All of a Flutter

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.

Trick or Treat!

Halloween doesn't feature hugely in my house these days as the kids are a little old for Trick or Treating and much more interested in visiting somewhere like Alton Towers for Scarefest, therefore I don't make many Halloween treats.  This year however, a friend of mine gave me a couple of bags of Hershey chocolates to see what I could come up with and this is the result. 
I kept it simple so that I could make several the same.  I used my new milkcarton die for the Bigshot and some scrummy pumpkin pie cardstock.  A strip of coordinating pumpkin paper from the designer paper pattern stack and a black card star. 
Hopefully it will be treats all the way, keeping those mean tricks at bay.

Groovy Thanks!

Bright and cheery isn't it!! The flourish from Baroque motifs is stamped in Pumpin pie ink onto pumpkin card to make a subtle background. I then used the crimper at the top, bottom and across the centre of the card to add interest and then  the sentiment was punched out with the decorative label punch.

Snowman Box

Cute isn't he!  Another project from team training day.  This cute little box is made from a scored rectangle to make the base of the box and 3 top note die cuts, one in cherry cobbler which is cut in half lengthways and 2 in white.  The two white topnotes are stuck front and back of the box with the two halves of cherry making up the hat.  A strip of cherry makes the brim of his hat and then some tiny black circles punched from Stampin Ups owl punch and a tiny triangle of pumpkin pie for his carroty nose.  A hint of rosy cheeks is created by a daubing of pretty in pink ink.

Origami Shirt

I think something similar to this may be my Father's Day card this year but it could equally be used for a birthday.  We did this at card club too; the folded shirts aren't nearly as difficult as they look and make an effective topper for your card don't you think?

I used copier paper for the shirt, stamped both sides and then run through the Big Shot in a textured embossing folder before folding into the shirt shape. It is matted onto some Pear Pizazz designer paper and Pumpkin Pie and mounted onto Crumb Cake card stock.  The sentiment is stamped in matching Pumpkin ink, punched and 3d mounted.