More Stampin Up cards

Time flies by so quickly and there are never enough hours in the day and sometimes I forget to do things - like upload cards to my blog for one.

I made this one for my niece's 30th birthday a couple of weeks ago.

I used Stampin Up new in colours - mint macaron for the card base and the new envelope paper on the front.

My UK Scrappers team, the Bijoux Belles did a recent bookmark swap and here are the two I made - again using Stampin Up papers.  

The flower is and origami flower called kusudama and is very easy to make.  There are loads of videos on You Tube if you want to try it.  I have made something very similar to this in fabric but I rather like the look of the paper one.

My final cards are these... 

I saw something similar on Pinterest but as per usual, I forgot to pin it so apologies to whoever inspired me.

A different colour way...

and a different shaped card.

Kinda eclectic thank you card

My husband's mother has dementia and lives in a care home where she is extremely well looked after by some wonderful people.  We heard yesterday that one of these wonderful ladies is retiring and so my husband asked me if I'd make a card for her that would hold a gift voucher so I set to work.

I turned to one of my favourite SU stamp sets - Kinda eclectic and had a mooch around Pinterest for some inspiration and came up with this.

We will substitute the Hobbycraft club card with a garden centre gift card but I needed something to gauge the size with.

I made a matching envelope too which I don't seem to have taken a photo of but while I had the stamps out, I made a couple more cards using different colours.

Also over the weekend I made another gift box of thank you cards which I hadn't managed to get around to uploading.

The box measures 3.5" square, is 1.5" deep and holds 6 thank you cards with matching envelopes.

Butterfly birthday card

I made this card a couple of weeks ago and forgot to upload it.

Very simple, but quite pretty I think :D

Ouch!

My friend Sue has a sketch challenge over on her blog (with a prize) every month and I do try and support her and enter a page as often as I can.

Here is June's sketch

and this is what I came up with.

Erin-Rose is wearing a bib with cherries on it so I wanted to use the new Stampin Up DSP stack called cherry on the top as I thought it would be perfect.

Why don't you pop over to Sue's blog and see what the challenge is all about?  Maybe you could win the prize this month!

Maria's birthday card

I wanted to make a special card for my friend Maria's birthday and I saw this ages ago and really liked it but never got around to making one.  Anyway I thought it was perfect for what I wanted with a little tweaking - I wanted to put some 4" x 3" notecards and envelopes in the drawer so made it bigger.

This is the result:

This is the box

and the box open

the easel card inside

and the little drawer showing the note cards.

New whisper white thick card

I am so pleased that Stampin Up have finally brought out thicker whisper white cardstock.  Although I love the normal stuff, I didn't feel it was strong enough for a card base.  Anyway, mine arrived this afternoon and this is what I have made.

The front of the card is the normal whisper white and I printed the words on my computer then masked and stamped the flower images down the side using a second stamping of basic grey ink so it was fairly subdued.

I punched out a heart from scrap card and glued it to the back of some fabric to use as a template for cutting out the red spotted hearts.

and added some bakers twine.

Sneeky Peek...

at the new "in" colours from Stampin Up catalogue which is out at the beginning of June.

I made these 5 tiny cards to showcase the colours - I'm not sure if they are my cup of tea or not...the jury is out Lol!

From left to right the colours are watermelon wonder, mint macaron and tip top taupe and below them are cucumber crush and delightful dijon.  The tiny strip of paper which you can hardly see is from a new 6"x 6" called cherry on the top.

Let me know what you think

Matchbooks

My friend Maria has started a swap group on FB for our UKs team the Bijoux Belles.  Last month, the theme was tags - make two and send them out to whoever Maria drew out of the hat for you.  I didn't take part and when I saw the photos of all the lovely tags, instantly regretted it so this month when matchbooks were mentioned, I decided I would join in.
These are what I came up with:

I thought they might look nice in a box - well I like making boxes so why not!

All products used are from Stampin Up apart from the chocolate!

Tiny thank you cards

I have been selling some of my old crafting stuff on a Facebook selling site and made some cards to send out when someone bought something and these are a few of them.  They measure 3" x 3" so are very cute.

I'm really pleased how they turned out so I'm going to make another batch complete with a box and give them to my neighbour as a gift.

More birthday cards

Here are a couple of cards I have made recently - both using my Stampin Up butterfly die which I love, love, love :D

This next one is for a friend on one of my internet groups - I love the red and the crumb cake colours together.

I spritzed the butterfly with some pearlescent spray but I think it could have done with another coat :)

and this is the inside.

Petal Potpourri

Time goes by so quickly - it's almost April!  How can that be?  Anyway, I've been busy making lots of things and have a couple of birthday cards to show today.

The top three are A6 size and the one below is A5. This one is for my sister in law's birthday so I wanted it to look a bit more special.

I used the petal potpourri set of stamps which I am loving surprisingly enough and it's great that there is a matching punch :)  The background dots are made with one of the stamps in the Perpetual Birthday Calendar stamps - perfect for any sort of backgrounds.

Painted blooms notecards

I've seen several pins where the lovely Painted Blooms designer paper was chopped into 6 and cards made from it.  To me this seems like a cheats way of making cards but they all looked so lovely I had to have a go!

When I'd finished I made a box to hold them and will give them to my sister in law for her birthday.

This is the original sheet of paper

and these are the finished cards

with one of the finished envelopes, stamped with the matching stamp set

and finally a box for them all to go in.

Bow builder punch

I'm loving this new punch from SU - I can use up my scraps of paper to make quick and easy cards.

I had quite a few scraps left of DSP and it was easy to punch out several bows and this is what I made them in to.

While I was at my craft desk I thought I'd better make a couple of cards for birthdays I having coming up this week!

Love this stamps set too!

Thanks for looking and I'll be back soon :)

Birthday card

A birthday card for my daughter Holly, hence the holly leaves Lol!

I'm loving the new Stampin Up stamps - the amazingly amazing  stamp is from Painted Petals and the insert uses Balloon Bash.  

Painted petal thank you cards

I have lots of new goodies waiting to be played with but just haven't had the time recently.  My husband is on a mission - to clear our lofts and so every bit of spare time has been taken in sorting out the enormous amount of "stuff" we have accumulated over the last 30 years.  We are hoarders so there is a serious amount of stuff, I can tell you!

Anyway, I took some time out yesterday to finish off some thank you cards I started just after Christmas and here they are.

I've used some of the new painted petal stamps which I can see are going to be so versatile.

The insert has been stamped to match.

A different colourway

and the inside.