"Silent Night"

Here's another card made with the beautiful Silent Night stamp set, when I first saw this set in the SU! catty, it completely passed me by, not the sort of thing I'd normally go for, so I didn't really register it. Then I saw some of the fantastic cards other Demo's had made with it, and when I visited another SU Demo, Rachel and had a play with some of her stamps, I stamped out a couple of image from this set & fell, completely & utterly in love! So much so I've now got my own & will be making quite a few Christmas cards with this set for sure. Only two stamps in the set, this one & a lovely saying in a beautiful handwritten script.

The image is large and IMO needs no colouring in, so you've got a card pretty much in an instant with it, I've added SU! Heat & Stick powder & then my SU! Dazzling Diamonds (no glitter drift if you use the powder first) and I think that's all the image needs.

I'm entering my card into Stamp With Us, who are also having a DT call (so fingers crossed) and their theme this week was a recipe challenge -

1 stamp, 2 papers; 3 brads.

I also entering it into Creative Card Crew's challenge, and their theme is favourite things, well I think this stamp definitely falls into this category!

Here's the rest of the details - all Stampin; Up!

Stamp - Silent Night

Ink - Chocolate Chip

DSPs - Merry Moments

Cardstock - Very Vanilla; Chocolate Chip; Old Olive (I've distressed the Olive layer)

Brads -from stash - non SU!

TFL x

Piece of Cake (Box)

I came across this fab template for a cake slice box and decided to make one for this week's Stamp With Us Challenge, which is anything but a card and also Carly has set the Charisma DT a challenge to make a favour box so I'm going to enter it in that as well.

Really easy to make following the template and all Stampin' Up! products used (except the ribbon which came from my stash). The flower is made following another template with a brad in the middle

Cardstock - Chocolate Chip

Papers - Sweet Always (retired)

And that's it! Simple to do - you could say it was a piece of cake! ha, ha!

Stamp With Us - Recipe Challenge

A recipe to follow over at Stamp With Us this week, no patterned paper, 2 stamps & 2 ribbons. I'm not happy at all with this card, disaster from start to finish but I've made it so I'm entering it! The photo makes it look worse, the ribbon's not quite so bad in real life, but is patchy where I've coloured it (this normally works so well!).

Anyway here the recipe - all Stampin' Up!

Stamps - Queue Up (available from 1 October as a Level 3 Hostess set); Seeing Spots; Stem Sayings

Ink - Basic Black; Pink Passion

Cardstock - Whisper White; Pink Passion; Only Orange

SU Markers - Pink Passion; Only Orange; Pixie Pink; Yoyo Yellow

Stamp With Us - Recipe Challenge

A recipe challenge this week at Stamp With Us - 1 patterned paper, 1 coloured cardstock, 1 flower & three brads and this is what I've come up with. A very simple card using one of my favourite SU! sets - Pick a Petal, only this time I've made a different shape flower rather than the usual five-point style.

All Stampin' Up! (except the brads - from my stash)

Stamp sets - Pick a Petal, Stem Sayings

Cardstock - Old Olive

DSP - Haiku

I'm not sure about this card, I still feel something's missing - hmmmmm!

Stamp With Us & Little Paper Shop

Two challenges with one card today - I'm entering this for Stamp With Us - Colour Challenge (pink, red & orange) & Little Paper Shop's sketch.

A simple card made with one of my newer (and already a favourite) stamp sets from SU! "Pick a Petal". Apart from the little orange flowers, which are from my stash, the rest is all SU! as follows:

C/stock - Whisper White, Only Orange, Real Red, Pixie Pink

Ink - Pixie Pink, Real Red

Stamp sets - Pick A Petal, Fresh Cuts (sentiment)

DSPs - Sweet Always

The sun's shining, so I'm off for a sit in the garden with an ice-cream!

TFL x

Stamp With Us - Sketch Challenge

This is my entry for this week's Stamp With Us Challenge, which was a sketch and I've turned it on it's side. All Stampin' Up! products used

Recipe:

Cardstock: Whisper White, Chocolate Chip

DSPs: All from Sweet Always

Image: From "Simply Said" & "Circle of Friendship"

Ink: Chocolate Chip

Ribbon: Chocolate Chip

TFL x

Sketch Saturday meets Stamp With Us

I've combined two challenges with this card, Sketch Saturday, who also have an optional theme of Stars & Stripes (or Red, White & Blue) and the theme over at Stamp With Us this week is Children's Cards.

I was very lucky last week and won the Pollycraft Challenge and had £10 to spend in their shop - what fun & this gorgeous little Moodle Mouse, called Gregory (aww how sweet!) is one of the stamps I bought. I've coloured him with PM's & everything else on the card is Stampin' Up! (except for the button from my stash):

Bashful Blue cardstock, DSP & ink

Stars & sentiment - from the set "In the Stars"

TFL

Stamp Something & Stamp With Us

Two challenges for this Wedding Card, Stamp With Us has a theme of Congratulations and Stamp Something has a Wedding theme, which combined very well.

I've gone for a simple and hopefully elegant card, which is a bit different from my usual style but I think it works.

I've used a Stampin' Up! stamp and sentiment from the set "Fun and Fast Notes" which is such a useful set, stamped in gold ink & then embossed with SU clear embossing powder, the cardstock is a lovely pearlised cream colour - not too clear in the pic and I've embossed some of the same cs in my cuttlebug and layered with some gold cs, all from my stash as is the ribbon.

Whoops! Too late

It had to happen sooner or later, I totally missed the deadline for this week's Stamp With Us Challenge! I've really got behind with my challenges and I'm making cards right up to the deadline, I did this one yesterday afternoon, then got involved with something with my daughter and totally forgot to a) photo the card & b) enter it onto my blog & into the challenge - D'uh!

So lesson learned - hopefully and I'll try & get ahead of the game again this week.

As I'd made the card anyway, thought I'd still blog it, although it's not a very good pic, I scanned it rather than photograph it, which has worked really well on the last couple of cards, but not this one, the light's a bit wobbly. Anyway all SU & the recipe is:

Stamps - both from Seeing Spots

DSP - from Patterns in Bashful Blue (I'm not normally a blue person at all but I just love Bashful Blue)

Cardstock - Whisper White & Bashful Blue

Ink - all Soft Subtles - Perfect Plum, Pale Plum, Pretty in Pink, Bashful Blue, Almost Amethyst & Lavender Lace

TFL x

Stamp With Us - Colour Challenge

A bright and breezy colour challenge this week at Stamp With Us and I loved the colours which I decided should be:

Certainly Celery - cardstock; watercolour crayon on her dress & shoes

Bashful Blue - DSP (from the set Washington Apple)

Summer Sun - cardstock, SU markers for the balloon, hair ribbons and the flower on her dress

Real Red - cardstock & SU marker on the balloon

The image is from the set "All in the Family" which I have wanted since I started demoing for SU in February and so pleased to get this week, you're going to be seeing a lot more from this set for sure - it's fab! The balloons are from the set "Birthday Best" and I've used my Stamp-a-ma-jig to put them in the perfect place and layered them with silicon, the sentiment is also from this set.

I used my SU scallop punch on the red card border and the only non SU items are the two blue flowers from my stash and my Nesties used to cut out the circle and scallop circle.

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!

Stamp With Us Theme Challenge

The theme for this card was BIRTHDAY, I've got a friends birthday coming up, so I thought I'd make a card for her and use it for this challenge. I've used one of my favourite SU stamp sets, "Playful Petals" along with the matching DSP "Tea Party". I've coloured the images with SU Watercolour Crayons - Barely Banana; Pretty in Pink; Almost Amethyst & Lavender Lace, plus a little bit of a Stampin' Write marker in Pumpkin Pie. The sentiment is taken from the "Fun & Fast Notes" stamp set, and I've used an SU marker in Garden Green. The cardstock is Whisper White and Garden Green.

Stamp With Us Challenge # 1

Well loving Stampin' Up! as I do this was one challenge I didn't want to miss out on as any excuse to get out my SU goodies & I'm there!

I made this card for my friend Sarah, to wish her luck with her new shop she's just opened and found the sketch a great inspiration.

I've used all SU throughout the card, the flowers are from the set "Simply Said" (I love this set) and I've stamped one image onto Whisper White cardstock & the other flowers onto Pumpkin Pie, Ruby Red & Summer Sun cardstock & cut out.

The DP is from the set "Sweet Always" it's the same sheet, I've used the back & the front.

The sentiment comes from the set "Cheer & Wishes" and I've added a little bit of bling to the centre of the main flowers, using candy from my stash.

Sarah loves Autumn colours, so this card was right up her street.