Thank you card

 There are only 17 days left of Saleabration 2012.
By the end of the month the special offer of Free stamps, brads, ribbon and patterned designer paper will come to an end.
Here is an elegant styled Thank you card stamped with the Elementary Elegance stampset.

The soft suede is a lovely antique colour that makes a fine mono-coloured card.
Card Recipe:
Stampset: Elementary Elegance
Ink: Soft Suede
Cardstock: Very Vanilla. Soft Suede.
Designer series Patterned paper: Mocha Morning
Tools: Dotted scallop Ribbon punch, Houndstooth embossing folder, Big shot machine.

A Morning cup to "perk" you up

 When you are feeling a little bit down or a little tired and emotional what's the perfect pick me up?

A card from a friend, of course.

Aren't these little take-away cup cards just perfect?

They would make lovely Thank you cards, Invites, Thinking of you or, Random acts of kindness cards.

The tutorial for these is at: Lorri Heiling's stampaddict blog.

 I made a few changes with the measurements.

These are made using half an A5 card. which is 10.5cm high.

I just cut a normal card in half then trimmed a diagonal off each side, making the bottom 2.5 cm narrower than the top. If that doesn't make sense ask me for directions.

The band around the centre is crimped with my crimp tool to look like the belly band of an insulated cup.

 The whole cup was also crimped for that realistic texture and this belly band is from Mocha Morning Specialty paper. I've stamped the Tea cups from the A la carte stamp and raised them with dimensionals.

 The top of the cup (mmm I think they call it the lid) has a 3D white strip on it.

Now if I had the SWAK lip stamp I could put a bit of lipstick on the edge for realism... but as I don't we will have to suffice with a "poppy parade" love heart punched with the Small heart punch.

The last one needed to have some purple on it as it was for a friend who likes the purples...
I think the "kindness matters" butterflies are also a happy perk-me-up stamp with Boho Blossom flowers and a touch of Concord crush ribbon.

Just a dasher of Mocha

 Keeping it simple I have created a gate fold card in real red cardstock and stamped "Dasher" in Early Espresso ink on some shimmer white cardstock.

 The Merry Christmas stamp is from "Contempo Christmas" and is cut out with the Big shot 4 tags die.

Both shapes are sponged with a little bit of champagne shimmer paint and the sponge dauber has a little bit of Early Espresso ink on the edges.

Now for the dash of mocha morning designer series paper (DSP).

I wanted  a little glint of gold to wrap around my card and this patterned paper has just the right amount of lush depth to make my card a little bit special.

Then I have tied the centre with a piece of Baker's twine (new in the Summer mini catalogue).

The background stamping that you can hardly see is the Welcome Christmas wreath.

Don't forget the Welcome Christmas stampset is on sale this month!

Mocha Morning Butterflies

A Mocha in the morning with butterflies?

Well actually its a cup of Tea for me.

As soon as I touched these Specialty papers I just fell in love with the flocking and texture and colours.

I copied this idea from a picture frame we saw at Stampin' Up's Training day in Sydney.

What an amazing way to display the different patterns!

 Two of the papers are flocked with black and two papers are metallic textures. You just have to have a close up look and feel of these papers to appreciate them.
Sophie Zadeh (Stampin' Up) says she got the idea from the way butterflies are displayed in shadow boxes.
I have attached my beautiful butterfly dies with dimensionals to a piece of texured Soft Suede cardstock.

My Create frame is an embossed frame (new) and has been sponged with soft suede ink around the edges to get an antique look.

 Supplies:

Stampset: Creative Elements

 Soft Suede Ink and textured Cardstock

Specialty Paper: Mocha Morning

Big shot machine. Beautiful Butterflies die.

Designer Frames embossing folder.

Stampin' write markers, sponge and Linen thread.