Just believe card with Artisan embellishment lace

 

Hello my stamping friends!

I'm here today to share a pretty little card using a couple of new items from the beautiful new Seasonal catalogue.

This is a friendship card with lots of soft, feminine touches and texture. The Lace comes from the Artisan embellishments kit on page 10 of the Seasonal catalogue (AU$16.95). You receive 45.7cm of this lovely lace in the kit. This kit is one of those fantastic finds for all crafty people. All the elements work beautifully on cards, scrapbook layouts, even as embellishments on fabric projects.
 

I have used markers to colour the stamps before stamping onto Very vanilla cardstock. The other colours used here are Raspberry ripple and Primrose petals with a touch of Old olive.  The Primrose cardstock has been embossed with the new Honeycomb textured impressions embossing folder, page 6 of the new Seasonal catalogue (AU$13.95)

Below you can see the kit contents. I love how the ribbons and lace are presented on these gorgeous tags with the hearts on them. These pieces can also be used on a card or scrap layout. The back side of the tags are white so you can use them either way, you could even stamp them. There is two doilies in the kit, a round one and a heart shaped one. And aren't all those different buttons fabulous!?

 

What do you think you would make with all these lovely items?

Happy Stamping!

Love, Claire

Just believe card using sale-a-bration items!

 

 Hi my stamping friends!

My stamping mojo has been a little lacking since we made our big move to Melbourne. But a lovely new order from Stampin' Up! has remedied that with some new toys for me to play with as well as some sale-a-bration freebies!

Have you seen the Sale-a-bration catalogue yet? It is jam packed with freebies that you can earn with every $100 order. Spend $100 (before shipping) and receive 1 freebie, spend $200 - 2 freebies! And so on...And this year there are 19 items you can choose from! Wow, right?

In this little card I have used two of the freebie items. The first is the Designer Series Paper which is called Sycamore Street. There are 12 sheets of 12x12" double sided pattern papers (2 each of 6 double sided designs). The colours in the papers are Island indigo, Pool party, Rich razzleberry, Sahara sand, Summer starfruit, Tangerine tango and Whisper white. It's a lovely bright set of papers.

The other Sale-a-bration item you will see here is the gorgeous Pool party satiny ribbon from the Sycamore street Ribbon and button pack. This is a *free* set of 3 ribbon spools (Island indigo, Pool party and Tangerine tango) PLUS 36 buttons in Pool party, Rich razzleberry and Tangerine tango.

 

I have also used the Just believe stamp set and gorgeous Elegant butterly punch with some adhesive pearls and the Finishing touches edgelits on the Rich razzleberry piece of cardstock. The base of the card and ink is Island indigo.

If you haven't seen the sale-a-bration goodies yet then click here to see the catalogue.

I am running a Sale-a-bration stamp club where you can place a $100 minimum order at the end of January, end of February and end of March. Each month you can also choose your free Sale-a-bration item (1 per $100 spent) plus during one of the months you will also receive hostess benefits of at least $50 to spend on any Stampin’ up items plus a free pack of silver glimmer paper! Wow! I will need a minimum of 3 people to run this club and it starts on January 29^th so get back to me as soon as possible to reserve your place!

Thanks for looking! Happy Stamping,
Claire

Floral and feminine

 

 

Hi my stamping friends!

 

Sorry for the little blogging break there! I have been a tad busy as my hubby is in Melbourne now studying for his new job and I am sorting things and trying to get organised (and continue to live life with my three little people!) before we move in October. If you are a stamper in Melbourne - please stop by my facebook page and say 'hello' - it would be so lovely to know some stampers to meet up with once I am settled :-)

 

Today I have a couple of pretty cards to share with you from the last workshop I held here in Cairns. It was such a beautiful morning for a workshop and the hostess had the most amazing spread of yummy food and a great HUGE table so it was a fun time!

 

This first card was our make and take. Using my favourite blue, Baja breeze teamed with Island indigo ribbon, Very vanilla and Old olive for the greenery on the stamp.

We used marker to stamp for this image from 'Just believe', a stamp set I have had my eye on ever since it debuted last year. I finally ordered it in August! We stamped the image first and the sentiment and then cut that lovely label shape using our new framelits in the Big shot. Gosh, they are the handiest and most versatile tool I own yet! I love them :) And of course, like most of my cards I have managed to use that gorgeous Vintage wallpaper embossing folder! lol

 

 

The second card was one I demonstrated before our make and take. It is based on my favourite new in color, Raspberry ripple matched with Perfect plum and Crumb cake. This lovely colour combo was from the Color coach - such a fantastic tool to help you for those times when the perfect colour combo escapes you!
I started by running the pretty Love Blossoms standard wheel along the base of the card, using Raspberry ripple ink (note how the same colour ink stands out on the cardstock). The gorgeous floral image is from 'You are loved', again using markers to ink up the stamp in Raspberry ripple and Lucky limeade. I then ran the image through the big shot using the oval Designer frames folder and cut around the edge of it. The square lattice embossing folder added a little texture to the crumb cake card stock and the scallop trim border punch pretties up the edge.
 

 

This was sadly my last Cairns workshop :( I am going to have to have a little break from workshops as we move and settle in Melbourne and shall see where we go from there. I just love sharing this craft with others, it's such a joy to see people amazed at what they have created!

I can still place orders or have a catalogue sent directly to you so please don't hesitate to contact me if you would like me to do that for you.

 

I also have a couple of sales happening over on my facebook page - some Retired Stamps and some Hand made cards. Click on the links if you would like to have a look :-)

 

I hope you have enjoyed a little bit of pretty inspiration for your day... hoping you find some time to create soon!

 

Happy Stamping!

Love, Claire

Just believe in Monochrome for Just add ink!

This week at Just add ink the challenge is to just add Monochrome. My friend and upline, Paula has lent me this delicious stamp set, Just believe and I thought it would look great in a monochromatic colour scheme. I have made two cards, but the first one pictured is my entry for this weeks challenge.

This first card has a Baja breeze base with Not quite navy and whisper white card stock on top. The ribbon is Marina mist in grosgrain and the ink is Night of navy - I managed to use lots of different blues here but I think it all works. Baja breeze and Marina mist are such soothing colours to me, I just love them.

The main stamp has a faux silk effect on it using scrunched up tissue paper. It gives a really nice effect, making it look a bit more special.

This second card is very similar, here the card base is Marina mist with Not quite navy and whisper white cardstock and the ink is Night of Navy. I have just used the eyelet border punch down the side. Again, there is the faux silk effect on the main stamp. For the sentiment here i have used the Teeny tiny sentiments stamp set and the markers with the stamp-a-majig to position it all in the right place!

I thought I'd photograph my cards in front of our very lush garden! It is so wet up here at the moment (I am not complaining though, we are not flooded) but the ground is so soft and muddy and everything especially the weeds are growing like crazy and so green!

Thinking of all those who are in flood affected areas, now extending further down south :( God bless you all.

Love, Claire