1 very simple design, 3 lovely cards

Everyone made a variation of these cards on Tuesday, Bashful Blue was the base the background always stamped in Bashful Blue ink but Seeing Spots, Touch of Nature and Simply Said sets where used.  Brilliant Blue was the mat layer and then a focal image was stamped onto Confetti White from either For Father, Simply Said or Summer by the Sea.  The female cards also had the addition of Night of Navy grosgrain ribbon.

Happy Anniversary to me......

It's my wedding anniversary today, 19 years.........Here is a card I made for my husband Brian, very simple but I know he will love it.

Rose Red and Chocolate Chip cardstock and ink

En Francais background stamp 

Simply Said for the heart

Wonderful Words for the Love sentiment

I stamped the solid heart with Rose Red ink onto Rose Red cardstock and then I used the Flower heart stamp over the top in Versamark and then heat embossed it with clear embossing powder.

Penny Spinner card

I love cards that move and this style of card looks so effective but is really easy to make.

To make this card I have used

Certainly Celery card, ink and Designer series paper

Pick a petal stamp set

Simply said stamp set for the greeting in the spinner runner

Stampin' Dimensionals

2 pennies

I will post a series on instructions in a day or 2.

Ink colour stays true

Now you now how sometimes you have a WOW ! moment when you are crafting?

Well that happened to me today, I was preparing for some workshops I am running in the next few weeks and experimenting with Bashful Blue and So Saffron with of course my favourite Old Olive.

Now Stampin' Up! ink pads are fantastic, beautiful colours, matching tones to cardstock, you can watercolour with them, emboss them, blend them but best of all.......they stay true to colour even on another colour of cardstock.

The card below is stamped with So Saffron onto Bashful Blue and it has stayed yellow, how fantastic is that???

2 Birthdays

It's been a busy birthday week this week with 2 of my collegues birthdays, Lorna and Emma.

Lorna loves green so I just had to use Old Olive card stock as the base for this card. I first cut the A4 card lengthways giving me a 5 1/2" high card, I folded it in half and then folded the front half back on its self to make a small zigzag. Then a Chocolate Chip mat and pieces of Brocade Background Double Sided Paper finished the layers. The mat with the greeting on is Very Vanilla Cardstock on top of Chocolate Chip cardstock and stamped with the Heartfelt Stamp set (Old Olive and Chocolate chip ink) and a greeting from Sincere Saluations.

Emma loves pink so a base of Rose Red card stock was perfect for her, I used a 10" x 5" piece to make a 5" square card. I lined the inside with a piece of designer series paper in Rose Red and attached a strip of Chocolate Chip Grosgrain ribbon to the outer edge. I stamped the front of the card with Rose red Ink and using one of the flower from Simply Said before tearing the edge to reveal the DSP and the ribbon. The front mat is Regal Rose cardstock torn again in the same way and stamped with the word heart again from Simply Said in Chocolate chip. The inner heart was stamped in Rose Red on some Regal Rose cardstock and cut out, I then edged the heart with a little chocolate chip ink to make it pop from the card underneath and stuck it down using Stampin' Dimensionals. A greeting from Sincere Saluations and a little ribbon finished the card.

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