Congratulations

Here is a card that I have made for my down-line Trisha, who promoted to Bronze 2

and achieved Stampin Start part 1 last month.

Didn't she do well - she only joined as a demonstrator at the end of February!

I have used my new toy - the Triangle punch to create this card,

but also have used 3 of the new In Colours that you will be able to have for yourselves

when the new catalogue launches next month, on 1st July.

The colour combo is -

Blackberry Bliss, Mossy Meadow and Lost Lagoon

(the new colours_ along with Perfect Plum and Wisteria Wonder.

Punches used are Triangle, Bird Builder and Itty Bitty Flower.

Sentiments from Happy Watercolour and Sweet Essentials.

Congratulations and Well Done Trisha - way to go!!

Get Well Cara

One of my Stampers 10 customers, Cara,  has recently been in hospital for over a week, 

so now she is home and recuperating, I made this get well card for her.

Colour combo is Coastal cabana, Baked Brown Sugar, Tangerine Tango and So Saffron.

The frame was fussy cut after using the  Textured Impressions Designer frames Embossing Folder, 

The flowers were stamped with Petite Petals stamp set and cut with the matching punch.

The flower centres are cut using the Itty Bitty Flower punch, and the white centre is the cut out tiny dots

after using the Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border punch. Leaves cut with the Bird Builder punch.

Sentiment from teeny Tiny Wishes.

Here's wishing you a speedy recovery Cara!

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.

Owl Get Well card

Last Thursday, my friend Carol found a card on Pinterest that she wanted to case for a 

Get Well Card, so when she had done it I asked if I could photograph it so that I

could case it too. I have just changed the "Bed Linen" on my version below!

Top Note Die used to cut the "bed"

Gingham Garden DSP used for the bed linen.

Punches used - Owl Builder punch, Itty Bitty flower punch,

Modern Label punch and Word Window punch, 

the Nurse's hat is made from 1/4 of a 1.3/8" punched circle.

The ribbon is from my stash of (sadly retired) Stampin' Up ribbon.

I have a few friends who are under the weather at the moment, 

so I may make a couple more of these to cheer them up!!

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.

Carol's Card

Last Saturday my friend (and down'line) Carol came to my Saturday morning Monthly workshop.

She had seen a card on Pinterest and fancied making it.

When she had finished it, I asked if I could photograph it for my blog as 

I thought it was a fabulous card to share - I shall be casing it myself!!

Isn't it just fabulous - she has used the resist technique and scribbled blocks of

colour using the In Colours Stampin' Write Markers!

Itty Bitty flower punches and Hello, Lovely stamp set.

Great work Carol.

WWWU#8 Best Friend

Despite being late blogging today, I am relatively early in making  my card

for the Wade's Weekly Warm Up colour combo challenge.

I am normally on the last push with this, so I thought that I would

get in early doors this week.

The colours this week are

Island Indigo, Pool Party, Summer Starfruit and Sahara Sand.

Wasn't sure  how I was going to put these together, but I do believe 

that they have worked perfectly on this design.

I used a dauber to colour the doily with Island Indigo ink.

I punched a 2.3/8" scallop circle for the centrepiece and stamped

the sentiment from "Label Love" Stampset.

I stamped and punched 3 Petite Petals flowers and punched one Pansy from

Summer Starfruit card stock.

I then punched Itty Bitty flowers in matching card stock for the 3 flower middles.

The leaves were punched using the Bird Builder Punch.

Small Basic Pearls were used for the flower centres.

Thanks for this colour combo Julie - love it!!

In case you are interested - Glynis and I played golf today in the final of 

the Crowther Doubles Matchplay at Sandhill -

AND WON!! Ta Da!!

It was a lovely day, a great game, and fabulous company.

Assorted Thank you cards

Most months I make thank you cards for my customers but I don't write on the cards 

and then they can be recycled.

Here are a few of this months assortment.

All these cards have been produced using the Six Sided Sampler stampset

with the matching hexagon punch.

Colour combo is Pink, Black and White.

The flowers are made using the Boho Blossoms punch and the Itty Bitty flower punch.

Basic Rhinestones and Pears used for flower centres.

Who else is going on the Silver 2 Reception?

My Stampin Up sister, Sally-Jo got her promotion to Silver 2 in the last few days of September - 

just in time to qualify to attend the Silver 2 Reception at Convention in November.

Here's the card that I gave her today at our monthly team training.

Colour Combo is Crisp Canteloupe , Baked Brown Sugar and Very Vanilla.

Stamp set Six Sided Sampler, matching Hexagon Punch used to cut shapes out.

Flowers made using Boho Blossoms and Itty Bitty Flower punches.

Congratulations Sally-Jo see you there on the night!!

Easter card

I have done a remake of an Easter card that I made a couple of years ago.

I have used a colour combo of Lucky Limeade and Daffodil delight with White.

The foliage is from the Just Believe stamp set.

The flowers punched using the Itty Bitty Flower punch

and the chicks cut using the Owl Punch.

HERE is a link to Anna's blog

 where I got the instructions from if you want to make these little chicks too!

Not a Christmas card!

Came across an interesting challenge the other day and decided to have a go at it.

Using the colours red and green, make a non-Christmas card!

So here's my attempt.

Colour combo is Cherry Cobbler and  Garden Green with very Vanilla

The background is stamped in Cherry Cobbler using the Creative Elements stamp set.

Used the Lattice Bigz die and then used all the leaf shapes cut out of it

to make the leaves for the 4 points of the trellis and the corners.

Sentiment is from Tiny Tags.

Flowers are made using the 1.1/4" Scallop punch, centres are diagonal fringed flowers in Very Vanilla

and the corner flowers are cut with the Itty Bitty flower punch and VV "knots" in the centres.

With the exception of the red pearls (which are from my stash)

all products used are Stampin' Up.

I would like to enter this in the
Docraft Challenge - Using the colours red and green, make a non-Christmas card!

http://docraftsblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/card-makers-challenge-3.html?spref=fb

Desk Calendar

Another quick post this evening - here's a desk calendar that I have made earlier today.

I like to do projects that my Crafting ladies can make to sell for their fundraising

and here's a pretty quick make.

You can make 3 of these from one sheet of A4 card so it's quite economical.

The background was embossed with the Fancy Fan Embossing Folder.

The Calendar block was matted onto a rectangle of Midnight Muse Card stock.

The flowers were punched with the Boho Blossoms and Itty Bitty punches

wit Midnight Muse and Silver Glimmer paper.

 The leaves were punched in Midnight Muse with the Bird Builder punch

Cheerful Treat Tri-shutter card

Card part open

Card fully open

Card closed

This is one of the projects that I made for my monthly Saturday morning workshop.
I chose three more labour intensive proijects this month-

the other two can be seen HERE and HERE
This tri-shutter card is made using the soon to retire Cheerful treat Designer series Paper.
The base card is Melon Mambo teamed up with Lucky Limeade, Concord Crush and WhisperWhite.
The centre panels each have a Labels Collection Framelet die cut.
The Swirl and the leaves were cut  in Concord crush using the Swirls Scribbles Sizzlet die
 and the Bird Builder punch with Concord Crush card.  The flower is built with the Blossom punch
and the Modern Label punch with the centre being built with the Boho Blossom punch
and the Itty Bitty Flower punch - finished off with a tiny pearl

Some more of mi twinchies!!

I have been playing at Twinchies again this morning-

here is my latest offering.

A rainbow of colour and some Itty Bitty punched flowers, 

sentiment fromTiny Tags and a few Basic Rhinestones.

I would like to enter this into

Show us your Twinchies Challenge~3 - Bright colours

http://twinchie-twinchiehotmaillive.blogspot.co.uk/

Playing with Vellum

The biggest problem of using vellum when card-making is fixing the vellum to the card.
The problem that I had with this one, was that I wanted clean lines, so on one side of the card there was no way of disguising any adhesive.
The solution in this case was to use brads to fasten the bottom right hand corner of the scallop circle to the card.
The card stock was Pink Pirouette, the vellum was cut using the Scallop Circle die which was then stamped in Versamark and embossed with white EP using the rose from the (by now current favourite) You are Loved stamp-set.
Flowers are cut in vellum using the Bigz L die Fun Flowers, with an Itty Bitty punched flower and a white brad in the centre.
(This is how all the flowers were attached to the card - thus fastening the vellum securely to the card without any adhesive, which would show through the white vellum.)



You may have to zoom in on this photo to see the detail.