Just Add Ink 40

This is the Just Add Ink challenge for this week make a card using these colours:

Now I must say I had a great deal of trouble with this card as they are not colours that I would normally put together (I suppose that's the idea), so I thought I would use a technique I have not used for a while - using markers on embossed vellum.  This is the card I came up with:

Embossing on vellum and then colouring the velum gives a nice soft finish to a card and I thought that would go well with the soft colours of the challenge.

Card:  Sahara Sand, Blushing Bride , Pear Pizzazz and Bashful Blue
Ink:  Sahara Sand
Stamp:  Teeny Tiny Sentiments and Fifth Avenue Floral
Accessories: White Embossing Powder, Punch and Ribbon

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.

Look What I Have Been Doing All Week

This is a similar version to one I did earlier that I received lots of lovely comments, so I decided to do it for my swap at our Regional Training day. I think I must be NUTS!!!! I did 50 swaps for Regionals - that is 100 embossed flowers and each flower had to be cut out by hand and coloured by hand. Then there are 50 bows to be tied. The ladies in my classes would be saying serve you right as I do love bows ( they do moan a bit when they see another card with a bow on it in class).

Each card had three layers on the card and the whisper white layer I used the 1/2" circle punch to cut the corners (that is 200 corners I had to line up) Then I scored with the bone folder in 1cm on the whisper white for a bit more interest (I really am nuts).

There are a fewer layers with dimensionsal (under the whisper white, under the top flower and under the greeting).

All in all a very time consuming card BUT I had a great day at Regionals and both Sue Madex and Angela Dickins from my team demonstrated different techniques despite both being nervous (who wouldn't being up on stage in front of hundreds of craft ladies). Well done girls...

More Mosaic

I have to say all the ladies in the class so far have loved this technique and it is such an easy technique to do. This particular sample used the very popular Fifth Ave set and the lovely Urban Oasis - the colours are really effective together and with the black and white embossing it looks great in real life(the colours haven't photographed particularly well). There are still a couple of places in next weeks classes if you are interested just contact me

Beautiful roses

Aren't these just the most beautiful arrangement of flowers? A friend of my sons gave me these flowers and the fragrance is just amazing. I just love flowers and if you have been looking at my blog lately nearly every card has been a flower card.

After receiving these I just had to make another flower card. I started off embossing the Fifth Avenue rose with white embossing powder but it looked a bit flat so I used my markers to colour in the back which is a technique we did in class last year but gives a lovely finish to the flower.(and so much quicker and easier than watercolouring if you are in a hurry).

I know I started out to make white roses and ended up with a very pink card and very pink roses, I did try purple ones but I liked the finished pink ones better. The top rose I layered to give a bit more depth. Hope you like it (Thanks Matt for the flowers that inspired this card)
Card: Regal Rose, Whisper White
DSP: Sweet Always
Ink: Regal Rose
Accessories: White embossing, powder punches, Regal rose ribbon, Vellum

Wednesday Tutorial on Splitcoaster

Splitcoast Stampers is a great site to get lots of ideas and Tutorials. Last weeks tutorial was for the flower pot - which has been immensely popular lately. I had made two of these back in April to give to friends for their birthdays, so I thought I would pop a photo on here and a link to the Splitcoast tutorial. I made this with Taken with Teal, Regal Rose and Purely Pomegranite (retired) and Bali Breeze (retired), The flowers were stamped three times each with Fifth Avenue and each layer cut a little smaller than the previous one and layered with dimensionals, and yes there is some glitter on each flower, not that you can see it all that well but it is there.

Classes we have done this year

Here are some of the cards we have been doing in classes this year, so if you are interested in trying new techniques there is something sure to interest you. The first card is done using the glitter window technique and the ever popular Priceless set.


The second card was the stained glass window technique (using acetate sheets instead of normal cardstock) which was very popular and everyone was very glittery by the time they finished, but very happy with the card they all finished up with. The stamp set used was the Embrace Life
This is another card made using the stained glass window technique and the Fifth Avenue stamp set.

Interesting cards

I thought I would show you some of the cards I have made over the last six months some have been done at classes and some just for fun. The first lot of cards are ones using the recessed window template that I found on Splitcoast stampers (you can get lots of wonderful ideas from this site)





This card was made using Urban oasis and Haiku DSP along with the Fifth Avenue stampset


This second card also used the Urban Oasis DSP and the stampsets were Wild About You and the background was the Sanded stamp. I'll be back in a couple of days with some more cards we have done. Thanks for looking.

These cards are just a couple of ones I have done for workshops recently.
The first card was made using :

Cardstock: Kraft, Black and Whisper White
DSP: Urban Oasis
Stampset: Fifth Avenue
Inkpad: Kiwi Kiss
Accessories: Eyelet Punch and Kiwi Kiss Ribbon, Glue Pen and Dazzling Diamonds

The second card:
Cardstock: Riding Hood Red and Pacific Point
Stampset: Crazy for Cupcakes and Short and Sweet
Inkpad: Stazon Black
Acessories: Dazzling Diamonds, Versamark and Glitter

The background was stamped Versamark using the tiny cupcakes from Short and Sweet, I then applied Heat and Stick and heated very quickly and then added Dazzling Diamonds and gave it another quick heat with the Heat Gun to set it

My New Blog

Well I think I must be the last one in my team to finally get around to doing this blogging thing. Better late than never is the motto. I just wanted to show you a few of the cards we have made in the May classes. Everyone went home with lots and lots of glitter all over them and with some very lovely cards as well.


We also did some lovely crimped cards (using my new crimper). Well the card isn't crimped the envelope is! The card and the envelope are decorated in a matching theme.

Gone a bit mad with the crimper this month I also did some lovely thankyou cards that went out with my orders for last month. The photography is not great (have to blame the photographer for that - photography has never been my strength, always left it to hubby to do. Will have to smarten up my act and get a bit more practice)