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Sunday 31 March 2013

Simples Sunday


 

For this week's 'Simples Sunday' I am showing you six cards (2 each of 3 designs) and all six were made in about half an hour. These cards use just one stamp set - Made for You, basic punches and DSP. For the cards above I used three of the In Colours - Raspberry Ripple, Gumball Green and Midnight Muse along with the co-ordinating DSP from the Paper Stacks. 
The secod set are made in exactly the same way but using Basic Black, Basic Grey and Whisper White. I hope you are all having an enjoyable Easter and I'll be back tomorrow













Saturday 30 March 2013

LIM & Colour Q


I told you I'd be back and here is my second post of the day! This time a card made specifically with this LIM challenge 'Scallops' in mind. Before making this card I popped onto the Colour Q challenge site and I was really keen to have a go at their colour challenge which is Pool Party, Wisteria Wonder, Always Artichoke, Lucky Limeade and Whisper White. So here is my card that fits the criteria for both challenges. I started by using my brand new Simply Scored Borders Plate to emboss two rows of scallops onto a piece of Whisper White. I masked this off with a piece of copy paper before stamping my three Wisteria Wonder flowers, from Summer Silhouettes and added the stamens in Always Artichoke. I masked off the flowers with some pre-cut post-it note flowers (I keep these in with my stamps so they can be used several times) before stamping the leaves in Lucky Limeade, then stamped again without re-inking to give different shades. After removing the masks I embossed a straight line above the scallops. The sentiment, from Teeny Tiny Wishes, was stamped in Always Artichoke, punched out with the Small Oval and matted onto a Wisteria Wonder Scallop Oval which had been paper pierced. A small loop of Wisteria Wonder Ruffled Ribbon was added and the sentiment placed on top with dimensionals. Three small flowers were stamped in Pool Party and three butterflies from Beautiful Wings Embosslits were added and a few Basic Pearls finished the card off.
Thank you for stopping by and, if you pop back tomorrow you will see my Simples Sunday cards for this week. Take care and keep warm x

Scallops


Good morning, well it's snowing - again! A good excuse for me to do a bit of catching up with my blog :0)
This week LIM have a guest designer, Lizy Bartaby, who has set the challenge of 'Scallops'. Lizy's projects are lovely so do pop over to her blog (here) and take a look.
Now I have a confession to make - today's entries were not made for the challenge, they were made a while ago but have just not managed to find their way onto my blog yet! They are scallops so I thought it was an ideal opportunity to kill two birds with one stone - get them on here and enter the challenge! I do love scallops so I'm sure I will be back with more entries specifically made!
The card and treat box were made for a friend's birthday using the Ovals Framelits collection and Bigz Alphabet Typeset dies with a stamp from Mixed Bunch. I used Baja Breeze DSP and, to get the scallops around the central oval, I punched a strip of DSP with the Scallop Border punch and snipped down each scallop to allow me to shape around the oval. The 'H' was cut from chipboard covered with DSP. The larger base oval was run through the Perfect Polka Dots Embossing folder before assembling the card. The treat box was made with the large scallop oval, again from the Ovals Framelits.
My second card is a wedding acceptance card using a stamp from Love & Laughter, silver embossed and matted onto Brushed Silver cardstock. The sentiment is computer generated and is matted onto a Scallop Oval.

Friday 29 March 2013

Quint-Essential and a new challenge



I'm back with a second post today!! Whilst blog hopping the other day I came across another challenge site called Create with Connie and Mary which suits me down to a tee - you have to use SU products and it has to be CAS.

This week's challenge is a Sketch (see above right) and it gave me the perfect excuse to play with something new to me - the Quint Essential stamp. I actually got this stamp as a freebie in SAB but it is available to buy in the main catalogue. I stamped in Primrose Petals and then again without re-inking and then repeated this so I ended up with 4 images. I cut the base image out with the
23/8  Scallop Circle punch, the next layer with  the 13/4  Scallop Circle punch and the remaining layers  with the 1” and  1/2  Circle punches then layered them using dimensionals. For the band across the card I took a 4cm strip of Primrose Petals and a 2cm strip of Whisper White cardstock, held them together and punched the ends using the 23/8  Scallop Circle punch. I slightly offset the Whisper White and adhered both to a C6 card blank. The 'flower' was then lined up with the cut out scallops and glued in place. A sentiment from Curly Cute and some Basic Pearls were added to finish the card. Below are a couple of close up's.


I thought that I would try another one in my all-time favourite - black and white. Made in the same way but mounted on a DL card base and a single rhinestone added to the centre of the 'flower'.



 

 



More 3D




I have a couple of 3D items to show you today (one is unashamedly CASe'd from Vicky - details below) The first one is along the same lines of the decorated Kraft boxes I have posted before but this one uses a white (non SU) box as the base. It is decorated with Pumpkin Pie cardstock and DSP from the Polka Dot Parade pack. For the top of the box I made a flower with the White Creped Filter Paper (available in the Spring Mini), punched with the Blossom punch and sponged with Pumpkin Pie ink then fixed together with a brad (retired). The flower sits on a Large Scallop Circle and I made some paper ribbon loops with the DSP with a tag, stamped with 4U from Tiny Tags and punched with the Jewelry Tag punch. The flowers on the side of the box are made with the Floral Fusion Sizzlits die and Basic Pearls.
Below is the basket which I CASe'd from Vicky (her basket can be seen here). Vicky has a brilliant tutorial on her blog for making this so do pop over and pay her a visit and look at the rest of her lovely projects while you are there! My basket is adapted a bit from Vicky's as I wanted it a bit bigger and I didn't emboss mine as it was too big for the folder!!








Thursday 28 March 2013

Card Swap Group




Recently I joined a card swap group, organised by Jane (aka Autumn Mist) and this is the first card I have received. Created by Victoria at furrytalecardsandcrafts.blogspot.co.uk

Victoria is a Stampin'Up! demonstrator in Lancaster but she tells me she sometimes cannot resist buying other stamps and she picked this one up for half price - bargain!!
A fab card and beautiful colouring - thank you Victoria.

Wednesday 27 March 2013

Notecard


You may remember last week I set myself a challenge to design some notecards for my next class, well this is another one I've come up with!
I started with a piece of Whisper White cardstock cut to C6 size and matted this onto a very slightly larger piece of Lucky Limeade. I used a stamp from Circle Circus inked with Lucky Limeade and stamped off before stamping twice onto the Whisper White to give me two lighter shades. The band across was made with one of the Apothecary Accents Framelits which I extended but, if you haven't got this set (and if not, WHY not?), you could use just a rectangle of card with a circle punch at either end or just a rectangle of card. The sentiment on the band is from Friendly Phrases. For the actual notelet I cut a piece of Whisper White cardstock wide enough to slip in the band and slightly shorter than the 'holder', inked around the edges with Lucky Limeade and added the stamp 'with love' from Field Flowers at the bottom.


Thank you for stopping by and I'll be back soon x


Tuesday 26 March 2013

Easter Bunnies


Here are the bunny treat holders as promised but I still can't find the video that gave me the inspiration! They are pretty much CASe'd so thank you to the American demo who came up with the idea and I'm sorry I can't credit you.
The holder is cut with the largest of the Apothecary Accents Framelits and a hole punched in the top with a 1/4" circle punch. The rabbit is made with the Ornament punch along with the Small Oval, Boho Blossoms and circle punches in Chocolate Chip and Whisper White. Tied with Whisper White Taffeta ribbon and a sentiment from Teeny Tiny Wishes cut with the Word Window punch. They hold a mini Malteaster bunny.

Monday 25 March 2013

Easter Eggs


As Easter is nearly upon us I thought I would show you some of the Easter treat holders I have been making. Today is a box to hold a Creme egg (or for a little more indulgence a Galaxy egg!).
I originally got the idea from a YouTube video showing a box like this to hold a Ferrero Rocher but adapted it to make it larger. You can see the video here.
The photo doesn't show it very well but it is a small box with a hole cut for the egg to stand in and the aperture has acetate behind. I have used Daffodil Delight and Chocolate Chip, with co-ordinating DSP, for my boxes and a sentiment from a Sale-a-Bration set but you could use any supplies you may have.
If you would like any further information on how these were made, including measurements etc, drop me an email.
Tomorrow I will have some really easy bunny treat holders to show you which were also inspired by a YouTube video but I'm blowed if I can find it again now!!!

Sunday 24 March 2013

Definitely a Challenge!


I know that here at my humble blog Sunday's are supposed to be 'Simples' but I wanted to share a challenge card I made and boy was it a challenge!! (If you want to see this week's Simples Sunday card you just need to scroll down and click on 'Older posts')
With all that has been going on with family stuff over the past months, it has been ages since I have even looked at the Friday Mashup challenges and I would choose this week to look wouldn't I? The challenge is


1. Make a project using the "Sketch".

2Or Make a project using "Butterflies & Your Brayer".

3. Or "Mash it Up" and create a project with "your Brayer using the Sketch and add some Butterflies".



A brayer? Well I have one but do I ever use it? Can I do it? Have I tried and failed lots of times before? There is only one of those questions that has yes as the answer and there's no prizes for guessing which one that will be!! 
Well I did use it and, although it's only a small insignificant piece, at least I tried. I used the brayer to colour some grass with Certainly Celery and sky with Bashful Blue and then added some grasses with the edge of the brayer. This panel was positioned on to a card blank which had already been matted with Certainly Celery DSP and three butterflies, cut with the Beautiful Wings Embosslits die, were added. The sentiment from Curly Cute was stamped onto Whisper White using Pacific Point and the ends cut into a banner shape.
Certainly a Mashup and definitely a challenge!! :0) Back tomorrow with some little Easter Treats.



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