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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
It's
time for another Floral Friday card, and today I thought I would treat
you to a peek of the new Stampin' Up! In Colours coming next week - yes on the 1st
June the new annual catalogue along with 5 new In Colours will be
launched! I have used Flirty Flamingo, one of my favourites (along with
Peekaboo Peach) - so look out for some cards using both colours next
week!
For
this card I used the Lots of Love framelits to create a frame out of
gold foil card to arrange the flowers and leaves that I stamped from the
gorgeous Picture Perfect stamp set. I hope you like it!
Stampin' Up! Materials Used:
Stamp sets - Picture Perfect, Rose Wonder
Ink pads - Old Olive, Flirty Flamingo, Versamark
Dies - Lots of Labels framelits
Card - Whisper White, Whisper White thick card, gold foil sheets
Other - gold embossing powder, metallic sequins, fine tip glue, embossing biddy, Stampin' Dimensionals, Big Shot
Wow
7 months until Christmas Day! Don't know about you, but I need to get
some Christmas cards made ready to send so that it is not a big rush in
November/December!
Stampin' Up! Materials Used:
Stamp Sets - A Nice Cuppa, Snow Place
Ink pads - Real Red, Soft Suede, Versamark
Dies - Cups and Kettle, Swirly Scribbles (for the marshmallows)
Designer Series Paper - Neutrals
Card - Real Red, Soft Suede, Whisper White, Whisper White thick card
Other - Dazzling Diamonds Glitter, White embossing powder, aqua painter, Stampin' Dimensionals, fine tip glue, embossing buddy
Monday
again, the start to another working week for many of us. Today I have a
card made using the Traveler stamp set, some masking and a reflection
technique.
First
of all I stamped the ship onto a craft sheet, then placed a piece of
card on top of it being careful to place the card so that the image
would be in the bottom half and gently rubbed over the card to pick up
the image of the ship. This gave a lighter image, which I could then
match up with the reinked stamp and add in the main image. I then
punched out a circle of post it tape to make a mask for a moon, and
sponged some layers of ink onto the card to create the sky and sea.
Stampin' Up! Materials Used:
Stamp sets - Traveler, Watercolor Wings
Ink Pads - Soft Suede, Soft Sky, Marina Mist and a sneeky peek of a new In-Colour Dapper Denim
Card - Whisper White, Whisper White thick card, Soft Suede
Punch - 1 3/4" circle
I
used a sketch from the Freshly Made Sketches challenge blog - I think its
one that you can use for many occasions and card sizes, but I decided on
Christmas! Which seems a bit strange as the sun is shining outside
while I write this blog post!
Stampin' Up! Materials Used:
Stamp sets - Sassy Salutations, Lots of Joy
Ink pad - Real Red
Card - Real Red, Whisper White, Whisper White thick card
Designer Series Paper - Merry Moments
Other - Tree Punch, Stampin' Dimensionals
The
card I am sharing today is made with one of my favourite colour
combinations of the Stampin' Up inks - Lost Lagoon, Melon Mambo and Soft Suede. Sadly Lost
Lagoon is retiring at the end of the month, along with the Nice Cuppa
stamps and its co-ordinating dies.
Stampin' Up! Materials Used:
Stamp sets - A Nice Cuppa, Endless Thanks, Gorgeous Grunge
Ink pads - Lost Lagoon, Melon Mambo, Soft Suede
Card - Whisper White, Whisper White thick card, Melon Mambo
Dies - Cups and Kettles, Banners
Other - Stampin' Dimensionals
Hello
my crafting friends! Today I have made a card suitable for both men and women, all year round -
spring and summer, autumn, thanksgiving, and these leaves could also be paired up
with some flower stamps or punches to make a pretty card.
On
some of the leaf images I inked the stamp in the lighter colour ink,
then inked some of the edges up with a darker/different colour to give a
two tone effect. I think this would work well with the baby wipe ink
pad technique and ink refills to create a lovely blended image - maybe I
will try that out soon!
Stampin' Up! Materials Used:
Stamp sets - Vintage Leaves, Guy Greetings
Ink pads - Tangerinr Tango, Old Olive, Soft Suede
Card - Whisper White thick card
Other - Neutral Candy Dots
Other supplies - masking paper
This
card is really quick and simple. Some easy stamping straight onto a
scored piece of Whisper White thick card stock, two stamped trees which
are punched out with the co-ordinating punch and stuck on with Dimensionals.
Stampin' Up! Materials Used:
Stamp Set - Lots of Joy
Ink Pads - Old Olive, Real Red
Card - Whisper White, Whisper White thick card
Other - Stampin' Dimensionals, Tree Punch
Today's
card is all about stamping, and I have used just one stamp set - Sheltering
Tree which is very versatile and can be used all year round. I wanted
to make something that looked like cherry blossom as I have seen so many
beautiful blossom photos recently - but yes I know this does not look
like cherry blossom, but its still pink and pretty!
Stampin' Up! Materials Used:
Stamp set - Sheltering Tree
Ink Pads - Rose Red, Blushing Bride, Sahara Sand, Old Olive
Card - Rose Red, Whisper White, Whisper White thick card
Other - Dazzling Diamonds glitter, fine tip glue pen
Hi!
Today I thought I would share with you a flower card made with
the Balloon Celebrations stamp set - who says a balloon stamp has to be a balloon! :-)
Stampin' Up! Materials Used:
Stamp set - Balloon Celebrations
Ink pads - Melon Mambo, Mossy Meadow
Card - Whisper White
Designer Series Paper - Brights paper stack
Punch - 1" square
Welcome
to my second "Masculine Monday" blog post - I have to say this was not
how the card first started out, but in the end I quite like it. Just
proves that one masculine card a week is definitely going to be a
challenge!
I used the No Bones About It stamp set - such fab stamps for all those little (and big) men you know that love dinosaurs.
Stampin' Up! Materials Used:
Stamp set - No Bones About It
Ink Pads - Old Olive, Tangerine Tango, So Saffron
Card - Old Olive, Whisper White, Whisper White thick cardstock
Dies - Tags & Labels framelits
Punches - 1/4" circle punch
Stampin'
Up! have some gorgeous butterfly stamps and dies, and for this card I
used the Hostess set Floral Wings along with the co-ordinating butterfly
die. The black and white strip is some washi tape stuck onto card and
cut out, I have stamped an image from Gorgeous Grunge a couple of times,
added a sentiment and a few gems - simple! :-)
Stampin' Up! Materials Used:
Stamp Sets - Floral Wings, Gorgeous Grunge, Butterfly Basics
Ink Pads - Melon Mambo, Sahara Sand, Basic Black
Card - Whisper White thick cardstock
Dies - Bold Butterfly framelits
Other - Everyday Chic washi tape, rhinestones
I
made this card for a lovely friend of mine who had her 50th birthday
this week - still not quite sure if she was happy to be reminded of the
number :-)
Stampin' Up! Materials Used:
Stamp Set - Number of Years
Ink pads - Mint Macaron, Old Olive, Soft Suede, Pool Party, Blushing Bride
Framelits - Large Numbers
Card - Whisper White thick cardstock, Mint Macaron card
DSP - Birthday Bouquet
Other - Metallics sequin assortment
Designer Series Paper - Moroccan DSP
