Magnolia

Magnolia stamped image.
Papers were a magazine freebie.
Sentiment is Craftwork Cards, mounted using SU punches.

Magnolia

Stamp by Magnolia (I think, was sent in a swap).

Glamour Dust.

Sentiment by Craftwork Cards, mounted using SU punch.

Birthday Card and Notebook

Card and notebook.

Patterned paper is DCWV. Sentiment stamp, matching punch, and cardstock all Stampin' Up.

Border punch is Martha Stewart and flowers by Prima.

Cardblank is Woodware.

Prom Queen

A card for my niece, her prom is later this year and I wanted to chip in towards her outfit.
Dress and stand is a Sizzix die. Alphabet is Boxed Brush by Sizzix and butterflies are a Martha Stewart punch.
After I photographed the card I decided to add some gems for a bit of bling.

Butterfly

Patterned paper, cardstock, stamp and butterfly punch all by Stampin' Up.
Glamour Dust to highlight.

Bliss

I've used Stampin' Up patterned papers, cardstock, ink and stamps.
The butterfly is a Martha Stewart punch.

Happy Birthday

Cardstock and patterned paper is by Stampin' Up as is the sentiment stamp and punch.
Acetate is Hambly Screenprints.

SU

Number two of three from SU class.

Thinking Of You

I bought a new SU oval punch especially to use with stamped sentiments. Then whilst blog hopping I saw this great idea for using the same punch to make vases.
The flowers were stamped using Whispers marker pens instead of an ink pad (so I could use different colours on the same stamp).

Stampin' Up

Number five of five from SU class

Challenge

This is my entry for the SU challenge over on Clair's blog.
The theme this month is 'Starstruck'.
I have used Sizzix dies for the stars and SU punches and Oval All stamp set for the sentiment.

Stampin' Up

Number three of five from SU class.
I struggled to stamp straight on this one and especially did not like stamping the string at the top of the ornaments - it was a very thin stamp and the rubber was die-cut very close to the edge so hard to get a clean image (if I was at home I think I would have used a stamp marker pen rather than an ink pad).

Christmas

Nitwits die-cut decoupage and patterned paper. I've added some glitter and a 'merry' tiny tag from Stampin' Up.

Challenge

This is for a challenge on Clair's blog.
The only rules are a Stampin' Up product must be used and the challenge is to use black, yellow and turquoise.
I thought that those colours wouldn't work with something too feminine but all my SU stamps are quite girly so I stuck to using two SU punches to make my own background. The 'celebrate' stamp is SU Wonderful Words.
This is the first time I've entered a challenge, there seem to be so many out there!

Wedding

The final of the three very-rushed wedding cards.

I used a Martha Stewart punch to make the vellum piece at the bottom of the card (I cut the vellum larger than I needed so I could tape it at the back of the gold card to attach it without showing any adhesive).

The sentiment is a K & Co. rub-on. These have to be among the worst rub-ons I have ever used.

Eventually the rub-on did actually rub-on but it left marks on the card hence me trying to cover them up with self-adhesive gems, grrrr.

I hate the placement of the gems and should have started again but by that point I was so fed up it just had to do!

Wedding

Another one of the wedding cards I rushed (see previous post).
I'm not sure of the make of the rose patterned paper but I do know that I have had it for many years! The pattern was a bit strong so I have attached a sheet of white vellum over the top to tone it down slightly.
Sentiment printed on the computer and some Martha Stewart punched butterflies to add interest.

Handbag

This was the project we made at SU class last Sunday.
I loved this one. A handbag made from paper :)
When I look at cards I can *usually* work out how they have been made. Something like this I haven't got the patience to figure out measurements etc so a class where all that was figured out for me was great.



The double-sided paper meant we had a matching lining for our bags and there was even a little pocket included for a message. A lovely way of presenting some choccies or sweets (except this bag's mine, too nice to give away!)
We had time to make a matching card too, I'll share that next post.

Wedding

This was a card that ended up nothing like what the customer asked for....
Sentiment is computer generated, butterflies strategically placed to hide random lumpy bits (think it was double sided tape showing through!).
Gorgeous shimmer paper is 'Elegance' by K & Co, charcoal grey card is fill-a-wallet. Border punch is by Martha Stewart.

Matching box, I left the silver thread untied so that the customer would not have to fiddle about with it ;)

Mini tags are stamped and punched using Stampin' Up Medium Jewelry Tag punch (US spelling for 'jewellery'!) and Stampin' Up Tiny Tags stamps

Stampin' Up

Number three of three from latest SU class.

The top half of the card front has been cut away and the butterflies are 'suspended'. This reminded me of cards made by Paula Pascual, have a look at her blog here.

Stampin' Up

Number two of three from latest SU class.

We learn a new technique each week, this time it was stamping on acetate, the butterfly has an acetate overlay (bit hard to see in the photo).