Whale-y great day

 Here, as promised, is the card made with Sunshine & Sprinkles DSP. A large punch cut out an image and then mounted it onto glimmer paper and used Wacky Words to compliment the whimsy-feel of the card.

For the Munchkin fans:

 Here is Munckin visiting Wisley gardens a few weeks ago with my Dad.

 I'm guessing he took the first two photos. There were a number of photos that appeared that munchkin herself must have taken! Below are my two favourites:

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!!!

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?

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.

Floating Flowers

This card originally began as a CASE of Jenni Pauli and then morphed into something I think I can safely say is mine. The Reason to Smile set came out again today along with some In Colors that we will be saying goodbye to at the end of September: Pear Pizzazz and Concorde Crush. Some Crumb Cake was added into the mix for variety and some flowers were raised up on Dimensionals.

The sentiment was a much trimmed down version of one in the Hostess set, Happiest Birthday Wishes. The central part can be cut with a 1" circle punch. The next layer was trimmed by hand and then layered onto a 1 3/8" circle of Concord Crush.

Half way through the week and we're enjoying the last week before Munchkin starts Pre-school! She is so excited but a little part of me is already missing my sidekick as we won't have nearly as much time together soon.

Dear You

Hooray hooray for Bank Holiday Monday! What a great way to start the week.

Today's card was inspired by the flower. I found this flower ready made leftover from my scrapbooking class a few months ago. It explains how to make the flowers on that post.

This card had a simple Baja Breeze base with a Pear Pizzazz mat. The Whisper White piece had Crumb Cake, Baja Breeze and Pear Pizzazz spritzed over the top for interest, and the sentiment is from the Hostess Set, Happiest Birthday Wishes.

If you like scrapbooking and would like to add a page to your collection why not come to my scrapbooking class? It's held the first Tuesday evening each month at my home (GU12). At just £8 it's a fun, social night out and you get to go home with a beautiful 12x12" page all ready for photos. The next class will be on Tuesday 4th September at 7.30pm, contact me to book your place.

As it's a Bank Holiday, we will be catching up with the rest of the family and having some fun. Fingers crossed that the weather let's us spend some time outdoors.

Need a reason to smile?

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Here is a card made with the stamp set using the Triple Stamp technique. I hope to create a video to show you this technique soon. It's really simple but gives a great effect.

 The card was made from Riding Hood Red and Newsprint DSP. The sentiment comes from Petite Pairs set. There's a strip of vintage lace and an antique brad plus a tiny heart from Tiny Tags to finish it off.

If you'd like to take advantage of this offer and get yourself this fabulous stamp set, I'd be happy to place an order for you: blueangelcrafts at gmail dot com

Penguin birthday wishes

One of the best things about crafting is the social side. There is nothing more fun than crafting with a pal! Last week I managed to squeeze in a micro crafting session with my crafty hippy friend Lauren.

The is one of the cards I made while hanging out with her. It's a fun fold card with some Everyday Enchantment papers (naturally!). I also used one of my new tools: Adorning Accents Edgelits dies. There are two dies in the pack and they co-ordinate brilliantly with the Bordering on Romance stamp set in the Summer 2012 mini catalogue. I used the scallop edge which is like a double scallop as each large scallop has mini scallops along the edge! (you can zoom in on the picture to see what I mean). The rhinestones added a bit of sparkle to each scallop.

The main image was made using the Owl Punch. Such a fantastically versatile punch. To make the sparkly oval and edging for the sentiment I punched out the shapes and rubbed them onto the Big Shot multipurpose adhesive sheets to make them all sticky. Oddly I used these sticky sheets all the time but rarely with the Big Shot! Anyway, once they were all sticky it was simply a case of dipping the shapes into Dazzling Diamonds glitter.

ANOTHER boat card!

I can't seem to do anything but mask, sponge and layer this boat stamp over the top. Any other ideas???

Still, it looks quite sleek with the golden 75 cut out on the Big Shot so I hope the recipient likes it.

Garden Party 40th

Today is one of my best friend's birthdays. Jo is celebrating her 40th in style hosting a fabulous garden party for all her family and friends.

I made this card for her using lots of products from the Summer Mini catalogue and a few forgotten products that I thought needed an airing!

The edging was stamped from the set Bordering on Romance, which comes from the same suite as the papers, Twitterpated. I used markers to colour in the flowers on the Crumb Cake base: Blushing Bride and Baja Breeze picked out the colouring from the papers.

The birthday greeting comes from the Hostess set, Happiest Birthday Wishes. My absolute favourite of all time Hostess Set. I will cry when this set goes!!

It was long overdue to use these lovely treat cups. It's so easy using the 1 3/4" circle punch to cut a hole where the cup is going to go, fill the cup and then stick it down using the self-adhesive strip. To get the treats out without wrecking the card I scored the Crumb Cake base using my Cutter Kit.

I hope Jo has a wonderful birthday and party and I'm so happy we can be there to help her celebrate!

Fluffed up flower

Hello! Today I have a card that was a lot of fun to make! Its flower embellishment was made using the Big Shot and the big flower die. I cut two sizes of flower from about 4 layers of white tissue paper each. Then I pierced a hole and added an antique brad. Once the flower was stuck to the card front it was possible to fluff up the edges to make the flower more 3D.

The card on the Soft Suede base was Bashful Blue from the colour stack and the spotty pieces were from Nursery Nest. I didn't realise how well they went together until I saw them side by side in my scraps box.

I'm definately going to make some more tissue paper flowers as they were so quick and easy. They'd also be lovely on a gift bag too.

Birthday wallet

This card was inspired by one I saw on Jenni Pauli's site. Yes, yes, have you noticed I am a big fan of her designs? I just love them. Sadly the front of this project has not turned out how I envisaged.

Fortunately the inside is much better:

I made the central envelope using the scalloped envelope die on the Big Shot but I trimmed it down by 2 scallops to make it a bit smaller. It was a fab project for using scraps of patterned paper and scardstock too.

This would be nice for a good friend or if you wanted to dress up a money-type of gift.

TIP: stamp BEFORE you stick everything down!!! (I learnt that the hard way on this project.)

Button hole

 Good morning!

Today's card was based on a Christmas bauble card I saw on Pinterest but I decided to make a blue birthday one. There's a Whisper White base with a Bashful Blue patterned paper piece over the top. Both layers were punched through with a 1 3/4" circle punch and the inside area where you'd write your message had the birthday greeting stamped.

Here is a (bit blurry) close-up:

I had a lot of fun adding buttons, rhinestones, silver brads, pearls and mini brads all around the edge of the circle. Above it I added a knot of Victoriana lace as it looked a bit blank without anything.

Not sure if the circle represents anything now, but hopefully it doesn't look too bauble-like!

Birthday wishes

Last Thursday was my Brother-in-law's birthday and I thought I would show a picture of the card I gave him. I actually did a video on how to make it a while back, which you can view here.

I'm going to try a variation on this for a 75th birthday soon, so keep an eye out!

Goth birthday card

Hello and Happy Monday!

It's the beginning of another fabulous week so I thought I would go back to show you some cards. There will be another one tomorrow.

This card was based on one by Linda Aarhus. Her one was Pool Party and Black but I thought Peach Parfait and Black could be fun.

The postage stamp was used. This is technically not available to order just now but it is sure to be available again soon, I think!! I also used the Boho Blossoms flower punch to cut out both the black and orange flowers. A few rhinestones and a Happiest Birthday Wishes hostess set greeting, and voila!

The finished card reminds me of something perfect for a slightly goth/emo type!!

Birthday treats

Woo hoo it's Wednesday! Half way through the week already; where does the time go?

Today's card was inspired by L W Designs. To be fair I changed it up quite a lot.

The base is Peach Parfait and the patterned paper Top Note shape was cut from Just Add Cake DSP. These are the colours that influenced the birthday greeting from Happiest Birthday Wishes, hostess set.

The heart was stamped in Poppy Parade using the Sweetheart stamp set and then punched out to add a heart shaped treat cup. Did you see what the cup is filled with? I was so excited to find these miniture Love Hearts. I also found loads of other miniture sweets so that was a fun little trip. You would have seen more projects with them if only I hadn't scoffed them so quickly!

I thought another colour was needed so I added some Early Espresso and Pear Pizzazz. Kind of a fun retro colour combination, I think!!

Have a great Wednesday and see you tomorrow for another project share.

Princess birthday card

This card was made with Little Princess, a stamp set I earnt at the Award Ceremony at Convention in Disneyland Paris last year. If you'd like to come to the next Convention in Mainz, Germany this November why not become a demonstrator? Contact me for more information.

 I've not used this stamp set too much but I actually really adore the images. The card base was stamped all over with the glitterly sparkles stamp in Daffodil Delight. I was going to use So Saffron to match the card I used but it wasn't really bright enough to show up. You need some contrast to show up effectively. Fortunately the colours blend really well at Stampin' Up! so the colours look great together.

Currently I'm into colouring. I'm not sure where the new obsession has come from but I'm going to blame Munchkin as she is extremely partial to a spot of colouring on an afternoon. I used Pink Pirouette for the face and arms, Pretty in Pink for the dress and ribbons, Lucky Limeade for the frog and Daffodil Delight for the hair/crowns. Such a sweet combination and not too sickly, I thought.

My favourite image from this set is the frog. He's so cute and I love his crown. I'll have to make sure this set gets used again soon!

Happy Birthday Natalie

Today is my lovely upline Natalie's birthday! I hope she doesn't mind me spilling the beans about her milestone birthday. I made this card inspired by one I saw on SplitCoast Stampers by Mary Brown.

The base is Lucky Limeade with Basic Grey mats. The strip of patterned paper is from Twitterpated, which you'll find in the Summer Mini catalogue. Gosh I love this paper set. It's kind of filled the gap left by the lovely Sale-a-bration papers we had earlier in the year.

The Big Shot had some good use in this cut with die cutting shapes and numbers plus dry embossing the Whisper White panel with Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder. There is also heat embossing for the birthday greeting that was embossed in white.

I hope she has a great birthday!!!

Haven't I seen this before?!

Yes, yes, this is a design I have shown you before. You can see it here.

However, I couldn't resist having another go with a couple of different colour combinations. These are monotone but the top one is Melon Mambo and the one below is Black with Basic Grey stamping. You might also be able to see I did some embossing on the white panel of the black card. I think this would be a nice sympathy card but I couldn't decide on a suitable stamp so it got stuck being a Happy Birthday card!!

I'm just LOVING the Apothacary Art stamp set. It is so classy and elegant. Just like me (mwah hahaha).

Let me know if you'd like to place an order as I would be happy to do that for you. Or if you just want some advice about stamping you can email me too: blueangelcrafts at gmail dot com

Special 70th

My parents are going to lots of milestone birthday parties this summer so here is one card I have made for a dear friend of theirs.

It's using Paisley Prints papers, which I adore. There's a strip of Crumb Cake seam binding ribbon all crinkled across the join and then I took my Big Shot out and did some cutting! I used gold card for the curvey shape and Cajun Craze card for the numbers.

To make the flower so colourful I used the marker-to-pen technique and used all the different colours contained in the Paisley Prints papers to ensure the image matched perfectly. The stamp is from Ornate Flowers, I believe. I am losing the plot with names and dates this week as I have been rather worn out by a small person; who seems to be testing my patience!!

I'm quite pleased with this result and I hope the recipient will like it too.

Have you got any milestone birthdays coming up? One of mine is next March but I am warming up by attending a friend's 40th this summer. 2012 is full of important dates it seems.