Happy New Year - a little late!!

Hi everyone - sorry for the lack of postings on here, but my mojo went walkabout, 

then I had a week in Spain and I have spent the last week trying to motivate myself again!!

So I decided I really ought to get back into blogging, and here's my first post for 2015

(yes I know it's the last day of January - be thankful for small mercies!)

I decided that I would base my cards for classes on the alphabet,

 with a different letter each week, so week one was 

A for Anniversary

Card closed

 I decided to make a very simple gap card, using the Sweetheart punch 

and the small heart from the Itty Bitty Accents Punch Pack in Red Glimmer Card.

Card open - you can see the gap now

The congratulations sentiment is from the For My Family stamp set (now retired - but really useful)

and the Happy Anniversary is from Teeny Tiny Wishes.

Well I hope you have enjoyed seeing this -I will try to blog more often again - honest!

Festival of Trees - again!

Yes it's Festival of Trees stamp set again!

The stamp set and matching punch make it quite easy to make very CAS

but still effective cards quickly - and I have to make a few quick cards

because of the number that I send out.  

I cased this card from Pinterest, but have changed the colours totally.

Really simple colour combo - but quite classy I think - Gold and Very Vanilla

(even though in the photo it looks to be a white base card and background!)

I used Watercolour Wonder Washi tape,

The sentiment and the tree were stamped in Versamark and embossed with Gold EP.

(Sentiment from Petite pairs)

Itty Bitty Accents star punch used with Gold Glimmer paper.

Gorgeous Grunge stamp set with Gold Encore ink for the splats

and the finishing touch was 3 gold sequins from the Gold Sequin Trim.

Festival of trees

On a happier subject today - Christmas!!

Yes I am determined to get plenty of cards done well in advance of the 1st December this year.

Today was my day to go to Chris's (sis-in-law) and craft and we were joined 

by Chris's friend and Stampin Up down-line - Anita.

We had a lovely day together crafting, and we went out for lunch to celebrate Anita's birthday.

We each designed a Christmas card using Festival of Trees stamp set.

Here is mine

Sorry for the poor quality of the photo, but it has been taken tonight in artificial light

I'll take another one tomorrow daytime!

The Colour combo is quite contemporary - Black, White and Cherry Cobbler.

The star was punched in Red Glimmer Paper using one of the Itty Bitty Accents punches.

I have highlighted the centres of the flowers with Cherry Cobbler Dazzling Details -

not sure whether or not this shows up.

I am really pleased with this one.

I will post Chris's and Anita's cards later this week!!

Watch this space.

xx

Happy Umpteenth Birthday!

Tomorrow is hubby's birthday, so I had to make him a card didn't I?

He would never forgive me if I bought one!

Here it is.

Colour combo is Kraft card with Night of Navy and White.

Stamp sets used: Oh My Goodies (sentiment), Bright and Beautiful (large star)

- this is a sneaky peek from the Autumn Winter seasonal catalogue.

The medium white star is from Perfect Pennants and the small Night of Navy stars are 

punched with one of the Itty Bitty Accents punches.

The starry background is sponged in white ink with the Hearts decorative mask.

I can safely post this tonight as hubby is not one of my blog followers!!

(He wouldn't know where to begin!)

Happy Birthday my darling Barry anyhow!

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!!

Moonlight Sunburst!!

Here's the other card that I made at Chris's the other week.

It's a sunburst card, and it was a little bit faffy, but well worth the effort.

The colour combo is Smoky Slate. Hello Honey and Lost Lagoon -

I do so like these colours together with the white!

The papers are from the Moonlight DSP stack.

Flowers punched using the Pansy punch, the 1.1/4" Circle Scallop punch

and the tiny shamrock from the Itty Bitty Accents Punch pack.

The ribbon is Hello Honey 3/8" Stitched Satin Ribbon.

Tiny brads form the flower centres.

What do you reckon??

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!