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Latte Pocket

10 July, 2010 11 Comments

Hello and welcome to another Sketchy Saturday!

My apologies for posting late (sorry Carol) we had a spanner thrown in the works last night with a call to let us know that an ambulance had been called for my Mother in Law.  She has had a bad cold and ended up with chest pains last night so everything was just dropped while we attended to her.

Here is this week’s sketch from the lovely Carol.

Diagonals?  What am I supposed to do with that?  So as I do I deliberated and deliberated and then …. I deliberated some more!

Then it dawned on me … pockets.

I have quite a bit of Designer Series Paper that I need to use over the next 2 months so I tried to think what paper I havent used for a while and I grabbed my Candy Lane Papers.  You dont see these pack used so much and I think its really lovely – or maybe I just dont go to the right blogs!

Here is what I came up with …

I’ve modelled this card on the Diagonal Pocket card but I’ve just used it for the pockets on the front so only used 1/3 sheet of 12×12 for the front pockets instead of using the whole  sheet as in the tutorial.  I’ve also added a bit of elegance using the Eyelet Border Punch on a piece of Very Vanilla.

Now here’s the card showing the insert.

I couldnt go past doing my “Latte Stack” on the tag with my gorgeous “Share A Cup” stamp.

I’ve left the tag mainly blank so you can put a little note or even attach a gift card for your favourite Coffee Place like Gloria Jeans or The Coffee Club.

Here is the inside of the card for you to write a message to your friend

Now I’ve added the Eyelet Border egde again with some of the stripes from the Candy Lane Designer Series Paper pack for continuation from the front.

Now I could have put another tag in the top pocket but after grabbing my little Pun Fun Latte stamp I thought what better than to put in a sachet for a Latte.  Its a nice way to say hello to a friend and give them a cuppa :)

I do hope you like what I made for this sketch and now all I have to do is to find someone to send it to!  Maybe you??

Now its time for you to skip along to the next Designing Diva being the loverly Ruthie Burkey so pop over to Ruthie’s blog and see what she has created for this week’s sketch challenge

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Vintage Sketch

8 May, 2010 10 Comments

Welcome to another Diva Sketchy Saturday!

I know its later in the day but it IS still Saturday!  Here is this week’s sketch from the lovely Carol for the Utah Divas International Sketch Challenge.  Easy enough right??

Well I was half way through my card when I thought that if I rotated the sketch it would make a great landscape card – and then I looked at the sketch again and yes its meant to be a landscape card!

Here is the card I made …

The cocoa on the blue was actually inspired by one of the coffee cups I have and think it turned out well.

I love this litte floral design stamp from Vintage Vogue – its so versatile and makes awesome background paper.

The Happy Birthday sentiment is from Teeny Tiny Messages and fits perfectly in the small oval punch or even the word window. I’ve added a small flower from the Trio Flower Punch for that extra little bit.

Now when I was making this one I thought that a flower in the place of the ‘friend’ layer would look nice so I made another.

Now with the second card I changed the ink to Creamy Caramel to stamp onto the blue and sponging around the edges.

The Happy Mothers Day Sentiment is from Teeny Tiny Messages.

I have been busy this past week making swaps for Convention and doing all those behind the scenes things for convention – making sure I have decent clothes and shoes to wear and all the other bits and pieces.  As a Convention Special I am offering free postage on all mail or telephone orders between now and 31st May. So if there is something you wish to order now is the time and the more you purchase the more you save!

Now its time to send you skipping off to the next Sketchy Diva being the lovely Ruthie!

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Sketchy Foldy Saturday

3 April, 2010 9 Comments

Happy Easter Saturday to you!

Its Saturday so that means another Utah Divas Sketch Challenge and boy was this weeks one a challenge!

Well the sketch in itself wasn’t hard to do but the challenge this time was to do Iris Folding. Now I love most things with paper crafting and card making but Iris Folding is not one of them – but I did persevere.

I wanted to stay with the Easter theme so thought a Iris Folded Cross would be good – well until I couldn’t find a template but the lovely Ruthie came to my rescue. I ended up drawing my own cross and used the pattern Ruthie sent me.

So here’s my card …

what do you think??

I’ve used the lovely Bella Bleu Designer Series Papers with Not Quite Navy card stock. I couldn’t help myself but use the Eyelet Border Punch as it is one of my favourites and just adds a touch of elegance.

I’ve used a build-a-brad for the centre focus on the cross and used the small flower from the Bella Blooms stamp set.

I have purposely left off a greeting. This way you could use this card as an Easter card or a Sympathy card.

I do hope you like what I have done – I suppose the Iris Folding looks OK but not sure I’d make too many using this technique.

Now its time for you to skip along to Lori’s lovely blog to see how she interpreted the sketch.

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Punch your scraps out

30 March, 2010 4 Comments

I hope you’ve had a wonderful Tuesday and that things arent too wet where you are. We’ve had a couple days of light soaking rain which is great for the gardens and the catchment areas but no so good for the washing!

Today I am sharing with you a very simple and sweet card which could be adapted for any occasion.

Its just a Pink Pirouette base which I’ve used the Eyelet Border punch down the front edge. I’ve slipped in a Whisper White piece inside the card so you can see the pretty eyelet border.

I’ve then just grabbed some of my Designer Series Paper scraps/off cuts and used the Heart 2 Heart punch and punched a heap of the three sized hearts out. I’ve then attached these randomly to a Whisper White piece which has been distressed using the Cutter kit.  Some of the heart are stuck flat and then I’ve raised 4 or so hearts using my lovely Stampin Dimensionals.

Card Recipe

Stamps: Whimsical Words (Sale A Bration set)
Paper: Pink Pirouette, Whisper White, Raspberry Tart DSP, Sweet Always DSP, Tea Party DSP
Ink: Jet Black Stazon
Accessories, Heart to Heart Punch, Eyelet Border Punch, Cutter Kit, Stampin Dimensionals.

Now dont forget my special bonus offers which finish tomorrow night at 8pm …

  1. The first five orders of  $70 or more will receive either a bonus Designer Brad set or pack of Designer Series Paper of your choice
  2. The first four orders of $150 or more will receive a level one hostess set
  3. Purchase my ‘must have adhesives set‘ for $60 and receive a bonus adhesive remover! This set consists of Snail Adhesive, Snail Refill, Stampin Dimensionals, Mini Glue Dots, Tombow Multi Purpose Adhesive, 2-way glue pen and Sticky Strip. This set is valued at $65.85 and is just $60 plus you get the Adhesive Remover valued at $3.75!

    4. As there is only one day left you will need to make payment by cash or credit card and must be receive by 8pm Wednesday 31st March, 2010.

All orders received from now until 8pm Wednesday will go into the draw for a pack of Fine Supernova Stampin Glitter – this consists of 5 jars of superfine glitter and is valued at $26.95

All orders received for $150 or more from now until 8pm Wednesday will go into the draw for a free ‘Wanted’ stamp set.


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Tea Party Gift Set

10 January, 2010 6 Comments

Well here I am again – posting two days in a row!!

I wanted to share a set I made for a Secret Santa gift I sent as part of the ESAD-SU Yahoogroup Secret Santa Swap last December (seems so long ago!)

It comprised of a large gift bag so I could fit in the Eyelet Border punch, an acetate box full of yummy caramels and a memory tin.

All the items were completed using the Tea Party DSP – I just love this paper and the colours in it!

The gift bag was made from just one sheet of 12×12 DSP and based on a bag that Alisa Tilsner created. I will remake the bag and prepare a tutorial over the next day or so.

The acetate box is the same as the one that I created for the Teacher’s gifts I made in December. I will do a tutorial for these as well as I edited the measurements for the tutorial at SplitCoast Stampers.

The tin is just altered using the Tea Party papers and I made a ‘belly band’ to go around the tin which I stamped the ‘Remember’ sentiment from Life Definitions stamp set.

Now, if you want to get the Life Definitions stamp set then NOW is the time as its on sale as party of the Inventory Sale and is just $68.21 which is a saving of $22.74! It comes with 28 great sayings and so good for any occassion or scrapbook layout. To see what else is on sale in the Inventory Clearance Sale click here

Inside the tin …

I’ve covered the inside with matching Tea Party Designer Series paper and then popped in an acetate pocket which contains a 2010 calendar with each month on a separate sheet so you can mark dates for special occasions.

In the base of the tin I’ve attached a long post it note pad so you can jot down reminders, thoughts or ideas which you can then leave in the tin or stick it to the fridge or your mirror or anywhere you wish really! I’ve also included a matching pen to jot those notes down with!

I do hope you like this little set and I’ll be running this gift set as a class in February so stay tuned for more details on that class.

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Christmas Stamp Gift Box

17 December, 2009 7 Comments

I love Stampin’ Up! and I love to give stamps to friends for presents and recently I had a small stamp set I wanted to give and thought it would be nice in its own little gift box so I converted the Pizza box style of box to fit one of the small sets in.

Here is my gift box I made ….

StampGiftBoxThe completed box measures 14cm X 12cm X 4cm and fits the smaller stamp sets like the Sprinkles or Sweet Stems set.

I wasnt sure what to do for the embellishments on the box and then I remembered the poinsettia flowers made with the Five Petal Flower punch and thought they’d be perfect. You could use this box for any occassion just by changing the Designer Series Paper and using the colours to create the box and the flowers.

As my Christmas gift to you – and an early one at that – I am offering the tutorial for this box for free!

To download the tutorial click on  Small Stamp Gift Box Tutorial

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Always Gift Card

13 December, 2009 2 Comments

My apologies for not posting more often this week – this past week was such a busy one with Stamp A Stacks, Year 6 Farewells, special school presentation and then to top it off I ended up coming down with this horrid flu bug which I’m still trying to recover from – I just hope its cleared up before we leave for holidays next weekend.

AlwaysEmbossedCardHolderI did mention in a previous post that I had to make two gift card holders for my niece & nephew recently and here is the second one I made.

I just love how this card turned out!  The gift card holder was for an engagement present so I wanted to make it a little extra special and elegant and think I achieved that.

This card has two types of embossing on it. Firstly on the Baja Breeze background I clear embossed the berry branch stamp from the Always stamp set using versamark and clear embossing powder.

The Baja Breeze panel across the middle of the card and the white layer behind the heart are both embossed using the Big Shot and a dotty embossing folder.

The heart is embossed using Versamark then Stampin’ Up!’s white embossing powder. I’ve stamped and embossed it twice and layered one flat on the white layer then the other I’ve actually cut the dotted edge around the heart off and layered it with Stampin Dimensionals.

AlwaysEmbossedCardHolderInsideHere is the inside of the card …

I’ve just added a couple of  layers to the inside of the card and used my slit punch to make the slits to hold the gift card in place.

You could leave these layers out if you just wanted to make this as a card and I think it would make  lovely Wedding card also.

AlwaysEmbossDiff

Now you might ask why I stamped in Versamark then used the white embossing powder when I could have stamped in the White Craft ink then embossed in white or clear embossing powder. Well I have found you get a much better and clearer image when using the Versamark with the white embossing powder.

This image here shows the results of  three different ways of embossing the heart on the Baja Breeze. The image top left is using White Craft ink with the White embossing powder.

The image bottom left is using the White Craft Ink and clear embossing powder and the image bottom right is the one i prefer using the Versamark ink and the white embossing powder.

I made this sample to show you the different results so sometimes you just have to test different methods to get a clearer image.

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Raspberry Dreams

30 October, 2009 4 Comments

When I originally bought Dreams du Jour stamp set it was just for the little butterfly in the set and since then I’ve felt a tad guilty – it makes it an expensive butterfly stamp!

StampSetDreamsduJour

It IS a great set for just $33.95 as it has 4 stamps in it so when you break it down thats just $8.50 a stamp and who wouldnt pay $8.50 for any of these stamps!

So over the past week I’ve been keeping the set on my desk so I could make more cards and therefore make the stamp set worth the purchase!

RaspberryDreams

I love how this card turned out! I do like the Raspberry Tart DSP but I find it a bit much at times although I do think that when you layer images over the top like on this card it all tends to blend in.

Recipe:
Stamps: Dreams du Jour
Paper: Rose Red card stock, Pretty in Pink Card stock, Raspberry Tart DSP
Ink: Pretty in Pink, Jet Black Stazon, Rose Red, Kiwi Kiss
Accessories: Eyelet Border Punch, Pink Taffeta Ribbon, Stampin’ Dimensionals, Aqua Painter, sponge daubers, Creamy Caramel Stampin’ Write Marker.

I’ve finished my card off with a little sponging of the eyelet border with my daubers and tied a pink bow around the card – make a pretty feminine card dont you think?

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Joyful Sketch

17 October, 2009 9 Comments

Diva Sketch Challenge #52Hello and welcome to another Saturday and another Diva Sketch Challenge!

This one is a little different and it wasnt until I’d finished my card that I saw the ‘top’ bit …. oh well.

I’m sure Carol is used to me by now in rotating and changing and swapping and well just anything else and it is a challenge – lol maybe she thinks I’m her challenge??

I had to make a card using Season of Joy for a Stamp A Stack tomorrow at my sister’s house so I thought I’d combine the two and here’s my card.

Joyful SketchI was rather happy with the way it came out and I will apologise to my sister tomorrow for the ‘extra’s’.

She did say traditional Christmas colours but I couldnt help myself – i just had to add the Ballet Blue as it just breaks it up a little. She will also hate that I put some ribbon in there too but the ribbon just lifts it a little.

Recipe:
Stamps: Season of Joy
Paper: Old Olive, Ridinghood Red, Whisper White, Brocade Blue
Inks: Old Olive, Ridinghood Red, Brocade Blue
Accessories: Eyelet Border Punch, White Grosgrain Ribbon

I hope you like this card and if you’d like to get started on your Christmas cards give me a call to book in for your Stamp A Stack!

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Elegant Prayers

8 October, 2009 7 Comments

Good Morning!!

Today I’m off to do a Stamp A Stack for one of my Aunts and I’m sure the other Aunt will be there too … and hopefully some apple pie!

This is a card that I made a few weeks back for a demonstration for some local church ladies. This card has a few layers to it however the end result is very elegant and its not hard at all!

eggplantpaleplumprayersHopefully the ladies today will agree with me!

It just uses the lovely Thoughts and Prayers stamp set and I decided that I hadnt made a ‘purple’ card for a while so I had better before I forgot how!

I’ve used the Eyelet Border Punch along the bottom of the Pale Plum piece which I’ve then daubered around the edge in Perfect Plum.

The sentiment is stamped in Elegant Eggplant which was then punched with the large oval punch and then layered on a elegant eggplant piece which has been punched with the scalloped circle punch from the Spring Mini Catalogue.

The main image was done using the Stampin Write markers direct onto the stamp and then stamping it onto the Very Vanilla piece. Then without reinking I’ve huffed and stamped on the long thin piece twice. I’ve then daubered the edges of both panels with the pale plum ink.

This card makes a great card for any occassion – not just for prayers. You can put any sentiment on the oval piece for whatever occassion you have need of a card for.

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Friend in a Pocket

26 August, 2009 4 Comments

Sorry I havent posted in a few days but I desperately needed some time out so I took a couple of days for ‘me’. In saying that I have missed stamping so today I will be making up some more samples!

Last week I made one of the gorgeous Criss Cross Pocket cards – I did make one of these last year too but needed one for my new customers and the new Designer Series Papers we now have and I must say I love how this one turned out!

GreatFriendCrissCross

If you hadnt noticed I really loving the Baja Breeze at the moment and all the gorgeous Designer Series Papers that have used that colour and the new Walk in the Park pack is no different. I love the patterns and the colour combination they’ve used.

greatfriendcrisscross2You will also probably see the Great Friend set that I’ve used here in lots of posts and samples as I just love love love that butterfly and the saying is pretty nice too!

This second picture shows the insert pulled out and how i’ve stamped the leafy branch on the bottom. This makes an awesome card for any occasion to a special friend or family member. You could even pop in a gift certificate or gift card or voucher.

Why not make this one in Christmas papers and colours for those your giving gift cards too – what a lovely way to present their gift on Christmas Day and so much nice than the plan envelope or piece of cardboard you get them on!

Want me to how you how to make this card?

Then contact me to book in for my favourite folds class or you can follow Beate’s wonderful tutorial at Splitcoast Stampers.

Have an awesome day!

singlelattesig

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Birthday Stack

19 August, 2009 1 Comment

This is one of the cards I made for the Watercolour Demonstration for last Friday.

PunBdayStackWCthis is a very simple card which could be adapted to suite either boy or girl … actually as soon as I finished this card Emily asked if it was her birthday card and as soon as I asked if she wanted it to be she snaffled it up. I had to explain that it wasnt her birthday for another 3 days so she reluctantly gave it back!

I do love the Pun Fun set and its a great set to start with as it has 8 different stamps for all occassions.

PunFunSet

It even includes a coffee cup so how could you go wrong with it??

The images are stamped in Jet Black Stazon onto Stampin’ Up! water color paper and coloured using the aqua painter and the dye ink from the pads on the lid as a palette. I love colouring this way as not only do you have the colours on hand in the ink pads but you can use the aqua painter to water down the colour if you want a lighter hue of one of the colours. This way you can also build up your colour to give depth and dimension as you can see on the Hippopotamus and the birds tummy.

The Happy Birthday greeting is one of the new ‘single’ stamps available from the Spring Mini Catalogue and very reasonably priced at just $13.95 and has been coloured using the markers directly onto the stamp and then stamping it onto the water colour paper.

I did use the stamp-a-majig to place my stamps so they’d be in the right position – you dont want the words going over the hippo or the bird’s feet half way through the ‘happy’.

I do hope you like this little card as much as Emily does!

Thanks for stopping by and see you next time – its time for a Latte!

singlelattesig

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