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Punch art and colouring in baby card

16 Saturday Jan 2016

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Happy New Year!

I’m back at my craft desk today after a nice break over Christmas and New Years.  I am visiting a close friend who has had a new baby next week so wanted to make a special card.  

I have seen punch out baby drawer cards all over the Internet and have been itching to make one.  So here’s my version:

  
I used a top gold card blank (cut an A4 sheet in half vertically at 10.5cm) and then cut the shape from the bottom with 2 cuts of the curly label punch.  The drawers are 8cm x 2cm and embossed with my spotty folder for added texture.  The top of the drawers is 11cm x roughly 1.5cm (I just used up a scrap). 

I used Sahara Sand card stock and sponged the edges with Blushing Bride. 

The images are from the Baby Bundle set and the sentiment is from Nursery Necessities (both retired Stampin’ Up! but there are lots of cute baby sets in the current catalogue that would work just as well). 

I cut out all the shapes.   One tip for cutting really tiny shapes like the curve of the coat hanger – if you have a marker the same colour as your card stock just colour around so it’s not obvious if you leave a bit for added strength:

  
It’s a good idea to position the clothes etc before you stick down the drawers – I stuck a few behind the drawers:

  
(I used dimensionals to stick on the drawers and mini glue dots for the fiddly little cut outs). 

I hope you enjoyed that card – and hopefully my friend will too!!!

Thanks for reading. 

Caro 

Punch art and colouring baby card

16 Saturday Jan 2016

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Happy New Year!

I’m back at my craft desk today after a nice break over Christmas and New Years.  I am visiting a close friend who has had a new baby next week so wanted to make a special card.  

I have seen punch out baby drawer cards all over the Internet and have been itching to make one.  So here’s my version:

  
I used a top gold card blank (cut an A4 sheet in half vertically at 10.5cm) and then cut the shape from the bottom with 2 cuts of the curly label punch.  The drawers are 8cm x 2cm and embossed with my spotty folder for added texture.  The top of the drawers is 11cm x roughly 1.5cm (I just used up a scrap). 

I used Sahara Sand card stock and sponged the edges with Blushing Bride. 

The images are from the Baby Bundle set and the sentiment is from Nursery Necessities (both retired Stampin’ Up! but there are lots of cute baby sets in the current catalogue that would work just as well). 

I cut out all the shapes.   One tip for cutting really tiny shapes like the curve of the coat hanger – if you have a marker the same colour as your card stock just colour around so it’s not obvious if you leave a bit for added strength:

  
It’s a good idea to position the clothes etc before you stick down the drawers – I stuck a few behind the drawers:

  
(I used dimensionals to stick on the drawers and mini glue dots for the fiddly little cut outs). 

I hope you enjoyed that card – and hopefully my friend will too!!!

Thanks for reading. 

Caro 

When too many wedding cards are never enough!

16 Thursday Apr 2015

Posted by in 3D / pop up, Cards, Embossing folders, Small Heart, Sweet treat cups, Wedding cards

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I don’t know how many times I’ve started a blog post by apologising for the length of time it’s been since I last posted, but here I go again!  Life just gets busy!

Today I wanted to show you some wedding cards I made for a dear friend’s wedding a few months ago.   This is a snippet of their wedding invitation, which inspired me to make not one, but three cards for their wedding!

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I tried to use their design as inspiration, and the colours they chose were uncannily similar to Stampin’ Up!’s Night of Navy and Very Vanilla.

Design one – wedding gate fold card

Gate fold embossed wedding card

Gate fold embossed wedding card - inside

Sponged embossing

(I used my sponge daubers and pearls to add colour and sparkles to the embossed flowers)

Mr & Mrs sentiment

(I love this teeny tiny sentiment from the Teeny Tiny Sentiments set)

Scallop wedding greeting tag topper

Design two – embossed wedding card

Embossed wedding card

This card actually used a Christmas embossing folder tipped on its side.  You’d have to look very closely to see the Christmas details at what should be the top!  Again, some sponging and pearl details set it off.

Sponging and pearls

Wedding day greeting

Design three – wedding easel shaker card

Easel shaker wedding card

This was my son’s favourite!  He loved the heart shaped cup and shaking the card to make a sound with all the little cut out hearts with the small heart punch.

Hearts in a heart shaped cup

Mr & Mrs heart shaker card

Wedding gate fold card (inside)

I loved them all, but ended up using the gate fold card as my card to the happy couple.  My son insisted on the shaker card being from him, and my parents ended up using the other card.  So none of them went to waste!

Please let me know if you’d like instructions for any of these cards and I can post the dimensions.

Which one was your favourite?

Thanks for reading

Caro x

Wildflower Meadows and Simply Sketched

30 Wednesday Oct 2013

Posted by in Birthday, Cards, Embossing folders, General occasion, Wildflower Meadow

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Hello

The cards I have to show you today follow a similar layout to a baby card I showed you a few weeks ago.

Both of these cards were inspired by a demonstrator in the UK called Sam Donald who has an awesome blog/YouTube channel called Pootles Papercraft.   I encourage you to check it out – I get so many ideas from there.  Here’s the card she called ‘Elements of Wildflower Meadows’.

And here are my versions, using the Wildflower Meadows stamp and a greeting from the Simply Sketched set (my favourite hostess set in the current catalogue):

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Wildflower Meadows & Simply Sketched

 

Embossed Wildflower Meadows with Simply Sketched greetingHere’s a little close up of the embossing:

Embossed Wildflower Meadows elementsThere are so many things you can do with the Wildflower Meadows stamp.  I hoped you enjoyed having a look at some of the things I’ve made with it.

Thanks for reading

Caro

 

 

 

Embossed Wildflower Meadow cards

29 Tuesday Oct 2013

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Hello

Yesterday I showed you some cards I’d made with my Wildflower Meadow stamp and matching embossing folder.    Today I wanted to show you some cards I’d made using the stamp with Versamark ink and embossing powder.

Here are some Crumb Cake cards with Versamark ink and clear embossing:

IMAG0118It’s a little hard to see the details of the sheen but it is easier to see in a close up:

IMAG0120It also looked pretty amazing with silver embossing powder:

IMAG0121Here are some made from Pretty in Pink (retired) card stock, Versamark ink with clear embossing powder:

Embossed Wildflower MeadowHere is a close up:

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I had so much fun embossing I am going to have to try some more soon.

Enjoy!

Caro

 

 

 

Wildflower meadow cards

28 Monday Oct 2013

Posted by in Cards, Embossing folders, Framelits, General occasion, Labels collection, Wildflower Meadow

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Sorry for the long gap between posts.  Life has been a little hectic lately (to say the least!)   I haven’t had any chance to make any cards lately, but I do have a few photos to show you from the last time I managed to spend a few hours on my card making.

One of the card sets that most caught my eye in this year’s Stampin’ Up! catalogue was the Wildflower Meadow set – and it has a matching embossing folder!  Who could resist?

It is such a beautiful set and the extra depth from the embossing means you can get an amazing effect from the simplest card.

This card was just stamped with Whisper White ink on Crumb Cake card stock:

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I was thinking about how to ‘step it up a bit’ and decided to use my Stampin’ Write markets to add some highlights over the white ink:

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The markers over the white ink gives a really lovely, soft effect.  Here’s a close up which gives you a better idea:

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You can also use your markers to colour directly onto the stamp to give a multicolour effect:

IMAG0109Here’s one where I used the off-cut from a labels framelit to act as a border:

IMAG0110 I had such a lovely time playing with this stamp set.  I’ll show you some more of the results of my experimenting over the next few days.

Thanks for reading

Caro

Using my colouring in … Part 3

03 Thursday Oct 2013

Posted by in 1 1/4 inch circle, 1 3/8 circle, Baby cards, Cards, Embossing folders, Perfect Polka Dots, Scallop edge

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The past few days I’ve been showing you some pictures of some of the cards I made with my stash of coloured-in images.

Today I want to show you one of my favourite set of cards I’ve made in a long time. Such a cute baby card (if I do say so myself!)

I’d coloured in a whole heap of small imaged from a retired Stampin’ Up! set called Baby Bundle.  You could make a similar card from the current A Fitting Occasion set, or any other set with cute small images  (PS the images in the Baby Tees jumbo wheel are also gorgeous and great for colouring in).

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I cut out the coloured image with my 1 1/4 inch circle punch.  The matted circle was cut from the 1 3/8 inch circle punch.  I like this as it gives just a hint of background colour, but you could use your 1 3/4 inch circle if you like more background.

The white cardstock layer was run through the Big Shot with the Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder.

I then used my Scallop Edge border to cut along the edge – I thought the card needed a bit of balance on the right and I love how the scallop edge turned out. This photo gives a better idea of what I did (sorry it’s a bit grey)

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Here are some more:

Gorgeous baby card

 

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IMAG0098I’m so in love with these cards I almost couldn’t bring myself to give them away!  (I must confess I’ve kept quite a few.  I need some people to have babies so I can use them!)

Thanks for reading

Caro

A music note card

18 Thursday Jul 2013

Posted by in Big Shot, Birthday, Music Notes, Perfect Polka Dots, Wheels

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Just a short post today to show you one of my favourite card layouts.  I have made this in lots of different colours – this one is Stampin’ Up! Crumb Cake and Marina Mist.

IMG_1398 I used a Marina Mist C6 card blank and ribbon with a Crumb Cake card stock layer and ink.   The music notes come from a Stampin’ Up! wheel (“Music Notes” with a little happy birthday greeting.   I ran the top of my Crumb Cake layer through the Big Shot with my Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder for a little extra texture.

I’ve made this card with Night of Navy, Melon Mambo and Bravo Burgundy (now retired) – but I can’t really think of too many colours this wouldn’t work with!

Caro

PS This was a card I had wrapped up in a cellophane bag to give to an Op Shop to sell.  Next time I’ll photograph it OUT of the bag!

A quick Quintessential flower card

25 Saturday May 2013

Posted by in 1 inch circle, 2 3/8 inch scallop punch, Cards, Embossing folders, Mini scallop, Perfect Polka Dots

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I needed to make a birthday card very quickly the other day so I thought I’d show you what I came up with.    It was so easy to make this card I made a few at a time.  I just used various shades of pink C6 cards and added some Whisper White (10cm x 14.2cm) which I’d embossed with my Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder.

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I stamped a bunch of images from the Stampin’ Up! quintessential flower stamp –  in Pretty in Pink, Blushing Bride (retired but about to return!), Rose Red and Melon Mambo.

I then punched out at least one colour each of the various flowers/circles in the image using my 2 3/8 scallop punch, 1 3/4 scallop punch, mini scallop punch and 1 inch circle punch.      Then just mix n match, layering up with Snail glue and dimensionals.    I popped a Glimmer brad and some pink pearls I found at a $2 dollar shop in the centre, but you could also use pearls and rhinestones.

Here’s a close up of some of the flowers.    I think they would also work really well on gift tags or even stuck directly onto a gift wrapped present.

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Looking at these pictures I think next time I use this flower I am going to have to put some bling in those little dots around the edge of the widest flower!

I hope you enjoy.

More uses for scraps – present cards

22 Wednesday May 2013

Posted by in Big Shot, Birthday, Cards, Embossing folders, Framelits, Gift tags & wrapping, Square Lattice, Using up scraps

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I’ve done a few posts over the past few days on how I’ve been trying to use up all the little bits and pieces of card stock and DSP I have lying about my office/craft room.

I have been on a mission lately and made a pile of cards from the paper cluttering up my desk.  I donated them to a local op shop which makes me feel good as well as well as having an (almost) clean desk!

Here’s another card design which is great for using up scraps.   I’ve used Tangerine Tango (14cm x 14 cm) and Whisper White (13cm x 13cm) card stock with scraps in varying sizes from the Sycamore Street DSP & Tangerine Tango ribbon from this year’s Sale-A-Bration.

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One tip – when assembling the presents I used a small scrap of offcut paper and stuck the rectangle “presents” to the scrap.  This made it really easy to keep the rectangles aligned and tie the ribbon before attaching the “presents” to the Whisper White card.

I also made a version where I ran the Whisper White version through the Big Shot with the Square Lattice embossing folder.

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I also made a 7cm x 7 cm gift card:

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The Happy Birthday label is stamped in Tangerine Tango on Whisper White from the Itty Bitty Banners stamp set and cut out with the matching framelits.

This basic design could be used in any colour scheme – I think it would look great in ‘Christmassey’ colours as an easy but effective Christmas card too.

Thanks for stopping by!

Caro