Apothecary Art

My sister asked me to make a card for one of her friend's birthday and this is the card I made for her.  It uses one my favourite sets, Apothecary Art, and my newest embossing folder, Vintage Wallpaper.  Black and white and a little Real Red.  Hope she likes it. 

Ornaments card

This is a card I cased from one I found on the internet using the Ornament Keepsakes set.  Again, non-traditional Christmas colours but black and white is so elegant.  

Ornament Keepsakes

Since joining Stampin' Up in July 2010 I have met some great people, some of whom I now consider to be great friends.  Some of my friends often lend me their things to try out, and sometimes we have used their products in classes where they let everyone use their goods.  This last week one of my friends has lent me their Ornament Keepsakes set with the matching framelits and they haven't even used it yet!  We are having our Christmas break up class on the weekend and another one of my great friends is lending her set too so we can have two sets going for all to use.  Crafty people really are very generous people.  

So, as I said, I have been having a little play with the Ornament Keepsakes this last few days and had a go at making "that" ornament, the one on the front cover of the Holiday catalogue.   This is my version. 

 

I have to say that it looks better in real life.  I used the shimmer paint to spray glitter all over it so it sparkles, and attached a ribbon to hang it by.  I try not to use traditional Christmas colours, so this is Chocolate Chip and Crumb Cake.  

If you are thinking of making one, yes it does take a long time, yes it is fiddly and yes it is worth it.   

Another Clockworks

Hi, guess what I forgot to do on Wednesday?  Put up a post.  I just ran out of time.  Sorry.

Here is another card using the Clockworks Stamp Set.  Not many of my friends like this set, but even though it's a bit of an effort to use (you do need to use a stamp positioner to get the clockface on correctly - and even then it's sometimes not perfectly aligned) I think it's a good set to have, especially for doing male cards.  And I like the splodges too.  

 

 All done in black and gray ink the clock has been popped up for effect and a little bit of Howlstooth & Scaringbone DSP added. 

Clockworks

This is the stamp set we received at the SU Heartfelt Sydney Event.  All of the make and takes on the day used this set and we got to keep it.  I had this on my wish list, so was pleased to receive it as a "gift".  

Was just having a play around with it on the weekend and this is what I came up with.  All the little clocks, cogs and wheels have been cut out because I don't mind a bit of cutting.  Some have been popped up to add a little more dimension and all have been shaded around.  Have also stamped the water droplets and map from French Foliage to go along with the vintagey theme. 

 

Another idea for the men in your life. 

Simply Soft Card

Think you recognise this card?  I have made a version of it before but wanted to have another go at it.  Last time I only used four squares of flowers, this time six.  It's a birthday card for a friend of one of my sisters who enjoys gardening.  I'm not sure about the ribbon though.  

There are two layers of blue, the first has been distressed on the edges and then the top layer run through an embossing folder on the edges and  sponged all the way around.  Same with the cream squares; the first layer distressed and the top layer stamped, embossed and then sponged.  Maybe I should have put a sentiment on it somewhere.  What do you think?

Another Heartfelt Make and Take

This is the second make and take from Heartfelt Stampin' Event on Saturday.  I'ts a little gift box made from the Two Tags Bigz Die with five small gift cards.  Again it got a bit squished on the train.  Everything was in a pack all cut out for us and we just had to stamp and put it all together, with one eye on our watches to make sure we didn't miss our booked demonstrations. 

Cute, but not really my kind of thing.  

The ones we didn't get to make on the day were a scrapbooking page and a set of 4 cards with envelopes in a larger vellum envelope tied with Baker's twine.  Will work on them later. 

Heartfelt Stampin' Event 2012

As mentioned on Friday, a group of us went into Sydney on Saturday to attend Stampin' Up Heartfelt Stampin' Event 2012 at the Convention Centre.  We had a great day watching demonstrators show some clever projects, seeing how some of the tools can be used, playing with a few of the products, checking out other demonstrators cards and projects and doing a couple of make and takes.  Some people are so clever the ideas they come up with.  Wish I had that knack.  We saw Christmas wreaths, bird house gift boxes, beautiful toppers for presents and lots of cards.  We all came home with lots of ideas buzzing around in our heads of things to try and make.  One of our group even won a prize in the lucky door competition.  We also had an interesting lunch with something in it no-one could identify but tasted OK.  

Before the event we were asked to make our own name tags to show off our creativity.  I wanted something similar for our group and of course mine had to be a bit different than everyone elses.  My excuse was I had more letters in my name so mine was a bit bigger!!  We all had owls on a brown background and our names in retired Summer Sun.  Of course I forgot to take a photo of everyone elses, but here is my badge.

 They were all blinged up a little with pearls and diamontes and I think they all looked good.  Of course there were some really beautiful and creative name badges but I was happy with ours.  Next time we might actually do some stamping!

This is one of the make and takes we were able to finish.  Everyone was given the Clockworks stamp set as part of the registration and we used this set to complete our projects.  This is a note pad cover complete with Simply Scored cover with Fancy Flower punch flower and Vintage Faceted Designer buttons.  Unfortunately it got a little squished on the train trip home.

 

There were four make and take projects in all, but we just ran out of time as there was so much to see.  And we still didn't get to see everything there.  If we go again we will have to make better use of our time.

All in all, a great day out.  

 

 

Cupcakes anyone?

This is the birthday card I made for one of my nieces.  Don't you love those edges?  I have used the Finishing Touches Edgelits; the pink one cuts like pinking shears and the white you can see quite well below.  The only problem is after each run through the Big Shot you have to clear out all the little punched out pieces, which takes a while.  I used the glad wrap sponge technique in the background and a piece of retired Sweet Shop DSP.

A group of us are heading off to Stampin' Up Heartfelt Stamping Event this Saturday at the Convention Centre where we hope to be wowed by ideas and gifts for Christmas.

More birthday cards

And a few more handmade cards.  

 

My birthday cards

I had my birthday on the weekend and our family had a long weekend away to The Entrance.  We stayed in an apartment which overlooked the water, very relaxing.  The place had a pool downstairs and our unit was on the 3rd floor with a spiral staircase outside to the rooftop where we had our own jacuzzi, BBQ and table setting.  Guess where we spent most of our time!  

So now it's back to work again so we can save for the next break away.  

Thank you to all my relatives and friends who sent cards.  Here are a few to show you what a clever bunch they are.

 

 

A fill in

Sorry, this is a just one of those cards lying around, nothing special, but I don't have anything else at the moment.  

I was just playing with the Fox and Friends set and this card invented itself.  

By the time this is posted my family and I should all be lazing by a pool enjoying a long weekend away.  Enjoy yours!