Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day to all my blog followers....yes you two over there!  Hee hee.  Sometimes I see a card and like bits and pieces of it.  Sometimes I see a card and want to copy the whole thing from top to bottom.  A beautiful card for Mother's Day was posted on our demonstrator forum by Sharon Meek.  I was planning on make a card for my mum and knew this was it.  My cards are not usually this fancy, but I wanted to do something special for mum.  Thanks Sharon for a beautiful design.

I had already wrapped Mum's pressie so changed the colours to suit.  The original was is Wisteria Wonder.  I also wrote the 'Mum' on my computer and printed it out on Very Vanilla as my alphabet set was too big.

And with the pressie?

Although I am now thinking I should change the ribbon on the present to Crumb Cake so that it completely matches the card.

Stamps:  Creative Elements
Card:  Garden Green, Very Vanilla, Sahara Sand, Certainly Celery
Ink:  Crumb Cake
Accessories:  Big Shot, Vintage Wallpaper TEF, Perfect Polka Dots TEF, Floral Fusion Sizzlit die, Beautiful Wings Embosslits die, Ovals Originals die, Labels Collection Framelits die, Adoring Accent Edgelits die, Itty Bitty Shapes Punch, Bird Builder Punch
Accessories:  Basic Rhinestones, Crumb Cake Taffeta Ribbon

Whew!  Maybe part of the reason I keep my cards simpler is so that I don't have to write out such a long recipe!

You might like to check out Judy May's blog.  This was where Sharon adapted her design from.

Thanks for stopping by!

Anna

Notebook

Using the lovely Everyday Enchantment DSP from Sale-a-Bration, we made these notebooks at a recent class.  The notebooks are very economical to buy yet easy to jazz up and make beautiful.  I liked the colour of this DSP against the black cover.  I saw this idea on My Crafty Picks and tweeked it to suit the notebooks I found.

We heat embossed the flourish from Creative Elements onto the cover, which is a bit hard to see in the photo.  I was a little worried when I tried the sample that I would end up with a shrivelled cover, but thankfully, I didn't.

The embossing looks a little speckled in the photo but not in real life.  Adding the flowers from the Itty Bitty Punches tied the whole lot together.  This was a really fun project which was the result of a customer requesting that we do covered notebooks.

Stamps:  Creative Elements
Card:  Basic Black, Everyday Enchantment DSP
Ink:  Versamark
Tools:  Big Shot, Perfect Pennants die, Beautiful Butterflies Bigz die, Beautiful Wings Embosslits die, Itty Bitty Shapes Punch Pack, Scallop Trim Border Punch
Accessories:  Basic Rhinestones, Everyday Enchantment Ribbon

Thanks for stopping by!

Anna

Crumbcake and Colour

Here is another card done at a recent Stamp-a-Stack, using some of the beautiful Mocha Morning Specialty DSP.  I saw this card on Just Add Ink, created by Tina Gillespie and loved the little splashes of colour.

It was a quick and easy card to put together - great if you want to whip up something at the last minute.

Thanks for stopping by!

Anna

JAI Challenge 106 (but only my third!)

Over at Just Add Ink they have a sketch challenge this week.  Here is the sketch...

And here is my card.  I kept it pretty simple and did not add a sentiment.  I am happy with the white embossing behind the flower.

I hope you like my interpretation.  Pop on over to Just Add Ink to see what others have done. 

I'll have to leave off the recipe as I've got a big card order to fill and have to get on with it.

Thanks for stopping by!

Anna

Launch Make and Takes

The ladies who came to my launch made four Make and Takes....and here are three of them. (Make and Takes, not ladies!)
We used the Two Tags Big Shot die and the new Creative Elements set to make this beautiful bookmark.

Christmas gift tags made with Tags til Christmas.

And Delicate Doilies meet our Lace Ribbon Border.

I'll show you the fourth one in my next post.

Introducing...the new In Colors

Come September, Stampin' Up! will introduce five new In Colors to complement the rest of the colour range.  All five a just beautiful!  Thought I would give you a sample of what they are like.

In all these samples, the card base, the top butterfly and the sentiment are done in the new colour.  The card style is inspired by Kirsty Brown.

First up... Calypso Coral which I have teamed with Peach Parfait.

These butterflies are put together using the Big Shot Beautiful Butterflies die and the Embosslits beautiful wings die.





Next up Wisteria Wonder - I have been hoping for a lavendar shade to be introduced.  This one I have teamed with Concord Crush.  Yummeeee.

Do you like the flourish?  One of our free stamp sets from Convention was Creative Elements.  I love this delicate touch.

Another In Color:  Lucky Limeade.  Remember Kiwi Kiss?  This new colour reminds me very much of that old favourite.

I have added some Stick on Basic Pearls for a touch of elegance.

Pool Party is a light subtle colour which I have teamed with Tempting Turquoise, one of our Brights.

And last but not least, Island Indigo, contrasting below with Bashful Blue.

The For You sentiment is from the Elements of Style stamp set and is punched out with a 1" circle punch.

Stay tuned for more sneak peeks. 

If you are interested in seeing more samples from the new catalogue, I am having a launch at my house at the beginning of September.  Email me for more details.  Can't come but want a new catalogue?  I can have one ready to mail to you on September 1st.  Cost is $12.95 including postage.  Contact me for more details.

Thanks for visiting!





Another Peak

Another Convention creation made using the Creative Elements set, coming in the new catalogue.  I love cards that are a different dimension and we have some lovely long envelopes to put them in.  Don't you love the two tone butterfly?  That has been inked up using three Stampin' Write markers.  We also used a crimper to give the envelope and card some texture.  This has to be one of my most underused tools.  I'll have to dig it out and put it back into action!

Sneak Peek

While it's time to say good-bye to some products that are retiring, it's also time to say hello to some new ones.

Creative Elements was one of the FREE stamp sets we received at Convention this year.  We then used it to do our fabulous Make and Takes.

I love this flower!  I can see some beautiful layering happening with this set in the future.  The flower on the card and the envelope are covered with Shimmer Paint.

And a slightly fuzzy close up.

Keep watching my blog for more sneak peeks and also some farewells.

Anna