Mellow Yellow

A very lovely friend of mine had her birthday on Tuesday and as her favourite colour is yellow I tried to make something for her with that colour.  

This card here is my third attempt.  The first card was a punch art giraffe which just looked babyish, the second card was just ordinary and I was a little happier with this one. 

The inspiration comes from Ann Schach and I loved her colours, flowers and everything about the card.  Yellow is NOT a colour I enjoy working with for some reason and I could not find the right colours to coordinate with it.  At least I can say I tried.

A few more

I have been very fortunate lately that I have been able to sell some of my cards off to people whom I work with.  I love making cards, trying new techniques and just stamping, so when my stash of cards threatened to overflow from the box this was one way to make sure someone else got to enjoy(?) my creations as well.  

Here's a few already to be taken into work to hopefully find a new home. 

 The sprinkles in this card were all coloured with KindyGlitz for a sparkly finish.

This one was an old Stamp It stamp that I found in the cupboard when I was looking for my beachy male card a while back.  The images were all stamped  on the cardstock and then stamped again and embossed and sponged with daubers.  These were then cut out and popped up on top.  This one would have to be one of my favourite cards from this bundle.  But that exclamation mark on the greeting has to go!!

 

And I'm off to another one of Michelle's card classes today so pop back again soon to view her Christmas creations.

Apothecary Wedding

 Time for another wedding card.  My card uses some old textured Wisteria Wonder cardstock that I hope I never run out of and Apothecary Art stamps.  Piercing the little holes all the way around the frame does take a little while, but it adds so much to a card that it's time well spent.  Have tried to sew along the cardstock but my machines leaves a few extra marks that I don't really appreciate. 

 

Forgot to take a photo of the inside, but it did look good.  You will just have to trust me!

Another oldie, but a keeper

Grunge Rock is another one of my favourite stamp sets that I cannot bear to part with.  I've combined it on this card with a Kaisercraft stamp - Sheet Music.  Not sure that the "splodges" go with the card, but I was happy with the rest.  This is one of those cards that the colours looked much better in real life. 

Wedding Hearts

I was recently asked to make a wedding card for a non traditional couple who were to be married on a beach in some exotic tropical location, so I chose Coastal Cabana as the contrast colour to white as it reminded me of warm sunny beaches.   

I made a three fold card and stamped and cut out all the heart shapes to sit on the edge of the diagonal.  And then I had to cut identical ones for the reverse side which would be seen when the card opened up.  Lots of cutting and gluing. To keep the card together I had to tie a ribbon around which they could slide on and off.

 

Note to self - next time make sure the hearts on the joining folds are the smallest so the ones behind can be seen better.

Owl birthday

I am not sure about this card.  I think it's a little too much, but I love the owl. The banners and greeting are from Amazing Birthday and after I had stamped and placed them on the white background it looked a little ... pale?  So I pulled out some Glad Wrap and gave the background a little colour, but maybe it was too much or too dark.  Nevertheless, I am sure the person who received it got the message.     

Inspiration 2

These are the last two cards we made at Michelle's .  Sadly the background stamp used in this first card is now retired and I can't even remember its name, but the top stamp is called Tea Party.  Think this card was my favourite, but it was hard to pick out of the four.       

And the last card was a little note card that used some Washi tape and a single stamp called Bloom for New, another new one in the catalogue.  I have looked at this one and decided I didn't like it/need it, but maybe ....  We stamped the centre bits separately and then mounted then together. 

Inspiration Class

Remember when I said I hadn't been making many cards lately because of lack of inspiration and I was planning on going to another Demonstrator's class?  Well these next four cards are the ones we made at her place.  

This first card was made using one of the Hostess stamp sets called Bloom with Hope.  And Michelle gave us a lesson on how to use the Blendabilities to their best effect.  I'm still working on my technique, but I think this card looks pretty good.  And the best part about going to a class is that everything is all cut out for you.  No cutting and measuring ... just stick together.  All the hard work has already been done. 

This second card uses the Perfect Peacock stamp, one that is usually used for colouring with Blendabilities.  Fortunately we didn't have to colour this one, merely sponge the edges and stick on lots of gold sequins.