Mothers day Flower

I can't stop using my Melon Mambo cardstock it is so gorgous especially with this Rich Razzleberry ribbon.
This card is a very quick card to make for Mother's day.
Card recipe:
Stampsets: Stem sayings, Occasional greetings.
Ink: Rich Razzleberry
Cardstock: Melon Mambo, Rich Razzleberry, Very Vanilla
Accessories: Rich Razzleberry Ribbon, Sponge, XL bird punch.
Found items: Pink and purple beads (found on floor while cleaning up after DD7 went to bed).

A Sweet cup 7th birthday challenge!

Are you making me a birthday card? Asks my almost 7 year old on the eve of her birthday...

Can it have yellow jelly beans and white in the centre and purple petals?

That was the challenge and in very quick time, between dinner and wrapping presents after sweet almost 7 year old went to bed I whipped this one up. Wish I had had more time but thats how it goes sometimes.

The Card base is in Elegant eggplant and More mustard, and the petals are orchid opulence punched out with the 5 petal punch. I have stamped the happy birthday and stem of the flower with stem sayings ... she loved it especially the yellow and white lollies in the centre.

I made her a nice butter cake though and iced it with a Tinkerbell Decal (her new favourite character) and made the lolly boxes usng the 7cm box template.

I used two punches to open the box up to show the lollies and treats inside: My new butterfly punch (for the top and the thank you tag) and the five petal punch on the front.

The cardstock is Orchid opulence and Elegant eggplant for the Oval and Ribbon too.

Inks used are: Elegant eggplant and Orchid opulence.

Stampsets used: Butterfly prints, Flight of the butterfly and hostess set Sweet little sentiments.

We were fully intending to have a picnic for her birthday but then when the weather predicted rain all week we decided to go ice-scating.

Here is the girl herself  finding her scating feet on the ice.

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....

Fresh cuts

These Fresh cut note cards have to be one of the quickest simplest ways to make a card for a gift, a birthday, thank you or even invitations.
With this one I have cut a piece of sahara sand cardstock and stamped the fresh cuts stamp in close to cocoa, and then attached it with double sided tape so that the image is showing through the die cut flower on the front.
I have punched a stylish edge to my card with the eyelet scallop edge punch, then distressed the edge of the white cardstock by tearing and roughing it up with my finger nail.
And then I added a ribbon. At first, (top photo) I have tried the satin cream and kiwi kiss ribbon (because I love how satiny smooth it is ) then tried a piece of choc chip grosgrain ... I like them both.
The centre flower is the fresh cut stamp on textured choc chip cardstock cut out and attached with a silver brad to the centre of the die cut flower.
The sentiment is from the stampset: A little birthday cheer.
Open the card and I have used the stem sayings happy birthday to decorate the inside and there is that gorgous vanilla satin silk ribbon showing.


I have another one that I made with patterned paper but I am thinking of keeping it for a special birthday card next month so I will keep it under wraps until then.

Bodacious Bouquet gets the Kiss Off technique!

Bodacious Bouquet is another of the gorgous stamps to be farewelled and celebrated this month. I have used the kiss off technique to give the flat stamps some depth and texture. What is the kiss-off technique?
Firstly I ink up a flat stamp shape with white craft ink, then I took a smaller flower stamp and stamped it dry onto the wet stamp surface, it takes off a bit of ink.
I clean the small stamp and stamp off another flower impression from the wet stamp surface. Then I "huff" (that's a technical term for breathe heavily) on to the wet stamp and stamp it on to the black cardstock. This card is a little out there even for me ... I started by have an idea involving white ink and black cardstock - adding a bit of Purely Pomegranate ink, some Ballet blue and purple ... It didn't quite look like what was first in my head, so -
I cut out all the pieces and arranged them on Old Olive cardstock, which was stamped with the Fine Lace background stamp, layered some more black and pomegranate cardstock with crimping and the stem sayings "Happy birthday" and then ,I sat back and said: Not quite sure about this one???

You be the judge - leave me a comment and tell me did it work?

Materials:

Cardstock: Basic Black, Old Olive, purely pomegranate, ballet blue, lavender lace. Ink: White craft (as well as Matching coloured ink pads).

Ribbon: Old Olive wide grosgrain.

Tools: crimper and dimensional adhesives.

Botanical Birthday card

I enjoyed making this card ... fiddly but for one it is back to the purple cardstock and inks I like to play with.
It has embossing (in white) and vellum, and flowers that I have stamped in Orchid Opulence and Elegant eggplant using the two step stamping technique. The flowers at the top I have stamped in eggplant ink, but you could do this in versamark for that watermark look.

Here is a close up of the embossing on the velum, this is very fast, as the velum helps to heat the powder and it melts very quickly. If you hold the heat on it too long it will spread and you lose that crisp raised appearance. Tell me about it ... I learn by experience.The Materials:

Cardstock: Elegant eggplant, orchid opulence and whisper white. Velum.

Inks: white craft ink, Elegant eggplant, orchid opulence.

White signo gel pen for the faux stitching.

White brads, Stamp-a-ma-jig and Mat pack .

Stampsets: Botanical Blooms (SAB2009), Finest flourishes, and Stem sayings.

Interactive view card - wild about you!

After making two mini view cards I have graduated to the full circle size.

The appropriate stampset seemed to be wild about you!

I finally figured out an easier way to determine the position of the stamps on the circle ... I matted them on the card and sponged the circles in almost amethyst to show where to place my stamps then removed the disc from the card to stamp ...

The rest of the card is decorated with purely pomegranate scallop punched circles to make the flower heads. I cut out two scallops then cut an inner circle out of the viewer and then created the bud by feeding the scallop back into the punch, the scrap piece I inked the edges of and placed it over the base. Looks like a little cup shaped bud, I havent seen that done before.

The stems are "Stem sayings" (which I have been wanting to use for ages) and bodacious bouquet was used for the leaves in Always artichoke ink.

And the ribbon is in matching regal rose wide grosgrain ...

Inks used for the animal images: elegant eggplant, taken with teal,

Ballet blue, Bravo burgundy and Pumpkin pie.