Simply Stampin Sketch Week

Good morning,

This week over at Simply Stampin' we have a fabulous sketch for you to use to make a card or scrapbook page, I can't wait to see what you come up with for it.

I wanted to make a clean card, so I went for Whisper White and Pool Party with a little touch of black and So Saffron, Hope you like it.

I used the polka dot embossing folder and the daisies die for this card, as well as the get well greeting from Delightful Dozen. The DSP is from Domestic Goddess, I think it works really well with the daisies, and the final touch is a little faux stitching.

I hope this card has inspired you to join in the challenge, if you need a little more inspiration please pop over and check out the rest of the DT's entries!

Happy stampin, xx

Simply Stampin' To Die For.

Hello again,

This week over at Simply Stampin' we are asking you to get busy with your dies and create a card or project using them. At first I was stumped, I thought of a shaped card but I have done that before so I wanted to use my dies in a way I hadn't before.

I ended up using two dies, The Daisies Die and the Two Tags die to make a card and matching mini bag. The Daisies Die is great for making flowers with great depth. 

You can see the dimension a little better on this photo, to make the flower you will need to cut 3 of the larger Daisy and 3 of the smallest Daisy, I shaped the larger petals in one direction and the smaller Daisy petals in the opposite direction, and inked the edges for more interest.

I can't wait to see what you make out of your dies, so get creating! xx

Simply Stampin' Colour Challenge

Good morning,

Its so cold outside today so I hope that you are snuggled up warm inside with some crafty project to fill the time. I have finished my Christmas cards now - phew! But I do still have a few presents to wrap. I like to make a few presents each Christmas, last year I made Chili Jam, and this year I've made sweet treats for a few friends, delicious Chocolate and pistachio fudge. So I decided I would use this weeks colours to make cute little gift bags for my fudge.

I thought these colours would be perfect to make little traditional Christmas pudding bags.

They just need to be filled with the yummy fudge, I hope my friends will like the bags and enjoy the sweet treats inside!

To make your own bag simply cut two circles from Chocolate chip CS and run then through the Big Shot with the Polka Dot embossing folder. Next cut two scallop circles from Vanilla CS using the Scallop circle die, glue these to the top of the Choc Chip circle and cut away the excess. I don't have a small circle punch so I used the centre circle from the medium Daisies die in Cherry Cobbler CS, you will need six of these. Lastly for the holly I cut four ovals in Wild Wasabi CS with my Oval punch, scored them in half and cut semi circles to give them a holly shape, glue these to the top of your scallop circle icing and you should have two puds!

If you'd like to give the Simply Stampin' challenge colours ago, click on the link and join us!

See you soon, xx

Happy Birthday Amanda!

Good Morning, all you crafty people!

I made this card for my fabulous up-line Amanda, happy birthday!! I made it earlier this week and have been dying to show it, but I didn't want to spoil the surprise just incase she wondered over to my blog before hand.

Those of you who know Amanda will know that she always says that envelopes have a be decorated so I couldn't very well leave it blank, so I carried on the theme to the envelope. I really liked the look, I may have to start decorating all my envelopes this way!

I have used the gorgeous Sweet and Sour speciality papers for this card and envelope. You may have guessed by now that I LOVE challenges (I'm officially addicted to them) So I took the opportunity to combine a few for this card.

The sketch is from Mojo Monday, I have missed out the bow (very unlike me) as I wanted the Daisies die to have more of a focal point and I have swapped the large tag for three small ones (aren't these Tiny Tags just the cutest).

Next I wanted to use a great colour combo, colour challenges are fast becoming my favourite, they really push me out of my safety zone. So I just had to head over to Color Throwdown for my colour inspiration. This week there is an added twisted with the addition of 'pick your own' guest colour. I chose to add Rose Red, which is the colour of the DSP.

Lastly I thought that I would also add in the theme featured on SU-only which was May Flowers, and as I'm loving my Daisies die, that was no problem what so ever!

I do hope that Amanda likes her card, I'm sure she will get tons of them! Enjoy your surprises, birthday girl!

See you soon - xx

White on White

Good morning,

Well as many of you will know I love my challenges at the weekend, yesterday I headed on over to Less is More to see what the lovely ladies had in store for us this week, and my heart sank. The theme is 'white on white' instantly I thought to myself I can't do that, and came away feeling quite upset that I wouldn't have a challenge to join in with. However this morning I was doing the rounds of my favourite blogs when I saw that the super talented Ruth over at Flower Sparkle had joined in, making a stunning card. So I thought well I'll give it a go, if it doesn't work out then I haven't lost anything.

On Sundays I always hop over to check out this weeks sketch at  the Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge,

I always find inspiration there, and I thought I would combine the sketch with the 'white on white' brief so that I had a starting off point.

I must say that after all my worrying I'm quite pleased with how it turned out. Don't get me wrong I don't think I'll be making another all white card again in a hurry but I enjoyed the challenge of only being able to use white. I went rather heavy on the embellishments but I feel that because they are all one colour that it still feels like 'Less is more', I hope the girls agree!

The recipe
Stamps, Baroque motifs
Paper, Whisper white CS
Ink, Versamark
Accessories, Dazzling diamonds glitter, Heat & stick powder, Square lattice embossing folder, Vintage wallpaper embossing folder, Daisies die cut, Bitty buttons, rhinestones, dimensionsals.

I hope that I might inspire some else to give it a try as Ruth inspired me.
I'm also entering this card into the Crazy 4 challenges blog.

Sweet Sunday

Well I'm back again with another challenge card this time for Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge, I find these challenges the most useful, they tend to guide me rather than hurting my brain, which wouldn't feel nice on such a glorious Sunday afternoon.

This is the sketch for this week

I needed to make a birthday card, and I'm completely in love with my Daisies die, you may have noticed, so I thought straight away that I would use a large daisy for the circle element of this sketch, here's my card

I wanted it to be quite bright so I opted for Melon Mambo again, (second time today) but this time coupled with Perfect Plum, and Tempting Turquoise. I've used the Sweet Stitches DSP, as you can see this paper pack doesn't have to be used just for sewing cards!

Here's the recipe
Stamps, Afterthoughts
Paper, Perfect plum CS, Melon mambo CS, whisper white CS, Regal rose CS, Pretty in pink CS, Sweet stitches DSP, Brights DSP stack
Ink, Basic black
Accessories, Daisies Die, Seam binding ribbon (Rose red), Rhinestones, Rhinestone Brad (flower centre)

Back soon, with more to share
xx

Mojo Monday...... on a Friday!

Hey!

Well as I mentioned earlier this week I'm really enjoying challenge blogs at the moment, (especially the Stampin up challenge blog Simply Stampin' one of the DT Sharon is doing a draw for the super cute Owl Punch!! I'd still really love to hear some other challenge blog suggestions, if you know any) I find sketches so inspirational, and while I was looking at some other blogs I stumbled across Mojo Monday. As the title suggests each Monday there is a new sketch to get your crafty mojo going, and some days I'm really in need of some help along the way!

Here is the sketch for this week

I wasn't sure about the twine across the top so I left it out but I think I may have needed it to balance out the card, what do you think?

I've used loads of my new goodies for this one, including, the Daisies die cut, Square lattice embossing folder, seam binding ribbon, and the Springtime vintage DSP.

I also did a bit of water colouring with my blender pen, I'm really pleased with how this turned out, here's a close up

I've used Pink Pirouette, for the embossing and water colouring layer, but again with my amazing photography skills it looks more like white, but I'm still pleased with the results.
I hope over at Mojo Monday, they like my first attempt at their challenge. This sketch had a lot of detail which is what I tend to go for in my cards, so it was right up my street!

Bye for now, two more of my favourite challenges are tomorrow see hopefully see you back here then with some more cards. xx