Last day of Sale A Bration

Before it's over I wanted to post these super quick & easy creations that use some Sale-A-Bration products.
The first is a 3x3 card using "Banner Blast" Stamp set & coordinating Banner Punch, one of my favourite choices from the Sale-A-Bration products on offer. I also used "Hardwood" background stamp, some Gold Bakers Twine & Gold Sequin from the current Occasions Catalogue.
The second  project is a 3 1/2" square piece of Sweet Sorbet DSP, this pack has been great, I used a couple of the other prints in this pack on Teya's invites here. Anyway I used my envelope punch board & scored the 3 1/2" piece at 1/2 an inch, continuing to turn the DSP & score using the previous score line as my guide to get the 2 3/4" x  1/ 1/2" I needed to wrap a Cadbury freddo frog that you buy in a share pack, I rounded 2 corners like for an envelope & tied with some Sweet Sorbet twine -another free SAB choice, love how thick this twine is. I also used "Starburst Sayings" stamp set & coordinating Starburst Dies from the Occasions Catalogue. You have until 30 June to get Occasions catalogue products but only until tomorrow to get SAB freebies, for every $90 order you get to choose a free SAB product. Call or email me if you would like to place an order or go straight to my online store here.

Pretty Petites gift card holder

This cute little gift card holder uses 1/2 sheet of  A4 CS & 2 pieces of DSP that measure 7 x 10cm to decorate the front & inside.
Instructions:
Fold your CS in 1/2 as you would a std card then open & fold in 1/2 again the other way so you end up with 4 rectagles.

Fold the card in half (folded edge is along the bottom) & cut a triangle 2 layers of CS at once as shown in pic.

 



Place cut off triangle piece folded in the embossing folder, & run through the bigshot with no tabs.
Tip: Trim the longest edge of the triangle a little prior to embossing or you will have to trim all 3 points to fit nicely as pockets in the holder later.
Apply sticky strip to the 2 edges shown in pic below & adhere the triangle embossed piece so it is in place on the sticky strip then fold up the card holder & adhere to form the 2 pockets.

Adhere the DSP to the front, cut the other piece in half diagonally & adhere those to the inside.

Tie some ribbon/twine around the entire front piece to keep the middle triangle piece in place as it is only adhered with a small amount of sticky strip, it will also keep your gift card from falling out.


Decorate as desired. Holds a tea bag & note card nicely.

1D Birthday card

A friend asked me to make a card for her daughters 14th birthday that was telling her she had a ticket to see 1D (still waiting on actual ticket) & this is what I came up with. I printed some ID pics & used a couple. Colour was chosen to suit the pics & is Poppy Parade, I made an extra insert for a Birthday message in case she wanted to to use it as an actual card as well. All happy with how it turned out.

Betsy's Blossoms

Floral District DSP is so cheerful & a little retro which I really like, the colour combo's of the cards below are inspired by those in the DSP. They are quick & easy cards to make with a few different techniques. The White KIS no layer card has been wheeled with "Betsy's Blooms" wheel & the greeting is from "Curly Cute" stamp set embellished with the largest Bloom stamp that has been punched with the 2 3/8" scallop Circle punch & punched again by inserting it back into the punch (attach a strip to the back to use as a handle) to create a sunflower. I inked up the bird in baja Breeze & used a sponge Dauber with Midnight muse on the wings to make these pop. "Itty Bitty Banners" stamp set & Framelits were used on the other 2 cards, the Rich Razzleberry one also has the hearts Adorning Accents Folder embossed along the bottom & paper pierced around the top of the 2 1/2" circle & I used the Little leaves Sizzlets for the branches & Itty Bitty punch pack for the flowers with pearls in the centres. The pouch is a piece of 8" squared DSP  scored on the Diagonal plate, there are a few tutorials on you tube & in different sizes if you want to make one of these, they are super easy & no adhesive.

Tea Shoppe gift cards

 3 x 3 card gift set for a dear friend who loves tea -perfect! The pocket pouch is a sheet of 12 x 12 Twitterpated DSP origami folded to house 3 items & there a few variations of this pouch. Originally I made this one & it held a couple of tea bags, gift card & biscuit in the middle. Now it serves 6 gorgeous gift cards & matching envelopes.

Two pocket tote for Stampin Up! a Storm

I have wanted to post this picture on my blog since the new mini was released, but it was one of the projects for Stampin' Up! a Storm to raise funds for Motor Neurone Disease which was yesterday, I will show you the other projects over the next week, in the meantime here is the tutorial that I did back in 2007 for the bag. We used Walk in the Park DS papers & "Great Friend" Stamp set. I will be back soon to post some pictures of the day & tell you a little more of the excitement & success after I upload images.

Baroque Motifs SSC make-n-takes

SUPPLIES
Baroque Motifs stamp set,
Not Quite Navy, Baja Breeze & Whisper White Cardstock,
Not Quite Navy & Baja Breeze ink,
White Taffeta Ribbon.
Dimensionals & Snail Adhesive,


INSTRUCTIONS
1. Lightly stick down the Whisper White piece in the centre before stamping the Swirl inked with Baja Breeze onto both the Whisper White & Baja Breeze cardfront.
2. Remove the White piece & add some little flowers inked in Not Quite Navy & stamp “Cherish” or greeting in the bottom right hand corner.
3. Wrap the Taffeta ribbon around & tie into a knot at the front & position the ribbon to the left, now attach this onto the Not Quite Navy piece with Snail Adhesive,
4. Adhere the mounted Not Quite Navy piece to the cardfront with Dimensionals lining it up with the swirl.

For the 3X3 card the first motif is stamped on the Whisper White cardstock then the other 2 flowers are cut out & layered on & the card is finished with a half pearl, -love it!

Fresh Cuts notes card

These Fresh cut notes & "Fresh cuts" stamp set make it so quick & easy to create beatiful cards, colours here are Kiwi Kiss & Pacific Point, I've built a Brad using Good Morning Sunshine DS paper (1/2" circle punch), we made these on my last visit to Sydney, see pic below for colour variations & centres.

Dreams Du Jour cards

Bella DS papers here again!!! I guess I'm loving them, anyhow I cased the top one from Splitcoast & then made the Pacific Point one as it's a great design for this stamp, not much to it really, the size is 4x4"'s & both have the gorgeous Tafetta ribbons in Riding Hood Red & Kiwi Kiss. The second card has DS paper just on the lower half, the top half is randomly stamped with the very nice butterfly from this set. I used a Blender Pen to colour the images & the lid of the ink pads as a palette.

Wild Rose 3x3 cards

So many of my favourite stamp sets are retiring :-( & "Wild Rose" is one of them, along with the 2008-2009 incolours; Wild Wasabi, Blue Bayou & Soft Sky & the DS papers I used in this set. I love making 3x3 cards, they are so quick & so easy to layout & their are so many options! I also love 2 step stamps (you may need to use a Stamp-a-ma-jig) but I did these free hand, the outline (highlight) image in Blue Bayou & the solid (infill) image in Soft Sky. If you only have 1 inkpad say Blue Bayou & you still want the 2 tones of blue in the rose you can ink up the solid image & stamp the ink off once onto scrap paper before stamping on your card, you can get up to 4 monochromatic tones from 1 inkpad depending on its depth of colour to start.

Say it with Scallops & Bali Breeze

How quick it is to create these colourful 3x3 cards! The design possibilities are endless.
Supplies;
"Say it with Scallops" stamp set, 1/2", 1 1/2", 1 3/4" & Scallop circle & small Star punches.
Bali Breeze DS Papers. Taken with teal, Old Olive, Rose Red, Apricot Appeal & Whisper White CS, Old Olive & Rose Red inks. Apricot Appeal Grosgrain & the new 1" Rose Red stitched Ribbon. Dimensionals, Snail Adhesive & White Gel Pen.

Say it with Scallops lovenotes

These cute & easy 3x3 cards are one of the make-n-takes from my open home Summer mini catalogue launch.

Supplies;
"Say it with Scallops" stamp set (the little butterfly on the Old Olive card is from "Live Your Dream").
Scallop Square Punch, White Gel Pen, paper piercer, Mat pack, Dimensionals & Snail Adhesive.
Bali Breeze DS Papers & Apricot Appeal Grosgrain Ribbon.
Taken with Teal, Old Olive & Apricot Appeal CS & inks.

Tomorrow is officially eScape the e day!

A Lovenote box & cards & envelopes to match, for my dear friend Nadine.
If you havn't already tried one of these box's, why not give one a go tomorrow, email me for the instructions. Here are some other samples.
Here's how I dry embossed the edge of the lid with the Crop-A-Dile using the A1 setting -make sure you get the A in the centre of the template before squeezing the handle, you will warp the plastic template if your not careful.

Escape case

Patterned paper or So Swirly Wheel??? I like them both. These cards look famililiar? they are cased from the eScape promotion flyer, a few different colours, ribbons, but the layout is great & so easy. Once again the combinations are almost endless.

eScaping the e!

I eScaped to my studio for a couple of hours today to have a play with the "eScape" bundle.
Along with the bundle I used "Boho Backgrounds" the Scallop, 1 3/8" & 1" punches & Berry Bliss papers, the combinations are endless & I could of kept going!

Card Delights

"Fun & Fast Notes" stamp set, of 8 delightful images, watercoloured in all the In colours.

Priceless lovenotes

Some of the cards I made to go into the 3x3" box's.
In colours with co-ordinating ribbons & inks & the paptterned paper is from the sampler pad available to purchase for $12.95 -more details on those on the 1st May.

Bodacious 3x3 cards in a box

I finally located the tutorial for the box! these are easy to put together & can be made to suit any size cards that you may want to give as gift. The new "Love notes" available in vanilla/white assorted & "Fun & Fast Notes" stamp set would be perfect for this project.

stamping again!

Well I had to interupt the unpacking & get some stamping in (feeling withdrawals) I made these cello bags as displayed in the momento mall at convention for my downlines. I had to have a play with Fun & Fast Notes as well, whipped together several love notes (3"x3") in no time.