only me…..

Hey folks, well I’ve finally escaped! that mountain of junk has been moved and sorted and I found the room hiding underneath it! I have a couple more bits to put away and then I’ll take some piccies to prove that I haven't just pushed it to one side of the room and ignored it.

In the meantime I’ve been a busy busy bee preparing swaps and card candy for THE event in the Stampin’ Up! year - convention, which is next week in Disneyland Paris!!!! this time next week we’ll be there, getting ready for the awards dinner. Miraculously I have finished my swaps and card candy, and my roommate gift is in hand, so I’m now feeling somewhat chilled, just wondering what I’ve forgotten to do!! I realised that I never shared any of the cards which we made in my recent ‘Christmas Club’ marathon. Over two days we made 50 cards each, 5 each of 10 designs. there were a minimum of 9 ladies on each day, which meant a heck of a lot of prep last month, believe me!! so here’s the first card, a simple design using Serene Snowflakes in a colour combination of Night of Navy, Marina Mist and Whisper White. the sentiment is heat embossed in white, and some of the snowflakes have been stamped in frost shimmer paint to add a glistening effect.

The second used the Season of Joy stamp set, with the now retired Jolly Holiday DSP in a twisted easel card – the poinsettia is stamped, cut out and used to create a latch for the easel.

And finally for today, a centre stair fold card in Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla and Not Quite Navy featuring Winter Post, Lovely as a Tree and Heard From the Heart stamp sets.

Please excuse the lighting in the photos – would you believe that it’s practically twilight at 3pm now? I’m hoping to finish the design of my final class of the year tomorrow, which uses the Tags ‘til Christmas stamp set, so sneak peeks should follow early next week. I’ll pop back tomorrow with more of the samples from Christmas Club.

Have a fantastic evening!

Birthday Bash with Fox & Friends

It’s the weekend – hooray! and better still, it’s a BANK HOLIDAY weekend, which hopefully means an extra day in my craft room this weekend, that is if Darren doesn’t make me do some more DIY….
In the meantime, I’ve got my ‘Birthday Bash’ class today, where we’re making a selection of kid’s birthday cards using ‘Fox & Friends’ and ‘Party This Way’ in bright bold colours using a few funky folds, so here they are…..

The second project of the day features ‘crazy for cupcakes’ and we’re making a card reminiscent of a cake shop window, and a matching cupcake box, which, if everything goes to plan, will contain cupcakes that is assuming I don't munch them all on the way to class….

And finally we’re making a flip album to record birthday party memories, using Celebrations DSP.

After all that I think I’m going to need a large tub of jelly and ice cream and perhaps even some fizzy pop I’ll hopefully be back later with some photos of the lovely ladies in my class – if they’ll agree to pose for some!
Tomorrow I’ll be starting my samples for my next class, which is on 18th June and features the ‘Occasional Greetings’ stamp set – we’ll be making cards for all occasions. If you fancy joining us for that one, be sure to email me to book your place.

Happiness Shared

Morning All!
apologies for the lack of crafty posts this week, I've been consumed with making lots of projects, which unfortunately I can't share just yet! However, I can share this card, which was a commission I made last week for a birthday. I used an 'in colour' combination of blushing bride and pear pizazz, together with the 'happiness shared' stamp set. I have to admit overlooking this set originally in the catalogue, but it's such a pretty & delicate image, that I think it may become one of my favourites for female cards. The flower has been stamped in stazon and then watercoloured using inkpads and a waterbrush, the leaves on the front panel of the card were stamped using pear pizazz ink. The 'happy birthday' sentiment is the centre of the perfect punches stamp inked with a black marker.

well, that's all I have for today - i'll be back tomorrow with the swaps I've made for the Stampin' Up! training session in Leeds tomorrow - I've used the same colour combo and stamp set, but changed the layout somewhat. In the meantime I'll be trying to finish my design team challenges for this month, which are a little late - whoops!
Until tomorrow....

Challenged

Well I hope you all had a lovely restful weekend.  As promised, I'm back with the remaining 2 cards from the August DT challenges over on ILWS, as well as a template for the centre-step fold card. The first card was an inspiration challenge, this was the image we were provided with

I really struggled to come up with any ideas for this one, then I began focusing on the geometric shapes and bright colours and this sprung to mind

Finally I had a sketch challenge to complete with about 20 minutes to go before the upload deadline!

Now normally I love sketch challenges, but I really struggled to make this one work. In the end I resorted to the needlepoint technique called bargello, and recreated the effect with strips of stripey paper - I'm still not overly sure on how well the finished card works though! Ho hum, I guess that's why they call it a challenge!

And finally, I have the template to share for the centre-step fold card. I've converted the dimensions from those over on splitcoast for the UK sizes of card (all of theirs assume letter!) (If you click on the image it should enlarge!)

Well folks, that's all i've got time for right now, I'll  be back soon with the sneak peeks of my next class.

Linz
x

Happy Birthday Eleanor!

My friend's little girl Eleanor turned 2 this weekend (I still don't quite know where those 2 years have gone!).  I chose a centre step fold design, and made a layered 3D scene using a teddy bear stamp from Elzybells.

The base is made with so saffron card stock, with paper from the sweet pea designer stack, a sweet pea felt flower in the foreground, clouds from the Good Neighbours sale-a-bration stamp set and trees from trendy trees. i'll try and post the template for the card in the next few days, as I had to alter it for UK size card.