So happy

 

 

The colours in this card make me so happy!

 

The base of this layout is from the watercolour wonder dsp. I then cut a piece of calypso coral card stock measuring 1 x 5.5 inches and spritzed it with some white spray.  I placed this on top of a piece of gold fancy foil designer vellum measuring 2x5 inches. On top of this is a piece of whisper white card stock that I have cut using the Deco labels collection die. On this piece of card I stamped the happy watercolour paint splash in calypso coal and then the sentiment in stayz on black ink in the centre of the paint splash and the flower I stamped twice on the right hand side just hanging over the page. Using my blender pens I coloured the flower with crushed curry with a darker colour in the middle working to a lighter for the outer petals. 

 

I finished the layout off with a small yellow bow using some summer star fruit twine and adding some gold sequins from the gold sequin trim which is a very cheap way of embellishing your cards!

Buggies & booties

I'm going to make a massive call here but I think I've just discovered my favorite all time Stampin' Up! stamp set! Buggies & Booties is no longer a current set, infact it's almost 10 years old but I managed to get my hands on it second hand.  I've loved creating some cards with it and I thought I'd share them with you!

Love

This was a recent card we made in one of my classes incorporating the new circle framelit die. It's quite a simple card but looks effective with the layers used.  The base card is starfuit and measures 15x 13 3/4cm. I cut a strip of summer starfruit and crisp cantaloupe dsp from the new saleabration dsp measuring 2.5cmx 13 3/4cm (summer starfruit) and 7.5cm x 13 3/4cm (crisp cantaloupe) and stuck these pieces in place on the base and ran it through the bigshot using the circle framelit die. 

I cut two small circles of whisper white card using the coordinating circle from the circles collection framelit and two more circles of crisp cantaloupe using the 6.4cm circle punch. One white circle I embossed with bird from the 'love you more' set in white and on the other circle I embossed the 'love you more sentiment' in white. Using my sponges I started sponging with summer starfuit in the middle of each circle and worked my way out to the edges using crisp cantaloupe.  I sprayed over each with some white mist spray and layered them on the card. 

Lastly I finished the card off with a white double bow.

Better late than never!

This past month has been incredibly stressful with a combination of moving house and renovating our new house. I feel I'm struggling to keep on top of anything thus why I'm a day late posting my valentines card... but hey as they say....better late than never!

This crisp cantaloupe card has been embossed with the beautifully baroque embossing folder and rubbed with white ink using a spongue.  It has a strip of vellum I have stamped with a dot background stamp (non stampin up) with versamark, sprinkled with heat and stick powder and then gold embossing powder.  On top is a piece of crisp cantaloupe stamped with the new flowerful heart and embossed in white.  I have sponged over this with crisp cantaloupe to make it stand out a little more.  I have stuck this on a piece of gold foil card and lastly  embossed another a strip of gold foil card with the sentiment always and forever in white.  This sentiment is from the set 'this day forward.'

Happy valentines day everyone!

saleabration birthday

 

I love how this tag turned out! The layer upon layer gives it a lot of texture. Firstly I took a rectangular piece of crumb cake card and cut the two top corners off to form a tag. I stamped the dictionary stamp lightly with crumb cake ink on the cardstock. Next I used the ex libris stamp and crisp cantaloupe ink. I used the gorgeous grunge set to randomly stamp ink splatters in crumb cake ink. I sponged the edges with crumb cake and sprayed the entire tag with white spray and finally stamped the birthday stamp from the new salebration set. I punched a hole in the top of the card and threaded through a piece of hessian ribbon and tied it off with a piece of crisp cantaloupe twine (also saleabration)

 

grey skies

 

 

How cool are the little clouds and sun in this layout?! They are made using the new word bubbles framelit dies.  The sun is made using the new starburst framelit dies.  They can both be found in the new celebration catty that begins at the end of this month!

 

Products used:
Stamp sets: hardwood, see ya later
Cardstock: whisper white, bermuda Bay, summer starfruit, Smokey slate, silver fancy foil designer
Accessories: summer starfruit striped grosgrain ribbon, mini metallic clothes pins, summer starfruit twine

Sweet baby

 

 

Today I got to have a play with a new set from the celebration catty.  Firstly I stamped the owl image from the 'Baby,  we've grown' stamp set in staz in black ink. I used my aqua painters to colour it in.  The inks I used were summer starfruit, gumball green, smoky slate and crisp cantaloupe. I layered this image on a piece of so saffron card.

 

I stamped the sweet baby image in versamark ink and embossed it using white embossing powder and sprayed the image with some white spray. I tied a double bow using so saffron ribbon and stuck a safety pin I had lying around through the middle of it.  Lastly the background dsp I used is from the new set 'watercolour wonder'.