I just love this card – it has flowers, it has pink, it has lace and it has sparkle – all my favorites in one tidy package.
The sidestep fold is very impressive looking but is easy to do if you have a good paper trimmer with a scoring blade as well as cutting blade – which is exactly what the Stampin Trimmer is! The fold also gives you lots of surfaces to decorate which is how I have managed to get all my favorites in 🙂 Continue reading
Earlier this month was Grand-daughter # 3’s birthday – the Animal Outing Stamp set with the coordinating Animal Expedtion Designer Series Paper is just perfect for ‘littlies’ in our lives, change out the colors and it works for either boys or girls!
Because this card needed to be sent to the UK I kept the layering and decorations to a minimum, relying on the Petal Pink Metallic Ribbon to provide my signature bling!
At the end of October I shared a Halloween card we made in my monthly card class using the Waterfall Fold and promised to share a video – today I make good on that promise.
Plus I am doubling up and making it a guy card as well! I figure the fellas in my life would get a kick out of the mechanism that makes the waterfall work!
Once again I have fallen back on the Rooted in Nature Stamp Set – it is just so perfect for the fellas but I need to think of a way to make a more feminine card with it ~ well that has set me a challenge hasn’t it?
Don’t you just love this combination? The softness of the Very Vintage Stamp Set with Powder Pink and Sahara Sand.
This is such a pretty stamp set with sentiments that cover birthdays, thank you as well as a ‘just because’ card and we could all use those ~ how lovely to receive a card ‘Just Because’ someone was thinking about you and wanted you to know.
I shall say again, as I have many times in the past – making cards for the fellas in my life is always a challenge – and so it was for my husband’s birthday earlier this month!
My current favorite stamp set for fellas is Rooted in Nature, it has the perfect images without being too ‘fruu – fruu’ and sappy 🙂 Coupled with the Wood Textured DSP stack and the Leaves Trinkets it brings the woody theme together.
Time to share a technique ~ Black Ice. It creates a great focal point to a card with a really unusual finish. As this is an embossing technique it also gave me a chance to pull out my Heat Gun which has been sadly neglected for a while 🙂
Looking at the color combination I think this would make for a great card for the guys in our lives and the second sample with a little flower and bow would be great for a feminine card.
The Graceful Garden Stamp Set is perfect for making a really peaceful and elegant card. The ‘for you’ sentiment can be used for just about any occasion, birthday, anniversary, thank you, thinking of you, or simply ‘just because’
I have paired the stamp set with Mint Macaron and Sahara Sand which are peaceful colors as well and then a scattering of Basic Jewel Pearls to give even more of an elegant touch.
Last week I shared a scrapbook page as part of the September’s Ink and Share Scrapbook Blog Hop. I had a few of the pieces left over when I finished the page and could not bear to throw them away – I thought they would make a good card and also show how scrapbooking and card-making with Stampin’ UP! products is so very easy.
This is the sixth of my videos on techniques using the Stamparatus and it features repeat stamping using the Eastern Beauty Stamp Set.
The Stamparatus is Stampin’ UP!’s latest tool and an absolute must have for all stampers. It helps you perfectly align your stamp images, stamp multiples of the same project quickly and accurately and gets complete ink coverage – ‘cos you can do a ‘do-over’ as my video today will show.
This week has been a big one for my Great-Niece, she turned 5 on Tuesday and started ‘Big’ school on the same day. She is a cute little character and according to her mother, fearless. I am not quite sure a fairy is a good choice for her birthday card but I do have a photo of her in a little pink dress with a tulle skirt – so I figure she does have a ‘girly’ side to her.
The Fairy Celebration Stamp Set is perfect for coloring and a perfect chance for me to get out my Stampin’ Blends and get my coloring on!
