Colour Inspiration # 9

This is Kristina's colour inspiration for this week. It took me a while to make a card with these colours but here's what I came up with:

I used so saffron for the base of the card. I used the so saffron Prints paper from this month's special. I layered real red with tempting turquiose then put a scallop in old olive behind the flower in pumpkin pie with a pumpkin pie rhinestone brad in the centre which is mounted using dimenstionals. I used old olive 5/8" grosgrain ribbon around the card and attached it with double sided tape. The stamps sets used are Baroque Motifs and Occasional Greetings.

Happy Anniversary

My Manager at work asked me to make her an anniversary card so this is what I came up with. One of my new favourite colours is Basic Gray. You probably can't really see the colours well but I've used whisper white, basic gray, certainly celery Prints Designer Series Papers from the palette o' prints and vellum cardstock. I used elegant eggplant, certainly celery and basic gray ink pads stamped onto the vellum. When you stamp onto vellum you need to make sure you wait a while as it takes a little time to dry. I've used the absolutely and newly favourite Baroque Motifs stamp set. Once I stamped onto the vellum I used a couple of rhinestone brads to keep the vellum in place before adding the ribbon. The ribbons I used are 5/8" certainly celery grosgrain, basic gray taffeta and 1/4" elegant eggplant grosgrain ribbons. I tied the basic gray and elegant eggplant together which I really like. I always like to stick the ribbon down with double sided tape just so it stays where I want it. I then used the greeting from a level 1 hostess set called So Many Sayings in basic gray. Next time though I would stamp the greeting first as I had to remove one of the rhinestone brads because I used the Stamp-a-ma-jig to postition to stamp correctly. I really like how this card turned out.

Colour Inspiration # 8

This is Kristina Werners Colour Inspiration # 8. Kristina puts up a colour inspiration challenge each week on her blog for anyone to participate. If you haven't checked out her blog you need to. Here is my attempt at the colour inspiration:

Sorry the pictures aren't clearer. I made this tri-fold card using brilliant blue for the base. I made the stripes on the front and middle section using various widths of pumpkin pie, brilliant blue and bashful blue and used my new striped grosgrain ribbon in bashful blue; I only received it yesterday so as my husband would say 'that's a sign'!!! I've used the scallop punch, 1 1/4" circle punch and the 1 3/8" circle punch. The stamp said that was used was Boho Backgrounds and everything was stuck down using double sided tape or dimensionals.

It was fun making this card using colours that I wouldn't normally use, it's good to try new colour schemes so why not have a try using colours you wouldn't normally reach for next time you need to make a card.

More Flowers

I really like square cards and I felt this flower needed to be on a square card, sorry the photos not exactly centred. We made this card in the workshop I did on the weekend.

Cardstock: whisper white, tempting turquoise, purely pomegranate textured cardstock
Punch: large oval punch, 1 3/8" square punch, 3/4" circle punch
Accessories: purely pomegranate double stitched ribbon, petals and paisleys DS patterend paper, double sided tape, Stampin’ Dimensionals®, pretty in pink brad, tempting turquoise ink pad, mini glue dot, occasional greetings stamp set, stamp-a-ma-jig.

To make the flower I punched 8 ovals and positioned them on the purely pomegranate card stock before sticking them down. I made the tempting turquoise corners using the square punch then cut in half diagonally and trim to desired width and stick down. To adhere ribbon fold and stick together using a mini glue dot and then stick to cardstock using another mini glue dot.
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THANKYOU to Di

I just wanted to say a very BIG thankyou to my very cool friend and fellow demonstrator Diane Barnes. Di has helped me set up this blog and answered many questions I had as I was a bit clueless (still am a little but getting better). Thankyou for sharing your time and ideas with me. Di and I catch up regularly to bounce ideas off each other which is great. The day goes rather quickly and sometimes we get stuff done and other times I think we talk more than we create but at the end of the day we have FUN. If you haven't already done so you need to check out Di's blog

Another Mother's Day card

Here is another card that was inspired by a card I made with my friend Diane using versamark ink and pastels. You need to check out Diane's creations.

Cardstock: whisper white, purely pomegranate, old olive
Punch: 3/16” corner rounder punch
Accessories: 5/8" old olive grosgrain ribbon, mini glue dots, purely pomegranite Stampin’ Pad®, versamark pad, Occasional Greeting stamp set, bud basics stamp set (I love this set)double sided tape, sponge daubers, Stampin’ Pastels®

Mother's Day

Mother's Day is only 2 weeks away so I thought I would make some cards to sell at work. I ended up making 28 in total and this was one of them. I absolutely LOVE the new In-Colours and I think groovy guava is going to be my favourite!

Cardstock: soft sky and groovy guava textured cardstock, very vanilla
Punches: scallop punch, 1 1/4", 1 3/8" circle punches

Accessories: 5/8" choc chip grosgrain ribbon, scribble jumbo roller, groovy guava Stampin’ Pad®, choc chip Stampin’ Pad®, Occasional Greeting stamp set, figures of speech stamp set, double sided tape, Stampin’ Dimensionals®, spring flowers Designer Series Paper, blender pen (I used the blender pen to colour in the heart using groovy guava ink)