Ger's birthday

Today is my Brother-in-law Ger's birthday and I have made him this card.

I am really pleased with it.

I was inspired by something similar on Pinterest (what would we do without it!!)

The colour combo is basically Crumb Cake and Soft Suede on a White base card -

in retrospect I should have done it on cream or Very Vanilla.

That said - it doesn't look wrong.

The Crumb Cake panel is textured with the Textured Impressions Square Lattice Embossing Folder.

I think this is really suitable for men's cards .

The narrow borders were punched with Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border Punch and cut in half.

The pennants are cut freehand from some Mocha Morning DSP - now retired.

and the old faithful sentiment from Curly Cute stamp set.

Name is die cut with the Timeless Type Junior Alphabet Medium Sizzlits Dies

(also now retired - but it is a useful size!)

Happy Birthday Ger!!  Have a great day!

Delicate Designs

Another one of the several birthday cards that I need this month!

This one is made up almost entirely of embossed strips of card using the 

Textured Impressions Delicate Designs Embossing folder.

Colour combo is Pink Pirouette, Certainly Celery and Whisper White.

The sentiment is from a Sale-a-bration stamp set

 that will be available to for you to buy from Tuesday (the 22nd)

Sentiment stamped and embossed with silver embossing powder

and then cut using the Labels Collection Framelits die.

I then inked the edges with a Versamark pen  and embossed with silver EP.

Another CAS card!

60th Birthday card

On my last SU order I bought the Memorable Moments stamp set 

so that I could add numbers to my cards.

Last night I had a go at using it.

I embossed the main panel using the Textured Impressions Elegant Lines Embossing Folder

and matted this onto a square of Silver card, then layered this onto a white base card,

To do the birthday plate involved stamping and heat embossing 6 separate elements:-

The frame border, the 6, the 0, the"TH", the "Happy" and the "Birthday".

I was doing OK with the Stamp-a-ma-jig to position all these elements,

but came a cropper when I did the "Happy" !  I stamped it upside down!!

I quickly rubbed off the embossing powder and heat dried the panel with my heat gun,

then tried again.  The result is a bit messy, but I will keep this card as a prototype

then I can copy the design at a later date.

Apart from that little bungle I am quite happy with this card.

Birthday card - feminine

I have several birthdays over the next couple of weeks, so I hope not to bore you with birthday cards.

Here's the first of many!!

Beautiful colour combo of Pink Pirouette, Lucky Limeade, Baja Breeze and Marina Mist.

Stampin' Up products used :-

Twitterpated DSP, Beautiful Wings embosslits for butterflies.

Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border punch.

Adorning Accents Embossing folder.

Sentiment from Petite Pairs stamp set and embellished with Basic Rhinestones.

Spiders Web Lace

Just thought that I would share this picture of the beautiful spider web lace that is everywhere today.

This is on my Wheelie bin!!  Isn't it beautiful!

Tiny Flowers card

Today I have had another play with new items from the Spring/Summer Seasonal catalogue.

A new punch and a some new DSP.

I just love the colour combination - Midnight Muse, Summer Starfruit and Gumball Green

on a Very Vanilla Base card.

I was inspired to create this card having seen one on Megan Dayes blog

Here

The only thing with these 3D flowers is that the cards are expensive to sent through the post,

so I am afraid that you'll have to live locally to receive this one!!

Get Well Soon

No-one is ill at the moment, but I always have to make a get well card at short notice -

which when you think about it, it's not unusual is it!  

We don't know in advance when we are going to be ill!

So, in readiness for the next poor soul who is ill, I have made a get well card.

Colour combo is Midnight Muse, Crumb Cake and Very Vanilla.
I have used different flowers to those that I normally use from the
 Everything Eleanor stampset, but I have teamed it up with a sneak peek
of some new DSP from the Spring/Summer Seasonal catalogue.

Playing around

Been doing a bit of playing around today!

(I was supposed to be making 44 swaps ready for our All Day Training event

that's just two weeks away!) 

Still haven't decided what I am doing for these.

Here's what I made today.

I am a little unsure about this card.  I set off distressing the embossed areas

of the card, then I changed my mind. Hence the top half only is distressed!!

The colour combo is Pool Party, Island Indigo and Very Vanilla

I played around with a teeny set of stamps that you will be able to see more of in the 

Spring/Summer Seasonal Catalogue - I love these little leaves!.

I matched up a new S-A-B punch and stamp-set with the Curly Label Punch

and added some S-A-B ribbon.

Two basic pearls finish it off.

As I said, I am not sure about this card - let me know what you think.

Tony's Birthday Sale-a-bration!

Today is my niece Emma's husband's birthday (Tony if you couldn't guess!)

I have given you another sneak peek of some new products again-

from both Sale-a-bration and the upcoming Seasonal Spring/Summer catalogue.

Colour combo is mainly Midnight Muse, Crumb Cake and Vary Vanilla.

All products are Stampin' Up.

Once S-A-B is up and running, I'll let you know the names of all 

the products used during these sneak peeks -

meantime enjoy!

Friend

Each year, one of my  golfing friends asks me to make 6 special cards for her special friends.

This is the first one that I have made for her.

I have cased a card that I received for my birthday from my friend Cheryl,

 I just changed the colours around but kept the layout (you can see some of her cards HERE)

This is only the second time that I have used this stamp set - it was one that we received  at

Convention last year - Affection Collection and I really should have used it more.

If you fancy this set, then it is only available until the end of the month

when the Seasonal Autumn/Winter Catalogue finishes!

I have used a colour Combo of Pink Pirouette, Pool Party and Soft Suede

on a Very Vanilla base card.

The flower is made by stamping the flourish from Creative Elements in Soft Suede onto Pink Pirouette card, then punching the set of petals out 6 times,using the Blossom Petals Builder punch.

These are then assembled and stuck together to form the large flower.

The Little Leaves Sizzlets die was used for the leaves, and I stamped the Friend sentiment then punched this out using the Modern Label punch.

I used the Fancy Fan Folder to emboss the Pool Party Coredinations card, then sanded the top

(look out for this in the new Seasonal ) catty.

I used a Vintage brad on top of the 3 stamped Pool Party pennants and voila!

I love this - thanks for the inspiration Cheryl!

Twinchie with a sneak peek

Here's my first Twinchie of 2013

I have combined it with a sneak peek of 2 new products that will be available

 when the new Seasonal (Spring Summer) catalogue launches on 1st February.

Can you guess which items are new??

Email me your answers and I will send you a sample of both items!!

The colour combo is Pink Pirouette, Pool Party and Soft Suede.

The Fancy Fan embossing folder has been used and then distressed, 

then Soft Suede ink rubbed onto the raised area to give a vintage look.

(all products Stampin'Up)

I would like to enter this into

Show us your Twinchies Challenge #1 - Anything Goes

http://twinchie-twinchiehotmaillive.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/challenge-1-anything-goes.html

Simply Sent Promotion

Have you seen the latest offer from Stampin Up?

from 3rd - 21st January 

Purchase the My Little Valentine stamp set (clear mount only)

 for £9.95 and get the Sealed with Love Simply Sent kit FREE (saving £8.25)

This 4 piece set was created exclusively for this promotion

and will not be available again after 21st January

I don't send many Valentines cards (can you believe that!)

but not being someone to miss a bargain I sent for these for myself.

I decided to use the Simply Sent set to make a little Get Well card

 to go with the flowers that I bought for Kerry - here it is.

Closed envelope

Inside envelope

So you see - it can be used for other things than Valentines!

Get Well Soon Kerry

My son and his family came back from Portugal last Thursday evening, having been ill for most of the holiday.  My daughter in law - Kerry, came back from the holiday quite poorly and has been on anti-biotics since her return, so yesterday, I thought I would make her a card to cheer her up.

Hope that it does the trick!

Some Sale-a-bration DSP used with one of the stampsets today!

Keep watching this space........

Sneaky peek - Baby Girl card

Today's card is a congratulation card for friends Jan and Patrick

on the birth of their second grand-daughter, Emily Jayne born on Thursday (3rd Jan)

There are a couple of Sale-a-bration items used on this card!

Keep watching..........

New Baby Card

One of my friends (Ann) phoned me the other day to say that

 she was a grandmother again and had another Grandson.

Here's the card that I made this morning for her.

Congratulations Ann!

It's also another sneak peek for you as I have used one of the free Sale-a-bration items again.

Watch this space as I will continue to give you tasters of the treats that are in store

for you during Sale-a-bration and if you want to get your hands on the little beauties, just email me and I'll be pleased to help!

Sneak peek

17 days to go to Sale-A-Bration !!!!! Meantime here's a little sneak peek for you 

Version 1

Version 2

Sale-a-bration is that fabulous time of the year when you can get FREE  products for every £45 that you spend
- and this year there are 17 items to choose from!!
Keep dropping by and have some more sneak peeks of what's in store for you
during Sale-a-bration from 22nd January to 22nd March.

Sarah's birthday

Today is my nephew Stephen's wife - Sarahs birthday 

and here is the card that I have made for her.

Colour combo is Pink Pirouette, Crumb Cake and Very Vanilla cardstock.

Ink is Soft Suede.

Stamp sets used : Affection Collection , sentiment from Just Believe.

Modern Label punch

Basic pearls for embellishments.

All products Stampin Up

Another Twinchie

Here's another twinchie for the latest Challenge

I have used an old stamp that I found when I was sorting out the other day

and I thought that it fitted the challenge perfectly!

Colour combo simply Night of Navy and Whisper White cardstock

Embellished with Dazzling Diamonds glitter.

I would like to enter this into the

Show us Your Twinchies Challenge# 12 - Let it snow

http://twinchie-twinchiehotmaillive.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/challenge-12-let-it-snow.html

Patrick's Birthday

Yesterday was our friend Patrick's birthday.

Since Patrick's illness in May last year (meningitis) he is now blind.

I made this card using the Timeless Type Junior Alphabet Medium Sizzlits dies

(now retired) with the Champagne Glimmer paper, in the hope that he would 

be able to feel the greeting, even though he cannot see it.

The colour combo is Early Espresso, Crumb Cake and Very Vanilla

with of course the Champagne Glimmer.

It was really difficult lining up these letters

(and I can see that the "d" in birthday is wonky!!)

Don't think that Patrick noticed it though.

Happy New Year

Wishing you all a happy, healthy and (hopefully) prosperous  New Year!

It would be nice if it were a little drier too!!

I would like to thank everyone for their kindness in visiting and commenting

 on my blog over the last year, and sincerely hope that you will continue to do so.

Here is my card to you all.

The colour combo is Very Vanilla, Baja Breeze, Crumb Cake and Early Espresso.

Stamp sets used : Hopeful Thoughts and Layered Labels.

Sentiment from Teeny Tiny Wishes
Apothecary Accents Framelits die.

Hope you like your card!!