You're Amazing

 Here's a card I CASED recently, featuring the flower from the Best Thoughts stamp set and the "You're Amazing" greeting from the Watercolor Wishes stamp set. Also made use of the Pretty Print TIEF.  I'll be demonstrating this in my next workshop.

Here's a close up of the embossing which was done using the Versamark ink pad and white embossing powder. Once the image was stamped and embossed, it was just a case of water coloring the flower petals and the leaves and stem. Fussy cutting and layering using dimensionals. This is a very simply but effective card for someone amazing.

March Birthday Card Madness

The month of March this year has been a busy one for me.

Starting with our club workshop (see previous post).

There are quite a number of people celebrating birthdays in March, including myself. So I prepared a few birthday cards on hand.

This card was made using the Botanical Builders framelits die. So simply, yet effective. Thinking of who I can give it to.

 This is the inside of the card.

The following 3 cards were for very good friend and members of my extended family. I was on a roll.

 This one below was given to my sister's Mother-in-Law, who's still spritely at 83.

This colourful balloon stamped card below I gave to a friend who was my former Stampin' Up! upline. Her birthday was in February, but I didn't see her until March, saving on the postage.

 And here is the inside - more balloons using the balloon punch

Mickey and Minnie Punched Birthday Card

My neice, Kaylene is currently in Orlando, Florida working at DisneyWorld, so for her birthday I made this card using various punches and new DSP. I think it turned out pretty well.  She received it one day before her birthday in the States, but in Australia, it was her birthday, so it looks like I timed it well when I posted it off to her, it took 2 weeks to get to her.  She was so surprised to receive a card from her family, but so happy that we were thinking of her and missing her.

Christmas Greetings

Whenever Christmas comes around, it gets so busy and hectic, that I never get to post the cards I make. This year I made several, some to send and some to give personally.  The ones to send, aren't as detailed or layered as the ones I give out in person, but they are all made with love.

Then there are the last minute ones, which my family members request for their friends.  Lucky I always have cards on standby.

Watercolor Wings

Cased from the Annual Catalogue, this card features the Watercolor Wings stamp set and the new In-colors. Sold as a bundle with the Bold Butterfly Framelits die, this card is so pretty.

Watercolor Wings "Just for You" card

Materials Used: 

Built for Free Using: My Stampin Blog

Oldies but goodies: Pocket Silhouette Mini Flower Pots

I recently spotted some cards on Pinterest by Loll Thompson which inspired me to CASE them. Love the Pocket Silhouette stamp set and how they turned out. Sometimes it pays to hang on to your old stamp sets even when they have been retired.

Materials used:
Rubber Stamps: Pocket Silhouette stamp set - Retired
Sheltering Tree stamp set
Greetings Eight stamp set - Retired
Sentiments from Sheltering Tree and Butterfly Basics stamp sets
Tools: Big Shot (113439) Homemade Holiday Framelits Die (used to make the pots)
Cardstock/Patterned Paper: Whisper White cardstock (106549)
Ink Pad and Marker colours used:
Elegant Eggplant
Old Olive
Garden Green
Pear Pizzazz
Real Red
Rose Red
Pumpkin Pie
Daffodil Delight
Soft Suede

Club SUM Workshop 27 January 2015

Tuesday 27 January

My first workshop of the year, I decided to make a card which I had seen demonstrated by Teneale Williams at the Party Time event.  The balloon swings like a pendulum via a mechanism hidden behind the front panel.  So simple, yet effective.

Materials Used from the 2015 Occasions Catalogue:
Celebrate Today stamp set
Butterfly Basics stamp set
Balloon Framelits Die
Cardstock
Dimensionals

The picture below shows the mechanism, which is virtually a folded piece of cardstock and a coin or heavy weight.

My other project used the following from the 2015 Occasions Catalogue:

Butterfly Basics stamp set

Butterflies Thinlits Dies

Painted Blooms DSP

Tip:  A trick I learnt at the Party Time event, use a dryer sheet with your dies to stop the paper getting stuck in your dies, they will stick to the dryer sheet instead. I found baking paper is also great, if you don't have any dryer sheets and you get a die cut that is translucent like vellum which you can use in other projects. Position the baking paper between the die and the cardstock.

Card in a Box

These cards are all the rage and are relatively easy to make.  Having seen some done by other demonstrators, I decided to tackle one for my Uncle and came up with this creation. He's turning 79 so I chomped out some numbers using my Big Shot, hand cut some cup cakes, macarons and greetings and decorated my card in a box.  Not sure if he understood the concept when he saw it.

Materials used:
Rich Razzleberry Cardstock
Whisper White Cardstock
Birthday Basics DSP
"Make a Wish" stamp from Perfect Pennants Stamp Set
Another Great Year Stamp Set
Island Indigo Marker
Rich Razzleberry Marker
Old Olive Marker
Crisp Cantaloupe Marker

I also made one for my friends son, who is turning 6 and is having a Ninjago birthday party.  I hope he likes it.

Club SUM Workshop 11 March 2014

I had been thinking that I would run my workshop as a dinner party..no food, but our projects would make up the menu, so I set about creating a menu.

On my menu, there would be an Appetiser, something small and easy to make. This was the Tag-alicious Topper Gift Tag.  Then the Main Course would be a card project using the Peachy Keen stamp set and On Film Framelits, followed by Dessert, which would make use of the Good as Gold SAB Simply Set Pack.

Then I sent out my invitations using the Celebration Basics Invitations two weeks before the workshop.

I set the table up as you would a dinner party and used my rescued frame to decorate the place.

 As Easter is approaching, I made up some Monster hugs party favours with Malteser bunnies.

Tag-alicious Topper Gift Tag
Materials used:
Big Wish Stamp Set
Sweet Sorbet DSP
Scalloped Tag Topper Punch
Smoky Slate Cardstock
Whisper White Cardstock
Burlap Trim
Calypso Coral Baker's Twine

Peachy Keen Picture Perfect Card
Materials used:
Peachy Keen Stamp Set
Hip Notes Stamp Set
Another Great Birthday Stamp Set
On Film Framelits Dies
Whisper White Cardstock
Coastal Cabana Cardstock
Crushed Curry Cardstock
Sweet Sorbet DSP
Retro Fresh This and That Designer Washi Tape

Hip Hip Hooray Card Kit

This kit contains just about everything you need to create 20 beautiful cards and it also makes the perfect gift for that creative someone you know.

The kit contains

• Cardstock for 20 cards
• Clear stamp block and Stampin Dimensionals
• Twine and clips
• Basic Gray Stampin' Spot
• Envelopes for 20 cards
• Three-piece Hip Hip Hooray Stamp Set
• Adhesive die-cut embellishments
• Full colour instructional brochure

Item No: 134998 Price $34.95

Hiphiphorray Flyer

Flower Shop

 Don't you just love this stamp set.  I've had this stamp set sitting in my cupboard and it's only now that I have decided to put it to use and I just love how the colours pop.

Using the Flower Shop stamp set and matching Pansy Punch, I made these cards in quick succession.

Club SUM Workshop 4 February 2014: Sue's Card Projects

These are the cards, my friend and fellow demonstrator, Sue demonstrated in February when I was away on holidays up the coast. The "Bee" card was pretty simply to put together, but the "Birthday" card was a lot more fiddly. I did adapt it by putting the string banner across the top instead of sticking it to the bottom front panel.

"Bee" card
Materials used:
Summer Starfruit cardstock
Early Espresso cardstock
Old Olive cardstock

Tangerine Tango cardstock
Spiral Flower Originals Die
Honeycomb Embossing Folder
Bee stamp from the Backyard Basics stamp set
Birthday greetings from the Wetlands stamp set
Crochet trim and Gumball green stitched satin ribbon

"Bee" Card

Happy Birthday card
Materials used:
Another Great Year stamp set
Watercolor Wonder DSP
Tea Lace Paper Doilies
SAB Banner Punch

"Birthday" Card

It's been a while...since I posted...

I've been taking a break, but in that time, I've been busy making cards using new products from the new seasonal catalogue as well as the Sale-A-Bration catalogue and incorporating stamps and designer paper from the main catalogue. So here are some of the cards I've been working on.