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.

All Day Training Swaps

Today I am in Leeds for our Quarterly All Day Training Event

 with fellow team members of Julie's Jems in Pudsey.

The theme for our swap today is Male projects.

I have great difficulty coming up with cards for men, but here are my efforts.

Early Espresso. Sahara Sand and Crumb Cake - Gold Embossing

Sahara Sand and Early Espresso - Gold Embossing

Marina Mist and Midnight Muse - Pool Party Embossing

Midnight Muse and Marina Mist - Clear embossing on Midnight Muse ink

Basic Gray and Black - Silver Embossing

Basic Black and Basic Gray with Black Embossing

We had to do 30 swaps for this event, but as I have a low boredom threshold,

I made mine in different colour combos as labelled above.

The die is the Lattice Bigs die and the stamp set is Postage Due.

I relied mainly on the colours chosen and the postage stamp image to give a male feel to these.

Think that I have succeeded.

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