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Star Wars 30th birthday card

06 Saturday Feb 2016

Posted by Carolyn in 1 3/4 circle, 3D / pop up, Birthday, Jewellery tag, Masculine, Punches, Word Window

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cards, Star Wars, Star Wars 30th card, Star Wars Punch Art

Hello

I am spending a rainy Saturday afternoon making some cards – and I thought I’d show you one I made for my brother, who is turning 30 this week.  

He is a huge Star Wars fan, and also a bit of a maths geek, so I went with a Roman numerals idea –  XXX is 30 in Roman numerals, so I thought I’d make the Xs out of light sabres!

  
I used Stampin’ Up! punches.  The handles of the light sabres are made from the jewelry tag punch. The blades are from the word window punch. 

The Death Star image is one I used on a Yoda birthday card a few months ago. I’ve uploaded the image to Dropbox for anyone who’d like to use it (the link is in the previous Yoda post). 

I made the inside a pop-up card:

  
The good folks at Flaming Text have a Star Wars text generator, which I used to make the image. You can use the image for free as long as you keep on their watermark (which is there in my card, I promise, just hard to see in the photo!)

I hope he likes his card! 

Thanks for reading. 

Caro 

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Wedding – Vow renewal card

11 Monday May 2015

Posted by Carolyn in 1 inch square, Labels collection, Wedding cards

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cards, I do, vow renewal, wedding

On the weekend I attended a wedding that was actually a vow renewal ceremony, as the couple had been officially been married for some time but wanted to have their “big day”.  Which posed a little bit of a challenge on the card front!  I played around for a bit with the idea of I Do x 2.  Here’s what I came up with:

I do x 2

I chose the colours (Night of Navy, Very Vanilla) to match their wedding invitation.   A dark coloured card base can be a bit of a challenge when it comes to writing the message, so I used my labels framelits to make a nice space to write the message.    

I was pretty happy with how it turned out – and it’s nice to have a little bit of spare time to be making cards again!

Thanks for reading

Caro x

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Embossed butterfly cards

19 Wednesday Mar 2014

Posted by Carolyn in Birthday, Cards, General occasion

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butterflies, cards, embossing, embossing powder, heat embossing, Papillon Potpourri, Stampin Up, Versamark

hello – thanks for reading Caro’s Pretty Things 🙂

Today I wanted to show you a really simple card using one stamp and some embossing.

Embossed Papillon Potpourri butterlyThis is simply a piece of Crumb Cake card stock, with a butterfly from the Papillon Potpourri stamp set stamped over the front in Versamark ink, then heat embossed with silver embossing powder.

Tip: when you are making a card with one repeated image, it’s a good idea to stamp some of the images partially off the edge.  It looks more authentic and just seems to make the pattern “work”.    (You can also use this technique to make your own gift wrap)

The butterflies look so beautiful embossed!

Silver embossed Papillon Potpourri butterfliesI also have to show you a card that my 4 year old made** – a special card for his grandma’s birthday.   He did an amazing job!

Embossed butterflies card - by Mr 4 :-)Although he did a brilliant job for a 4 year old, you can see here that he got some of the versamark ink around the edge of the stamp – which is made more obvious when the embossing powder sticks to it!   This is a good reminder to press gently when stamping!

Thanks for reading

Caro

** Although Mr 4 did the stamping himself, I held the heat tool with him and we did the embossing together.  Heat tools and unsupervised 4 year olds don’t mix!!!

 

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Sweet Sorbet Circle Thinlit card

17 Monday Mar 2014

Posted by Carolyn in 1 inch circle, Big Shot, Birthday, Blossom, Cards, Circle Thinlits, Circles #2, Dies, General occasion

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blossom punch, card base, cards, Circle Thinlits, Crisp Cantaloupe, DSP, flip cards, Mixed Bunch, Pistachio Pudding, Stampin Up, Sweet Sorbet

Hello

I’m really excited to show you today’s card.  I wanted to make a special card for my Mum’s birthday and I’m really pleased how it turned out.   It is my favourite card I’ve made in a long time – and I finally got to play with my Circle Thinlits die which was an added bonus!

Sweet Sorbet Circle Thinlits 'flip' card

(I bought Mum the Circle Thinlits die as her birthday present so wanted to make the card with my die so she’d see an example of her present in action!)

The card base is die cut from Pistachio Pudding and I’ve used the Sweet Sorbet DSP you can get for free from Stampin’ Up! during Sale-A-Bration.   I followed the instructions on Sara’s Crafting & Stamping Studio blog to die cut the DSP layers – thanks Sara!

I cut 2 Whisper White circles from the Circles #2 originals die (largest circle) to stick on the circle ‘flip’ part.   I sponged around the edge in Crisp Cantaloupe to bring out the colours in the DSP.

Inside of Sweet Sorbet 'flip' card

The flower on the front of the card was stamped in Crisp Cantaloupe from the Mixed Bunch stamp set , and punched out with the Blossom Punch.   I used Pistachio Pudding to stamp the flower centre (also from the Mixed Blossom set) and punched it out with the 1 inch circle punch.  I stuck the layers onto the card with Stampin’ Dimensionals and added a pearl for added effect.

Mixed Blossom flower

 

I really loved how this card turned out.   I think I see a few more flip cards in my future!

Thanks for reading – and happy birthday Mum!

Caro x

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Blossom punch gift cards

09 Sunday Mar 2014

Posted by Carolyn in Birthday, Blossom, Cards, General occasion, Gift tags & wrapping, Love notes, Using up scraps

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blossom punch, cards, DSP, Garden Party, gift cards, Stampin Up

Hi

The other day I had an idea for a gift card set which is just a little bit genius (if I do say so myself!!!).   I’ll show you that idea tomorrow.

But first I needed some gift cards …  so, it was off to my craft desk to make some!    I have been wanting to use my pack of Garden Party DSP from the current Stampin’ UP! catalogue for months so I started with that for inspiration.   I pulled out my Blossom Punch and some buttons, and voila!!  Here are some of the cards I made:

Blossom punch Garden Party gift cardBlossom punch Garden Party gift cardBlossom punch Garden Party gift cardBlossom punch Garden Party gift cardThey looked so cute all lined up together!

Blossom Punch gift card setBlossom Punch gift card setCome back tomorrow and I’ll show you my clever idea for packaging them up 🙂

Thanks for reading

Caro x

 

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Fishin’ Around cards

18 Tuesday Feb 2014

Posted by Carolyn in Baby cards, Birthday, Cards, Circle treat cups, Kids cards

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Banner Greetings, cards, Fishin' Around, Stampin Up, Stampin' Write Markers

Hello – thanks for reading my blog!

When I first got this year’s Stampin’ Up! catalogue, one of the first stamps that jumped out at me was the Fishin’ Around one.  At only $15.95 – bargain!    It is perfect for a kid’s card (which I make a LOT of!) or even for an engagement, Valentines Day or wedding card.    It is also great for colouring in – one of my favourite things to do when I’m relaxing.

I needed a special card for a very special 1 year old’s birthday recently, so finally inked up this stamp.

Fishin' Around birthday cardThis is a 13 x 13 cm Bermuda Bay square card with a 12.5 x 12.5 cm Whisper White layer.  I sponged around the white edge in Calypso Coral to match the fish.  I stuck a circle treat cup over the coloured in image to make it look like a fish bowl.   The stamped tag is from the Banner Greetings hostess set.     I wrote the birthday boy’s name with my Dazzling Details glitter glue.   I also put a couple of dots of this in the treasure chest to make it sparkle.

I’ve had lots of fun making these cards in various colour schemes.   Here is a picture of some of my coloured in images (all using Stampin’ Write markers)

Fishin' Around colouringYou can probably see I’ve tried to add some ‘treasure’ to the treasure chests.  Here are a few close up pictures to give you a better idea:

Fishin' Around with treasure :-)

Fishin' Around with glitter treasureI don’t have pictures of this I’m sorry, but I’ve also made a few where I’ve used rhinestones or glitter in the bubbles against a lightly shaded blue background.

Thanks for reading!

Caro x

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Star Wars punch art Yoda birthday card

17 Monday Feb 2014

Posted by Carolyn in 1 3/8 circle, Bird Builder, Birthday, Cards, Jewellery tag, Kids cards, Masculine, Owl, Punches, Tag, Word Window

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cards, punch art, Star Wars, Yoda

Yesterday I mentioned a card I’d made I was just a little bit excited about.   This is it – a Star Wars Yoda card for my Star Wars obsessed brother.

Yoda punch art card I got the basic idea from this post on a blog called Little Miss Scrappy.

It took me a while to figure out all the bits and pieces so I thought I’d share the ‘card menu’ with you in case you want to make it yourself.   I used a retired colour called Certainly Celery for Yoda’s body as I have so much of it still, but there are lots of greens in the current Stampin’ Up! catalogue that would work well.

Yoda

Yoda punch art

Head – 1 3/8 inch circle punch.  It is hard to see from the picture, but I used my bone folder to make score lines in the top half of the circle for his wrinkles.

Ears – 2 of the wings from the bird punch in Certainly Celery and 2 wings from Chocolate Chip

Eyes – I used 2 of the medium sized circles from the owl builder punch in Whisper White and 2 of the smallest sized circles in Chocolate Chip.  I also cut one of the medium sized circles in Certainly Celery and cut it in half to make the eyelids.

Mouth – I drew this on with my Chocolate Chip Stampin’ Write marker.

Body – I used a retired extra large tag punch in Crumb Cake (the shape of the top of the tag gives him shoulders).     The ticket duo builder punch, an oval punch or a trimmed off decorative label punch from the current catalogue could also work well.  You could also just cut out a rectangle!

Belt – I used a Word Window punch in Basic Black and trimmed off the ends to fit.

Robe – I cut a tag punch out of Very Vanilla and cut it in half lengthwise.  I then folded each piece in half lengthwise to make the flaps of his robe.  I had to trim the folded part just slightly to make it perfectly match the shoulder line.   The arms of the robe are a word window punch cut in half, with the rounded edges glued behind the main part of the robe.

Hands and feet – I used the feet from the owl in the owl builder punch.  Tip:  don’t try and cut and glue the teeny tiny owl feet!  You will drive yourself mad!   Far better to cut out an owl body and use the body as somewhere to stick the glue on and hide the body behind Yoda’s robe.

Light saber – I used the end of a piece cut from the (retired) jewellery tag punch in Basic Black for the handle.  You could equally use the end of a word window punch.   I used a word window punch in Coastal Cabana for the ‘sword’ part, but sponged it in Old Olive and silver ink to make it look like it was glowing.

Background

I tore a piece of Soft Suede card stock to look like the rough ground.   I used my computer and printer to print the greeting on a piece of Bashful Blue card stock (this is also retired – I am using up my stash!) Soft Sky in the current catalogue would look just as good.

I hope you enjoy making one of these if you have a Star Wars fan in your life!

Caro x

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For you flower – and matching envelope

07 Thursday Nov 2013

Posted by Carolyn in 1 3/4 inch scallop circle, 1 3/8 circle, Birthday, Cards, General occasion, Kids cards, Punches

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best of 25 years, cards, For You flower, Stampin Up

Hello

For those of you that follow Stampin’ Up!, you would know that it is their 25th anniversary this year.  As part of their birthday celebrations, they are bringing back some of the most popular stamps from the past 25 years.    I am very pleased with the November stamps, as they include one of my favourite stamps from the past few years – the one I call the For You flower (I’m not sure if it has a real name!).

Here is a card I made last year using this stamp:

For You flower card

 

One of the reasons I love this stamp so much is that it coordinates with the scallop punch and the 1 3/8 ” circle punch.

When I found this card, I also realised I had some left overs of the stripy paper.   And ta da – I made a matching envelope with my brand spanking envelope board punch!!!

Envelope with Envelope Board PunchI can’t tell you how excited I am by this envelope board punch.   I have been checking the blogosphere and already have lots of ideas I want to try out – oh, and making envelopes with it of course!

Thanks for reading

Caro x

 

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Wildflower Meadows and Simply Sketched

30 Wednesday Oct 2013

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

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cards, embossing, embossing powder, Simply Sketched, Wildflower Meadow

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

 

 

 

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Embossed Wildflower Meadow cards

29 Tuesday Oct 2013

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

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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:

IMAG0114

 

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

Enjoy!

Caro

 

 

 

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