COUGHS, CHALKS & A CARD

This idea came to me whilst I was kept awake by my cough, wheeze, cough, routine. I kept thinking of a childhood toy I had, I am sure you can still get them and many of you have had them.


One of those plastic puzzles made up of sliding tile pieces that fit into a kind of tray. Do you remember them?


Well this card is based on that. I used my Stampin' Pastels with this card and adopted the Poppin' Pastel technique. I stamped my image with Versa Mark ink and then used cotton wool balls to "pounce" the various pastel colours (Bold Brights) over my image. There are many, many ways in which to use your Pastels but this is by far my favourite!

Click on the image for a closer look.

Note to self; change your trimmer blade!!

Cardstock: Yoyo Yellow, Basic Black, Whisper White and Only Orange

Ink: Versa Mark and Basic Black

Stamp sets: Sincere Salutations and Its Beautiful Wheel

Accessories: Whisper White 1/4" Grosgain Ribbon 

Non Stampin' Up!: Button

Ta Ta for now

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PAPER FLOWERS

Gosh, this card took a bit longer than usual; working with tissue paper takes a gentle touch and I am known for having the exact opposite!


I took inspiration from two of my fellow Demo's Loraine and Vicky and set about creating a card with flowers as the main theme. 

Click in the photo for a loser look.

I had fun with the inked flowers that make up the background of this card. I punched my flower from some scrap card an used the punched area as a kind of stencil. You can see a an other example of this over on Loraine's blog. You can really achieve great results with this technique. As you can see, I have varied the amount of ink applied to different areas to get lighter and darker shades. I also combined two colours on some areas to get a two toned finish.


For the small circles I wanted a faded finish so I stamped my image twice on scrap paper and then stamped on to my card background.

Cardstock: Going Grey and Whisper White

Ink:Green Galore, Basic Grey and Pixie Pink

Stamp Sets: A beautiful Thing (small circles) and Sincere Salutations

Accessories: 5 Petal flower punch

Non Stampin' Up!: Tissue paper, buttons

Ta Ta for now


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THE "JOY" OF IT ALL

Here is the original project I set out to create this morning, a Joy fold card. I decided not to use any new bits of cardstock or designer series paper and go for what I have collected in my "scraps" box. The colours work well together don't you think?

I've propped these scalloped bits of cardstock on two dimensionals. This keeps the card closed.

Cardstock: Real Red, Whisper White and Lovely Lilac

Ink: Versa Mark and Brilliant Blue

Stamp Sets: A Beautiful thing and  Sincere Salutations.

Accessories: Corner rounder, Scallop Circle Punch

Ta Ta for now


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WALLPAPER

That's what this card reminds me of. 

Usually , I have some kind of vision when I begin to make something. It wasn't always that way but I find I am less likely to "waste" bits from my stash if I have some kind of idea about what I want to achieve. 

I might think of a colour scheme, a vague shape for the card or where I want the sentiment to be. This time there was none of that, I just sat and came up with this. 

Very simple elements and very time friendly too! If you are familiar with the Stampin' Up! jumbo wheels then you will know that to create such a background took a minute or two tops! If you are not so familiar I urge you to place your order for one sharpish and see exactly what I am on about, tee hee!

Cardstock: Orchid Opulence

Ink: Pixie Pink

Stamp Sets: Sincere Salutations and Its Beautiful Jumbo Wheel

Accessories: Hodgepodge Hardware (Love it)

GOODBYE CIRCLE PUNCH

Well, this project proved to be somewhat stressful. Halfway through my beloved 1 1/4" circle punch gave up the ghost and ended up ripping my cardstock chronically. For some reason it jams whenever I put anything it in! I 


Fear not, Stampin' Up! came to the rescue. After one email from me and a friendly phone call from Chris, all is well in my crafty world once again.

Click on the photos for a closer look.

Cardstock: Whisper White and Basic Black

Ink: Basic Black,StazOn White ink

Stamp Sets: Sincere Salutations and Circle Circus

Accessories: 1 3/8" circle punch, 1 1/4" circle punch

GET WELL SOON ALEX

I am trying desperately to stay positive but I am so ill its unreal. I still have this nasty chest infection so I am coughing my little heart out! Its giving me an awesome tummy ache and headache. My throat is so sore and I have even picked up a bout of conjunctivitis!

I wish I knew how to take care of myself. The trouble is I can't bare a messy house, got to make sure these kiddies have something decent to eat and baby Ava still needs her mummy. So, in order to cheer myself up I have made myself this get well soon card, hoorah!

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Cardstock: Chocolate Chip, Kraft and Green Galore

Ink: Pumpkin Pie and Chocolate Chip

Stamp Sets: Sincere Salutations and A Good Egg

Accessories: Scallop Circle Punch, Eyelet Border Punch, Designer series Paper

Non Stampin' Up!: Ribbon, brads

DIORAMA DRAMA

I thought I'd give you the picture first today as I think this card or box as its called is pretty special. Its called a Diorama box and I saw a few of them on a very well known video website and so I thought I'd try to make my own. 

I kept my design quite simple as I am cream crackered this evening but you really could go to town with this project by cutting out your stamped images and sticking them to the front using dimensionals, colouring your images; the possibilities really are endless!

As you can see I have used two different circle punches here, my own spin on the project. 

Cardstock: Chocolate Chip, Whisper White and Green Garden 

Ink: Versa Mark, Pumpkin Pie and More Mustard

Stamp Sets: Sincere Salutations and A Beautiful Thing

Accessories: 1 1/4" Circle Punch and 1 3/8 Circle Punch

BIRTHDAY BALLOONS

Cadbury Caramel and a cup of tea for brekky, what a fabulous way to start the day! I feel dreadful and so I thought I would treat myself and while baby Ava is napping and Cameron is watching some noisy kids show in the living room; I thought I'd buckle down to a bit of card making.


Its lovely and sunny outside and so I thought a bright and cheery card would go down quite well. 

Click on the pictures for a closer look

Cardstock: Whisper White, Real Red, Yoyo Yellow, Tempting Turquoise, Brilliant Blue and Green Galore

Ink: Green Galore, Basic Grey, Brilliant Blue

Stamp Set: All in the Family and Sincere Salutations

Accessories: Corner rounder, 1 1/4" circle punch

Non Stampin' Up!: Silver gel pen, colouring pencils

 

THANKS SO MUCH

Its sleepover night for Cameron and his cousin and at 12:15 am I have just sent them off to bed. What is childhood without a few fun, late nights? I have been up, keeping an eye on them and at them same time just itching to get my hands on my new Stampin' Up! pieces that Mr. UPS brought me yesterday.


I may wake up tomorrow and realise that I  have not thought this idea through that well...Very tired right now. But as you will hear me say time and time again, "there are no mistakes in crafting"! You can get away with a heck of a lot with that adage, LOL!


These are thank you notes, placed into a cute little coupon book. Not sure about anyone else but I am always writing little thank you's on Post-its and sticking them here and there for folks.


This idea is a great one (I think) for when there is no time to make a card and its a great way to jazz up plain Post-its.


Now, I don't actually have any Post-its to hand, so I have perforated each page so they can be torn away easily. I used my paper piercing tool to do this, however perhaps a Stampin' Up! cutting tool would have been better as there is a perforating tool on that. 

Right, I am exhausted, so I'll be back on later to tell you what I have used.

Night, night!