Sew Suite – JAI#73 Challenge

I have been wanting to make some cards for the principal at my son’s school for a while now. She does such a great job at the school so I thought I would give her a set of cards as a thank you. I know she is into sewing so the Sew Suite stamp set (p10 mini) is perfect. 

Today I decided to use the Just Add Ink Challenge #73 – Sketch Challenge as my starting point for the first card. I had the afternoon free of children (and have stayed up tonight..) so I think I got a bit carried away with my creativity but I love how it turned out (hopefully not a too busy design…).  

I was excited about how I matched up the “Happy Birthday” sentiment from On Your Birthday stamp set (p102 IB&C) with the sewing machine.  I got the idea from seeing my mum’s finished quilt today (thanks mum!!) where she had sewn some words on the back with her sewing machine.  Here is a close up:

 

 Here is the Just Add Ink Sketch layout – I flipped it to one side:

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Card Details:

• Stamp Set/s: Sew Suite, On Your Birthday and En Français
• Card: Soft Suede, Very Vanilla, Baja Breeze, Not Quite Navy and So Saffron.
• Ink: Soft Suede, Baja Breeze, Not Quite Navy and Crumb Cake.
• Accessories/Tools:  Snail, Dimensionals, Paper Cutter, Bone Folder, sponges, mini dots, decorative label punch, Boho Blossoms punch, lots of basic pearls jewels, basic rhinestone jewel, paper piercer, blender pen, two-way glue pen and paper snips.

 

Autumn Butterfly

I made this card a few weeks ago when the Autumn leaves were in full colour.  Canberra is just beautiful in Autumn and I was very inspired by the colours in the Autumn Spice (p21 mini) specialty designer series papers.  I added the little bit of lace trim to look like a scarf as it was definitely scarf weather.  I used the Nature Walk stamp set (p14 mini) as I love the butterfly. 

I initially I didn’t like how I coloured the butterfly so I decided to add crystal effects and it really deepened the colour as well as making it pop up – so happy with it now.  Here is a close up:

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Cupcake & CAS#145 Challenge

While blog surfing the other day I came across Rochelle Gould’s blog.  Rochelle has altered the frosting cupcake top from the Build a Cupcake punch (p12 mini) to give a different frosting top.  I just had to give it a go and decided to use this week’s sketch layout from Clean and Simple Stamping #145 challenge for my card layout. 

Can you see the point on the top of my cupcake?  The point is from the decorative label punch (p11 mini).  Take a look at Rochelle’s blog post <Click HERE> to see how it is done.   I also used the decorative label punch to make the decorative background behind the Happy Birthday sentiment.  You punch out one decorative label then put it back into the punch using a post it note to hold it and line it up and punch again!  It is such a versatile punch.

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• Stamp Set/s: Create a Cupcake
• Card: chocolate chip. whisper white, rose red, so saffron and tempting turquoise.
• Ink:  chocolate chip. rose red, so saffron and tempting turquoise and stampin’ write markers: rose red and tempting turquoise.
• Accessories/Tools:  Snail, Dimensionals, Paper Cutter, Bone Folder, sponges, eyelet border punch, mini dots, decorative label punch, build a cupcake punch, BigShot Embossing Folder: textured expressions, basic rhinestone jewels, word window punch, two-way glue pen and paper snips.

Thinking of You

I am really enjoying creating with the Strength & Hope stamp set (page 23 mini) at the moment and recently made this card.  I think the set works well with the Nature Walk stamp set (14 mini).  The other stamp sets I used was the bird on the branch from Silhouette Sentiments (p11 Hostess set IB&C) and Teeny Tiny Sentiments (105 IB&C).

If you purchase the Strength & Hope Stamp Set, Stampin’ Up! will donate $2 from this purchase to The Breast Cancer Research Foundation®. BCRF is dedicated to preventing breast cancer and finding a cure in our lifetime by funding clinical and translational research worldwide.  Shelli Gardner, Stampin’ Up! Cofounder and CEO talks about Stampin’ Up! Strength and Hope Campagin in a video.  You can watch this video by clicking HERE.

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JAI 71- Just Add Black and White

This week’s challenge at Just Add Ink is a colour challenge to use just Black & White.  Immediately I thought wedding!  For this card I used the beautiful butterflies from Strength & Hope stamp set (p23 mini) and the two words ‘together’ and ‘love’ also come from this set.  For the sentiment I used Teeny Tiny Sentiments (p105 IB&C).

Do you like how I have placed the pearls next to ‘For the Newlyweds’ – it makes it look so elegant… well I saw it on Tina Gillespie Just Add Ink entry card and had to give it a go…  Take a look at Tina’s card it is beautiful and gives you look at a new stamp set coming in the next Idea Book & catalogue (click HERE).

Now back to my card, here is a close up of the butterflies.  I initially stamp the butterfly then stamped the image again but cut out the wings and stuck them on top with a mini dot.

Cheers Deb

 

 

 

 

 

 

Card Details:

• Stamp Set/s: Strength & Hope & Teeny Tiny Sentiments
• Card: Whisper White and Black
• Ink: Black and Black Stampin’ Write marker
• Accessories/Tools:  Snail, Dimensionals, Paper Cutter, Bone Folder, mini dots, paper snips, BigShot: Vintage Wallpaper Embossing Folder, Basic Pearls and Jewelry Tag medium punch.

 

 

ColourQ Challenge #88

This is a birthday card I have made for a friend.  I used Friends Never Fade stamp set (p71 IB&C) and Bring on the Cake stamp set (p13 mini) for the sentiment.  My inspiration came from ColourQ Challenge #88 :

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Card Receipe:

• Stamp Set/s: Friends Never Fade & Bring on the Cake
• Card: Crumb cake, very vanilla, early espresso and cherry cobbler
• Ink: Soft suede, crumb cake, early espresso and cherry cobbler
• Accessories/Tools:  Snail, Dimensionals, Paper Cutter, Bone Folder, sponges, basic pearls, scallop edge border punch, early espresso striped grosgrain ribbon and paper snips.

Quilted Card

It was my mother’s birthday a few weeks ago and she is really into quilting (if she isn’t making cards). So this year I decided to make a quilted card for her following Jenna Barber’s tutorial on Splitcoaststampers.  I just changed the size of the squares to 2.5cm.  The designer paper I used is called Bella Bleu but is now retired paper.  The Birthday Wishes stamp is from Bring on the Cake (p13 mini) stamp set.

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Cupcakes…

On the weekend my son attended a birthday party and this is the card and decorated bag I made.  I used the Create a Cupcake stamp set and Build a Cupcake punch (p12 mini).  Recently, I have seen a lot of pendant banners on cards so decided to have a go at making one.  I think it looks great with all the bright coloured flags.

Here is a close up of the card:

Here is a look at the present in the bag.  I purchased a cupcake making kit and added to it some sprinkles and fairy cupcake holders.  I love it when I can coordinate a present with the wrapping and card. 

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Butterflies…

Yes – it is another Nature Walk (p14 mini) card!!  I don’t use vellum very often on cards but I think  I should!  I started off making this card with a design in mind but it didn’t seem to come together so I put it aside. Then for some reason when I came back to my very messy craft desk with bits of cut out butterflies everywhere I thought wouldn’t it be great if I could reverse the butterfly image.  So I did!  I was able to do this by stamping one of the butterflies on the reverse side of the vellum paper.  To make the butterflies stand out more I also added 3D wings.  Here is a closer look:

Some exciting news, my Nature Walk tri-fold card (see my last post or click HERE ) was a

Cheers Deb