Winter Memories

Once again I am in a Welsh hotel and I am getting excited as it is almost time for the Stampin Up convention in Mainz, Germany and I am busy making card fronts to swap with my fellow demonstrators.

I do have a card for you, Christmas again! :)

This stamp set, Winter Memories was one of the first to catch my eye from the Autumn and Winter seasonal catalogue.  I think the designs lend themselves perfectly to muted tones and watercolours and this is exactly what I have done with this lovely image of ice skates. Rather than watercolour I used a blender pen picking up the ink from the lid of my inkpads.  I stamped and coloured the image twice so that I could cut part of it out and 3d mount it.  Here's a closer look.

The dotty background paper is from the neutrals designer paper pattern stack and I added some dazzling details glitter for sparkle and some real red ribbon.

Christmas already?!

I know, it's only July but if I don't start now I'll never be ready in time.  This card was inspired by a card I found online, I'm really sorry to whoever designed it but I didn't take a note of your name. The design really appealed to me for a Christmas card as it can be mass produced fairly easily. The colour palette is traditional for Christmas, Old olive, Real red and Whisper white.  The background was embossed with polka dots to add some texture. I used circle circus and perfect punches stamp sets and stamped in coordinating ink.  The circles were all punched and layered and 3d mounted for interest.

Christmas Bauble

I know it's only June but you can never begin Christmas preparations too early!
For this tree bauble I used the ornament punch to cut lots of shapes from real red designer paper, old olive card and red glimmer paper. I folded them all in half and stuck them all together to create a three dimensional bauble.  I attached a loop of ribbon in the centre so I can hang it on my tree.


OK that's one down, loads more to go, phew it's a good job Christmas is still 6 months away!

Postage stamp tags

Sadly this stamp set is no longer available as it was part of the spring mini catalogue but I thought I would share the design as another stamp set could easily be substituted.  The card makes good use of the postage stamp punch and the tag punch, they enable us to make cards so quick and easily :)

Happiest Birthday Wishes

Remember I told you about my nieces birthday last week?  Now that she has received her present I can share her card here.  I used the retired Celebration designer papers for the background and also for the bunting.  To make the bunting I used my new Perfect Pennants punch, it makes it sooo easy! I added a little bling in the form of rhinestones and then the greeting which is from one of the new hostess gifts Happiest Birthday Wishes.

How Many Candles?

Today's card is from last months  Make, Do and Send Card club. The "Celebrate" papers are now sadly retired but the stamp set, Party this way, lives on; I'm very glad about that 'cos I love it.
I took the cue for colours from the designer paper and stamped the candles in red, pear pizazz and bashful blue.  The sentiment was punched from card in those colours too.

Tickle Me Elmo!!

This post was supposed to publish with a photo but Blogger isn't playing ball today so I will have to edit it later on,

Everyone loves Elmo don't they? Well I know I do, so, when I found that it was easy to make my own in card form using the Bigz circle scallop dieand my Big Shot, I thought I would share it with the ladies who are coming to my Make, Do and Send Card club tonight.  I attached two real red scallops together to make the card and then used lots of punched circles in various colours to make his face.  I reckon that some of the other Sesame St characters could be made this way too.