Melon Mambo and Razzleberry christmas card

I just have to share another Christmas card today!

Jessica made this one and I think she has her own very unique style -

Red cherries, green snail and a Melon Mambo pig with a cute button nose.

Finished off with some "Heard from the Heart" words:

Welcome Christmas into your heart.

Multi-colour Button Buddy

On Friday I met up with friends from my Mother's group... 8 years and still going!

We have something in common of course.

We love to stamp and make cards, even the occasional scrap page gets done.

 On this occasion it was a card using the new in-colour Island Indigo and two new stampsets: Button Buddies and Friendly Phrases.
I was inspired by my daughter's colouring of this flower and so we used a bunch of Stampin' write markers to ink up the rubber, huff  and stamp.

Colours used: Daffodil delight, Peach Parfait, Rose Red, Poppy Parade, Marina Mist, Concord Crush and Pear Pizzazz.

A veritable who's who of coloured markers.

And the friendly phrases stamp had the same treatment with Poppy Parade, Concord Crush and Marina mist hi-lighting different words.  The large oval punch fits these words just perfectly.

Did you notice that this flower fits in the smaller of the two scallop circle punches?

Lastly it needed a ribbon, I don't yet have the pool party ruffled ribbon so...

a new punch was called for:  The Dotted Scallop ribbon border punch !!!

Stampin' up don't skimp on quality, and they don't skimp on adjectives either.

Button Buddies and one layer cards

 Beautiful flowers, buttons, cute pigs, snowmen, cherries and vases of flowers ... its all in the Button buddies stampset. I have only just scratched the surface with the cards I have made so far.

 This one is a CASE from from the Idea Book and Catalogue. A quick and simple card with a button attached using a mini glue dot.

 Next I wanted to stamp all the in-colours and make centres of the flowers with the new glass glitter.
It sticks on perfectly with the multipurpose glue.

 Then next is a cute little piggy in Melon Mambo with the perfect bow attached at the top and a button for his nose! Faux buttons work just as well (using the button embosslit die).

 Shelli demonstrated this stampset up on stage at our Stampin up Convention back in May.

The last one is made by my daughter, Jess. She wanted to colour every petal a different colour (but her mum would only let her use the retired brights colour markers .... and none of any new ones).
Not surprising, It came out very pretty on these pre-punched cards.
She has used the Friendly phrases stampset for her words- Wow you're the Best!
 We have school holidays for the next two weeks - I'm looking forward to lots of crafting!