Just take a sketch
and add some colour. Today my card uses the sketch from Stamping 411 and I had added the colours from this weeks Diva Coffee Break Challenge.
The base card is Night of Navy and I have swiped myNight of Navy ink pad over it to give it some texture. The Sahara Sand card has been torn along the top (a bit hard to see but trust me) and then embossed using the Square Lattice Embossing Folder. To make my focal image I stamped the flower from Pocket Silhouettes using Night of Navy ink onto Sahara Sand card and punched it out using the 2″ x 1 3/8″ Oval Extra Large. I added this to the centre of a Bashful Blue tag cut using the Big Shot and one of the dies from the Lots of Tags Sizzlit 4 pack. Using dimensionals I centred this onto a piece of Night of Navy card embossed using the Vintage Wallpaper Embossing Folder and layered it onto a piece of Bashful Blue card.
I love this card. I love the clean lines and I love the colours. Not a combination I have used before but one I will definitely keep in mind.
Bye for now, Kris.
A Little Bit of Black Magic
Last Friday I went to a class run by my friend and fellow Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator Gwen. She showed us how to do Black Magic in 3 different ways.
These are the cards we made. Gwen has an amazing style and I just love the way the cards turned out. I came away with a new understanding of the technique and inspired to try it a little more. The only problem is now I have to spend money updating the colours in the Stampin’ Pastels.
Bye for now, Kris.
Another Scrap Page
Now don’t all fall off your seats. I told you I had some gorgeous photos to get me scrapbooking. The scrapbook sketch challenge at SUDSOL this week fit perfectly with these photos of my daughter Emma’s three children.
I used some of the Jolly Holiday Designer Series Paper because I love it and because these photos are from December. I used Old Olive 12″ x 12″ card as my base. I added a layer of Very Vanilla card at the bottom of the page with the top edge punched using the Eyelet Edge Punch. Next I added a layer of Designer Paper with the bottom edge punched using the Eyelet Edge Punch. I added some Old Olive 5/8″ Satin Ribbon to the Designer paper. I matted my photos on a piece of Cherry Cobbler card and attached it to the Designer Paper. I used my Scalloped Heart of Hearts embosslit to cut one Old Olive heart. I punched one Old Olive and one Cherry Cobbler heart using my Full Heart Extra Large Punch and put them into the same embosslit to give it that gorgeous polka dot texture. I arranged these two hearts on the left hand side of the Very Vanilla card. The Cherry Cobbler heart has been added using dimensionals. I cut “Family” using my Timeless Type Junior Alphabet (and the Big Shot). I punched hearts from Cherry Cobbler and Old Olive card using my Heart to Heart Extra Large Punch. The Old Olive hearts have also been embossed using the Scallop Heart of Heart embosslit. The larger Cherry Cobbler Heart is added using dimensionals.
This close up shows the gorgeous texture that you get from this embosslit. I also love that you can punch out a heart with the Extra Large Heart Punch and pop it into the embosslit and it will emboss the punched heart and it will line up with the scalloped heart perfectly.
Here you can see a close up of the hearts on the right hand side of the page.
All in all a simple page but I am happy with it and I love these photos of my gorgeous grandchildren.
I’d love to hear what you think.
Bye for now, Kris.
Flood Appeal
Stampin’ Up! have announced today that they will donate $2.00 from every stampset sold with a retail value of $30.00 or more to the Australian Flood Appeal. This great fundraiser runs from the 15th January through to the 15th February. You will remember that as a result of fundraising efforts Stampin’ Up! donated $77,889.63 to the Victorian Bush Fire Appeal. So get behind this great fundraiser and help support those families who have been devastated by flooding throughout Australia.
Happy Birthday Sarah
My daughter Sarah is celebrating her birthday today. I’m not going to tell you how old she is but suffice to say I wonder where the years have gone. Seems like only yesterday she was a little girl and now she is a Mum with 3 gorgeous children of her own.
This is the card I made for her. I started with Chocolate Chip card 21cm x 14.8cm scored and folded in half. I added a layer of Whisper White which has been embossed with the Square Lattice Embossing Folder. Next is a circle of Chocolate Chip topped with a circle of Pretty in Pink. Both these layers are cut with my Circle Scissors and the Pretty in Pink layer is embossed using the Petals A Plenty Embossing Folder. I inked the flowers from the Upsy Daisy stampset using my Pretty in Pink and Certainly Celery Stampin’ Write Markers and stamped onto Whisper White Card. I added a layer of Certainly Celery and attached the whole panel to the card using dimensionals. The greeting is also from the Upsy Daisy stampset and I have stamped it onto Whisper White card using Chocolate Chip ink, punched it out using the Large Oval punch and attached to a Chocolate Chip Scallop Oval. This is also attached to the card using dimensionals.
Here you can see a close up of the texture from the embossing folders. You can also see that the greeting is attached flat to the daisy panel with a dimensional under the right hand side.
I am pretty happy with the way this card has turned out and hope that Sarah will like it. There is a lot of pressure when you are making a card for such a talented papercrafter.
Bye for now, Kris.
A cute box of cards
The level 1 Hostesss Set Cute by the Inch was not one which I thought I “needed” immediately. However I saw a cute little box of cards done with this set by Monika Davis. It inspired me to make my own box set of cards.
There are 9 little stamps in the Cute by the Inch stamp set and each of them has a different theme – for you, eat cake, thinking of you, etc. I decided to use Whisper White and 8 of the colours in the Bright Colour Collection. So each card has a base of a particular colour, eg. Marina Mist, then a layer of Whisper White which has been embossed using the Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folder. There is a strip of matching colour cardstock which has both edges punched using the Scallop Trim Border Punch. The image is stamped in matching ink on Whisper White Card, punched out using the 1 1/4″ square punch and then layered onto a matching coloured piece of card punched out using the 1 3/8″ square punch.
I made matching envelopes by trimming down C6 envelopes, adding a flap of cardstock the width of the envelope by 4″, scored in half at 2″ and embossed with the Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folder. The embossed card is attached to the front of the envelope and left open at the back. The envelopes were then stamped on the front with the same image as was done on the card.
To house my cards and envelopes, I made a folder. The folder has two pockets on the inside, one for cards and one for envelopes.
The front of the box is decorated to match the cards and I have stamped the “for you” image. The folder is held closed by a velcro dot.
I think this is a great little card set. There are enough greetings to cover many occasions during the year. It has started me thinking about the possibilities of using other sets to create a box of cards.
I’d love to hear what you think.
Bye for now, Kris.
Sharing – A Scrap Page
Well as you know I am not much of a scrapbooker. I would love to be but I certainly need lots of inspiration to scrap. Two things came together yesterday to get me started. Firstly my daughter Sarah shared some gorgeous photos with me and secondly I saw a sketch from ScrapLove Create which was just my style, clean and simple.
I love the colours in Lap of Luxury Designer Series Paper and since my photos featured pink, I wanted something to co-ordinate. I found this lovely sheet of gray paper with the flower and the word “love” and knew it would look gorgeous on my Pretty in Pink 12 x 12″ card. I trimmed the paper to 11 x 11″ and rounded the corners by using a circle of scrap card punched with the 1 3/4″ Circle Punch. I just layed the circle on the reverse side in the corners traced around the circle and cut of the excess. I added a strip of Pretty in Pink card which has one edge punched with the Pinking Hearts Border Punch to frame my photos. I used my Timeless Type Junior Alphabet to cut my letters from Pretty in Pink card. Lastly I punched out 3 Pretty in Pink Fancy Flowers. I distressed the card so that I could separate the layers and then scrunched the six pieces of card before adding an Antique Brad to the centre. I attached the flower in the centre of the leaves using Mini Glue Dots.
Here is a close up of the flower. When you separate the layers of card, the flowers turn out so much softer. Really pretty.
I love the way the photos, layout and colours have come together – it really lets the photos shine..
You never know, seeing I have so many gorgeous photos, there may be some more scrapbooking coming up.
Bye for now, Kris.
Clean and Simple Birthday
I was inspired by Mary Brown’s card to take a look at the Clean and Simple sketch this week.
I took my colours from the Woodland Walk Designer Series Paper. My base card is Crumb Cake and I have stamped it with the Sanded Background using Crumb Cake ink. I ran the ink pad around the edges of the card as well because I wanted to give it some definition. I added a layer of Chocolate Chip which has one edge punched with the Scallop Edge Punch. The next layer is Very Vanilla to which I added two squares of the Woodland Walk DSP. My two images are from the Sale-a-Bration stampset Punch Bunch. They have been stamped onto Very Vanilla card using Chocolate Chip ink. I punched out the owl using the Two Step Owl Punch and the HB image using the Scallop Square Punch. I added the two images to the card using dimensionals.
Here you can see a close up of the punched images and the Designer Series Paper.
I love clean and simple layouts and will have to check this site more often for sketch challenges.
Bye for now, Kris.
Inspired by Stamping 411
Today I am going to share with you a card I made for this week’s sketch challenge at Stamping 411. I love the sketch and wanted to keep it fairly simple.
I have used Certainly Celery and Whisper White for this card. I will apologise for the poor quality of the photo but it is absolutely pouring down with rain and the light is not the best.
Both pieces of Whisper White have been embossed with the Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folder. On the smaller piece I stamped “thinking of you” from the Three Little Words stampset with Certainly Celery ink prior to embossing. I layered this piece onto Certainly Celery card and attached it to the larger embossed Whisper White card. I wrapped this piece with Certainly Celery 5/8″ Grosgrain Ribbon and then attached the whole piece to a Certainly Celery base card. I stamped the flowers from the Inspired by Nature stampset using Certainly Celery ink onto Whisper White card and cut them out. I added dimensionals to the back of the cut image and attached it to the front of the card over the ribbon.
Hopefully this picture gives you an idea of how I have added the flowers. I had to cut my dimensionals into small pieces to go down the stems and behind the leaves.
I am really pleased with this one. What do you think?
Bye for now, Kris.
Scrap Your Year
I attended a class every month last year to “scrap your year”. This class was run by my downling Sarah (who most of you know is also my eldest daughter). I’m not sure if I have shared any of the pages with you as yet, mainly because I am only just now getting around to adding photos.
The album is A4 and I just love how beautifully all the pages have all turned out.
These are my January pages. January is a busy month with 4 family birthdays. Last year it was also the first year we had anyone in the family start school. So it was a very exciting time.
I am hoping that Sarah will be doing this class again this year so that I can at least have an album which covers the most important events during the year.
I’ll be posting the rest of the year from time to time as I get the photos into the pages.
Bye for now, Kris.
Stamping with Kris 