Yesterday's Sweet Stampin DT card

Oh I'm so behind this week, where has the time gone? Here's my DT card for yesterday's Sweet Stampin challenge, which this week is a colour combo:

As always with our colour challenges you can choose any three of the four colours, or use all four, and you don't have to use SU! colours, a close match is fine.

I've used three on my card - Barely Banana, Sage Shadow & Blush Blossom. There's no DP on my card, it's a stamped background, I've used the two-step stamp set (try saying that quickly 10 times! LOL) Greenhouse Garden, and stamped out the flowes using the Banana & Blush together, I was amazed how well it worked. Here's the rest of the details:

Stamps - Garden Whimsy; Greenhouse Garden; Hello Again (sentiment)

Cardstock & ink - in colours above plus Whisper White cardstock

Ribbon - Fairy Tale Originals (retired)

Other - Eyelet Border punch; Tab punch

Non SU! - Embossing folder & flower from stash

Hope you can join in this week, not only is there the chance to win the monthly prize - generously donated by Stacey our sponsor, but Emma's also offering to send a winner a selection of stamped images if we get over 50 entries this week - so come on - do your best!

I've used the sketch from In Love With Stamping, only problem is the challenge ended this morning, so I've sort of missed the boat there! Oh well, it was a good sketch.

Hope you're all having a lovely Mothering Sunday, I've been spoilt, had a beautiful card - handmade of course - from my gorgeous Georgia, she raided my stash yesterday and I just loved the card she made me - will get a piccie up - and also she gave me Michael Buble's album, ummm ummm love The Buble! We went out for coffee this morning and ended up having brunch in one of my favourite places in Ironbridge - so diet went well & truly out of the window with bacon & scambled eggs on toast, oh it was delicious! Oh well, there's always tomorrow!

TFL x

Polka Doodles Challenge

This is my entry for last week's Polka Doodles challenge, which doesn't end until Sunday so I'm still in in time. I spent ages thinking about this card, just couldn't decide on the image/theme to use and then decided to combine it with another challenge and use a digi-image. Spent an age trawling through my images and couldn't find the right one, so then decided to buy one, spent another hour or so trawling all my favourite sites and finally chose a sweet Christmas mouse, bought it, downloaded it, went to print it out & my printer decided not to work - aaaargh!

So plan B was called for, went into my craft room, decided to go Stampin' Up! and made the card in about 15 minutes, sometimes I wonder why do I make it so hard for myself!!

Apart from the buttons then it's all SU! in one of my favourite colour combo's pink & brown:

Recipe:

Stamps - Garden Whimsy and Circle of Friendship

DSP - from Sweet Always

Ink - Chocolate Chip

Cardstock - Chocolate Chip & Whisper White

Ribbon - Chocolate Chip

TFL x

Lily of the Valley Challenge 31

I used the great sketch over at Lily of the Valley to make this card for my Charisma DT buddy Vee, who's birthday was last week (she's had the card so it's safe to post now!).

I love using squares on my card, don't know what it is, but anything with squares in the background and I'm hooked! Anyway, apart from the flowers, which are Flora Doodles & the button & gems from my stash, the rest is all Stampin' Up!

Cardstock - Chocolate Chip

DSP's - Sweet Always (one of my favourite sets)

Ribbon - Chocolate Chip

Image - Garden Whimsy (another much loved & much used set)

Sentiment - Fun & Fast notes (ditto the above! LOL)

It's not very clear in the photo, but I've stamped the butterfly using Versamark & then added a copper embossing powder (Cosmic Shimmer) and in real life it gave the butterfly a lovely coppery sheen. I was going to glitter the butterfly, stamped it out and then realised I didn't have the right colour glitter - d'uh, so had to act quickly while the Versamark was still sticky and used the embossing powder instead! Pleased with the result though and at least I didn't end up covered in glitter for days, like I usually do when I use the darn stuff!

Today's Stampin' Up! Class and a Challenge

This is the card & gift box we made in my Stampin' Up! class today, everyone seemed to enjoy it & the time flew.  One of the things I really enjoy about holding these classes is being able to craft with other lovely ladies as I'm usually crafting away in my little room all by myself, so much nicer to be able to chat, laugh, swap ideas and eat yummy muffins with some other crafty ladies.

All made with SU products

Cardstock: Chocolate Chip, Whisper White

DSPs: from the set Tea & Crumpets

Images & sentiments: "Garden Whimsy" and the Hostess Set "Best Yet"

Ink: Chocolate Chip

Ribbon: Whisper White

The Challenge over at One Stop Craft Challenge this week is a colour one of Pink & Brown, so I think this card & box fit the bill perfectly.

Inspiring Inkin' Challenge No. 1

A new Stampin' Up! Challenge on the blog and the first oneit was a sketch but also with a challenge to use a colour you don't normally use.

I've used all SU for the card and used for the first time Almost Amethyst (had to break the seal on the inkspot!).

Cardstock: Whisper White, Almost Amethyst, Barely Banana

Ink: Almost Amethyst

Stamp set: Garden Whimsy

DSP: Tea Party

Ribbon: Very Vanilla

I'm really pleased with the colour combo and think the colours have a nice spring feel to them (not the best picture as it's very dull here today)

Stamp With Us Colour Challenge

This yummy looking cupcake was the inspiration for this week's Colour Challenge over at Stamp With Us & this is what I came up with:



All Stampin' Up! products, except for the brad which is from my stash.

Stamp Sets: Garden Whimsy & Circle of Friendship
Ink: Chocolate Chip
Cardstock: Chocolate Chip & Creamy Caramel
DP: Sweet Always
Nestabilities used for the circles

Yum, all this talk of chcolate & caramel, I quite fancy a Twix for some reason!

Bookmarks for Christine's Challenge

Here's a candy with a difference over at Christine's blog, you can enter in the usual way by leaving a comment, but if you make a bookmark you get extra entries - the twist is that the two winners are asked to send their bookmark's over to Christine, which I thought made a fun difference. I made two bookmarks, the first one I've kept very simple and just used a die on my Cuttlebug on some gorgeous cherry & spotty Pebbles Ink paper and threaded some beads onto the red ribbon. The second one I've stamped with SU Garden Whimsy set in Close to Cocoa ink onto more Pebbles Ink paper (using the same die) and add some brown felt ribbon to the top. I've also gone over the images with a Sakura stardust pen for a bit of added sparkle - not sure if that's clear in the photos.

Really quick & easy to make.

Papertrey Ink Challenge No. 5

This is my entry for this week's challenge, I popped over to the blog to have a look and have just fallen in love with Papertrey, maybe it's a good job (for my credit card anyway) that they're not available over here! So with a chance to win some stunning PI goodies, this was a challenge not to be missed and I've used one of the free sample packs as the background to my card, this one is called "Guidelines" and is just gorgeous. I've used an SU stamp, from the set "Garden Whimsy", I've stamped it with Versamark on to Lovely Lilac cardstock and heat embossed it with SU embossing powder and the sentiment is from the same set. I've used my nesties for the layers to add a finishing touch. I wasn't sure whether to add any ribbons or candy to the card, but decided to keep it simple.

Seeing Red!

Well not really, but thought it made an eye-catching title LOL. But it is a red card, another demo for my Stampin' Up! workshop on Friday using the lovely SU Garden Whimsy set, the more I use this set, the more I love it. I wanted a card using a few of the stamps and came up with the idea of punching circles down one side so you can see the image stamped onto the inside of the card and then mat & layered the front image and sentiment onto white card that I stamped around the edges with the sweet little pair of bugs. Decided to keep the colour scheme simple, red & white and with no colouring in to do, quite a quick & simple, yet eye-catching card.

Charisma Cardz Challenge No. 9

The theme was to make a pretty card for mum, I love these papers from Pebble Ink and after using them on a card decided to use what was left to make this card as they definately come under the category of pretty. The image is a Tilda stamp, which I've watercoloured to keep it soft, the sentiment is from the SU set "Garden Whimsy" which I thought worked as your mum is your best friend, the brad is from my stash.

Truly Scrumptious Challenge No. 2

The theme for this week's challenge was to follow a sketch and to use handmade buttons somewhere on your design.

The image is from the SU stamp set "Garden Whimsy" which I've stamped and then embossed, the gorgeous papers are Pebble Ink and the sentiment is also from the same SU set. One of the buttons is made of felt, I just cut a circle from felt and punched in two small holes, the other is from a Button Stamp I have which has been coloured with a Sakura glaze pen & diamond glazed over the top for an extra shiny finish and some dimension. I've also added a sparkly embellishment for a bit of bling!