Another one for the men! I first saw this technique demonstrated at a team training day by Jane Cutting and knew I had to share it with my card club ladies. The ship is stamped onto vellum cardstock and then "coloured in" on the reverse side using an embossing tool. Easy peasy! but oh so effective.
I love this stamp set but sadly Need For Speed will be retiring at the end of the month to make room for something new to come in the next annual catalogue.
We made this card at Make, Do and Send card club a little while back and I also used the design for my swaps at the Telford training day for Stampin Up demonstrators. The background is made using Clockworks, the car has been cut out and 3d mounted and the sentiment is from wacky wishes, a hostess only stamp set. The Lucky Limeade colour is also retiring at the end of June but we are getting a bit of a colour revamp along with some wonderful new In-Colours.
We made this card at a recent team training day, the combination of lucky limeade and tangerine tango is very bright and cheerful.
The flower has been cut using the Big Shot from designer paper and layered up then finished with a pearl.
Secret Garden is my favourite stamp set at the moment, I am using it A LOT and I love that it has matching framelits which make cutting out the images so easy!
This card, however, was designed by one of my team Ashee for a shoebox swap that we did at my team training morning a few weeks back. You can see her blog here.
The flowers were coloured using a blender pen and ink from a melon mambo inkpad. Some flowers were adhered flat to the card front and others 3d mounted to create dimension. The greeting is from Itty Bitty Banners.
Out of ideas for a background? How about using your clear block! I inked mine with two coordinating inkpads and then stamped straight onto the card to give me this lovely background for my image. The flower image is from Serene Silhouettes.
Today's card is from a shoebox swap that was held at our recent team day. I can't remember who provided this one, sorry, but it I find out then I will point you in her direction.
It's a great way to present a gift card as the clever fold creates a pocket on the front and also on the inside of the card. Of course, it can be made for absolutely any occasion and decorated as you please but in this case we used designer paper in coordinating colours, the border punch and the ribbon flowers.
The card I am sharing today was designed by Amanda Fowler, you can see her blog here. I had the chance to make it at a team stamping day recently.
The base card is cut using the oval scallop framelits and the big shot, part of the background layers has been embossed too, you can just about see it in this photo. The dress and stand are from the Dress it up framelit collection. We attached the fabric to card before cutting out which makes it much neater.
This was a project that we made at Make. Do and Send card club recently. The original idea came from Amanda Fowler, you can see her blog here.
The little gift bag is made from just one piece of card which is scored using the fabulous Simply Scored board and then folded, it is held closed by ribbon. The bag is the perfect size to hold four 3x3 inch cards with their envelopes. I kept the decoration of my cards to a simple colour combination of Pool Party, Island Indigo and Calypso Coral, I shall be sorry to see these colours retire at the end of the current catalogue in June, do you think we can persuade stampin Up to keep them?
Here's a closer image of the gift bag, you can see that I used the Mixed Bunch stamp set to decorate it.
How's this for a quick and simple card? I decided to make a feature of the images from the Bloomin Marvellous stamp set (only available during Saleabration). I have highlighted the image using the postage stamp punch and matting.
Here's another! I made a whole set of these.
I think that Feeling Sentimental is possibly my favourite stamp set from this years Saleabration. For this simple card I have used a monochrome combination of Night of Navy and Whisper White and added a little bling with some rhinestones.
As there are still a few days left of Saleabration I thought I would share a card made using one of the free stamp sets, Bloomin' Marvellous. There are various versions of this design to be seen on pinterest, splitcoaststampers and other blogs.
It's a lovely simple design but quite elegant I think and you can make it extra special by adding some pearls or rhinestones and some ribbon.
This card is CAS'ed from my convention roomie Elaine Harding, you can see her blog here, I received it in a swap at a team training event earlier this year, it uses a technique called faux tearing which makes use of some copier paper and a sponge dauber. The stamp set is Open Sea and is stamped in Soft Suede ink; the anchor image is punched using the tag punch and attached to the card with linen thread.
I don't know about you but I think it's time that I began making a serious start on Christmas! I have already made a few cards but now it's time to knuckle down I think.
Night of Navy seems to be my colour of choice this year and this card is no exception. The stamp set is Winter Memories from the Autumn and Winter seasonal catalogue, I coloured it using marker pens and a blender pen to soften it a little. The background snowflakes from Snowflake Soiree are stamped in white craft ink and of course no Christmas card would be complete without a little bling, in this case added using Dazzling details glitter glue.
Today's card is the make and take from the Stampin Up leadership training day last month.
I'm quite liking the collage effect and this stamp set lends itself perfectly. The pocket watch is built up using several different stamps so you definitely need your stamp-a-ma-jig if you want to line it up perfectly.
The card I am sharing today is not one of my own designs, I bought it as part of a kit from a team colleague, Hayley Gillie, you can find her blog here. She has other kits available for you to buy from her website.
This card uses a designer paper that is sadly retired now but I wanted to focus on the lovely distressed flower that takes centre stage. It is made using one of the Stampin up punches, several flowers are punched and then layered. By crumpling the card and smoothing out again you can create a wonderfully distressed 3d flower.
I am having a strange few days! I am writing this post from a hotel room in Wales where I am settling my daughter into university; she doesn't need me to crowd her of course so I brought a few crafting bits and pieces with me to keep me occupied. I am busy making some bunting in preparation for the Sandown craft show next weekend where I will be helping out on the Stampin Up stand, do pop along and see us. Consequently my hotel room is looking very cheerful at the moment! I will have to take a photo before I leave and share it with you later in the week.
Anyway, back to today. This bright and cheerful card was for Make, Do and Send card club at the beginning of September. The layers are Tangerine Tango, Pumpkin Pie and Daffodil Delight, very summery. I stamped the All of a Flutter butterfly randomly over the yellow layer in matching ink and also brushed the inkpad very lightly over the white panel to soften it slightly. The butterfly was inked using marker pens and then stamped at a jaunty angle.
Goodness, where is this year going?! Almost the end of August already, the kids will be back to school next week and then it's all downhill to Christmas :/
I made today's card a few days ago, it's for the son of one of my best friends and sadly because we were on holiday he is going to receive his present late this year :(
The stamp set is Build a Monster, it's a great set as all the monster parts are separate stamps so you can create loads of different monsters! I coloured them using a blender pen and the ink from the lid of my inkpads.
This stamp set has been available for a while but it is a recent acquisition for me, I do love the silhouette images. I wanted to make use of the 2010-12 In colours while we still have them, they retire at the end of September, so this is a combination using Pear Pizazz and Concord Crush.
I used lots of layers on the front of this card which meant that it was very heavy so to counter that I added a couple of layers to the inside!
Of course I then had to stamp a coordinating image on the inside too but here is where I had a disaster! When I mounted my stamps onto the wooden blocks I had inadvertantly stuck one upside down to the image label on the reverse side which means that I stamped it upside down! Now I could have turned over and used the emergency side but after remounting my stamp I decided to stamp again in the opposite corner. It still leaves lots of room for writing :)
Now this is clever! This card and it's matching envelope are made from one 12x12 piece of card and designer series paper and the Simply Scored board. The really clever part however is the closure.
The card stays closed because of the heart shapes that are attached to each corner. They overlap where they meet in the centre.
SO clever! and much easier to make than it looks. The inside and outside of the card has been decorated with Holly Berry dsp.
You will find several versions of this card on various blogs, this is mine. My base card is the lovely deep purply blue Concord Crush upon which I have layered an embossed whisper white mat. The embossing folder is Elegant bouquet. The gorgeous butterflies, again in concord crush are created using the embosslits die which cuts and embosses the shapes at the same time. I just glued one half of the butterflies to the card so that it looks like they just landed for a moment.
