A christmas Sleigh

I have something special to show you today, i hope you love it as much as I do, its a little christmas sleigh.  Its so cute and perfect for a small christmas gift like jewellery, choccies, lots of little sweet things, wrapped in cellophane with a gorgeous tag, what a perfect christmas gift.  There are a couple of other little things on here that I found fun to do:

The gold centres of the poinsettias have been made by:

A. add versamark to brushed gold cardstock

B. tip heat n stick powder over the top and heat until just bubbly

C. Tip champagne glass glitter over the top and then heat set again

D. Now punch out the circles using your 1/2" circle punch.

E. I spritzed the poinsettias with water, heat set, then spritzed again with shimmer paint made into a spritz.

How I made the paper pine cones:

A. Punch out 20 or so chocolate chip circles ( I used 1/2" circle but would be better a fraction smaller)

B. score in half, then using the back of your piercer (or something smaller) make a cup of each circle.

C.  Using a bit of craft wire or the like, pop some glue onto your first circle and wrap it around the top of the wire, then do the same with the rest of the circles in a spiral pattern (to make the tips of the cones odd layered).Layer down the wire until you are happy with the size of your cone.  I made about 5 layers down to create mine.

D. You can keep it on the wire, but i slid my "cone" off, then glued to my project.

I used a die for the inside of a pop up card called sleigh 3D by sizzix, then created a little box for the centre of the two die cuts, measures 10 cm x 7cm scored at 1.5cm all around (really easy).  There are aheap of sleigh templates floating around on the internet though, I could have easily used one of them.

Details:


Ink Pads: Versamark
Cardstock: Riding hood red, Chocolate Chip, Brushed Gold
Punches:5 petal flower, 1/2" circle punch, build a bird punch
Tools:Big shot machine, sizzix sleigh 3D (for inside of a card) die, heat gun, powder pal tray, crimper
Other:twine, heat n stick, champagne glass glitter, mix of frost white shimmer paint and isocol to create a spritz.

Thank you cards....

I have some lovely customers who order our fantastic products online only, and so that they don't miss out I send them a thank you card in the post with their receipts, this is the current card.  This card could be changed around by colour or sentiment, making it an effective card for any reason.

Details:

Stamp Sets: Faith in Nature (hostess only)
Ink Pads: lucky limeade
Cardstock:whisper white, lucky limeade
Punches: lace  ribbon border punch, modern label and word window punches
Tools:sponges
Other: white gel pen, basic rhinestones.

A scrapbooking thank you.......

This was a thank you gift and card for a scrapbooking class I did a few weeks ago, we had 9 lovely ladies doing double layouts, and I thought they all deserved a sweet treat after that lol, so they received this little card and also the petite pocket which held a freddo frog inside, the pocket was decorated with our new big top birthday designer series paper and a stamp from under the big top, was watercoloured and then popped onto a dimensional and that held it closed.  Pretty cute I think.

Details:

Stamp Sets:Under the big top
Ink Pads: tempting turquiose, real red, daffodil delight
Cardstock:whisper white, real red, daffodil delight
DSP: big top birthday
Punches: scallop border punch, large square punch
Tools: big shot machine, petite pocket die
Other: sticky strip, dimensionals, aqua painter, blender pen.

A christmas card

I was lucky enough to win a free pass to this round of Inkspirations 4 U from the lovely Andrea from EnchantINK, thank you Andrea and Madeline, It is going to be fun.  Anyway this first card is a card I have made for the first inkpiration 4 u sketch challenge for the round.

Details:

Stamp Sets: Snow swirled, music notes stampin wheel
Ink Pads: crumb cake, wild wasabi
Cardstock:cherry cobbler, very vanilla, wild wasabi
Punches:eyelet border punch, curly label punch
Tools: cutter with scoring blade
Other: glass glitter, crystal effects.

Happy 11th Anniversary

I can't believe we have been together 19 years, and married for 11 years, where has the time gone?  It seems to be flying at a rate I can't slow down.  Well today is our wedding anniversary and I wanted to make you a card that wasn't too girly, happy anniversary my love, 

Details:

Stamp Sets:sense of time, seasons of joy, a word for you, music note stampin around
Ink Pads: very vanilla craft pad (no longer available), early espresso, crumb cake
Cardstock: Crumb cake, early espresso, very vanilla
Tools: paper piercer and mat pack, cutter kit, stampin around handle, sponge
Other: silver brads, clear block, snail.

Happy Birthday Shelli

Our Stampin' Up! CEO Shelli Gardner is having a milestone birthday so demos worldwide have been sending cards all month to surprise her. So while I love vintage more than anything, I also have fallen in love with the fun and energy of the the new stamp set under the big top, and the matching DSP, so what better way to celebrate a birthday then with some fun bright colours and stamps.

Inside of the card:

 Close up of the card, a small rosette with the elephant stamp on the top, stamp set perfectly penned sentiment "happy Birthday", white gel pen to add highlights to the yellow scalloped border.

Happy Birthday Shelli!

Happy Happy Birthday

Its one of my downlines birthdays today, Happy Birthday Jay, I hope you enjoy your day.  Well I couldn't NOT make her a card could I lol, so to mark this great occasion I decided to break out some new rubber - yippee, and here is my card for you Jay, hope you like :)

A close up of the layering in the centre

the inside of the card:

Details:

Stamp Sets:Delicate Doilies, Happiest birthday wishes(hostess only)

Ink Pads: Crumb cake, Early espresso, soft suede

Cardstock: Soft suede, very vanilla, basic black

Punches: Triple layer doily punch, 1 3/4" circle punch, lace ribbon border punch, scallop eyelet punch

Tools:paper piercer and mat pack, water spritzer, sponge

Other: vintage brads, dimensionals, sticky strip, snail.

Congratulations....

I had a team member promote to a significant position recently, so I had to mark the occasion with a handmade card for her to celebrate her accomplishment.  Here is the card:

Got to love the new stamp set "under the big top" and the matching DSP is just too fun for words.

Happy 40th Birthday...

Happy Happy 40th birthday for yesterday to my BIL, I hope you have a fantastic night tonight, its sure is going to be fun lol.  Here is the card i made for him!

Inside of the card, even the little squares on the left have been cut out.

I think this is the only male card I will get away using pretty ribbon lol.

Details:

Stamp Sets:Bring on the cake
Ink Pads: Soft suede, real red, black stampin write marker.
Cardstock: Crumb cake, Whisper white
Tools:  Cropadile, craft knife, circle scissor plus and glass mat
Other:black taffeta ribbon,

A big Welcome.....

I thought I would send my new recruits (they should have them by now so I can post lol) a welcome card to say hello and to welcome them to my basic INKstinct team, and what better stamp set to use then the fabulous set called "Under the big top"  I must say its becoming one of my fave sets at the moment (well non vintage sets lol).  Here it is:

I rolled the stem of the windmill by using a piece of cardstock, rolling it until it became a cylinder, then glued it together then glued to card, hopefully it stayed round once it went through the post lol.  I also added one of our new glitter brads to the centre of it.  Love those.

Details:

Stamp Sets:  Under the big top, fabulous phrases
Ink Pads: Tempting turquoise, Real red, daffodil delight marker, real red marker, tempting turquoise marker
Cardstock:Whisper white, daffodil delight, real red
DSP:Big top birthday
Punches: scallop border punch
Tools: thin paint brush to roll the stem of the pinwheel, paper piercer and mat
Other: glimmer brad.

A post it note pad

Here is a post it note pad, In rich razzleberry and white and using the snow swirled stamp set its a little cutie.

 I think the outside was a pretty good match for the inside, I actually bought the note pad printed as it is, and thought snow swirled stamp set was a perfect choice for the outside decoration. What do you think?

Details:

Stamp Sets:  snow swirled

Ink Pads:Rich razzleberry,  blushing bride

Cardstock: rich razzleberry, whisper white

Tools: stamp a ma jig, cutter with scoring blade

Other: basic gemstones.

A watercolouring technique class

My lovely ladies who do my technique classes have a watercolouring class this month.  There were 3 types of ways I showed them how to watercolour as below:

Watercolouring with watercolour pencils and an aqua painter: 

 Watercolouring with ink and a blender pen:

 Watercolouring with blender pens and stampin' chalks.

A lego man Card

My son had a lego birthday party to go to a little while back, so I had to make a lego card for him, I got the punch shape lego man off of Evonne Yamazaki - another Stampin' Up! demonstrator.

The Front of the Card:

The inside of the card:

Lots of crystal effects on this one - head, hands, legs, number 5 and the two yellow blocks.

Details:

Stamp Sets: Party this way
Ink Pads: Pacific point
Cardstock: Baja breeze, Real red, daffodil delight, whisper white, basic black
Punches:owl builder punch, 1/2" circle punch, square punch, modern label punch, 1" circle punch
Tools: Big shot machine, dots embossing folder, timeless type alphabet die
Other: twine, black stampin' write marker.

A hostess Gift

Here is my latest gift for a hostess who held her first big shot workshop last month, at my home, It was a lovely afternoon, Here is a picture of her gift from me.

A box of 4 christmas tags

Details:

Stamp Sets: Four frames, Bingo background stamp, Jolly Bingo Bits, Tags til Christmas
Ink Pads: Riding hood  red, Old olive, Chocolate chip
Cardstock: Crumb cake, Old olive
DSP:Letters to Santa DSP
Punches:Scalloped border punch, Decorative label punch
Tools: Big shot machine, elegant lines embossing folder (used on front of box), box #2 die, cropadile, crimper, sponge
Other:riding hood red tafetta, chocolate chip dotted scalloped ribbon, neutrals button, twine