Man's card

Chris (sis-in-law) has been over today for our weekly crafting get-together.

Tomorrow she is doing a class with a theme of Cards for men, so we made 3 cards,

and I started a fourth, which I have just finished.

Here's one of them - stay tuned for the rest over the coming week!

Colour combo is Island Indigo, Smokey Slate and White.

Don't know whether you can see that the backgound has been embossed with

the Stylish Stripes Textured Impressions embossing folder.

Stamp set is Rev Up The Fun

Sentiment is from Express Yourself (Hostess set)

Window Frames Collection Framelits

DSP is from Neutrals Paper Stack

White Bakers Twine - dyed  with Island Indigo re-inker.

(You should see the colour of Christine's fingers!!)

Word of warning - when dying Bakers Twine with Re-inkers - wear rubber gloves!!

Really pleased with this one!!

The Open Sea

Here's another card that we made this week at Chris's

using The Open Sea stamp set 

The ship and the anchor were stamped then the anchor was fussy cut.

The Window Frames Collection Framelits die used to cut the stamped image of the ship.

Parkers Patterns DSP and Natural Trim ribbon and linen thread used.

Retired embossing folder used to emboss the cloudy sky.

Fancy Fold Layered Window Frame

Today I took inspiration from Splitcoaststampers 

it's a really useful site.  This is what I made.

Card closed

Card open

The colour combo is Natural White (for the base card) and the Window Frames are die cut using the Window Frames Collection framelits, in Black and Smokey Slate.

Best of Flowers stamp set used for the centre panel.

If you fancy having a go -the instructions are here.

http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/layeredwindowframe/?utm_medium=Email&utm_source=ExactTarget&utm_campaign=

Maggie's Birthday

Tomorrow is my sister Maggie's birthday, so I wanted to make her something a little bit special.

The colour combo is Regal Rose, Sahara Sand and White.

Once again I have used the Secret Garden stamp set and the white re-inker technique

to produce these flowers,and I used Real red with the aqua brush this time, 

to create this beautiful pink colour.

There is a little rosebud stamped in white from the Collage Curios stamp set.

The Initial frame is die cut using the Window Frames Collection Framelits.

I bought the initial M some time ago in anticipation of Maggie's Birthday,

but cannot remember where from.

Sentiment from Teeny Tiny Wishes, stamped and then punched with Word Window punch'

then layered on top of a punched Modern label.

Embellishments Basic Rhinestones.

(All products Stampin' Up! unless otherwise stated.)

Happy Birthday Maggie!!