NEW PRODUCT SAMPLES!! May 6, 2009

Here are some cards made using new stamps and in-colours.                                                                                                         

  

 The beer image is from the “Cheers to you” stamp set and I’ve coloured it with markers and aqua painters. Please forgive my colouring outside the lines! I also used some “Good morning sunshine” DSP for these samples. The base card is Summer Sun layered with Chocolate Chip and the DSP. The scallop around the beer is Pacific Point, which was the same colour I used to ink up the “cheers to you” sentiment.

The second card is very similar but I used a base card of kiwi kiss layered with Summer Sun and the DSP.

I will have more samples to show you over the next few days, as well as 2 very exciting special offers for the month of May, so stay tuned!

A christening card April 16, 2009

Hi again… 3 posts in one day, I’m on a roll!

Here is a Christening card I made for a special little boy in our life- little Fletcher who you can see if you scroll back a ew posts. I got the idea for this card from a card on Sarah Klass’ blog. To get the cross image firstly I  made up a reverse mask by cutting a cross out of a piece of cardstock using my paper cutter. I positioned the mask over the vanilla cardstock, and then I rolled the so swirly wheel over it in certainly celery, and being careful not to move the mask, I sponged it with bashful blue ink, leaving behind the cross image. I jazzed it up with a bit of dazzling diamonds by going over the swirls with the 2-way glue pen, and sprinkling the glitter over the top, then dusting off the excess. The sentiment is “best wishes” from the short and sweet set punched out the oval punch. I also wheeled so swirly all over the base card, and used some certainly celery ribbon, another ribbon from my pre-stampin up stash and some hodgepodge. I’m quite happy with the end result.

Elite Challenge SC20 April 16, 2009

I thought I’d play along with the sketch challenge on the Elite Stampers website. This is my creation:

I have to say this is my favourite colour combo at the moment… chocolate chip, pumpkin pie and rose red. Stamps used were baroque motifs and wonderful favourites. I had some of the square chocolate chip envelopes left over from the carousel notes pack, and needed to make a wedding card for a workmate which is big enough for all of us to sign. And hence this little beauty was born. Being a wedding card, I wanted to add a bit of bling, so I’ve clear embossed the swirly image. I also stamped and clear embossed the flower image onto rose red cardstock, and punched out with the scallop punch. I then layered this onto a pumpkin pie die-cut flower that I paper-pierced around the edges. I secured the two together with a fancy lil silver brad from the hodgepodge hardware. It’s hard to see in the photo, but the brad has a flower image on it, with a flat part in the centre, so I blinged it up with a few drops of crystal effects and sprinkled dazzling diamonds over it while it was still wet. I adhered the flower to the card with a stampin dimensional to pop it up a bit. Add some  ribbon, the sentiment and the scallop edge and voila! I love this card. I think it’s very pretty, even if I do say so myself. Please tell me what you think…

Retiring List Party Make-and-takes March 18, 2009

These are the projects that we will be making on Saturday night.

Crab & Co. sand shaker card:

 

 

Like it a Latte dazzling embossed card:

 

Pumpkin Pie Prints 2-4-6-8 box

 

Come along on Saturday night at 7pm and make all of these for just $10! Email me ASAP if you’d like to come along. I’d love to see some new faces there!

Cheers, Sally

Some scrappin’ March 11, 2009

Hi there. Just wanted to share with you some scrapbook pages that I’ve achieved recently. I say achieved because it is a mammoth effort for me to get any scrapbooking done these days, so when I do it feels like a major achievement!

 

For the first page I used some carousel notes (from the summer mini) for the tree, and cut a trunk free-hand. I stamped the trunk with the textured stamp from the soon to be retired hostess set “Oh so Lovely”. The little “be happy” was from another hostess set “so many sayings”  which is also retiring. The birdie was from the “Always” set which was in the spring mini. I hope this set makes it into the main catalogue cos I do love it so! The title was done using big deal  alphabet, and simple serif mini. As you can see I did some journalling inside the “O” by stamping the memo stamp set from “office accoutrement” (also retiring), punching this out with a circle punch, adding the handwritten details and sticking it to the O. I also used some anchored rubons (retiring too!) and silver hodgepodge to finish it off. The colours were wild wasabi, chocolate chip, bashful blue and ruby red. Wow I didn’t realise how much was retiring until now! 

 

For the second page I started with a Basic Gray textured CS. I wheeled the classic stars wheel in night of navy over some whisper white cs, and stuck this down. I then inked the star wheel up straight from my so saffron inkpad and wheeled again over some whisper white. I cut out some individual saffron stars and stuck these over the navy ones with some stampin dimensionals. For the film strip I used the double rectangle punch along both of the so saffron cs, and mounted this to a strip of night of navy. The “original” is from the ”office accoutrement” set and so is the memo stamp. Plus some more anchored rubons and big deal alpha again for the title. I had been wanting to the ”film strip” effect for ages, and thought this little photo shoot was perfect for it! 

Hope you like. Please feel free to leave a comment

Welcome Baby! March 7, 2009

Well, I don’t actually have a baby to welcome, but i have got a card ready to go should any of my friends have a baby girl any time in the near future! (hint hint, nudge nudge). I made this “Onesie” card (as they call it in America) using the instructions on Lauren Meader’s blog. I know lots of people have done their version of this card, but it’s so darn cute I had to do it too!  And it’s surprisingly easy to make. Check out Lauren’s instructions at http://laurenm.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2008/02/05/create-your-own-onesie-card-tutorial-and-important-note-please-read/

and why not have a go yourself. If you do make one, please send me a piccy so I can have a look.

For my card I used whisper white and rose red CS, rose red and pretty in pink ink, the scallop and circle punches, and the stamps were “short and sweet” and “in the spotlight” hostess set.

Thanks for looking

Ocean Commotion Make-and-takes February 7, 2009

What a great day I’ve had. I managed to go to the gym, walk the dog, wash the dog, take Mason to the park AND do some blogging. OMG. And I don’t even feel like I rushed around to do it all. The only thing missing is some stamping, so hopefully I’ll get to do some of that tonight and my day will be complete! Anyway, enough of that and onto some stamping stuff….

 

These are the projects I designed for the make-and-takes for some upcoming workshops (Hi Tracy and Kym!!). The first is a 6×6 scrapbook page for Tracy’s workshop, which opens up to reveal some hidden journaling behind.

I then created a 12×12 page layout so our workshop guests can see how easily a 6×6 layout can be translated to 12×12, as most people would create pages of this larger size. The 6×6 page just gets stuck straight onto the 12×12.

 And this card is what I created for Kym’s workshop. Kym wanted me to demonstrate embossing, so I thought this was the ideal card, as I’ve used clear embossing powder to make the fishies look wet, and I’ve also used one of the new stamp sets from the Summer Mini.

For these projects I used the following materials:

Cardstock- river rock, bashful blue, pumpkin pie, whisper white, pumpkin pie DSP

Inks- river rock, pumpkin pie, versamark, bashful blue

Punches- scalloped edge punch, circle punches, round tab punch

Stamp sets- Ocean Commotion, Eat Cake (for happy birthday sentiment), circle of frienship (for the sentiment inside the bubble on the card), big deal alphabet, simple serif mini alphabet (both alphabets used on scrap page).

Additional Materials- pumpkin pie marker, white gel pen, crystal effects, clear embossing powder, heat gun, silver hodgepodge,

 

If you’d like to make either of these projects, why not host your own workshop, and I’ll show you and a group of your friends some of these great techniques.

Thanks for looking, and enjoy your weekend!

 

A birthday card and a colour challenge November 24, 2008

A friend of mine is having a birthday tomorrow (fellow stamper Mel), and I spotted a colour challenge posed by my stamping grandmother Alisa. This is the challenge:

I love the look of these colours together, so I thought I’d kill two birds with one stone, and make Mel’s card using these colours. So here it is:

 

A very simple card, but rather yummy I think. I wheeled “so swirly” over the chocolate chip cardstock in whisper white. I also sponged the edges of each layer with the whisper white to give it that softened look. The sentiment is from the “short and sweet” set, and I used a piece of silver hodgepodge to finish it off. It doesn’t quite compare to that beautiful quilt cover, but I don’t mind it. I hope Mel likes it…