Birthday Best

Good morning - and it seems such a nice one today!

Well, it was my birthday on Friday, and I just had to show you some of my cards - they are amazing.  I still havent had much time to craft but one thing about painting and grouting tiles (grrr) is that its so boring, you can plan card layouts & colours LOL.  I have some planning for my class this coming Saturday to do so can feel the inspiration coming...

Anyway, here are some of my cards.

Sara has put the details for this card on her blog so you can see how she made it.  It looks amazing in the flesh - Thanks Sara!

I love making cards and crafting, and have made so many special people since starting out!

Thanks for your cards ladies, off to look at more houses again today, but with a bit of luck should be having a rest soon... we live in hope anyway - LOL

Jan
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Cute Cupcake

I have managed to escape for a - very brief - break from decorating to make my brother in laws birthday card.  We were hoping to avoid having to paint some areas of the house (like the stairs) but unfortunately had to cave in and do it.  I dont care if I never see another carved wooden spindle - ever...

Anyway, on with the crafting.  Its always hard to think of something for mens cards, but sometimes, just changing the colour scheme makes it fit.

I stamped the cupcake in Basic Grey ink and coloured the image using my markers.  Then I used Crystal Effects on the 'sprinkles' so they became nice & shiny.  I used a die cutter to trim the image and mounted it on Pumpkin Pie cardstock which had also been cut out using a die cutter.

The large star was ounched out using the SU star punch with smaller stars punched out using some old punches from my stash.

Recipe
Stamp Set - Crazy for Cupcakes
Cardstock - Pumpkin Pie, Whisper White, Chocolate Chip and Ruby Red
Ink - Basic Grey, Marvelous Markers
Punches - Large Star, Eyelet border
Accessories - Crystal Effects, Chocolate Chip 1/4 Grosgrain ribbon, brads.
Non SU - Die cuts, medium and small star punches

Thanks for coming over to see me!  Hopefully, we will have finished decorating soon so I can get back in my craft room properly.

Jan
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All Heart Wedding Card

Good morning. 

Sorry for the lack of posting lately, we are in the middle of trying to get our house ready to put on the market so I have been busy 'decluttering' and taking things to charity shops etc.  DH is frantically decorating so we have been soooooo busy for the last couple of weeks.

I also spent 5 hours ironing the other day so we now have an additional bedroom which we had forgotten about - oh, what fun...!

Anyway, I have a wedding to go to this weekend and thanks to Sara, I dont have to worry about a design for their card (check out hers here).

The Bridesmaid designer series paper (well, its more like card really) is stunning.  Like the Bride DSP it can take on other colours too by adding ink / brayering so its very adaptable.

Recipe
Stamp set - Tiny Tags
Cardstock - Kraft, Very Vanilla
Designer Series Paper - Bridesmaid, Bella Bleu
Accessories - Full Heart Punch, Medium Jewelry Tag, flat backed pearls (pretties kit)
Ribbon - Very Vanilla 1/4 Grosgrain ribbon

Stamptacular!!!

Oh, my word - what a fab weekend!

Me and the fantastic Sara held our Stamptacular at Tankersley Welfare Hall on Saturday and it was brilliant!  I would like to say a huge thank you to all the wonderful ladies who came - I hope you enjoyed it as much as we did?!

Everything was prepared before hand to save time on the day, including a goodie bag for each lady attending.  Its a good job we did too, the day was manic.

Sara has put all the projects she demonstrated here on her blog, they are gorgeous arnt they?  I will have to have a go at making them all when I get the time.

Heres a photo of some of the projects and the items in the prize draw.

This notebook and pen was included in the goodie bag and inside I put a stamped and punched butterfly on a strip of acetate to create a bookmark.

Heres a picture of the inside showing the bookmark.

The scrapbook in a box was demonstrated in the afternoon and everyone's projects turned out really well. 

The one I made has photos already inside.

Thanks for taking the time to look at my photos of the Stamptacular.  When we have recovered, we may start thinking of holding another, so watch this space...!

Jan

Mr & Mrs Wedding Card

I have been so preoccupied lately with our Stamptacular that I almost forgot to make a card for a lady at work who was getting married at the weekend!!!

Here is the card I made - I love this set its so classy.

The card blank was folded into a landscape easel card - these always look impressive when displayed alongside other cards!

Recipe

Cardstock Apricot Appeal, Cameo Coral and Whisper White

Ink - Apricot Appeal

Stamp set - Mr & Mrs

Ribbon - 1/2" Striped Grosgrain So Saffron ribbon

Accessories - Pearls from Pretties Kit

Punches - Word Window, Small Tag, Tag, Eyelett Border and Scalloped Oval

Non SU - Die cut shapes

I may not be posting for the rest of the week as I am getting ready for the Stamptacular, but I will post pictures of all the ladies having a play on Saturday!!!. Wish us luck...

Jan

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Reminder about Stamptacular

Morning!!!

Just a reminder about the Stamptacular that Sara and Myself are holding on 24th July.

Time is running out for you to book for the day so if you fancy a full day of crafting with some amazing ladies, you need to book AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

All the details are here.

Jan

Christmas in July - Last One!

As promised, here is the last post for the Christmas in July Class.  Thanks for bobbing back to look!

This was the main card my ladies came to make.  They have a real problem with glitter - I am sure some of them were magpies in a previous life!!

The first couple of times I made this card I just used Whisper White craft ink and then used my 2 way glue pen to add the glitter.  This looked nice but didnt really do the image justice. 

In the end I used Heat and Stick powder and the difference was amazing!  The sentiment stamp from this set was stamped to the inside of the card on the insert.

Silent Night Card Recipe;

Cardstock - Close to Cocoa, Very Vanilla, Chocolate Chip.
Designer Series Paper - Bella Bleu
Accessories - Very Vanilla 1/4" Grosgrain Ribbon, Dazzling Diamonds, Heat and Stick embossing powder.
Punch - Corner Rounder

Here is the last card we made.  Its using the Tree Trimmings set which really does need the Stamp-A-Ma-Jig to line the images up. 

                                       

I was a little nervous with this card but everyone was fine using the SAMJ and lining everything up.  The black glitter was used on this card, but it looked fantastic using Dazzling Diamonds.

Tree Trimmings Card Recipe

Cardsttock - Whisper White, Basic Black, Real Red

Ink - Basic Black

Stamp Sets - Tree Trimmings, Occasional Greetings

Accessories - Black Glitter, Real Red Ribbon

Punch - Eyelet Border

Thanks for your patience and waiting for all the details of the cards.  Sorry I didnt post all the info together, but if I did the post would have gone on forever and you may have fallen asleep before the end!!

Jan