanor stamp set and cut out by hand.

Sentiment from Curly Cute - 70 is die cut.

A simple knot-less bow finishes it off.

Chris's birthday

Yesterday I went out for an evening meal with a group of ex work colleagues - 

and it will be one of their birthdays on the 12th - Christine - yes it's another Chris -

 I seem to be surrounded by Chris's and Christines!! 

I took this card for her to open on the 12th - she doesn't blog so won't see it before then!!

I took this photo just before I went  to meet up last night so the light was really bad,

 so the colours don't look true.  I used the new In colour Raspberry Ripple and Whisper White 

as the colour Combo.  I used the Lacy Brocade Textured Impressions embossing folder.

I stamped the large flower from Betsy's Blossoms stamp set.  and then punched out a smaller flower

 from this using the Blossom punch and stamped then cut out the smaller flower- again from 

Betsy's Blossoms.  The sentiment is from Curly Cute.  Obligatory bling - Basic Rhinestones

used for centre of flower and either side of greeting.

Happy Birthday Christine!!

Happy Birthday Lucas

Tomorrow is our Grandson Lucas's birthday and he will be 9 years old.  

OMG - where has all the time gone!!It doesn't seem two minutes since he was a tiny baby.

I wanted to do a non fussy card - very clean and simple,

so I chose this fancy fold out card.

Card closed with belly band fastened.

Belly band unfastened and removed

Card open

The colour combo is Bashful Blue and Whisper White with a touch of Night of Navy (ink).

Front sentiment from Happiest Birthday Wishes, stamped on a large Oval glued onto 

a Textured Impressions Designer Frame Embossing Folder.

Inside  sentiment - Happy Birthday - from Curly Cute

"Lucas" was cut using the Timeless Type Junior Alphabet Medium Sizzlets Dies.

Have a great day tomorrow Lucas!

July Thank you cards

These are some of the thank you cards that I have made for the ladies who placed orders in July.

From left to right the colour used with the white is:-

Pretty in Pink, Tempting Turquoise, Wisteria Wonder, Melon Mambo and Pool Party.

Sentiment - Curly Cute.

Punch - Lace Ribbon Border punch

Basic Rhinestones.

Here's a close up of one of them

Sponged Emboss Resist Snowflake

Here is a technique that I was reminded of when I received my monthly SU Impressions magazine, which explains how to do it.
Here I have simply stamped the snowflake (from Serene Snowflakes) embossed with clear embossing powder and then sponged with Night of Navy. The sentiment is from Curly Cute.