Girly Fun Fold Card
I found the directions to make this card on Kelly Acheson’s blog and finally had a chance to play. Her directions are easy to follow and once you get the idea, it is really quite simple to make. Thank you Kelly. My card is pretty much a case of hers, just the colours are changed up.
I started with a card base of Pool Party and embossed the front flap using the Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folder. I added a piece of the Sweet Sorbet Sale-a-bration Designer Series Paper to Basic Black card and then to the card base. I punched a 1-3/4″ Circle from Whisper White and attached it to a 2″ circle cut from Basic Black card using one of the Circle Framelits Dies. The Basic Black circle is attached to a 2-3/8″ Scallop Circle cut from Pool Party card and the whole piece is attached to the top of the Designer Paper section to poke through the 2-1/2″ Circle which is punched through the card base. 
I cut a bodice from the same Designer Series paper using the Dress Up Framelits. I added a skirt to the bodice which is a folded and sponged Tea Lace Paper Doily and wrapped the waist with Pool Party 1/2″ Seam Binding. The dress is then attached to the card base. I sponged some Pool Party ink onto a flower cut from the Flower Trim (retired – I stocked up on these because I thought they were so lovely) and attached it to the waist of the dress.
I stamped the greeting from the Sketched Birthday stamp set onto Whisper White card using Pool Party ink and sponged the edges with the same ink. I attached this to the card base and also added another flower. To open the card you lift the embossed flap and then open the dress section to reveal the place where you can write your message. I cut a piece of scrap card using the Dress Framelit Die and sponged Pool Party ink into the negative space to create a background for the greeting from the Really Good Greetings stamp set using Stazon Jet Black ink.
I think this is such a cool card and I need to make the time to create a few more versions. I’d really love to hear what you think.
Bye for now,
Kris
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MDS Monday 65
I was lucky enough to be able to attend the Mother’s Day morning tea held by my granddaughter Jae’s Prep Class with my daughter Emma. I used this sketch challenge at MDS Monday to create my page using My Digital Studio.
Jae made her Mum and myself a beautiful crown to wear while we completed several games and crafting activities. You can see Jae is very busy creating in the first photo.
My designer series papers for this page are from the My Digital Class Beautiful Today Kit Digital Download. I changed the opacity on the background paper to 50% so that it wouldn’t overwhelm the photos. and I used the colours from the Designer Paper to create photo mats and also to re-colour the Everyday Adventure Digital Project Life journalling card. I was quite excited to be using my Project Life downloads in a non-project life way. The hearts are from the Days to Remember Designer Templates CD which was a Hostess CD (no longer available). The flag punch came with my original MDS download. I love using MDS to create quick pages that are going to help me remember these special times with my family.
Have you tried MDS yet? If not, please do. You can download the 30 day free trial and see what you think. It is so much fun.
Bye for now,
Kris
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Happy Mother’s Day
I used a colour combination I found on Pinterest to create this card for my Mum for Mother’s Day. I truly love these beautiful ombre combinations.
I cut across one long edge of pieces of Pink Pirouette, Strawberry Slush and Primrose Petals card using the Fringe Scissors. Have you tried these yet? They are so much fun these scissors and not only can you add a fringe to your card but they can be used to make gorgeous flowers as well. I attached the fringed card to Very Vanilla card which I stamped with a greeting from the Delightful Dozen stamp set using Strawberry Slush ink. I wrapped the top of the Primrose Petals card with 7/8″ Cotton Ribbon. I added Sticky Strip to the top edge of the Cotton Ribbon and attached a piece of Strawberry Slush 3/8″ Ruffle Stretch Trim. 
I attached this whole piece to scored and folded Strawberry Slush card. I cut two sets of leaves from Pistachio Pudding card using the Little Leaves Sizzlit and attached them to the card front. I punched a 1-3/4″ Scallop Circle and two 3/4″ Scallop Circles from Pink Pirouette card. I cut the scallop circles into spirals and rolled them up to create the flowers. 
I used Crystal Effects to hold the flower shape and also to attach to the card front.
To decorate the inside of the card I cut one long edge of Strawberry Slush card using the Fringe Scissors before attaching it to Very Vanilla card. I wrapped the top of the fringed card with 7/8″ Cotton Ribbon and attached it to the inside of the card.
I love this card and hope my Mum does too.
Bye for now,
Kris
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Happy Birthday Noah
Today my grandson Noah celebrates his 7th birthday. He shares his birthday with my mother-in-law (his great grandmother) and my sister-in-law (his great aunt) – busy day! To celebrate his birthday his Mum and Dad had the family over for breakfast. We had such a lovely time.
This is the card that I made for Noah which is cased from the very talented Linda Higgins. It uses the Circle Thinlet Die as the card base. I added an additional flap so that I could hide the message panel. The colours used are Daffodil Delight, Sahara Sand, Whisper White, Basic Black, Marina Mist and Soft Suede. I used various Circle Framelit Dies to create the eyes and the mouth, the Word Window Punch for the arms and a circle punch for the hair and the little black buttons on his overalls. Inside the card I created a panel and added another little minion, holding a balloon. The balloon is from the Sketched Birthday stamp set and is stamped using Real Red ink. The eyes on this little minion were punched using the Bird Builder Punch. I used the Owl Builder Punch to create the arms and the flower punch from the Itty Bitty Shapes Punch Pack to create the hands. 
The greeting on the back of the circle is from the Bring on the Cake stamp set which I punched using the 2-3/8″ Scallop Circle. The greeting is stamped in Real Red ink and I used a Real Red Stampin’ Write Marker to colour in the number 7. 
Of course you can’t give a gift without having a bag for it to do in, so using the card as inspiration I created a larger Minion for the front of the bag. The Daffodil Delight card is half an A4 sheet. I used several Circle Framelit Dies for the eyes and hair, hand cut the overalls and added a pocket. I hand cut the arms and used cut down a 3/4″ Scallop Circle to create the hands. The greeting along the bottom is from the Sketched Birthday stamp set and is stamped in Soft Suede. I think my grandson was happy with the card and bag and of course, more importantly what was inside.
Hope you are inspired to create some punch art of your own.
Bye for now,
Kris
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Field Flowers Mother’s Day
This is the card I sent to my Mother-in-Law for Mother’s Day. This sketch is one that was shared by MaryJo on her Technostamper blog. I didn’t have a chance to play along for the challenge but saved the sketch to my Pinterest board so that I could use it when I had the time.
I added a piece of the beautiful floral paper from the Watercolour Designer Series Paper to Tangerine Tango card and then to Whisper White card which I embossed using the Perfect Polka Dot Embossing Folder. This piece is attached to scored and folded Whisper White card. 
I stamped the flower stem from the Field Flowers stamp set onto Whisper White card using Gumball Green ink and attached the stamped panel to Tangerine Tango card and then the card front using dimensionals.
I stamped the flowers onto scrap Whisper White card using Tangerine ink and cut them out before attaching them to the card front. The solid flower was stamped off onto scrap paper first so that it would be a little lighter. I didn’t have the perfect greeting stamp so I used My Digital Studio and the All Holidays Brush Stamp Set Digital Download to create the greeting panel, using the colouring tool to match Tangerine Tango and Gumball Green. 
The greeting panel is attached to Gumball Green card and then the card front using dimensionals. As a last finishing touch I added a Gumball Green Dahlia to the greeting panel.
Inside the card I once again stamped the leaf image using Gumball Green ink. The flowers are stamped directly over the stem image using Tangerine Tango ink.
Bye for now,
Kris
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Petite Petals Thinlet Card
Next weekend is very busy with Mother’s Day and also my Mother-in-law and grandson’s birthdays. So today I am going to share with you the card I made for my Mother-in-law. I found a gorgeous card on Pinterest by Chantal Caste and decided to create my own version.
I wanted to create an extra flap to hide my message on the Circle Thinlet card so I cut Crumb Cake card the width of an A4 sheet and just slightly less than 5-1/2″. Once cut and folded I stamped the front of the card and the front and back of the flap using the Hardwood Background stamp and Chocolate Chip ink. I stamped the front and back of the Circle using the spotty image from the Gorgeous Grunge stamp set and Chocolate Chip ink. I cut Chocolate Chip card using the Little Leaves Sizzlit and attach one set to the front of the Circle and another to the back of the Circle. I stamped various flowers from the Petite Petals stamp set using Pink Pirouette, Strawberry Slush and Rose Red ink and punched them out using the Petite Petals Punch. I also punched Rose Red and Pink Pirouette card using the four petal flower punch from the Itty Bitty Shapes Punch Pack. On the front I attached three stamped flowers and two punched flowers. I also added Basic Rhinestones to the centre of each flower.
On the back of the circle I attached two stamped flowers over the leaves and also added Basic Rhinestones to the flower centres.
On the front of the right hand flap, I attached some leaves and one stamped flower along with two punched flowers. Basic Rhinestones again decorate the flowers.
Inside the card I stamped Happy Birthday wishes from the Petite Pairs stamp set onto Whisper White card using Chocolate Chip ink. This panel also has some leaves and two stamped flowers. I attached the Whisper White card to Chocolate Chip card before attaching to the inside of the card.
I hope my Mother-in-Law loves this card as much as I do. Thanks so much to Chantal for the inspiration.
Bye for now,
Kris
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Introducing Project Life by Stampin’ Up!
Isn’t this just so exciting. Becky Higgins and Stampin’ Up! partnering together to release an exclusive range of Project Life products for Stampin’ Up!. These products will be available in our new catalogue which releases on the 1st July, however, as demonstrators we will be able to pre-purchase a limited range of the product. So if you can’t wait until the 1st July, become a demonstrator and you can get your hands on these goodies earlier than everyone else.
Here is a Video from Stampin’ Up! with some of the details.
Stampin’ Up! is also releasing Project Life as Digital Downloads and guess what – from today you can purchase the Everyday Adventure Digital Project Life Cards as well as the Day to Day Digital Project Life Stamp Brush Set and the Point and Click Digital Project Life Stamp Brush Set. I purchased and downloaded my copies early this morning and this is my first creation using the products.
Hope you are as excited as I am by this fabulous new product range.
Bye for now,
Kris
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MDS Monday 63
I’ve been so buy this past two weeks, I almost missed the deadline for the current MDS Monday scrapbook challenge.
Its a fun sketch and I’ve used one of my favourite techniques and added just one picture to fill all the photo boxes.
I also used the photo to select the colours for the background and journalling. I love this photo taken by my daughter Sarah on a recent holiday. I did add a couple of embellishments to the background – the large swirl from the Baroque Motifs Brush Stamp Set Digital Download. I changed the opacity to about 80% to soften the stamps on my background and added a shadow to give them some more dimension. Love My Digital Studio – have you tried it yet?
Bye for now,
Kris
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Feel Better Soon
I had occasion to send a card to a friend recovering from an operation recently and thought that you might like to see it. The flowers were inspired by some I saw on a card on Pinterest by Cheryl Garratt. If you visit her blog she has some great instructions for making your flowers have more dimension.
I started by stamping the greeting from the Express Yourself stamp set onto Whisper White card using Island Indigo ink and then I embossed with the Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folder. I attached the embossed card to the bottom of Soft Sky card. I cut Whisper White card using the Paper Doily Sizzlits Large and then cut the Doily in half and attached to the centre of the Soft Sky card. I wrapped this piece with Crumb Cake 1/2″ Tafetta Ribbon and tied a bow before attaching to scored and folded Crumb Cake card. 
I stamped the flowers from the Stippled Blossoms stamp set onto scrap Whisper White card using Soft Sky/Marina Mist ink, Soft Sky/Island Indigo ink and cut them out. The leaves are stamped onto scrap Whisper White card using Pear Pizzazz and Gumball Green ink and then cut out. I added some dimension to the flowers and leaves as per Cheryl’s instructions. The flowers and leaves are attached using Glue Dots. I also added a Basic Pearl to the centre of each of the flowers.
Inside the card I embossed the lower portion of Whisper White card and wrapped it with Crumb Cake 1/2″ Tafetta Ribbon. I added another flower and a couple of leaves to complete the decoration.
I hope that my friend loves her card as much as I do.
Bye for now,
Kris
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Oh Hello
I wanted to send a friend a card this week to let her know that I am thinking of her. She has quite a lot going on in her life and sometimes it’s nice to know people care.
I found this great card on Pinterest (really, where would I be without it) – unfortunately it doesn’t have a name or watermark to give credit to the creator. Anyway it was really pretty and so I CASED it to create my own card.
I started by cutting Whisper White card using one of the Oval Framelit Dies and then embossing the card to just below the bottom of the oval. 
I cut one long side of a narrow piece of Whisper White card using the Large Scallop Edgelits Die and then embossed using the matching Delicate Designs Embossing Folder. I attached a strip of Gingham Garden Designer Series paper to the bottom of the Whisper White card with the oval cut out and then attached the narrow strip of embossed card over the top. 
I wrapped the join with a strip of Cherry Cobbler 1/2″ Seam Binding and attached the whole piece to scored and folded Whisper White card. I stamped the greeting from the Oh Hello stamp set inside the oval cut out using Cherry Cobbler ink. I stamped two of the large flowers from the Stippled Blossoms stamp set onto Whisper White card using Pink Pirouette/Cherry Cobbler ink and cut them out. I stamped three sets of leaves using Pear Pizzazz/Gumball Green ink and cut them out. The flowers and leaves are attached around the greeting and over the ribbon using Glue Dots.
Inside the card I stamped the large flower once again using Pink Pirouette/Cherry Cobbler ink and then I covered it with a mask and stamped the leaves around it once again using Pear Pizzazz/Gumball Green ink.
This is such a pretty card and I can’t thank the creator enough for the inspiration. The Stippled Blossom stamp set is one that I just adore, but do not use often enough.
Bye for now,
Kris
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Stamping with Kris 