French postage due - version 2.

Here is my second set of cards using the postage due stamp set and the banner blast stamp set.

My favourite is this one in mostly Tangerine tango with some gold washi tape, Baked brown sugar and Coastal Cabana.

The banners are stamped punched and attached to the whisper white card.

In this second card I stamped directly onto the card and featured a lot more Coastal cabana including a piece of stretch ruffled ribbon.

French postage - Merci beaucoup!

Another card I made today for a friend of ours who gave Jess a present, recently.

My friend used to be a French teacher at High school so I thought she'd appreciate this stampset and tri-coloures: Real red, pacific point and white.

We even stamped the inside with various french and floral inspired stamps.

Card recipe:

Cardstock: naturals white, Real Red and whisper white.

Featured Stamp sets: Banner blast, Postage Due, Blooming with Kindness.

Inks: Real Red, Pacific Point, Crumb cake.

Tools: Banner punch, postage punch, 1 1/4" circle punch, label love punch.

Birthday gifts ...

Birthdays! I love other people's birthdays - making a card,  a gift and knowing that I can make someone's day... When it comes to my turn I'd prefer not to mention another year has passed.

This beautiful card, using one of my all time favourite sets is from Felicity Hawkins.

Felicity has created a beautiful gift box with the plastic stamp case and filled it full of lovely thoughtful things. I particularly love the wallet filled with stamped images and kind thoughtful sayings.

And I'm very partial to an envelope of chocolate and coffee....

A French Floral Friday card class

For the start of a new week I thought I'd begin by sharing what we made at our Friday morning card session. Any questions or if you'd like to place an order just send me an email  at nerida_carter@hotmail.com

Everyone enjoyed making this French styled card with the "Postage Due" stamp set on crumb cake with Early Espresso ink. Using the postage stamp punch and 1" square as a layered embellishment.

Our second card uses a simple technique of punching and stamping to show the gorgeous patterned paper beneath. With a popped up flower or two for added dimension and rhinestones for bling.

The paper we used came from the Fresh Prints patterned paper stack on page 33 of the Seasonal catalogue. (48 card sized sheets $11.95).

On the same page is the matching "Petite Petals" stamp set and punch.

Don't forget to Bundle and save when you purchase this one. A 15% saving makes the clear mounted bundle only $34.75,  or the wood mounted bundle $39.75.

At home I made up another one using the Venetion Romanc Designer series paper and stamping with Elegant eggplant with Coastal cabana I think it has a fresh clean look for a late summer birthday card.

Strawberry Postage Due

I still remember when Shelli first revealed this gorgeous stamp set at stampin' Up! Convention a few years ago. In her signature vintage style she punched the wheel circles from patterned paper.

So Shelli - circa 2012 - in her simple vintage style.

I have been meaning to make a card like hers for a while... When a friend asked could we do a French styled card in pretty vintage colours I thought of this card from a few years ago. I have updated the colours and added an extra layer, combining Strawberry Slush with Early Espresso ink and the new watercolour wonder DSP (Designer series paper).

Card Recipe:

Stamp set: Postage Due, hostess Simply Sketched.

Cardstock: Strawberry slush, Crumb cake, watercolour Wonder DSP

Ink: early espresso.

Tools: 1" circle punch, postage stamp punch, 1" square punch.

Postcard from Paris

How I wish !!!

When you can't go to Paris ... You can always pretend, dream or imagine yourself there.

A postcard stamp background will fit the bill.

Recipe:

Stamp sets: Shop Around wheel p.98, Postcard p.102, Postage Due p.103, and new hostess stampset - Postage collection (page 204).

Cardstock: Sahara Sand, whisper white

Ink: Baked brown sugar, stampin' write markers in-colours p.141

Postage stamp punch p.180.

Oval card fold

It may be wet and grey outside but there is always something happening on my craft table. Most days  anyway! Wisteria wonder and elegant eggplant cardstock form the base of my card.

This one is a fancy fold using the ovals Framelits and my big shot machine. 

I am using some squares of the soon to be retiring "Fan fair" designer series paper. Pretty French lace and French script patterns to punch out and layer on a postage stamp punch. Ooh la la!

Our current catalogue retires at the end of this month. Give me a call or email your order to me this weekend at nerida_carter@hotmail.com or place an online order using the link button on my sidebar.

Pretty Postage Flowers

 We have had a big week here, starting with Jess performing in the Eisteddford Piano concert on Sunday and Queen's Birthday long weekend.

  Lots of new things arriving in cardboard boxes to play with.

Which leads to lots of cardmaking, crafting and journal creating.

I have a stack of retiring cardstock and stamps to go through and put up for sale.

As I do, I can't help but make a card with the bits I am sorting and combining them with new things that I have on my table.

This is one of those a little bit old and a few things new kind of cards.

Today's card is full of texture in two shades of purple... with white and orange.

The new-ish products are the two scalloped circle punches.

I have featured the flowers on the Postage Paid background stamp and hi-lighted them with some Silver Sparkle Dazzling Details for some glitter and shine.

The Wisteria wonder ink and cardstock is continuing into the next catalogue and the Concord Crush,

well that's left over from last year, but I happen to have a half used pack in my stash and haven't let go of it yet.

Big shot tools: Window Frames Collection Framelit dies

Embossing folders: houndstooth and honeycomb.

First Edition patterned specialty paper is going!

Sentimental about feeling sentimental?

There are only two days left of Sale-a-bration ... I am sharing this card as it features the Feeling sentimental stampset.

It could be a male or female card as the images are in the kind of non-gender colours of :Soft Suede, Cajun craze (terracotta) and Marina mist on  a Chocolate chip cardbase.

This stampset comes with the sentiment "Celebrate" in a nice script which I think goes well with the Postage Due background stamping.

Happy Birthday is from Itty Bitty banners only punched this time with the label punch.

And I have sponged edges and added a bitty butterfly punch too.

The card edge is textured with the lace border embossing folder.

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Artistic Etchings with Postage due

 When I first flipped through the current Stampin' Up! catalogue I was so excited to see that Artistic etchings (the stampset with the eiffel tower and keys and crowns) was there and a lovely new stampset called Postage due. All in the modern vintage style that I love.

 These colours and style elements are inspired by a card in the latest Stampin' Up Impressions magazine.
Crumb cake card and ink with small accents of the new in-colours: Raspberry Ripple, Midnight muse, Summer starfruit, Gumball green and Primrose petals.

The postage due collage stamp makes great background stamping.

The three postage stamp images are definitely vintage in style and fit perfectly into the coordinating Postage stamp punch.

A bit of twine wraps around the card like an old fashioned parcel sent by post.

Tell me if you like this style, too?

Colour challenge - Crafters anonymous - My 2 cents worth.

September's mini challenge over at Crafter's Anon is a colour inspiration challenge.
Don't you love a challenge that stretches you way outside your comfort zone?

The colours in this challenge were: Summer Starfruit, Basic Grey, Whisper white and Basic Black.
I haven't used my square Stampin' Up punches for a very long time.
The square pillows and flower texture inspired the layout for this design.

 Card Recipe:

Stampset: "Postage Paid" p.108 (Annual catalogue) $29.95

Ink: Black stazon.

Cardstock: Basic grey, whisper white, Summer Starfruit.

Punches: Square punches 1 1/4" and 1 3/8",

NEW 1 1/4" scallop circle, Postage stamp punch.

Dimensionals and silver brad.

 The style is crisp and clean. What else would you expect with balck and white,  offset with a distressed crumpled flower in the corner. the flower is made with three punched scallop circles distessed and delaminated to make 6 layers. Held together with one of our mini silver brads.

 I love this stampset - "Postage Due" - It's french, it is slightly vintage and it has that gorgeous 2 cents worth stamp that matches the postage stamp punch, (*sigh*) love it when everything coordinates...
What do you think?