Some more Mixed Bouquet

While I was away I decided to case a card that I found on SCS made by Lavendula. You can find it here.

I really love this Mixed Bouquet set so made a few of this style of card trying out different colours. I used the Stampin Up colour coach to decide on the colours. I changed the greeting and sides to put the rose but had fun making these. I do love to paint so maybe that is why I loved doing these cards.

Have a great weekend everyone.

Bodacious Bouquet

I got together with my niece Amy and my friend Lee-Anne today to do some stamping and try to keep cool in the 41 deg heat. Amy had cased a card from SCS that I liked so I cased it as well in slightly different colours. I used Bashful Blue with Brocade Blue and Always Artichoke and Chocolate Chip.

Featured Stampers challenge

Last night I was home alone so decided to do one of the SCS challenges. It was the featured stampers challenge in last weeks Inkling, and the card I decided to CASE is here . The stamper is Nancy Riley. After I had made the card I looked at the rest of the challenge cards and found that quite a few people cased this same card so it was a popular one. You just have to change something about the card so I changed the papers and also the stamp set but kept the layout. here is my card

I used the Petals and Paisley DP from SU and also Old Olive, Basic black and Whisper white. The stamp set is In Full Bloom and the greeting is from Its your Birthday. Inks used are regal Rose, Old Olive, Cool Carribean, So Saffron and Taken with Teal.

This is the first time I have done any of the challenges on SCS. It was fun and I plan to do some more.

Mixed Bouquet x 3

I cased the main piece of these 3 cards from a card on SCS. I then used Pretty In Pink, Basic Black and Regal Rose to complete the 3 cards. I used the bouquet roller to do the backgrounds. I just used scraps from each sheet to complete them. I embossed the rose and also the greeting. As I didnt take my embossing buddy with me the embossing of the greetings is a little flecky. I really do like this set so I hope they dont retire it when the new catalogue comes out in April.

A couple of Pics from our Holiday

We had a lovely holiday away in a unit overlooking the ocean at Rockingham. This was the sunset on our first night there.

These are the Little Penguins that we saw while over on Penguin Island. We went over on our own boat and went to see the penguins being fed. They are so cute. The holiday was very relaxing for me and I really enjoyed a walk on the beach each evening after it cooled off.

Sale- A- Bration

I am back from holidays now and thought I would show you a couple of cards I made while I was away, using one of the sale-a-bration sets.

Stampin' Up! have their Sale-a-bration on during January and February so anyone who puts in a $100 order will get one of 4 different stamp sets for free. If you would like to have a sale-a-bration catalogue please email me and I will send one to you. If you would like to put in an order please email me as well.

This set is Friendship Blooms and I have made 2 different cards for you to see. This card is made with Going Grey, and Basic Black card stock and stamped in black with colouring done with craft white using a blender pen.

For this card I have used Regal Rose and Whisper White card and stamped with Pretty in Pink, Black and Old Olive. The flowers are coloured using re-inkers and a paint brush. I have used Pretty In Pink. The flowers and leaves are cut out and I have joined the 2 flowers together with a Barely Banana brad and raised it on a dimensional. Let me know what you think.

Happy New Year

Happy New Year everyone,
I forgot to post on here that I am away for the first 10 days of January on holiday. I have been down in Rockingham, really enjoying our beach holiday. Today we have popped home for a couple of things we thought we could do with and so I thought Id better pop in and say hi. I have made a couple of cards so far and have planned out my next 2 techniques for Stamp Club, when I get back. We will be doing Faux Tearing and one we have done before, but not on the technique sheet. Faux Stitching. I'm looking forwad to getting back into the card making groove.
I will post some more when I get back.