Mini Photo book

Inspiration for this project came from a gift I received a while ago from Felicity Hawkins. I enjoyed making this inspiration photo album for a friend who loves her animals, bikes, dogs and horses.

The front and back covers are made with 6"x6" cardboard and wrapped with patterned paper.

The inside pages are black cardstock decorated with quotes and scrapbooking papers with room to add your own photos.

 I have stamped images from the Horse Frontier and Feel Goods over the top of the Designer series paper and a few gorgeous grunge mud splatters too.

To hold it closed I've used some Baked Brown Sugar stretched ruffled ribbon. The flower is made with tissue paper and brown paper and smooched with gold ink.

Would you like to make a version of this as a class at your place? All products can be ordered through my online store at Stampin up! Or by emailing me Nerida_carter@hotmail.com

Chocolate Gift wrap with the EPB

A gift of chocolate deserves wrapping in stylish patterned paper. So easy with the envelope punch board.

This one is made with a piece of square designer series paper from the Saleabration pack Sweet Sorbet. I've simply layered the happy birthday on a postage stamp punch and decorative label in cardstock and silver foil paper.

I made a card but then decided I needed an extra project with inspirational quotes and pretty flowers, paper doilies and washi tape.

... Add an accordion card made with the fabulous Scallop tag top punch. 

Each panel is decorated with stamped and punched flowers, with the stamp-sets: "feel goods" and "Postage collection" and water colour wonder papers.

The handiest tool is the tag topper punch it creates a tag with a cute hole to tie a ruffled ribbon through.

If you'd like to place an order just email nerida_carter@hotmail.com or find me (Nerida in NSW) on the Stampin up online store.

Another This and that journal cover...

I am just finishing this front cover for a friend's journal that I am handing to her tomorrow. 

She loves purples I am told. Do you agree this would make a lovely gift?

I have an order to make one up in Red!!! 

There are so many new products on here... It's going to be almost too lovely to part with.

We have three Flower shop pansies in wisteria wonder, buttons, clay flowers and patterned hexagons.

I couldn't decide where to put the quote, because I didn't want it to cover the gorgeous purple flowers of this patterned paper. So, I stamped it on velum card stock in Elegant Eggplant ink and attached some rhinestones on the die cut label.

I used glue dots to attach it to the journal cover, which hold on extremely well to all types of papers and surfaces.

Recipe:

Epic day This and that journal. $18.95

Stamp: Feel Goods, flower shop.

Stampin around wheel : Shop Around

Patterned paper: Afternoon Picnic

Pansy punch, Simply pressed clay, crystal effects.

Ink: wisteria wonder and elegant eggplant.

Hexagon punch, Framelits chalk talk.

Rhinestones and clear Vintage faceted buttons.

Fine Feathers using two techniques

 A simple one layer card on Naturals white cardstock transformed with coloured markers direct to rubber on the fine feathers stamp. I like this idea to use the feather as a quill signing off the Feel Goods sentiment.

 One of my secret pleasures is to scan through Pinterest when I have the chance for new ideas to use my stamp sets.
I have shown you this thumping marker technique a couple of times lately, in these same colours too. Then I came across the idea of painting the stamped image with champagne shimmer paint with a brush.
It creates a beautiful shimmery effect on the inked colours with out buckling the paper and it dries shiny and pearlescent.

Here is a close up of the fine feathers peacock stamp showing the thumped marker colours and the champagne mist painted over it.
Try this out and enjoy! By the way champagne shimmer paint is retiring from the end of June and may not be available again from Stampin' Up! if you need some lets order it quick as supplies will run out.
Check the retirement list Here:  www.stampinup.com

My Convention swap cards

 

 This year I only made ten cards to swap at Convention. With 700 women who are potential friends to swap with I swapped mostly with people I know. I used a design I'd come up with using my favourite technique at the moment called thumping with markers.

 No two of my cards ever turn out the same especially with the thumping marker technique, I love how the colours flicker on the Swallowtail butterfly stamp.
Then I stepped it up by creating a 3D effect with layering a second butterfly wing on top. Time consuming but worth it! Really love these colours together: Elegant eggplant, Island Indigo and Gumball Green with a touch of Wisteria Wonder.

Here are some of the swap cards I received - I am so pleased to share these with you. I always enjoy the personal touch stampers have when they share how they made their card and what they feel about it.

 Karen Pinkerton - How gorgeous is this red glimmer paper dress contrasting with the black Stippled blossoms? And the scallopped edgelit behind is just a lovely touch.

 Michelle Walker - I love the Everything Eleanor blossoms in Soft Suede against the patterned Poetry paper. And the sentiment is also one of my favourites.

 Vanessa Webb has created a hybrid card using My digital studio - Isnt it professional and effective?

And on the other side is the handmade hand stamped tag with a bottle top embellishment.

I might prefer the handmade side, but if you were making invitations or thank you cards in large numbers the My digital studio is definitely a contender ... I am going to try these out, perhaps for business cards and Thank you cards!

Tanya Mulhall - using Secret Garden and the Curly label punches works so well with the delicate lace design at the bottom, so pretty!

 Michelle Johnstone silver heat embossed her swallowtail and used a Designer builder brad from page 12 of the Season Catalogue. (retires on 30 June!!!)

 Anne Farrar shared this great colour chart showing the different effects you can get with two step stamping the Stipple Rose.

Cheere Robinson - Take a close look the Lattice die cut in Timeless Portrait Fabric. This really looks stunnning against the Pretty in Pink Cardstock. (The fabric and Pretty in Pink are retiring at the end of June).

More to show you tomorrow!

Crafters anonymous pocket card

On Monday night at crafters anonymous we made this gorgeous pocket card.

The tutorial for this card is by Dee Sturgeon and so fabulously easy I can see myself making a few of these for different occasions.

This one is a Thank you card.

I have made four tags to put my "Feel Goods" quotes on.

My favourite of these has to be: "She believed she could so she did".

This picture shows all the tags and you can see the curved pockets on the front of the card. I have used Not Quite Navy card stock which has been textured with the square embossing folder and wiped around the edges with white ink. I think it looks a little bit like denim.

And I added a piece of Certainly celery cardstock, wrapped with pool party ribbon and added my Thank you sentiment from "Itty Bitty Banners". The heart is from hearts collection Framelits.

Artisan Embellishment Kit Scrap page

 How easy was this scrapbook page to create?
OK, I was inspired by the front page of the Impressions magazine.... for the layout and excited about using some of the gorgeous embellishments from this kit.
Beautiful laces, ribbon, buttons, ceramic flowers, hearts, doilies, tickets, fabric flowers and love heart tags.

 I have hardly even used what is in this kit and have made several cards and a scrapbook page AND there is still heaps more left to use in this kit. It makes lumpy bumpy cards, or you can use the doilies and lace for flatter projects. You could sew the buttons, lace and ribbons to clothes!!!

 My favourite part of this is how it all coordinates with the same clean vintage style and goes with Pool party, primrose petals, crumb cake and very vanilla (as well as white).

I have stamped the Best things in life aren't things (from the Feel Goods stampset) inked with my Stampin' write markers. All our stamping up markers match the cardstock and ribbons so you know that you always have the right blue, green, red or crumb cake to match your papers. 

Another scrap book page completed - Enjoy!

Feel Goods on a single layer card

A simple but elegant card only needs a feel good sentiment and butterflies.

This one has a flock of butterflies punched from Sycamore street patterned paper.

I just hink these words are so true -

"A friend accepts us as we are,

 yet helps us to be what we should".

How quick and easy was this card to make and reproduce. Punched with the Bitty Butterfly punch and stamped using markers to accentuate the words in colours that match the papers.

Card Recipe:

Tools: Bitty butterfly punch

Sycamore street papers (saleabration FREE)

Stampset: Feel Goods (5 stamps) $35.95

Ink: Stampin'write markers in-colours

Pearls.