Patterned Party - Pop Up Card

Hi there,

Here's another card using the lovely Patterned Party stamp set.  This is a Free Standing Pop Up card so it fits flat into a regular sized envelope, yet opens and pops up to stand on the table.

Pop Up Card

From the side:

When folded up flat:  

Stamps: Patterned Party and Pretty Petites (SAB 2013).
Cardstock: Pool Party, Primrose Petals and Whisper White.
Inkpad: Primrose Petals, Wisteria Wonder, Pool Party and Basic Grey. Versamark Stamp Pad.
Accessories: Simply Scored, Embossing Buddy, Stampin' Emboss Powder - White, Petite Curly Label Punch (SAB 2013), Sticky Strip, Paper Snips, SU Bone Folder, Heat Tool.
Card Size: To fit A6 envelope.

Thanks for stopping by.

Alex

Dasher Christmas Card

Hi all,

Here's another Christmas card I've made recently. I CASEd a card I made last year and changed a few things around, like the colour combo and sentiment stamp. Here is it below:

Dasher

Stamps: Dasher (P.16), Season Of Joy (P.25) and Contempo Christmas (P.25).
Cardstock: Crumb Cake, Real Red, Chocolate Chip and Very Vanilla.
Inkpad: Chocolate Chip. Versamark Stamp Pad.
Accessories: Stampin' Write Markers - Chocolate Chip and Real Red, Corner Punch, Stamp-A-Ma-Jig, Multipurpose Liquid Glue, Paper Snips and SU Bone Folder.
Card Size: A6.

Hope you like.

Bye for now,

Alex

Hi all,

Thought I'd upload another Christmas card that I recently made. I love Season of Joy stamp set and depending on the stamp, can make quick and effective cards. I decided to stamp and punch the "O" in Joy and adhered with a dimensional and used the Stampin' Writer Marker pens for the different colours for the sentiment.

Season of Joy


Stamps: Season of Joy (P.25) .
Cardstock: Real Red, Garden Green and Whisper White.
Inkpad: Real Red. Versamark Stamp Pad.
Accessories: 1/2" Circle Punch, Stampin' Write Marker - Real Red and Garden Green, 3/4" Real Red Polka Dot Ribbon (reversible - promotional ribbon - no longer available), Stamp-A-Ma-Jig, Bone Folder, Paper Snips and 3D Dimensionals.
Card Size: A6.

See here for last years version.

Hope you like. Enjoy your weekend.

Alex

All In The Family - Boy Birthday Card

Morning all,

Hope your weekend was a good one! So, I've recently been inking up my All In The Family stamp set that has been previously much neglected. I teamed this up with Choo Choo stamp set for a very subtle background effect of trains and puffs of smoke which I think works well for boy cards :)

All In The Family - Birthday Boy


Stamps: All In The Family, Choo Choo and Happy Moments (sentiment) - retired.
Cardstock: Marina Mist, Bashful Blue and Whisper White.
Inkpad: Basic Grey and Marina Mist. Versamark Stamp Pad.
Accessories: Stampin' Write Markers - Marina Mist, Bashful Blue, Daffodil Delight and Chocolate Chip, Large Oval Punch, Sponge Dauber, 5/8" Satin Ribbon - Whisper White, Bone Folder, Stamp-A-Ma-Jig, Paper Snips and 3D dimensionals.
Card Size: A6.

Hope you can see the trains and puffs of smoke in the background.

Have a good day.

Bye for now,

Alex

Explosion Box

Morning all,

Yay: It's the weekend!

Recently had a bit of time and decided to experiment and make an Explosion Box. I've not made one before but like the idea of how you take off the lid to reveal an "explosion" of something special inside. I plan to embellish the inside of the box below with pictures of my cute nephew.

I decided to use up my retired DSP called "Junior Varsity" as it's nice and colourful for children.

Here's the completed box:


When you take the lid off:


Inside, revealing the 12 x12 sheet of matted layers, without the embellishing:


Stamps: Seeing Spots.
Cardstock: Certainly Celery. Textured 12 x 12 Cardstock - Bashful Blue. DSP - Junior Varsity (retired).
Inkpad: Certainly Celery. Versamark Stamp Pad.
Accessories: Sponge Dauber, 5/8" Grosgrain Ribbon - Brocade Blue and Bone Folder.
Box Size: 4" x 4" x 4"

Thanks for stopping by, enjoy your weekend in the sunshine :)

Bye for now,

Alex

Crazy For Cupcakes

Morning :)

Hope your weekend was a good one and you managed to see some sunshine :) My weekend was good, busy with the workshop and some crafting.

Thought I'd make some cards using Crazy For Cupcakes seeing as it was out for the workshop and it's a stamp set I have not used in a long time. Made a card or two in different colourways :) Loved the card by Jules, so have taken inspiration from her card that she recently made.

Here's a Crazy For Cupcake Birthday card for my collection:


Here's a close-up of the gorgeous glitter!


Stamps: Crazy For Cupcakes and Sincere Salutations. Cupcakes Wheel.
Cardstock: Bashful Blue and Whisper White.
Inkpad: Chocolate Chip and Bashful Blue. Versamark Stamp Pad.
Accessories: Striped Grosgrain Ribbon - Bashful Blue, Stampin' Around Handle, Stampin' Around Wheel Guide, Sponge Dauber, Stampin' Pastels - Chocolate Chip, Stampin' Write Marker - Real Red, Tombow Multi Purpose Adhesive, Fine Cosmo Glitter - Light Blue, Stamp-A-Ma-Jig, Bone Folder and Dimensionals.
Non-SU: Oval Nestabilities.
Card Size: A6

Thanks for stopping by.

Bye for now,

Alex

A Rose Is A Rose

Having recently bought an Eyelet Border Punch, I was eager to christen it and put it to good use on the below birthday card. After much online surfing, I was inspired by a card I saw and decided to use my "A Rose Is A Rose" stamp set to create a birthday card for my collection with a sentiment stamp from "Birthday Best".

Hope you like:



Stamps: A Rose Is A Rose, Birthday Best (sentiment).
Cardstock: Old Olive, So Saffron and Whisper White.
Ink Pad: So Saffron, Barely Banana, Old Olive, Certainly Celery and Versamark Stamp Pad.
Accessories: Eyelet Border Punch, 5/8" Grosgrain Ribbon - Old Olive, Stamp-A-Ma-Jig, Dimensionals.
Card Size: A6.

Bye for now,

Alex

Crazy For Cupcakes Again...

This card was CASED from a card made by Michele Yoos otherwise known as plaid pony which I received for my birthday in a BRAK group over on SCS. I kept everything the same, just changed the sentiment because I didn't have "Happy Everything".


Stamps: Crazy For Cupcakes, Wonderful Words, and Basic Phrases with a little use of the Stamp-A-Ma-Jig for creating "Your".
Cardstock: Rose Red, Regal Rose, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White.
Ink Pad: Chocolate Chip, Versamark Stamp Pad.
Accessories: Stamp-A-Ma-Jig.
Card Size: A6

Have a good weekend everyone.

Alex

Crazy For Cupcakes...

These cards were just too cute, so I CASED these from someone on SCS. I love the wide grosgrain ribbon, so just had to make these cards in Chocolate Chip and Rose Red to match. These cupcakes were stamped onto cardstock, cut out and stuck with dimensionals onto the Whisper White cardstock. Glossy Accents were added to the flames for a 3d effect and a subtle background of birthday balloons were stamped with the Versamark Stamp Pad.


Stamps: Crazy For Cupcakes.
Cardstock: Chocolate Chip, Night of Navy, Bashful Blue and Whisper White. Rose Red, So Saffron, Regal Rose and Whisper White.
Ink Pad: Basic Black and Versamark Stamp Pad.
Accessories: 5/8" Grosgrain Ribbon - Chocolate Chip, Rose Red, Stamp-A-Ma-Jig, SU Marker Pens for the candle flame and cupcake sprinkles and Glossy Accents.
Card Size: A6.


Thanks for stopping by.

Alex

Christmas Cards.

Hi all,

So, after having a great productive weekend of crafting, I now have a few cards to show you. I recently bought some more Magnolia stamps and Penny Black stamps, so what better way to spend the weekend than to stamp them up and colour them in ;)

Here's some cards made for the Christmas season:




Be back later with more cards...

Alex

Flaky Friends...

Hi all,

Well what a lovely day it has been. Went to a Macmillan event and the sun just shone all day. I finally completed my Flaky Friends Accordian Card Organiser Box and made five Christmas cards to go inside to bring with me as a raffle prize. You never guess who ended up taking home my box..... My Mum! lol. She liked the box and cards so much and knew how much work went into it, that she couldn't bare seeing it go to someone else, so she chose my gift amongst the other prizes. I don't know, what is she like!

Anyway, here are all the cards I made to go inside the box:










These were all made with Stampin' Up! goodies - cardstock, stamp set, inkpad, Stampin' Write pens, ribbons, embossing powder and punches. Non-SU goodies used were the May Arts red and white dotted ribbon and the green twine.

Thanks for stopping by, have a lovely weekend.

Bye for now,

Alex

Bar Mitzvah

Hi all,

Hope you're all enjoying your weekend and having a good Father's Day. Wanted to upload the Bar Mitzvah commission that I had last month as it's safe to do so now. The lady ordered a few different gift card wallets for some upcoming events, so here below is one for a Bar Mitzvah celebration:

Outside


Inside - when you slide off the band


These gift card wallets are a great idea to give someone - either to enclose a cheque or to put a gift card in for the recipient.

Bye for now,

Alex

Sweet Sixteen Card

Hi all,

Hope you've all had a lovely weekend. It's gone way too fast as usual and I can't believe it's fast approaching Monday morning.

Over the weekend I've been busy doing various things and I managed to make a girlie 16th birthday card for a friend to give to her daughter as she'll be turning sweet sixteen. She loved the original Boo Bear card that I did back in January and so I tried to replicate this card with a few tweeks here and there and came up with the below card in A5 size. Hope you like:

16th Birthday Boo Bear Card


Thanks for stopping by, hope you like the card.

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 Lovely Weekend...

WOW: I loved the Stampin' Up! Field Training Day on Friday. It was so much fun and I got to meet lots of lovely other SU Demonstrators :) We all swapped our swap cards that we made and I loved seeing everyone elses too (shall post a picture of them all soon). It was really good to see the variations in cards and luckily there were plenty of cards with different stamp sets, layouts and colours - no two cards were the same :) It was very inspirational and a great evening and start to a relaxing weekend.

Here's my swap card that I made for those that took part in the swap:

Cheers To You


Recipe (All SU items are available from the current Idea Book & Catalogue 2008-2009).
Stamps:-
Cheers To You (2008-09) - Set of 6 stamps. P.33. I have used the beer mug and sentiment stamps.
SU Cardstock - A4 Night of Navy, Bashful Blue, Very Vanilla and Whisper White. P67 - 69.
SU Ink Pad - Basic Grey. P.67.
SU Markers - Barely Banana, Apricot Appeal, Only Orange, Bashful Blue and Night of Navy for the Sentiment.
SU Blending Pen. P.85.
VersaMark Pad. P.67.
SU Punches - Scallop Square Punch. P.87.
Stamp-A-Ma-Jig. P.85
Dimensionals.

Hope you like the card. Please feel free to leave a message as I love to read your comments :)

Bye for now,

Alex

Finally Boo Bear...

Hi all,

Hope everyone's well. Can you believe it's snowing outside again! It's getting quite thick as I type...

Anyway, at long last all my recipients have received their Boo Bear Cards and I did say I'd post mine once they all went out to their respective new homes :)

So, here it is... the long awaited Boo Bear card that I made:


Used the Go-Kreate Boo Bear die cut to cut out this gorgeous little bear! For the swap I did over at SCS, I had six of us participating in all, so I managed to cut up five for each person and sent them out. I purposely gave each recipient a different coloured Boo Bear, so mine was white, whereas, others where black, grey, blue, brown etc.

Recipe
Card base - Royal Langnickel - Opalescent White A6 blank card and envelope.
Papers - Pink Bazzill Bling Cardstock, Stampin’ Up! A4 Cardstock - Whisper White and Pretty In Pink and Stampin’ Up! 12x12 Textured Cardstock - Whisper White. (P.67-69).
Inks - Stampin’ Up! Pretty In Pink Ink Pad (P.69), VersaMark Stamp Pad (P.67.).
Pastels - Stampin’ Up! - Stampin’ Pastels (P.67).
Pens - Black Pen - Letraset Pigmented Ink Water-Based Marker-Proof and White Pen - Inkssentials Opaque Pen.
Cuttlebug Embossing Folder - Bloom Dots.
Stamp Set - Stampin’ Up! “Weather Or Not” (Handbags).
Sentiment - Computer generated.
Die Cuts - Go Kreate Boo Bear and Spellbinder Nestabilities - Labels Two.
Ribbon - Ribbon Stash.
Stampin' Dimensionals - 3D Foam Pads (P.87).

Hope you think this card is cute, I certainly had a lot of fun making her :) Please feel free to leave a comment.

Bye for now,

Alex

Who's 13 Today...

Hello blog,

Well what a day, just didn't stop raining did it? Okay, so it's my friend's daughter's 13th birthday today - Happy Birthday Irina :) I've heard today that she loved the card, so it's safe to say that I can now post it here...

Front View

Inside View


Back View


Recipe
I used numbers 1 and 3 die cuts out of chipboard for the base of the card, then covered with SU and Bazzill papers - Ballet Blue and Red (Would have used SU Real Red, but I've run out since making the Chinese New Year cards).
Used Versamark Stamp Pad with a variety of football stamps (football, football boot and trophy) all over - Woodware Stamps.
Cut out and spelt the name "Irina" using my Silhouette Digital Craft Cutter Machine (this is about the fourth time I've used it now! lol) and placed letters onto front with Zig Zag Glue.
Stamped another football onto the SU Ballet Blue cardstock, cut out and attached with 3D foam pad to raise it off the base of the card.
Finished the two chipboards with my Big Bite and added SU Pewter Jumbo Eyelets (P.82).
Then finally attached with ribbon from my stash :)

Hope you like, please feel free to leave me a message.

Bye for now,

Alex

New Birthday Cards...

Hello blog,

Well yesterday morning my dear Mum asked if I could make a few birthday cards for her friends. I jumped at the chance and said that I'd love to. I wasn't given much time warning, so I had to make one very quickly, and cheated on another one because my Mum said the recipient would love a girly one - so what did I use??? You guessed it, my Boo Bear card swap card :) These two had to be done yesterday, but last night and this morning I had proper time to do the third birthday card and am pleased with all three. For now, I'll post you two, as I shall not post the Boo Bear card until all my swap cards are in and ready to swap out! :)

I have used my lovely Penny Black clear rubber stamps for the image but Stampin' Up! papers :)
Here they are, enjoy looking:


Recipe
Stamps:-
Penny Black - Hugs (2009) - Set of 13 stamps - various images and sentiments.
Penny Black - Critter Party (2008) - Set of 15 stamps - various images and sentiments.
SU 12x12 Textured Cardstock - Chocolate Chip, Close to Cocoa and Cameo Coral - P.68.
SU A4 Cardstock - Whisper White.
SU Ink Pad - Basic Black- P.67.
Versamark Watermark Stamp Pad - P.67.
Prismacolor Pencils and Sansodor (Low Odour Solvent) - known as the Gamsol Technique.

My next card was made with the same main image using Penny Black clear stamps and have combined with Cuttlebug Embossing Folders and a Stampin' Up! stamp.


Recipe
Stamps:-
Penny Black - Hugs (2009) - Set of 13 stamps - various images and sentiments.
SU Stamp Set - Riverting (200) - Set of 8 stamps. Not available in the UK catalogue yet. This is a Retired Set from the US Catalogue. I have used "Enjoy Your Day".
SU 12x12 Textured Cardstock - Chocolate Chip - P.68.
SU A4 Cardstock - Whisper White.
Non-SU Cardstock - Red Cardstock from my stash. Have run out of Real Red on my Chinese New Year Cards - oops!
SU Ink Pad - Basic Black- P.67.
Cuttlebug Embossing Folder - Bloom Dots.
Letraset Promarkers to colour in the image.
Nestabilities - Circles and Scallop Circles.
Ribbon - Non SU bought by Mum whilst she was holidaying in Boston last year.

I have made the sentiment stamp a 3d effect, see below picture for a close up:


I have stamped the SU sentiment stamp "Enjoy Your Day" on red cardstock, and then again on SU Chocolate Chip. Cut out the small circle of Chocolate Chip and have used Dimensionals to place on top of the original red stamped image to create a 3D effect :)

Okay, that's my ramblings for now, must get on as I have a few more cards to made today.

Until then...

Alex