For the Fisherman!
This week in stamp club we focussed on making a gift for the ‘Fishermen’ in our lives. This was the little set that we made.
This card was inspired by the Fishing Father’s Day card that Cristena made a little while ago. She even has a great little video tutorial you can check out to get the instructions. I changed mine a little but used her basic measurements to create this as a ‘Happy Birthday’ card for someone.
There was a fairly large amount of punch art this week for the girls to get through with the sun, the birds, the fish, a hook and of course a fishing creel and line! The girls also loved ‘masking’ the clouds all over this box LOL!
This little boxes holds a small tube of sunscreen and a sun-safe lip balm.
We had loads of paper scraps everywhere and very inky fingers but a lot of laughs all the same!
Subscribe to the comments for this postBeautiful Butterflies
This week the challenge for the Late Night Stampers is to dig into our big stash of beautiful Stampin’ Up! Designer Series Paper and ‘use them’ before we ‘loose them’ (with the new cattie!). I know if any of you love your DSP as much as I do, I consider myself more of a ‘collector’ than a ‘user ‘so I have been forcing myself to get into my great big draw full of papers and use them up on a whole heap of projects.
This is the first of a couple of projects featuring DSP that I am going to share with you this week. These cute little ‘magnetic photo/note hangers’ were part of a collection I made for a Mother’s Day market this past week end. They are sooooooo incredibly easy to make using only strips of DSP, magnetic sheet, a wooden clothes peg, some embossed butterflies and a few jewels for *bling*.
Sunny Challenges & Creations – Sketch Challenge
This week there is a great sketch challenge over at Sunny Challenges & Creations. You will notice that I absolutely followed this sketch to a “t” LOL! and this is probably the first time in a long time I didn’t rotate, slightly modify or take some poetic licence with a sketch. I have used just Wisteria Wonder and Whisper White for this card and used the Aviary stamp set. The accessories for this one are a little piece of Wisteria Wonder Ruffled Ribbon, a small piece of the embossed Sweet Shop DSP and a little white embossing powder.
I hope you have time to play along this week, pop over the the blog and join in the fun!
A Triple Treat Thank You
This week the challenge on the Late Night Stamper group is to use stamps that are retiring this month in the US and Canada. Unfortunately, the Triple Treat Flower stamp is retiring and this one really makes me a little sad! I love this stamp not only because it is just soooooo cute but also because it has not one but 3 matching punches for it and I do love a good matching stamp and punch set!
So I decided to make another card for the challenge using this stamp and this is the result. I went with a pink on pink colour scheme and totally love it. I used Pretty in Pink and Pink Pirouette for the pinks and added just a touch of white. The ‘You’re a Gem’ stamp set which has the “Enjoy” greeting is also retiring, luckily I have used this stamp on more than a few projects so don’t feel too bad about loosing it!
Festive Friday – Colour Challenge
Time again for another Festive Friday challenge and this time we have a colour challenge for you with: Early Espresso, Crumb Cake, Real Red and Whisper White. At first I thought that this was going to be a piece of cake but it did prove a little challenging for me in the end.
However, I finally decided on an Early Espresso card base and although it is hard to see in the photo I have stamped the “merry” greeting from the Tiny Tags stamp set all over the base. I then used embossed some Crumb Cake card stock with the Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder (a great standby favourite of mine!) as my background for the “X” “M” “A” “S” greeting. I love my postage stamp and thought it kind of went with the ‘package’ feel of the card that was starting to emerge. Have you noticed I have been featuring the White Gel Pen on a number of my projects lately? I just rediscovered this cheap and effective stamping companion for adding that extra little ‘ta da!’ to my projects. If you don’t have one all I can say is ….. get one, you’ll love it! So stitching and Bakers twine finished my look.
I also gave the inside of the card a little love this week, with a “Merry Christmas” greeting on the inside in Crumb Cake ink.
I hope you have time to play along with the challenge this week. Stop by Nicole’s blog for all the details and to upload your submission.
Summer Splash – Stair Card
For our first week of Stamp Club we not only made the super cute Money Box but we also teamed it with this cool ‘stair’ card. The card itself is sooooo easy to make and you can find all the dimensions and basic instructions in the Splitcoast Stampers tutorial here.
Decorating this card was just a matter of stamping loads of the images from the Summer Splash stamp set and then hand cutting everything out. I know hand cutting *groan*…. but these little images aren’t too bad to cut, trust me! All that was left to do was to place them amongst the sand and it was as easy as that!
Now onto my little umbrella and I must admit to being a little chuffed with the way it turned out. I made it using just a couple of punches: 2 1/2 ” circle; square scallop and blossom builder. I do have a quick YouTube video on how I made this one here in case you ever need an umbrella.
Summer Splash – Beach Hut Money Box
This month for stamp club the girls and I decided that it was more than time to move onto projects and cards for the boys. So with that in mind I chose the Summer Splash stamp set from the last Summer mini catalogue (retired now). For those of you who also bought this set the next four weeks will hopefully give you some inspiration!
The first project I want to share with you is this cute little money box that I designed in the shape of a beach hut (sometimes also called a Bathing Box). I have the tutorial for this one available on my ‘Tutorials’ page which includes the template for the box itself.
Super easy to put together and just love that we have a striped embossing folder to use for this project, not sure what I would have done without it!
A new design challenge
In all my excitement this morning to get my card sent out as part of this week’s challenge for the Late Night Stamper’s Group I totally forgot to post my exciting news to my blog. I can hardly believe I forgot to announce here that I have been lucky enough to become part of the design team on Late Night Stampers. This is a place I get absolutely loads and loads and loads of inspiration from. The talented stampers on this sites constantly amaze me with their creations and ideas and love getting emails everyday with new exciting ideas. So when there was a call for new design team members for their weekly challenges I thought that I would give it a go, nothing to loose and was totally stoked when my good friend Robbie emailed me to let me know I was on the team. All the team members are listed on my side bar under the LNS team badge. You seriously need to bookmark these ladies (if you haven’t got them already LOL) as they are very talented indeed.
So after my excitement settled the nerves kicked in big time for my first ‘official’ team member submission for the challenge this week which is ‘Saying Goodbye’. The new Stampin’ Up! catalogue is released in the US and Canada a little earlier than here in Oz so all the US and Canadian girls are saying goodbye to a lot of their stamps to make way for exciting new ones. So the challenge this week was to use a retiring stamp set in your card, project or scrapbook page. I have chosen ‘Short & Sweet’ which was my first every greeting stamp set I bought and I consider it my total ‘go to’ set for greetings I LOVE it. I also decided to ink up some ‘Cottage Garden’ now this is not a stamp set I use very often at all so decided that maybe I should before it disappears out of the catalogue. I tried to so a CAS design as I do struggle with that style and settled on Not Quite Navy, Baja Breeze and Whisper White for my colour combo.
I have another sample that I will share with you a little later in the week but for now a big thank you for all the lovely comments from the LNS members after my first submission.
Sunny Challenges & Creations
A little while ago my good friend Vicky Wright asked me to be a guest designer for the ‘Sunny Challenges & Creations‘ team and of course, being someone who loves a challenge I said “yes”. So each Sunday for the month of May I will be sharing my creations for this challenge site.
This is the first challenge and it has my favourite colours in it so really how could I go wrong??
In my usual fashion, I have taken a little poetic licence with this sketch and turned it on it’s side. I have used the new ‘Packed for Mum’ stamp set from the Autumn Winter Mini Catalogue for the main image. I really was very unsure of these new “pack for ….” stamps in the mini and have had them in my ‘stash’ (unmounted can you believe) for a little while and I just could seem to find any inspiration in them. However, I have started to use them with my stamp-a-ma-jig to form great little backgrounds and I must admit that they are growing on me!
I hope you can join us for this week’s challenge over at Sunny Challenges & Creations and hopefully I have provided at least a little inspiration for you.
Sweet Dresses
A quick share today of these super sweet little ‘Dress Cards’. I heard about this cute little dress pattern on Late Night Stampers forum and someone posted a template for them. So of course I just had to sit and make some of my very own.
This first dress has the ‘off-the-shoulder’ bodice that I trimmed with a row of basic pearls. I have used the spotty paper from the Cheerful Treats DSP that I hardly every use (not a spotty girl really) but I think it works for this little number.
This little flowery number has the “skinny straps” look and I thought looked just like a 1950′s house wife dress so I decided to add a little ribbon belt and a finish it with a small flower (scrap from the Lace Ribbon Border Punch!).
The last little dress features a “sweetheart” neckline and I could have just left it at that I suppose, but I did decide to add a little Pink Pirouette ribbon around the waist for an extra little touch.
I really enjoyed making these dresses and the Fabulous Phrases Stamp Set worked in really well to help me keep the design nice and simple. If you want to make some dresses of your own here is the link to the template I used.
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