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.

Christmas in the pink

All the projects I had to share with you from my crafty weekend away in Worthing mean I haven't yet shown you what we made at Make, Do and Send card club at the beginning of July!

Carrying on from where we left off, another Christmas card! Now that's two people who can have a card this year :)
This card is case'd from Elaine Smith, you can see her blog Sassy Stampers here. I hope you don't mind Elaine but I think this is such a great card. 
The colour scheme is Pretty in Pink and Rich Razzleberry, I stamped the background with the Serene Snowflakes then added punched baubles. Some ribbon and a few rhinestones complete the front.  The front edge is cut shorter than the back with a pretty scalloped edge so a complementary panel was added to the inside.

Bookmark swaps

A couple of Saturday's ago was our Stampin Up teams Quarterly training day. When demonstrator's get together there is always lots of swapping of projects so that we can all gain inspiration from each other. 
In case it isn't obvious, I made bookmarks this time. I made several different colourways as you can see above.

I used the scallop border punch to pretty up the edges and made rings using two of the circle punches to highlight my stamping. 

More Happiness Shared

Same stamp set as yesterday but a very different look. This time I coloured the stamp with marker pens before stamping onto whisper white card. The scallop corner punch adds some lovely delicate definition and the En Francais background stamp just lifts the base card.

Luxury Layers

 This is a bit of a departure for me, not my usual style of card at all.  The black base card has been run through the big shot in a polka dot embossing folder then I layered different pieces of Love Letter designer paper (now retired) together with a sash of striped grosgrain ribbon.  I stamped the medallion from Artistic Etchings and layered it onto a scallop punched circle, which I had daubed with silver shimmer paint.  A touch of bling from some rhinestones and voila!

Butterfly Scallops

Day two of the cards from the All Occasions class.  The card is CASE'd from a swap I received a while ago at a team training day but this is a colour combination I haven't tried before, you have to love the Color Coach it gives you some great ideas and pushes you out of your comfort zone a little with some great combinations.  The colours are Wild wasabi for the card base, Perfect plum for the scallops and the greeting and So Saffron for the butterfly image and the mat.  The background stamp is en Francais, the image is from Strength and Hope and the greeting from Sincere salutations, I love that font!

Preview!

I thought I would give you just one little preview of what you can expect if you are coming to my All Occasions class next weekend.  This is just one of the many cards we will make, I hope it whets your appetite. The background is from the designer paper stack in Baja Breeze.  The Wedding wheels image is stamped in matching ink, as is the sentiment. I used the scallop border punch to create the pretty edging for the image and finished off with a large bow of whisper white organza ribbon.

Christmas gift bag

I'm not really here today, I'm at a Stampin Up team training day in Fareham.  I love team training 'cos I get to meet up with lots of other lovely demonstrators and we share lots of tips and ideas.  One of the highlights for me is swapping card and gift ideas and these are my swaps.

I made them from brown paper lunch bags.  I cut off the handles and then tidied up the edge using the scallop border punch.  You can't see it very in the photo but I have stamped all over the bag with Merry Christmas from Season of Joy stamp set.  I then added a mat of Jolly holiday papers, folded over the top of the bag and punched a circle through both layers.  I punched tags in vanilla and cherry cobbler, again stamping merry christmas in cherry on the vanilla tag.  I daubed more cherry ink around the edge of the vanilla tag and then attached both tags through the hole in the bag using old olive sating ribbon.
The finished bag is big enough to hold a dvd so I can see me making some more of these as the big day approaches!  Hope the other demos like them.