Punch Art Flowers!!

Another family birthday today....my sister-in-law Jill, Happy Birthday Jill! India and I made this card on Sunday taking some inspiration from a bought birthday card!  We used the Fancy Flower and 5 Petal Flower Punch, but to make our large flower, punched 5 1 3/8" circles and then centred with a 1 3/4" circle.  Paper was a mix from the designer paper series in Brights and Subtles. Leaves punched with Build a Blossom punch, and wonderful buttons to accent the centres of the flowers.

The stems of the flowers were created by pricking holes and then stitching using the Linen Thread, finally I add faux stitching to the flowers using the White Gel Pen, and edged the card with Baja Breeze.

21st birthday celebration!!

Today, is my nephew Sam's 21st Birthday!!!  It's hard to believe he is 21 as he was just a baby at our wedding!  We are all very proud of Sam and all he has achieved.  This is the card that India and I made for him.

Base card is Night of Navy, with a cherry cobbler mat. Letters and numbers diecut using Big Shot and new alphabet dies, placed onto vanilla cardstock which we have colour spritzed with crumb cake,

Finally, we wrapped some linen thread around the very vanilla cardstock and finished with 2 coordinating buttons from the regals collection.   Hope you have a great day Sam!

Sorry for not posting!!!

Hello, Apologies that this is my first post in May!  Our house is a little stressed out at the moment, Alex in mid A Levels, India mid GCSE Exams, I am due to find out this week when I am being made redundant, so poor Dave is the only sane one amongst us! However I did manage to make a card last week, for my dear friend Anne, whose birthday it was.

I used the lovely stamp set, Fast and Fabulous which is a Level 2 hostess set, and the colours, so saffron, and more mustard with garden green.  My trusty stamp a ma jig was used for the 2 step stamping. 

On that note I must also say a big thank you to the 6 lovely ladies who came to my class last Monday night, we had a great evening, and they all created beautiful pocket tote bags complete with 4 cards using the Trendy tree set....  I have family birthdays coming up in the next week and the wedding anniversary of some friends, so hopefully will be back to share those cards with you...once I've made them!

Trendy Trees Pocket Bag - May class

Following on from a day, glued to the television!! as promised I am able to share with you details of my May Class. I have used the Trendy Tree Stamp Set, and of course the 'couldn't be without' stamp-a-ma-jig and also the Funky Forest wheel...I was inspired by a very talented Australian Demo called Marelle Taylor, who in turn had used an idea for the Pocket Tote bag courtesy of Liam Pucher and Julie Buhler, 2 other wonderful demos!!! They have happily allowed me to 'case' their ideas, and I am truly grateful for that. This is my May class:

A Cute bag to give as a gift with cards inside

As well as holding my class locally, I can also offer this class by post if you are interested:

A)  Monday 16th May - 7pm at Pannal Methodist Church - please email me by return to book your place.  The following options are available:

 

Option 1 - Class only - includes all materials and tea/coffee cakes - £10 per person.

Option 2 - Your own Trendy Tree Stamp Set (RRP £14.95) and class - £20 per person

Option 3 - Your own Trendy Tree Stamp Set AND Stamp-a-ma Jig (RRP £10.50) - £24.45 per person...(CLASS FREE OF CHARGE!)

 

Please confirm by 9th May if you would like option 2/3, so that I can have these ready to give you on the 16th!

 

B) By Post!!! - Please still enjoy making this super project by post.

(Each of these options assume you have your own inks, adhesives etc if not I can supply these separately.) :

Option 1 - Class instructions and card material to complete bag and cards only.  You will need to provide your own stamps - £5 inc P&P

Option 2 - Class and Trendy Tree Stamp Set - £20 inclusive of P&P (normally £4.95 per order)

Option 3 - Class and Trendy Tree Stamp Set and Stamp-a-ma-jig - £29.00 inclusive of P&P

 

For enquiries on any of the above please email me at alisonwilkins656@yahoo.co.uk.

 

Have a great weekend!!

Never Ending Card ...take 3!!!

I was asked by a lady I work with to make a 21st birthday card as a Never Ending Card for her friends daughter.....I had previously made 2 others like this, (see earlier posts), and although love making them, they are rather time consuming!!!

Saturday of course was another glorious day so India and I sat in the garden, whilst Alex was playing, and scoring in a football match!!...and Dave was supporting of course...
I chose the colours, Baja Breeze, Pretty in Pink and Early Espresso, and used a combination of stamp sets including 'Simply Said', 'Crazy for Cupcakes' and 'On a Pedestal'.....cheated a bit with one of the sentiments as it was from one of this years fab sale-a-bration sets..Hope she likes it!!!

Will be back tomorrow with details of my May Class, using the 'Trendy Trees Set'.....bye for now. Ali  x

Scrapbooking for a change!!

Last Sunday afternoon India and I decided to have a go at a Mini Scrapbook.......Alex my son was 18 back in February and so we decided to use photos from his party (themed black and red) as a basis for our project!!

We made the scrapbook as a Mini Trifold Shutter Album, using Very Vanila Card Stock as our base, matting with Basic Black and Riding Hood Red cardstock, and using the fabulous 'Love Letter' Designer Series Paper. I used my new Big Shot to cut the top note for the front cover and the Alphabet Dies too!....Artistic Etchings Stamp Set provided my 'key to the door!' and I couldn't help but use the gorgeous 1 1/4" striped grosgrain ribbon....pictures are before photos included and then below the finished album.

Can't believe that's our little boy and girl on the left!!!!

This was so much fun to make and a really lovely keepsake .......I hope to design a class around this in the near future and hopefully offer the kit by post as well!!

Family Celebrations....and a couple of cards!

Yesterday was Dave and I's 20th Wedding Anniversary, and we share our special day with my brother in laws birthday....2 years ago we had a big family celebration at my sisters on this day, and I then made a card to thank my sister, using my first purchase from Stampin' Up!, the 'All in the Family Set'...so I wanted to share with you my first labour of love!!

If you know this set at all, you will realise that you get to choose all the heads, bodies, legs etc separately. I made masks using post it notes to be able to position people in front of each other....the one tool I didn't have at the time, which would have been a great help was the stamp-a-ma-jig both to line arms and legs up and put glasses on faces!!!

 Next is the card I made for my Brother in Laws birthday yesterday, and I used a set I haven't crafted with for a while - Trendy Trees...colour combo is Old Olive, Early Espresso and Pumpkin Pie...I have also texturised the early espresso card using the new BIG SHOT embossing folders.. I love them!!

 Then onto our Wedding Anniversary card.....well I just had to try out the new Owl Punch....India and I had a lot of fun making this one, and she even made glasses for Dave!! The 2 step bird punch was used for the leaves and the scallop circle added to the Owl punch to make the wings.....Out with the embossing plates again this time, I texturised the card front by placing half of the card blank inside the folder....how easy is that!

 A couple of close ups just to show a bit more detail.....hope you all have a great day...