Simply Jolly Holiday

I've been having another play with my Jolly Holiday Designer Series Paper.  I've seen squares rounded this way before in blogland and thought they looked good so here's my version.  I followed the sketch at Simply Stampin'.

My card base is Cherry Cobbler.  I teamed it up with Basic Black for the mounts.  The four squares were punched out using the 1 1/4" and 1 3/8" square punches.  The edges were all corner rounded except for one.  

I added some 1/4" Very Vanilla Grosgrain Ribbon to the strip of Basic Black behind the papered panel.  The sentiment is from Delightful Decorations and punched with the 1" circle punch. It's popped on a Dimensional and then I added some Basic Pearls. 

This was fun to make once I'd decided how to incorporate my little squares.  Hope you've had a great day and I very much appreciate your comments. x

Supplies used

All Stampin' Up! unless otherwise stated

Card: Cherry Cobbler, Basic Black, Very Vanilla

Ink: Old Olive

Stamps: Delightful Decorations

Punches: 1 1/4" square, 1 3/8" square,  1" circle

Other: Basic Pearls, 1/4" Very Vanilla Grosgrain Ribbon

Dasher's Jolly Holiday

Another card to share from my Tuesday card class.  The next card class is on Thursday evening if you fancy coming along and making some Christmas Cards.

As you can see we gave Dasher centre stage.  Isn't he fab?  He's stamped in Chocolate Chip on Very Vanilla.  He was framed up using Cherry Cobbler, Jolly Holiday Designer Series Paper, and Chocolate Chip.  The edges of  the Cherry Cobbler and Jolly Holiday layers were edged with Whisper White Craft ink.  On the Cherry Cobbler layer I added dots using a white gel pen.  The Chocolate Chip card base was matted with Cherry Cobbler stamped with Serene Snowflakes using Versamark ink.  A strip of 5/8" Chocolate Chip Grosgrain Ribbon finishes it off.

I love the Cherry Cobbler it's such a rich colour and super for Christmas.  If you would like any of the above supplies then you can e mail me on ails300@btinternet.com.  How about spreading the cost by joining my Stampers 6 Club which will be starting in October.  I have 4 places available.

Thanks for coming over and if you leave a comment, I'll return the visit. x

A little bit of Thanks

A little bit of Thanks to my customers this month.  I really enjoyed making these.  So much fun using the Brayer and one of my favourite stamp sets, Pocket Silhouettes.  I love stamp sets that include sentiments.

To achieve the Brayer effect, I firstly rollered off the page on some scrap in Not Quite Navy before gradually bringing it onto the Whisper white card without lifting the Brayer off the paper. 

I did the same at the top initially with Melon Mambo and a little Rich Razzleberry.  The image and sentiment are stamped in Soft Suede.

Hope you've had a great weekend.  Unfortunately the weather here turned quite chilly with wind and rain.  Brrrrr!! 

If you would like to purchase any of the above products then I'd be happy to help, e mail ails300@btinternet.com.  Thanks for visiting. x 

Supplies used

All Stampin' Up! unless otherwise stated

Card: Perfect Plum, Not quite Navy, Whisper White

Ink: Soft Suede, Not Quite Navy, Melon Mambo, Rich Razzleberry

Stamps: Pocket Silhouettes

Other: Brayer

Butterfly Love

Woohoo Saturday again and another challenge from Less is more.  This week we have to take 3 challenges from the previous weeks and combine them.  I've gone for week 1 Pink Black and White, week 4 3 Squares and Week 16 Butterflies.  To be honest it was really difficult to choose as most of the challenges have been brilliant.  Sorry but the acetate one scarred me a little, hee hee.

So onto todays card, very simple really, a Whisper White base then  3 squares cut from Basic Black.  The butterflies from Butterfly Prints, I coloured directly onto the stamp using my Blender pen and Melon mambo.  I only coloured the centres enough to pick up the different patterns.  Then I coloured "Love" from the sentiment in Melon Mambo and positioned it with my Stamp-a-ma-jig.

Thanks for taking the time to come visit.  I'm sure this weeks Less is More talent will produce some very varied results, it's well worth a look. x

Supplies Used
All Stampin' Up! unless otherwise stated

Card: Whisper White, Basic Black
Ink: Melon Mambo
Stamps: Butterfly Prints
Punch: Butterfly
Other: Stamp-a-ma-jig

Happy Glossy Cupcakes

Happy Wednesday!  It's a gorgeous day here today, hope it's been fine where you are.

I'm feeling very pleased with myself as I love the result on this card.  I've made it with the Friday Mashup challenge in mind.  This week it's Sweet as a Button.  You can use a button/s on your project or a cupcake or a mash up and use both.

I've reached for On a Pedestal stamp set.  I stamped the little cake in Not Quite Navy onto Very Vanilla then again in Pacific Point.  I cut out the Pacific Point icing and attached with a Dimensional.  I covered the icing in Crystal Effects and added a swirl of silver string.  The Very Vanilla panel was mounted onto Not Quite Navy and then mounted onto Blueberry Crisp Designer Paper.  I made a tag using the Decorative Label Punch and Crumb Cake.  "Happy" was inked in Pacific Point on Very Vanilla and cut out, then mounted the same as the main panel.  I added some Very Vanilla ribbon and a Real Red button dressed with a little silver thread.  The word Happy was also covered with Crystal Effects.  The card base is Crumb Cake.

Best go and check on the dinner, enjoy your evening! x

Supplies required
All Stampin' Up! unless otherwise stated

Card: Crumb Cake, Not Quite Navy, Very Vanilla
Ink: Not Quite Navy, Pacific Point
Papers: Blueberry Crisp Designer Series
Stamps: On a Pedestal
Punch: Decorative Label
Other: Crystal Effects, Real Red Button, Silver Thread from my stash, Very Vanilla 1/4" Grosgrain Ribbon

Christmas in August

Hi there, today was the first of my card classes for this term and we made some Christmas cards.  Yep I know I mentioned the dreaded C word!  It is only 123 days you know. 

It was great to dust off my Christmas stamps though.  On this one we've used Delightful Decorations and Baroque Motifs teamed up with Designer Series Paper Jolly Holiday.

The baubles were stamped in Riding Hood Red and matted onto Cherry Cobbler punched out with the Ornament Extra-Large Punch.  A Very Vanilla panel was stamped with Baroque Motifs in Old Olive.  This was attached to the Jolly Holiday paper which was matted onto a Cherry Cobbler card base.  A panel using the opposite side of the Designer Paper and trimmed with the Scallop Edge Border Punch is raised on Dimensionals and added to the top once the baubles were attached with silver string.  

In class today the ladies chose to use a panel of Cherry Cobbler at the top which was very classy. 

I'm going to enter this into the Simply Stampin' Challenge which for this week is to Punch it Up!  I was really please to see that I won top 3 last week for this card, thanks ladies it made my day!  Go check out the challenge there's currently a stamp set up for grabs. 

That's all from me tonight, hope you are having a great week and thanks for visiting. x 

Supplies Used

All Stampin' Up! supplies unless otherwise stated

Card: Cherry Cobbler, Very Vanilla

Ink: Riding Hood Red, Old Olive

Stamps: Baroque Motifs, Delightful Decorations

Paper: Jolly Holiday Designer Papers

Others: Dimensionals, Silver thread from my stash. 

Butterfly Tag

A change from cards, here's a little tag that I made.

I used an ordinary luggage tag and sponged Early Espresso, Pacific Point and Pretty in Pink over it using my Sponge Daubers.  I then stamped a Butterfly from Butterfly Prints in Pacific Point after stamping first onto some scrap.  I attached a Perfect Plum butterfly cut with the Beautiful Wings Embosslit and attached to a Whisper White circle which I had also sponged.  Then added a few more butterflies in Perfect Plum and Melon Mambo.  Finally I added some Pretty in Pink 1/4" Grosgrain Ribbon.

The inks were ones I had sitting on my desk, as was the stamp set and the butterflies were from my shapes tub (extras that had been cut out previously).

To be honest I'm not sure if the grungy look is me perhaps I'm too clean and precise but it was fun just going with the flow and seeing what emerged.  I'm sure I'll have another play some other time.

Thanks for your visit and comments.  A big welcome goes out to Stacey, thanks for following!

Here's the supplies
All Stampin' Up! unless otherwise stated

Card: Luggage Labels from a stationery store, Whisper White, Perfect Plum, Melon Mambo
Ink: Early Espresso, Pacific Point, Pretty in Pink
Stamps: Butterfly Prints
Dies: Beautiful Wings Embosslit
Ribbon: 1/4 Grosgrain Pretty in Pink