Llama Party!

Today's card uses two stamp sets - Fiesta and Better Together - and the Festive Birthday paper.  Its a fun colourful card, I got the inspiration from a card I saw on Facebook, but changed up the sentiment set and added the llama!  I hope you think it's as fun as I do!

Stampin' Up! Materials Used:
Stamp sets - Fiesta, Better Together
Ink pads - Soft Suede, Melon Mambo, Tempting Turquoise, Pumpkin Pie
Markers - Melon Mambo
Designer Series Paper - Festive Birthday
Card - Whisper White, Whisper White thick card
Dies - Fiesta Time framelits
Other - Fine tip glue pen, Snail adhesive, Stampin' Trimmer, Big Shot and magnetic platform

Orange Florals

A nice simple one layer card this week.  I have used one of the hostess stamp sets - Gift of Love - which you can get this with the rewards you can start to earn when you spend over £150 in one order in my online store.

It is a layering stamp set, so you can either stamp the outline and colour in with markers/inks or as I have done here, stamp the outline and then the coloured layers.  I did then add a bit of depth of the flowers using a marker to add some shadows, and a very pale outline of blue around parts of the image.   I then stamped a sentiment from the same set - and there you are, all done!

Stampin' Up! Materials Used:
Stamp set - Gift of Love (hostess set)
Ink Pads - Soft Suede, Old Olive, Peekaboo Peach
Markers - Peekaboo Peach, Pumpkin Pie, Soft Sky
Card - Whisper White thick card
Other - Stampin' Trimmer   

Blue Rose Note

For this week's Stampin Saturday Card I have used one of my favourite sets, Picture Perfect.  A few days ago I stamped and cut out several of these blue roses along with some leaves, but struggled to decide what to make with them as what I originally had in mind didn't really seem to work.

So I set about making a layered card with the roses glued flat on the card, then the white layer raised up with foam tape.

Stampin' Up! Materials Used:
Stamp sets - Picture Perfect, Better Together
Ink pads - Soft Sky, Dapper Denim, Soft Suede, Old Olive
Card - Whisper White, Whisper White thick card
Other - fine tip glue, foam adhesive strips, Stampin' trimmer

Swirly Bird Kites

Well Monday again, and the beginning of  a new working week for many of us - me included - and what a dreary rainy old day it is here in London, and it's meant to be the first official day of summer!

For my card today, I decided to use the popular Swirly Bird stamp set, this time using the kite stamps to create a nice fresh and clean card suitable for the younger boys in the family - or just anyone that likes kites!

Stampin' Up! Materials Used:
Stamp sets - Swirly Bird, Love and Affection
Ink pads - Pool Party, Real Red, Dapper Denim
Card - Dapper Denim, Whisper White, Whisper White thick card
Other - Tear and Tape adhesive, Stamp-a-ma-jig, Stampin' Trimmer

Pop of Pink

I decided to make a girly version of the card I shared on Monday using a fab combination of pink, white and black.  I cut a few strips of patterned paper, added a couple of die cuts and then blinged it up a little with some sequins! Very quick and simple!

Stampin' Up! Materials Used:
Designer Series Paper - Pop of Pink
Dies - Hello You thinlits
Card - Melon Mambo, Basic Black, Whisper White, Whisper White thick
Sequins - Brights, Metallic
Other - Snail adhesive, fine tip glue, Stampin' trimmer 

Blue Roses

I love the rose in the Stampin' Up! Picture Perfect set, and decided I would try it out with the new Dapper Denim In Color.

The rose has three layers - the first I stamped in Soft Soft, the second layer is Dapper Denim stamped off first, then the third layer is Dapper Denim at full strength.  I also created a mask for the flower to be able to make the leaves look like they are behind the rose. The leaves are also made using just one ink pad - Old Olive - again using the stamping off technique.

Stampin' Up! Materials Used:
Stamp Sets - Picture Perfect, Cottage Greetings
Ink pads - Soft Sky, Dapper Denim, Old Olive
Card - Dapper Denim, Whisper White, Whisper White thick card
Other - Snail adhesive, Stampin' Dimensionals

Swirly Floral Thank You

Happy Friday!  I have seen many cards like this one on blogs and Pinterest and decided that I would give it a go.  I decided that my long swirly die would be inlaid in the white card rather than stuck on top.  It doesn't too long and isn't as fiddly as you might first think - you just have to make sure that you have all the pieces!

Stampin' Up! Materials Used:
Stamp sets - Swirly Bird, Ton of Cards
Dies - Swirly Scribbles
Ink pads - Soft Suede, Old Olive, Flirty Flamingo, Peekaboo Peach
Card - Soft Suede, Whisper White, Whisper White thick card
Other - Fine tip glue, Stampin' Dimensionals, Snail adhesive, Big Shot and magnetic platform

Hello!

I had a new box of Stampin' Up! goodies arrive at the weekend, and I couldn't wait to have a play!  I'd also seen a sketch on the CAS(E) This Sketch challenge blog which I did not have chance to play along with, but wanted to use this idea for a couple of cards.  So I used the Moroccan Designer Series Paper, along with the new Dapper Denim card to create my version of sketch #175.

Stampin' Up! Materials Used:
Designer Series Paper - Moroccan DSP
Card - Dapper Denim, Whisper White, Whisper White thick card
Dies - Hello You thinlits
Other - Snail adhesive, fine tip glue, tear and tape adhesive, silicone craft sheet, Big Shot, Big Shot magnetic plate, Stampin' trimmer

Garden in Bloom

Happy Friday! Today's card was made using Garden in Bloom which is a lovely floral stamp set.  I wanted to create a one layer card, so I masked off an area on the card that I would be stamping onto.  It was very quick and easy - stamp the outline images, then the filler stamps, remove the mask and stamp the sentiment.  I also decided to use a marker to outline the images and "border", and then picked up some ink from the ink pads with a wet paintbrush (always using the lid, not the actual pad) and flicked some onto the card - I may have got a little carried away here.... 
 
Stampin' Up! Materials Used:
Stamp sets - Garden in Bloom, Cottage Greetings
Ink Pads - Flirty Flamingo, Soft Suede, Old Olive, Soft Sky
Marker - Soft Sky
Card - Whisper White thick
Other - post it tape 

Birthday Blooms

Hi, I thought I would share a card using a watercolour technique that I really like - embossing the image in white embossing powder and then just let the colours flow, inside and outside of the image to create a very pretty and soft effect.


Stampin' Up! Materials Used:
Stamp set - Birthday Blooms
Ink pads - Flirty Flamingo, Sweet Sugarplum, Soft Suede, Pool Party, Old Olive, Versamark
Card - Whisper White Thick, Watercolor, Flirty Flamingo
Other - Aquapainter, white embossing powder, embossing buddy, heat tool

Bobbing Along

Today's card is made with the fun Swirly Bird stamp set from the new annual Stampin' Up! catalogue.  I am sure that if you use Pinterest or like to look around on lots of blogs then you will have seen a ton of samples using set, so I just had to give it a go myself!

Stampin' Up! Materials Used:
Stamp sets - Swirly Bird, Painters Palette
Ink pads - Real Red, Pacific Point, Soft Saffron
Card - Pacific Point, Soft Sky, Pool Party, Soft Saffron, Whisper White, Whisper White Thick
Other - Fine tip glue, Big Shot

Embellished Ornaments

Hi, it another very quick card for this week's Simple Sunday - one stamp set, with two colours of ink, and a couple of layers.  You make this a one layer card to make it even quicker, you could also add some Christmas bling with some glitter or gems.

Stampin' Up! Materials Used:
Stamp set - Embellished Ornaments
Ink pads - Soft Suede, Marina Mist
Card - Marina Mist, Whisper White, Whisper White Thick
Other - Stamp-a-ma-jig

It's All About Flamingos (and pink!)

For today's card I decided to use the new fun Pop of Paradise stamp set and the Pop of Pink paper which is based on one of my favourite colours Melon Mambo (and yes I think you have probably seen a lot of cards on my blog using this colour recently).


Stampin' Up! Materials Used:
Stamp set - Pop of Paradise
Ink pads - Melon Mambo, Old Olive
Card - Whisper White, Whisper White thick card, Gold Foil
Designer Series Paper - Pop of Pink
Dies - Lots of Labels framelits
Other - Fine tip glue, Stampin' Dimensionals

Swirly Bird Flowers

Hello again!  Today's floral card uses the new Swirly Bird stamps and co-ordinating dies - I am sure these will fast become favourites from the new catalogue!  I will be posting a very different card using this set on Monday.

This is my version of a card in the new Stampin' Up! catalogue - I have made mine landscape rather than portrait, changed the sentiment and a few other bits.  The background images are "stamped off" to make them lighter versions of the ink to match the card as I thought that would look pretty.

Stampin' Up! Materials Used:
Stamp Sets - Swirly Bird, Cottage Greetings
Ink Pads - Peekaboo Peach, Flirty Flamingo, Watermelon Wonder, So Saffron, Old Olive
Card - Peekaboo Peach, Flirty Flamingo, Watermelon Wonder, Whisper White thick card
Dies - Swirly Scribbles, Banners
Other - Stampin' Dimensionals, Fine tip glue

Watercolour Wings

I love the gorgeous Watercolor Wings stamp set by Stampin' Up! and had great fun creating this watercoloury effect card with two of the new 2016-18 In Colors - Flirty Flamingo and Peekaboo Peach!



I have to admit that I was very happy with how this card turned our - really not sure it was what I first intend, but it works for me!  I stamped onto watercolour card with the butterfly images, some images on wet card, some on dry, to get this fabulous effect - I love it and hope you do too!

Stampin' Up! Materials Used:
Stamp Sets - Watercolor Wings, Endless Thanks
Ink Pads - Peekaboo Peach, Flirty Flamingo, Soft Suede
Card - Whisper White, Whisper White thick card, Watercolor card, Flirty Flamingo,
Other - Stampin' Spritzer