iPad birthday card …

The guy I made this card for is so hard working – taking holidays very rarely – but he does occasionally take a little time out for his passions … football, cars and gadgets!  So when he recently had a big birthday I made him an iPad card, using stamp images from different Stampin’ Up stamp sets…

I stamped each image in early espresso ink onto a coloured cardstock square, and then adhered to a basic black cardstock base with tombow multi-purpose glue, and added some highlights with a white gel pen.

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

cardstock: basic black, pumpkin pie, bashful blue, certainly celery, poppy parade, pink pirouette, daffodil delight, wisteria wonder; stamp sets: happiest birthday wishes hostess set, open sea, circle circus, fox and friends, party this way, schoolbook serif alphabet (retired), sweetheart, artistic etchings, just soccer (retired); ink: early espresso; punches: square, circle; accessories: tombow adhesive, white gel pen.

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Sometimes it’s hard to say goodbye…

It’s all change at Stampin Up, now that they’ve released their retiring list..

One of my absolute favourite alphabet stamps sets is retiring too  – schoolbook serif –  so I have real mixed feelings as I know I’m going to miss it (I can’t believe how much I’ve used it on my cards!), but I also can’t wait for all the lovely new stamp sets that will be introduced in the new catalogue to be released on 1st October … I’m so excited, I can hardly wait! 

And over on the Less is More  website this week - the challenge is Metallic - so I just had to make a Barbara Gray inspired Christmas card using my favourite alphabet set … ‘cos it nearly is you know …

It was a bit difficult to show the silver embossing in the photo, so I had to angle the card to catch the light …

The large ‘o’ is from the Something Sweet stamp set, and I used the Lovely as a Tree set for the scene inside and my speedball brayer to add colour.  I really enjoyed making this one!  

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Case to answer?…

I made this card and fantasy box for the mum of one of my friends and cased one of my own cards, even using the same colour scheme as before because that’s what my friend wanted and I aim to please! … 

 

I love the way the box turned out.  You can see the other fantasy box I made here.

And this is what the box looks like open:

 

The designer series paper is so beautiful and looked just stunning when the box was finished.  My friend was really pleased with the matching card and gift box and her mum loved them too!  Win, win! 

Stampin Up supplies used:

Cardstock: whisper white, so saffron. certainly celery; Inks: so saffron, chocolate chip; Stamp sets: sincere salutations, schoolbook serif alphabet, schoolbook serif numbers, frames with a flourish (retired); Punches: 1/2″ circle, scallop circle, two-step bird punch; Accessories:  bella bleu dsp (one of my favourites but sadly retired), basic pearls, stampamajig, white gel pen, clear embossing powder, stampin dimensionals, whisper white satin ribbon, paper piercer and mat pack.

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Ruby Wedding anniversary…

My sister and her husband celebrated their 40^th wedding anniversary at the weekend and I wanted to make them a keepsake card to mark the occasion.

Earlier this year, I went to a Stampin’ Up training event in Bicester, run by the lovely Michelle Last, and we learned how to make flip albums.  I thought this would be the perfect thing to make for them.

I enlisted the help of my niece to find some of their wedding photographs.  She had to play “Ace Sleuth Detective” and it took her several weeks as she had to do this all without their knowledge, but she finally managed to find the pics, scan them in and email them to me, just in time for me to complete the album.  Thank you Paula!  I couldn’t have done it without you!  Mwah!

Congratulations Lin and Alan, and sending you much love for your Ruby Wedding Anniversary.

The photographs don’t really do it justice but here goes:

A few of the centre pages …

A pic of the whole album taken from above…

Stampin Up supplies used:

Love Stories simply scrappin kit; certainly celery grosgrain ribbon; schoolbook serif numbers stamp set; bashful blue ink.

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