Team Swap March 2011

This is the card front I made for Abi's team training swap back in March. I decided tobase the card around the Springtime Vintage DSP as the mini was coming out the next month. Just a strip of it was used, along with a scallop border in Rose red. The Scallop Circle was put throught the Square Lattice embossing folder, before cutting in half. I then finished the card by adding a greeting to a Four Frame panel.

Thanks for looking,
Kathy. x

Elegant Bouquet & Baja Breeze

This card might look complicated but, thanks to the Big Shot, is super quick to make!

I started off by embossing the base card with the Elegant Bouquet embossing folder, then adding Glass Glitter in Baja Breeze to the flower centres with Tombow Glue. I then set the card aside to dry.

Next I cut a large butterfly using the Beautiful Wings Embosslit (keep the smaller ones for other projects) and sponge daubed it with ink to bring out the detail.

I then made a panel using one of the Four Frames stamps and the Decorative Label punch. An oval greeting was added on top.

Once the glue was dry I assembled the card and finished it off with a Baja Breeze Seam Binding Ribbon bow.

Take care,
Kathy. x

Kathy's Birthday Gifts 2011

I made these gifts and card for my work colleague, Kathy, whose birthday was last month.

She has loved my jewelery before so I made her a matching earring and necklace set. I first punched out circles of Elegant Soiree DSP and adhered them to Tim Holtz Faceted Charms using Crystal Effects, then used Crystal Effects again to seal in the paper. The necklace "chain" was Baja Breeze Seam Binding ribbon which is so lovely. I put the jewelery inside a Pillow Box which I made out of Vellum Card and embossed with the Elegant Flowers Embossing Folder, the embossing was inked using an Aqua Painter and I just had to add some more of that gorgeous ribbon to finish it!

The card used some more of the DSP, together with a Four Frames panel (sorry I just can't not use that set!!)
The last gift was a MINI Milk Carton filled with mini eggs as no birthday should be without chocolate!

Kathy loved them, just as much as I loved creatingthem.

Take care,
Kathy. x

Spring Workshop

 Hi there!

These were the 2 projects we made in the Spring Workshop last week. We loved making the 3D daffodils using the Fun Flowers die, but I think my favourite was the little bird house complete with cute owl.

When I found out we were (finally) getting the owl punch I just couldn't wait, he's so super cute!
I think some of my ladies have fallen for him too as they can't wait for me to place my next order (which will be soon!) The great thing about these boxes is the mini clip holds to roof on and it doesn't ruin the box to get the goodies out. But if you do want to seal them in, it's easy enough with a little bit of Sticky Strip.

Thanks for looking,
Kathy. x

Plane & Simple #1

I always struggle with masculine cards so when Stampin' Up! brought this set out in their mini catalogue I had to have it! I'm planning for a demo at the end of the month for around twenty people and this is my first design, it'll get tweeked a bit for the night and I need to organise a 3-D item to make as well. Any suggestions in keeping with the male theme?

I kept it simple and let the stamps do the work. The border stamp creates the side panel, to which I added a scallop border. I then simply stamped the plane, punched the corners and added one of the greetings. When the card base is such a dark colour I like to add an insert and I stamped the goggles in one corner.

The colour combination was Early Espresso, Soft Suede and Very Vanilla.

I think I'll try a little distressing, maybe some texture and adding a contrasting colour to my next attempts. Once I'm happy with the projects I'll be making up the 20 kits, so that should keep me out of mischief for a while!

Take care,
Kathy. x