Perennial Birthday Stamp Set Easel Card

This lovely Perennial Birthday Easel Card - was a fun way to make a reasonably simple card with a difference... and once a gain I only used the one Stamp set.. Perennial Birthday (C Mount - 145760 - $38)..

With just a few different mat sizes of card stock and layering them you can make a simple easel card... adding a bit of bling and a few dimentionsals and Whoot Whoot.. there you go one pretty cool little number right there..

The flowers were stamped in Blueberry Bushel Ink (147138) and then using a dauber to colour in with Bermuda Bay Ink (147096).. then to colour in the leaves and the little flowers I used an aqua painter pen (103954) and the ink from the ink pads (Bermuda Bay and Shaded Spruce 147088)

I simply cut the A4 card stock in half long ways (10.5cm x 29.7cm) and folded it in half.. like a normal long opening card.. then taking the top layer you fold it back in half again..  and that is your easel part.. Adhere your card front onto it and you are in business...

 Here's a diagram of what I mean...







Have fun getting your Easel on!!

Simple Peek-A-Boo Card

This was a fun way to make a Peek-A-Boo card.. and super easy... It's a bit deceptive as it had the Peek-A-Boo bit adhered to the back of the card opening..  but it is a cool way to make a Card that moves...

With some simple Dsp and some random stamping you can make GREAT backgrounds and add a little colour and texture...  then stamp your feature image and whalah you've created a lovely little card..

In this card I used the only Petal Palette (C Mount 145788 A$61) Stamp Set.. Which is REALLY unusual for me to only use one stamp set.. but it just goes to show you that this set is GREAT.. and very versatile... Of course I had to dress it up a little with the Decorative Ribbon Border Punch Strip (143721 - A$28) and a bit of bling.. non SU.. because this was my community class.. and Budget is tight.. but you could imagine how AWESOME SU BLING would be!!!
And by simply using your aqua painter pens to smudge the colour in the stamping you can colour the image ever so slightly...

Triple Tier Slider Card

How cool is this one???

As you know I love cards that move and this one really caught my eye when I was looking for inspiration.. so I watched a YouTube tutorial (Dawn's Stamping Thoughts)  on how to assemble it and off I went... Designing my very own type of Triple Tier Slider Card...

I love how unassuming this one is... And once you get all the measurements it's not that hard to assemble... just take one layer at a time.. and it will all work out fine!!


I got these measurements from Pinterest to make it easier for me to remember what they were...




I black embossed the flower (Beautiful Day C Mount Stamp Set 145915 A$37) and the butterflies (Painted Glass C Mount A$31) and then water coloured them with ink on the inside of my ink pads and Aqua Painter pens... I was quite happy with the lovely colours and how the butterflies turned out especially... And was using up some retired specialty DSP also...
 

Hope you can have some fun making a Triple Tier Slider card also!!!

Sweet Soirée Peek-A-Boo Card

I was inspired by the lovely Joanne when she came over to share her show-n-tell to make this card... I've made similar ones in the past but it is always fun to have another go at making a fun moving card especially with PERRRTY PAPERS like the BEAUTIFUL Sweet Soirée (now retired) specialty paper from our holiday or occasional cattys... When you have some left over it's too nice to just store to look at.. So you gotta pull it out and let others enjoy the BEAUTY with you..!! We made it in so many different colour ways to use up the paper.. And of course some lovely Wink Of Stella to add a bit of bling bling to the belly band decorations... It's a pretty simple card to make really..
Hope you have fun  making a Peek-A-Boo card yourself.. xxoo

Manly Scraps

I often hear that manly cards are hard to make.. Many get stumped.. Male cards are all about colour, texture, industrial embellishment, and simple.... In these cards I've pulled out my box of DSP scraps and used the Tailored Tag Punch (145667 A$31) and just placed the pieces on a card base... Adhered a ribbon at the top of them and stamped the sentiment.. SUPER simple...

See what other shapes you can use to create these super simple manly cards..

Have fun making it MANLY.. ;P

Basic Tool Kit Case made from Stampin Up's Full Wide Stamp Case

What a FANTASTIC class this was...

We made a lovely little decorated Full Wide Stamp Case into a cute little Basic tool kit holder... of If you want you can make them to hold a set of gift cards.. Or chockies... or anythign really..

Just use some DSP to decorate..
A little of Card stock for the case straps
Cut a little buckle looking punch out shape..
Cut out your letters or decorate as you want..
Punch some holes in the sides and thread some ribbon through to make your handles..
and Whalah!! You got a SUPER cute case to hold some things in.. 

Christmas is coming.. so it's a GREAT time to order some cases to begin to create your own little ones...

They are only $12 for 4 cases... 
Full Wide (19 x 13.3 x 3.2cm) 127551...  
Order today and get a jump start on your Chrissy prezzie making!!!

Stampin' Up! Stampin Blends

How does one explain how AWESOME Stampin' Blends are???

Well you just gotta sit down and play with them..
They are TOTALLY AWESOME!!!  And I love them..

I've never been really good colouring in with pencils.. or felt pens.. but man these are so great.. Even I feel a little like a professional!!!

My First play with them (about 8 months ago) was to colour in the Garden Girl stamp.. She is so cute.. then I thought I'd do some swaps with some Blend colouring in to hopefully inspire others to catch the Blending Bug!!!

And now with the FANTASTIC New Annual Catty there are more colours to collect.. and If that wren't enough for you then take a look at the Holiday Catty (Sept 2018) there are HEAPS more colours.. Wahoo!!!! I'm LOVIN' them!!!

Want to learn how to use them?? come to a class... And I can give you some pointers...