Inchie squares gift box

This lovely gift box is so cool to make. It's called a one sheet wonder card box.

It will hold a whole stack of C6 envelopes and handmade cards.

Created from a piece of 12 x 12 " white cardboard (the backing piece that comes with a pack of patterned paper) and lots of squares of embossed paper.

 This idea comes from the lovely Tanya Bell at StampingT.com.au

She made hers with 20 x 1 1/4" squares of patterned paper.

 I have stepped it up by using the Natural Composition Specialty embossed paper and simply sponged all my squares with Elegant Eggplant ink.

 My embellished box uses the gorgeous two-tone grey ribbon in the seasonal catalogue, two different purple ribbons from Stampin' Up! and several blossom and flower punches.

I did a fair bit of scrunching and distressing of the flower (great stress release) and added three beautiful feathers.

Enjoy!!!

Wisteria Wonder and Pool Party... just thinking

Another Thinking of you card... changed the colours to the very in - colours: Pool party and Wisteria Wonder.
I think they look very cool together.
Just thinking was inked with my Wisteria Wonder Stampin' Write marker and stamped on a whisper white circle punched out.
The lovely flowers are inked in Wisteria Wonder and Elegant Eggplant markers, then punched with the blossom punch and the small scallop circle punch.

I have pearls on everything at the moment. Love how they come in so many different sizes for the centre of flowers and accents on words.   Enjoy!

A whitish Wedding card and Challenge 3 of the cyber stamp!

 The third challenge in the weekend's cyber-stamp on Angela's forum was to design a card inspired by a photo. The picture showed cakes with ribbon, roses, pearls and flowers for a wedding.

Perfect! I have just made a card that features almost all those things.

Jess' Teacher is getting married over the school holidays so together we made this lovely card for her.

 It features the Secret garden flower stamped in Elegant Eggplant and layered onto a couple of crunched Blossom punches. All on naturals white cardstock.

Did you notice the musical notes in the background?

This is a fabulous Specialty paper called... Naturals.

The crumb cake pattern is raised with glossy embossing and the backing paper can be sponged, stamped or brayered with any ink you choose.

For a wedding card I sponged and wiped it over with my white ink pad.

Then cut out an oval from another piece and sponged that in white too.

Well it is a wedding card... white and off white are very shabby chic.

Add some organza ribbon and flower trim, Pearls and another scrunched flower - It all says wedding to me.

 ....And then we had to decorate the inside, so, 

We used a new stampset (with matching Framelits) called "Hearts a flutter" and over stamped it with last season's "Affection collection" stamps.

And then,

we added this pop up wedding dress - tad dah!!!

 The lace dress is fashioned with a piece of lace from the Embellishment Kit,

on the dress dummy from the "Established Elegance" stamp set.

It may be a little over the top but we know Jess' teacher just loved it!

And since she likes a bit of purple we thought it was just right.

Teacher's gift

 Its that time of year when we make calendars, notebooks and gift boxes to say thank you to teachers. Whether it's just thanks for putting up with my child for 4 terms or thanks for something more, or like me you just like wrapping up parcels of chocolate, biscuits and tea bags in cardstock and ribbons.

So this is what I have made today. A kind of emergency kit for the school day.... what every teacher will appreciate: a strong cup of tea, gingerbread biscuits and some chocolate !

Recipe:

Whisper white and cherry cobbler cardstock

Ink: Early Espresso, cherry cobbler and Gumball green.

Stamps: Scentsational Season, Musical notes wheel,

Builder wheel: Snowflake party and Good cheer.

Tools: Blossom punch, small scallop circle, snow flake die, Big shot.

Word window punch.

Scallopped tulle ribbon: cherry cobbler and Crumb cake.

Simply scored tool.

A Bright Red Butterfly Birthday...

Got a birthday coming up very soon?

Need a vibrant, bright card and preferably with butterflies on it?

Here is what I came up with recently with friends on a recent card making session.

Red and white Flowers and butterflies.

Card Recipe:

Stampsets: Papillon Potpouri, p.115 AC,  $25.95 (Clear mounted)

 Mixed Bunch p.94,  $38.95 (Clear mounted)

Itty Bitty Banners p.134 $21.95 (clear mounted).

Ink: Poppy Parade

Cardstock- Poppy parade, whisper white, basic black.

Tools: Butterfly punch, p.184 Annual catalogue $27.95

Small scallop circle punch p.7 Holiday catalogue $27.95

Blossom Punch p.185 AC.

Big shot and  Apothecary Accents Framelits die, p.191 AC.

Dazzling Details p.158 AC Comes in silver, cherry and clear. 

Rhinestone brad, Paper snip scissors.

Paper Piercing tool, mat and Essentials paper-piercing pack p.181 AC.

Black and white Wedding

 Recent card making session challenge:

Congratulations, Wedding , in black and white.

 Black and white says wedding like nothing else.

It takes some fancy layering though to make a white on white card pop out and say: Special!

 I came up with this design starting with the Mixed Bunch flower in stazon black, stamped, punched then layered onto basic black card.

Thanking you Teresa for the donation of a glittery silver brad for the centre of our flower.

We sponged the edges and layered white on white cardstock to announce our "Itty Bitty" congratulations.

For detail I added the paper-pierced Essentials, a piece of black spotted scallop ribbon and

glimmer paper punched hearts!!!!

Glimmer paper now comes in Silver, Champagne and Red see it on page 160 of the Annual catalogue.

$8.95 for 2 sheets of 12x12 inch paper.

Worth every glimmery square centimetre!

CASEing Vanessa's ostrich feather card.

Remember the Convention photos that I showed you, the swap I received from Vanessa Webb, I just had to have a go at my own version of her framelit card with the Blossom punch flower and "faux" Ostrich feathers.

As you can see mine are a shameless CASEof Vanessa's card.

I've used the same Blossom punch, embossed it with the Wallpaper embossing folder, sponged with soft suede ink then, centred it with a Boho Blossom flower and Antique brad.

I used the slightly smaller Framelit Die to cut my window which gave me more room at the top ... which meant a ribbon.

Of course, I couldn't decide which looked better: the pink tafetta or the crumb cake seam binding?

I think perhaps I like this one best. The seam binding ties a beautiful soft double bow and doesn't detract from the pretty in pink flower and Mocha morning specialty paper.

 Here's my second card: with thin taffeta ribbon and some additional stamping of the Creative Elements background stamp.

You be the judge.

I sprayed both flowers with Shimmer mist for extra sparkle and sponged all the edges of the card with Soft Suede Ink.

 My sentiment is "Happiest Birthday" from the Apothecary Art stamp set.

Rasied up on Dimensionals and sponged for a vintage look. 

Here's a close up of my Blossom punch flower. You can just make out the Arctic white shimmer paint on the pink and suede cardstock.

And did I mention the "faux" Ostrich feathers?

They are made from Stampin' Up!'s wide grossgrain ribbon, frayed pieces wound around the brad and voila faux feathers!

Recipe:

Cardstock: Pretty in pink, Crumb cake.

Ink: Soft Suede

Paper: Mocha Morning Specialty

Tools: Big shot, Framelits, Blossom punch, boho blossom flower punch.

Ribbons: seam binding - crumb cake

Thin tafetta - Pretty in Pink

Striped grosgrain: Pretty in pink

 Accessories: Antique brads.

Stampsets: Apothecary Art, Creative Elements.

Team challenge

Each month the Inksomniac's team post a stamping, photo inspiration or colour challenge.
This month's challenge was a bowl of curly pasta using the colours: yellow, orange and pink.

 I chose the colours: Daffodil Delight, Calypso Coral, Regal Rose, Melon Mambo and Rose Red.
These colours in cardstock are very bright... which gave me pause for thought.

My card uses the "Summer Solstice" flower stamp with markers direct to rubber. I love the detailed texture in this flower and thought it would brighten up the first edition specialty paper without overpowering the background.

 My daughter brought home this gorgeous pink and yellow camelia .... which inspired me to use the big blossom punch as my focal point on the bottom third of the card. Can you pick the centre shape?
It is cut from the Large lace ribbon border punch and I've used the yellow brad from the Square Fire Rhinestones pack.
In the top right hand corner I used the small boho blossom punch flowers scrunched and layered with a yellow brad.

Enjoy!!!

The Paper Party continues...

May is Stampin' Ups paper party month where you can buy 3 packs of Designer series patterned paper and get a fourth pack FREE.

OR join up as a hobby demonstrator and get a pack of patterned paper

 every month

 until the end of the year!!!

I want to sign up again just for the free paper.

$170 gets you there.

Call me, phone me, text me: 0468 877 125 soon, as it only lasts till 31 May.

I will email you the order form and once it's posted you will be receiving your starter pack and papers.

Isn't this an elegant wrapped package?

I got this idea from our Elite stamper's team training...

Did I mention I am also going to the Inksomniacs Team Training this Saturday night?

Want to join me? 

This gorgeous little package is made so easily with the Simply scored scoring tool.
With the scoring tool you can score the paper in a 5, 10, 5, 10, 1cm pattern and fold it top and bottom to make a gorgeous box.

The curved front of the flap is made with the edgelit die (run through with my ever handy Big shot machine).

The embellishments are:

 some Real Red Ribbon.

and two Blossom punched flowers in Poppy Parade cardstock

held on with a Fire ice square brad.

Have a workshop this month and I will make you one of these with goodies inside.

Or order some Papers and make one yourself.