Blog Surfing

Hi Ladies. Another week has gone by, rather quickly I might add. The school holidays are almost over and back to normality. As a blogger I like to surf other stampers blogs. One of my favourites is Kristina Werner's blog kwdesign.com. I found her blog not long after I first found out about the wonderful world of blogging. I am guilty of visiting Kristina's blog on a daily basis. I love her simple clean style. Kristina has a weekly colour challenge. My first project tonight features colours from this weeks colour challenge . I didn't actually enter her challenge this week as I was too late but next week I might give it a go.



Supplies
stamp set: A beautiful thing ( sneak peek from new spring mini catalogue)
card/ink: certainy celery, pumpkin pie, very vanilla, soft sky
accessories: 1 3/8" circle punch, scallop punch, white signo gel pen

Extravaganza

Hi there. Well it has been another busy week. The creative inkers hosted our second extravaganza on Saturday afternoon in Birkenhead. We all had a fabulous time and our guests went home with 5 fantastic projects. Here are photos of a couple of the projects that we made. The card I demonstrated was the suspension card. I really enjoyed showing this project, as it has a wow effect but is quite simple to make.



Here is a close up of the suspension part of the card and also a picture of embossed circles using the cropodile



Supplies
stamp sets: garden whimsey, think happy thoughts
card/ink: soft sky, blue bayou, wild wasabi, purely pomegrante, very vanilla
accessories: 1 1/4" circle punch, 1 3/8" circle punch, fishing line, glue pen, glitter

The next card is called a stand up card which Sara demonstrated. I had never made one of these cards and put it together this afternoon.




This card is great as it doesn't need an envelope and sits up by itself

Supplies
stamp set: baroque motifs
card/ink: soft sky, purely pomegrante, whisper white
accessories: ribbon

I am still making up the rest of the projects from our afternoon and will show them in a couple of days. Thanks for visiting.

Something Different

Happy Tuesday. I can't believe it is already Tuesday. I have had a busy week and haven't had a chance to get onto the computer. The rain has contributed to this as I always have trouble getting a connection if we have a lot of rain. Today is the first fine day we have had in about a week so a good opportunity to get on the computer.

As I said it has been a busy week and I haven't done a lot of creating either. This is where being a Stampin' Up! demonstrator is so great as we are provided with so many different things to give us inspiration as its not always easy to come up with your own. In the next couple of pictures I have tried a new technique called stippling. It is a technique I have never tried before, but I really like the result.


This is a very easy technique. All you need are Stampin' Up!s amazing stampin write markers. Instead of drawing on your stamp using the markers place little dots. One this first attempt I used the brush tip. It is a little time comsuming but the result is different and effective. I wanted to try and get more definition to the dots so in this next picture I used the fine tip of the marker.


Another thing I tried was to use the markers to colour our ribbon. This next card was taken from our monthly demonstrators magazine, a really loved the colour combination and how the putting a little bit of colour on white ribbon really changed the look of it.


Supplies
stamp set: garden whimsey
card/ink: old olive, pumpkin pie, purely pomegrante, tempting turquiose, whisper white, basic black
accessories: white ribbon, markers

Here is a close up of the ribbon. I have finally figured out how to use macro on my camera, so will be able to do more close ups from now on.


Thanks so much for stopping by, have a good evening.

Last of childrens cards

Happy Saturday. I am a day late in posting this week. Last night was the start of a busy few weeks for me. I did a workshop last night and introduced some ladies to stampin up. We had a great night. These ladies were scrapbookers so I had fun showing them how you can use stamps on your pages. Thanks Carey-Lou for a fantastic night.

I have to confess tonights cards are ones that I made quite some time ago but. The first uses one of my favourite childrens sets wild about you.

Supplies
stamp set: wild about you
card/ink: whisper white, certainly celery, regal rose, so saffron, cool caribbean (07 in color)

The next card is my first attempt at a waterfall card. This is ideal for children. When I first showed this to James and Caitlin they thought I was soo clever and have been at me ever since to show them how to make one.

Supplies
stamp set: wild about you
card/ink: brilliant blue, green galore, whisper white, assorted card stock
accessories: brads

I have really enjoyed showing you some different childrens cards and of course now I have a good supply for all the birthdays and parties that come up. I can't believe it is now the end of June and only another week left till the school holidays. I am off now to tidy my desk and unpack my bag from this afternoons workshop. Have a great weekend, with this horrible weather it is a wonderful time to create. Thanks for stopping by.

More Swap Cards

I have persuaded James to sit with me again while I have another go at posting using html code. Here are another set of photos from our team the creative inkers latest swap.

I just love the dress card made by the fabulous Pauline from Napier. Pauline doesn't have a blog yet, but hopefully we can persuade her to get one up and running. Anabel made the lovely invitation and Janine has made a cool masculine card.
The following stamps sets were used to create these cards: Bundle of Joy, Short and sweet, cheer and wishes, wanted.

Here are the last sets of photos.

Jacque my upline made the cool pirate card check out her blogstamphappy. Rachel has made the beautiful princess card. Rachael has justed started her blog knightstamper and I am sure we will see lots of wonderful posts on there. Karen has made a really cute card using wild about you. Click the link on the right to see more of Karens work. Sara I will post your card tomorrow. James had had enough. I am picking up the code and its not as difficult as I thougt. I have also been playing around with an online calendar from bravenet. Bear with me while I get all of the entries on there. Enjoy the rest of your weekend. I am off to do some ironing and start dinner. Thanks for stopping by.

Swap Cards

Happy Saturday. I had a lovely morning with the girls. We did children's cards for our swap. Its amazing the different designs everyone came up with and the different stamps sets used. Here are some photos of the great swaps I received.

These lovely cards have been made by Diane, Tracey, Leanne, Richelle, Densie.

Stamp sets: circle of friendship, happy everything, birthday best,bugs & kisses, little birthday cheer, jumbo outline alphabet, nursery necessaties, sweet shapes, fun & fast notes

I have another set of photos to post tomorrow, I have had James sitting with me helping me to do this post on blogger using HTML and he has been very helpful, but is now too tired to help me do another set of photos. He is hoping that I pick up the code quickly. Thanks James for all your help. Thanks for stopping by

Nice and Simple

I haven't had a lot of time to create this week. It has been one of those weeks, the next two cards I have to show tonight took about 15 minutes each to make. Its surprising what you in whip up in a short time.

Supplies:


stamp set: think happy thoughts, canvas background, eat cake, card/ink: bashful blue, certainly celery, regal rose, accessories: mat pack, 1 1/4" circle punch, 1 3/8" circle punch, scallop punch.

Supplies:


stamp set: birthday best, garden whimsey, card/ink: regal rose, rose red, whisper white, accessories: brads

Well I better get off and tidy up my craft room. It never seems to stay tidy for long. The girls are coming around after our meeting so I want it to look presentable. I will take a photo and post as well as some swap photos in the next day or so. Have a good weekend. thanks for visiting.