CASEing the catalogue for ideas

My card today is inspired by two images in the Holiday catalogue on page 7.

It is so easy to flip through for ideas - the hard part is deciding what to make.

When I first saw the gift bag with a christmas tree made out of punched scallop shapes it caught my eye.

 And I bought the Textured embossing folder: Holiday Frame

 intending to make the card on this page as well.

 So what's a girl to do?

But combine both ideas in one card, of course.

 I punched out five Gumball Green scallop circle punches.

And, one in Raspberry Ripple.

It is 3.2 cm wide (that's 1 1/4 inches) and fits lots of our other small punches inside.

Like the Small heart punch (in Silver Glimmer paper!!!!)

The star punch

(or star framelit die from scentsational season)

The Boho blossoms punch and 1.9cm circle punch too.

Embellishing each little scallop circle is the fun part.

You can use glimmer papers, baker's twine, rhinestone jewels, crumpled circles, buttons or brads.

Then, I tied it with a piece of stitched satin ribbon to finish off the card.

 Remember till the end of October -

you can get free Ribbon

 with every $60 you spend -

why not bundle up a punch at $27.95,

some cardstock (Gumball green) at $11.95

and a sentiment stamp (Greetings of the season) $21.95 

You can Email me with your order to: nerida_carter@hotmail.com

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!

Scrapbooking a proud moment!

 When the weather is wet and gloomy we scrapbook.

Today's page is all about a proud moment when Jess received a class medal at the end of year assembly.

I have so many photos I never know what pictures to scrapbook next,

 so I have chosen a picture that has lots of feelings and emotion attached to it.

... and then its play time with what ever new stamps and tools I can find.

 I am loving the "Mixed Bunch" stampset and matching punch.

You can layer the punched flowers with plain, stamped or patterned paper and the centres fit into several of our circle punches.

 By cutting out two of the frilly petals you can make a butterfly.

The antenas are made from ribbon or twine would work too.

I like to put a rhinestone jewell in the centre of my butterflies. How pretty are these?

 The Journalling box is stamped with the apothecary Art stamp which conveniently has lines to write on.

The New Big shot - Framelit dies are great for making different sized frames around any image.

 And did you notice the gorgeous big strawberry I made using the Sizzlit heart and a trimmed down piece of the 5 petal flower punch? these look great dipped in some chocolate chip or Early espresso ink.

 For a title I stamped the Congratulations stamp from "Curly Cute" and

Wow, you're the best

from "Friendly Phrases".

Cardstock: Cherry cobbler, Lucky Limeade, whisper white.
Designer paper: First Edition.

White Wedding !!!

 Do you know a few couples out there about to tie the knot?

Here is one of the cards we made at Teresa's Workshop on the weekend ...

 We played with heat embossing, the big shot machine and the scalloped heart sizzlit die.

The perfect bow ... was successfully completed by everyone.

It took me several goes watching a you tube video, over and over, until I could tie it on my own, but its worth it for that luscious flat bow !

 This white on white card is a very traditional styled card... if you knew the Bride-maids dress colour you could add a bit of sponging or change out the cardstock on the hearts and ribbon bow to pink or red or Blue.
 There's a Stampin' Up colour to suit almost every bride.

 On my hearts I added some stamped words from the Strength and Hope stampset (inked with Shimmer paint on a sponge dauber direct to the rubber). Champagne Shimmer paint is my favourite as you can add a few drops to rubbing alcohol and spray it on the card in a fine mist.

The photo above shows the Framed tulip embossing folder sponged with Platinum shimmer paint... not sure if it works so well on white, but on a darker colour it would work even better.

Enjoy!!!

Strength and Hope

Just from the first week of the Autumn Winter catalogue, I am guessing that this stampset is going to be one of the most popular stampsets in this  mini because

1. Every card I have made with it so far has worked out (always a good omen)

2. It has been featured on lots of other SU demonstrators sites (and they look gorgeous)

And

3. Card makers are more likely to want to make a difference in the world around them.

The stampset is called "Strenght and Hope".

($28.95 clear, $35.95 wood mount).

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Stampin' Up is donating $2 from the purchase of this stampset to the breast cancer research foundation.

 BCRF (www.bcrfcure.org) is dedicated to the prevention of breast cancer and finding a cure in our lifetime by funding  clinical research, worldwide.

I just love combining a whole lot of products on one card.
Like the big shot "Top note" and "heart of hearts" embosslit.
The "Hope and Strength" butterfly is Stamped in Sahara sand ink then, I've stamped the swirls in Soft Suede and Baja breeze.

I added the H for hope on top of the heart.

It needed a frame.

Taaa daaa!

Along comes the Bevelled window panes (new in the Autumn mini).

Can you see the bevelled frame held on with the taffetta ribbon?
Perhaps, you can see it better in the next photo.

And if that wasn't enough embellishing ... I added the three rhinestone jewels to the body of the butterfly.

And a heart punched with my small heart punch.

Going to try this in my favourite purple: Concord Crush...

Baroque Motif and a Rich razzle kiss

I decided to make a full-sized Baroque Motif  birthday card.

I like to layer up a card with contrasting colours and glitter for birthdays.

Hearts and swirls just go hand in hand if you ask me.

Here is a close up of the square shaped baroque medallion turned on its diagonal.

I have punched out the square with a square punch

and layered it on to the square scallop punch of kiwi kiss cardstock.

Then to add some sparkle I have put a few dashes of two way glue pen around and sprinkled it with dazzling diamonds (fairy dust).

The centres of the small flowers also have this treatment.

Can you see it shining in the sunlight?

Simple but elegant ...  a weddings, birthdays, anything card.

Card recipe:

Stampsets: Baroque Motifs, teeny tiny sentiments.

Cardstock: whisper white, Rich Razzleberry, kiwi kiss.

Ink: Rich Razzle berry

Tools: word window punch, square punch, square scallop punch.

Small Heart punch, two way glue pen, dazzling diamonds.

Share a cup with heart

These cute little cards are called love notes.

They are the perfect size card to give to a friend to say "thanks", "I'm thinking of you" or just "hello".

I've combined the techniques of masking, punching and layering on all three.

 Any one who knows me, knows I love a good strong cup of tea.

One thing my mum taught me is that you can solve, (or attempt to solve) almost any problem in the world over a nice old fashioned good cup of tea.
This one looks like the washing up after a few of my friends have solved most of the social, emotional and economic problems in the world.

A few friends and a lot of love exploding with hearts.

The Tiny Tag at the top says thanks so much.

And those hearts are just brilliant at covering any not so perfect masking when you stamp.

Last but not least is the four cups, balanced precariously in all my favourite colours:

Orchid opulence, elegant eggplant, Melon Mambo and Rich razzleberry.

What I used to make these cards:

White love notes: 20 cards and envelopes $13.50

Stampset: share a cup $11.95

Tiny tags $28.95 clear mount.

Tools: jewellery tag punch, small heart punch, dimensionals.

Baroque in a Rich Razzleberry swirl...

Today's card is a very simple card.

I have brought out one of my most favourite stampsets "Baroque Motifs"

Did you know that this stampset was voted most popular stampset by customers in 2009? And it is still a very stylish and the elegant stampset that I reach for when I want to make a wedding, engagement, birthday or baby card.

I've teamed it up with the in colour Rich Razzleberry and kept it monotone.

That is just Very Vanilla and black as neutrals to the gorgous Razzleberry ink and cardstock.

Don't you love these little hearts?

This is a small sized punch in the current Winter mini catalogue and it is only $11.50

They look just gorgous hanging off this swirl like a bunch of ripe red grapes in my opinion.