Scribbled Happy Birthday for Cara

Here's the card I mad for my friend Cara who's birthday was on Friday.

Couldn't post this til I knew she had received it,

It's another resist emboss technique using blender pens and In Colours inks:

Primrose Petals, Gumball Green, Midnight Muse, Summer Starfruit and Raspberry Ripple.

Ink scribbled over sentiment from Perfectly Penned, stamped

in Versamark and heat embossed with white embossing powder

Gorgeous Grunge stamp set and Basic Rhinestone embellishments.

These colours will be replaced with new ones when the Annual Catalogue launches in July

so I am making the most of them while they last.

Hope you had a great day Cara! xx

Celebrate Today - WWWU#9

I made this card yesterday after reading that fellow Crafty Blogger, 

Stephanie from Daily Crafts had decided to quit smoking, so I made

this card for her to hopefully encourage her to keep it up 

(I am an ex smoker who quit over 12 years ago!)

It was also made for our weekly colour combo challenge.

This week the colours selected were:

Wisteria Wonder, Elegant Eggplant, Garden Green and Pacific Point.

The sentiment is from Perfectly Penned

and I am sure you know this off by heart now,

for the flowers - the Petite Petals stamp set and matching punch!

Leaves cut using the Bird Builder Punch.

Stephanie - if you are reading this - please email me your address 

and I will post this off to you!!

And there's more.......

...more of the So Very Grateful creations - the ones that Chris and I did together on Wednesday.

Chris's Card

My card

White base card, Crumb Cake card, stock, So Very Grateful stamp set inked in Versamark 

and heat embossed with White embossing powder.

Images inked with Strawberry Slush and Old Olive inks

and sentiment from Perfectly Penned stamped in Strawberry Slush too.

I think that Chris's looks more crisp than mine, but I am happy with the result.

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.

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!

Flower Shop thank you

Today's card has been cased from one of my fellow Jems-

but I am not sure who it belongs to - I saw this on our facebook group

where some of the cards from Saturdays training were displayed..

Perhaps the owner will let me know and I will link it back to their blog!!
Hurray! - this was Amanda's inspiration and her blog is
HERE

The colours used are 3 of the new In-Colours

Coastal Cabana, Crisp Cantaloupe and Baked Brown Sugar.

Stamp set used is Flower Shop and I have used the Pansy punch

to cut out two of the flowers and layered them on top of the originals.
The sentiment is from Perfectly Penned.

The ribbon is Stretch Ruffle trim, also in Crisp Canteloupe.

The Flower centres are simply 1'2" circles, punched and shaped.
(All products used are Stampin' Up!)

I love it!!

Sponge and Spritz

Chris is back from holiday now, so we had our usual play day together!

I have really missed her whilst she has been away, so it was good to have her back

and we have had a good old play today.

One of the techniques we tried out today was featured on Splitcoaststampers

and it's called "sponge and spritz"

Here's the two cards I made

This is sponged and spritzed

This is sponged, but I forgot to spritz!! Doh!!

Colour combo is Tempting Turquoise, Melon Mambo and Daffodil Delight on the first card

and Tempting Turquoise, Daffodil Delight and Old Olive on the second.

All the stamping was done in Black.

1st card stamp sets are Lovely as a Tree, Best of Flowers and Perfectly penned.

2nd card stamp sets are Hopeful Thoughts, Best of Flowers and Perfectly penned.

The birds are hand drawn!

Really enjoyed making these.

Best of Flowers

Here's a pretty card that we made at Monthly Training earlier this month.

Colour combo is Crumb Cake, Pool Party, Whisper White
Stamp sets used – Best of Flowers, Perfectly Penned stamped with

 Crumb Cake , Pool Party, and Midnight Muse ink.
 1.1/4 Scallop Circle punch used to cut out flowers 

Crumb Cake ribbon and Basic Pearl embellishments.

My ladies have loved making this one - thanks Julie!!