Happy Father's Day

Happy Father's day to all dads everywhere.  This is the card I made for my hubby, I thought the Bow Tie from the Dapper Dad stamp set was ideal for making a penny spinner card and it works beautifully!
My base card is Bashful blue which is a colour that is retiring shortly, I will miss it but there are some wonderful new colours coming soon instead. My sentiment and spinning bow tie are Midnight Muse.  There are lots of tutorials available online for making a penny spinner card so I won't go into detail here but I used the window word punch to cut the slot for my pennies which makes it really easy.
I have some more Father's Day cards to share in the next few days that we made at Make, Do and Send card cub recently.  All of the designs could be used as birthday or thankyou cards instead.

Karting

Here's another scrapbook page I made showing a Karting activity from Summer camp last year.  The kids faces are so expressive, revealing the fun they're having. 
My base page is Bashful blue and my photos are mounted on night of Navy card.  The row of quad bikes from the Need for Speed stamp set was an obvious addition but it took me a while to decide on the pennants for the top edge; I used a combination of pennants using the Big Shot die, Perfect Pennants and the Pennant punch.

Snowflake

Did I show you this one? I was helping out at the Stampin Up stand at the Sandown craft show last month and this card was one that we demonstrated during the day.
It makes great use of the Bigshot as we have not only a dotty embossed background but also the beautiful snowflake die.  The greeting is from Greetings of the Season, each of the stamps in this set is a different font and all are perfect for your Christmas cards. Add a little bling with some rhinestones and 3d mount your snowflake.

Sandown Make and Take Christmas card

Isn't this pretty? This is the card that Amanda designed for our Make and Take at the Sandown craft show.  We had six ladies at a time, all day making this lovely Christmas card.  
The colours are Bashful Blue, Marina Mist and Chocolate Chip. We used the ornament punch and the Delightful decorations stamp set and embellished with ribbon and pearls.

This is what I have been busy making this week, I'm making about 30 of these ready for our team training day on Saturday. All the demonstrators in the Inspiring Inkees team swap their wonderful creations so that we can take away some inspiration.
I have used one of the new hostess gifts, Faith in Nature, and stamped the background of my card in matching ink with the leaf image. I then added a band, again in matching card, using the lace border punch. The focal point is the flower image stamped in bashful blue ink once more and punched using the largest circle punch. I daubed around the edge of the circle to add a little depth.
I am so looking forward to seeing what swaps I will receive in exchange, maybe I will get some inspiration for the swaps I need to make for convention, I will need to make maybe as many as two hundred for that!

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.

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.