Marvellous Magic Marquee Card

What you will need:

Stamp Sets:  Petal Parade, Best of Birthdays
Cardstock:

1 piece of pistachio pudding cardstock  - 20cm x 15cm - base

1 piece of pool party cardstock - 6.5cm x 15cm - layer

2 piece whisper white cardstock - 4.5cm x 7.5cm – score at 1.5cm on short side

1 piece whisper white cardstock - 6cm x 22cm - belly band

1 piece of pool party cardstock - 6.5cm x 6.5cm

1 piece of island indigo cardstock - 5cm x 5cm

1 piece of pistachio pudding cardstock - 11cm x 11cm

 

Ink:

Versamark, Island Indigo, pool party, crisp cantaloupe, wisteria wonder, pistachio pudding

Accessories:

1¼” square punch 1⅜” Circle punch,  1¾” Circle punch,  1¾” Scallop circle punch,  2⅜” Scallop circle punch,  hot glue gun, Sizzix spiral flower originals die, bone scorer, paper trimmer, sponge dauber

1.      Score the pistachio pudding base card at 5cm on both sides.  Make sure flaps join in the middle of card.  Stamp front using Versamark with images from Petal Parade stamp set.

2.      Stamp focal image on scrap paper.  Punch out with 1⅜” Circle punch.  Centre the circle on pool party layer.  Draw around the circle using a pencil and then punch out the circle.  Now centre  this layer on the base card.  Draw the circle on the base.  This now shos you where to stamp your focal image on the base.  Stamp image on base when image is dry rub off circle.

3.      Stamp greeting on layer and adhere layer to base by putting a strip of tape across short top and bottom of layer (making sure you leave the longer sides open).

4.      On the two pieces of whisper white (4.5cm x 7.5cm) collage images from Petal Parade stamp set. Using 1¼” square punch cut ends to make banner shape.

5.      On front of base, line up the circle punched from scrap paper used earlier.  Draw round the circle.  Using 1¾” Scallop circle punch to punch the front flaps, being careful to line up ½ the scallop circle punch with the edge of each side of card.

6.      Create the belly band by collage stamping images from Petal Parade stamp set.  Wrap around base card and fold.  Adhere together where ends overlap.

7.      Punch out the pool party using 2⅜” Scallop circle punch.  Punch out the island indigo using the 1¾” Scallop circle punch.  Layer together on front of belly band.

8.       Run the pistachio pudding square through the bigshot using the spiral flower die. Soften the card by running over the bone scorer.  Sponge edges with pistachio pudding ink.  Assemble flower.  Adhere with hot glue gun.  Attach to front of belly band.

Holiday Ornament Framelits Dies meet Season of Style Designer SeriesPaper

Some of my regular ladies asked if we could do the ornament from last years occasions catalogue (page 3).  I decided to use the Season of Style designer series paper.  The snowflake is retired Snow Flurry bigz die.  Greeting from That's the Ticket.

Stampin' Ups! New Thinlit Card Dies

I've been having do much fun playing with these new Thinlit Card Dies.  Here are my samples for what we are making tomorrow night at Bel Air Baptist Church Card Making Group.

My first sample is using very vanilla card for the base.  My main focal image is a single stamp called Wonderful Blessing.  I have framed the cards with strips of Season of Style designer series paper.  On the inside I have punched out a circle of the dsp and adhered to the back of the flip circle.  I have also placed a semi circle as a finishing touch.  My greeting is from That's the Ticket stamp set. 

My second card also uses the thinlit die.  This time I have used the Stylish Stripes embossing folder for the strips and then stamped border stamps from Mosaic Madness I between the lines.  On the inside I have punched a circle and embossed and stamped as with the strips.  My main image on the front is as card one using Wonderful Blessing.

My third card is using retired paper from last years occasions catalogue.

Triple time stamping meets the open sea

Today I thought I would share a technique I did a while ago and hadn't got around to posting the cards that I had made.  It is a great technique called triple time stamping.  In this series of cards I have used The Open Sea stamp set.  It's a fun technique which lends itself to a variety of stamp sets.

Ink:  river rock, banana breeze and island indigo

Card:  Sahara sand, whisper white and island indigo

Ink:  more mustard, Baja breeze, island indigo

Card: more mustard, whisper white and island indigo

My inspiration for this card came from a card I saw on Pinterest, from Becca Prideaux. You can see her original post here 

Ink:  gum all green, marina mist and Baja breeze

Card:  gum all green, whisper white and marina mist

New Catalogue Launch projects

I thought I would show you today the projects that we did at my launch for the new catalogue.

My first project is using the Wildflower meadow stamp set along with the Sassy Salutations.  Card Base is Coastal Cabana with the layer being whisper white, and the greeting is layered with Bermuda Bay cardstock.

I have used the new hexagon punch to create the tail on the banner.  The original idea came from Darlene McCallum here.

Stamp Set:  flower shop, sassy salutations

Ink:  coastal cabana, crisp cantaloupe, pistachio pudding, strawberry slush

Card:  whisper white, coastal cabana, pistachio pudding

Accessories:  pansy punch, hexagon punch, adorning accents edgelits die

My friend Ann found these delightful A5 clipboards at officeworks and I thought they would be a lovely thankyou gift for those attending my launch.  Cut a piece of tissue paper the size of the board.  Stamp your image on the tissue paper.  Scrunch up your tissue paper and then unscrunch.  Apply mod podge glue to the base. Work quickly to attach the tissue paper to the front.  Apply a layer of mod podge to the top to seal. They were a great hit with my attendees. 

Wildflower meadow in crisp cantaloupe and calypso coral

This is a variation of the card that I made at my launch but using crisp cantaloupe and calypso coral

Stamp Set Used:  Wildflower meadow, sassy salutations

Ink:  calyso coral, crisp cantaloupe

Card:  whisper white, calyso coral, crisp cantaloupe

Accessories:  hexagon punch, simply pressed clay, Wildflower meadow textured impressions embossing folder

Christmas in July meets mosaic madness.

Here are the projects we will be doing at Bel Air Baptists Creative Cards group this month.

The layer of cherry cobbler is stamped with whisper white craft ink creating a soft appealing image.  I then have stamped the baubles in wild wasabi, garden green and gumball green.

The greeting is from Sassy Salutations.  I have finished of with the border stamp in cherry cobbler.

This card I got my inspiration from pinterest.  You can find the original link here. You can also view the other cards that I like using this set on my pinterest board here.