Collage Curios

Something a little less bright and flowery today and a card that could maybe be sent to one of the men in your life.  It could certainly be brightened up just by using a different colour but here I have used the combination of Crumb Cake and Early Espresso with Very Vanilla as a base.
I used the circle punch to highlight images from Collage Curios which were them 3d mounted onto panels of designer series paper, a wood grain embossed panel and panels of contrasting colour.  A bow of seam binding ribbon and a Happy Birthday sentiment and away you go!

Butterflies and scallops

The Spring and Summer seasonal catalogue also comes to an end this month so if you still have things on your wish list then now is the time to order them.  
One product that was introduced in this catalogue and will continue in the new annual catalogue is the Simply Scored Borders Plate.  The designs coordinate with many of the die cut shapes and stamps.
On this card there is an embossed border along the bottom, a scalloped edge which echoes the scallop circle sitting behind the central butterfly.

Need For Speed

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.

Swaps

Did I show you this one yet?  This is the card I designed to swap with other Stampin up demonstrators at convention in Germany last November. 
I love all the swapping of ideas, there is so much inspiration to be gained and so many extremely talented crafters out there.
My card makes use of the Clockworks stamp set, it is stamped very randomly in a collage style.  I stuck to a simple colour pallette of Soft suede, early espresso and vanilla.  I also used the new smooch spritz  over the top which gave a lovely shimmery effect. 

Snowy Friends

I have another Christmas card to share today.  The snowmen were stamped and coloured with marker pens and mounted onto early espresso card.  The edge of the card has a scallop edge echoed on the base card.  A pretty bow completes the look.

More Winter Memories

An image from Christmas of yesteryear, wouldn't you have loved a sledge like this one?  Or maybe just enough snow to have used it :/  
I stamped and coloured, with marker pens, this image twice so that I could 3d mount it and then added some dazzling details glitter.  A double mat of early espresso and cherry cobbler sets it off nicely. 

Snowflakes in September

When I first saw the new Autumn and Winter seasonal catalogue from Stampin Up the snowflake die was at the top of my wishlist. There are three snowflakes but on this card I only used the largest. 
It has two of the large snowflakes, the top one is slightly offset and 3d foam mounted to give more dimension.  The other new product on this card is the tulle ribbon, it comes in three colours; cherry cobbler, crumb cake and this one early espresso.  It really is lovely to work with, really really soft and very wide too so you can use it flat and gather it together or fold it over several times for different looks.

Christmas Gift Box

I love this box!  The lovely Amanda Fowler showed us how at our recent team training day at the end of July.
The box itself is made from just one piece of A4 card stock and created easily using the Simply Scored. The lid is made from a scallop square cut using the Big Shot.  
The completed box stands around 6 inches high and will be perfect at Christmas time, I can see that I will be making a lot of these.

Loads of projects!

Remember my weekend away in Worthing when I spent the whole weekend crafting? The photo shows some of the projects that I made.  
I took some of my own projects to work on but these are the classes that I bought into from Elizabeth and below are the gifts that she made for us.

Elizabeth has shared the projects we made on her blog which you can see here, she also has details of next years weekend!

Over the next few days I will share all the projects in more detail with you but today I wanted to highlight the frame that we decorated.  Elizabeth included this project in the cost of the weekend so we had all the components waiting for us on our arrival.
The background paper is Stampin Up's confetti card and has flecks of colour within it. I embossed it with stripes which added some lovely texture. All the stamps are from the Creative Elements set, I used cherry cobbler for the accents and early espresso for the words. There is a strip of the gorgeous vintage lace ribbon across the middle and although you probably can't spot them in this photo there are some pearls too.

Last but not Least

Here it is at last, the final card from the boxed set. All the colours from the colour pallette of Teatime simply scrappin feature on this one. I do love the medallion on the backing paper I think it may be time for me to invest in the medallion background stamp!  The greeting is from Petite pairs therefore you will find the second half of the expression inside the card.

Birthday Wishes

I must just wish my niece a very happy 10th birthday today, I will share her card over the weekend cos I don't want her to see it here before I have a chance to give it to her at her disco party tomorrow.

Here is another card from last weekend's boxed set.  Again from Teatime Simply Scrapping kit, I do love the colour combination of Early espresso, Lucky Limeade and Pink Pirouette.  The sentiment is punched using the designer label punch and is attached using one of the new yummy antique brads.

Must dash, I have another card to make for a friends birthday party tonight.  Now, what am I going to wear?!!
 

In the Pink

Just a quick visit from me today, I am busy at school decommissioning some equipment ready for moving!
Here is the first card from the box set, a square basecard in pink pirouette.  The embellishments are from the Teatime Simply Scrappin set, all the stickers are card so they are lovely to use.  More tomorrow :)

Box of Tricks

This is one of the projects that we made at Team Training with Amanda Fowler last Saturday, I love it!  The box is made from a sheet of 12x12 Early Espresso textured cardstock and it holds 4 square cards.  All the cards have been made using the Teatime Simply Scrapping kit, a product I haven't really made much use of before bit it made these cards so quick and easy that I am sure that I will be using the Scrap kits more often in future.  The box was really quite simple to make you just need to make sure that all the score lines are in the right place and away you go, the decoration is simply a torn piece of card and a punched border and some of the new ruffled ribbon to finish.  I think it would make a great gift. 

Ollie Owl

I sometimes wonder if I create anything original at all, all my offerings lately seem to have been copied or at least inspired by other people's gorgeous creations and this one is no exception, it was a swap I received at team training.
I have named this owl Ollie as while I was waiting for the photo to upload I remembered the soft toy I had as a small child.  He was a white owl but I remember he went everywhere with me and became very dogeared in the end.
The colour combination for this card is Rich Razzleberry, Pretty in Pink, Whisper white and Early Espresso.  The base card was run through the Big shot in the polka dot embossing folder, the pink scallop circle was also cut with the big shot and edged with razzleberry ink to add some depth.  I punched the owl in cardstock and in designer paper stack so that he could have a snazzy waistcoat and then 3d mounted him. The greeting is from sincere salutations and is stamped in razzleberry ink.

Baby, baby.

Those of you who came to the All Occasions workshop last weekend will recognise these, I had a great day and hope you did too.  I intend to share the cards that we made over the next few days rather than swamp you with everything at once.
Bashful blue and Pink pirouette lend themselves beautifully to baby cards and of course we made one in each colourway in order to be ready for when the next baby makes it's appearance.  We used the Baby tees jumbo wheel, inked in matching bashful blue or pink pirouette, for the background.  Then we used it again on a scrap piece of white card; we could then decide which design we liked best to make a focal point.  Coloured with markers then cut out and matted onto another piece of whisper white and espresso card with a little sponge daubing to soften the edges.  A sash of organza ribbon to finish.  Perfect to welcome a new arrival.

Tones of mocha

I do love the colour combinations of this card, another we made at team training last week.  I think the chocolate, coffee and cream tones will be a trend for me over the coming months.  As before, the stamp set is Everything Eleanor.  The flourish on the background is inked in Early espresso.  The greeting is set off by adding a single rhinestone.  I think this design could be used for a number of occasions simply by changing the sentiment.

A card!!!

I know...it's been a while since I shared a card with you...what can I say.  This is a colour combination that I rarely use but it works very well with the hedgehog image I think.  Sadly the hedgehog is from Fun, fast notes, a stamp set which will be retiring at the end of September but I am sure there will be something lovely to replace it.  The colours I have used will be remaining however. Peach parfait is one of our current in-colours and we will have it for another year and the sumptuous Early espresso is just gorgeous and goes so well with so many of our colours. 
I have another card for you tomorrow but in the meantime just to keep you up to date there are another two items that are now gone forever: the Right on Track standard stampin around wheel and the lovely background stamp Sanded.