Gift card holder in Fifth Avenue florals

We had a fun night on Tuesday night at Alicia's house - Alicia had us make this gorgeous gift card holder.
It opens like a little purse with a concertina double pocket inside.

It is basically a small folded card with a belly band covered in embellished flowers.

I really enjoyed making it. Even though I did end up finishing the belly band and inserts this morning in day light.

What do you think?

Each centre of the flowers has a rhinestone on it and the colours are:

 Kiwi kiss, not quite Navy and Baja Breeze with whisper white.

When you open it you see the tabs for two cards that fit neatly into the envelope "pockets".

One is for your message (mine just says "for you" at this stage) and the second tab is to place a gift card or voucher into. They would be just the right size for a movie ticket, gift card, folded notes, or a gift voucher from Stamping Joy!!!

That's my business card slipped in between the flower and the slit punch holes...

Iit could be anything you like - I am thinking Christmas gift vouchers for my nieces and nephews.

The photo above shows you a side view of the cut envelope,  that creates your two pockets... Alicia recommends you use a good quality envelope instead of a business style one with the blue lining and I tend to agree ... but if that's all you have then they work just fine.

Card recipe:

Stampset: Fifth Avenue Floral.

Cardstock: kiwi kiss, whisper white.

Designer series patterned paper: Stampin up - Urban garden.

Tools: Scallop edge punch, scallop circle punch, boho blossom punch, round tab punch, slit punch ($11.50).

Rhinestone brads.

Enjoy!!!

Easel card Inspired by Nature

I am sharing a card I made at the end of last month, that I couldn't show you before because it was for  a friend's birthday ... Anyway, this is the Easel card I made.

It uses the gorgous butterfly punch, Inspired by Nature stampset, glitter and Designer series Paper: Urban garden.

The butterfly down the bottom is enjoying the sunshine with a layer of glitter underneath the wings.

The stampsets used are: Inspired by Nature (both the grass and the flower stamps laid over one another)
and the words are from Butterfly prints.

I have inked up the daisy with Pacific point, rubbed off the flower centre  and added some lavender lace marker to the rubber before stamping on the cardstock.

Then for texture I have covered the petals in crystal effects.

You can see how I have dotted the centres with the crystal effects. They're supposed to look like dew drops in the sunshine.
The ribbon and button hold the easel in place.

There is even a place (under the folded easel bit) for some extra stamping and wishes.

If you would like to make this card send me an e-mail 
and I can come and make it at your place.
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Here is what you need:

Butterfly Punch ($30.95 value)
1 Pack Assorted Cardstock ($14.50 value)
Urban Garden Designer Series Paper ($16.95 value)
Old Olive Grosgain ribbon ($14.95 value)
Inspired by Nature ($41.95 value)
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Embossed Upsy daisy scrapbook page

I have cleaned up my dining room (aka Nerida's craft table) . . . so in order to finish this scrap book page I had to wait a week, we had visitors and they might have wanted to use the dining table occasionally. So I haven't made a card for days... not that you would notice. I usually make up for a gap in stamping with a flurry of activity and ideas. I've pulled out the embossing powders again ... This time upsy daisy in silver embossing powder matched with the gorgous Designer series paper Urban Garden - I didnt even notice that this image was such a perfect match. But then Stampin' up always have the coordinating paper, stamp, colour ranges available for making a project work. That's why I really like these products.

The title for this page is embossed in white -I have used the quote from Van Gogh - The way to KNOW LIFE is to LOVE many things. (From the dreams du Jour stampset.)It reflects a child's attitude to life , I believe: love everything, be passionate about the simplest things and really enjoy every moment of the present. Be it a garden bed of daisies, an ant hill on the side of a bush track, a lizard sunning itself on a rock, pretending to be an explorer of strange and wondrous places...

What you need to make this page:
Stampsets: Upsy daisy, Dreams du Jour, Gallery.
Cardstock: Baja breeze textured and baja breeze A4 cardstock.
Designer series patterned paper: Urban garden
Ribbon: baja breeze Striped grosgrain.
Other: Versamark ink, silver and white embossing powder, distressing tool, white signo gel pen (for journalling).

Definitely a male card, or perhaps retirement card...

Here is another male card with the sense of time stampset... I just love the wood blocks and rubber stamping - it is all about a sense of time ... and occasion.

Here I am again, with the same stampset as yesterday, still embossing but on one layer of chocolate chip cardstock, no sponging - I was going for the clean and elegant.
Here is a close up of the clock with silver embossing.

Dont you just love that embossed look? This card is definitely a masculine card.

What says masculine? The Metalic silver embossing, black and kraft coloured patterned paper, with sahara sand, close to cocoa and chocolate chip cardstock. The ribbon is wide double stitched grosgrain with two small silver brads around the sentiment.

The sentiment reads:
"An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth" - I need that kind of wealth.

I was rich with it once, but it tends to elude me ... the last time I remember having that sense of time going slowly and pleasantly, it was quarter to three on a Tuesday afternoon, and I had to leave my half drunk glass of champagne, my waiting cup of coffee and cake and race to pick up my daughter from school...

I have only used the two stamps of the four in this set. Keeping it simple with the patterned monochromatic DSP from the Urban garden paper pack on a close to cocoa background.

Live, Laugh and Love - Fifth avenue floral.

I am loving baja breeze and the urban garden papers, it goes gorgously with Not quite navy, and I never thought I was a blue loving girl ... but styles change and so do I (so it seems).I have started with baja breeze cardstock, stamped with fifth avenue floral in the same ink. I have added detail to the stamens with white gel pen ink. The Designer series paper is Urban garden and the ribbon white grosgrain.
I wanted to put an eyelet border punched strip along the bottom but found the navy too heavy and I wanted to keep the monochrome colours so settled on a strip of velum rolled with the bella's border wheel. Then I stamped a Fifth avenue floral flower on vellum and attached it to the card with a brad.My main flower was stamped in versamark on gloss white card then brayered with pacific point and not quite navy, then deepened again with crystal effects on some of the petals.

Double sided paper - Urban garden Pencil tin.

Reduce, reuse, Re-cycle!

Once an aluminium Peaches container, now an urban garden pencil tin.

I made a card and had half a sheet or more of patterned paper left, it could have made a scrapbook page but there was this empty tin of peaches needing to go out to the recycling bin and somehow its silvery aluminium sparkle caught my eye and now I have another decorated pencil tin for our table. My daughter and I have a lot of pens and pencils, scissors and brushes ...

I added the kiwi kiss and vanilla silk ribbon and a large oval tag with words from the "inspired by nature" stampset, with a small piece of twine to attach it and a rhinestone brad through the hole for a little lift.

Supplies used:

DS paper: Urban garden, Cardstock: Kiwi kiss, Ink: Not quite navy, Ribbon: kiwi kiss and vanilla silk. Twine, rhinestone brad. Hole punched with the crop-o-dile, sticky strip used to attach paper to tin ... that's it really and a matching card that definitely needs a rhinestone.

Kiwi kiss in urban garden

It was grey and raining, daughter asleep on floor, I make a card at the dining room table so I can be beside her when she wakes.
I cut the flower out from a piece of Urban garden Designer Series paper. There is no stamping but for the sentiment: Birthday Celebrations....I used the stamp-a-ma-jig to get the words straight because there is nothing so frustrating as a crooked word stamp.I was pleased how this fairly simple card came together and so I have also made a Pencil tin too.
Supplies used:
Cardstock: Kiwi kiss, Not quite navy, Baja Breeze. DS Paper: Urban garden. Stamp set: Upsy Daisy (Birthday celebrations) Ribbon: Kiwi kiss and vanilla silk, Double sided tape and 2 way glue pen.

Is there something missing? I wanted to add a brad or a rhinestone or something but not sure where - Any thoughts?

Urban garden Explosion box.

I made another Surprise box out of the gorgous Urban garden papers ... They really are so easy to make and you can put photos inside, or butterflies ... or a gift.Supplies: Stampset: Dreams du Jour, Freinds 24/7, Cardstock: Sahara sand, whisper white, Not Quite Navy, Baja Breeze. Paper: Urban Garden. Inks: Not Quite Navy and Baja Breeze. Punches: square scallop, Circle scallop, 3.5cm circle, 3.2cm circle, 2.5cm circle. Crop-a-dile.

Pocket Silhouettes in an urban garden!

Third in the Urban garden, pocket silhouette, bloom collection is: Thanks so much.
The six square punched pieces are from the Urban garden designer series paper pack, punched out with the smaller of the square punches. The colours are Baja breeze, Not quite Navy, going grey, and craft.
My cardstock is sahara Sand and Not quite Navy .
I have inked the Pocket silhouette flower and words in Not quite navy and stamped directly onto the sahara sand cardstock.
The bottom edge of the card was punched with the Eyelet border punch. I find this punch easier to use even than the scallop edge punch, it lines up beautifully and makes a very elegant edge.
I am enjoying the clean simple look of these cards ...
Ok, it is Easter, and I promised to play with my family during the long weekend. I am on egg duty which means each time my daughter goes outside or is well behaved for a few hours I put another small egg (0r two) into her easter egg box. She is only six and hasn't cottoned on to how the Easter bunny (or chicken) keeps putting the eggs into the box. I said I left the upstairs window open for him to get in when ever she is behaving beautifully. It is a lot more fun than giving her the whole packet of eggs in one go.
Ok, I promise to come back, with some pictures of our Idea Book and catalogue launch party, in the next few days.

Bella's bloom and border wheel

Here is the second card I made with my new stampset: Bella's bloom, the Bella border wheel, and I have matched it to the Urban Garden paper pack. The squares of paper look like a row of prints hung on the wall, with a window open, above a patterned floor.... No? I've used my imagination.

Materials used:

Stampset: Bella's Bloom, words are from Pocket silhouettes. Stamping Wheel: Bella's border. Cardstock: Sahara sand, Not quite Navy, Baja Breeze. Ink: Not quite navy.
Paper: Urban Garden Designer Series.
Accessories: Large Square punch, word window punch, Eyelet border punch. Later I will find the third card in this series. I cant seem to make two the same...

Bella's Border blooms in an Urban garden.

We made cards again on Tuesday night ... well, most every body else made 4 or more cards and I cut out for three! I do like to socialise but sticking down and getting everything straight takes focus and concentration ... which I have a lot more of in the cold light of day.

So here is my finished card that I started last night.

It uses almost all new product. The Wheel is Bella's border, the words are from Pocket silhouettes, the brad is from the filigree pack of metal embellishments ( They are just gorgous ).

The Papers are from Urban garden Designer series (double sided patterns ...)

The cardstock is Sahara sand and Not Quite Navy.

Ink is also Not Quite Navy.

I will post some more details and the other card later .