Lynda's birthday

As well as it being Ethan's birthday today, it is also the birthdays of two of my

Stampin Up sisters' birthdays - Lynda and Julie.

I will show you Lynda's card today and Julie's tomorrow.

Colour combo, Primrose Petals, Raspberrry Ripple and White.
Stamp set of the moment - Flowering Flourishes.
Aperture cut with 2.1/2" circle
The layered flower in the circle aperture is stamped with the Quint-Essential Flower stamp.
Sentiment from Curly Cute
Primrose Petals 3/8" Stitched Satin Ribbon bow
Basic Rhinestone embellishments
Inspiration from Pinterest!
Happy Birthfday Lynda!!

Ethan's Birthday

Tomorrow is my Great-Nephew Ethan's birthday and he will be 9

Here's the card that I have made for him.

Colour combo Midnight Muse and Bashful Blue
Parkers Patterns DSP paper.
sentiment from Teeny Tiny Wishes

Telford Swaps version 3

And here is the last batch of swaps that I made.

Once again the colour combo is Midnight Muse and Daffodil Delight
cut with the Floral Frames Framelits.
I have used the Elegant Butterfly punch to cut two butterflies and then embossed
the second one with the Textured Impressions Square Lattice Embossing Folder

Telford Swaps version 2

Here is the second batch of swaps that I have made

First I stamped with Versamark on Brushed Gold card stock, 

using the Secret Garden Stamp set,

then heat embossed with Silver Embossing Powder.

I then took it a stage further and bleached out the colour from parts of the petals

Et voila - I love this!!

Telford Swaps version 1

Today I am in Telford at a UK Stampin' Up! event.

As usual, we will be taking part in a "Swap" and I have made about 150 in total.

I think I have mentioned before but I have a very low boredom threshold,

so instead of doing 150 swaps all the same I have made 3 lots of 50.

Here is the first batch.

Colour combo is Midnight Muse, Daffodil Delight and Brushed Gold.
I used the Floral Frames Framelits to cut out the 3 largest  flower shapes,
then scrumpled 5 x 7/8" scalloped Circles and fastened together with a brad to make
the central flower.  Finished off with a gold leaf punched using the Bird Builder punch.

Sending Many Thanks/Best Wishes

Today I have used one of the other two stamps in the Flowering Flourishes stampset-

just for a change!!

I am really pleased with the colours on this card.

Crumb Cake card stock and Soft Suede Ink

Flowering Flourishes stamp set

Paper Doily

Papers from Comfort Cafe and tea for Two DSP 

Basic Rhinestones to embellish the butterfly.

Sentiments from Petite Pairs

Chalkboard card

Here's a card that I have been meaning to make for a few months now.  

I received the original one of these from one of my Stampin Up sisters 

as a swap earlier in the year - it must have been Sale-a-bration time, as the original used

a sentiment from a S-A-B stampset.

Here is my take on this chalkboard card

Betsy's Blossoms and bleach

Chris (sis-in-law) is back from holiday now , so it was good to spend a day crafting again.

Really missed her last week!  Never mind - it will soon be my turn to go on holiday.

Enough waffle.  We did some serious crafting, I did a scrapbook page - which is something of an achievement for me, because it's not something that I have a penchant for.

I am really pleased with the result, but cannot post it on here yet - you will have to wait a while for that pleasure.  Chris gave me a hand with the finishing touches to a few swaps for Saturday and then made two cards that she needed to make.  Then we played....... with bleach!!

We were very careful and diluted it to be on the safe side, and we tried colouring in

 with bleach on various colours of card. We enjoyed this pastime (we like to play)

then after she had gone home, I played a little more and here is the result.

I used the Betsy's Blossoms stamp set and randomly stamped using bleach, Soft Suede,

Early Espresso and Crumb Cake onto Crumb Cake card stock.

I added a piece of retired SU ribbon, with a  matching ribbon slider from my stash (non SU)

then stamped the two tags using the Tint Tags stamp set and punched them

out using the matching punch and attached with Linen Thread.

I am quite pleased with the effect!

Pat's Birthday

It's our friend Pat's birthday on Thursday, so for once I made this card

 in plenty of time and will post it tomorrow!  

Card stock is Midnight Muse and the papers are Comfort Cafe DSP

Sentiments from Teeny Tiny Wishes and Petite Pairs.

Punches used are Modern Label, Word Window, Large Oval and Scallop Oval.

As the paper is quite busy, simply put a couple  of Basic Rhinestones

on both sentiments.

I can safely post this card today as Pat is neither a crafter, nor a blogger!

Name Badge

Today I had a play at  making my name badge in readiness for Saturday's

Stampin' Up! Event at Telford.

We were given minimum dimensions of 7.4 cm x 10.5 cm for this and the only restriction is 

that all products must be Stampin Up.

Here's what I have come up with.

Once again I have heat embossed in Silver on Brushed Gold cardstock

the stamp set used was Secret Garden and I have stamped two flowers

directly on to the card, whilst the third flower and leaves have been stamped on 

separate cardstock and then cut out with the matching Framelits and stuck on top.

Instead of inking parts of the flowers I applied Dazzling Diamonds Glitter instead.

Think that this will fit the bill!

Silver Embossing on Brushed gold

I needed a break from making swaps for next weekend in Telford (A stamping up event where there will be approx 400 demonstrators attending - I am hoping to make 150 swaps tops!)

I decided that I would have a play at heat embossing in silver on brushed gold cardstock, then colouring in.  Here is the result!

This was really just a practice piece to see what the effects of the different colours would be,

but I was pleased with the results, so decided to make it into a card.

Stamp sets used are Secret Garden and Curly Cute.

Linda's birthday

Today is my Cousin Linda's birthday and it's a special one, 

but she doesn't want it mentioned what the numbers are!!

Th ecolour combo for this card is Sarara Sand, Primrose Petals and Whisper White.

I have used the stampset of the mement - Flowering Flourishes, sentiment from Curly Cute,

Leaf Sizzlit and Elegant Butterfly punch to cut out stamped image from

Papillon Potpourri.  Three little basic pearls finish it off.

Silver 2 Congratulations

Received our monthly Julies' Jems Newsletter and was delighted to read that my SU sister,
Nicky, has just promoted to Silver 2, so set about and made her this congratulations card.

This is my stampset of the moment - I do tend to use the same stamp set for a few cards, 

then move on to another.  This is Flowering Flourishes, and I have been using

Sis- in- law's (Chris) up til now, but I took delivery of my own set on Tuesday,

and I think I have used it every day since.

The colour combo is Basic Black and Pretty in Pink, the Textured Impressions

embossing folder is Delicate Designs and the sentiment is from Little Additions.

So - congratulations once again Nicky - onwards and upwards!!

Elements of Style

This is the card that Chris (sis-in-law) made for our All Day Training Event swap last month.

Colour Combo, Soft Suede, Crumb cake and Very Vanilla

Stamp sets used are Elements of Style and Summer Silhouettes

Natural Trim ribbon gives it a masculine feel

(you may recall that the theme for the day was male!!)

I think that this card is fabulous - don't you?

Happy Birthday Sharon

Today is my Stampin' Up! sister Sharon's Birthday and here is the card that I sent to her,

It's done in the same way as the card that I posted yesterday, just different colours and sentiments.

Inks - Crumb Cake, Old Olive and Early Espresso.

Curly Cute stamp set used for the "Happy Birthday"

and "My Friend" stamp set used for "my friend"

Happy Birthday Sharon - have a great day!!

Floral Frames monochrome thank you

A really quick and easy CAS card today

I die cut the largest Floral Frames Framelit and used the negative as a template.

Stamped over the template in Basic Gray using the En Francais stamp.

Inked the edges of the frame using a dauber and Basic Gray ink.

Overstamped the silhouette from Just Believe.

Then stamped the sentiment (from Itty Bitty Banners) and fussy cut it out.

Die cut the matching Itty Bitty Framelit in Black and stock the sentiment on top

and voila!!  Easy peasy lemon squeezy!

Cecilia's card to me

Today I am showing you this fabulous card that I received from Cecilia Alin from Sweden.

I take part in a monthly card swap where a list of names are compiled and the person above you

 on the list sends you a card, but you send one to the person below you on the list.

Today I have posted my card off to Karen, but have already received mine from Cecilia.

(You have to send your card on or before the last day of the month)

So thank you very much Cecilia for this beautiful card - I really look forward to receiving

a card after making so many!!

Hello Doily again

This stamp is fast becoming a favourite of mine - you can use it with so many other elements.

Today I have used it with a die-cut flower from Floral Frames Framelit in Early Espresso,

 a small die-cut doily in Very Vanilla from the Large Delicate Doilies Sizzlits,

 a punched Boho Blossoms flower in Early Espresso  and a punched Very Vanilla Itty Bitty Flower.

I have stamped 3 of the corners with the silhouette stamp from Just Believe.

The sentiment is from teeny Tiny Wishes.

This card is to be sent to Karen Varley, for the Post Crossing - Handmade card swap-

hope that she likes it!

Elegant Lines

Had a day off from blogging yesterday as I had a busy morning, then had the kids after 3:00 p.m.

Fed them plus their mum and dad and entertained them all until 10.p.m. when I drove them home.

Phew - I was absolutely cream crackered - hence no blogging!!

Hope that you like today's card - a really CAS card that I made at Chris's.

Once again - the colours on this card were actually Basic Gray and White 

but look like Night of Navy and White!!

The White layer is simply embossed using the Textured Impressions Elegant Lines

Embossing folder, embellished with Basic Rhinestones.

Sentiment from Petite Pairs.

Papillon Poptpourri

Saw this card on Julie's Blog yesterday and had to case it as I fell in love with it straight away!

Colour Combo is Wisteria Wonder and Pool Party with White.

Stampset is Papillon Potpourri.

Butterflies are stamped on the RHS of the card and the RH edge is fussy cut.

The butterflies are the stamped out again on a spare piece of card stock

but this time they are punched out using the two Butterfly punches.

They are then layered on top of the original images.

You can see the edge detail better in the picture above.

I used the Textured Impressions Designer frames Embossing Folder with pool Party cardstock, then fussy cut out  the oval frame.  Then stamped the greeting

 (from Petite pairs stamp set) onto white card.

This was then punched with the Large Oval Frame punch.

A knot-less bow is made with pool Party Ruffled Ribbon tied with matching Bakers Twine.