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.

Fresh Prints

Another card for a man today - similar design to yesterday's but different papers -

this uses the Fresh Prints DSP stack and the colour combo is

Cherry Cobbler, Coastal Cabana and Crumb Cake

(I actually made a mistake with the colours as the red on the papers is Real Red,

but because I didn't read what the colours were I ended up using Cherry Cobbler - doh!)

I don't know whether it's obvious or not - you tell me!

The sentiment is from Label Love and this was stamped then fussy cut out and matted onto 

a  punched out Artisan Label in Cherry Cobbler.
Triangles were punched with the Triangle punch (would you believe that!)
in all three colours.

I punched out 3 faux brads made with a 1/4" circle punch in Red Glimmer paper.

I think I'm on a roll with mens' cards!  I'll see what I can come up with tomorrow.

Training project 3

Here's the third project that we made at this month's Training.

The Petal Parade stamp set was used to created the background on this card.

The Artisan punch used to punch the sentiment from Label Love.

Convention swaps

Here's one of the swaps that I made for Convention (I did 3 types of general swaps!)

It's a little travel sewing kit that I have covered with designer Series Paper, made a 

belly band out of the reverse side of the paper, then stamped a Label Love label 

in Versamark and heat embossed with Gold embossing powder.

I made 50 of these in various colours.

These went down a treat.

Anne-Marie's birthday

Yesterday was my baby sisters birthday

 (she's 14 years younger than me so that makes her the baby of the family!)

It was also Lexie's birthday yesterday , but I was so busy making her a birthday tea

for the family, that I forgot to photograph her card before I sent it!!

Will have to wait until I go down to their house and take a photo then!

Meantime - here's Anne-Marie's card.

This is a card that I made at monthly training on Wednesday,
 but I just used the reverse side of the DSP as I liked this side better!
If you take a peek at Julie's blog here you can see her original version
and the matching box that we made.
Anne-Marie's pressie wouldn't fit in the box, so I have kept it for me!!

Gingham wheel and Vellum

Today's card features another sneaky peek of a new product from the new catalogue

(launches on 2nd July!), the Gingham wheel.  It also lets you see two of the new

colours - Pistachio Pudding and Smoky Slate, and another stamp from the

Label Love stamp set and matching punch - Artisan Label.

 Think that everything else you have seen before.

I've taken another picture this afternoon (Tuesday) in natural light.

I think that you can just see the embossed stitching done with the 

Textured Impressions Needlepoint Border Embossing folder.

The leaves are cut in vellum with the Little Leaves Sizzlit.
I saw this card on Pinterest and fell in love with it,
so had to case it froMiriam's blog here

Another Telford Project

Here's the third of my Telford Display projects.

This started life as a cheap wooden wall plaque.

I heat embossed the edges with gold embossing powder - taking care not to set fire to the wood!!

I then stamped and  heat embossed the little teddies and duck with gold EP too.

I stamped and embossed LUCAS's name in gold and then punched out the

letters using the Artisan label Punch.

I punched out Lucas's baby photo with the same punch and layered this onto Brushed Gold card.

which I then fussy cut  round the lable shape.

This was then glued onto a  flower made with the Blossom punch.

I stamped the sentiment using the Label Love stamp set and heat embossed in gold

then punched with the Artisan Label punch and glued onto a Blossom punched flower.

I tied little ribbon knots onto the rope with Whisper White 1/4" stitched Grosgrain

ribbon and 7/16" Natural Trim ribbon.

Once again - it's a project that's outside my comfort zone, but I was very pleased with the result!

Calendar/Post it note Wallet.

Here's another of my projects for the Telford display.

This little project is one that I have made before, but I wanted to showcase the 

Label Love stamp set and the Artisan Label punch.

Front view - closed

Inside view - open

Colour combo is Midnight Muse, Gumball Green and Summer Starfruit.

The backing paper is from the Print Poetry DSP Stack.

Telford Display - Scrapbook Page

Here's the scrapbook page of my niece's wedding day, that I made for my display table at Telford

last month - using the Label Love stamp set and the Artisan Label punch.

Colour combo is Black, White and Brushed Silver

The Morning Post Alphabet stamp set  was used for Emma and Tony's names.

I used the Lattice Bigz die for the two corners embellished with Basic Rhinestones.

Butterflies were cut in Silver and White using the Beautiful Wings Embosslits die .

This is the very first scrapbook page that I have ever made - I am quite proud of it!