Quicky Christmas Card

My sister stamped the background using one of her wheel stamps and white ink and left it for me to decorate. So having just bought the season of joy stamp set I thought I would finish it very simply. I stamped the wording and mounted it onto red card stock, then again onto white. I stamped the tree using handsome hunter ink, cut it out and using foam pads adhered the tree onto the card. The final touch was a the yellow crystal star on top of the tree. which is bearly visible in this photo.

Baby card

For this I stamped an A4 sheet of card stock using the animal stories stamp set and the greeting stamp small wonder with pretty in pink ink, bashful blue ink and summer sun ink.

I then cut it down to 5 3/4" x 4" and stuck it to the front of my white base card . I stamped the giraffe in summer sun and mounted it onto pretty in pink card stock then mounted it again on bashful blue card stock. added a blue bow and small flat back pearls in the corners.

I will use the rest of my stamped sheet for other baby cards.

Baby Card

I had every intention of filling my blog with loads of new things for you all during the summer holidays, But life has a away of messing up the best of plans. I ended up re decorating my hall , stairs and landing and the kitchen and not without problems. Before I knew it the holiday was over and I had to go back to work.

I didn't get much chance to make anything over the holiday and those cards I did make were sent as soon as they were finished.

I am not sure that I am supposed to post this card yet as I have used part of one of the wheel stamps that is featured in the new catalogue being launched on the 1st of October.

I used the Nursery Letters wheel for the blue background. I randomly stamped the lemon background with with small flower from the christmas stamp set season of joy using versamark ink as I didn't want a bold background. The baby tees wheel and copic markers to colour in the clothes.

Embossed in satin pearl embossing powered after being stamped using a wheel stamp and versamark ink.

Forest friend card

A childs quickie card. I used Forest friend stamp set from stampin up, soft suede, old olive and chocolate chip card stock. Close to cocoa ink.

two sizes of circle punch plus the scallop edge punch and a small piece of white ribbon.

Baby's Pram card.

Here a few cards that have absolutely

No stampin up products in them.

Just a Cuttlebug embossing folder and a couple of different sized daisy punches and card stock.

A little tip for you If you want to make wheels for a Pram or maybe even a bike ( haven't tried making a bike,....YET)

Use a daisy punch and two sizes of circle punches.

I started by punching out a large circle in foiled card, Then punched the smaller centre circle from the background paper.

From the foiled card I punched out a daisy that was a little larger than the smallest circle, I then stuck the daisy in the middle of the smallest circle and trimmed off all the tips of the petals until the daisy was the same size as the circle underneath .

I then mounted the daisy section onto the larger circle.

Blue Bambino

A Very quick card for a neighbour who caught us all by surprise and had her baby six weeks early.

Well Done Girl!

Bashful blue cardstock, ink and ribbon and white card stock and the edging punch

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.

Football penny slider card

A penny slider card using the

" just soccer" stamp set from

stampin up stamped in black.

I used versamark ink to stamp

the background on the old olive cardstock

I am not fond of doing men s cards they're not pretty......

nor should they be.

But I just love pretty things and

making pretty things. But I don't

think this is a bad effort at making

a man's card.

The interesting bit for me was

getting the ball to roll from side to side of the card smoothly.

An Apple for the Teacher... Not Quite....

A thank you card for the teacher who puts up with the tears, the tantrums, the snotty noses, the nits, and childhood diseases our children take to school at sometime or another.
The pencils are just cut down and painted cocktail sticks This card doesn't have a paintbrush, but I did do one with a paintbrush again using a cocktail stick and snip of my hair for the bristles. I guesss I could have snipped the pile from a piece of fur fabric.
I took real school objects photocopied them and reduced them to the size I wanted. the backing paper I made from making a collage of all the photocopied items. then I photocopied the collage.

Easter Treat

Amanda made one of these with a cute Easter Chick on it for me, So I just had to have a go.

Brocade blue bella toile set

I love this Bella toile stamp by stampin up is stamped in brocade blue ink . I love the blue and white combination so crisp and clean looking.

Bella Toile Birthday card

Bella toile back ground stamp from Stampin up

Brocade blue ink pad. Spellbinder dies.

Loads of love in the neighbourhood

I saw something similar to this and
thought it was great, so I just had to have a go .
I used Stampin Ups jumbo wheel" neighbourhood" , "Loads of love " stamp set
and a set watercolour paints