Just Believe.....

Today I made a card for a friend who sadly lost his Father after a long illness...I had previously made a sympathy card to send, but my friends wife asked me if I could possibly make a thankyou card for him to send to the hospital staff.....I have used the 'Just Believe' set which can be used for so many different occasions. The base card stock is River Rock, and the image is stamped on Vanilla Cardstock using, River Rock, Pear Pizzazz and Pink Pirouette markers. Matted on Early Espresso Card stock.

Never Ending Card.......well almost!

After our recent Stampin' Up! get together, I felt inspired to have a go at a 'never ending card'....one of my fellow demonstrators , Becki, had shown us how to make one, and I also followed a wonderful video on You Tube, by an American demo called Tami.  My first card used Tempting Turquoise as the base cardstock. Designer paper is Play date.


                                              
On opening this up, the first page is then more of the Play Dates paper, (although all are small pieces...ie scraps) and I used 2 of the Sale-a bration Punch Stamps.

The third page is more paper! and the sentiments are again from the wonderful Sale a bration ' So Happy for You' set.  Small hearts cut from the heart to heart punches.

 Finally I punched various circles out and again used remaining bits of the designer paper. Nice and Cheerful!

 Following on from this, one of my colleagues at work asked if I would make her a card for her sister, who is soon celebrating her 60th birthday....Using certain celery, daffodil delight and pumpkin pie card stock and the greenhouse gala paper, I came up with the following card...............

 Sentiment from 'Just Believe stamp set' - 3/8" taffeta ribbon in daffodil delight and pumpkin pie.

 'Just Believe ' stamps coloured with daffodil delight, pumpkin pie and old love markers, sentiment from Sale-a-bration 'So Happy for You' set.

 Flowers stamped and punched from Level 1 Punch Potpourri set, coloured using inkpads and blender pen, basic pearls add a perfect highlight. rub ons used for 'sister' and 60 and used various stampin up punches to showcase this.. (small oval, oval, scalloped oval, designer label and modern label - extra large)

Finally used sentiments from Level 1 Hostess Set 'Afterthoughts' and stamped images from Ornate Flowers stamp set.  I had great fun making these, you need to be careful with your cutting and scoring but its worth it when you see the end results!!

So Happy for you!!.......Sale-a-bration

Sorry, it has been so long since my last post......we have had a couple of busy weeks in our house, our daughter India was 16 last week, the next day was my *! birthday and then tomorrow, Alex, our son is 18!!
In between all that was a fabulous day down in Peterboro' with my upline Monica and her team (over 50 of us present!) crafting and swapping ideas all day.....what bliss!!
However, back to this week, and on Thursday evening 8 lovely ladies came around to my house to see what Stampin' Up! is all about, and what better time, than when we have the fabulous offers with sale-a-bration!
We made a quick card using the 'So Happy for you!" set.....not just a sentiment set, as I first thought, the small shaped stamps are perfect for creating your own backgrounds....which my ladies did!  We used the brights set primarily, but Pear Pizazz crept in on the good luck card as well!

So many uses from 1 stamp set, which you can have FREE when you place an order with me for £45 not including p&p before 28/2/11....if you've not stamped before and need some help coordinating what you can order to get you started for £45, email me and I'll be happy to provide some ideas!

Valentine Swap...

Last Tuesday night was our monthly team meeting, and our theme was 'Valentines' ...so armed with my swaps which India and I had busily put together over New Year, I journeyed across to meet up with my Upline Monica, and several ladies from her team.  This is the card swap that I had designed

Using a basic but striking combination of real red, very vanilla and basic black card stock, I used one of the lovely stamps from the 'Love You Much' set, this was coloured in using the markers, with the 'V' glazed using crystal effects and the flower accented with a basic rhinestone.  The flower with its 'heart' petals was made using the scalloped circle punch, which I edged with cherry cobbler, a smaller flower, real red brad and basic black striped grosgrain completed our card. After swapping with 5 lovely ladies, we then made 3 separate projects which I would love to share with you.

 Using the Sale-a-bration Bliss set....never would have thought that this would be my favourite!!...and the distressing kit!!

A sweet little heart pouch made from designer series paper and some ribbon, perfect for holding some special choccies!!!!



Where would we be without a mention of Paris......this card, made using Melon Mambo as its base and the Artistic Etchings stamp set, the cute little envelope is made from the petal card punch .

Thanks to Monica for these 3 and to Jo, Joanne, Louise and Jane for your swaps and an enjoyable evening!!

Ornate Flowers.....another birthday..

A bit later than planned, I have another card to share , it was my Mother-in-Laws birthday last week and I chose to use the Ornate Flowers set to make my card. Colour combo is Rich Razzleberry and Pear Pizzazz the ribbon is the rich razzleberry taffeta teamed with certain celery....finally I accented the main flower with 3 pearls graduated in size.  Will be back soon.....mid GCSE and A level exams at the moment for my children so a bit stressed out...thank goodness for card making!

Cards, Cards and.....More Cards!!

January is rather a busy month in my calendar, as I have 5 family birthdays, 2 friends birthdays and 2 wedding anniversaries....so I wanted to share with you some of the cards I have made already...
This is the card I made for my best friend Jules, and I used the Printed Petals stamp set, card stock and ink was Daffodil Delight, Regal Rose and Early Espresso, with a little bit of bling using the Rhinestones.

 On the same day 1st January, it was the Wedding Anniversary of both my parents in law and sister in law, married on the same day, just 37 years apart!!  I loved making these cards and used the level 1 hostess set Punch Potpourri  with the flowers then punched out using the Boho Blossoms punch set, leaves and plant pots courtesy of the Bird Punch and Ornament Punch!! (Thankyou to Julie, another of Monicas Team for the inspiration on this one!). Certainly Celery, Apricot Appeal and Rich Razzleberry were the colours used and I used my aqua painter to colour in the centre of the blooms.....pearls this time added that little bit extra!

 And finally for today, this is the card I sent to one of my other wonderful Sister In Laws, who with my brother hosted 14 of us for boxing day and the 27th!!....We had such a good time and she deserved a special thankyou....

Marina Mist and Old Olive Card stock on Early espresso card blank..Flower stamped and decoupaged on Very Vanilla using another Level 1 hostess Set 'Because I care'  ....Twill tape added a twist....I have cheated and used 2 old olive buttons from my retired stock, but could just as easily have replaced these using beautiful buttons from the brights selection.....  That's it for now, more in a day or so!!

So Happy for You...Sale-a-bration set...

Well, I've had chance to have a little play with one of the yummy sale-a-bration sets, and this is the card that I made

I used one of the flower bloom heads, and randomly stamped in melon mambo, I then made a mask using a post it note and then stamped over with marina mist.  The centres of the blooms were then filled in using pretty in pink and bashful blue, and leaves randomly stamped and coloured in using a water pen and certainly celery ink.  The plant pot is the contempo christmas bauble stamped in bashful blue, and the card is then matted and layered on whisper white and certainly celery cardstock, embellished with some certainly celery ribbon.  I then glazed with the crytsal efffects which  I am not 100% sure about!!  It was great fun to make and shows the versality of this lovely set!