Dress Up and Score!

The All Dressed up framelits are proving very popular at the moment.  They are great for cutting card or fabric so you can put a real fabric dress on your tailors dummy! The designer paper border has a lovely scalloped edge which has been echoed with matching scorelines, although you can't see them very well in this photo. 
This card was designed by Amanda Fowler, you can see her blog here.

Papillon Potpourri

Here's a card that we made at Make, Do and Send card club recently.  The base card is Wisteria Wonder and the butterflies are stamped in Wisteria, Pool Party and Lucky Limeade.  I'm so glad that Stampin Up will be retaining most of the current In-Colours although we will lose Lucky limeade at the end of June.
I also stamped the butterflies a second time and punched them out with the matching punch so that I could 3d mount them.  Some simple scoring and a little bling finish it off.

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter!  Yes I know it was yesterday but today is still a holiday right? Today I am sharing a little Easter basket and a card especially made for Spring, let's hope it is just around the corner at last.

Here's a closer look at the basket.  I ran the card through the textured embossing folder so that it looked a little more basket like.  The flowers are made using the boho blossom punch with dsp and card. Oh and I added a little pearl in the centre of each one.
Hands off! The eggs are mine!

My Spring card is a very simple design, definitely a "less is more" card. I used the Spring sampler stamps and layered the images using square punches and the postage stamp punch.

Bloomin Marvellous

As there are still a few days left of Saleabration I thought I would share a card made using one of the free stamp sets, Bloomin' Marvellous.  There are various versions of this design to be seen on pinterest, splitcoaststampers and other blogs. 
It's a lovely simple design but quite elegant I think and you can make it extra special by adding some pearls or rhinestones and some ribbon.

Elegant Butterfly

Everyone loves a butterfly and this card has three of them made using the new elegant butterfly punch. The papers are from the Razzleberry splash scrapping kit; the razzleberry layer has been embossed using the beautiful petals a plenty folder another new addition to this years catalogue. To complete the card add accents in the form of striped grosgrain ribbon and a greeting punched with coordinating punches.

Petite Pocket

We made these cute little pockets at our last quarterly training day, they will be perfect for enclosing a monetary gift with your card don't you think?  They are also just the right size for one of those gift cards so I think I will be makikng a few of these decorated with Christmas papers. The Petite Pocket big shot die makes these so easy to cut out then just decorate as you choose.  This one is covered in papers from the Razzleberry Splash simply Scrappin kit and the flower is made using the floral fusion sizzlets.

Zigzag butterflies

Once more this card was designed by Hayley Gillie, I am never sure where to start with a card structured like this so I am very glad of the template.
The stamp set is Bordering on Romance, coloured with marker pens and blender pens. The flowers have been enhanced with pearls and embossed butterflies complete the card.

Bordering on Romance gift box

Another gift box courtesy of Hayley, don't forget you can visit her blog here. 
The image taking pride of place is from Bordering on Romance and is enhanced using marker pens, blender pens and pearls. The various layers of the box have been die cut using the framelits, one has been embossed with a coordinating folder and another is cut from Twitterpated designer paper.

Apothecary gift box

I had quite a busy time in my hotel room in Wales a couple of weeks ago, look at all the projects I made!  I have already shown you one or two of them in detail and here is another.

This beautiful gift box is once again courtesy of Hayley Gillie and makes use of the framelit dies and the Apothecary Art stamp set.

Perfectly preserved

Another card from team training, this one uses the Perfectly preserved stamps from the Autumn and Winter seasonal catalogue.  I have to confess I wasn't taken with this stamp set when I first saw it, it was one of those that I needed to see in action before I fell in love with it.
The jar was stamped onto the whisper white card and also onto acetate and cut out. The card jar was then water coloured using an aqua painter and the clear acetate jar attached at the top using a sliver of sticky strip.
The flowers were stamped and then the centre flower was embellished with itty bitty punched flowers with added pearls.

Pop back and see me tomorrow, I am taking part in a team blog hop.  There will be links to lots of lovely inspiration from the Inspiring Inkee team and the new Autumn and Winter Seasonal catalogue.

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.

Just Believe

 This stamp set has been available for a while but it is a recent acquisition for me, I do love the silhouette images.  I wanted to make use of the 2010-12 In colours while we still have them, they retire at the end of September, so this is a combination using Pear Pizazz and Concord Crush.
I used lots of layers on the front of this card which meant that it was very heavy so to counter that I added a couple of layers to the inside!

Of course I then had to stamp a coordinating image on the inside too but here is where I had a disaster! When I mounted my stamps onto the wooden blocks I had inadvertantly stuck one upside down to the image label on the reverse side which means that I stamped it upside down! Now I could have turned over and used the emergency side but after remounting my stamp I decided to stamp again in the opposite corner. It still leaves lots of room for writing :)

Beautiful Butterflies

You will find several versions of this card on various blogs, this is mine.  My base card is the lovely deep purply blue Concord Crush upon which I have layered an embossed whisper white mat.  The embossing folder is Elegant bouquet. The gorgeous butterflies, again in concord crush are created using the embosslits die which cuts and embosses the shapes at the same time.  I just glued one half of the butterflies to the card so that it looks like they just landed for a moment.

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.

Rock and roll, Vintage Vogue and a Faux Bow!

Another pretty bow taught to me by Amanda. However this one isn't really a bow it just looks like one and the beauty of this one is that it lies so flat that it will easily go through the post, alternatively you could add lots of extra layers and colours to it and really go to town. 
The stamped image is using the Vintage Vogue flowers and I used the rock and roll technique to get the two colours.  First I inked up my stamp with the paler pretty in pink colour and then carefully rolled the edges of the stamp on the rose red ink pad so that colour was only added to the edge.  

Hello

OK what happened to May? This year is certainly running away with me!


Today's card is very quick and simple. Some easy layers topped with some embossed polka dots.  Stamp a Hello and add a couple of coordinating punched flowers, some ribbon and some pearls, voila!

CASE'd!

Stampin' Up! demonstrators receive a monthly newsletter with lots of tips and ideas for us to use.  A few months back this was one of the suggested projects and I decided that it was perfect for my Make, Do and Send card club so I case'd it; that means I Copied And Shared it.
The base card is Pear Pizazz, the papers are from the Spiced Paisley designer papers which was available in our Spring mini and might hopefully return in the new catalogue later this year. The Paisley stamp was from the mini too, I cut it out and 3D mounted it after colouring parts of it and adding some pearls.  The greeting is from Oval All.

All Bigshot, no ink!

I've been so busy the last few days that I have neglected my blog :(  Last week I was busy making card fronts ready for swapping at Stampin' Up's regional training day.  I had a great time and came away very inspired and raring to go and I also received some very wonderful swaps that will inspire my own cards and classes for some time to come.  Since the weekend I have been busy preparing for the All Occasions card class that I am running on Saturday and also for Make, Do and Send card club which is the following Thursday.  There are bits of card and ribbon all over the place at the moment, I love it! :) 
The card above is the last one from August's Make, Do and Send club and is also what I used for my swaps last weekend.  I had a bit of a panic when I ran out of poppy card but a fellow Stampin up demo came through for me and gave me some last Wednesday at team training.  Which reminds me that I have some cards to share from that night too!  The card is made entirely using the Bigshot dies, there is no ink whatsoever!  The baja breeze base card and poppy red topnote for the background with the fun flower die using designer stack papers in poppy for the accent.  I added a dash of whisper white organza ribbon and a pearl or two and voila!
The last chance list is still running on the Stampin Up! website. Christmas Jingle simply scrapping kit has joined the items that are now gone forever as has Night of Navy satin ribbon. It's sad to see these things go but I am so excited to be able to share the new catalogue with you shortly, there are lots of lovely new things, I can't wait!

Top Birthday

Aaarrggghhh!!! Another upside down photo, sorry.  Todays card is from the boxed set.  A Pacific Point blue base card and Blueberry crisp designer papers. We used the Top note die and Big Shot with the designer paper and embellished it with the leaves (another Big shot die) and a flower made from SU's 5 petal punch; the inner part of the flower is another 5 petal flower but folded in on itself to create a beautiful 3d flower. A pearl in the flower centre just finishes it off. 
Card no2 tomorrow, I'll try to get the photo the right way up!

Altered Clipboard

I'm off to the Hobbycraft show at Brighton this weekend to help out on Amanda's Stampin Up stand.  Please say Hi if you're there too.  Anyway, I digress, Amanda gave us a clipboard to decorate and this is what I did with mine, it was bright blue plastic before I started. The first picture shows the back, I covered it with papers from the Newsprint and Designer papers stacks, then added my name in board letters upon which I used a base of white craft ink and then stamped in razzleberry ink with a circle stamp from the Circle Circus set.  I also stamped the flourish from the Saleabration Bliss set in Razzleberry and sponged ink around the edges.  The flowers are paper daisies which I sponged with ink, I added a touch of bling with rhinestones for pearls for their centres.  The second photo is the front of my board, I needed to keep the hole thing flatter because I will need to write on this side after all.  Again, I covered it in razzleberry card then I added a strip of very vanilla which I had stamped with the So Swirly wheel and also a larger piece of vanilla card which has the flourish stamps from the Bliss set once again. There is a narrow piece of vanilla grosgrain ribbon around the edge of the board and lots of ribbon in whisper white, very vanilla and old olive to add some luxury