'Happy Birthday' to my Husband

Today is my wonderful Husbands birthday...and of course I had to make him a card.  I have to admit male cards are the ones I find the hardest to do, I am sure you know what I mean...LOL.  SO this is what I came up with.

I have fallen back to my old faithful set Lovely as A Tree. This set can be used for any occasion. This card is a 5.5 x 5.5 inch card. using Close to Cocoa, Punpkin Pie and Chocolate Chip colours.

I also made a holder for some gift vouchers that I gave him.

Again using the same colours to make it a matching set, but a different stamp from the set. 

and a photo of them together as a set.

Although I have used this set as a Male birthday, don't forget Fathers Day is coming soon.... it would be a great set for any Dad.  May even do this set again in different colours for my Dad...so do check back and see what I do.

Supplies:
Stamps: Lovely as A Tree, Solid Stripes, A Bit of Birthday Cheer
Card: Chocolate Chip, Pumpkin Pie, Whisper White
Ink: Close to Cocoa, Chocolate Chip

Friends Birthday

This little card was created for a friend who celebrated their birthday Monday.

3D flowers on cards are big at the moment and I have been wanting to try out these flowers for a long time. So easy to make yet so striking. You will be seeing more of them on my cards, that I am sure of.

Supplies:
Stamps: Sincere Salutations
Card: Rose Red, Basic Black, Whisper White
Ink: Basic Black,
Paper: Night and Day
Accessories: Eyelet Border Punch, Scallop Circle, Clear Rhinestone Brad, Stitched Felt

There is still one spot available on the ribbon and paper share here, if anyone is interested.  Contact me to book.

Unexpected time for stamping

The cricket and outdoor bowls season has started, which means I am taxi driver most weekends and evenings for my son. But today the weather has stopped play...... LOL, so guess what, MUM can play in her craft room.
This is the good side of the tale, the bad side is, it was my turn to do the Cricket tea today, so I am left with loads of food. Good job I made sure the dates on the cakes etc where OK for a couple of more weeks, so will keep until the next home game, when guess who will be doing the tea!

The weather here in Norfolk, is Rain, Rain and more Rain, trouble is it is soooooo coooold as well. It feels like December again. But I turned up the heater in the craft room and came up with these. Same design, just different colours.

Chocolate Chip and Bashful Blue

Apricot Appeal and White

Only Orange and White

Brocade Blue and White

Supplies:
Stamps: Bella Toile, Touch of Nature, Thank You Kindly, A Bit of Birthday Cheer, Sincere Salutations.
Ink: Chocolat Chip, Appricot Appeal, Only Orange, Brocade Blue
Card: Chocolate Chip, Bashful Blue

The Ribbon and Paper share posted here is very popular.  If you would like to own ribbon and paper in the new colours but don't wish to buy them all as once this may be for you.  Email me to book your place.

Ribbon and Paper Share

Get a sample of these new products without having to buy it all....
Why not join my Ribbon and Designer Paper share.

You receive

3 metres Melon Mambo ribbon

3 metres Rich Razzleberry ribbon

3 metres Soft Suede ribbon

12 sheets of 6x6 Cottage Wall papers

All for the price of £9.95 which includes postage to you.
 
If you would like a place in the share, then please contact me as soon as possible.

11 New Products

This is the May offer from Stampin' Up! and guess what, they are new colours as well.......

Arn't they just beautiful. And yes that is Polka Dot Ribbon you see, however the ribbon, the 'Cottage Wall' Designer Paper and the 'Flower Fantasy' Window Sheets are only available while stocks last!  The Ink Pads and Card Stock will be included in the upcoming Idea Book and Catalogue (October).

I am loving these colours and will be placing my order straight away....If you would like any of these lush new products then please contact me to place your order.

Flight of the Butterfly

This card was made for the sketch challenge over at Splitcoast Stampers. (SC277).  Sketches are one of my favourite challenges, closely followed by Colour Combo's.

I decided to use my Flight of the Butterfly stamp set as I wanted to experiment with using vellum as wings of the butterfly. I stamped the pretty flower wings with Versamark ink then sprinkled white embossing powder over and melted with heat gun then used the butterfly punch to punch out the wings.
Here is a close up of the butterfly.

The smaller butterfly has also been stamped with Rose Red ink onto the Vellum and layered onto the white embossed wings. 

Supplies:
Stamps: Flight of the Butterfly, Occasional Greetings
Card: Pretty in Pink, Rose Red, White Vellum
Ink: Versamark
Accessories: Tea Party DP, White Embossing Powder, Butterfly Punch, Rose Red & Regal Rose Markers

I am busy making cards for swaps at our SU Training Event at Peterborough on Sunday.  It is such a difficult task as there are going to be so many tallented demo's there and I always feel mine don't come up to scratch.  So please pop back early next week to see what I came up with.

Recruiting Promotion

If you have been thinking about becoming a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator, now is a great time to do it....
To co-inside with the Hobbycrafts Show anyone who joins between 23rd April and 7th May will recieve 10% discount off the Starter Kit. Your kit will cost £125 instead of the normal £139. What a bargin!

Being a stampin' Up! Demonstrator is a flexible, fun business you can build to suit your needs and desires which you can adjust for you. Whether you just want to sell to family and friends or turn it into a full viable business.

Interested, please contact me for a friendly chat where I can fill you in with the details and answer any questions you many have. 
But remember, the offer finishes 7th May.

Exciting Changes

Exciting Changes are happening in the Stampin’ Up! world

Stampin’ Up! are revamping their colour families. I am so excited about this I wanted to share with you all as soon as I could. So what are they going to look like. Here is a chart listing the families.

And look, there are some of the in-colours that we in the UK where so envious of our US sisters at having. Plus we will be having 5 new in-colours (details of these have not been released yet)

To allow for these exciting changes, some colours will be retiring:- Here is a list of the casualties.

Now the new colour families will arrive here in the UK on the 1st October in the new catalogue, so if there are any retiring colours that you love and are on your must have list, or you have any of the colours and require a set of re-inkers, then you have six months to stock up …… I know there are a few colours I am sad to see on the list and will be stocking up on.

If you have any questions or would like to place an order please email me.

Curtain Call Colour Challenge: Act 24

The Curtain Call Color Challenge: Act 24 over at Stacey's Stamping Stage is:-

I had some crafting time in my cabin yesterday, so decided to give it a go. I do find myself quite often duplicating my favourite colour combo's on my papercrafting so doing colour challenges like this take me out of my comfort zone and make me use some of those often passed by colours. This combo did just that. I often use Kraft and Tempting Turquise, but Garden Green is often passed for my favourite Old Olive or Certainly Celery.  Must say, I really enjoyed using this green and will be using it more often on my projects.
So here is my card for the challenge.

I have used my favourite stamp set from the new Mini Catalogue, VINTAGE VOGUE. It doesn't seem to matter what colour you use with this set, it always looks fab. 

Supplies:
Stamps: Vintage Vogue, A bit of Birthday cheer
Card: Whisper White, Garden Green, Karft
Ink: So Saffron, Garden Green, Tempting Turquoise
Accesstories, So Saffron brads, White Taffata Ribbon

Chocolate bar wrapper

Happy Easter to all my readers.

I have been busy the last few days getting my Easter cards and presents made. Why oh why do I always leave it to the last minute. LOL
I decided this year that buying Easter Eggs was a waste of money. For what you have to pay for them you get very little chocolate!! so I bought a big bar of Cadbury Milk Chocolate for everyone and made a wrapper for each of them.

I decided to use Elegant Eggplant card to match the wrapper colour and Whisper white. The fabulous bird is from the Good Freind stamp set, stamped in Elegant Eggplant ink onto Whisper white card, then cut around and layered onto the wrapper. Didn't take me long to put these together, thank goodness.
Here is a close up of one of the bars.

I also made some easter cards using the new Bird Punch just launched in the mini catalogue.

Well the long bank holiday break is nearly over, enjoy the rest of this Bank Holiday Monday and I will be back soon with more cards I have been creating today, while Hubby has been in the garden. 
Bye for now

Carole x