Birthday card in three pinks

I had a sweet little girl in mind when I made this card. So I chose my favourite three pinks:

Melon Mambo, Pixie Pink and Rose Red.

The stampset used for the animals is "Animal Stories" you might be seeing a lot more of this stampset in the next year ... that's a big hint regarding the new catalogue coming out next month.

I stamped in all the images in Melon Mambo.

The birthday cake is a single stamp from the A la Carte selection.

I've used two punches here, the circle punch to cut out the cake and the circle scallop punch to cut out the pixie pink cardstock.

  

There are a few new stamps used here but they are just a sneak peek of whats in store ...

This one is pretty obvious - A brand new sentiment set: and it fits beautifully into the wide Oval punch.
I've put it up on dimensionals and made a bow under the oval with the Melon Mambo ribbon (RETIRING) this gorgous polka dot ribbon is going ... after 31 August.

Thats it your first sneak peek of some of the new and returning stampsets.

Send me an email if you are needing any of those last chance specials.

Animal stories for a baby card

You know when you find just the right stampset for baby cards ... how cute are these little animals.
A Whale, an elephant and an Owl. I've also used the lion from the Wild about you stampset.

The colours are barely banana, pretty in pink, bashful blue and gable green. These colours are so soft they just whisper baby, baby, baby!!!

The animals were stamped on whisper white cardstock and punched out with the 1 3/8" circle punch and lifted up on dimensionals to sit above the scallop circle in its matching colour.

The sentiment: hello little baby is from the hostess stampset - Sweet little Sentiments punched out with the word window punch.

Film strip cards tell Tall Tales and Animal stories.

Try and say that fast. This style of card uses the great little spiral punch for making filmstrip edges or spiral bound note books and pages. See it in the picture above.

Its Thursday and I have been busy stamping and punching using my Sale-a-bration stamps and Animal Tales Papers from the Summer Mini catalogue. (Both of these finish on March 31st, so have a look and see if they are something you would like to get your crafty hands on).

I've made three cards from the same supplies, just different colour combinations and changed the layouts only slightly.

Pacific Point and Rose Red are very rich colours and match the Designer series paper quite well. The blue brings out the blue zebra and the Rose Red hi-lights the little owl and birds in the tree.

Here's my Happy Birthday sentiment on the new Vintage label stamp, cut out with the Wide oval punch and decorated with a piece of white taffetta ribbon.

Pacific Point with Old olive this time ... There's a crocodile and Old olive trees.

And here is the same vintage label stamped and raised on dimensional foam spots.

Lastly I made an Old Olive and Rose Red coloured card on a landscape orientation, featuring lots of chocolate chip elephants and some Rose red birds in a tree.

I have used a different Vintage Label and the "For you" Sentiment this time and that gorgous very easily tie-able white Tafetta ribbon again.

I am really enjoying these vintage labels can you tell?

Card Recipe:

Cardstock: Old Olive, Rose Red, Pacific Point.

Inks: Rose Red, Old Olive, Pacific Point.

Stampset: Vintage Labels - Free during Sale-a-bration.

Animal stories (for background stamping).
Designer series Paper: Tall Tales $16.95

Punches: Spiral edge, Scallop Circle, Wide Oval, 1 1/4" square.

Accessories: Ribbon - White Tafetta

Animal stories and a Chocolate elephant

Today's Card offering holds a chocolate elephant on a metal edge tag tied to a so saffron ribbon.

Elephants, Owls and Giraffes grace the papers in this matching Tall Tales and Animal stories stampset.

You're asking: How did he get all that glitter stuck to him?

Here's how:

1. Stamp the elephant in Versamark ink first, then into chocolate chip ink and then on to whisper white cardstock

2. Cover the image with Heat and Stick powder. Then pour off the excess back into the container.

3. Using your heat tool, lightly heat the powder just until it changes from dry to wet.

4. Dust with the glitter of your choice (either dazzling diamonds or Superfine glitter)

5. Heat it very quickly the second time with your heat tool (Just until the glitter moves slightly) to set.

6. Punch out your elephant with a circle punch and glue it onto the metal edged tag.

7. Making a hole in the top, tie it onto a piece of ribbon that is tied around your card front.

I have used the Tall Stories DS Paper with elephants on it and also stamped with VersaMark directly onto the chocolate chip cardstock. Versamark is excellent for stamping a watermark image for nice subtle backgrounds.
Finally, the Happy Birthday greeting is from the Chit Chat rub ons pack.

Sweet birthday Animal stories

Ahh, now is the time of children's birthdays and school holidays ... the days are longer and our girls need something to keep them occupied. I may not be able to post on my blog so often, or I will have to do so at night... Any way I wanted to share this cute card I made for my daughter's friend. It features 3 of the 4 animals in the Animal Stories stampset.

There is the pink elephant, blowing love hearts from his trunk.

The taken with Teal Whale balancing his love hearts on his tail.

And the white owl with his wobbly eyes. He is just so cute!Inside the card I took direction from my 6 (almost 7) year old expert as to where to stamp the animals and what to say...

What I used to make this card:
Stampsets: Animal stories, sweet birthday, Best yet.
Cardstock: Taken with teal, whisper white.

Ink: taken with teal, Pink passion, whisper white.

Markers: so saffron, taken with teal, rose red, bordering blue.

Punches and tools: 1 3/4 " circle, word window punch, eyelet border punch.

Mini Glue dots (stampin' Up), gold hearts and wobbly eyes (generic).

Pumpkin pie sweet cup card

I have several cards to upload over the next couple of days. I promised to upload photos of the cards I demonstrated at our Summer mini launch, I'm nearly done ... just let me know when you've had enough. This card uses the new sweet cups with the 1 3/4" circle punch, plus the Animal stories stamp and the Stem sayings set (This is one of the half price stampsets on offer until 25 January $19.95).

Don't you just love wobbly googly eyes? I dont know how I survived before mini glue dots were invented ... I have used them to adhere the eyes and they wont fall off and the glue dries instantly. No moving around while you wait for any liquid glue to dry!

The trick to this card is the smaller circle cut out behind the sweet cup and the tag that slips in behind to create a sliding door to get your jelly beans out.

And when you eat all the jelly beans you still have a birthday cake showing from the front of the card. The basket of the Hot air balloon is made with the large tag punch (turned upside down and a centimetre cut off the top). The strings on the balloon are stamped using the curving words of the stem sayings stampset.
On the sliding tag I have punched the round tag, folded it in half and glued it to the white corner rounded square. Here is the tag removed (I forgot to photograph the pumpkin one, so this one is from the kiwi kiss sample that I have shown you earlier).
Products used to make this card:

Stampsets: Animal stories, stem sayings, Sweet birthday.

Cardstock: whisper white, pumpkin pie.
Ink: pumpkin pie, riding hood red.
Tools: 1 3/4" circle punch, corner rounder, hole punch, pumpkin pie grosgrain ribbon, large square tag punch, round tag punch.
Any questions on how I constructed the card or the products used, please leave me a comment just below this post....

Launch night a success!!!

What a great night we had launching the Summer mini catalogue last night. I enjoyed myself and I hope you all enjoyed your lucky door prizes and the projects that we made.

For those of you who couldn't make it - Here are the projects using new products from the Summer mini catalogue:

Animal stories in a sweet cup balloon.
Colours used: whisper white cardstock, pumpkin pie cardstock and ink. Riding hood red ink (for the words). New Circle punch 1 3/4" circle that is exactly the right size to hold the sweet cup.

I love the fact that our cardstock comes in so many colours that you can match it to the jelly beans in the cup.

The Animal stories stampset comes with matching double sided paper and 4 different animals in this stampset. Lots of variations for children's birthday cards and scenes.The tag at the top opens the sliding door to allow you access to your lollies with out tearing the card and when you have finished the jelly beans you still can see the happy birthday greeting through the window.

Magnetic Book mark : I made several different colour combinations of these and experimented a lot with magnets and paper clips. Finally, they seemed to work with a bit of sticky strip and good metal placement.I am using mine to mark the pages in my catalogues that I keep coming back to. The magnet keeps it from falling out even if I turn it upside down. A nice Christmas gift too for a reader in your family.

If you guessed I like butterflies you would be right and since this one comes with a matching butterfly punch I know I will get a lot of use from it. It also fits the flight of the butterfly stampset in the main catalogue... Baja breeze seems to go with everything especially butterflies I think. I have lots of different projects in mind for this stampset and punch.

Our third project was the dragon fly card featuring the beautiful large grommets that hold the ribbon neatly together. A very tailored look. Strong metal claws keep your bow neatly in place. There are 4 colours in a pack: Five each of white, black, silver and cream.The dragon fly comes from the new Nature's nest stampset and the happy birthday stamp is a single stamp which comes with a cake too. These colours are Elegant eggplant, more mustard and Old Olive and I have inked the stamp using markers direct to the rubber stamp.

I will have a few more photos of the night to show you tomorrow ... off to make a slideshow.