Very Vintage Vogue in Marina Mist, Daffodil Delight and Concord Crush

I couldn't face another pinky, plumy, rosey coloured card today ...

so I shall show you a card that we made at a workshop recently.

We splashed out in Marina Mist, Concord Crush and Daffodil Delight.

Many of us shy away from yellows (especially the bright ones), yet blue and purple stand opposite yellow in the colour chart. And, there was that gorgeous roll of satin ribbon and the Daffodil delight coloured buttons, almost unused until now.

The stampset is vintage vogue.

The background is stamped with the Very Vintage wheel.

My second version of this card has a Daffodil Delight Taffeta bow. The leaves are punched from the large bird  builder punch and to contrast the pretty button, we put it on a Boho Blossom punch flower and finished with a rhinestone jewell.

Making Peace with the Paper Piecing technique

Paper piecing is the technique for August.

Warning: Paper Piecing requires the use of scissors!

 It requires the cutting of small pieces of paper.

 If you don't have hours to cut around small detailed stamps on patterned paper don't even try this.

Really, if you stamp them first, then sit down in front of the TV while you're cutting, it takes no time at all - its quite peace - ful.

And if you select simple shapes its even easier...

Me, I just like butterflies

The first step, which I didn't photograph, (because this is not a tutorial) is to stamp your background.
I used the Very vintage wheel in kiwi kiss ink, rolled on a diagonal. Then I took my All a flutter butterfly stamp in Old Olive ink and stamped it onto the background a few times.
Taking the same stamp I inked it in black Stazon and stamped it on my patterned paper.
I used the cottage wall and some pink pirouette patterned paper.

Then you cut out the patterned paper and stick the butterflies over the stamped images on your background.

Paper piecing project done.

 That was fun wasn't it?

I made eight of these little Artist trading cards to swap with this month.

No two cards are ever the same. The sentiment says "Bee Happy!"

So that was paper piecing ... now off to try some paper piercing... oww, that might hurt.

All a flutter framed butterflies...

Here we are again, the beginning of the week ... I hope you enjoyed your weekend?
I want to show you something I came across while blog-surfing my way overseas ...
my internet blogging takes me to sites in the US and the UK.
I want to thank Jo Dumbleton http://www.stampin-n-stuff.blogspot.com/ for this great idea.
Hers had another layer of words going around the edge, but that would have taken another 20 minutes of stamp-a-ma-jig fun, which I didnt have the extra time for and besides I like to keep it simple.

I bought a pack of three sqaure box frames a while ago now, so I easily stamped these pictures and  clicked the 6x6 inch cardstock into the back and now they are ready for hanging.

Sing out if you see any more of these white frames for me wont you?

The backgrounds are stamped in creamy caramel and soft suede and the left hand one has some pink pirrouette on the very vintage wheel. 

My butterflies are stamped in stazon black ink then watercoloured with the classic inkpads and an aquapainter. The one above is in kiwi kiss and soft suede.

Pumpkin pie and rose red.

Pacific Point and kiwi kiss.

Shades of Rich Razzle berry layed over and over.

The butterflies are set higher than the cardstock with dimensionals.

I'd like to do a frame with actual butterfly colours, like from a book or something.

Stampsets used: En francais background, Very vintage wheel, All a flutter.

Cardstock: Whisper white (textured and plain)

Ink: Stazon black and the other colours ... you can guess what I left out.

Tools: Aquapainter pen, or you can use a paint brush....

Time taken: All Sunday afternoon, just watercolouring and cutting - Enjoy!

Vintage Vogue in soft suede

Another team challenge is up from the Inksomniacs - the challenge for May is to use only two colours (usually colours means you can add a neutral but not this time)

- so for me it is a one "colour" and one "neutral" challenge.

I quite like this challenge - one ink pad, and two different cardstocks with embellishments:

This ribbon is so gorgous to work with. It is thicker and stiffer than other grosgrains so it ties a good neat bow. This one isn't actually tied - I have looped it around and pinned it to the topnote with a clear Rhinestone brad through the centre of a stamped vintage flower.

The topnote is stamped with my Very Vintage stampin' around wheel, wheeled on the diagonal so that it doesn't have that up and down striped wallpaper look.

And you will note I have used the crimpy biscuit punch to frame my oval sentiment.

Its real name is the scalloped oval punch but it still looks like a crimpy biscuit!

When ever I use it now I get hungry (Thanks for that Teresa).

AND, its still available to purchase, even though its not in the current mini catalogue.

 

Then, because I am loving this Polka dot ribbon and late at night I love to get out my Big shot die cutting machine ... its silent (So I dont wake anyone up when I am using it) and I don't need to plug it in.
Its so portable I can take it anywhere, even down on the floor and on the carpet  ...
I have made a little matching velum pillow box.

Card Recipe:
Stampset: Vintage vogue (Clear mount $30.95) and very vintage wheel ($15.95)
Ink: Soft Suede
Cardstock: whisper white and soft suede
Ribbon: Polka dot soft suede ( I still have shares of ribbon in these in-colours if you thought you missed out)
Punches: Teresa's crimpy biscuit ... Scalloped oval ($30.95) large oval ($30.95)
Tools and Accessories: Clear Rhinestone brad, Big shot die cutting machine, top note die,
Pillow box die and the polka dot embossing folder.

Vintage Vogue and Very Vintage Wheel

When I opened the new Autumn Winter mini catalogue these were the two stamps that grabbed my attention. Pages 16 and 17 are just about warn out with ruler measurements, late night pondering and staple bending... you see as a demonstrator I get to see the mini catalogue for a month before it comes live. There is "pre- order" and then playing secretly with the new stamps and accessories before the official launch date.

What was even better?  the Vintage vogue stampset comes in both wood mounted and clear mounted stamps.

The clear mount stamps are actually stampin up quality rubber stamps, mounted on foam and onto cling type film which makes them cling or stick to a clear mount block.

Clear as ? I think they are better than wood because you don't have to seal the wood blocks anymore, and you can see better where you are stamping. And, they come in a plastic storage case (about the same shape and size as a DVD box) so storage is really easy.

I couldn't wait for the chance to ink my first image of them. The flower with a scripted print on it, the floral swirls, and with gorgous words like: Life happens. Love helps. You raise kindness to an art.

The Very Vintage wheel is going to be great as a background for all those pretty and shabby chic kind of cards and scrap pages.

And look what they don't show you in the calalogue?

The Very Vintage Wheel has a bonus butterfly on the end of it!

Now I asked around what those words are on the wheel ... not a lot of french speakers in my circle of friends and family but loosely the words say:

The park in May is in flower, come into the meadows, and love the countryside.

Four years of french at school was really not one of the high lights of my learning achievements.

Now as you can see this is an Easel card. A card with its own stand. They are much easier to make than they look only two bits of cardstock with some strips for decoration.

The strip of ribbon (in Rich razzleberry) holds the top up so that it doesnt slide forward, but you can fold it down flat easily enough for postage.

And the sentiment comes from another new stampset:

Heard from the heart. Four large cling clear block stamps for $28.95.

You will need a large narrow clear block for this one (Block H: 11.3x4.1cm) $13.95

Card recipe:
Stampsets: Vintage vogue, Very vintage wheel, Heard from the heart.
Cardstock: Rich razzleberry, Pale Plum, whisper white.
Ink: Rich razzleberry, Pale Plum.
Accessories: silver brad, Rich Razzleberry ribbon.
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Any one who speaks french or can translate (not using google translator) contact me for a $5 off voucher on your next order.
"Parque Mai tout en fleur, dans les pres nous reclame, Viens!
Non te tasse pas de meler a ton ame la campagne,"