Ornament keepsakes Christmas trees …

My oh my – it’s less than 12 weeks to Christmas!  Eleven weeks today will be Christmas Eve …

… I can’t wait!  I’m a big kid when it comes to Christmas –

I love the build up, the preparation, the decorating and of course the card making!

Today I decided to go “off piste” to make this card without the aid of my stamp-a-majig …

… don’t know if that was such a good idea now!

I think I would prefer to use my trusty stamp-a-majig and line everything up perfectly, but I do love these colours together – very contemporary and not at all traditional! I don’t think my mum would’ve approved – she was a very traditional lady – but she made Christmas just magical…

When I first got my set of ornament keepsakes stamps, I thought this stamp looked like a fir tree and couldn’t wait to make a card with it – I can see I’m going to have to make some more!

Here’s what you need to make today’s card – all supplies from Stampin’ Up!:

cardstock: tempting turquoise, whisper white; stamp sets: ornament keepsakes, pennant parade; inks: tempting turquoise, melon mambo, lucky limeade; accessories: stampin’ write marker pens in tempting turquoise, melon mambo and lucky limeade, adhesive rhinestones.

I’d be delighted to order any of these items for you and have them delivered to your door in any of the following European countries – the UK, Germany, France, Austria or the Netherlands. To place your order, you can email me at lilybygilly@gmail.com or call me on 0772 980 8152 and I’d be happy to help.

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Christmas trees and pennant parade…

This is the last of my series of pennant parade cards made for the NEC event in November.

I added a piece of Holly Berry Bouquet designer series paper, some vintage ribbon and just a few rhinestones for some added bling.

I found the pennant parade stamp set so versatile and pretty cool to use, and now that we have the matching pennant punch it makes it really easy to make beautiful cards, whether for birthdays, invitations, Christmas, or any occasion you like!  Love it! 

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Birthday pennant parade…

 

More of my NEC sample cards, with the pennant parade and punch from Stampin Up.

I used a piece of designer series paper from the Holly Berry Bouquet series, and teamed it with icecream colours in pretty in pink, crumb cake and early espresso. 

As well as the pennant punch, I also used the scallop circle and word window punches to create the icecream.

Another quick and easy card to make, but so effective. 

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Pennants on parade…

For our recent trip to the NEC, we all made sample cards for the display to show off the gorgeous products from Stampin’ Up. 

I focussed on using the pennant parade stamp set and matching punch  …

I used the new in-colour inks in calypso coral, pool party and wisteria wonder to stamp the images,  

then adhered these to a calypso coral card base.

  

This was a quick and easy card to do, that would be easy to produce lots of, so perfect for party invitations.

   

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