Scrapbook Club - April 2013

Sunshine and Sprinkles has to be my favourite designer series paper set that Stampin' Up! have produced, possibly EVER.I love it's whimsical designs and cute images. Plus the vivid colours are just perfect for my style of crafting.

This page was highly influenced by my friend Lesley who was scrapbooking alongside me. She had such great ideas! It's hard to see in the photo but there is lots of glimmer paper and shiny bits. My new zigzag embossing folder had it's first outing and generally provided me with a fun evening's entertainment.

Check back in a couple of days for another project made using this fabulous DSP.

Mother's Day pt2

As I have a lovely mother in law I have also made her a card too. Don't tell her that its posted here!

This one features cute butterflies cut out in the More Amore papers like yesterday's post.

Such elegant paper designs means that there is little cause for loads of embellishments although I couldn't resist a pearl or three!

12 Days of Christmas - Day 3

Welcome to my 12 Days of Christmas series - Day 3! Easy and quick festive projects to give your home that handmade cosy feeling, plus gifts for neighbours, friends and family.

 

For today's project you'll need clean jam jars (no lids required) and some newsprint DSP.

 This first jar had a Christmas tree cut out on the Big Shot using a die from the Holiday Collection framelits and was stuck to the jar using red tape. A little linen thread finish it off nicely.

The next had a number of stars cut out using the same framelit set and has a strip of Cherry Cobbler spotty ribbon around the top of the jar.

 The last card has a bit of wavy Cherry Cobbler tuile ribbon. It's so easy to make a number of these in no time and would look great on the coffee table, by the front door or on a festive dinner table.

Christmas boxes

A colleague at work runs a dance school and asked me to make little gifts for her students. As most of them are girls, I thought I would make quite feminine boxes using the Cracker die on the Big Shot. The colours of the boxes were inspired by the colours in the paper from the Autumn/Winter Catalogue called Snow Festival (pg10): Baja Breeze, Cherry Cobbler, Gumball Green, Primrose Petals and Soft Suede.

 Tags Til Christmas (pg11, main) is the stamp set used and was easily punched out with the scalloped square punch.

 The scalloped square was layered on a Large Oval punched out piece in a contrasting colour.

 The combinations are endless and by using a DSP pack you get lots of patterns that all co-ordinate together.

 It would be really sweet to have a basket of these filled with chocolates of Haribos by the front door to give guests as they leave.

Sorry about this last picture being blurry. It serves me right for taking the pictures with my daylight lamp instead of the natural daylight!!

Summer 's back?!

This card makes it feel like summer is coming back. It's inspired by one on Pinterest but I used Summer Silhouettes as the stamp set as I didn't feel there was enough stamping on the original design!

 

As you can see there are lots of nice floral images, which I can't wait to use. The background stamping was done with the border stamp in Crumb Cake to match the base card colour.

To make the patterned card to punch out the butterfly from, I used the arched blossom cloud to create a unique patterned card in Primrose Petals. This was layered on a large scalloped Tangerine Tango circle and a piece of Primrose Petals CS.

Birthday card trial

As DH's birthday approaches I've been trying out different cards. This was a quick card using Gumball Green as the feature colour. For some reason I'm not happy with it, but can't decide what's wrong with it. Any ideas?

Flowery gift wrapping

At the beginning of the month it was my Mum's birthday. As I was at Convention during the celebrations I wanted to make her gift extra special:

 

Here is a close-up of the finished flowers:

I ended up hot-glueing the flowers to make them more securely fastened.

 Here is a video of how the flowers were made!! I hope you like it...

Tea gift holder

Another Pinterest inspired project... I followed this tutorial to make the basic sizes work. It makes a cute little gift holder that can hold a gift card, teabags and/or beauty product samples.

It was great to get out Tea Shoppe again. It's such a sweet set and really works on this kind of gift.

Here's a view of the inside. On the left is patterned paper featuring Baja Breeze. On the left are the gift envelopes cut on the Big Shot with cute buttons.

This shows the envelopes in more detail. Aren't they cute?

This would be a great gift to make en masse as it is super quick to measure and score but also easy to personalise with different papers and themes.

All yellow

Hi there, dear readers! It's been a few days as I have not had time to get my posts all ready for you, but fear not because the next 3 days or so are covered!

 

Today's card, as the title suggests, is all about yellow. It's based on one I saw on Pinterest but I have changed it quite a bit, whilst keeping to the general layout and cupcake.

 

Here's a close up of the cupcake:

It's all glittery! Such a versatile layout; I'm sure it could be adapted to fit other themes.

Scrapbook Club November 2012

Here is a short (incomplete and unedited!) video of how the page was created:

Below is the finished page:

 Here is a close-up of the bottom right corner. Am loving those buttons!!!

 To tie in with the patterned papers, a scrap is in the corner with some added bling.

 

So there it is. Just shows how versatile the Affection Collection stamp set really is.

 

Stamps: Affection Collection

Papers: International Bazaar

 

Check back tomorrow for another design with this fabulous set.

My convention swaps

This weekend I am at the 2012 Stampin' Up! Convention in Mainz, Germany. Very exciting!

 

One thing I had to prepare for the Convention was my swaps. There are 800 peope booked to attend, but I didn't feel that I could make quite that many! Instead I made a handful of these little sleeves that conceal some yummy sweets. My favourite swaps always contain an edible treat!!

 

 

Here's a view of how the sweets get in and out of the sleeve:

 

Here is a closer view:

The base is Crumb Cake cardstock. I used my lovely Scor-pal to score the lines for the folds before embossing on the Big Shot. The embossing folder is called Lace Brocade from the Autumn/Winter Seasonal catalogue.

To decorate the lovely punches came into use. The main scallop circle was punched from Very Vanilla card. Layered on top is a 1 3/8" circle of Tangerine Tango card. Raised on Dimensionals is a small scalloped circle punched from Pool Party spotty DSP. The stamped sentiment comes from one of the hostess stamp sets in the back of the Autumn/Winter seasonal catalogue. It is stamped in Tangerine Tango to match the larger circle.7 To finish a little bit of Victoria Lace was added.

I'm quite happy with them and can't wait to swap them at convention. I'll have to show you what I exchanged them for when I get home!

Starting Owlets

When Munchkin started preschool in September I took lots of photos. The uniform is so darned cute that I was powerless to resist. We snapped pictures in the garden, driveway and at school.

 

The Orchard Harvest papers came into play, like yesterday, and explain the season. These papers are perfect for start of school type pages as they're quite bright and the leaves are very detailed.

Father & Son

Here is a photo I snapped of my FIL and DH one sunny day when we were on a miniture train at Frimley Lodge Park. I love the picture so it made sense to scrapbook it.

The papers are from the Autumn/Winter seasonal catalogue and are called Orchard Harvest. There's no real journalling but it would be easy enough to add if required. I always think the photo says everything, personally.

Another one for the family album!

Snow Festival cards (part 5)

Today is my final installment of Snow Festival cards:

This little owl is just so cute, I couldn't leave him out. The mittens were cut from a sheet with lots of rows of patterns, which makes it a but like a page of paper ribbons.

My final card is pretty similar but features mittens!

I hope you've enjoyed my festive mini-series. Feel free to email me if you'd like to purchase the products used or any others from the catalogues.

Check back soon!

Snow Festival Cards (part 4)

Here are some more jazzy cards that I came up with using the Snow Festival DSP:

The main image on this is printed. I didn't even have to punch out the birds! Love how simple and quick these cards are to make en masse. One set of papers would easily make 24 festive cards, so it's a bargain at just £9.95!

Tomorrow will feature the last set of Snow Festival Cards.

If you'd like to buy the Snow Festival papers, drop me an email and I'll add them to my next order. They are such a great set of papers and you can use lots of sentiment stamps you already own to make the cards.

Snow Festival cards (part 3)!

Today's cards use the same layout but give a very different finished result. The top one has a gingerbread house image on a nice snowy background, most Baja Breeze with a touch of Primrose Petals.

The second card copies the layout but has a Gumball Green base. Both share sentiments on the Modern Label punch from Teeny Tiny Sentiments

The star paper looks very Cath Kidston to me, which I love!

Snow Festival Cards (part 1)

The next couple of posts will feature a set of cards I made using the Snow Festival DSP (pg10, Seasonal Catalogue) for my October Christmas Stack class:

I love this background paper that's used on these cards. The top one has Baja Breeze as a base and the bottom one has Cherry Cobbler as it's base. The main images come on one 12x12" sheet of paper and can be chopped into 12 3x3" images which are perfect as card toppers.

 The sentiment comes from Curly Cute which suits the fun image. Check back soon for more cards made with the Snow Festival papers.

For the Munchkin fans here is a picture of her and her Daddy at Finkley Down Farm on Sunday!

Owl Birthday card

Today my baby is THREE! I had to make her a special card to celebrate and as we're having an owl theme I thought this would fit the bill. It's a tri-fold shutter card, I believe. I googled the name and there are loads of different tutorials out there on how to make the base card. It was surprisingly quick and easy made using my Scor-pal and out of Pirouette Pink.

Here's a close-up of the "front". Although there isn't really a particular front once the card is out of the envelope. The colours used are Rich Razzleberry, Primrose Petals, Baja Breeze, Tangerine Tango and Daffodil Delight.

The birthday greeting is from Perfect Punches and is mounted on a stamped section from Everything Eleanor. The owl punch made decorating the card really easy and the googlie eyes I had left from a Halloween kit were ideal to make the owls look a bit funky.

Happy birthday to my little munchkin! Can't believe you're 3 already!!!!

Check back soon to see the party favours, cake and star birthday presents.

Time ticks by

Hello and happy Sunday! Can you believe it's the end of another week?! Well here is a card representing how fast time has been ticking by...

It features Clockworks and some yummy In Colors: Gumball Green and Midnight Muse. This was the same collage technique I used before but in a different colour combination than the note cards.

First Edition speciality DSP made it into the new catalogue (pg162) and this is great news as this paper set is super useful.

Hope you like the card. Are you doing anything nice today? I'm working in the morning and hope to do something with my lovely family in the afternoon if I'm not too pooped!

More returning products

Today's card is one we made at my Upline Natalie's training. It's such a cute card using paper that I didn't at first recognise... it's from Twitterpated! (pg119)

So yes, Twitterpated suite is back. Along with some additional products such as Flowering Flourishes, which make the quite even more appealing. This was combined with Apothacary Art, which has also returned (pg102). So happy about this as the framelits that coordinate are super useful.

The sentiment came from Teeny Tiny Sentiments (used to be called Teeny Tiny Wishes!) and some punches. It was fun trying out the diagonal Scorepal plate to make the Basic Grey section have a lattice effect.

The best part is how unexpected this project is when made from these products. The other side of the patterned paper than I would have originally gone for and a more subdued palette.