Whip up a favour

Here are some little gift packaging I made up the other day. They would be perfect to contain a cello bag with sweets, biscuits or even buttons as a small gift when going out for drinks or to go with a birthday card.

This is the first one made with Pennant Parade and the co-ordinating punch.

 

The next is using Owl Occasions and cute little Vintage Trinkets.

 

 The last one uses Papaya Collage and a paper daisy.

I could not wait to use the little bird image. It's so sweet!

Sorry about the absence this week. Munchkin has been unwell while DH is away on business so it's been exhausting nights followed by dragging days... Still, I'm back on form now!!! Keep your eyes peeled as my 12 Days of Christmas series starts on Saturday 1st December with quick cards, gifts and decorations!!!

Watercolour effect

So it's back to 'normal' again now. No more Bank Holiday :(

To cheer you up, or give you a Reason to Smile if you will, I have this cheery little card for you. It uses a technique that makes the stamped image look as though you spent ages painting a lovely little watercolour artwork. I used Daffodil Delight, More Mustard and Garden Green to colour the solid image on the stamp. Then a few spritzes of water were sprayed onto the inked up stamp before stamping it onto the paper.

Really quick technique and makes me feel like an artist!! Haha. If you've not tried it you will have to give it a go.

As it was a subtle image the sentiment was stamped off before adding to the So Saffron card base.

Don't forget there's only 3 days left to get hold of the Reason to Smile set!!! Let me know your order and you can secure your set!

Hello!

Hello all! Today is a cheery little card made my new favourite set: Everything Eleanor.

To make the card base a piece of Wisteria Wonder cardstock was folded in half and then cut using the scalloped square die in the Big Shot, ensuring that the folded edge was kept in line with the last scallop so the folded edge was kept in tact.

A piece of Whisper White was had the swirl stamped in Certainly Celery. To give background flowers, the flower image was stamped in Perfect Plum ink and then stamped lightly on a scrap of paper before stamping onto the Whisper White piece. This gives a more faded look.

A few flowers were stamped in Wisteria Wonder and then cut out by hand. At first I thought this would take ages but actually the nice curvy lines mean the flowers were a doodle to cut out. These flowers were raised up on Dimensionals and then finished with a couple of rhinestones.

Did you guess where the sentiment was from? It's Pennant Parade! I wanted a cute little word and this one fit the bill perfectly when stamped in Perfect Plum.

Wizard!

Our next door neighbour approached me to make 30 cupcake toppers that were wizard hats. To make matters worse he needed them durable enough to make it to the other end of the country and still look presentable.

I ended up using Concord Crush cardstock and embossing gold stars on them using the star from Pennant Parade. To be honest, that took AGES! The star image is not big and so I had to stamp it again and again and again using Versamark. However, the custom-made DSP was fab and really made the cupcarkes look good, I think!

To transport them I repurposed an old tennis ball tube as they are pretty strong and allowed the hats to be stacked up easily.

Craft Day Pennants

As promised, here are the rest of the cards we made at the Craft Day on Saturday. One thing I MUST point out is that they are NOT my designs. All of them were inspired by cards I found on the wonderful site, Splitcoast Stampers. This first design is by Annie Lee. I love how this card highlights the versatility of the Pennant Parade stamp set.

This spinner has a different sentiment from the one I found on Splitcoast. I used a hostess sentiment that is just gorgeous. Oh and I added some Brushed Gold card for the main Top Note that you can see. Adore this card more with every project I make with it!

This birthday hat card shows just how wonderfully the new In Colors go together. They are just fabulous and the best thing is that you can buy the pens as a set of 5 so you can get all the colours to match in one go!

Now I have shown you this card but we did use it as part of the stack so I thought I would add it in and this time I should also add that it was based on an original design by Amy Celona. Gorgeous card and everyone seemed to enjoy the stamp set as much as I did when I was putting the stack together.

P.S. The star card I showed you the other day was designed by Monica Hornof.

P.P.S. The stamp set is now available for you Amy although the punch is elsewhere.