Wedding Card

 When Mum came over to go to the rugby match the other weekend she realised she needed a wedding card for a friend, for the following friday...good thing I have a stash of cards ready for these short notice orders!
I had a card I'd started at a Stampin' Up training day that I didn't like the embellishments that had been used on the sample so I just stamped the sentiment and background and left the card blank for whatever occasion I may need a congratulations card for... well a wedding seems a pretty good opportunity to use this card.

 I used my favourite wedding stamp (not a Stampin Up item) and left it colourless to keep the card subtle. We then decided the card needed a little bling around the edges so I added a few SU Basic Pearl Jewels for good measure.
 

April Card Club

 So April's card club was all about playing with the new SU colours and focusing on a stamp set...

As always Paula made a gift for attending her class, this time we got a little acetate box with 5 chocolate eggs in it. The bow was made using the Envelope Punch Board and the flower came from Petite Petals, a set used in the class a couple months ago.

This month's Stamp set was Gorgeous Grunge... 

Made using:

• Whisper white cardstock
• Coastal cabana cardstock
• Chevron border punch
• Strawberry slush ink
• Coastal cabana ink
• Baked brown sugar ink
• Sassy Salutations stamp set

Made using:

• Whsiper white cardstock
• Crisp canteloupe cardstock
• Crisp canteloupe ink
• Baked brown sugar ink
• Strawberry slush ink
• Sassy Salutations satmp set

Made using:

•  Whisper white cardstock
•  Baked brown sugar ink
• Pistachio pudding ink
• Crisp canteloupe ink
• Strawberry slush ink
• Coastal cabana ink
• Sassy Salutations stamp set
  

Made using:

•  Whisper white cardstock
• Pistachio pudding cardstock
• Baked brown sugar ink
• Pistachio pudding ink
• Crisp canteloupe ink
• Strawberry slush ink
• Sassy Salutations stamp set
  

Made using:

• Whisper white cardstock
• Strawberry slush cardstock
• Crisp canteloupe ink
• Pistachio pudding ink
• Strawberry slush ink
• Coastal cabana ink
• Baked brown sugar ink
• Sassy Salutations stamp set

 

March Card Club

 Here's some of the makes from March's card club.. I'm missing one project as I lost the phot when the old laptop died and we ate the choclate eggs that were in the sweetie bag...

First off is a note card made using: 

• Watercolour Wonder Designer Note Cards
• Too Kind stamp set
• Soft suede
• Chocolate chip
• Garden Green

  

Next up a 3d card...

Made using:

• Blossom Punch
• Crystal Effects
• Large Rhinestone Basic Jewels
• Mixed Bunch stamp set
• Decorative Dots embossing folder

These flowers on coffee stirrers were poking out of an acetate bag full of chocloate eggs originally...

Made using:

• Flower shop stamp set
• Raspberry Ripple
• Bermuda Bay

Elephant Make Up Bag

Been trying to get myself a little organised on the birthday presents front, a few ladies I call friends will be getting fabric goodies for their presents this year....

I started with the smallest fabric make as it can be the most frustrating to get right, pesky zips never sew in quite how I want them the first time...

Saw this elephant fabric as a fat quarter at a craft show and just had to have it, made this make up bag/pouch from it and still have loads left over, think I can squeeze another 2 pouches out of it too :)

 

Love the bright colours of the fabric and the lining fabric inside is a coordinating red flowery patterned fabric...forgot to sew one of my homemade labels in before I sewed the lining together so I shall have to handstitch it in before I give the pouch away as a present...

Next up is a few tote bags for friends and perhaps matching make up pouches too...

Anniversary Card

Running a bit behind on blog posting again..my old laptop has died, motherboard fried so it's off for data rescue at the mo, so no I'm starting over with a new laptop and have lost all the photos of projects I was going to share :(   Here's the card I made my boyfriend for our 5 year anniversary at the end of March...

Been waiting to use this Tatty Teddy stamp for ages and this seemed the perfect occasion to ink it up. Instead of colouring the hearts in I decided to heat emboss them with red powder instead. For the background I embossed white card but then flipped it over so the card had a debossed effect, which is really effective with this embossing folder. Even managed to get turquoise (my fave colour) involved with the glittery turquoise card I used for the main card body.    

Baby Cards

It seems this year everyone is starting or growing their family and having children...so I've been making cards for the people we know who have recently had their baby or are due soon..

 This one was for some friends who recently had their first child, a little girl. The hand prints fitted prefectly into the Top Notes Bigz die with a piece of pink pirouette ribbon to finish it off.

This one's for a little boy due very soon... Love the effect of turning the embossed card over for the background, looks so cool.

This is for my friend and his wife who had their second little girl this week. Love the effect of only embossing halfway up the white cardstock then separating it with a piece of ribbon.

I love the SU Baby Prints stamp set, I think the footprints are better than the hands though both are sweet. 

The girl cards have been made using pink pirouette ribbon and pink pink pirouette ink. All the papers, card and embossing folders used are non SU.

SU Wreath Class

Something  a bit different at last week's card club...wreath making... SU Burlap and Blooms wreath kit.

Here's what the kit looked like before we started, it came with everything we needed, apart from a hot glue gun...

 Not being one to replicate the design given with kits I moved a few flowers around and changed what colour flowers went where. I even managed to wrap the wreath blank with burlap and have a fair bit left over on the reel to use another day!

 Here's a close up of the flowers. Can't believe the fringed flowers all came out different sizes even though they were made using the same papers.

 As always Paula made us a gift for coming to her class... this month we got a little gift bag made using the Tag Topper Punch and Sweet Sorbet Sale-a-bration papers..with a little post it note booklet inside. Each bag and post it note book had the initial of the recipients name on it.

 

Makes a nice change to do something non card making at an SU class :)

Molly Coddles Kitchen Stud Club Review

Rebecca from Molly Coddles Kitchen sent me a 3 month sample pack of her new Stud Club subscription available from her etsy shop. I'm already a fan of Rebecca's earrings and I own a pair of every colour of the lego studs and a set of lego head studs with aviator glasses.

This is what my 3 month package looked like when I opened it. All colourful and labelled up for each month with stickers and tapes on the front.

Inside each pack was a printed letter giving me details of stud club and a discount code for inviting a friend to join up too.

My January pack came with a set of lilac bows on clear plastic stems, great for those who have reactions to certain metals used on earring posts, and a set of small metal spike earrings. There was also a little bonus sheet of stickers to play with too.

I pinched some photos from Rebecca's etsy shop so you could get a better view of some of the earrings I received.

For February I got 3 pairs of lego stud earrings, love them, total fan and as I mentioned already I own a pair of these in every colour. These are now my spares as I'm bound to lose a pair or the odd earring at some point. Rebecca does say in her printouts that you can/should give the earrings as a gift if you already have a pair you receive but I like these ones too much to share lol. There was also a pack of love hearts in the Feb pack as a Valentines gift.

The March pack was a chunky one... Not only were there 2 pairs of earrings there was a button ring too. The turquoise roses were my favourite pair from the 3 mystery packs...so much so I wore them for days and days and sadly lost one, so I'll be ordering another set when they get listed in the etsy shop!

Here's a pic of the cute little teddy studs, I struggled to get a good pic so I've used one from etsy again. Rebecca has a variety of cute little animal studs like these, I also really like the little frogs she has listed in her etsy shop.              I only changed one thing about the earrings from how they were delivered and that was swapping the butterfly backs for tube style backs. That's just my personal preference as I regularly lose butterfly back brushing my hair or at work then I lose the earrings.   I think Stud Club is a great idea for anyone who likes quirky, unusual earrings that you don't pick up in main street shops and would make a wonderful present for someone too. £11 for 6months or £22 for a year really is a bargain!  

Dishawasher Scrabble Magnet

This super simple project has been sat on my Pinterest to do list for so long now, can't believe I never got round to doing something so quick and easy.

   I used some thick cardboard, a magnetic strip off an old, broken fridge magnet, scrabble tiles and a hot glue gun.

 Don't forget to lay the letters out in the correct orientation before you start glueing them down, the words have to be upside down to each other otherwise it won't work properly when u spin the magnet round.
Now there's no excuses for the dishwasher to not get put on when it's full or emptied when the cycles finished as the magnet pretty much says it all.
Got a few more scrabble tile project ideas in the pipeline too, think I'd better start looking for more surplus tiles to play with.    

Handbag Birthday Card Order

I've recently completed and posted an order for a 30th birthday card. The customer asked for something personal that suited their daughter and gave me the following details to work from:

Becky is turning 30, likes shoes and handbags and her birthstone is aquamarine. 

So this is what I came up with...

 I made a handbag shaped card, used aquamarine coloured gems to form a 30 and made a happy birthday using a text die. I used the Stampin Up Top Note Bigz die for the bag flap and a chunky metal button to replicate the bag clasp. To make it personal to Becky I wrote her name on both ends of the bag strap to look like stitching.

Not forgetting the fact the Becky also loves shoes I used the Stampin Up Fabulous You stamp set to stamp this beautiful floral shoe on the card insert. I really love this shoe stamp it's so pretty! 

The customer really liked the card when it arrived with her so lets hope Becky likes it just as much too!