Big Shot Flower card

Today's card is totally cased from a lady called Emma's blog: Devotion to the dream. I didn't have the exact same papers but I loved it so much I had to give it a go! I am still to get a big shot myself, but my lovely friend has one and let me play! Just Add Ink's Challenge this week is "just add...a die cut" and this card has two: the lovely Top Die and Fun Flower Bigz L.
I even attempted using pink ink and 'daubers' on the edges of the flower (I normally avoid using them-along with roughing edges!)

Autumnal Orange Box

 

Here's a lovely little box we made at Craft night. We got to choose our colours and paper, so I went for the paper first and thought I'd compliment/bring out the orange in it by going for orange card too. My friend had worked really hard on the measurements so the lid fitted the box just right :) 

We cut out a window in the box so you can see what's inside (sweeties perhaps?!) I made a tag with the bit I cut out.

Since I am using all SU products, I can enter this into SUO Challenge 28, Fall Colors

Pink blossom Birthday card

I went to another lovely craft evening last week and made this card. I finished it off with a big pink button. I'm going to enter it in the Paper Players challenge 59 this week: "get your pink ON". I know there's a bit of green in there but it does also uses 3 pinks, so I hope it counts!

A La Card Monkey 69: guest designer!

I'm one of the guest designers today on A la Card Monkey for this sketch I entered last week. The card above is for the following sketch:

I hope you like it!

Funky box (and cards)

Yet more fun was had at last week's craft evening: we made this v.cute little box (i must use something to show scale-SU stamps and dies have a habit of appearing huge from photos, whereas in reality they are quite dinky!)

Here's a pic of my lovely Top Note box from the side...





And the cards...Rich Razzleberry Birthday Wishes

 And Warm Wishes using an embossing folder and geranium flower stamp

Simply Stampin' Challenge #14

Here's my entry for Simply Stampin' Challenge #14 using the chosen colours:

Whisper White, Night of Navy, Rich Razzleberry, Peach Parfait

I have been borrowing the "Build a Blossom" stamp set and punch from a friend, and making lots of petals ready for future projects :)

A punchy peacock!

Ta dah! I have been working on this little number since Christmas-after getting my 2 step bird punch. I thought there must be a way of making a peacock, so I got experimenting. I did use the 2 step bird punch- the branch i used for the outline of the feathers, then 2 birds together for the body. Here's how it looked before I stuck it all together:

I thought I'd enter this one into PPA's 100th birthday blog post "What's your technique?" (it's punching btw!)
I added a bit of texture to the body with more little punched hearts which I dipped in light green ink for a little definition.
For the headpiece I ended up using wire and beads (I had originally tried the leaves from the branch punch, but they just weren't working)

Enjoy!

Card making evening #2

I spent a lovely evening last week making cards, we actually made 4, but I gave one away and haven't finished the other yet! I LOVE the 3 flower stamp used above and had fun with the cottage garden set below. We even got to add gems to make it twinkle.

A Brief Hiatus...

I have been on hols for a week, and have just not got around to any card-making recently. Desperate to get back to it, and luckily get a chance to on Thursday eve at a friends-can't wait!!

Meanwhile I found some photos of the rest of the cards I made at the last evening.

and one more.....

just in time- buttons & bows

With any luck I have just made the deadline for Simply Stampin' Challenge #6. I finished it last night, but it was too late to take a photo!

Another day, another card!

I've combined 2 challenges with this card: Colour throwdown 138 (i've chosen gold as my 'pick a colour' choice)

And I've loosely based the design on Mojo Monday's sketch 187
The stamp set is "Bliss"-unfortunately i don't own this one, but have a friend who does (thank you!) I've seen this combination on so many blogs and just wanted to have a go myself:) It's finished off with a 'tiny tag' hello.

Springtime Vintage

I had a lovely time last night at yet another SU card making night, and made some really sweet cards that I will talk about another time; but what I did learn was to think about decorating the inside of my cards-something I always thought would be way too time consuming, but it doesn't have to be at all...just a little strip of paper and a sentiment...

I've been wanting to break into my pack of Springtime Vintage DSP (Stampin Up) papers for a while now..so I did!

And of course I had to find another challenge to use these pretty papers with:  The Paper Players Challenge #43 ~ A clean and simple sketch. I tweaked it a bit, and came up with this:

Card making evening!

I had a lovely evening card making with some friends last night. We churned out 5 different cards (amazing since I normally spend an evening making one!) using lots of different SU stamp sets that i'd seen but never got to use before. Here's 3 (i have a soft spot for Razzle raspberry!)

Here's a close up of the two tiny cards. We used daubers to create the shaded edges and hostess set "cute by the inch"-the owl was a hit!

For this little Thanks card we used Whisper White ink and a 3-flower stamp from "cottage garden" stamp set for the background. "So many thanks" is the big stamp here-and we used the "stamping write marker pens" to colour it in , this way the hearts could be a different colour.


I've got a few days off now- so time for some challenges! 

Baby Pink

I really enjoyed making this one-it took me all evening and i kept bringing out box after box of my craft stuff to try and find things to work with. I must take a pic of the state/mess I get into just making a single card!

Anyway this one I based on Mojo Monday Sketch #185







And the colours-well, HSS #62: Pink-a-licious had just the right scheme to work with!

And then to top it off i'll enter it into  SUO Challenge 16: Animal cards as i have an elephant and duckies!)

Blue, Orange and Green

This card is for Colour Throwdown #134 and I was able to try out my new scallop border punch!

I've used the "happy birthday" stamps from wow flowers and birthday whimsy. And a nice big bit of ribbon finishes it off :)

Colour Throwdown # 134

Springtime

Quite a few blog challenges are choosing Spring as a theme but i seem to have missed the deadlines for all but PPA84! I do love the colours of spring: yellows (for daffodils and crocus), purples (crocus and blue bells), whites (snowdrops) and then greens and blues of grasses and sky.

I wasn't sure if i liked this card at first-a bit busy. But it's growing on me! I've tried to create daffodils with the 5 petal punch (i know daffs have 6 petals, but he ho!) Its definitely a punch art card but there is a little bit of stamping in there-the central "for you" from SU punch bunch and then the little leaves from SU sweetpea stamp set.

Scallops for PPA #82

Here's my card  for PPA 82 with an emphasis on Scallops. The punch bunch SU 'for you' stamp fits perfectly with the SU scallop punch, followed by my giant scallop punch (orange) and then to finish off i've bordered the card with straight scallops in green card.

SU! Stamping wheels

I thought i'd have a play with my SU stamping wheel "trendy trees"  again after spotting the latest challenge on SUO. I'm one of these people who like to mix and match my craft products so to keep totally to SU ones was a little tricky for me- but kept me more focussed. I used my new Scallop punch and 1"1/4 inch punch (which nicely sits inside the scallop) and then the sentiment is from the "curly cute" stamp set. I can't remember the names of the colours (sorry!)-but i will go away and find out!

Scrapping with little leaves

Yey! I did a scrapbook page!! I have had these 2 pictures sitting around at the back of an album for about 2 years now-and always thought of doing something with turquoise with them. I then spotted a challenge that fitted perfectly last week CR84FN13, but me being me, i missed the last entry time :( But hey-at least it go me scrapping again. That and going along to Mj's scrap day (well afternoon/eve for me)

image from:
http://www.stampinup.com/ecweb/Product
Details.aspx?productID=114511

I also got to try out my latest ebay purchase: a Stampin UP sizzlit die: Little leaves. I'd seen this motif used on various SU blogs but it doesn't appear to be available in the UK yet..


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Paper Pals Art Challenge 79

My offering on this week's PPA79 Challenge is purely stamping- with SU's sweetpea set.

Alas I didn't have the exact colours so had to improvise with those I did have, but you get the jist :)

The stamping isn't very exact or even but I think this adds to the 'homemade card' feel!