Thank you gift

 

Last week I needed a very quick thank you gift for a work colleague and this is what I made. I returned to work after a week off with a nasty virus and as you know it was bitterly cold. Every morning at 8.30am I have a half hour duty outside and a very thoughtful lady insisted that I did her inside duty while she braved the sub zero temperatures! I was extremely grateful so the least I could do was make a little thank you gift for her.

I have shown you something similar in the past but this time I made a co-ordinating card as well.The supplies I used are Summer Starfruit cardstock and Stitched Satin ribbon (which looks quite green in this photo due to artificial light!), the Elegant Bouquet Embossing folder, sentiments from Tiny Tags and Teeny Tiny Wishes, the small Scallop Circle punches and Basic Rhinestones. The treat pouch holds a small bar of chocolate. 

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Simply Stampin' Sketch

Oh dear, my posts this weekend are a bit like buses - nothing for ages then two come along at once! I have had a bit of extra crafting time this weekend due to the fact that I had to wait for someone to come and have a look at my conservatory roof which, in all this wind, has decided to come adrift. He has now been and inspected it and has to 'send the boys in' another day - just what I needed :0)
Anyway onto the cards which I made for the Simply Stampin' challenge. The first one is made with Perfect Plum as the card base with a strip of Elegant Eggplant, cut with the Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border punch, placed across the card. The central panel is a Whisper White Top Note embossed with the Elegant Bouquet Embossing Folder, inked around the edge and glued in place onto the card base. I added two flowers to the top left corner made with the 5-Petal Flower punch and two smaller flowers in the bottom right corner punched with the Boho Blossoms punch. The sentiment is from the retired Create-a-Cupcake set.
The second card was a bit of an experiment and I'm not overly pleased with it (think the added circles were a step too far!) but thought I'd show you anyway. I made a base card with Naturals Ivory cardstock and layered on a piece of DSP from the First Edition Speciality pack which I had overstamped with images from French Foliage in Basic Black. The strip across the middle is the negative part of a piece of cardstock which had been cut with one of the Adorning Accents Edgelits dies, I used the negative part because I thought it looked more manly than the piece you are supposed to use! Three tags, stamped with Tiny Tags and cut with the Jewelry Tag punch, were added to the central strip and I think this is where I should have stopped. However, because the sketch required circles I stamped two of the French Foliage leaves and punched them out with a circle punch and overlapped these onto two slightly larger circles punched from Basic Black cardstock.

ILWS Blog Hop

Welcome to the ILWS Summer Mini Blog Hop.

Scroll down to see my projects made with the brand new Framelits dies, Apothecary Art Stamps and Twitterpated DSP.

If you are on the Blog Hop you will have joined me from Emma and the next stop on the list is Kate

The purpose of the Blog Hop is to, hopefully, give you inspiration in ways to use the brand new products in the Stampin'Up! Summer Mini catalogue. Bearing in mind there is an awful lot of blogs for you to hop around I am not going to go into any great detail about my projects but if you have any questions please feel free to email me (details on the 'Contact Me' tab) and I will be pleased to help.

Enjoy!

Central border - Borderlines,
Flowers - Itty Bitty Shapes Punch Pack
Leaves - Bird Builder Punch

Left;
Square Lattice Embossing Folder,
Stamp - Fruit & Flowers
Jewelry Tag Punch,
Crochet Trim

Right;
Elegant Bouquet Embossing Folder,
Beautiful Wings Embosslits Die,
Modern Label punch,
Lots of Tags Dies
Rich Razzleberry DSP

Flowers - Itty Bitty Shapes Punch Pack
Leaves - Little Leaves Die
Baja Breeze Seam Binding

Treat holders made with Framelits dies and Twitterpated DSP and a selection of co-ordinating ribbon. Flowers are made with the Itty Bitty Shapes Punch Pack and leaves are from the Bird Builder punch

(below) Flip Card - Riding Hood Red cardstock and ribbon, Simply Soft stamp, Itty Bitty Punch Pack

To continue on the hop the next stop is Kate at http://stampinupwithkate.blogspot.co.uk/

Wedding Card

Today’s card is cased from a U.S demo by the name of Lyssa Zwolanek (her blog can be found here). I needed to make a wedding card to give to a work colleague and I just loved the simplicity of this design.

Basically it is three different sized rectangles with the top corners rounded and run through the BigShot using the elegant Bouquet Embossing folder. To cover the joins of the ‘cake tiers’ I placed a strip of card which had been crimped and cut to size. A thin strip of silver card stock made the cake board and the cake was finished off with tumbling flowers made with the Boho Blossoms punch and a Basic Rhinestone added to the centres. The retired sentiment was stamped in Cherry Cobbler and the whole thing layered onto Cherry Cobbler cardstock to match the colour scheme of the wedding