Family Birthdays

Yesterday was my lovely husbands birthday, so I had to come up with a card for him. Now men's cards I always find tricky, rather like a lot of people! I stood looking at my many many stamp sets.....

...and finally remembered that he had said he loved the Lovely as a Tree set. That made things a little easier. In fact, here is what I produced...

I stamped the tree in Soft Suede, then sponged it over with Old Olive and Garden Green. Then I used a piece of Old Olive cardstock and ran it through the Square Lattice embossing folder, and layered with a smaller piece of Soft Suede. The button was created using the Sweet Buttons cutting and embossing die, and I used crystal effects on it to make it shiny. Here is a better image of it.

He seemed pleased with it, and I thought it fitted the image and the occasion nicely.

Top Note

I needed to make a birthday card for a 12 year old, and was struggling a bit to come up with an suitable idea. Then I remembered seeing someone used patterned papers, weaved them together, and then cut them out using the top note die. I dug out some old papers and tried it myself and was chuffed with the results.

The card base is in Old Olive, and the sentiment is the Curly Cute set, which has been inked seperately and punched out with the large oval. I also used up some old Chocolate Chip grosgrain ribbon, although Early Expresso would have worked just as well. What do you think?

Build a Blossom

School holiday time and its really busy here! In and out, children staying over, etc etc, just waiting now for my littlest to be unwell, and that will top it all off!

Not had a great deal of time to play craft wise, but did have a lovely time with my new Build a Blossom stamp set and matching punch.

Here I've used one of my favourite colour combinations, Baja Breeze and Crumb Cake. I find they complement each other beautifully.

Easter Treats

I like to make a little something for Tabitha's classmates to have at the end of term to say thank you to them for being good to her. Here is what they are all getting tomorrow.

I've used the new Pillow Box die to cut the boxes out of Very Vanilla cardstock, run them through the Refect Polka Dots embossing folder and filled them with tiny sugar coated chocolate eggs. Then I've tied them with Silver Elastic cord, and added a sun label, using the Every Little Bit stamp set and the 1" circle punch.

What do you think?? 

It's Mothers Day

I have had a lovely Mothers day. It started with a nice lie in, well, I got up just before 8am, to be told to get back to bed, and was then presented with a cup of tea and breakfast in bed. Lovely. The girls have been lovely all day, and all in all we've had nice family time.

I made cards for my Mum, and Chris's Mum. My Mum hasn't had hers yet so I'm not posting it yet, but here is the one I made for Chris' Mum.

It uses the Sandy Speckles wheel, Rich Razzleberry cardstock and ink, with Garden Green leaves and the Schoolbook Serif Alphabet. The flower is made using the scalloped circle punch, and is surprisingly easy to do and very effective. If you want to know how, get in touch!

The New Mini Catalogue

Today sees the launch of Stampin' Up!'s new UK mini catalogue. This catalogue is full of new products, and includes the most requested Stampin' Up! product, the Big Shot die cutting and embossing machine, which can extend your creativity MASSIVELY. Us UK demonstrators have been coveting this product for a long time, as it has been available for a while in the US, and now, it's finally here!

Remember that I can be contacted any time via email for you to place an order from anywhere in the UK. I can't wait to hear from you.

Stamping fun

Samples I made up, using Crumb Cake and Cherry Cobbler cardstock, with Basic Black, the newsprint designer paper, and black taffeta ribbon. Stamps were the So Many Thanks single stamp, and the Sincere Sentiments.