A card for my love

Hi stampers!

It's my hubby's birthday today and I thought I would share with you the card I made for him.

For those that haven't caught up with the news, we are off to Melbourne (we arrived last night!) for a new job for my husband with an airline! He'll be flying a similar plane to the one in the Sentimental journey stamp set (sadly retired) so I thought this was the perfect image to use this year.

The sentiment comes from Bring on the cake (y'all must know how much I love this Birthday greeting set - it's so versatile!). The background text stamp is from Daring adventure, one of my new most favourite stamp sets and the papers come from the Floral district set of DSPs. This is a good example of how floral papers can be used in a men's card especially when the papers are double sided! The button is one of the gorgeous new Naturals desinger buttons and there is a little bit of the Midnight muse satin stitched ribbon in there too. I love trying to break the rules and sneak some ribbon onto mens cards!

A roll of this gorgeous satin stitched ribbon can be yours for free when you place a $60 order this month and you can choose from 5 different colours. Click here for more information and contact me if you'd like to order. You can also visit my facebook page for regular updates and message me on there.
Happy stamping!

Betsy's blossoms and butterflies for a birthday

Hi everyone!

Today I have a pretty little card to share with you that I made for a special friend.

The background is Elegant eggplant stamped with the flowers from a new stamp set called Betsy's blossoms. The other contrasting colour is Summer starfruit, one of the new In colours available from 2012-2014. It's kind of a bit more yellow than the old colour Kiwi kiss. This has been stamped with the large blossom flower stamp from Betsy's blossoms and then some lovely ruffled wisteria wonder ribbon has been added.

The greeting comes from Bring on the cake (a wonderful birthday greetings set) and those darling embossed butterflies are made using the Beautiful wings embosslit folder on the big shot. It cuts out the butterfly shape and embosses the patterns at the same time!

 

I hope this leaves you feeling inspired to create!

Happy Stamping!

love, Claire

Sweet shop - Bring on the cake!

Hi My Stamping Friends!

I just had to share this sweet little card with you today using this new set of Designer Series papers (DSP)  called Sweet shop The set includes 8 double sided patterned papers and four sheets of embossed papers (12 sheets of 12"x12" in total). Those white hearts on the Calypso Coral background are actually raised. And there is another sensory element to this card... I have embossed the greeting with vanilla scented stampin' emboss powder! So it smells like vanilla! So much fun. I have more ideas brewing with these papers so please stay tuned!
You can find these sweet papers and scented embossing powders in the new Autumn-Winter mini catalogue on pages 22 and 23. If you don't have your copy yet then please contact me and I can get one to you - or click on the link on my sidebar to view the catalogue online.



Happy Stamping!
Love, Claire

Just add Ink 108 Colour challenge

Hi my stamping friends!

It's been a while since I have found (made!) the time to participate in a stamping challenge. I was delighted to see the fresh colours over at this week's Just add Ink colour challenge.

The colours are Pool party, Island indigo, Whisper white and Early espresso. I am so loving these beautiful blues at the moment from Stampin' Up!s current in colours.

I have used the now retired Seaside stamp set and my handy Bring on the cake stamp set for the sentiment. I LOVE the variety of birthday greetings and styles in this set. And a lovely antique brad for a little interest!

Thanks for looking! Happy Stamping!

Love, Claire

A pretty patchwork Berry blossoms card

Hello!

Whilst I was making a birthday card for my little sister I also had my Mum in law on my mind as it is her birthday in March too! The Berry blossoms DSP is just so pretty and cute and like I said in my previous post I love the colour combination.
I have wanted to try one of these patchwork top note cards and thought this was the perfect opportunity. I have used different patterned papers from the DSP and also a few squares of embossed cardstock (petals-a-plenty folder) in Calypso coral, Wisteria wonder and Lucky limeade.

Happy stamping!
Love, Claire

Bring on the cake!

I had a lovely little workshop last Sunday for a fairly new customer, Tanya. We were meeting to make 3 cards together for $12. These are always fun classes because it allows everyone to try out a few different ideas and techniques and play with many of Stampin' Up's wonderful tools.

One of the requests for Tanya's workshop was a girlie birthday card. This colour combo came to me in a lovely way - I had some melon mambo cardstock out and just popped it on my desk with a few scraps that were already there which happened to be in Daffodil delight, Peach parfait and Regal rose! I found it to be such a fun and girly combo!


I have used the delightful and very handy Cupcake punch for this card. This is currently available in the mini catalogue as is the cute pom pom trim seen here in Tangerine tango and Daffodil delight. The melon mambo background and the cupcake base have been embossed in the bigshot with the polkadot folder.

Also in the mini is this fantastic Birthday greetings set called Bring on the cake. This is where the cute sentiment comes from and we also stamped Happy Birthday on the inside of the card and coloured it in using the Stampin' write markers.

Happy Stamping!
Love, Claire