Monday, September 23, 2013

Very Merry Tags Christmas Card

Hello,

Today's card is a very quick and easy one for Christmas. I got the idea from another SU demonstrator who made this in pretty floral colours for a birthday present style card, and thought that this tag stamp from Very Merry Tags was ideal for a Christmas version.


To make the card I cut out a piece of Sahara Sand card to exactly fit the front of an A6 card and then cut the Sahara Sand card into four pieces. I stamped two sections in Gumball Green and two sections in Real Red using an image from the Flower Shop stamp set. I then stuck the sections on to the base card and added some strips of Glimmer Paper to represent ribbon on the 'present'.

Have a good week.

Julia

Friday, September 20, 2013

Summer Silhouettes for Christmas!

Hello,

I recently purchased a white StazOn ink pad with Christmas cards in mind. StazOn inks in black and white are available from SU on page 165 of the Annual catalogue. This is a very quick card I came up with.


All stamped in white StazOn onto Night of Navy card - this actually looks a brighter blue but I think it is due to the way I took my photo. The card is a small square of 10cm. The sentiment has been layered onto some Silver Glimmer Paper and I have added Dazzling Details (clear) to the seed heads. The 'snow'  is a stamp from the Gorgeous Grunge stamp set. 

Back soon.

Julia


Monday, September 16, 2013

Summer Silhouettes

Hello again,

Just a quick post showing a similar card here to my previous post.


Stamp sets used:
Summer Silhouettes
Sassy Salutations

Colours:
Card - Smoky Slate and Coastal Cabana
Ink - Smoky Slate, Pool Party and Black StazOn

Extras:
Taffeta Ribbon in Bermuda Bay
Very Vintage Button
Basic Pearls

Happy stamping.

Julia


Saturday, September 14, 2013

Summer and Serene Silhouettes

Good morning,

Using both the Summer Silhouettes and Serene Silhouettes for my card today.


To make this card I used a 13.5 cm cream card base and added a mat of Pumpkin Pie, and then stamped the main images and sentiment onto a Very Vanilla card layer using Smoky Slate and Black StazOn inks. I stamped flower heads in Pumpkin Pie and Pool Party onto spare card and cut them out, fixing them onto the 'stalks' with foam pads to add dimension. A tiny pearl just adds a finishing touch to the flowers.

The 'Happy Birthday' sentiment is from Perfectly Penned.

Have a good weekend.

Julia 

Thursday, September 12, 2013

Serene Silhouettes with Everything Eleanor

Hi again,

News from Stampin' Up is that the Big Shot Magnetic Platform is now available to order. This is on page 184 of the Annual Catalogue and is priced at £35.95 which I know is quite a lot of money but it is really useful when cutting out stamped images with your Framelits and Edgelits or any other metal die.

Now for today's card....


which uses an image from one of my favourite set of stamps Serene Silhouettes, and the beautiful swirl from Everything Eleanor.

I stamped the image in black StazOn ink (available from Stampin' Up) and then using a water brush painted a very light wash of Pool Party ink around the seed heads. The centre of the seed heads have been given a wash of Summer Starfruit ink. 

The base card is Pool Party and I have used Island Indigo ink to stamp the swirl.

Back soon.

Julia



Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Morning Meadow

Hi,

Sorry for the lack of posts lately, but just been pleasantly busy with family and visitors.

Showing a card today using the Morning Meadow hostess stamp set. However, you could easily reproduce this using any swirl stamp and a flower from the Flower Shop stamp set.


Ooops! I obviously forgot to crop this photo so you have quite a lot of my table in there.

I have used Raspberry Ripple for the base card and Summer Starfruit for the card border, and used the same two colours of ink to stamp my images onto Whisper White card.

Back soon with another idea.

Julia