Another Birthday - This time its Jeans!

Hello everyone, hope you are enjoying the weekend?

I had a lovely day yesterday as a lovely lady called Hazel, signed up to join SU as an Independant Demonstrator with me - Hello Hazel!! **waves**.   Hazel joins me with Chrissi in our little team and has made some beautiful cards.  I know that she will absolutely love being a demo.  Shhhh, don't tell her but I have some pressies I will be giving her as a little thank you!

I was so excited I managed to do all my ironing last night (I can always think of better things to do - so there was about 3 months worth!!!)  but the good thing is, I have some clothes to wear now! So feel even better.

Anyway, back to the crafting.  It was Jeans birthday on Thursday (one of my lovely customers - and friend!).  I made the card before her birthday, but realised that I couldn't risk it getting squashed by putting it in the post.  So I bobbed it through to her yesterday. 

Here is the card

I attached a strip of Woodland Walk DSP to the Wild Wasabi card blank and then wrapped a piece of Certainly Celery Striped Grosgrain Ribbon around a mat of Melon Mambo card, adding it onto the card blank.

The pansies are made by punching out two butterflies (Butterfly Extra Large punch) from Shimmery White cardstock, spraying them until they are totally covered in water and then using an aqua painter to add tiny drops of reinker to the edges.  The ink instantly mixes with the water and spreads like magic over the card.  I used Melon Mambo to the outer edges and then a tiny drop of Daffodil Delight to the centre.

I left them to dry, drew thin 'veins' to the centre of each shape and then curved the shapes with my bonefolder and piercing tool before adding a brad through the centre.  They look so sweet and watching the ink spread is amazing - but be prepared - its messy!!! 

The sentiment is from Perfect Punches and I just stamped it in Melon Mambo ink onto Whisper White card and cut it out really close to the oval.  Then I punched out an Oval Extra Large shape and mounted it behind on dimentionals to give a bit of depth.

Heres a picture from the side.

Thanks for taking the time to read my post today.  I will be posting information on my next class shortly - its going to be using some of the punched animals we made at the Stamptacular - there is a Hippo, Crocodile, Giraffe (he is Soooooo cute) plus an Ostrich and a Zebra. 

We didnt make all of the animals at the Stamptacular and those who came to the Stamptacular will get a reduced rate for coming to the class! You will get full detailed instructions and all materials.


Enjoy the rest of your weekend.
Jan
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I hope that you have had a great time with your family and friends over the Christmas period.

Apart from having a really bad cold and cough its been a lovely Christmas for us.  My Mum and brother came over for Christmas Day lunch and then we went to DH Dads for tea. All the family in a two bedroomed flat (about 28 adults and loads of children!!!).  It was a bit like musical chairs though - if you went for anything to eat or drink, you lost your seat!

Santa brought me money this year as there are lots of things I would like to get from SU - wah hoo!!  I also bought a nice bracelet with some of the money (this was partly because DH was wanting me to get a bicycle with it - yer, right...!)

I was quite ill over Christmas and couldnt deliver some of the presents and cards until recently, and I didnt want to post any pics of the items I made before everyone had seen what they were getting.  As I delivered my last items yesterday, I thought I would share them.

Heres the mini calendar and note holder.  Yes, its using my favourate DSP - Lap of Luxury - its so nice, I just couldnt resist using it.  I also made these for each of my lovely Stampers 10 ladies (hope you liked them!?)

The acrylic holders were part of a share over at In Love With Stamping ages ago and I hadnt had much chance to use them.  The holders are designed to hold paper between the layers so I just cut the DSP to size and slid it in.  The pens were a little bit fiddly, but I loved how they looked when they were done.  I bought the little calendars from a local craft shop and they were just adhered to the front of the holder with post it notes attached to the back.

I struggled to find a way to hold the pens but the ribbon seemed to work OK.  For the ones at the front (using the narrow Grossgrain ribbon) I made loops of ribbon which the pen nib sits in.  Then I wrapped a strip of ribbon around the holder to hold the top of the pen.  The wider ribbon did work better though and I didnt need to do anything else to hold the pens as the ribbon is strong enough on its own.

Heres a photo of the back showing the post it notes attached to the rear of the holder.

The friends sentiment is from Tiny Tags and was mounted onto a scalloped oval stamped with Perfect Punches.

Sorry its taken so long to post photos of the holders.  I will post a picture of the last Christmas cards I made (not using a Christmas themed stamp set though!) in the next couple of days. 

Hope you are enjoying the Christmas period and thanks for bobbing over.
Jan
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Thank You Cards for my Lovely Ladies

I have been really brave and using my Designer Series Papers lately!  I am terrible for just looking and stroking the papers, but forced myself to cut it again!

Heres one of the Thank You cards I made for the guests who came to my workshop the other week.

One of the products we saw demonstrated at Convention was the Quick Accents - and, as normal, I had to have some when I come back! 

The scalloped edge is part of the Nursery Suite Quick Accents set and is a die cut strip of self adhesive paper which is fab for quick makes.   Theres lots of strips on one of the 12 x 12" sheets and die cut ovals/circles on the other.

Heres another card using the same sets but giving a different look - just shows how versatile the sets are!

Recipe
Cardstock - So Saffron, Early Expresso, Whisper White
Stamp set - Perfect Punches
Ink - Early Expresso
Designer Series Paper - Nursery Suite
Accessories - Early Expresss Satin Ribbon, Scallop Oval Extra Large Punch, Eyelett Border Punch, Nursery Suite Quick Accents

Hope your having a great weekend?
Jan
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Hubby's Birthday Card

Hello!

It was my lovely hubby's birthday last week and heres the card I made for him.

I used the masking technique to stamp the row of  beer glasses (from the Cheers to You stamp set) onto Watercolour Paper and used my inkpads and aqua painters to colour them in.  The Watercolour Paper is lovely and thick (you can certainly see the quality) and its a creamy/off white colour with a lovely texture

To add dimention onto the froth on the glasses I stamped extra images of the glasses out onto Whisper White cardstock and just cut out the froth.  I mounted these over the ones on the watercolour paper using dimentionals and then covered the froth in Chrystal Effects.

The sentiment is from Perfect Punches and all I did was stamp the image in Night of Navy ink onto whisper white card and then trim it using the oval outline of the image as a guide (I made sure there was no white outline).  This was then mounted onto Night of Navy card which was punched out using the Oval Extra Large punch.

To assemble the card I put silver brads in each corner, wrapped Night of Navy 5/8" Grosgrain Ribbon around the watercolour paper and mounted onto a Night of Navy card blank.  The sentiment was positioned on the ribbon and thats it - done!!

He loved the card, but I think the meal at our favourate restaurant in Wakefield went down a bit better!!

Recipe
Ink - Basic Gray, So Saffron, Pumkin Pie, Night of Navy
Cardstock - Watercolour Paper, Night of Navy, Whisper White
Stamp sets - Cheers to You, Perfect Punches
Accessories - Silver brads, 5/8" Grosgrain Night of Navy ribbon, Chrystal Effects, Oval Extra Large punch, aqua painter.
Jan
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