Bella

Hi everyone, sorry for being absent the past week and not posting a project but it is the end of financial year and I have had to work some long days.  So by the time I got home from work I did not have time for creating.  I know excuses, excuses but I was so tired I could not stick anything straight.  Maybe this is why I have put the patterned paper on an angle on my card.

I have used the stamps set Labeler Alphabet for the sentiment and the cute little dog is from the Bella & Friends set.  The flowers were made using the Petite Petals stamp set and the Petite Petals Punch. 

The Layering Circles Framelits have both smooth edged and scalloped edged circles in the set.  There are 16 dies in the set with the largest die being 8.4cm x 8.4cm, just perfect for projects.

A tip that I got from OnStage Local in April is using the Best Badge punch to create a large scalloped edge which I have done on the panel behind the flowers.

The patterned paper is from the Serene Scenery Designer Series Paper Stack and the Subtles Designer Series Paper Stack.  Colour scheme is Early Espresso, Tip Top Taupe, Blushing Bride and Whisper White.

You can get all the supplies for this project from me.

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Thank you for visiting.

Carolyn

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Bella

Sneak Peak - Painter's Palette

Hi everyone, another sneak peak for you.  I have used the Painter's Palette stamp set and Playful Palette Designer Series Paper Stack along with some old favourites.

I did not start out making this card with any intention to add flowers, but the painter's easel looked a bit bare just sitting in the middle of my card.  I thought that it needed a little bit of dressing up.  I tried stars, circles but ended up with flowers as I really liked the framed look that was created.

Keep a look out for these products on the 1 June 2016 when the new catalogue is launched.

  You can place an order online and join in 

the fun with the On-line Club or Contact Me and place an order.

SHOP WITH ME!

Thank you for visiting.

Carolyn

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Sneak Peak - Painter's Palette

Beautiful Bunch

Just a quick post today of a card I made last week while on holidays.  I started back to work on Monday after two weeks off over the Christmas and New Year period so I have not had a lot of time to play in my craft room (working seriously cramps my stamping time).

The new Birthday Bouquet Designer Series Paper is so pretty and I have used one of the sheets to make a one sheet wonder.  I have never done this before and it was a bit of a challenge to design the cards and cut the paper to get the most out of it.  I managed to get 12 cards with a colour scheme of Pool Party and Whisper White.

I am sharing one of the cards that I made using the Lovely Lace Embossing Folder on the background and a flower that I made using the stamp sets Beautiful Bunch, Flower Shop and Petite Petals.  The flower images were stamped on Whisper White using Versamark and Silver Embossed.  The petals were then coloured using Pool Party ink and an Aquapainter.  Once the flowers had dried I punched them out with the matching punches.   The petals were shaped using a bone folder and then layered together with dimensionals.  An Iced Rhinestone was added for the flower centre.

Close up of the flower, it finished the card perfectly.

Thank you for visiting

Carolyn

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Beautiful Bunch

Holiday Catalogue Sneak Peaks...

Hi everyone, I have been playing this afternoon with some of the products available in the new Holiday Catalogue from 1 September 2015. 

My first project is using the new Silver Corded Trim and the stamp set Cozy Christmas.  The DSP is from Merry Moments which is available in the Annual Catalogue.  I have used several packs of this DSP but found that I was left with several sheets of the same design.  So I set about designing a little Baker's Box for Christmas, using the DSP sheets that I have a collection of.    I have also used the Baker's Box Thinlits Dies, Cherry Cobbler and Whisper White Cardstock, Cherry Cobbler Thick Bakers Twine, Silver Foil Sheets and the Silver Fancy Foil Designer Vellum.

My second project is using the Curvy Corner Trio Punch and Gold Corded Trim from the new Holiday Catalogue. The other items that I have used are all available in the Annual Catalogue - stamp sets Kinda Eclectic, Flower Shop, Petite Petals and Beautiful Bunch along with the coordinating punches Fun Flower, Petite Petals and Pansy, Pearls, Metallics Sequin Assortment and reinkers Chocolate Chip, Blushing Bride and Crumb Cake. The centre panel is on Very Vanilla cardstock.

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Holiday Catalogue Sneak Peaks...

Just Playing Around

I was just playing around making some flowers and trying out different ideas.  This is my finished card.

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Just Playing Around

Party Time Perth

I was recently invited to do a 15 minute "WOW" presentation at the Party Time Perth event held on 8 November, 2014.  It was a terrific day, and the presentations were so inspirational.  The display was out of this world, I did not know where to look first with so many beautiful and creative ideas.  I certainly went home inspired.


Well back to my "WOW" presentation.  I was so organised at home having decided on a theme of vintage, I had made my notes and decided on what I was going to say, cinch you say.  Well, when I got up on stage to do my presentation, the heart started beating at a great rate of knots and stage fright set in.  All my carefully prepared presentation went out the window.  I was so nervous and I can't even remember what I said.  It must have been okay, as people were congratulating me (either that or they were just being very nice to me).  Either way I went home a happy camper.

This is the card that I made for the presentation.

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Party Time Perth

Vintage Typeset

I have been getting back into scrapbooking (my first love before I got into card making).  I made these 3 picture frames to hang on my wall, and as the photographs are of my grand parents and great grand mother and great uncle I wanted to give the frames a vintage feel.


I purchased the 6" x 6" scrapbooking frames from Spotlight.  They are raw wood so I made a distress wash of Baked Brown Sugar with 5 drops of reinker with a little water to distress them with.  Once this colour was dried I found is was not quite the colour that I was after, so I made another distress wash with Early Espresso and painted this over the Baked Brown Sugar.  This is the colour that I was happy with for my frames, it ended up like a Walnut Stain finish.


I used the Typeset Specialty DSP to cover all the frames.


For the first frame I randomly sponged on some Lost Lagoon and then stamped the leaf stamp from the Kinda Electic stamps set in Baked Brown Sugar.  All the edges were inked with Baked Brown Sugar.

For the second frame I sponged Lost Lagoon on a piece of Basic Black Neutrals Paper Stack DSP for the background.  Again all the edges were inked with Baked Brown Sugar.

For the third frame I stamped butterflies from the Papillion Potpourri stamp set in Baked Brown Sugar over the Typeset DSP.  The background piece had the leaf stamp from the Kinda Eclectic stamp set stamped randomly with Lost Lagoon.



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Vintage Typeset

Blendabilities #1

Hi everyone, I would like to share a card with you that I have made for this week's challenge at Retro Sketches. 

I have been playing with the Blendabilities, trying out techniques that I have learnt using Copic Markers to see how they went.


The flowers on my card have been made by covering a piece of Whisper White with Heat & Stick Powder, set with the heat gun and then the Dazzling Diamonds added.  I pressed the Dazzling Diamonds into the card piece to make sure that it was well adhered.  I then used the heat gun again to set the piece.


The flower image from the "Petite Petals" stamp set was stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black ink.  I then commenced to colour using the Coastal Cabana Blendabilities Marker Assortment, starting with the darkest colour in the centre and working out to the lightest colour.  When you colour you only press the marker down to put the colour on the image, you do not colour in the usual manner.  The ink spreads quite well, and as you are only pressing the marker down lightly it will not damage the tip of your marker.  When you have finished colouring punch the image out with the Petite Petals punch.


I have used the new "Moonlight" DSP and colours of Basic Gray, Whisper White and Lost Lagoon.  Lost Lagoon is one of the new 2014-15 In-colours coming soon, so another sneak peak.  I have also used the new Lost Lagoon matching ribbon.

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Blendabilities #1

Vintage Blue

Being so hot here in Perth today, I stayed indoors and played at my craft table.  These are the three cards that I made along the same theme, using the "Shop Around" Stampin' Wheel, the some new goodies from the new Occasions Catalogue.



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Vintage Blue