20 Friday Sep 2013
Posted in 3D / pop up, Birthday, Cards, General occasion, Punches
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Hi
Just a quick post today to show you another way to use the Quintessential flower stamp from Stampin’ Up! (or the Five Way Flower stamp in the current catalogue).
I love the layers you can achieve with a stamp like this and coordinating punches. And I always love to put a little button in the middle 🙂
Enjoy!
Caro x
18 Wednesday Sep 2013
Posted in 3D / pop up, Birthday, Cards, General occasion, Using up scraps
Hello. Thanks for reading Caro’s Pretty Things!
One of my first ever posts was showing you some layered cards I made with the Stampin’ Up! Quintessential Flower stamp. Unfortunately this stamp is now retired, but there is a similar one in this year’s catalogue called Five Way Flower. (Here’s a great video tutorial on how you can use these sorts of stamps by Karen Titus).
I have a box on my bookshelf with lots of extra embellishments or half finished projects. Ever since I made those cards I have had a few layers of the quintessential flower sitting in the box waiting for me to figure out what to do with them.
And so now I present – some quintessential hot air balloons!
I loved how these turned out so much I wanted to show you them separately. The button in the middle (stuck on with a mini glue dot) just seemed to add that little bit extra for some reason?
I think that is the end of my hot air balloon obsession for a little while. I wonder what I’ll obsess about next?!?
Thanks for reading 🙂
Caro x
15 Thursday Aug 2013
Posted in Big Shot, Dies, Kids party, Thank you, Top Note
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Hello!
The other day I showed you a simple layout for a quick thank you card. I needed to make some thank you cards for my little boy’s recent birthday party so we made some together on the weekend.
As it was a rugby themed party of course we had to have rugby themed thank you notes – which means we definitely needed to use Wallabies colours!
These cards are so easy to make – cut an A4 piece of yellow card in 4 pieces to make the card backs. Fold a white A4 piece of card into 4 pieces then run it through the Big Shot with the Top Note die. Hey presto – 4 lovely white shapes for a message. A thank you stamp and you’re done.
Although in this case we weren’t quite done. Mr 4 wanted them to match his rugby party so we had to find a picture of a rugby ball! I cut and pasted from a web photo into a word document. I made the image the same size as the large oval punch so we could punch out the balls. Then a whole bunch of “copy and paste” and we had enough balls for all the cards. [Actually, most of the cards. We didn’t make quite enough so we had to decide which people weren’t big rugby fans to not get a ball! I didn’t have the heart to break it to him that most people would probably fall into that category!]
Anyway, about an hour and we were done. Perfect for a 4 year old attention span as well 🙂
