X box inspired....

A very simple card using basic grey, real red, daffodil delight, night of navy and garden green with a 3/4 circle punch. Letters drawn on with versamark pen and embossed with white powder.
Lines dry embossed and sentiment from level 3 hostess set.
Hope you liked!
(ps been away on holiday and blogger didn't post!)

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James' birthday card

A bright and fun card for a lovely little boy called James. We're off to his party this afternoon so needed to be something fairly quick.
I used a non Su stamp set I have in my personal collection (which non Su totals about 4!) , I stamped it with staz on onto whisper white and then coloured with markers - garden green, pumpkin pie, daffodil delight, pacific point and real red.
This was then mounted on matching paper layers and the name was stamped using the just perfect alphabet (again coloured with those fantastic versatile markers!) And punched out using the 3/8" punch and layered on 1" circles. Quick and bright!
Hope you like!

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A birthday card for Karen

Now a card for my sister in law is a big deal! She is an extremely talented card maker who has an innate sense of artistry and style meaning she rarely stamps. She is also known as a perfectionist - something I am most certainly not!
So...
When I saw this card on Monica Gale's blog, I knew I wanted to CASE it. Elegant, stylish and feminine plus the added benefit for me of being a style I had not tried before - the twisted easel card.
I used paper from the now retired sweet pea stack, and the flourish is taken from this years SAB. The butterfly is from my latest new plaything - big shot and dies. I used my nestabilities to cut the two circles. The monogram K is using the broadsheet letters.
If I was doing this again I would play around more with how to make the card stand up and the sentiment to face the correct direction.
Hope you like!

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Butterflies and elegance!

These were made for my lovely friend Kirsty to celebrate the opening of her beauty salon! So if anyone fancies a pampering west chiltington way.... pop on in!

Anyway... I took my inspiration from ustamp4fun and Amy's beautiful cards and copied idea but changed the color scheme to crumb cake and baha breeze.
I used the beautiful new die with the butterflies and some of our coordinating dsp. The stamped butterfly is from a retired hostess set.
The coordinating gift box is made using the fab pillow box die - i'll show you the contents another day!
Hope you like!

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A rich razzleberry gift for Sally

An a5 card base made very quickly and simply by the addition of a very vanilla top note and a crystal effects chipboard letter daubed with ink to match the colour scheme. The Leaves are taken from the bird punch.
The 3d flower makes the statement on the card, made from 6 punched scalloped circles, daubed the edges with ink and then misted with water, and screwed up. A brad is used to hold to all together and then it dries to a finished flower.
The accompanying pillow box uses the same elements.

Hope you liked!

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Oh my goodness!

I wish I was one of those people who was neat, tidy and organised... who had a plan for a card and stuck to it, who didn't need to see all three options of ribbon before making a choice and have the table absolutely covered as she works! I admire people who work on a tray on their laps or on a small corner of a room! Me - my entire dining room gets taken over when project card is underway!

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Hmm...

For some reason the picture for Tom's card didn't insert...

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A natural birthday card for Tom

My friend regularly commissions me to make her families birthday cards (she has 5 children!)
Anyway her eldest son, Tom is a fab lad! 17 and has a very mature and wise head on his shoulders. He loves the outdoors and is currently at college learning all about game management and conservation. So, when asked to do a card, I knew it had to be masculine and natural.

I used a retired dsp which has trees on, cut two ovals from whisper white and olive and then was able to use a fantastic technique we covered at our inspirin inkin training recently called thumping! - basically you use a light ink to mark up the tree image and then using a variety of green markers as if they were drumsticks - you thump the stamp with the wide edge randomly. Color in the trunk and press and.you have a very realistic multicoloured tree image.
Tiny tags T and hello provide some personalisation tied on with twine and the happy birthday (retired) added to the ovals adds to the occasion.
Hope you liked!

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Friendship card - inspired by a handbag!

This card came about because one evening I had lost my mojo! So I did what any sensible girl would do and asked my friend and Su mummy Claire for help. She suggested I used a stamp set I didn't use (ornate flowers) and when I told her this she sent me a picture of her bag which was in this colour way and a v similar pattern (i should get her to resend it so I can add it on here!

So here is my card...

Night of navy and early espresso with not quite navy too. Sentiment (retired) is stamped on vellum and taped into the back of the early espresso panel.

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Birthday card in blues and greens and an oops!

This birthday card was made in a little bit of a rush.... can you spot the oops?
I knew it was my friends son's birthday... what I had forgotten was that they were going away on holiday suddenly losing me the few days I thought I had! Hence quick card!

Made using old olive dsp and ribbon and pacific point cardstock, star punch and broadsheet letters. The button is available from the mini and actually is pear pizazz but it was a case of that'll do quick!
It wasn't til I had given the card and looking at the picture that I had put the L on the wrong way around!!

The clear mount stamps do make letters easy to line up though! I place them all down on my grid paper straight and then press the block down firmly and hold for 5 seconds.

Hope you liked!

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A card for Anne

I was given the brief - she likes bright subtles, flowers but not girly and something eye catching! Erm... ok then!
Think this was well received so must have done ok!
Used the totally clever 2 step Stampin set greenhouse garden and stamped the flowers in daffodil delight and then stamped the details in chocolate chip with some of them stamped off to create a softer tone. The little leaves image in old olive is from a retired hostess stamp set.
The letters were stamped using the broadsheet letters, normally as I have mentioned in previous posts, I line the letters up on grid paper then press down my block - I couldn't do this with 2 n's but the grid part helped yet again as I could measure the space I needed to leave for the second n and then add it in after!
Hope you liked!

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Lightening McQueen birthday invites

My little boy Jonah is rather in love with the film Cars at the moment so what better choice for a birthday party theme when he turns 3 at the end of August and of course the invites have to match :)

Ellen Kemper of Blinkin thinkin inkin is a punch art goddess! This card is adapted from her lightening McQueen and took a little bit of head scratching to work it out (thanks to my Su mummy and friend Claire... took us a while!) Mainly we think because we don't have the extra wide oval the Americans do... but think these are passable... certainly Jonah recognised them so good enough for me! If anyone wants the recipe then leave me a comment.

The background was made using the square punch so quick work! And the initial from broadsheet letters. I printed stickers with all the important info to go on the back and et voila done!

Hope you liked it!

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August promotion!

Stampin Up have a fabulous new promotion running just for the month of August.... get your hand on this stunning little bag (great for those crafting little goodies), luxury ribbon AND library clips which are essential for a multitude of projects like the milk carton!
Free with order of 75 or more or a hostess gift of workshop over 250.

Contact me today to get yours!

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Graduation congrats.. another hoot!

Made to celebrate my niece's graduation this year....
Are you guessing I'd just got the owl punch and was enjoying using him given last few posts? Yep you're right!
Rich razzleberry and Early espresso used. The owl tummy and background was pretty in pink dsp, and the mortar board was cut by hand and decorated with a rich razzleberry button from the brights button kit and a piece of (retired) rich razzleberry dotted ribbon. The scroll was made using the word window punch and then turned and rentered to get a shorter version then tied with twine.
Sentiment is from my to to set at the moment - curly cute.

Hope you liked it!

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Hubby's birthday.. and owls galore what a hoot!

So here is a matching card and dsp gift bag I made for my husband's birthday recently (obviously my toddler must have made them as it says dad!)...
For the card I used a sheet of dsp from the fantastic value neutrals dsp pack - early espresso. (tutorial in available on ilws) and the card is made using the matching paper, pumpkin pie ink and paper, scallop border punch, serif letters, and the totally cute owl punch. (I did use non SU googly eyes for a bit of kiddy fun!)
The 'wooden' posts are made using the solid stripes punch and corner rounder.
The ribbon for the gift bag is the luscious striped grosgrain. (chocolate chip)

Hope you liked it!

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Baroque motifs.... again!

As my friend and SU upline says... me and my favourite set! (inspired her to buy it so can't be all bad!)

So...
Real red card, baroque motifs embossed in white then using the tree trimmings stickers available from last years Christmas scrapping kit (now retired but stamps still available).

Finished off with a flat fake bow in old olive satin ribbon.

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Christmas in July! and serene snowflakes

A very quick and simple card using night of navy card.
Serene snowflakes stamped randomly using versamark then embossed with silver powder.

It doesn't show very clearly in the photo, but the three larger snowflakes were hand cut out and raised up on dimensionals to give added interest.

The edges of the card were also embossed.
Hope you liked it!

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Second version of I heart hearts

Very similar to the previous card - obviously using bashful blue instead of old olive, but blinged up a little with a sentiment from tiny tags, a flower from boho blossoms punch and a brad.

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I heart hearts

I love this set!
Especially the filigree heart!

Stamped 3 times using old olive and early espresso. Cut out using punch to get most and as this stamp has a slightly thinner bottom - used paper snip too! (Others in the set correspond exactly with the punch).

Mat and layered onto dsp from the paper pack and corresponding card stock and et voila!

Hope you liked it!

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Choo Choo but bigged up!

Previously I showed a set of cards I made using Choo Choo set, today I used the same set but made a much more special and time consuming card for my god daughters birthday!

I stamped the carriages and then using a craft knife cut them all out so I could layer animals from Animal stories behind the carriages to make it 3d. The cake from the final carriage was made using the cupcake stamp and punch set (usa only - thanks Liz and Claire!) And the right of track wheel used along the bottom.

The sky was daubed using a scallop circle to create the cloud effect and the hills were ripped from mellow moss cardstock (retired).

I confess the inspiration was from a card I saw in splitcoast but I am sorry I can't remember who - please say if yours and I will edit!

Hope you like it!

Choo Choo....

When I get the chance I like to make batches of children's cards, there always seem to be so many needed!

Here are a few I made with the set Choo Choo and right on track wheel.
Ink - basic gray, real red
Card - very vanilla and real red
Stamps - serif numbers, Choo Choo and stampin around wheel right on track
Corner rounder
Word window punch used for the sentiment and two punched in fed and layered behind create the mat. (sentiment from an SU set but can't find which one!)
Hope you like it!

Peppa pig

Not my idea! Borrowed from Julie Kettlewell - Julies Japes with a few adaptions eg I used the modern level punch to form her dress and word Windows for the Wellies.
I find punch art really useful on young children's cards as there don't seem to be lots of choices for the younger generation - hopefully some of the amazing stamp sets in America will make our way soon! Love those diggers!
Anyway... I digress!
Patterned paper (retired) was hostess special last year, mounted on pretty in pink.
3 is my go to serif numbers set.
Hope you like it!

Katharine and Ian wedding card

Here's a card I made for a lovely couple that I used to work with who got married recently.
For special occasion cards I like to up the layers - I think this is one way to make the card look like it has gone the extra mile!
It's an a5 card made using very vanilla and soft suede layers. I daubed the vanilla edges with soft suede ink for extra dimension and depth. One of the soft suede edges was created wither the border punch.
The hearts are made using the large heart punch and the letters are from a cuttlebug alphabet I own (although SU now have the Big Shot and very similar Timeless Type letters). I ran one of these through with an embossing folder to add the dots for texture, the other was stamped with the filigree heart from I heart hearts and then gold embossed.
The sentiment is from the great Tiny tags set and attached with gold elastic cord.
Hope you like it!

A birthday card for Isabella

Or Bella as my son calls her!
Lots of pink... perfect for a nice girly card!
Pretty in pink and melon mambo team really well with heart to hearts set and the watermarked 3 in the background is created by using versamark and the serif numbers set.

Embellishments come from the heart punches, melon mambo spotted ribbon (retired) and a little bling courtesy of the rhinestones.

Hope you like it! 

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