Triple Treat meets SAB

Another very quick and easy card for you today using one of the DSP's from the SAB set, Everyday Enchantment, teamed up with the Triple Treat Flower stamp. The flower was stamped once in Baja Breeze and twice in More Mustard and the three layers punched out with the Fancy Flower, 5-Petal Flower and ½" Circle punches. The flower was then assembled using dimensionals. A strip of DSP was cut at one end with a square punch, layered onto a piece of More Mustard cardstock which had also been shaped at one end, and then positioned onto a white card blank. The flower was glued in place on top, a couple of gems added and a sentiment stamped in More Mustard.

More SAB Freebies!

This is another card made with a SAB freebie but this time a stamp from Fresh Vintage.

It's not very often I CASe a card but I saw this done by an American demo and just had to have a go (the original tutorial can be found here). 

To start I stamped the image onto a plain white card blank in Wisteria Wonder, the card was then positioned in the oval folder from the Designer Frames Embossing set and run through the BigShot. The central piece is a 'homemade' stamp which was made with a piece of excess rubber in the centre of a stamp which I stuck to a spare wood block and this was stamped, again in Wisteria Wonder, with the sentiment overstamped in Elegant Eggplant. I punched this out with the Large Oval Punch, inked the edges and fixed to the card with dimensionals. Another easy card but a very effective one I think.

Sale-a-Bration Freebies

More of those Everyday Enchantment SAB papers for today's card. The ones I have used so far have a vintage feel about them, however there are some more 'modern' designs in the pack - I just haven't had time to use them yet!

This card is a really simple design and quick to make. I used some non SU cardstock, which I found in my stash, for the card base and the colour is close to Very Vanilla. The bird stamp (which is reflected in the paper) is from the SAB set, Elementary Elegance, and was stamped in Crumb Cake onto the card base. A strip of DSP was cut so the focal shape was central and adhered to a piece of Riding Hood Red cardstock which was cut slightly bigger. From a scrap of DSP I cut out the 'shape' and layered this onto a circle of R.H.Red cardstock and then glued this onto the DSP. A knot of R.H.Red Taffeta ribbon was tied around the panel before it was glued to the card base. The card was finished with a sentiment stamped onto a piece of card and cut with the Modern Label punch.

Scraps of Lace

The Simply Stampin' challenge this week is Lace and I had to think about this one as I'm really not a lacy person. However I remembered I had a 'scrap' of Crochet Trim somewhere, which was left over in my goody bag from the last team training event and, as the rest of my card was using mostly scraps, it is also my second entry for the LIM challenge. I haven't been tempted to buy the Crochet Trim before but as I was really pleased with how it looks on this card that may very well change!

I made the card base with half a sheet of Naturals Ivory, which was left over from a previous card and used a piece of DSP from Everyday Enchantment (a SAB freebie) as my first layer. I stamped the image from Fresh Vinyage (another SAB freebie), in Riding Hood Red, onto a scrap of Very Vanilla and inked all around the edges with a sponge dauber before fixing to the base card. The panel on the LH side is another scrap of Riding Hood Red cardstock with the crochet trim tied around the edge and butted up against the Very Vanilla. I stamped the sentiment and part of the large image onto Very Vanilla and cut out using the Jewelry Tag Punch, these were positioned onto the card with a Basic Pearl added and 3 smaller Basic Pearls down the edge of the panel.

Don't be put off by the suggestion of colours that co-ordinate with the papers as they can all be substituted, I don't have either of the reds that co-ordinate but I am more than happy with how the Riding Hood Red matches (and I'm a bit of a perfectionist when it comes to colour matching, hate it if it 'doesn't quite go'!).

I hope you're all enjoying this touch of spring that we are getting, it's so lovely to see the sun - apart from the fact that it shows up all the dust, dirt on the windows and the effects of winter on the garden! I just hope we don't revert back to winter. Enjoy the rest of your weekend and I'll be back soon, maybe with even more scraps now they've seen the light of day :0)

Scraps!

The challenge at Less is More this week is 'Scraps' where Chrissie & Mandi want us to use up those card and paper scraps, so I thought I would show you the pictures above of my scraps (well some of them). I'm not very good at using up my scraps, of which I have copious amounts, before cutting into a brand new sheet of cardstock or DSP and have hundreds of 'already cut' flowers, leaves, butterflies, circles and branches but always reach for the punches or dies rather than seeing what I've already got! Well that changed for today and I have made 2 cards for the challenge, although believe me I could have made a lot more.

I started by making a card blank in Certainly Celery and then cut a piece of DSP slightly smaller and fixed it to the card base. For the top layer I used a piece of Whisper White, slightly smaller than the DSP, cut out holes with different sized circle punches and layered this on top. I collected all my scrap flowers which had been cut with the Boho Blossoms punch, Itty Bitty punch and the 5-Petal Flower punch and decided to use a Very Vanilla and Pumpkin Pie combination (the only thing I had to newly punch were the two small circles to go in the centre of the tiny flowers) These were assembled and curled slightly before positioning 

in the apertures using dimensionals. A small basic pearl, a couple of branches (from the 2-Step Bird punch) and the sentiment were added to finish the card.

My second card is along the same lines but using some of my many pre-cut butterflies (Beautiful Wings Embosslits). This time the colour combo was Pink Pirouette and Elegant Eggplant, with the addition of a bit of Vellum cardstock, and I embossed the Whisper White cardstock with the Perfect Polka Dots Embossing folder. For this card I mounted the white embossed layer on dimensionals and stuck the butterflies to the card base, rather than the other way round, to give a different diemension. Basic Rhinestones were added to the butterflies for a bit of sparkle.

On a final note I would like to add that no new pieces of cardstock or vellum were cut or damaged in the making of these cards :0)

Have a great weekend and I'll be back soon x

Blossom Box

I had so many fantastic comments about the card that I made earlier in the week (shown above left), using the branch from Easter Blossoms, that I thought I would show you the box I have made to go with it. The top is made with the Scallop Square die so I made this first as it determined how big the box would be. The Scallop Square was scored on all four sides after the second scallop, which left me with a lid measuring approx 2½" square. The rest of the box was made to fit the lid, mine is 6" high but you can make it as short or tall as you want depending on what you want to put in it. Panels were made for the top, and all 4 sides, using the branch stamp on Whisper White and then layered onto Wisteria Wonder, leaving a tiny border showing. The scallops on the box lid were inked with Wisteria Wonder using a sponge dauber and a Wisteria Wonder Ruffled ribbon loop was added to the box lid. Oh and not forgetting 3 vellum butterflies from the Beautiful Wings Embosslits, sponged with Pretty in Pink and Melon Mambo, with a tiny pearl in the centre, on the front panel.