Holiday Tapestry

I have had my eye on this stamp by Gina K designs for a long time. But there is only one place in the UK that sells Gina K products.  As you can imagine, as soon as the stock comes in it's sold out. So I have had a long wait before getting this one.

I guess I could have ordered it from the U.S but I got stung before. I bought a set of stamps costing £20 and ended up being charged another £20 by the post office for taxes.... Lesson learnt.

My first card with this stamp is a tall thin card (DL) . I stamped the images with Versamark and heat embossed in white.  Mounted the images on white card and then on to a coloured base card. In this case the colour I chose was Pacific Point.  I think this is a pretty straight forward card to make and a pretty design but a little flat looking. So on my second card I thought I'd add a little depth by brushing a slightly darker blue  ink over the edges of the panel and overlapping the embossing.

 Once I felt I had enough depth I gave the white embossing a good rub to remove the ink from the surface.

 Unfortunately  the ink has stained the embossing in places, but not so bad that the panel is unusable. 

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For my third card, I changed the shape. This time I went for a 7 x 5 inch card.

To avoid staining the embossing, I brushed the ink on the card panel before embossing. By inking the card first does mean you have to wait for the card to completely dry, and use an embossing buddy before you attempt to heat emboss, or you'll find the embossing powder sticks to the whole area rather than the design. I certainly think the inking adds a little richness to these cards. I hope you agree.

 Time to try more colours and techniques with this stamp.

Clare's card

The stripey pink paper is from Stampin' up, as is the cupcake stamp set I used to make this card.
The stamp set is called crazy for cupcakes and it's about the only stamp set I remember the name of.
The lacey edge was punched with the new lace edge punch from stampin'up.
I used Stampin up markers , copic markers and a white souffle pen to colour the cakes and stand.
The card stock is SU's pretty in pink.

Christmas tags

Yes!!!! I know, Christmas is still six months away but having got the Winter Post stamp set I really wanted play with these little gems. along with the Rich Razzleberry and Close to Cocoa ink pads.
These were just basic parcel tags daubed and stamped. I then added a few drops of glue here and there and sprinkled with dazzling diamond glitter. This is by far the nicest of the white glitters I have used, and I have tried quite a few.
I think if I were to use this on a card, I think I would probably mask off the deer in the middle before stamping the others so you don't get the double image. but for this little tag, I wasn't too bothered. Besides come Christmas when I need these tags, I won't have a clue where they are.

Inside the pink card.

Because this card is so big and I don't have any huge pieces of paper to make an insert

(and if I did it wouldn't fit through my printer.)

I mounted layers of the same paper/card/ foils, as on the front of the card, the top layer was obviously the greeting I printed on my pc.

I added peel off borders and corners.

I won't put a photo of the front of the pink version on here. But I will say, I did the pram in a white and pink floral paper and it worked well.

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.

peapod card

The Baroque motif stamped in green works well as the tendrils of the pea plant.
First I daubed the edges of white cardwith bashful blue ink bringing the ink quite a long way into the center but not all the way.
I inked up the baroque motif stamp with old olive ink and stamped it diagonally across the card.
I added a few small flowers and leaves and the punched out the peapod using the large oval punch twice and cut the inside edge to where I wanted it , daubed the edges with old olive ink and stuck on top of a darker green oval. I then punched a small circle daubed with blossom blush ink and just a touch of red for the cheeks, I drew on the face using the fine end of the stamp and write marker pens,
Then using a sticky foam pad adhered it to the top of the pod.
I then stamped my greeting, Then mounted the whole picture onto green card stock and again onto the plum card base.

Polka dot baby card

The pink version but with a pink polka dot back ground. For this I used the huge polka dot background stamp from stampin up with pretty in pink ink.

I stamped the bunny masked him off, then stamped the deer over the top to give the impression the deer is behind the the bunny.

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

Simple Wedding Invitation and rsvp

My step daughter Holly
announced
this weekend she is getting
married in July to her long term partner Stuart.
After the congratulations bit,I volunteered to make the
invitations.
This is a simple wedding invitation
using Stampin' Up s baroque motif stamp and silver embossing powder.
I am just waiting for approval before I go into production on these.