Bold Brights Birthday

Here's a bright and sassy birthday card for any age! The girls at my workshop the other day really seemed to love this card. This card looks pretty straight forward and it is but my first time stampers loved it because there were a few fun products and techniques to be learnt from it. First of all we used the jumbo See You Around wheel. The wheels are great to use for card backgrounds or even making quick wrapping paper. Stampin' Up! does sell a limited selection of coloured cartridges for the jumbo wheels but if you haven't got the colour you'd like, not too worry, simply ink up your wheel using your classic ink pad. Just like that you've got 48 plus colours to choose from! An easy way to clean the wheel is to pull it off the handle and wipe clean with a baby wipe or wet paper towel.

So the second neat thing we did was colour the present from Year After Year. To get multi-coloured stamped images just use your Stampin' Write Markers. So I used the Green Galore and Lovely Lilac markers to colour the stamp. Just before you stamp it, huff on your stamp to moisten any ink thats started to dry at bit. The image should come out crisp and clear.

Once the card was completely assembled I used our new adhesive Tombow to apply the new purple Fine Cosmo Glitter. You just need the smallest dab of glue, goes on white but dries clear. Add your glitter and then tap or shake off the excess. Set aside for abit as the Tombow takes a little while to dry.

Recipe: Year After Year, See You Around wheel, Hugs and Wishes stamp sets; Green Galore, Tempting Turquiose, Lovely Lilac and Whisper White cardstock; Lovely Lilac, Green Galore markers; Tempting Turquiose ink; Fine Cosmo glitter

Build-a-Brad

I love this card, I think its the colours that I love the most about it! It's bright and cheerful, which is the opposite of the way I am feeling today...went to bed last night with the first signs of a head cold. And sure enough thats what I've got today. Blah...

I think I've shown you the build-a-brad before on an earlier post. The centre of the flower is a brad that I've built. I stamped a tiny flower from Time Well Spent in Purely Pomegranate, punched it out with the 1/2" cirlce punch and then attached it to the brad. And then added the sticky pop up clear top to finish it off. I did a bit of faux stitching along the top of the card. I love the Cutie Pie designer paper, its very colourful and cheerful!

I just realized I didn't add a salutation to this cards, oops!

Recipe: Cardstock: Ballet Blue, Certainly Celery, So Saffron, Whisper White; Cutie Pie designer paper; Certainly Celery grosgrain ribbon; Ink: Certainly Celery, So Saffron and Purely Pomegranate; Time Well Spent stamp set.

Thanks for looking!

Scrapbook Layout

You know, before I began stamping I scrapbooked all the time, never seemed to be at a loss for ideas, I just went for it! Now, the stamping cards comes alot easier than the scrapbooking. Must be out of practice. After many hours of playing around this is a layout I came up with. I'm happy with it but of course it would look better if it had photos in it. I used the Time Well Spent stamp set (hostess level 3 set). I know you can't tell by the photo but I've stamped a tiny little flower all over the Purely Pomegranate cardstock to create a background. The photos will be mounted on River Rock and the letters are from the Big Deal Alphabet. The butterflies have purple glitter on their wings and I did some faux stitching behind each of them to make it look like a little flying swirly. The Whisper White cardstock was crumpled up a bit to make it look like a 'note' from a friend. This is where you can do your journaling. Notice I used the spiral punch also on this 'note'.

Thanks for looking, hope the sun is shining where you are today!

Layout Challenge

I've had this cute All in the Family set for awhile now but haven't used it much. This is a card that I came up with for our bi-monthly demonstrator challenges. I got a bit mixed up because this card falls into 2 different challenges, 1 challenge being the layout itself, the other challenge being - create masculine cards. So, which challenge will I enter it in...?

Recipe: Taken with Teal, Chocolate Chip, More Mustard cardstock; All in the Family and Accessories, Everyday Flexible Phrases stamp sets; Taken with Teal, Basic Black classic ink; Spiral punch, 1 3/8" and 1 1/4" circle punches; stampin' dimensionals

Ok, this one definitely qualifies for the layout challenge. I used a few new accessories on this card and I'm happy with the outcome. The little black flower and swirly, along with the 'funky, fresh and fun', are rub-ons! Aren't they cute! Rub-ons are new for Stampin' Up! and work on many different surfaces; glass, paper, candles, etc.

Recipe: Purely Pomegranate, Old Olive, Basic Black, Whisper White cardstock; Bali Breeze designer series paper; Flower Fusion (felt flowers); black brads; Eastern Elegance rub-ons; Purely Pomegranate, Basic Black classic ink

Here's one more to question, masculine or layout challenge? Ya, obviously I was a bit confused when I made these cards! None the less they turned out alright.

Recipe: Prink Pattern background and Loads of Love and Accessories stamp set; Stampin' Write markers; Buttons; Small and large oval punches; Brocade Blue, Basic Black classic ink and blender pen; Wasabi Green, Pumpkin Pie, Brocade Blue, Whisper White and Basic Black cardstock

Have a great day, thanks for looking.

Valentine's Class

Well, last night, I welcomed three friends over to take part in the Valentine's Card class that I was offering. We made 4 Valentines projects, 2 of which included the super cute Happy Heart Day stamp set.

I enjoyed making this card because it included a bit of extra colouring - I love colouring!! To colour the elephant I used my watercolour pencil crayons and the aquapainter to blend the colour. As for the flowers and stems I just used the Stampin' Write markers.

Recipe: Real Red, Basic Grey, Whisper White cardstock; wide Real Red grosgrain ribbon; small and large tag punches; Green Galore, Real Red Stampin' Write markers; Blender pen; Basic Grey classic ink; Hemp twine

Wouldn't you love to receive this cute little goodie for Valentines Day? This was another project the class made last night. This is called a 'sour cream container'. I remember these as a kid, growing up a block from the US, this is what your sour cream came in in restaurants.

Well, we've re-created it but filled it with yummy candies instead of sour cream! This is simply a 5 1/2" x 4 1/4" piece of designer paper rolled up as a tube and then sticking the ends together in opposite directions. Super easy!

My son, Isaac, helped me make a bunch more of these today for his teachers and family members! Isaac also decided, all on his own, that he wanted to also include Mrs. Carin, the teacher of the 4 yr old program. He absolutely can not wait to go 'downstairs' to be a part of the '4's'. I wasn't suprised in the least, Isaac always wants to include others in all that he does.

Thanks for looking.