Beth's Birthday Book

While I was in Wales a couple of weeks back visiting my daughter at uni she asked me if I could make something for her friends birthday, fortunately I rarely travel to Wales without card and stamps!  We bought an A5 notebook, I covered it with DSP and stamped the flowers from Blooming with Kindness.  The Lovely Letters were stamped, cut out and layered onto white and blue card which I had background stamped with the Confetti stamps and daubed the edge to soften it. The sentiment is from the Feel Goods stamp set.

 

Of course she then needed a birthday card too so I made this coordinating card, scoring the edges of the panels and completing with ruffled ribbon.  
I hope she liked it.

Gift bag with cards

This was a project that we made at Make. Do and Send card club recently.  The original idea came from Amanda Fowler, you can see her blog here. 
The little gift bag is made from just one piece of card which is scored using the fabulous Simply Scored board and then folded, it is held closed by ribbon. The bag is the perfect size to hold four 3x3 inch cards with their envelopes. I kept the decoration of my cards to a simple colour combination of Pool Party, Island Indigo and Calypso Coral, I shall be sorry to see these colours retire at the end of the current catalogue in June, do you think we can persuade stampin Up to keep them? 

Here's a closer image of the gift bag, you can see that I used the Mixed Bunch stamp set to decorate it.

Happy Birthday Alice!

Today my daughter turns 19, not long now before she's not a teenager anymore and ceases to know everything! 
I made this card while I was demonstrating at the Sandown craft show in January and as Alice loves butterflies, just like her grandma, I knew it would be perfect for her birthday.
The butterflies are stamped using the rock and roll technique and the mixed bunch stamp set. I punched them out with the matching punch and then removed two of the petals and 3d mounted them to make the butterfly wings. The background has been embossed with stripes.

Patterned Occasions

I can't believe Saleabration is almost over for another year! There's still just time to order if you're quick though.  
Today's card shows off some more Saleabration goodies.  The stamp set is Patterned Occasions and the designer series paper, ribbon and buttons are all available with the current promotion too.

Apothecary Art and Framelits

I designed this card for last months Make, Do and Send card club. It's the first time I have really made use of the new framelit and edgelit dies that became available in the Summer mini catalogue. The framelit dies come in various sizes and coordinate perfectly with the Apothecary Art stamp set. The edgelit dies, which I have used here on the vertical edge of my card front and also echoed with the Twitterpated designer paper on both the front and inside of my card, create a beautiful decorative edge; there are also complementing embossing folders available. 
For this card I kept to just one colour, Island Indigo. The image is coloured with Indigo ink using a blender pen. 

Bright Blossoms

I think this is becoming one of my favourite colours to work with, I'm so glad we will have Island Indigo as one of the Stampin Up In-colours for another year yet.
This card showcases one of the new stamp sets from the summer mini catalogue and to make best use of it's components it's a good idea to use the stamp-a-ma-jig to make sure they line up perfectly. The Bright Blossoms stamps were coloured using marker pens and stamped onto whisper white card. The designer paper is from the new Twitterpated suite, another new favourite, the coordinating ruffled ribbon sets it off just right, not a bow this time but a neat knot.

A Simply Scored gift packet

Today I have another Simply Scored project, I learned this one at Amanda's class last month and it could be just the ticket for present a small gift by adding a cellophane bag to the inside. It really is incredibly simple to make but looks oh so pretty, A strip of card decorated by stamping, scored in just the right places and folded. Another piece of coordinating card to make a cover, holes punched right through, including a cellophane bag if required and some ribbon threaded through to hold it all in place.  The gift tag and the stamps are from Mixed bunch and punched with the matching punch.

Bountiful Butterflies

Morning, I am off to a workshop today and am really looking forward to some time to myself doing something I love and it means I should come home with some more projects to share with you another day.


Today's card is one of my favourite styles, a Twisted Easel card.  The card base is one of this years In-Colours, Island Indigo and has a mat of Pool Party which helps make the design pop.  The front of the card was scored diagonally which allows it to sit up in front of the base.  The butterflies are all cut from the In Colour Designer paper stack using the Beautiful Wings embosslits die in the Big Shot. The embosslits are great as they emboss designs as  they cut. The greeting is from the Perfect Punches stamp set and 3D mounted.