Friendship

This is a card I have made using mostly products from our current Summer mini catalogue and Sale-A-Bration catalogue. Our Sale-A-Bration promotion finishes at the end of February and the Summer mini items are only available until the end of March. As usual, there are some great items in both that I could not resist. To view these catalogues you can check out the Stampin' Up website or contact me and I would be happy to send one to you.

To make this card I used 2 different papers from the Ginger Blossom DS paper to make the background. I have used the scallop edge punch on the bottom of one of the papers. The DS paper has been mounted onto river rock cardstock. I have then used some groovy guava as a border to my sentiment, which has been stamped in chocolate chip onto very vanilla cardstock. The scallop circle has been punched out of pretty in pink, and the polka dot flower has been stamped in pretty in pink onto very vanilla carstock. It has then been punched using 1 1/4" circle punch and mounted using stampin' dimensionals.

Material used:

Stamp sets: Wonderful words, All scallops & polka dot punches

Stamp pads: Chocolate chip & pretty in pink

Cardstock: River rock, very vanilla, groovy guava, pretty in pink & ginger blossom DS paper

Accessories: Scallop edge punch, scallop circle punch, 1 1/4" circle punch & stampin' dimensionals

Dorothy the Dinosaur

I went shopping with my girlfriend today and our two girls(who are 5 weeks apart in age), to get their birthday presents for each other. My girl is obsessed with Dora and My Little Pony, while her daughter loves Dorothy. When I got home I decided I wanted to make my own special Dorothy the Dinosaur card for Jess. I was surprised at how well she turned out. I think I will try my hand at Dora for my daughter's birthday next.

It was not very difficult, just fiddly with all the paper piecing. I just went onto one of The Wiggle sites and printed out a colouring page of Dorothy. I then cut her out and used her as a template for my design. Next I just matched the colouring of Dorothy to my paper....and....Voila!!! You may have noticed I cheated a little and used punches for the flower and spots on Dorothy, they are a little to perfect for free hand. Hope Jess likes it!!!

Materials used:

Cardstock: Handsome hunter, real red, summer sun & whisper white

Accessories: Black marker, wiggles colouring sheet (downloaded), spring flower bouquet punch & 1/2" circle punch

Another Big Bold Birthday

My son is going to another friend's birthday soon and this time it is a little boy. Male cards are always hard to design, but thankfully when I was looking for inspiration, I came across my friend's and fellow Stampin' Up demonstrator's blog. Her name is Alison, and her cards are amazing. I got the idea of this card and it's colour combinations from one of her designs which you can see here. It uses the stamps set Big Bold Birthday (pg 37). Hope you like!!

Materials used:

Stamp set: Big bold birthday

Cardstock: Blue bayou, old olive, river rock, whisper white, soft sky & fall flowers DS

Stamp pad: Blue bayou

Accessories: Stampin' dimensionals & 5/8" old olive grosgrain ribbon

Another attempt at scrapbooking

Well here is another attempt at scrapbooking, but I think this page turned out better than the last. It helps when you have a beautiful subject. I can't speak for all the other Mums out there, but I always seem to get suckered in to photo competitions with my kids. I have done really well up until now to avoid the stands - but this time I didn't and of course when I saw the photos I wanted them all.

For this page I just took colours from the photos for inspiration. The cardstock colours are barely banana, chocolate chip and apple cider DS paper (from the spring mini). The flowers are from the baroque motif stamp set (pg 98) and have been stamped in so saffron, cut out and adhered with stampin' dimensionals. The barely banana cardstock looked a little plain so I rolled it with the so swirly roller (pg 105) in versamark. I think my roller may have had some remnants of ruby red on it, but I like the effect it has created. I have also taken my white gel pen and gone around the outside of the chocolate chip cardstock for definition - and that's pretty much it. Hope you like!!!

Materials used:

Cardstock: Barely banana, chocolate chip, whisper white & apple cider DS paper

Stamp sets: Baroque motifs & so swirly

Stamp pads: So saffron

Accessories: Stampin' dimensionals & white gel pen

Colour Challenge

My son is attending a birthday party this weekend for one of his friends. I found this cute wrapping paper and decided to use the colours as inspiration for the birthday card. The colour combination is as follows:

Orchid Opulence
Rose Red
Barely Banana
Perfect Plum
Taken with Teal

I decided for the actual design, I would have a go at paper piecing. I used the scallop circle punch (pg 142) & spring flower bouquet punch (pg 142) for the flowers. The leaves I have taken from a retired stamp set called 'Friendship blooms', stamped in certainly celery and cut out. The green ribbon for the stems was just some miscellaneous ribbon (not stampin' up) I had lying around, but it matched beautifully. I have used stampin' dimensionals to lift the flowers up off the card . Silver brads (not stampin' up) have been used in the centre of each flower for added effect. I have used the Linen background stamp (pg 107) on the card itself, I have also used another retired set 'Fresh Fillers' to create some detail on the flowers themselves. The sentiment is from Occasional greetings (pg 121). This is the final result - hope you like :)

Materials used:

Cardstock: Orchid opulence, rose red, certainly celery, barely banana, taken with teal, very vanilla & perfect plum

Stamp sets: Occasional greetings, fresh fillers, linen & friendship blooms

Stamp pads: versamark, perfect plum & certainly celery

Accessories: Scallop circle punch, spring flower bouquet punch, silver brads, stampin' dimensionals & ribbon

My attempt at scrapbooking

Well since getting my new creative space, I thought I should try and get back into my scrapbooking....Oh Boy!!! I am really out of practice. I had some photos I had taken of my daughter at White Water World/Dreamworld from last year and decided to scrap them. I had an idea in my head, but I just couldn't quite get it onto paper, do you know what I mean??? Anyway, here it is - very basic, so I can only get better from here, right?

Material used:

Cardstock: Brocade blue, only orange, whisper white & pixie pink

Stamp sets: Spot on

Stamp pads: Brocade blue

Accessories: Chipboard letters, generic scrapbook stickers & computer fonts

A New Year.....and a New Craft Room

Well I know I haven't been posting many creations lately, but I was in limbo as I really didn't have a creative space in which to work in. Since I moved and downsized, I wasn't sure what I was going to do. My mum came up with the suggestion of getting some furniture built to fit in my existing bedroom which could double as a study/craft room. So here are the photos of what we have done. I am really happy. I have a spot for everything (it's the best space saving area I have ever had).

Not sure how well it will all upload, but hopefully you get the picture......now all I have to do is start getting creative:)