May Card Club

 May's Stampin' Up card club with Paula of Knall Crafting was all about Papillon Potpourri...everybody else bought Bermuda Bay as their ink for this class but as I already had it I went for a different colour, Real Red, to build my collection up. As well as the ink I also got a reel of Real Red Taffeta Ribbon to play with on my cards.

 All of the cardstock I used was Whisper White and Real Red.

 Ads you can see for most of my cards I decided to use Sassy Salutations, I know it's no surprise as I do love this set so much. For some of the cards I changed which of the larger butterflies I used as well as I prefer the flower print on to the detailed drawn one.

It's cards like this one that make me think I need to get the Flowering Flourishes stamp set as it really is a great set to use.

 For this card we used a circular mask and brought out the Gorgeous Grunge set from the April class and stamped using the smallest of the paint splats before then removing the mask and stamping the stripes over the top. The large butterfly was punched out of plain Whisper White card using the Elegant Butterfly punch and then sponged with ink using daubers. Think this is my favourite card from the class actually.

 This simple yet elegant card using the Simply Scored Scoring Tool for the embossed (or debossed as I chose to use them) lines and happy birthday wishes sentiment from the Petite Pairs stamp set.

 For this card we used the small butterfly silhouette and then the Bitty Butterfly punch to punch it out. Using the card scrap we punched an Elegant Butterfly out of earlier as a mask we could then sponge dauber ink to produce 3 more butterflies 'flying' up the card. The sthank you sentiment comes from the Blooming With Kindness stamp set.

 Once again Paula made us a lovely gift...this time it was an A6 notepad using some of the new watercolour papers for the tag and the tag topper punch too.

New Card Club

I recently found an SU demo that lives a few miles down the road from me, after a few facebook messages I booked on to one of her card classes.. turns out it was her first official class too... exciting!

Slightly different set up to the card classes I normally go to, this time we bought a kit of most of the bits we would need for the class and made all the cards from the same colourscheme and stamp sets. Great way to learn to use a small bundle of bits in different ways to suit different styles of card.

  

We used:

• Petite Petals stamp set
• Petite Petals punch
• Pink Pirouette inkpad
• Chocolate Chip inkpad
• Pink Pirouette cardstock
• Whisper White Cardstock
• Pink Pirouette taffeta ribbon
• Apothecary Accents framelit
• Scallop Tag Topper punch
• Basic Pearl Jewels
• Stripes embossing folder
• Blooming With Kindness stamp set

 

I like trying different card classes, gives me the chance to meet new people and get inspired by the different ways people use the same kit. Quite exciting to find another crafty person so near to home too!

 

Crafty Creations Challenge - Thank You!

Wow it's been a while since I've had a card to join in the Crafty Creations Challenge! This weeks theme is Thank You and I have a crad that fits the bill, this is actually for my Handmade Gift Exchange partner LeeAnn she won't have seen it yet so I hope it doesn't spoil the surprise too much!

For this card I've whipped out my favourite Forever Friends bear stamp and dug out the marvy le plume pens to colour him in. The papers are leftovers from the days that I was on the Kaboodle Doodle DT, shame I've lost all the digital copies of the papers but I had this little piece floating in my scraps box and had to use it!

I just love the bright colours on the card and the ribbon coz it's that funny crepe paper like material and is so easy to work with!

Tall & thin

Here's my entry for 3 of this weeks challenges... Forever Friends 'tall & thin', Dutch Dare Card Challenge 'thank you' and Cutie Sunday 'sketch 27'...
I've used:

• Ribbed skinny card
• Kaboodle Doodle 'Dots' kit paper
• FF bear with heart image
• Watercolour pencils
• Marvy pens
• Pink blossom
• Brown chipboard circle
• Pink stripy ribbon
• White buckle button
• Foam pads
• 'Thank you' whispers word stamp

Thank You

Here's my skinny card as my entry for 2 of this weeks challenges... A Spoon Full Of Sugar 'Thank You' and Dutch Dare Challenge 'Scalloped edges'.
I've used:

• Skinny white ribbed card
• Flower designer paper
• Yellow card
• 2 yellow flowers
• 4 orange buttons
• Green inkpad
• Thank you stamp
• Tilda image (thanks linda)
• Foam pads

CC- Vintage

Here's my entry for this week's Cupcake Craft challenge 'Vintage'.
I've used:

• Cream mottled card
• Vintage script paper
• Gold and brown inkpad
• Decoupage floral and butterfly stickers
• Thank You stamp

Thank You challenge

It's my turn to set the sbs challenge and as it was my birthday yesterday i've picked the theme 'Thank You'.
I've used:

• Coffee marble card
• PB image coloured with marvys
• Flower paper
• Bohemian green ribbon
• Thanks embellishment (from tesco)
• 3 prima flowers
• 3 pearl bead centres

Thank You Challenge

This weeks Papertake Weekly challenge was 'thanks a latte' so i made a thank you card...didn't do the coffee colour theme as i didn't have any cream paper anywhere i my stash :( So i've gone for a more colourful approach instead...; powder blue card, lilac paper, funky fairys doodle download paper, marvy le plume inked flower stamps, squiggle sentiment and a cute image sent to me by donna.... it's been over a week since i used my watercolour pencils...shocking isn't it!

Well and truly bored now as i'm up to date with all the challenges i do regularly and can't think what to dow ith myself....and it's only the first day of the uni summer holidays!!!!!

Thank You Challenge

Thank you card made for this weeks Stamp Something challenge called 'thanks', so here's my effort made using a lilli pink petticoat image, shabby princess backing paper from the splendid download pack, 2 glitter brads and 2 vellum flowers :)