In Love With Stamping Sale-A-Bration Blog Hop

If you've arrived from Jo's blog - welcome to my stop in the blog hop. If you're starting here, just click on the link at the end of my post and then follow each of the links on the following blogs posts on the hop, and you'll end up back here again.


My first card uses a greeting from the Whimsical Wishes set. A very simple card with the candle from Big Bold Birthday, Tempting Turquoise Card, and designer paper from the Kaleidoscope pack. The ink colours are: Tempting Turquoise, Green Galore, Orchid Opulence and Lovely Lilac. A little paper piercing along the turquoise card to finish.




My second project is a little card box measuring 10.5cm square. It houses six 9.5cm square cards and their matching envelopes nicely. The Sale-A-Bration set I've used here is Vintage Labels - my favourite of the four SAB sets I think. The swirly stamp from this set is framed just perfectly by the Hodgepodge Hardware frame. Very simple colour scheme of Old Olive and Very Vanilla - the paper is from the Old Olive designer series pack. Some 5/8" Old Olive grosgrain to finish on top of a strip of vanilla punched with the Eyelet Border Punch. I have a tutorial for making the box here on my blog.




The box houses six little note cards - two of each design. All using the same Vintage Labels set.

Both of these Sale-A-Bration sets can be earned free from Stampin' Up! Click on the image to download a pdf of the brochure.




Thank you for stopping by. Your next stop is Kim Fee's blog here.

Simply Said in Plum Sketch Challenge Card

Card/Paper: Very Vanilla, Perfect Plum, Pale Plum Card
Ink: Perfect Plum & Pale Plum Ink
Stamps: Simply Said
Other: Dazzling Diamonds and 2 Way Glue Pen
Card Size: 15cm x 10.5cm (approx 4" x 6")

Method:

Another challenge card from the ILWS January Cup challenge - this time the sketch challenge.

Limited Supplies Challenge Card

Ingredients:

Card/Paper: Whisper White, Tempting Turquoise
Ink: Pink Passion, Lovely Lilac, Green Galore, Only Orange, Tempting Turquoise
Stamps:Big Bold Birthday
Other: Mat Pack and Paper Piercer
Card Size: 15cm x 10.5cm (approx 4" x 6")

Method:

This is another card from the In Love With Stamping challenge night. This one was for the limited supplies challenge. We could only use one stamp set, along with ink and card stock and no embellishments at all.

In Love With Stamping Colour Challenge Card

Ingredients:

Card/Paper: Old Olive, Whisper White, Bashful Blue, Apricot Appeal, Cameo Coral, Pretty in Pink, Regal Rose, Old Olive Prints DP
Ink: Old Olive
Stamps: Occasional Greetings
Other:Flat backed pearls
Card Size: 15cm x 10.5cm (approx 4" x 6")

Method:

At the beginning of January In Love With Stamping had a challenge evening, and I managed to reserve the evening and participate. A tough challenge for me 'cos I'm not a quick card maker, and only having one hour to make and upload a card was a lot of pressure for me! Making decisions is my problem - would this look better than that, what stamp set shall I use . .and so on! Anyway - I did manage to keep up - just about. Just took me two and a half weeks to get round to posting the cards on my blog!

Here is the colour challenge card that I made. We had to use all of the above colours in a card.

At last - a card!

Ingredients:

Card/Paper: Almost Amethyst, Certainly Celery, Whisper White, Tea Party Designer Paper
Ink: Almost Amethyst, Certainly Celery, Whisper White Craft Ink
Stamps: Flight of the Butterfly, Oval All, Vintage Labels
Other: White Gel Pen, Certainly Celery 5/8" Grosgrain Ribbon
Card Size: 13.5cm x 13.5cm (approx 5" x 5")

Method:

Hope you were sitting down when you discovered there was a card on my blog! Not much card making has been going on here for a while, so as I made one yesterday I thought I ought to pop it on. This is for my eldest daughter's birthday tomorrow.

The background is both sides of the same piece of designer paper. I used the Eyelet Border punch to make the lacey strip behind the ribbon. On the punched oval I used my Certainly Celery marker to ink up just the flower part of the Oval All stamp, so that I could then stamp the Happy Birthday in place of the greeting that should have been there.

For the three little green flowers at the top of the card, I stamped the single flower from Flight of the Butterfly in Whisper White Craft ink onto the designer paper to give me a white base - onto which I coloured with a Certainly Celery marker, and finally outlined with a white gel pen.

Snowy Garden

I couldn't resist posting a couple of pictures of our garden in the snow yesterday - it was about 8 inches deep in places!

This was the view from my bedroom window in the morning.

Out of the patio doors from the room where I have my crafting desk.

Amy showing how deep the snow is.

Polka Dot Flower Wave

This is a card I made a little while back, but was unable to photograph until the other day. It uses different colours of Doodlebug polka dotted paper, punched using an EK success punch. A little shaping with an embossing stylus to curve the petals, and then a circle of polka dot paper and a clear gem for the centres. The card is a lined texture, and I drew a rough curve on the black polka dotted paper before cutting out and sticking onto the base card. The sentiment is from my stash, stamped in black on a die cut oval which I ran the brush tip of a black marker around to give a bit of a frame.

Snowflake Flower Topped Bauble

This is the final one of the cards from the class last Wednesday. It's the one we did in the morning, and all the flowers are made from punched snowflakes. The bauble is cut from Bazzill using a circle die, and then stamped with a flourish stamp using Versamark and heat embossed with gold powder. A little bit of sponging in brown around the edges to give a bit of dimension. The top 'hanger' part of the bauble is a circle punched out of gold card - I did trim the bottom of it using a fancy border punch, and was quite pleased with how it looked - but then ended up covering it with the flowers! The fern leaf is a Leone Em punch. The centres of the flowers are either red or gold Stickles, or gold liquid pearls.

We had a bit of extra time, so made a tag to match.

Watercoloured Lilac Butterfly

This is another card from my class at the Glitter Pot last week. It uses a different butterfly from the same Hero Arts set, which has been coloured using markers scribbled onto a tile, and the colour picked up with a water brush. I then added some extra black lines and dots with the fine point of a marker, and some lilac gems. The photo doesn't show it very well, but the butterfly has been cut out, and the wings popped up in the same way as the one on yesterday's card.
The background was stamped using a flourish stamp and lilac ink - stamped off once first to make it paler. I drew the butterfly trail lightly in pencil, then added the black dots before erasing the pencil line.

Finished off with a strip of lilac card, stripy Doodlebug paper punched with a Martha Stewart punch, and a gorgeous sheer lilac ribbon with swirls printed on it.

Sadly, I did a bad job with my photography on the cards from this class, and I no longer have them as they have been left behind in the shop on display. This card is much fresher and prettier looking than the photo shows!

Paper Pieced Butterfly and Flowers

This is one of the cards the ladies made at my class at the Glitter Pot on Wednesday. It uses Hero Arts stamps and My Mind's Eye Beloved papers. The flower image is stamped onto white card, and the leaves painted using a watercolour marker scribbled onto a tile, and then a water brush to pick up the colour. The stamped image includes the frame, and after painting the whole thing was cut out using scissors, and trimming around the leaves and flowers where they project beyond the frame. The flowers are paper pieced using the same designer paper as the backing for the card. The larger flower was cut out twice so that it could be layered - had a little bit of shaping as well with an embossing tool.

The butterfly is also paper pieced - the hearts on the inner wings are the reverse of the yellow polka dot paper. His body and antennae were inked up using a black marker, and stamped on the background before sticking on the cut out image with the wings popped up. See here for how I like to pop up my butterfly wings.

Finished off with some doodling around the edges, a punched lace strip, some stripy sheer ribbon, and three little punched hearts with clear gem centres. Click on the image to enlarge for more detail.