Some Odd Girl - Royal Mothers Day Card

I know mothers day has been and gone, but I have to show you the card I made for my mum.

I made up a Centre Step card (it was the first time I've made one) using this tutorial. I messed it up twice before reading the instructions properly :P Anyway... I used Crumbcake card for the base, layered up with Soft Suede and the now retired Sale-a-bration designer series paper. I cut a Spellbinders Oval out, and sponged it with Pool Party and a touch of Soft Suede ink then focused on this beautiful stamp from Some Odd Girl. I stamped her once on to watercolour paper and once on to patterned paper. On the patterned paper, I cut out just her dress and top and added shading using the Stampin' Write Marker that matched the paper. I then coloured her skin, hair, eyes and lips. I cut her out, and felt she needed the crown, so I stamped it using Versamark and heat embossed it using Gold Zing embossing powder. Her crown is only outlined, and it didn't have quite the oomph I wanted, so with my Versamarker and coloured the crown in completely and re-heat embossed it using more Gold Zing. (Oomph achieved!) I stamped the sentiment "You deserve the Royal treatment" and added some red bling to it and her crown.
I am entering this card into the Stampalot monthly challenge which my wonderful friend Annmaree told me about. Their challenge this month is Medals or Monarchs

Have a wonderful day!

Stampin' Up! Motorcycle makes Masculine Birthday cards super quick!

Hi! Back after the issues with Blogger, to be honest, I just haven't been crafting much, I've been a bit snowed under with uni work, major assignment is due next week, so I've been focusing on getting that done. I created this card today while Mark was vacuuming (yeah, he's house trained well)

 Here is a close up of the amount of detail is in this stamp!

Ok, so, I recently got an order from Stampin' Up! which included this single (á la carte) stamp, which is perfect for the men in your life, and at only AUD$13.95, you really can't go wrong. For this card, I have stamped the motorbike in Versamark, and then embossed it in black. Once I had heat set the image, I got out my Real Red Stampin' Write Marker and coloured a few selected panels, I then hi-lighted the curves with a white uni ball pen. I have stamped a fairly plain and simple Celebrate sentiment, which is from Basic Phrases, in Real Red and Versamark, and clear embossed it. I have embossed some straight lines above and below the images using my bone folder and Scor-Pal. 

Anyway, I am entering this into a couple of challenges, the first is of course Less is More, which is a one layer card including embossing. The second is the sketch, fall to layout 140 from Clean & Simple, which I have edited slightly, as I'm not a huge fan of elongated cards... anywho, here is their sketch -

I hope to be updating a little more frequently after Wednesday, so, keep an eye out.... 

Happy Stamping!

Stampin' Up! Sail Away and Botanical Gazette pair wonderfully for Masculine Cards

Ok, so you all know how much I love (love love) the á la carte stamp Sail Away...

When I saw that the new Just Add Ink challenge had been posted, I knew I was going to reach for this great stamp. I have used the cracked glass technique, which I will be showing the girls of my stamp club in the next month. It is a great technique, just emboss multiple layers of clear embossing powder. I usually do about 4-5 layers. I then popped it in the freezer when it was still warm from the last layer. Once it has been in the freezer about 10 mins, pull it out and bend your embossed piece, this will give you the cracking. Before embossing this piece, I stamped my image, coloured it, then sponged around the edges to give it a weathered look. 

Ok, onto the other deets of this card...  I have used a Crumbcake base, which I have layered with a distressed piece of designer series paper, from the new Autumn/Winter mini catalogue. This is from the Botanical Gazette collection. I then layered a piece of DSP from the Newsprint collection, which on one of the sheets has a fairly detailed 'vintage' map.... For the circle element on the Just Add Ink sketch, (see below) I used a button from my stash which fits well, I popped a sentiment from Basic Phrases (using this a lot more now...) onto a modern label punch and tied it all together with some twine. 

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Until next time, 

Happy stamping!

Stampin' Up! Upsy Daisy and I create Congratulations Cards

Yesterday, after coming home from work, I crashed hard from the caffeine high, and then got NOTHING done... so, today after work, I had to get back into the craft room, the ideas were rolling around my head, and I had to do something about a few of them... I wanted to use my neglected Upsy Daisy set, which was one of the first sets I bought when I joined Stampin' Up! I wanted to show just how versatile this set was without too much work, just a change of colours really!

This one I wanted to create a shadow effect on the flowers, although I don't think it worked particularly well, ah well, next time... I have used Pretty in Pink, Bashful Blue, Certainly Celery, Soft Suede, Crumbcake and of course Whisper White. The Congrats I have used on both cards is from Basic Phrases, another super underused stamp set. I have paired all of this with some retired Stampin' Up! Buttons and some neutral twine (which is actually crochet thread in Vanilla)  I am entering this one into the Hand Stamped Sentiments Colour Challenge, and the Simply Less is More weekly challenge.  

This second card I like a lot more... I guess I'm just not a pastels kinda girl.... This uses all the same stamps, but instead of shadowing, I have stamped the flowers in VersaMark and embossed them in white. The colours used are Basic Black, Whisper White and Crumbcake, once again, the sentiment is from Basic Phrases. I am entering this one into the Simply Less is More challenge as well, as a Congratulations card. 

If you want to see more projects using the Upsy Daisy stamp set, click on the link below to see all projects using this super versatile stamp set :-)

JAI 52

A quick share with you today!

This card came together really easily after I knew what I wanted to use. The sketch was one that was taunting me.... So, I had to participate. The Just Add Ink sketch seemed to be a lot harder than it actually was to pull together...

I knew I wanted to use the colour combo of Perfect Plum, Very Vanilla and Crumbcake, so the card took off from there, with the addition of some non-SU ribbon and a Blushing Bride sentiment. I'm pleased with how this card came out, not my usual colours, but something that came out of left field and bowled me over.... (enough sports metaphors?)

Come back during the week, to enter my blog candy that is coming up to celebrate the beginning of Sale A Bration, and my 300th Blog Post!

Jess