Bereavement

Hi everyone

I have not posted as promised as I have just lost a dear dear friend after a short illness, such a shock to us all and I am sure you will apreciate I just don't feel like crafting. Time will heal and after the funeral next week perhaps I can get back to normality.

Bye for now

Reindeer All in A Row

Hellooooooo
I know it has been ages since my last proper post - sorry!! I could tell you my life history as events have happened over the past few months - but I won't - just to say Life has been Topsy Turvy and recently my Mom ( who is 88 in a few weeks; but don't tell anyone she'll kill me!!) has been unwell so I have been living between 2 houses with no time to craft and play with my new Stampin' Up goodies from the new catalogue!!

Mom's on the mend (hopefully) so today I have been playing;

Here is a Christmas card using colours from the Stamp with Us challenge. My Mojo wasn't flowing so the card came about by accident really, while stamping out the colours used in the challenge with the first stamp to hand, which happened to be the reindeer from the stamp set Winter Post (I love this set) I noticed they looked really cute all in a row. So I added some Dazzling Diamonds glitter for snow and on their antlers also within the dots of the New Eyelet Border Punch - just couldn't stop playing with the glitter but I am pleased with the way my card has turned out - you have to have glitter at Christmas - don't you?

Hope you like my creation too.

I will be back with some more creations using the Fab new products from Stampin' Up! very soon :-()

Receipe
All Stampin' Up!

Card: Bordering Blue, Not Quite Navy, Ballet Blue, Whisper White

Inks: Taken with Teal, Chocolate Chip, Ballet Blue, Old Olive, Not Quite Navy

Stamp Sets: Winter Post; Occasional Greetings

Ribbon: Old Olive; and Dazzling Diamonds Glitter

Stampin' Up! - Crafting Bloggers Challenge

Blog Hop - please read and then visit each of the blogs for lots of inspiration with products from the New SU Catalogue which launches today!!


Crafting Bloggers Challenge 28 September 2009
To celebrate the launch of the fantastic new Stampin’ Up! 2009–2010 Idea Book & Catalogue, the Stampin’ Up! press office has selected three online crafting bloggers for a blog hop on Wednesday, 30 September!
Three crafting bloggers will preview a selection of never seen before products from the upcoming Idea Book & Catalogue. These bloggers will receive the NEW products at 6:00 PM on 30 September. Then they have six hours to create as many projects as they would like to showcase on their blogs!
Many of you may already be familiar with these three crafting bloggers and have noticed they have begun to talk about this challenge on their web sites. If not, please click on the links below to find out more:
Lousette Ashton - http://andthenicraft.blogspot.com/
Jenny Cocks - http://jennyscreations.blogspot.com/
Suzanne Torr - http://fruitysuet.blogspot.com/

The crafting bloggers projects will be online at 12:00 PM on Wednesday, 30 September. Please take a look, support this activity, and share our excitement about the fabulous new Idea Book & Catalogue!

Please take the time to look at these blogs and leave a comment before 12.00 midday Thursday (today) and you could win a prize!!

Happy Crafting

Christmas Glitter

Here is my card for the Stamp with Us Challenge this weeks theme Christmas.

I Have used my 2 favourite Christmas Stamp Sets for this card, I use the flourish from Season of Joy all the time; not just for Christmas. I stamped image in Chocolate Chip to give a more subtle effect and coloured in the windows to give the image life. I then added glue where I wanted snow and sprinkled Stampin' Glitter ( I love this product). I seem to be into tearing at the moment so watch this space!! lol. Hope you like it.

Receipe

I used all Stampin' Up!

Stamps Silent Night/Season of Joy

Card Brilliant Blue/ Bashful Blue/Ballet Blue/Whisper White

Ink Chocolate Chip/ Versamark/ White Embossing Powder

Ribbon Whisper White Taffet

Tombow Adhesive and Stampin' Glitter 1/2" Circle Punch Stampin Write Markers So Saffron(windows)

Stamp with Us Colour Challenge

Hi - I know I have been a very bad blogger wish I could say I had been enjoying the summer but someone stole the Sun!!! We are on Grandparent Duties next week really looking forward to it and hope to go to the seaside, Please return the sun; with this in mind I will not be blogging will be too busy running after a lively 41/2 year old and sleeping when I can LOL :-()

Had some me time last night so thought I would join this weeks Colour Challenge over on Stamp with Us. Here is my creation simple I know but my mojo's gone on holiday- hope I get a postcard.lol. I have left one chipboard shape natural and coloured one with Ruby red Ink Pad before adding felt flower with brad.

Oooops forgot the receipe:

All Stampin' Up!
Bashfull blue card; DSpaper; Striped Grosgrain Yellow Ribbon,(mini Catalogue) Chipboard Shapes- On board batch of blooms; Rose Red Ink Pad; Curvy Verses Stamp Set; Flower Fusions Felt flowers; Rich Regals Brads.

Birthdays Galore continued

Pheweeee how hot has it been this week, between watching Wimbledon and the heat no projects completed for me my hands were so hot I was leaving marks on the card - not a look I wanted lol ;-( Moving quickly on;
This morning was a lot cooler so I got cracking. I am still on my quest; Birthday cards just a Little bit different from the norm; I have several 60th Birthdays coming up (not Me!) so I have used this weeks sketch challenge over on StampwithUs for one of the 60th Birthday cards and made the opening gatefold, added a bit of bling (dazzling diamonds) and have kept to just two colours. Hope you like my take on this weeks sketch. I have used Certainly Celery for a clean fresh look. Stazon was used to stamp Happy Birthday onto the ribbon and I frayed two ends, 60 was cut from DSP on my Big Shot and I glued this to heavy card mounted with dimensionals.

Recipe for Card all Stampin' Up!
Card - Whisper White / Certainly Celery
Designer Paper Certainly Celery Prints (retired)
Stamps - Doodle That / Occasional Greetings
Ink- Certainly Celery / Black Stazon
Ribbon - Certainly Celery
Punches Scalloped Circle
Dazzling Diamonds /Glue Pen/Dimentionals
Big Shot (for the numbers)


Enjoy the cooler weather and happy crafting

Birthdays Galore

I seem to have birthdays galore over the next few weeks so thought I had better get cracking. I have decided to make different shaped cards and so got to searching in the old grey cells (not a pretty site) lol. I popped over to StampwithUs blog and decided to make one card to fit their challenge which is a Receipe Challenge this week; 4 Patterned Papers; 2Card Stock and no other embellishments (eeeek). So, decided to use Stampin' Up! Playful Petals Set; Tea Party Designer Papers, and for a different shape I cut a Zig Zag card in Whisper White. I stamped and Cut out the flowers in designer papers and 2nd choice card stock Certainly Celery. Three Papers were used on the card and the 4th paper was used to stamp on and cut out the flowers. The image above shows the Happy Birthday greeting, I also inked all the edges of the paper to give definition. I also stamped inside the card on the bottom edge with small stamp from the set.

This is the Open View

Closed View

Inside front

Inside Back

Receipe for Zig Zag Card: Tea Party Designer Paper x 4; Card Stock Whisper White and Certainly Celery; Stamp Sets Playful Petals; Occassional Greetings; Best Yet; Ink Bashful Blue

2nd Birthday Card

I remembered I had seen a flower pot card somewhere on the web so I begain my search and found it here I used Playful Petals Stamp Set again.

Receipe: All Stampin' Up!

Playful Petals Stamp Set

Very Vanilla and Close to Cocoa Card Stock and Brocade Blue

Designer Paper from Holiday Treasure Pack

Ink Night of Navy and Close to Cocoa
Tag Punches
Very Vanilla Ribbon

I will pop back with some more when I have finished them