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

The farewells begin :(

It's the hardest part of moving a long distance, saying goodbyes.
It is something that I dread as I try to keep myself together in public and put on a brave face but goodbyes always undo me.
On Thursday last week we had Levi's last day of kindergarten. He has been attending a beautiful little kindy that is part of Ethan's school. I just love all his teachers, they are such a blessing and we love the way they have taught and cared for him. I wanted to get them a little something special to say thank you and of course, had to make them a sweet little thank you card too.
This sweet image of the boy is from a new stamp set called Lean on me which has four little sketched images with cute sayings. I decided to just use the image part of the stamp with some Early espresso marker ink and then coloured it using the Stampin' write markers in So saffron, Pool party and Island indigo and the blender pen. The greeting is from the Pretty postage stamp set and again uses the markers in Pool party, Baja breeze and Island indigo. 

Don't you just love that Dark brown woodgrain background? I have used the new Woodgrain textured impressions embossing folder on the also new Early Espresso Core'dinations Card stock. The Core'dinations cardstock has a light coloured core so when it is embossed and sanded it reveals that lighter colour.
 

Thanks for looking! Let me know what you think!
Happy Stamping, Love,
Claire.

Something Traditional for Christmas

Here is a quick little card that we used at a recent workshop. I just love this Vintage wallpaper textured folder for the Bigshot and you may notice in the close up that the pattern pops a little on this card as we inked up the folder before doing the embossing (using real red - same colour as the cardstock). I really love this effect. 

Another popular effect I have noticed lately and that I have been using myself is this ruffled ribbon look. It's very easy to achieve - simply use a strong adhesive such as sticky strip by placing a strip on the card where you want your ribbon to go and then gather your ribbon by pinching it as you put it on the card. As long as you use a strong adhesive it works perfectly every time!

And the stamp we used is the Something for Christmas, one of the new alacarte stamps in the current Stampin' Up! catalogue. It's a very versatile stamp but here I've just used it with our Stampin' Write markers. 

The colours are Real red, Whisper white and Old olive.

Happy Stamping!

Love, Claire

Upsy Daisy thank you card

Hi my stamping friends!!

I have a simple little card to show you today using one of my favourite techniques which is using your markers directly onto the stamp. It works beautifully with this big Upsy Daisy stamp.
The background on the So saffron and Peach parfait was achieved using the ink pad pressed lightly onto the cardstock.



If you have any questions, just ask! Thanks for stopping by and Happy Stamping!
Love Claire