A lovely friend had an adorable baby girl last month and this is the card I made for her.
While I had my Stamping gear out and in use I also made a Little boy version too!
STAMP SETS USED ON THESE CARDS and available from my online store
“Baby Prints”
“Parlour Prints”
THREE of the colours used on these cards will be retiring at the end of next month- “Pretty in pink”, “Bashful Blue” and “Certainly Celery” Be sure to snap up these colours before they retire!
Sometimes I find myself really pressed for time- don’t we all!? However, I still enjoy making my handmade cards so I’ve got to find little tips and ideas that allow me to make my cards and fit that around my busy lifestyle. It is times like these that I will do something like take one card design and complete different cards based on that one design. Not sure what I mean? Take a look……
Here’s one card I have made. I’ve used some of the ‘Tea for two’ Designer Series paper and some stamped images. (Retiring colours Baja Breeze and Certainly Celery)
A simple change of colours and stamp sets…but still the same basic design and we have a different ‘look’ all together (Retiring colours- Not quite Navy, River Rock and Lucky Limeade)
and again….. (Retiring colour Bashful Blue)
On each of these cards I’ve used at least one of the colours that will be RETIRING at the end of the June. Already some of the reinkers for these colours have sold out! If you would like to order some of these colours before they are gone forever….please contact me as soon as possible
STAMP SETS USED ON THE CARDS ABOVE (Not to scale) These stamp sets are all available for sale. You can contact me for more information OR order through my online store.
PAPILLON POTPOURRI (pg 115) Product code 123757 (w) 123758 (c)
FLOWERING FLOURISHES (pg 121) Product code 126365 (w) 126367 (c)
FROM MY HEART (page 139) Product code 126555 (w) 126557 (c)
DARING ADVENTURE (page 104) Product Code 122600 (w) 122602 (c)
PERFECTLY PRESERVED and matching FRAMELITS (Cannery Set) From Holiday catalogue
Product code 126690(w) 126692(c) Framelits Product code- 127822
I hope all the ladies enjoyed a lovely Mother’s Day yesterday. I have a nice relaxing day. My husband made me pancakes for breakfast and I received some lovely handmade cards, gifts, cuddles and kisses from the kids. We popped in to visit my husband’s Mum and then had lunch with my Mum. Here is the card I made for Mother’s Day……..
I really enjoyed playing with the “Dress up” Framelits. They are so easy to use..but really effective. I even took these dies and my bigshot into school and my Pre-Primary class made Mother’s Day cards using these framelits.
These framelits could obviously be used on a variety of different cards- for a variety of different occasions. Just as an example, if you cut the dress a little longer it could be made into a Wedding gown. Of course- a simple change of sentiment or patterned paper can change the ‘look’.
In my last blog entry- I shared Adam’s Angry Birds Birthday Party . The day after Adam’s party we had a party for his twin, Erin. This was a GIRL ONLY EVENT! Even her 3 brothers had to spend some time outside with Dad while the girls enjoyed some crafty entertainment….much to their disgust! (Having said that all the boys- including Dad were allowed into the craft classroom after the party and were allowed to get creative too!)
Erin enjoyed the afternoon with a group of really lovely young ladies. They were beautifully behaved the entire time! What a gorgeous bunch!
Here is the invitation that went out to her guests (Created in “My Digital Studio”)
GETTING SPOILED ROTTEN!
A SNAPSHOT OF SOME OF THE DECORATIONS (Luke asked me why Dad and I hung up ‘lots of those things you use to wash yourself in the shower’….Hmmm I guess some of them looked a little like a ‘shower puff’)
The girls were invited into my ‘craft classroom’ (that I use for adult classes) for a bit of creative ‘girly time’.
Each guest made a bracelet, a little purse to carry the bracelet and an ice cream card.
They cut out the purses using a die and my Bigshot. Aren’t they cute!? The ice cream on the front of the card was cut out of the shapes on the petal cone die.
I’m pretty sure they all enjoyed themselves and they all did such a wonderful job! 
We got so distracted that we ‘almost’ ran out of time for the party food. I had just enough time to throw the party food on the table before the parents arrived to collect their children. Please excuse the photos….it was my intention to make it look ‘pretty’ but in the end it was just placed on the table randomly and the sun was in an awkward position to take decent photos.
The main food was of course- Ice Cream! All the girls were able to make their own ice cream Sundaes. (I think a few were so ‘creative’ that they went home with a belly ache!) There were a variety of toppings to create their own ultimate Icecream Sundae! The other party food included cupcakes, sherbet cones, purple butterfly shaped biscuits, fairy floss, ice cream ‘cake pops’, marshmallows, popcorn, lolly teeth and other tasty treats!
THE CAKE
I must admit that I wasn’t entirely happy with how the cake turned out! I’m not one to make too much of a fuss of a birthday cake. I am normally one to just throw on some icing and lollies and hope for the best…..but I’m not sure I pulled it off this time! I just didn’t get the balance of colour right! I was hoping the chocolate on the icecream would be a deeper turquoise, the purple icing darkened over time and the pink wasn’t ‘pink enough’ (I used most of the food colouring on the red part of Adam’s cake the day before oops! ) At about 11pm I wasso disappointed that I was very close to starting up the oven to bake another cake and Jason convinced me that it would be crazt- reminding me that it only takes a moment to sing “Happy Birthday” and then the cake is cut into pieces! No-one seemed to mind that I didn’t bake another cake.
ERIN BLOWING OUT THE CANDLES ( I can’t believe she is NINE!)
THE AFTERMATH
Each guest took home the items they had made, a bag of lollies (decorated by Erin using retire Stampin’ Up! papers that matched her theme perfectly) plus a small wrapped gift containing a journal and shower gel, lotion etc all wrapped up with gorgeous Stampin’ Up! ribbon.
It is our final family birthday this month (All 6 birthdays are within a 6 week period) – I must give some serious thought to what I’m going to do for Jared’s birthday in about 9 days time!
Today I have two male cards to share with you- Something ‘cute’ for the little boys and something a little more’ grungy’ for the older ones.
Here’s the one for the little dudes. I just love the adorable image on this one from a stamp set called “Little Friends”. When I created this card I applied Soft Suede Ink to the embossing folder before running it through the big shot. This created an interesting effect where the ink was transferred to most areas of the cardstock except the raised areas!
Just love, love those polka dots. What do you think!?
My next card was a bit of an experiment. It was one of those cards I created in a big hurry and I just layered and stuck things down and hoped for the best….the end result is something I thought would be suitable for the older boys.
In this second example I stamped on the grey background piece before embossing and added lots of splodges of platinum glimmer paint.
Today I have two cards to share with you featuring the “Patio Party” Designer series paper. Midnight Muse, Baja Breeze, Primrose Petals, Summer Starfruit and Whisper White are the colours you’ll find in this lovely pack of paper! I quite like the colour combo and I’m really lovin’ that lovely Midnight Muse colour I’ve used on the base. I let the strip of patterned paper do all the talking! For this card I whipped out my Simply Scored Board to create the rosette on the front. My new style butterfly punch is getting a bit of a workout too!
For the second card I wanted to shared with you today, I stamped an image from the co-ordinating “Make a cake” stamp set and coloured the cake in colours from the designer series paper! A bit of bling finishes it all off!
Here’s a card I made for my Dad for his birthday! I love this colour combination for Masculine cards- Midnight Muse, Soft suede, Cajun Craze, Crumb cake
I used the stamp set called “Affection Collection” which is on page 35 of the Holiday Catalogue
If you’d like to add this Affection collection stamp set to YOUR collection- then please touch base! I’d love to help you out with your order!
As soon as we hit November, I start to think about Christmas. The time just seems to whiz by and I find it is the time to start getting organised and start getting excited. How about you? Do you find that you’re the one organising the presents for everyone else? Why not get something nice for yourself?…..and the bonus is that it comes with a free gift. Read on for more details…..
When I first saw the Holiday Catalogue I fell in love with the gorgeous ornament on the front. I’m determined to give this one a go and I imagine it would come together nicely with the right tools. If you were to purchase the ornaments keepsake stamp set and the matching framelits you could make a great start on this project. For the month of the November you can receive the FREE Festive Paper Piercing pack
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Dates: 1-30 November 2012
Promotion Details: Get a FREE Festive Paper-Piercing Pack when you purchase the Ornament Keepsakes Set and Candlelight Christmas Specialty Designer Series Paper Bundle. Are you wondering what the Ornament Keepsakes Bundle is? Check out the front cover of the Holiday Catalogue- Yes! Yes! That beautiful ornament on the cover has been created using the Ornament Keepsakes Stamp set and the matching framelits dies.
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132260 |
Christmas Gift Pack (wood-mount)
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$96.85 |
$82.90 |
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132261 |
Christmas Gift Pack (clear-mount)
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$84.85 |
$70.90 |
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132262 |
Christmas Gift Pack (wood-mount bundle) |
$123.85 |
$109.90 |
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132263 |
Christmas Gift Pack (clear-mount bundle) |
$113.85 |
$99.90
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Ornament Keepsakes Stamp set
Holiday Ornaments Framelits
Candlelight Christmas Speciality Designer Series Paper (This pack has some gorgeous designs including 2 sheets of flocked window sheets
Festive Paper Piercing Pack- FREE when you purchase the bundle.
Of course the Ornament Keepsakes bundle isn’t only about making ornaments- You can obviously use them on cards, scrapbook pages or to decorate other items for Christmas. Here’s a card I made recently in non traditional Christmas colours and the ornament keepsakes
STAMP SETS: Ornament Keepsakes (page3 Holiday) , En Francais Background stamp (pg 129 Annual) , Delightful Dozen (pg 141 Annual)
FRAMELITS: Holiday Ornaments (pg 3 Holiday), Window Frames Collection (page 30 Holiday)
EMBOSSING FOLDER: Lacy Brocade (page 6 Holiday)
Here’s a close up of the ornament featuring the ‘faux metal technique’ that was taught at a recent class.
So apparently today is “World Card Making Day” so “Happy World Card making day to you!” I think I might just use that as a fantastic excuse to put aside the washing and cleaning for the afternoon and enjoy making some cards! How about you? Before I start getting inky fingers I thought I’d share a card I made during the week for a lovely couple who celebrated the arrival of their third gorgeous baby girl at the end of September
STAMP SETS: Baby Prints, Sweet Essentials, Papillon Potpourri
DSP: Patio party
OTHER: Circle Originals Die- Bigshot, New Butterfly punch
I just stumbled across another card that I had photographed and gave away some time ago but had forgotten to share on my blog…. I hope you like it
I used another NEW stamp set from the NEW catalogue called “Blooming with Kindness” which I received as a gift at the Manager’s reception at Convention (one of those great perks of being a demonstrator) The greeting I used from this set suited the recipient perfectly.
I had quite a lot fun with the “Colour Spritzer tool” which is on page 179 of the catalogue. You simply pop any Stampin’ Up! marker into the tool and squeeze the ‘bulbous area’ which forces air past the marker and leaves a great ‘splattered’ look. Simple but effective!
Don’t forget to stamp on those envelopes too!
