Vintage Labels, Circle of Friendship

I am preparing for an Event next week and can’t share just at the moment. There are these “thank you” cards I made some time ago and I personalised it with the customer’s initials on each card. The alphabet set is not available in our current catalogue – it is from my personal collection. The […]

Greenhouse Garden, Vintage Labels

The Greenhouse Garden set hasn’t been featured much on my blog – and with this set earmarked by Stampin’ Up! as the one for the Haitian Disaster Relief Fund I thought I would showcase how lovely this set really is. From now until 28 February 2010, Stampin’ Up! will set aside £1 from the sale […]

Lovely As a Tree, Happy Moments

This was the companion card to the one I posted earlier – much more “butch”, if you can describe cards that way! Dry embossing gives that textured look on the Kraft paper and I snipped off a portion of it to resemble a ribbon near the bottom of the card. The “for you” sentiment is […]

Lovely as a Tree, Vintage Labels

I needed to make a couple of generic quite masculine cards and this is what I came up with. I dry embossed the Kraft card stock in a herringbone pattern, used the eyelet border punch on the short bottom edge of Kraft and Very Vanilla card stock, adhered both layers on to the Really Rust […]

Inspiring Inkin’ # Challenge 19

This fortnight’s Inspiring Inkin’ challenge is a sketch challenge and the twist was to use a Sale-a-bration set. Earlier in the week, I’d lost my mojo, but I found it again when this lovely Bella Toile background stamp was delivered by our favourite Courier – UPS on Thursday! I inked the Bella Toile background stamp […]

Crazy for Cupcakes, Bella Toile

This is the card we made at the workshop last night. My hostess asked for a birthday theme using blues and browns. Recipe: Stamps: Crazy for cupcakes, Bella Toile Ink: Tempting Turquoise, Creamy Caramel, So Saffron, Brilliant Blue, Real Red Papers: Confetti White, Tempting Turquoise, Whisper White Accessories: Larve Oval punch, Scallop Oval punch, Tempting […]

Bella Toile Background stamp

This is one of the samples I made with my new Bella Toile background stamp which arrived yesterday – just in time to use for a workshop tonight. It is just scrumptious! Recipe: Stamps Bella Toile, Sincere Salutations Ink: Basic Grey, Pretty in Pink Papers: Whisper White, Pretty in Pink, Basic Grey Textured Accessories: Pretty […]