November Class Cards

This month we did some lovely Spring Cards the first one using the lovely Christmas Classics and the tree is actually cut out 3 times to give a layered effect. The stars are stamped in gold not that you can really tell from the photo (lol I think thats the photographers fault). The cardstock is Riding Hood Red and Old Olive

The second Spring Card the flowers from the Fifth Avenue Floral Set have been embossed on Velum with white embossing powder then cut out and coloured with markers. The card stock is Pretty in Pink and Whisper White and the DSP is Sweet Always.

Card for 118 Years

I bet that got your attention. A friend asked for a card for a party she is going to they are celebrating 118 years (the wife if 50 this year, the husband is 50 also and they have been married for 18 years).

The present is a big bottle of champagne, so when I was at Paperific on the weekend they had these wine totes, and I thought that is just the thing to go with my card. So I took it home covered it in the lovely silver SU metallic cardstock and some black (the inside is all in silver too), because the wine tote is taller than the card stock I had to join it in the middle and run a little fancy band around.  Then I stamped and embossed some black and white flowers from the Eastern Blooms set and cut them all out to decorate the card and the wine tote. I know I could have made a bag but the bottle of wine fitted perfectly in here and I would worry that the bag might not be strong enough.

One Of Those Ones You Just Can't Get Right

This is about the fifth time I have made this card over the last couple of days - I was determined it just wasn't going to get the better of me, but no matter what I did it still didn't turn out how I imagined it would in my mind.I tried it plain white then I tried with Always Artichoke background and still I didn't like it.  So yes it did get the better of me and I have given up this is the final version. I have used the Lovely as a Tree set  stamped it in Always Artichoke and sponged around it in Mellow Moss and Creamy Caramel. I masked the main area and applied heat and stick and dazzling diamonds around the outside (at least you can see the glitter in this photo (there is nearly a whole tub on there so you should be able to see it), normally my photos don't show up the glitter - so I suppose I should be thankful for that.

Magic Snowflake technique

This is another technique from Splitcoast It is similar to the polished stone technique we did in class a couple of months ago so all you ladies that bought your reinkers and glossy cardstock dust it off and try out this technique (dont forget the rubber gloves). The only difference with this technique is that you stamp an image with versamark first, apply some clear embossing powder and heat it. Then you apply your reinkers on a cotton ball with some rubbing alcohol ( I saw on someone's blog that this is the only time you should mix alcohol and cardmaking together - I always thought a little glass of bubbly would help the creativity and get into the feeling of Christmas spirit). At this stage you are probably thinking you have made a mistake as all the image has disappeared but this is why they call it magic, you just reheat it with your heat gun and out pops the image again.

Stamps:  Snow Swirled

Card: Chocolate Chip Very Vanilla White Glossy card

DSP: Holiday Treasures
Accessories: Choc Chip and Always Artichoke reinkers Rhinestone Brads (you have to have some bling on a card) Ribbon SU (retired)

Joy Fold Card

This card is one of the techniques on Splitcoast. This type of card uses a different type of folding technique to the normal card and all the instructions are in this resource section, which is great if you are stuck for something different to do on your card.

Card:  Real Red Whisper White Metallic Gold

Ink: Versamark

Accessories: Gold Embossing Powder Punches  Ribbon and Brad

Mojo Monday 112

This is the mojo Monday sketch for this week and I decided to do a red and gold theme for this using SU Metallic gold and Riding Hood Red card, The Star was stamped with Christmas Classics and two stars punched out behind it all held together with the lovely rhinestone brads from SU. I used the Merry Christmas was from the Punches Three set and cut out the middle of it to fit over my circle punched from the metallic gold and my scallop circle punched from Riding Hood Red. I used the Gold Encore stamp pad and a sponge dauber to give the soft gold in the background.

Christmas Colour No 5 and 6

Both these cards are made with the more traditional Christmas colours - the base card in both being ruby red.

The first card is made with Sweet Slumber DSP and the little elves were embossed in black and coloured with my markers and then I added a border in Baja Breeze with the Square Scallop punch. I added some bling with the lovely crystal brads SU have and some ribbon which I split in half (I didn't have any fraycheck so I just put Crystal Effects on the very edge to stop the fraying (you can use that Crystal Effects for so many things) to finish off the effect

The second card I have again used the Sweet Slumber DSP and and picked out the blue from the paper and matted my elves on Baja Blue and used the Aquapainters to create a blue background behind them. In this card I embossed the elves with black embossing powder before colouring them in and when you compare it with the second card you can see how much better it stands out. What you can't see very well in the second card is that I have stamped the image on the Ski Slope DSP and cut out some of their hats and collars, the hats are not stuck down completely so there is a bit of a 3D effect which looks great. (I have just purchased Photoshop and the tutorial to go with it maybe that might help improve the photos and I am also asking Santa for a new camera - so if the pictures don't improve I won't be able to blame anyone but me!!!!)

Christmas Colour No 4

Well daughter no 3 is a dark blue person so Night of Navy was the starting point for this card. Following one of the Try a New Technique on Splitcoast a few weeks ago using foil embossing out came the kitchen foil for the background (with my cuttlebug - but SU up are finally going to introduce the Big Shot next April so we can all look forward to lots of fun with that). The snowmen were stamped from the Holiday Lineup set on SU metallic silver card stock with versamark and embossed with black embossing powder.  After that they were coloured in with my aquapainters. Using the Snow Swirled set I embossed the snowflakes with sivler embossing powder and then the greeting is embossed with black embossing powder.

So lots of embossing on this card - the blue and silver are a great combination together (pity about the photography, unfortunately I couldn't seem to get rid of the glare from the foil).

Christmas Colour No 3

Well these are really different colours for me, I don't often use the Earth Elements so I thought here we go - I have teamed up More Mustard, Really Rust, Chocolate Chip and Whisper White. I used the background stamp Sanded and stamped this onto the More Mustard card stock using More Mustard Ink. The punches are still working overtime I have used the Scallop Square and the Round Tab along with the Cropodile to put the jumbo eyelet in ( punched out of Really Rust and folded in half). Even then I didn't think it looked finished so I dusted off my Earth Element brads and added a couple of those on the bottom of my scallop squares.

The elves were coloured with the Aquapainters and as many of the Earth Elements Watercolours that I could use. The last thing added was the Very Merry from the Short and Sweet set stamped in Really Rust. I think these are daughter no 2's colours again so I will have to do daughter no 3's colours tomorrow

Christmas Colour No2

For the second card using holiday lineup I am using a blue theme, which my eldest daughter immediately said is much more to her taste than the Yukky purple one from yesterday (you can't please everyone). I stamped the stars from the Snow Swirled set in Bashful Blue and Pacific Point for the background, on Bashful Blue cardstock.  The main card is Pacific Point and the Holiday Lineup snowman is stamped on Whisper White and matted on Pacific Point. I love the Scallop Oval punch I have been using that a lot lately teamed with the sentiments in the Best Yet stamp set which is a Level 1 Hostess set .

I used the Aquapainter with both the Watercolour Crayons and the inkpads to colour in my snowmen

Christmas Colour No 1

I had done a series of cards using this set and thought I would try using different colours every day along with one of the stamps from this set. My daughters all love very different colours so each one dresses and buys items in a certain colour range.  When my daughter saw these cards she said - "That's a very Rebecca card" which it is she loves purples and oranges (yuk do I hear you say?) so that is the focus on this card. With the background stamp (dots) and the scallop punches and some brads along with some dimensionals and a little bit of aquapainting would come up okay.

Cardstock:  Elegant Eggplant Lavendar Lace Pumpkin Pie Whisper White
Stamps: Best Yet (level 1 Hostess) Holiday Lineup Polka Dot (background)
Ink: Elegant Eggplant and Black Stazon
Accessories: Punches and brads.
Tomorrow will be Kelly's colours - Blue Christmas

A Present for Someone Special

I had to make a present for someone special so I used the ideas from some wonderful Stampin Up Demonstrators. The candle I made using Becs tutorial thanks for the great tutorial Bec, the bag I Cased from Michelle who had this lovely bag on display at the Craftfest and the matching card I just made to go with the lovely candles and bag.The flowers on the bag were demonstrated by Ange (http://stampinange.blogspot.com/) (sorry Ange I can't get the link to work to your site will work on that)