Wedding Card - Commission.

Happy Monday everyone :)

Hope you're all well and had a lovely weekend. Recently made a wedding card for someone who requested the colour Melon Mambo with the Bride Speciality Papers. The couple tied the knot this past weekend, so I think it's safe to post their card now :)

Wedding Card

Stamps: Polka Dot Punches (SAB 09).
Cardstock: Melon Mambo and Whisper White. Speciality Paper - Bride.
Inkpad: Craft Ink Pad - Whisper White.
Accessories: Polka Dot Ribbon - Melon Mambo, Full Heart Punch, Embossing Buddy, White Embossing Powder, Heat Gun, Bone Folder.
Card Size: A5

Thanks for stopping by, enjoy your day.

Bye for now,

Alex

Mother's Day Approaching.

So, it's only a week away till Mother's Day, I've been busy making a few Mother's Day cards recently for my collection.

I have used my Sale-A-Bration 09 "Polka Dot Punches" stamp set to create a background to the card along with a "Happy Mother's Day" stamp from the Occasional Greetings stamp set for the sentiment. I love how "Occasional Greetings" stamp set comprises of 12 different sentiment stamps covering many occasions such as Easter, Mother's and Father's Day, Christmas, Birthday, Love/Wedding/Anniversary and many more - please see P.25 in the IB&C for all sentiment images.

Here's the card I created, I hope you like and it inspires you to get creating soon :)

Polka Dot Punches - Happy Mother's Day


Stamps: Sale-A-Bration 09 - Polka Dot Punches, Occasional Greetings (sentiment).
Cardstock: Regal Rose, Rose Red and Whisper White.
Inkpad: Rose Red, Pretty In Pink and Mellow Moss.
Accessories: Striped Grosgrain Ribbon - Pretty In Pink, Stamp-A-Ma-Jig, 3D dimensionals and SU Bone Folder.
Card Size: A6.

Bye for now,

Alex

Love You Much

Hi all,

Another Valentine's card made recently with the current "Love You Much" stamp set teamed up with the Sale-A-Bration 2009 set "Polka Dot Punches". With the use of the Stamp-A-Ma-Jig, you're able to stamp exactly where you want to, thus creating a wall paper/patterns paper effect background :)

Here's the card below:


Stamps: Love You Much, Sale-A-Bration: Polka Dot Punches.
Cardstock: Rose Red, Regal Rose and Whisper White.
Ink Pad: Rose Red, Regal Rose and Pretty In Pink.
Accessories: Wide Double-Stitch Grosgrain Ribbon - Rose Red, Stamp-A-Ma-Jig, 3D dimensionals and SU Bone Folder.
Card Size: A6.

Thanks for stopping by, have a good day.

Alex

Polka Dot Punches

Hope you're all well and wrapped up nice and warm what with the awful weather we've been having at the moment!

Anyway, wanted to do a bit of blogging before another day passes by too quickly to say that I had another Evening Session on Wednesday, and the ladies had the chance to make a couple of cards using either Polka Dot Punches or Tree Trimmings.

Here are pictures of the sample cards they could choose from:


Kit One - Polka Dot Punches
Inspired and CASEd from the SAB promotion that we had at the beginning of this year.


Stamps: Polka Dot Punches.
Cardstock: So Saffron, Bashful Blue and Whisper White.
Ink Pad: Rose Red, Certainly Celery, Bashful Blue and So Saffron. Versamark Stamp Pad.
Accessories: 1/2" Circle Punch, Scallop Circle Punch, 5/8" Grosgrain Ribbon - So Saffron (August Promotion - Ribbon Bundle), Stamp-A-Ma-Jig, Dimensionals.
Card Size: A6.


Card using one of the stamps from Polka Dot Punches with the matching 5 Petal Punch:


Stamps: Polka Dot Punches and Season of Joy (sentiment).
Cardstock: Old Olive, Real Red, Garden Green and So Saffron. Patterns Designer Series Paper - Old Olive.
Ink Pad: Real Red and So Saffron. Whisper White Craft Ink.
Accessories: 5-Petal Flower Punch, 1/2" Circle Punch, 5/8" Grosgrain Ribbon - Real Red, Stamp-A-Ma-Jig, Dimensionals.
Card Size: A6.

Hope you like and has given you ideas that a stamp is not just for one occasion :)

Thanks for stopping by.

Alex

Happy Silver Anniversary

Remember I posted a sneak peek the other week for an Anniversary card? Well it's now safe to upload in full, so here it is below:


I used a variety of SU and non-SU products to make this card. I love the SAB stamp set "Polka Dot Punches" and couldn't resist heat embossing these in gold for some added definition. Very Vanilla cardstock was used in the background with a computer sentiment personalised with the happy couple's names.

Thanks for stopping by.

Alex

Monday already...

Hi all,

I had a lovely workshop on Saturday morning and the ladies loved the different ways of making a Gift Card Holder to pop a gift card in. In fact, one of my ladies was going to give her lovely card that she had made to her daughter for her birthday!

Now that you've made these gift card holders, once, just replicating the directions along with different colour schemes, papers and stamps allows you to make any themed card. In fact, I can't wait to start making more of these for upcoming events like birthdays and Christmas presents. Watch this space for more gift card holders! lol.

So, I've been playing around with the SAB stamp set "Polka Dot Punches" and white embossing powder and have made a recent wedding card with a blue and white theme. I've used the lovely 1/2" Striped Grosgrain Ribbon in Bashful Blue, the wedding themed stamp set "Mr & Mrs" for the sentiment and I've finally christened my Script embossing folder too, only had it for about a year now!

Here's the final card below:


Be back later with another card I'm working on right now :)

Bye for now,

Alex

Happy Easter Sunday

Hi all,

Hope you have a lovely Easter Sunday today.

Just a quick post to show you what I made recently for when visitors come by. I prettied up a glass jar that was my Nan's with Stampin' Up! accessories. Inside are little Thornton's foiled covered chocolate eggs, mmmmmm, unfortunately, some have already been eaten!

Here it is, inspired by the current Stampin' Up! Idea Book and Catalogue:


Happy Easter everyone, don't over do the choccies today :)

Be back later with full pictures of the earlier sneak peeks.

Alex

What a Weekend :)

Hi all,

I'm so thankful to all of you who sent special good luck wishes my way for my first SU Open House Day that was held at the weekend :) I received a beautiful card off my upline, Carole on Friday which was a lovely surprise to wish me good luck as she was unable to come on the day. I haven’t managed to take a photo of her card yet, so I’ve copied and pasted her card from her blog (hope that’s okay Carole). Here it is below:

So, on Saturday it was my first SU Open House Day and I'm pleased to say that it went very well. I thank so many people for making this possible, my Mum and my beau especially as they helped make the day run smoothly and a success :) It all kicked off at 1pm and I opened my house to friends who have a passion for crafting. I had a pleasant turnout and thank Janet, Elizabeth, Erin, Alison, Debbie, Adrienne, Sandra, Barbara and Pauline for coming and making my event a fun and successful one. We had a lot of fun making a couple of cards for a make and take session and the ladies all went home with a stamp from the SAB promotion Polka Dot Punches to play with :) Hope you've inked them up ladies!

It was lovely to have met so many new faces on Saturday who share a passion in papercrafting, a hobby I can't get enough of! I can't wait to see you all next month in my cardmaking class :)

Below are the make and take cards the ladies were able to make.

Round One

The ladies were able to choose to make a card either in a combo of Rose Red/Pretty In Pink/Regal Rose, Certainly Celery/Apricot Appeal/Barely Banana or Night of Navy/Ballet Blue/Bashful Blue and had the option to stamp it up in either the baby rattle, birthday cupcake or birthday present from the stamp set Occasionally with a sentiment from Fun & Fast Notes.

Here are the pictures of these cards:

Round Two

For the ladies that were able to stay for longer, there was a second make and take to make using the Loads of Love stamp set and Loads of Love Accessories with various tools such as the Stamp-a-ma-jig, Crop-A-Dile and different sized tag punches.

Here is the completed card using Chocolate Chip, Creamy Caramel and Designer Paper Series.

Also, displayed in the lounge I had a table full of various Stampin' Up! literature, SU goodies that I've been making over the upcoming weeks. I know so many of you are dying to see more than my sneak peeks that I posted earlier last week, so here they are in all their glory. Hope it was worth the wait.

Loads of Love - Card

Fun & Fast Notes - Card

Fun & Fast Notes - Bag

Fun & Fast Notes - Altoid Tin

Crazy For Cupcakes - Purse Box


Crazy For Cupcakes - Card


Polka Dot Punches - Notepad


Fun & Fast Notes - Mini Gable Box


Perfect Presents - Pillar Box


Occasionally - Star Favour Box


Here's a picture of all of them together:


Right people I think you've probably got square eyes by now what with such a long post from me.

Have a good evening.

Alex

New Goodies Made For Open House Day...

Hi blog,

Well what a busy weekend I've had crafting-wise :) Next Saturday is my SU Open House Day, so until then, I've been busy making SU goodies to show off for the day so that people can see the potential of cardstock, rubber stamps and an ink pad or two! Not only can you make cards, but other 3D items too or scrapbook layouts, the potential is limitless.

The other week I uploaded a couple of pilllow boxes that were made using Loads of Love stamp set and Fun & Fast Notes, so I decided to make a few cards to match.

Below are sneak peeks of all the items I've been busy making over the past weekend. Hope you like and will return after next Saturday to see all the 3D items and cards in their full glory :) Enjoy...

Loads of Love - Card


Fun & Fast Notes - Card


Fun & Fast Notes - Bag


Fun & Fast Notes - Altoid Tin


Crazy For Cupcakes - Purse Box


Crazy For Cupcakes - Card


Polka Dot Punches - Notepad


Fun & Fast Notes - Mini Gable Box


Perfect Presents - Pillar Box


Occasionally - Star Favour Box


Hope you've enjoyed viewing my little sneak peeks :) I'll post back in the next few days when I've finished making a card for each 3D item I've made :) and will upload the corresponding sneak peeks. lol.

Until then...

Alex

Winner...

Hi all,

Hope everyone's well. Been a busy week and when I received email last night from Steph to say I've got a surprise waiting for me over at her blog, I was really excited and couldn't wait to see what was in store for me. Anyway, Steph had some blog candy up for grabs, and although I didn't win the ultimate prize of the four SAB stamp sets, I did get picked out of the remaining 184 entries for one SAB stamp set which has just made my day! :) I've won Polka Dot Punches and am soon to be receiving it in the mail. Steph, thank you so much for this, I'm really honoured to be receiving this.

Watch this space for some sample cards using Polka Dot Punches - one of the SAB stamp sets you could get free when you spend £45 between now and end of February. For more details, you can contact me via email or by telephone.

Bye for now,

Alex