Priceless goes spinning

I had a lovely Friday night doing a mother & daughter's evening workshop. As children were involved I thought it would be fun to make a spinner card. As it was quite a big group I made it as simple as possible using a wheel for the the background & used the very versatile punches to punch out the stamped image. It was great especially as the children added quite a lot of glitter to their butterflies & they dazzled all right as they spun.

Tracee Jones from my team very kindly told me that a 10c piece worked as well as the American penny (amazingly that's what they call their 1c piece!)

Stamp sets: Priceless, So Swirly jumbo wheel
Card stock: Bashful Blue, Ruby Red, Whisper White
Ink: Bashful Blue, Ruby Red
Punches: Word window, Scallop, 1 3/8" circle
Other: Dimensionals, Dazzling Diamonds glitter, 10c pieces

Happy birthday Keegan

Pete's son Keegan turns 18 this week, I've only known him for the last 3 years of his life but do they grow fast!!

I hate doing "boy's cards" so must admit thinking help an hour or so ago. I'd used yonks ago for one of my first demo swaps the now retired Oxford designer paper & Carte Postale and made masculine cards with them. I still have some paper left & it's good to use up those scraps. So it was a starting point. I decided I was going to use the also retired stamp set Collage Alphabet as thought the free style of it would appeal to an 18-year old boy. My original idea was to spell out the word eighteen but found this lovely pocket card over at SCS so it provided my inspiration. And there maybe a wee surprise behind the inner tag that will make him a happy boy!
Stamp sets: Collage Alphabet, Artifacts, Looks Like Spring, Occasional Greetings
Cardstock: Brocade Blue, Natural ivory
Ink: Brocade Blue, Close to Cocoa
Other: Hodgepodge hardware, hemp twine

I have inked the star stamp in brocade blue & then rock n' rolled the edges of the stamp in close to cocoa - cool effect.

My talented artistic cousin Chris has updated her website

As some of you may know I come from a family with many artists in it (not me - though people tell me I write nicely!)

I think this is what I LOVE about Stampin' Up! so much as that I can be creative & hopefully bring pleasure to others & myself with my cards etc.

Anyhow my cousin Chris whose "wall sculpture - Looking Forward" that I am the proud owner of has updated her website - so have a peep.