White Wedding !!!

 Do you know a few couples out there about to tie the knot?

Here is one of the cards we made at Teresa's Workshop on the weekend ...

 We played with heat embossing, the big shot machine and the scalloped heart sizzlit die.

The perfect bow ... was successfully completed by everyone.

It took me several goes watching a you tube video, over and over, until I could tie it on my own, but its worth it for that luscious flat bow !

 This white on white card is a very traditional styled card... if you knew the Bride-maids dress colour you could add a bit of sponging or change out the cardstock on the hearts and ribbon bow to pink or red or Blue.
 There's a Stampin' Up colour to suit almost every bride.

 On my hearts I added some stamped words from the Strength and Hope stampset (inked with Shimmer paint on a sponge dauber direct to the rubber). Champagne Shimmer paint is my favourite as you can add a few drops to rubbing alcohol and spray it on the card in a fine mist.

The photo above shows the Framed tulip embossing folder sponged with Platinum shimmer paint... not sure if it works so well on white, but on a darker colour it would work even better.

Enjoy!!!

Big shot Fashion !

Stampin' Up workshops are where I have the most fun ... making cards, meeting new people, listening to stories and sharing a cup of tea.

 Even sharing a bit of fashion advice (if it comes in a stampin up cardstock I can find a colour combo that will work for you - We'll just pull out my faithful colour coach).  If in doubt everthing goes with Sahara sand or basic Black I say!

 We made these cute little purses and then a card with a hat, dress and heart shaped belt with pearls.

 You could accessorise over the top with these ones and for our younger girls even daffodil Delight, Melon Mambo and Pumpkin pie patterned paper isn't out of the question.

Enjoy!!!

Elite challenges - SC44 and Misty Razzleberries.

Over at the Elite challenges site, Carol has set us some new Sketch, Stamp and colour challenges.

It is so long since I have attempted one of these challenges -

The First challenge is a colour challenge: Misty Razzleberries.

Rich Razzleberry, Marina Mist and Old Olive.

I really love these colours together, I just had to play and combine some of my new products from the current Mini catalogue.

 The sketch is from the card on page 16

 of the Autumn Winter mini catalogue.

 Using the Framed tulips embossing folder with the gorgeous new Bevelled windowpanes.

These are acrylic frames that highlight an image or patterned paper with punched ribbon holes on either side for threading. I have adhered the ribbon to the card with snail adhesive and let the ribbon anchor the window pane to the page. (No glue dots, nothing!)

 I've used another of my all time favourite techniques:
Heat embossing with Stampin' Up!'s Gold embossing powder.

 The words are from the stampset: You're a Gem and the crown is from Artistic Etchings, when I saw the words to this "Queen for a day" it just begged the crown to go with it.
Then I added two "all a flutter" butterflies in gold embossing onto the Rich Razzleberry layer.

 The other stampset, that I just can't seem to do with out is the "French Foliage" stampset (also in the Autumn Winter mini) the mud splatters and script stamps are great texture for making a blank piece of cardstock look old and vintage, or just interesting to look at... enjoy!!!

Dress card in Winter white

 Just sharing my second attempt at this card ... it may be winter, but we can dream of spring!

I have used the framed tulips embossing folder on the whisper white card, added some pearls and embossed the skirt this time with the square lattice texture.

 You can make four skirts out of one scallop circle cut die.

So my daughter Jessica made a card on the same theme. I think she did an excellent job with the "in stitches" wheel as a background. Her princess fairy has a crown and wings, and shoes too!

Enjoy!!!

Botanical Gazette

 This designer series paper is like leafing through a vintage book of botanical pictures. I love vintage in a modern style with the birds and plants, bees and butterflies that are lovely images to work with.

The Botanical Gazette patterned paper coordinates with a stampset called Nature walk. My daughter has already sent out some cards with the eggs for Easter.
The colours in the paper are Old Olive, marina Mist, Cherry Cobbler, Not quite navy, Early Espresso, so saffron and Vanilla.

I think these will be very versatile: its warm, its muted, real and natural.
To give my card a feminine twist I added the new Framed tulips embossing folder on Blushing Bride coloured Cardstock.

 I water coloured the flowers on the paper with marina mist and Old olive inks, then added the crystal effects on top to give a glossy dimensional lift.

 So much on this card. Note the new Decorative label punch that can be used in a variety of ways to make frames for our sentiments.

And lastly, I have used the Boho Blossom punch flowers to make the Vanilla, Marina Mist and Blushing bride flower with some sponging and a pearl for its centre.

Card Recipe:

Paper: Botanical Gazette (12 double sided sheets) $16.95

Cardstock: Blushing Bride, Marina Mist,Very Vanilla

Ink: Marina Mist, Old Olive.

Tools: Decorative label XL punch $33.95, Boho Blossom punch,Word window punch.

Big shot machine $179.95, Framed Tulips embossing folder $15.95

Crystal effects $11.95, half backed pearl jewells, sponge.