Cheesy Birthday Card

Here's a quickie I knocked up this afternoon while trying to create  some sort of order in my craft room.
I was getting on well until the UPS man knocked on the door with my order.
Then I was distracted by the goodies in the box.
No hope of getting back to tidying up now.
This Giggles Greetings  set has been on my wish list since I first saw the new catalogue.
I thought , I'd just test out my colouring skills on this images and before I knew it. I had made this card.
Can't wait to do the cat one, but must get back to putting things away and clearing some space before  anything else.
Colours used...Tempting Turquoise, Whisper White card stock and Bashful blue DSP, Basic Grey ink pad,  a few Copic Markers and one Amber coloured crystal.

Open Sea Card

I used the Open Sea stamp set to create this card. Using Night of navy and  bashful blue inks. Night of navy  and whisper white card stock.  I don't think I need to give instructions for this one as it's all pretty obvious . But should you have any questions I would be happy to  answer them.

                    

Not so Plane and Simple

Ok!!! I have had serious doubt about posting this one. I really don't like it at all. It is not my style and I did a dreadful job of cutting out the plane.


So this is a reluctant post. We used the Plane and Simple stamp set again. with coloured card shapes and twill.

Jelly Bean Card

This card was a lot quicker and simpler to make than you may at first think.

When I first saw this set of stamps from Stampin up I was not at all impressed with the small stamps in the collection. Then I started to play with the jelly bean and 5 different colour inks and this is what I ended up with. I was really quite pleased with this.

The pale purple and reddy pink colours I achieved by stamping twice without re inking the stamp between impressions.

I started with a three fold card which I had stamped then I used stampin up's largest circle punch to make the holes for the plastic cup (these are featured in the mini catalogue) I used double sided tape along the two long inside front edges and ONE of the short inside edges of the card to form a pocket.

And then I attached the self adhesive cup to the front of the card.

I made a book mark about 2" wide and about 5" long to slide into the pocket to seal the back of the cup and stop the contents of the cup from spilling out.

I Cut a strip of jelly bean stamped card and a red strip of card (slightly wider) and punched the holes making sure that the card layers and the holes all lined up perfectly. I applied double sided tape and positioned both layers over the cup to conceal the cup mounting. I then stamped and punched out my greeting and mounted it onto foam pads before sticking it onto my card. Then all that was left to do was to persuade my sweet, sweet loving husband to go to Ma humbugs for some gourmet jelly beans . These are smaller than standard jelly beans and look far better in these little cups.

Stamp up stamps used here are

sincere salutations,

It's beautiful wheel stamp,

one of a kind.

I used the edge punch and boho punch which punches out the three flowers in one.

and I used Stampin up s night of navy ink on white card stock and added a few sparkles and pearls.