26 May 2008

Happy Birthday Joan



I've been having a social life so no time for blogging but have created a few cards, this one was a repeat of a card that I made a while back and loved. I do love this saying it's so APPROPRIATE.

Stampset: Garden Whimsy, It's Your Birthday, Looks Like Spring
Inks: So Saffron, Certainly Celery, Pretty in Pink, Whisper White (Craft Ink)
Card stock etc: Chocolate Chip, So Saffron, Pretty in Pink, Certainly Celery & Certainly Celery Designer Prints
Other: Dazzling Diamonds glitter, Celery ribbon, horizontal slot punch

From what I gathered Joan had a very special day & our mutual friend Judy also used this stamp set for her card - so hope Joan likes butterflies!! We both used lots of glitter because Joan is our Glitter Queen!

12 May 2008

Stampin' Up! co-ordinates in a BIG way!

One of the great things about SU! is that everything co-ordinates, the card stock, the ink, the ribbons, the brads, the buttons, the eyelets & even the designer papers. So it makes it really easy for those of us that aren't as artistic as others to make an awesome card really quickly.

This is from one who had to think & prepare for my downline training last night after Mother's day celebrations with the family. The techniques we were looking at tonight were water colouring, embossing & setting an eyelet (the old way & the new way with the Cropodile). I wanted a card that covered the lot, so designer paper to the rescue!

I used the very lovely Petals & Paisleys DP. One of it's flowers reminded me of a flower from the retired In Full Bloom set.

Stamps: In Full Bloom, Small Sayings (both retired)
Card stock: Pretty in Pink, Cool Carribean, Whisper White
Designer Paper: Petals & Paisleys
Inks: Pretty in Pink, Cool Carribean, Rose Red, Old Olive, Versamark
Other: Black embossing powder, black eyelets, Cropodile, Aquapainter, sponge dauber, Cropodile, black eyelets, dimensionals, Dazzling Diamonds glitter, 2-way glue pen, Snail adhesive

Listed below is the CURRENT Designer Paper range & their co-coordinating SU! colours (12 sheets of double dipped DP for $13.95):
Designer Series Paper Colour matches
Berry Bliss: Purely Pomegranate, Pretty in Pink, Close to Cocoa
Brocade Backgrounds: Always Artichoke, Chocolate Chip, Old Olive, River Rock
Dashing: Old Olive, Real Red, River Rock, Very Vanilla
East Coast Prep: Real Red, Wild Wasabi, Tempting Turquoise, More Mustard
Fall Flowers: Old Olive, Really Rust, Soft Sky, Sahara Sand
Jersey Shore: Wild Wasabi, Pumpkin Pie, Brilliant Blue, Bashful Blue
Le Jardin: River Rock, So Saffron, Very Vanilla, Always Artichoke, Bashful Blue
Notebook: Soft Sky, Kraft, Very Vanilla
Outlaw: Chocolate Chip, Creamy Caramel, Really Rust, Sage Shadow, Very Vanilla
Petals & Paisleys: Certainly Celery, Rose Red, Old Olive, Pretty in Pink, Soft Sky, So Saffron, Taken with Teal, Cool Caribbean (in-colour '07)
Spring Break: Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie, Blue Bayou, Soft Sky
Spring Fling: Certainly Celery, Sage Shadow, Pretty in Pink, So Saffron
Spring Flowers: Barely Banana, Cameo Coral (stamped off once), Chocolate Chip, Mellow Moss, Sahara Sand
Spring Showers: Barely Banana, Bashful Blue, Chocolate Chip, Close to Cocoa, Mellow Moss, Sahara Sand
Spring Silhouettes: Wild Wasabi, Certainly Celery, Soft Sky, Very Vanilla
Wintergreen: Always Artichoke, Certainly Celery, Sage Shadow, Soft Sky

11 May 2008

Baroque Motifs really does rock!


Wow my 10-year old nephew made this card for my sister Tracey for mother's day. I thought Tracey had made it for our mum as it was so beautiful. Maybe Max will be the first male demonstrator in NZ! Well done I'm impressed, the flourish in this set is just gorgeous I think it's hard to make a bad card with it. Though he may need to work on his cutting skills a wee bit.

Stamps: Baroque Motifs
Card stock: Pale plum, Perfect plum
Inks: as above
Other: lots & lots of dazzling diamonds glitter, brad

By the way my mum loved her Wild Rose card I had made her a few weeks ago (phew) and her lovely soft micro fleece heated throw - think I want one too as it's so snugly & warm.