Holiday fun with Sunny Challenges

Hi Everyone,

Wow, I can’t believe 3 weeks have passed already!
My time as Guest Designer is whizzing past so very fast.

So is the time until Christmas is upon us!

This week at Sunny Challenges and Creations we are celebrating the Holiday Catalogue. ( I think I’ve been doing that for while anyways) but please do check out what the girls have made on the main blog. They really are a talented bunch!

I’ve put together a quick and easy card this week. I am actually in the middle of moving house, so it’s a little simpler than I’d normally like to do! Embossing folders and Framelits that match Stamps have really come to the fore here to give what is essentially just some coloured cardstocks a touch of luxurious texture. The Holiday Collection framelits and Scentsational Season stamp set are available as a “Bundle” which is a wonderful way to save some money!

This coffee cup is a lovely depiction of Hot Chocolate on a cold Winters’s day. If only our Winter and Christmas coincided in Australia, as it is – my coffee cup is likely to be filled with Ice Tea at Christmas time! lol The embossing folders used were Vintage Wallpaper, Perfect Polka Dots and the new Fancy Fan.

If you went mad in the Holiday Catalogue like I did, just admit it and show us what you’ve made using the Sketch Challenge at Sunny Challenges and Creations.

See you again next week for my final Challenge as
"Guest Designer"

for

Sunny Challenges and Creations!

Perfect Plum for Sunny Challenges

Hi Everyone,

This is my very first card as Guest Designer for Sunny Challenges and Creations. Thank you so much to Gwen, Chris and Vicky for inviting me along to have some fun with you all during November!

A nice big present made from International Bazaar paper and all wrapped in delicious Taffeta Ribbon – Perfect Plum indeed. Silver sparkle Dazzling Details around the frame and on the party hat glitter nicely in the light and give a real party feel to this card!

Guest Designer – hmmm I like the sound of that! lol I hope you like the card I have made for the sketch challenge SC0066/12 this week. Head on over to Sunny Challenges and Creations to see the sketch and have a go at it yourself. You have a whole week to do so! Don’t forget to use the Stampin’ Up colour Perfect Plum!

I really enjoy using the You’re Amazing stamp set from Stampin’ Up. The sentiment combines with a die from the Apothecary Accents Framelits set to cut it out perfectly and this little elephant above with a party hat on helps you celebrate!

Let’s see what you can make with Perfect Plum and the Sketch from Sunny Challenges and Creations! I look forward to commenting on your entries!

Thanks for stopping by…

Inky Mojo Monday Card

Hello Again,

I wanted to share this card I made for the Mojo Monday challenge this week.

This card was made with a little arty farty and inky bit of fun. There’s nothing like getting your hands all inky and gluey and painted now is there?

This is the sketch this week…

I started with a mixture of purple inks on the frame from the Everything Eleanor stamp set and stamped it onto glossy white cardstock. Then I stamped a pile of different images onto some plain white tissue paper. I then ripped the tissue paper around the images I wanted on the card and stuck them down with clear glue.

The frame is black card stock that has been cut with two Labels collection framelits and embossed with the Lattice embossing folder.

I used a pile of black ink and sponged messy edges on, they were a bit too dark so I went over them with Shimmer Paint and a brush. 

There’s also Bakers Twine of course – because I’m addicted to it, some Dazzling Details glitter and a bit of ribbon and flowers all stacked up too.

Hope you like my card this week and don’t forget to come back and join me next week when my Guest Designer spot starts with Sunny Challenges & Creations.
I would love you to join in with the sketches each week!

Ciao for now…

Good Luck Triple Time Card

Hello again,

Yes, I’m back so soon… Sunny Challenges and Creations were after a card using the Triple Time technique, which I had learned recently, so I thought – hey, I can have some more fun. This card is made for a friend's daughter who will be on her way to Sydney for the National Cheerleading Championships after her team won the State Championships!

I combined the challenge with the Dynamic Duos again this week – their colour challenge always helps me make a decision on colours (otherwise I’d still be fiddling around!) I didn’t end up using the other option – die cuts, because the punches did the job instead!

I have used both an old stamp set and a new one – the old one is a retired Sale-A-Bration set called punch bunch and the new one is A Fitting Occasion which has these circular sentiments and lots of little pictures for the centre. The owl was perfect here of course!

Hope you like my take on the Triple Time stamping technique.

I look forward to sharing more with you next week.

Merry Christmas

Hi Everyone,

Well it’s not quite Christmas yet, but don’t blink to hard – it might just sneak up on you!
On this card I’ve cut out the sentiment using the X-large Oval punch and layered it on a sizzlit frame from the Lots of Tags sizzlit collection. 

A sketch challenge with the Christmas theme was on the cards at Sunny Challenges and Creations this week. I used the Boho Blossoms punch to create some flower windows in the plain panel to reveal the designer paper underneath.

It gave me a chance to use some new Stampin Up colours called Gumball Green and Summer Starfruit. It’s also given me a chance to use some new papers too – this one is from the Comfort Cafe series. These will all be available in a few days time when the new 2012-2013 Annual Catalogue goes live on September 1st.

I even had a few left-overs to decorate the inside of this card – using the Gumball Green cardstock and some Summer Starfruit coloured Boho Blossom punch flowers. Thanks for stopping by – I hope you like my little preview of some of the new items from Stampin’ Up which are available after September 1st.

Inspiring Mojo Card

Hi Everyone,

Well I have been so busy that I’ve missed a couple of Mojo Monday Sketches, finally got to this one in time though. I had occasion to make a card to inspire a young friend and what better statement than this one from the Stampin’ Up Word Play stamp set.

This is the whole card. I have outlined the die cut Elegant Bird with and ‘Island Indigo’ coloured Stampin’ Write marker to make it stand out, and also added faux stitching to the mat.

This is the Mojo Monday Sketch that I’ve used, my card is a little different in shapes and proportions but hey, you get that! I had a few of these birds already cut out and this one had a big bit missing from it’s belly, so I hid that under the sentiment. Just goes to show, don’t throw anything out, you never know where you can use it.

The papers used are Stampin Up “Twitterpated” and the grosgrain ribbon will be retired from the end of this month and replaced in the Annual Catalogue with something lovelier I’m sure. I didn’t want the ribbon to cover up the bird’s head, so I just tucked it under and started it from there.

I hope you like my card, I’ll be back soon with a wee project I’ve been working on using Glossy Paper, Staz-On ink and a sponge! Check back later to see.
Thanks for stopping by.

Top Note Easel Card

Hi Everyone,

I’ve been wanting to try using the Sizzix Top Note die for Stampin’ Up as a base for an easel card for a while now. It’s the perfect size and so easy to do I don't know why I haven't done it yet! A Christmas theme was in order for July and I’ve not kept up with my weekly Christmas Card make for some time now, so Christmas it is!

Dasher is used here again, obviously a favourite of mine, along with a sentiment from the Four the Holidays stamp set. I just love this beautiful scripted Merry Christmas. It's stamped directly onto designer paper from the Twitterpated series.  I’ve embossed the whole lot with the Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder to represent falling snow. The small friend sentiment is from the Tiny Tags stamp set, and the pleated satin ribbon in Riding Hood Red is covering the edge of the paper.

 

As you can see – It’s an easel card, made very easily with the Top Note die. Simply fold your cardstock base and place it over the Top Note Die with just 3 sides being cut (leave the folded part just inside the cut line).
Then cut another single Top Note shape to build the card front.
 Assembling is simply a matter folding back the top of the card base evenly in half and attaching the card front so that it’s in position with the base card.
The folded back piece adheres to the back of the front piece in the top section only.

So here it is open and standing up. An oval sentiment popped up on a scallop oval provides a stopper so that the card stands up.

I love the ease of this easel, excuse the pun lol

I’ll share this card with the following challenges:-

Crafty Annes Challenge – Easel Cards – good timing I think! lol
 Inspire me Fridays – Always Anything Goes Delightful Sketches – Christmas in July
Paper Play Challenges – Christmas
Divas by Design – Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by, I look forward to more posted for you soon.

Mojo Fifth Avenue Rose

Hi Everyone,

I’m back and have managed to do my Mojo Monday sketch for the week and what a sketch it was, so many elements to it – here is my card, a beautiful black rose!

The beautiful rose from Fifth Avenue Floral was heat embossed with White Stampin’ Emboss powder onto Black cardstock and fussy cut out.

I then highlighted areas of the Rose that I wanted to coat in glitter using the Versamarker and Heat n Stick Powder. The Versamarker lets you put glitter just where you want it and is great for doing fine lines. The Stampin’ Glitter is Dazzling Diamonds – it is truly very fine in texture and it sticks well using the powder.  

I used the same Pear Pizzazz coloured paper from the Twitterpated Designer Paper pack that is in the current mini catalogue to make the leaves and the underlying mat – just offsetting the pattern.

Not only did I use the  Mojo Monday sketch, but also the Colour Q challenge colours…

      

What a blast of fun I’ve had making this card – lots of Sizzlits (Floral Fusion, Little Leaves, Lots of Tags) cut out with my Big Shot and various papers/ cardstocks. Also one of my all time favourite stamp sets – Fifth Avenue Floral – which is possibly going to be retired in September when the new catalogue arrives. boo hoo.

The sentiment really appeals to me as I am far from a perfectionist and I could really use this as a motto to slow down and do it right the first time! 

Hope you all are having a lovely day, perhaps sitting by the ‘puter having a cuppa? Whatever your doing, enjoy and I’ll catch you later.

Happy Christmas Dasher

Hi Everyone,

A quick share of a Christmas card I’ve made using the Mojo Monday sketch this week.

I have really been enjoying the Dasher stamp by Stampin’ Up. It’s so versatile! Here I have stamped it in Soft Suede and used my Versamarker pen with Heat n Stick powder to apply glitter to some select areas of the stamp. Of course there is glitter everywhere in this photo because I was in such a hurry to blog it that I haven’t shaken all the loose glitter off yet! lol

Here is the Mojo Monday sketch this week…

The designer series paper that I’ve used in this card is called Just Add Cake, and I’ve used matching cardstocks in So Saffron yellow, Baja Breeze blue and Whisper White of course! The sentiment is from a retired set, but it’s stamped and cut out with the Word Window punch and layered onto the Modern Label punch. I also used the ever popular edgelits to cut the Poppy Parade red designer paper and emboss the edge with the coordinating embossing folder.

Thanks for stopping by to check it out, I’ll be back again soon

Yellow Kindness

Hi Everyone,

Just a quick post to share with you…it’s late on a Friday night here and I’ve had a huge week, and am looking forward to an early start in the morning for a market stall - so I’ll keep it short and sweet

I saw a discussion on a forum somewhere recently – which I didn’t join in to, but it got me thinking. The discussion was about the colour Yellow and how little people tend to use it or like it. It got me thinking – I do not use yellow enough! I like Yellow! Kindness really does matter so today I’m being kind to yellow.

I really like the layout of this card – I cased it from the Stampin’ Up Ideas book and catalogue! (See page 71!) Mine’s a little different, but the layout is essentially the same.

I really love playing with shimmer mist and totally coated this chocolate cardstock
he he he!

The butterflies and sentiment are both from the Stampin Up Kindness Matters stamp set, which you can also see on page 71 of the catalogue. (see the link to the online catalogue on my sidebar if your interested). I coloured the butterflies with my Stampin Write markers and the blender pen.

Enjoy….I’m off to bed

Mojo Melon Mambo

Hi Everyone,

Thought I’d better get in and do my Mojo Monday card for this week, here it is…

 and here is the sketch….

    

I have stamped the large rose from Fifth Avenue Floral in Crumb Cake ink on the white base, framed it with Melon Mambo and went ballistic with the paper piercing tool! I love how the Mat Pack keeps you going in straight lines.

A little (well sort of little) package arrived just in time from Stampin’ Up with my order this month and I was able to use the Floral Fusion sizzlit to make a flower. I stamped in Melon Mambo on the white flowers that I had cut (using the Triple Tread flower stamp). 

The little leaves sizzlit is there too.

Designer Frames embossing folder with Oval All stamp set for the sentiment and it’s layered onto a crimped piece of Crumb Cake that has been swiped over with White Shimmer Paint.

I went with a colour combo from Dynamic Duos

Crumb Cake with Melon Mambo was my choice, only Whisper White kind of got in there.

Hope you like my card today, I’ve had a rather crafty afternoon and have a couple more cards to share with you using Crumb Cake card stock over the next few days. I’ll keep you posted. Thanks for dropping by and hope to see you again soon..

Stationery Set Friend

Hi Everyone,

Well it’s the last day of the financial year here in Australia, so I thought I’d post this stationery set to inspire you, it’s one of the tutorials on split coast stampers and surprisingly easy to make with wonderful results! An address book, tags and 4 cards are what I filled mine with.

The case itself is made from double sided paper that is nice and sturdy – I used a retired Stampin’ Up paper. It’s been decorated using some flowers from my stash and the Vintage Vogue Stamp set – yes folks, I do love Vintage Vogue, I use it quite often!

Take the lid off and the front flap folds down to reveal a delightful array of goodies inside…

These tags are perfect for pressies…

and the cards are great for keeping in touch with friends…

Of course, you have to be able to find your friends addresses…

I used some old exercise book paper to make the pages inside..

Hope you enjoyed my little project today that I’m sharing with you, I’ll also share it at..

Inspire me Fridays – Always Anything Goes

Hello Card

Hello Hello Hello fellow crafty people,

It’s Mojo time again and here is my bright Real Red card…

The Adorning Accents Edgelits die and matching embossing folder are perfect for the Fancy Frills challenge at SUO Challenges. The border stamp from Vintage Vogue alongside the gorgeous satin pleated ribbon really adds to the frills. A little embossing with Manhattan Flower is swiped over with White Shimmer Paint for added interest.

this is the Mojo Monday sketch this week…

I’ve made another flower, this time using the 5 Petal punch. A little spray of my home made Shimmer Paint Spritz and sparkles galore! Check it out close up…

Hope you like it. Any Australian residents that are interested in purchasing any of the Stampin’ Up products used here or even joining up as a demonstrator themselves (for some great discounts),  is welcome to inquire through my Stampin Up website HERE.

Thanks for stopping by, come back again soon.