Lots of Bots

Hi All,

Another new stamp set, this time its "Lots of Bots"... Ahhh there is nothing quite like playing with a new stamp set for the first time... Fellow Stampin' Up demos will agree, many others will simply think I'm nuts!!

Anyway, this is my first ever "Lots of Bots" card for one of my husband's mate's b'days...

Materials Used
Stamp Set:  Lots of Bots & On your Birthday
Cardstock: Brocade Blue, Real Red, Whisper White, White Glossy
Stampin' Write Markers - Bashful Blue, Bordering Blue, Real Red, Not Quite Navy, Brocade Blue
Versamark
Staz-on Ink
Dimensionals
Red Gingham Ribbon


If you'd like any other details, just leave a comment or email me.


Thanks for looking,

Clean and simply birthday

Hi All,

Here's another card using the Birthday Block stamp, but this is for the boys or men...

Please excuse the photography.. Its been very wet here in Perth and I've been unable to take any photos outside in the daylight.

I've kept this card really clean and simple and only added a little colouring with my markers directly onto the stamped image - I've coloured 4 words and the candle to match the cardstock.

 

Materials Used:

Stamp Set: Birthday Block

Cardstock: Whisper White, Tempting Turquoise and Garden Green

Stampin' Write Markers: Garden Green & Tempting Turquoise

Tempting Turquoise Ribbon

Basic Black Ink pad

Well off for some birthday present shopping today and then to play with another stamp set tonight, mmm which to choose? You'll have to come back and see tomorrow.

Thanks for looking,

Stamp 'n' Stack June Projects

Hi Everyone,

These are the 3 cards we made for the June Stamp 'n' Stack (SAS) last night. It was all about the kids! And thanks to the ladies that came, it was a night full of chattering, laughs and giggles!

I cased myself here... I originally posted this card here but thought it was perfect for a boys or girls card.

For this card we used the "Pony Party" Stamp set from the Autumn/Winter Mini Catalogue. I chose this stamp set as a reward from Stampin' Up! from my Sale-a-bration sales earlier this year... I've also used my new Top Note die and Big Shot (sooooo LOVING my Big Shot at the mo!)

And the last card used a retired stamp set "Pocket Fun" but I thought it would be great for boys! What boy wouldn't love a frog in his pocket! Thankfully this is a lot more easy care than a real frog!

If you are interested in making any of these cards, simply arrange a time, invite a few friends and voila, you will have a handful of kids' cards at the ready!

Thanks for looking,

JAI Challenge #17

Hi Everyone,

Its time for this week's Just Add Ink Challenge... This week is #17 and we needed to "Just Add.... A technique from the Blog Hop" the Design Team has presented on each of their blogs as tutorials.

I have been practicing my watercolouring with my aqua painter and although there's a couple of mistakes on this card, I still really like it!!!

And I've also stamped directly onto some Designer series paper (ok, so its not an image on the paper but at least I didn't layer up the sentiment like I normally would!  

Well, I should be back soon with more... I know me, I just can't leave it at one entry especially not with all these techniques!!!! 

Thanks for looking,

Sesame Street Card

Hi All,

I made this card for a friend's little boy who just turned 2!

Isn't it cute! I've seen the idea of the characters on Splitcoast Stampers several times and I can't remember the actual person or the link. If it's yours, please let me know and I'll update this page with a link to your blog.




Thanks for looking,

Happy 1st B'day Nicholas

Hi Everyone,


It was my nephew's 1st b'day yesterday and I thought I'd share the card I made for him.


I've used the Animal Stories stamp set, yes, the obsession with this set continues, I promise I will post some cards using other sets soon....

Do you like the edging detail? Here's how I did it:

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  Using the scallop border punch, punch your border along the straight edges of your card
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  Now, go back over your border but instead of lining up the scallops on the silver scallop guideline on the punch, place each punched scallop in the middle of 2 scallops on the silver guideline; ie: for each rise of the punched scallop, place it on the silver scallop's valley or dip instead
• You can create the same effect with the scalloped circle, except you use your scalloped circle punch upside down and can see the cutting blades to line up the 2nd scalloped circle.

Materials Used:

Stamp Set: Animal Stories, Sentiment: Riveting (retired hostess set)
Cardstock: Kraft, Kiwi Kiss, Night of Navy & Whisper White

Punches: Scallop border, scallop circle, 1 3/8 circle, 1 1/4 circle

Other: Navy Grosgrain ribbon, Versamark, Paper clip from Clips Assortment pack



Thanks for looking,

Inkspirations Colour Challenge # 18….

Hi All,

Another challenge, at least this time I have more than an hour before the challenge actually finishes...

This time Makeesha's Inkspirations Colour Challenge #18 is to use these colours:

A really unusual combination isn't it! But that's the beauty of the Stampin' Up colours - you can easily mix and match between all the colour families. Well, I thought I'd try a boys card with these colours....


So this is my card and I've used the owl from "Animal Stories" and the sentiment is from "On your birthday" :

The mellow moss has piercing across the width of the card & around the scallop but it didn't really show up in this photo.

All the colour has been added via Stampin' Write Markers for all the stamps and also I dyed my whisper white ribbon with my brocade blue marker to co-ordinate the ribbon into the challenge. I didn't use a single ink pad, well, that is until I decided I needed to add some ruby red sponging around my vanilla card.

I think this will be a nice and easy card to case in a hurry and especially for little boys as you can just write a different age each time and stamp an extra owl or 2.


Thanks for looking,