It's a blue week........

For lots of reasons this is a blue week, it's a busy week too, two Stampin' Up! home workshops, an all day Christmas Card Class on Saturday and the Southampton Papercraft show on Sunday so I've set blogger to post automatically so you have some different cards and projects to look at.

This an 18th Card for Annabel, daughter of Julia one of my very first Stampin' Up! customers, now a dear friend and I'm sending them both and their family a very big hug x

This is a diamond fold card see the post here for instructions.

I have used the Swirling Stars wheel in Bashful Blue to get the background.

Bashful Blue card stock stamped with Birthday Wishes from Sincere Salutations and edged with the wonderful scallop edge punch, the edges softened with a sponge dauber and ink.

The poinsettia flower from Season of Joy stamped twice onto Whisper White card with Bashful Blue ink, cut out and the petals bent in towards the centre to give dimension. Attached to the card with a pale blue Ice Brad.

The 18 is chipboard, inked and then double heat embossed with clear embossing powder.

The butterfly (from Touch of Nature) is stamped onto Vellum with versamark, then heat and stick powder then dazzling diamonds glitter, the layer below is the same butterfly stamped in Bashful Blue ink onto Whisper white card and then cut out.

Happy Stampin'

Amanda

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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