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Friday 29 March 2013

Happy Easter!

I've been mulling over the challenge from CASology this month where the cue word is Hope and then it suddenly occurred to me that a Christian Easter card would be perfect with its message of hope for mankind. Come and see:


I've used the branch from the wonderful Take Care stamp set to make this card. I think the leafy branches in the shape of a cross are perfect to say that while Jesus died on the cross, it was not the end.


I inked the branch up with markers before stamping a few times and fussy cutting. Linen thread is tied around the join and gives the look of a cross.


I made the frame using my Simply Scored tool and the 'green hill far away' with the Borders plate. The areas were coloured in roughly with an aquapainter and ink and the sentiment added with a stamp-a-majig for accurate placement.

I also have a Christmas card to show you today, made for Sandra's Rudolph Day challenge and inspired by the 52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown where they want to see cards featuring ribbons and bows. Here's my effort:


I used Stampin' Up's Beautiful Season holly and bird and added my favourite embellishment of the moment...


... yes! It's a bit of scoring using my beloved Borders scoring plate! My Cherry Cobbler seam binding fits perfectly in the middle of the two scored borders and I've added a showy double bow and a delicate sentiment from Petite Pairs.

It's Good Friday so I'm not going to add a list of what I used to make these cards but if there's anything you'd like to know about, or you'd like to place an order with me, do send me an email.

I shall be taking a break from blogging over the coming week so that I can romp about with my lovely family but (always assuming there are no bones broken!) I shall be back with more crafting fun very soon. Thank you so much for coming to visit me - I really do appreciate all your comments and emails and look forward to catching up with you soon.

Happy Easter everyone!

Thursday 28 March 2013

Easter bonnets (and a 3 min card)

I wasn't going to do a Three Minute Thursday slot this week (because Easter is looming and my 'to do' list doesn't seem to be getting any shorter!) but when I uploaded my Easter bonnet photos, it occurred to me that the floral motif on them would make a sweet little quick card. Come and see:


I made these sweet Easter bonnets for my lovely Stampers 6 club ladies. They're made out of the treat cups on page 161 of the annual catalogue, with a brim cut out of Daffodil Delight card stock. I decorated them with matching stitched grosgrain ribbon and punched flowers and leaves with a sprinkling of pearls.


Unfortunately they didn't go entirely according to plan! The eggs I used for my prototype worked perfectly but were not the kind of luxurious chocolate I like to give to my ladies... unfortunately the yummy Lindor eggs were a tiny bit bigger and the brim of my bonnets ended up being slightly insecure, even with extra glue dots - sorry ladies! If you'd like to make some of these yourself using Lindor eggs, the shaker frames on page 177 of the catalogue will bridge the gap nicely as I discovered afterwards...


Here's the tiny notelet I made with the floral motif. At just 7cm square it's perfect for attaching to a gift or tucking into a potted plant or bouquet of flowers to bring along to an Easter Sunday lunch. The sentiment from Teeny Tiny Wishes is exactly the right size for the group of three flowers which made me very happy!

Here's what you'll need to make this project
Stamps: Teeny Tiny Wishes
Ink: Old Olive
Card stock: Whisper White, Daffodil Delight
Punches: Itty Bitty punch pack, 2 step bird punch, 2 1/2" circle punch
Other: Treat cups, Daffodil Delight stitched grosgrain ribbon, Basic Pearls, stamp-a-majig
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Aaargh! I nearly forgot to publish my post today - a sure sign I need a break. There's no rest for the wicked though, so I'll be back again tomorrow with two more cards! See you then,

Wednesday 27 March 2013

Easter Basket tutorial

I know Easter is nearly upon us but my tutorial on Easter baskets is so quick and easy that those who have left it to the last minute (er, who me?!) can run up several of these in a flash!



Here's how to make my Easter basket


Start by cutting a 4"x 5" piece of card stock for the body of the basket and a 1/2"x 4" piece for the handle.


Score along the long edges of the handle for a neat finish and pierce holes in the ends.


Turn the larger piece of card stock 'baskety' by running it through the Big Shot with the Square Lattice embossing folder (Sandwich from bottom: Multipurpose platform open at Tab 1, cutting plate, card stock inside embossing folder, the other cutting plate). I like to make my embossing more subtle by running it through again, this time without the embossing folder (Sandwich from bottom: Multipurpose platform closed at Tab 2, cutting plate, card stock with NO embossing folder, the other cutting plate).


Now it's ready for scoring: Along the long side, score at 1", 2", 3" and 4". Turn the card stock and score at 1 1/2", and 2 1/2".


Flatten all your score lines with a bone folder so your card stock lies neatly and don't worry about flattening your embossing further - it really does look better when it's subtle! Now snip the basket so that it looks like the picture above.


Okay - it's time to assemble the basket! The outside two flaps on each side need to be brought to the centre so that you get a rectangle shape when you look down on your basket from above and so that you start the curve at the base of your basket. Secure the flaps with snail adhesive.


Now take the inner two flaps and pull them in to carry on the curve of the base of your basket. You'll find that two little points stick up over the edge of the basket - snip these off with paper snips.


Finally, pull the central flaps over the others on each side and secure it with Snail. Hmm, it doesn't look very tidy does it? And surely it's not very strong? You're quite right, but it's okay because we're going to disguise the untidiness and hold everything together tightly with brads!


Take the small off-cut of card stock, score it down the centre and cut two circles out of it with a  1 3/8" circle punch. Fold them crisply with a bone folder...


... and position over the flaps on your basket. Pierce or punch a hole through all the layers on each side, add the handle to the inside of the basket and secure everything with a brad.


I think the baskets look lovely lined with tissue, filled with eggs and decorated with a little tag tied to the handle with bakers twine. For younger children, wouldn't it be sweet to pop in a little knitted or sewn rabbit or chick?!


Here's a close up of my little tag.  I started with one of the Lots of Tags dies, folding it and glueing it  closed.  The edges were sponged with Marina Mist ink and I stamped the sentiment from Teeny Tiny Wishes as well as the sweet flower from the Patterned Occasions sale-a-bration set. The flower was centred with a tiny pearl and I doodled some grass with a marker and added a tiny embossed butterfly too. It's fun working in miniature!

Here's what you'll need to make this project
Stamps (for the tag): Teeny Tiny Wishes, Patterned Occasions (Sale-a-bration set, retired)
Ink: Marina Mist plus markers
Card stock: So Saffron plus scraps of Daffodil Delight and Very Vanilla for the tag
Other: Big Shot, Square Lattice embossing folder, Simply Scored, 1 3/8" circle punch, metallic brads, Lucky Limeade bakers twine, Basic pearls, Beautiful Wings embosslits die, Lots of Tags sizzix die, stamp-a-majig
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When my daughter was a baby, I used to sing Kitty in a Basket to her. I'd come across Diana Decker singing the song on a weird CD for infants which included quite a lot of ancient and hilarious songs. They always made me giggle and, when she reached giggling age, they made my daughter giggle too. When the boys came along they loved the songs in their turn and I often think that this CD might have been partially responsible for my children's bizarre senses of humour! Here's the song (being sung by a strange puppet!) in case you're curious.


There won't be a Three Minute Thursday this week, although I do have some little Easter bonnets to show you so do pop back to see those!

Hugs

Tuesday 26 March 2013

A proper baskety Easter basket

Hmm, there's no such word as baskety is there? But you know what I mean don't you? When you want an Easter basket that's made out of card stock but looks like it really is a basket! Well that's what I've made for today - come and see:


Now the shape of this basket is not my idea; I saw it on the internet somewhere but since I can't find any trace of its existence, I had to work out how to make it myself! I'll put a tutorial on my blog tomorrow so that you can make them too if you like - they're ever so quick and easy (like everything I do!) The basketiness is my idea though - I ran the card stock through the Big Shot in my Square Lattice embossing folder before putting it together. You can embellish it with punched flowers and anything else you like but mine is for a male person, so it's remaining staunchly manly!


Naturally it needed a coordinating card so out came Stampin' Up's lovely Take Care stamp set. The details of how to make this are similar to yesterday's post but I used coloured card stock and the sentiment from Everybunny to give it a different feel.


The nest looks quite dimensional as you can see from this arty shot. I stamped it in Early Espresso on Crumb Cake card stock, cut it out and smudged ink into the centre with a sponge dauber to make it look recessed and the eggs are mounted on dimensionals to add to the illusion. I cut the whole branch out this time with my sharp paper snips so that it could overlap my card base.


And here they are together, card and basket, making rather a lovely couple!

Here's what you'll need to make the card and basket
Stamps: Take care, Everybunny (sentiment), Pretty Petites (Sale-a-bration set, retired)
Ink: Soft Suede, Early Espresso, Baja Breeze, Real Red, plus markers
Card stock: Soft Suede, Baja Breeze, Naturals Ivory, Crumb Cake
Other: Big Shot, Square Lattice embossing folder, Simply Scored, 1 3/8" circle punch, metallic brads, Lucky Limeade bakers twine, stamp-a-majig
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The children break up for the Easter holidays this week and I can see that my oldest son particularly needs to rest his poor brain: He was playing on his xbox at the weekend when suddenly he cried: "Oh no! Oh no - that's terrible!" I looked up. "What's the matter?" I asked. "Oh no!" he said again. "My xbox live account is about to run out in approximately... er... soon!" My son - the mathematical genius!

I shall be back tomorrow with my baskety basket tutorial and I'll hope to see you then.

Monday 25 March 2013

Take Care Easter eggs

It's Easter at the end of this week but still looking ridiculously Christmassy here! Despite all the snow this month, I pressed on and made Easter cards for my lovely Stampers 6 club ladies this month. Come and have a look:


I don't seem to have been able to get any decent photos but this is actually one of my favourite card designs of the year! It uses a gorgeous little stamp set called Take Care (find it on pages 90 and 91 of the Stampin' Up annual catalogue) along with the beautiful 'Happy Easter' from the Delightful Dozen sentiment set.


The branch was inked up with markers and stamped, and the sentiment added before that border was scored using my Borders scoring plate. I liked the way the swirl of the 'y' in happy overlapped the scorelines. In fact, I love the effect of these borders and how easy it is to put them in wherever I want them - I just hope that you're not getting fed up of seeing them!

The nest and eggs were  fussy cut with my sharp paper snips...


... all six of them! I quite enjoy cutting things out actually and anyway, nothing's too much trouble for my lovely club members!

Here's what you'll need to make this card
Stamps: Take care, Delightful Dozen (for the sentiment)
Ink: Baja Breeze, Lucky Limeade, Soft Suede, Early Espresso
Card stock: Very Vanilla
Other: Simply Scored, Borders score plate, markers, paper snips, stamp-a-majig
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One of the advantages of giving my wardrobe a massive spring clear out at the weekend is that I've discovered new combinations of things to wear. I've been showing my 'new' outfits to my daughter and made the mistake of asking the old question 'does my bum look big in this'! "Yes," she told me, without hesitation. "But it's fine," she added. "I mean, it's not so big it's blocking out the sun and killing the dinosaurs or anything!" Oh well, that's fine then!

See you tomorrow, when I'm hoping to show you my Easter baskets. Happy monday!

Saturday 23 March 2013

Bright Blossoms beadiness

Well, those ladies at Less is More certainly know how to set a challenge! Use Beads they say this week, and that's all very well if you have beads but what do you do if you haven't? Make some of course! Come and have a look:

Card using Bright Blossoms from Stampin' Up

It might be snowing out there but I've had quite enough of winter and there's a definite suspicion of spring or even summer going on in this card! I've used a favourite colour combination and some sweet stylised blooms from Stampin' Up's Bright Blossoms stamp set along with a little scoring with my Borders plate.

Close up of border scored with Simply Scored Borders plate from Stampin' Up

I grounded my flowers with a strip of dotty designer paper and centred them with hand-made beads. It's easy to make beads by rolling the wide end of triangles of designer paper round your paper piercing tool, adding glue to the rest and rolling them up fully. (TIP: these can be made more robust by coating them in Crystal Effects and they're easily threadable.) The card was finished with a sentiment in Sahara Sand and an embossed butterfly.

Here's what you'll need to make this card
Stamps: Bright Blossoms, Just Believe (for the sentiment)
Ink: Lucky Limeade, Raspberry Ripple, Sahara Sand
Card stock: Whisper White, Pool Party
Other: Simply Scored, Borders score plate, Sunshine and Sprinkles designer paper, Pool Party bakers twine, Beautiful Wings embosslits die, stamp-a-majig
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I've been having a massive clear out of my wardrobe today. There's a charity shop pile, an 'oh my goodness it's a rag' pile, a pile which needs mending/altering and a pile which is no good for now but which might come in useful later. I ended up with a very small pile of clothes that fit and look vaguely reasonable which I put back into my suddenly very spacious wardrobe! There you are - it can snow all it likes but I'm having a clear out so it must be spring!

I'll be back on Monday. Hope to see you then,

Friday 22 March 2013

A Bloomin' Marvellous final hurrah!

Yes it's true, Sale-a-bration ends today but if you're kicking yourself for not taking advantage, don't worry, I'll be taking orders today until 6pm - choose your free gift from this selection. If you want to join Stampin' Up you'll need to sign up by 22.30pm to benefit from choosing the extra 25% of products in your starter kit.  It's quick and easy to do this online - just follow this link.

I've really enjoyed Sale-a-bration this year and I hope you have too. Stampin' Up always lays on the most gorgeous stamp sets and this year the company offered other items from the catalogue as free gifts too. My card today uses my favourite free set and I've been inspired by Make My Monday where they're looking for monochrome CAS cards, Less is More, where the theme is Frame it, and CASology, where the cue word is Song. Come and have a look:


I used a fair few techniques on this card so bear with me while I explain. I used the 2 1/2" circle punch to make the circular panel, sponged it lightly with Bashful Blue ink and pierced a frame round it with my Essentials paper-piercing pack.


My Bloomin' Marvellous bird was facing the wrong way so I stamped him onto my brayer and then rolled him out onto a piece of Whisper White card stock. Once I'd cut him out with my paper snips and placed him on my card he was facing the right way like a good little bird! This stamp set has some fabulous sentiments and I used this one for the gospel song of the same name (check out the powerful rendition by Aretha Franklin and Mavis Staples at the bottom of this post.)


The leaves were stamped on the edge of the circle and then my flowers were stamped over the top and clear-embossed. I did it this way round because I wanted the flowers to seem translucent and the leaves to be slightly visible through them. I added a bit of shadowing with a Baja Breeze Watercolour Wonder crayon and added dots to the flower centres with a marker (TIP: leave these to dry for a while or they'll smudge!). Finally, I sprayed the panel with my Color Spritzer Tool and sponged the flowery edge of the panel with Not Quite Navy ink for a bit of dimension.

By the way, you get a great light effect you get when you pierce through the card front...


Here's what you'll need to make this card
Stamps: Bloomin' Marvellous (Sale-a-bration freebie)
Ink: Bashful Blue, Baja Breeze, Marina Mist, Pacific Point, Not Quite Navy, and markers
Card stock: Whisper White
Other: Essentials paper-piercing pack, brayer, paper snips, 2 1/2" circle punch, Subtles Watercolour Wonder crayons, Color Spritzer tool, versamark, clear embossing powder, heat tool, stamp-a-majig
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Thank you so much for all your get well wishes for my youngest son. He was completely fed up by the end of yesterday and much better so I (reluctantly) let him go back to school - he's always such good company, even when he's poorly! He was obviously pleased with the reaction he got when he pointed out the nut allergy warning (see Wednesday's post) and has been reading food labels avidly ever since. Yesterday he pointed out the information on a pineapple label which stated: Cholesterol: 0 mg. "Look!" he said to me. "Cholesterol - OMG!"

Have a happy day and a great weekend, and I'll see you very soon.

Hugs,

Thursday 21 March 2013

A Three Minute Happy Hello

Today I'm using the Happy Hello Simply Sent kit which is free as part of Stampin' Up's Sale-a-bration promotion, but in fact it's more like a sad goodbye as Sale-a-bration ends tomorrow. If you have your eye on any of the Sale-a-bration free gifts, please do email me your order as soon as possible!

It's easy and fun to make cards with kits like this one and the Simply Scrappin' kits (on 167 and 168 of the annual catalogue). Come and see what I've been up to:


The Sale-a-bration Happy Hello kit contains 8 die-cut cards, printed with a trendy chevron design, and these wonderful contrasting envelopes. You also get Basic Grey bakers twine, stickers in a gorgeous combination of Basic Grey and Daffodil Yellow, and sparkly rhinestones to embellish with. The set would make a lovely gift for someone who doesn't craft because you can keep it very simple, as I have in the card above...


... or you can go off piste and do your own thing as we crafters love to do! I made this quick card using one envelope, one die-cut card, a sheet of Whisper White card stock and few of the embellishments as well as the following two cards. In this one, I trimmed the shaped card stock and envelope for my background and added the stickers and a sentiment in a jiffy!


Here's a card for someone who has achieved a goal or passed an exam or driving test. I found that it was easy to cut stars out of the larger flower stickers using my Merry Minis star punch, and gave them a  celebratory look with rhinestones.


Here's another card to celebrate an achievement. This time I've used the offcuts of the grey sticker and the patterned card stock to create banners which I've ribbon-tailed with a square punch. I used markers to isolate the words on the sentiment, making a 'here's to' ticket to place on the banners and stamping the 'you' directly onto the card base. I embellished with a row of rhinestones - Stampin' Up's rhinestones come with two chains of these to make lines easy.

There's heaps of the kit left and I've got plans to make it into a mini scrap book to house this year's Easter photos - those colours will be perfect!

Here's what you'll need to make these cards
Stamps: Friendly Phrases 
Ink: Daffodil Delight, Basic Grey and Baja Breeze markers
Card stock: Whisper White
Other: Happy Hello Simply Sent kit (Sale-a-bration freebie), Basic Rhinestones (for the small ones), Square punch, Merry Mini punch set, stamp-a-majig
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My son is getting better now and so boredom has set in. Yesterday, feeling that I could do with some help with my blog, he suggested a featured post for each day of the week: Two Minute Tuesday for example (I told him that might be stretching the concept of fast just a tad!) Six Minute Saturday, Seven Minute Sunday... He also came up with Faffing About Friday (no change there then!) and Make What You Want Monday (Hmm!) before I decided he could do with a more constructive activity!

See you tomorrow for a bit of the usual Friday faffing!

Wednesday 20 March 2013

Stampin' Up - you'll never walk alone!

Yesterday I had an email from someone who'd read my post about joining Stampin' Up saying that she would never dare to set up a business on her own. The truth is though that we're not alone at all. When you join my team, you'll get as much help as you choose from me - I'm always available on the phone or online, and my goal is to help you to get what you want out of being a demonstrator whether that's to pursue your hobby, or build a business, or anything in between. As well as me, you'll have the whole extended team behind you as well as the dedicated official Stampin' Up support team. You'll be amazed at what you could achieve while doing something you love! Click here for more info - and think about  it... this could be the start of something very exciting!

Stampin' Up rewards demonstrators for their achievements and when members of my team get promoted I like to send them a little something too. Here's a little gift I sent to one of my team members recently:

card using Easy Events by Stampin' Up

This was made at the same time as yesterday's card and uses a similar design but a different colour scheme. Check out that scored border which, I've realised, was partly scored by my friend Jenny from Crafting in the Country who was round here and playing with the score plate! I think you'll agree it adds a whole extra je ne sais quoi to the project! The flowers are coloured with a So Saffron marker but because they were stamped on Naturals Ivory card stock which is more porous than the smooth Very Vanilla, the colour comes out darker. I love it and the way it contrasts with the Pool Party.

Are you wondering what's inside that little pouch?

Inkredibles team promotion gift

It's my exclusive INKredibles team bracelet, complete with a handmade charm! A new charm is sent for each promotion so the bracelets can end up looking very pretty indeed!


I wrapped the bracelet in tissue and secured it with a coordinating label...

scallop envelope bigz die by Stampin' Up

... before popping it into a pouch made with the Scallop Envelope bigz die. I folded the die cut as a pocket rather than an envelope - just another way to use this fabulous die!

Here's what you'll need to make the card and pouch
Stamps: Easy Events, Delightful Dozen, Tiny Tags
Ink: Black stazon, subtles markers
Card stock: Naturals Ivory, Pool Party
Punches: Decorative Label, 7/8" scallop and 3/4" circle punches
Other: Simply Scored, Borders scoring plate, Big Shot, Beautiful Wings embosslits, Pool Party bakers twine,  Neutrals Watercolour Wonder crayons, stamp-a-majig
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My poor son is still poorly but hasn't lost his sense of humour. I was snacking from a bag of almonds yesterday when he suddenly creased up laughing and pointed at the side of the packet. There was an allergy warning printed there which said: "Warning - may contain nuts!" I looked at him rolling around on the sofa. "Hmm," I said. "It's a bit like this house isn't it!"

It's Three Minute Thursday here tomorrow - hope you'll join me then for a fast card!