TSOT #125 - Happiest Birthday Yet

Hi, it's time again for another sketch at Try Stampin' On Tuesday and I'm going to keep this short and sweet, as I have an ironing pile that has been calling me for weeks and I'm about as revved up as I'll ever get to doing it :)

Initially I struggled with this one, but as soon as I switched it to a square, it all fell into place. I'm really happy with how this turned out. If you have any question, just ask :)

It's great seeing your creations and if you want to see the other design teams creations, then go here.

Thanks for looking

Fine and Sunny Birthday

Hi! Finally getting around to sharing a few creations I've had sitting in my 'to blog' folder :)

This is a card I made well over 6 months ago. I used Kaisercraft paper and made it as a joy fold card, but turned vertically, not horizontally.

This card actually had a last minute change, before I gave it away. I needed a card for my DD kindy teacher, so the sentiment change to 'thanks'. I love making my own cards for that reason - I can change up sentiments or even leave cards blank until I know what I need :)

Any questions just ask

Thanks for looking :)

TSOT - Pocketful of Posies

Hello every one! Did I get you singing the nursery rhyme? :) 

It's time again for another sketch for Try Stampin' On Tuesday! Here's the sketch:

And my creation:

When I saw the sketch I was a bit stumped in what I wanted to do. SO I started to pull out all my DSP to get some inspiration. I came across the paper in 'Pocketful of posies' - I bought a few of these packs while they were on the SU clearance rack, as I love the colours and patterns, but on the other side of these patterns, they have these super cool graphic designs. Now because I'm not really a scrap booker, the graphic designs would never really see light of day.

So after that long thought process :)... I decided to use them in a card. Once I knew where I was going, this card took very little time to create. I used one sheet of DSP. I cut the section I wanted for my main image, then cut the panel of rich razzleberry (the opposite side) and matted both onto soft suede. I added a plain strip of soft suede, as I thought it would be too busy if I embossed it. My sentiment is stamped in soft suede and is from 'On your birthday' and punched out with my 1 1/4 square punch and matted onto soft suede. I added a butterfly cut out in rich razzleberry from my Beautiful butterflies die. I dont know why, but all of a sudden rich razzleberry seems to be my go to colour. I have a few more creations I have made with it, but I cant share them yet :)

So now it's over to you - have fun with the sketch, we love seeing what you create!

Thanks for listening (reading) and looking xx

Birthday Butterfly - TSOT #104

Well I'm not sure about you, but I feel like the weeks are flying by. Once again it's time for another Try Stampin' On Tuesday sketch. Here's the sketch...

 Isn't it a beauty?! Here's my creation...

I went with a crisp, clean look and love how it turned out! My colours are rose red, so saffron, pear pizzaz and white. And want to know the best thing? I managed to make this card (minus the base) completely from scraps or off cuts - love it when that happens :) I used some retired so saffron DSP from play date, the pear pizzaz strip is from nursery nest and I just cut to size and flag cut the end and  stamped the sentiment in rose red and flagged to match the layer. The butterflies are from beautiful butterflies and the smaller butterfly is from beautiful wings.

So how does this sketch inspire you? We would to see your creation and if you have time, go here to check out the other designers amazing creations.

Thanks for looking :)

A Mustard Tree

Hi! It's time again for another sketch over at  Try Stampin' On Tuesday - where is the time going?? This week is a great clean and simple sketch from Jenn - seriously, how talented is this lady!
Here's the sketch we have to work with:

Here's my take on it:

I went clean and simple and pulled out colours I never seem to use! I used more mustard, not quite navy  and white. I ran the white panel through the chevron embossing folder, and used different DSP from the regal paper stack. I inked my tree from 'Forrest friends' in  more mustard, but stamped off once before stamping onto my white circle. The sentiment was stamped in not quite navy and it's from 'On your birthday'. I added a few silver pearls and propped the circle onto dimensionals. I was really happy with the end result - a quick and simple guys card, that I actually made a few more of this design.

So go on over and check out the other creations the design team have come up with -  I know you'll be impressed!

Thanks for looking :)

Baja Breeze Birthday...

... Try saying that three times quickly!

This week at Try Stampin' On Tuesday, Jenn has a great sketch yet again for us to get our creative juices going.

Here's the sketch:

And here's my take on it:

I think I'm going thorough a baja breeze phase - I cant get enough of it! I loved this paper, which I got off of Stampin' Ups clearance rack, and is apart of the 'pocketful of posies' dsp. I teamed it up with basic grey and some white card and some oh so fabulous silver glimmer paper! My image is from 'Field flowers'. I stamped the solid image off once in baja breeze to create a two tone image. The sentiment is from 'On your birthday' and stamped in basic grey. I added some baja breeze seam binding and some white pearls and voila! 

Go past and check out the other design teams creations here.

Thanks for looking :)

Elegant Three

Hello! I'm popping by to show you a few cards I made a while ago. They are quite a collaboration of different companies products. For all of them, the base and lacy circle are elegant eggplant, the dsp is bella bleu, the leaves are in old olive and punched out with the bird punch and the flowers are punched out with the boho blossom punch all Stampin up. The gold and white shimmer card is from Cristina Re, the cream card is from Artee, the pearls are from Kaiser Craft and the butterfly is from Martha Stewart. The lacy circle is from nestabilities.

The sentiment is from Stampin Up's 'On your Birthday' 

 The sentiment is from Verve stamps plain jane collection

This sentiment is also from Verve stamps plain jane collection

I was definitely on a roll when I made these, and I quite like them all :)

Thanks for looking 

Owl Birthday

This was a card which was very easy to make. I had the woodgrain paper, which I punched a 1 3/4" hole and created my little owl. A few branches, a greeting and voila - done!

I reckon this card took about 10 mins to make!

Thanks for looking!

Just Add Ink 84 - Colour Challenge

This week at Just Add Ink they have a colour challenge: "White plus one".

When I first sat down I thought I would use rose red, but no matter how hard I tried and after many attempts, I couldn't get anything to look 'right'. So I completely changed my course and picked up tempting turquoise. I must admit I was a lot happier with the look of this card.

I love how fresh this card feels. I originally had the flowers with no colouring but I felt it needed a bit more depth. So I used my blender pen to add a bit of colour and not make them seem so 'white'. I also added some 2 mm rhinestones from my stash to the middles of the flowers. As you can see I did add a fair bit of dimension.
Thanks for looking!

Not so vintage

Hello!
I thought I'd be able to enter this in the JAI colour challenge, but I read the colours wrong and used riding hood red, when I should have used cherry cobbler, oh well. I'll still post the card; this was a challenge for me with these colours, they screamed vintage to me and I dont do vintage very well. This card took so many hours of just staring at it and nothing was jumping off the page and the end result I'm still not happy with, I guess you have times like that.

Thanks for stopping by.