And the final F is FOR YOU!!

Yes Ladies - this final F is FOR YOU- all you lovely people who visit me 

and leave me such kind comments on a regular basis - this card is for all of you...

Happy Easter to you all.

The stamp set is Flower Shop, and the sentiment from  Tag Talk.

Colour Combo is Marina Mist, Pool Part and Daffodil Delight,

Flowers punched with the matching Pansy Punch.

Basic Rhinestones and ribbon are the only embellishments.

Next time we will start with the Gs!

Meantime, take care and have a wonderful Easter.

F is FLORAL

I am sure that you must have noticed that I love floral designs and flowers are 

frequently featured on my cards.  I saw this card as I was browsing the Internet

 the other day and just had to case it.  Here's the site where I found it.

born2stamp

Colour combo is Crumb Cake, Pool Party and Lost Lagoon.

Stamp sets used - Flower Shop, Petite Petals both used with the ma

Only embellishments used are Basic Rhinestones.

I just love these delicate flowers and colours!

(All the products used are Stampin' Up!)

60th Birthday card

Here's a commissioned card that I made, for my friend Jan 

to send to her friend to celebrate her 60th Birthday.

I cut down the front of a Polka Dot Tag-a-bag Gift bag

and matted this onto Blushing Bride card stock, then onto a white base card.

The colour combo is Crumb Cake, Blushing Bride and White.

Flower Shop stamp set was used for the flowers, which were then

punched using the matching Pansy Punch

The sentiments were computer generated.

Happy birthday Chris

Today is my Sis-in-law Chris's birthday, normally we spend Wednesday together

crafting at one another's homes, but today Chris is travelling home 

from a weeks holiday in Cornwall so we've not got together today.

Here's the card I have made for her.

It's yet another of these pop up box cards - I am getting quite good at this design!

It doesn't take as long now that I have had some practice!!

The colour combo is Melon Mambo and White.

The paper is Gingham Garden DSP - which has now retired.

The stamp sets are Flower shop, Petite Petals and Petite pairs

and the punches are the matching Petite Petals, and Pansy Punch.

The flower centres are Basic Rhinestones.

Happy Birthday Chris - hope that you are having a great day!!

Janice's birthday

Yesterday was sister-in law Janice's 50th birthday.

Here's the pop up box card that I made for her.

Front view

view from above

I stamped the paper for the base using  Real Red ink (Janice's favourite colour!)

and used Creative Elements for the top panels of the box, and Petite Petals

stamp sets for the side panels.

The flowers are stamped using the Flower Shop stamp set and cut with the Pansy Punch

and the Petite Petals stamp set and matching punch.

The flower centres are Basic Rhinestones.

I am quite pleased with this - and Janice was too!!

Something old with something new!

Something old - the flourish from the Everything Eleanor stamp set

and the flowers from Flower Shop stamp set with the matching Pansy Punch.......

something new - the stampin' pads in the 2014-2016 In Colours:

Hello Honey and Mossy Meadow

and the matching Hello Honey card stock.

Put them together with a couple of sentiments from Petite Pairs

and a sprinkling of Gold Stampin' Glitter - and what do you get?

This little beauty!!

It's for someone special whose birthday is next month

- it could be you!!

A little gift box

At Telford I received a lovely little gift box with two chocolate sweets inside,

 as a swap from fellow Stampin' Up Demonstrator, Maria Mitchell.

Here's my version of this little box.

Front view - closed

Top view - closed

Side view - open

Rear view - open

The box measures 2 inches square by 1.1/4" deep and is a useful size for small items of jewellery.

The colour combo is mainly Coastal Cabana, Tangerine Tango and White.

Paper is from Retro Fresh Designer Series Paper.

Flowers stamped and punched using Flower Shop stamp set with Pansy Punch

and Petite Petals stamp set and matching Punch.

The lid sides are punched using the Scalloped Tag Topper Punch.

The fastener is a piece of  Pool Party Twine (SAB)

Flower centre is a Basic Rhinestone.

I really love this little box - thank you so much Maria

Triple Stamping Thank You

I needed to send a thank you card through the post, so I made this triple stamping card

 and put the sentiment on flat so that it would go at normal first class rate.

Colour Combo - simply Raspberry Ripple and White

Stamp sets used, Flower Shop and Petite Petals.

Sentiment from Itty Bitty Banners cut with matching Framelits.

(Just for a change from the Hardwood stamp!!!)

Oh no - not even more Hardwood!!

Well, I am so sorry but I am having a love affair with this Hardwood and the Flower stamps!

I really enjoy making these cards, so I am afraid you may get a little tired of them.

This one uses the Flower Shop stamp set and Posy Pynch,

Chalk Talk stamp set and matching framelits.

Watercolour Wonder Designer Washi Tape , Gold Bakers Twine and Gold Sequin Trim.

Thw Hardwood is stamped in Crumb Cake on Naturals White cardstock,

which I think gives a lovely natural look to the wood effect.

The flower and sentiment are stamped in Crisp Cantaloupe.

I think this is a beautiful colour combo.

Once again the inspiration for this card came from Monica's Blog

so thank you Nannan!!

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.

Congratulations Stephanie!!

Some of my followers will know who Stephanie is - she gave up smoking 

36 days ago - so I am sending her a congratulations/celebrate card to encourage

her to carry on with the quitting!!

Here it is 

Cased from my Stampin' Up! Grandmother Monica's Blog 

I have tweaked it a little to make it my own and obviously it is

personalised for Stephanie.

Colour Combo is Naturals White, Crumb Cake, Marina Mist and Gold.

Flowers stamped using the Flower Shop stamp set

and cut out using the Pansy Punch,

sentiment from Express Yourself (Hostess) stamp set.

Background stamp - Hardwood!  Just can't stop using it!!

Gold Bakers Twine and Gold Sequin Trim embellishments.

Watercolour Wonder Washi Tape.

I am sure that Stephanie will see this, I have posted it today, but it will take a while to arrive with her

and I do so want to cheer her on and share in celebrating her success

in quitting the weed (and I speak as an ex- smoker myself so I know it's not easy!)

Congratulations Stephanie!!

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.

WWWU#12

It's that time of the week again - time for  Wades Weekly Warm Up #12

This week the colour combo is Melon Mambo, Daffodil Delight and Old Olive.

I do love these bright colours!  Here's what I made.

The Melon Mambo looks a little bit orangey in artificial light, whereas its 

really a zingy shade of pink.  Still you can see it's a bright colour combo.

Stamp sets used are Flower Sho (with matching Pansy punch)

and Petite Petals (with matching punch).

Sentiment from Blooming with Kindness.

The leaves are cut using the Bird Builder Punch.

The flower centres are Itty Bitty Flowers punched, with"knots" made from slivers of Daffodil Delight card stock.

Stylish Stripes Textured Impressions Embossing Folder.

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!

Lexie's Birthday card

You may recall that it was Lexie's birthday last Saturday, and I sent her card

without taking a photo of it!  Kerry brought it back yesterday for me to take a photo

and here it is.

Colour combo is Pink Pirouette, Strawberry Slush. Brushed Silver and White.

Stamp set is Flower Shop, cut with the Pancy Punch.

The 7 is fussy cut, and the central large flower is cut with the Floral Frames Collection Framelits.

I coloured basic rhinestones with a Stampin' Write marker to make them pink.

Happy Birthday Ellie!!

Today is my Grand-daughter Ellie's 20th Birthday.

 I showed you Lexie's card for Ellie, now here's mine.

I got really messy making this one - covered in glue and glitter- looked like a Christmas tree!!

I went for a colour combo of Pink Pirouette and Basic Black.

I stamped the flowers with the "Flower Shop" stamp set

then cut them out with the Pansy Punch.

I edged the petals with Dazzling diamonds (but I don't think that you can see this in the photo)

I punched the leaves out using the Bird Builder punch with Silver Glimmer paper.

The greeting I cut out using a non SU alphabetdie set.

All other products are Stampin'Up!

I think it looks quite classy, if a little busy!!

Hope that Ellie likes it!

Happy Birthday Ellie!!

Get Well Soon Ann

On Wednesday I called to see one of my down-line demonstrators, Ann, who wasn't very well, having

just come home from hospital with an infection in her leg. 

I took her this Get Well Soon Flip card.

Card closed

Card open

View showing mechanics of the flip

I really love these Thinlets card dies - here I have used the Label one 

using a colour combo of  Real Read  and  White card stock.

Stamps used from Flower Shop and Papillon Potpourri stamp sets.

Elegant Butterfly and Pansy Punches usedE`legant Butterfl

Sentiment from Hopeful Thoughts.

Embellishments are Basic Rhinestones.

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!)

Jackie's birthday card

Tomorrow is my good friend Jackie's birthday.

I have posted her card and she should have received it today, 

so I should be safe in posting it on here today (that's assuming that

she has already opened it - if not, sorry I have spoiled the surprise)

The background paper is Afternoon Picnic DSP,

The flowers are stamped in Wisteria Wonder on both Very Vanilla and Wisteria Wonder card stock,

using the Flower hop Stamp set, then punched out with the Pansy Punch.

The sentiment is from Blooming with Kindness stamp set.

The flower centres are punched with the 1/2" circle punch

(Notice that I couldn't resist putting a cheeky face on one of the flowers!!)

Happy Birthday Jackie - have a great day tomorrow!

Lucas and Lexie's postcard.

Instead of sending a conventional postcard to Lucas and Lexie, from our holiday 

(they don't do them from Callosa De Segura which is where we stayed

 - 25 minutes from Alicante,  nearest town Elche)

 I decided to make them one when I got home and here it is.

Front

Back

I used the Post Card stamp for the reverse of this postcard and stamped it in Island Indigo,

Then after masking off the patterned area and border, I stamped the flower from

Blooming with Kindness in Crushed Curry on the right hand side.

For the front I stamped and punched out (using the Pansy punch) 5 flowers

using the Flower Shop stamp set,  inking them in Calypso Coral, Crushed Curry, 

Melon Mambo, Bermuda Bay and Wisteria Wonder.

I then punched flower middles in matching card stock with the 1/2" circle punch.

I then used some old (Retired) rub ons from my stash to spell "hello"

on the flower centres. The stalks/leaves are made with the Bird Builder punch.

I'm really pleased with this.

I know it's a bit girlie for Lucas, but great for Lexie!