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!)

Another Ornamental Pine

Well I have used this stamp set to make several cards, but I think that this card is the one 

which I shall repeat as the one that Barry and I will send out to friends and close family.

The stamp set is of course, Ornamental Pine, which is fast becoming a favourite of mine.

I have used Gorgeous Grunge for the background.

The sentiment is from the Good Greetings Hostess stamp set.

Colour Combo is Crumb Cake, Gold, Early Espresso and Very Vanilla.

The Gold Basic Metal button is a newcomer to the Seasonal Autumn Winter Catalogue.

I have coloured tiny rhinestones to pick up the brown of the cones.

Ribbon and sequins from my stash.

Mmmm - I am very pleased with this one!

What do you think?

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!

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 Kerry

Tomorrow is my daughter-in-law Kerry's birthday.

Here's the card I made for her.

Kerry was stamped in Crushed Curry ink using Morning Post Alphabet

then fussy cut out.

Three happy birthdays were stamped from Banner Greetings and and again fussy cut.

Four Petite Petals were stamped and cut with the matching punch.

The background is from Gorgeous Grunge.

Basic Rhinestones used for embellishments.

Kerry doesn't blog, so I think I am safe in posting this tonight.

I would like to enter this in

Crafting From the Heart Challenge #14 - Anything goes /use yellow

http://craftingfromtheheartchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/challenge-14.html

Chris's Get well soon

Spoke to Chris (sis-in-law) on the phone this morning and she is not feeling well at all!

Thought that I would make her a get well soon card.....

and here it is.

Colour Combo is 2013-2015 In Colours

Pistachio Pudding, Strawberry Slush, Coastal Cabana, Baked Brown Sugar and Crisp Cantaloupe

Sentiment from Hopeful Thoughts. stamped in Versamark and heat embossed with White EP.

Scribbles drawn using Blender pan and In Colour ink pads as above.

Lines and splats from Gorgeous Grunge stamp set.

Flowers cut with Itty Bitty Flower punch and tiny Rhinestone centres.

Hope that at least is she's not feeling any better, this will cheer her up.

Get well soon Chris!!

Chalk Talk meets Simply Stars

Went trawling the internet today to find something different for a man's card,

and I happened across Laura's blog and cased this card from there.

Colour combo is Baked Brown Sugar, Pistachio Pudding and Coastal Cabana.

Stamp sets used are  Gorgeous Grunge,  Simply Stars

and the sentiment from Chalk talk - cut with the matching Framelit.

7/16" Natural Trim ribbon and Early Espresso Bakers Twine.

Thanks for the inspiration Laura.

Happy Birthday Emma

Today is not only Valentine's Day, but it's also the birthday of my niece

(who is also my God-daughter) Emma, and here's the card I made for her.

Colour combo of Basic Black, Real Red and White.

Two of my favourite stamp sets of the moments (if you hadn't noticed!!)

Gorgeous Grunge and Petite Petals (and with the matching punch, it  makes it 

so easy to create these beautiful little flowers)

The really tiny flowers are from the Summer Silhouettes stampset

and the sentiment is from Perfectly Penned.

Basic Rhinestones for the flower centres.

Happy Birthday Emma!!

Banner Blast meets Gorgeous Grunge - Take 2.

Yesterday I posted my colour way of this card - today I am posting Chris's colour way.

The colours are exactly the same as mine, the same stamp sets are used, 

but we have used different colours for the base card - 

Mine was Pool Party and Chris's is Crisp Cantaloupe.

Banner Blast meets Gorgeous Grunge

Here is another one of the 3 cards that I made at Chris's the other week.

You can see that I am really in a grunge mood!!

Colour Combo is

Pool Party, Crisp Cantaloupe, Soft Suede, Very Vanilla.

Stamp sets used :  Perfectly Penned, Gorgeous Grunge and Banner Blast.

Banners cut out with the matching Banner Punch.

Sale-a-bration Decorative Dots Embossing Folder.

Petite Petals meets grunge - again!

I do think that these two stamp sets really complement each other.

What do you think?

The two stamp sets used were Gorgeous Grunge and Petite Petals.

Colour combo Pistachio Pudding and Crisp Cantaloupe, on White (with a little Gold)

Sentiment from Sweet Essentials.

I have cased this card from Lindsay Tindal

click on the link to visit Lindsay's blog and see more of her great work!.

I love this card so much I don't want to part with it - better make another!!

Thank you cards for January.

Here are a selection of the cards that I am giving to my customers who ordered products

 in January.

Baked Brown Sugar and Coastal Cabana

Baked Brown Sugar and Blushing Bride

Baked Brown Sugar and Strawberry  Slush

Baked Brown Sugar and Pistachio Pudding

Stamp sets used are Gorgeous Grunge, Petite Petals (plus matching punch!)

and Perfectly Penned.

I have also used some papers from the In Colours DSP stack.

I am really getting into this grunge lark!!

Congratulations Mavis!!

Yesterday I made a congratulations card for one of my down-line, 

Mavis, who reached Bronze 2 in January.

Here it is.....

The colour combination on this is - Baked Brown Sugar, Coastal Cabana,

 Crisp Cantaloupe, Strawberry Slush and Pistachio Pudding.

Once again I have used Petite Petals to stamp the flowers and then 

cut them out using the matching punch. 

I used sentiments from 2 stamp sets - Congratulations from Sweet Essentials 

and Celebrate Today from Perfectly Penned.

The background was created using the Gorgeous Grunge stamp-set.

Tiny Basic Pearls used for the flower centres.

So ... once again - Congratulations Mavis!

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

Hello Lovely

As I have been playing, sorry, working with the Sale-a-bration products,

I noticed that the colour combinations seemed very familiar.

As I was tidying up yesterday I happened across my make and take that I did at Convention.

The colours on this are Crisp Canteloupe, Summer Starfruit and Bermuda Bay.

Very similar colours to the card that I blogged yesterday don't you think?

Perhaps that's why I have been so taken with the new Sale-a-bration products.

The stamp sets used here are Gorgeous Grunge and Hello Lovely.

Yummy!!

Last months thank you cards

Well we are now on the second day of the New Year and I have spent a little time

today crafting with my friend Ann at her house.  She emailed me this morning,

having spotted the mistake on my New year card, so I hand delivered the card to her this morning, and we did a bit of crafting and had some lunch together.  My sort of day!!

Here is what I made.

3 versions of card

Version1

Version 2

Version 3

These cards are ti give to my customers who placed orders in December.

They have been cased from Debbi Taylor's blog , with her permission.

I have used the colour combo of Crisp Canteloupe, Baked brown Sugar, Pool Party

and Very Vanilla , in various combinations (as you can see from above)

The stamp sets used are Gorgeous Grunge (which we received free at Convention)

and sentiment from Happy Day.  I fussy cut the banner sentiment.

Grunge is not a style that I am used to, so I keep having a go at it,

and am pleased that I did - Thanks Debbi!!

I would like to enter this into Crafting Musketeers Challenge #9 Grunge
http://craftingmusketeers.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/welcome-to-challenge-9-grunge.html?spref=fb

Heather's birthday

Tomorrow is my niece Heather's birthday (Chris's daughter)

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

It's not my normal type of card, but I thought this might be suitable for a younger person.

It uses a stamp set that I received free at Convention - Gorgeous Grunge

and Chalk Talk (matching framelits die used to cut the tag).  Sentiment from Label Love.

The colour combination is  Blushing Bride, Soft Suede and White.

Happy Birthday Heather!!