CAS chocolate flower

A very quickie post from me today as I'm on my own with the bubbas as Hubby is at badminton. They've had me dancing with them and jumping for the last hour and I can't wait to tuck them up in bed! So a really easy peasy card to make:

I've used Chocolate Chip card for the base and rounded of the corners before adding a dotted line of rubs ons from Hidden Garden Blossoms and then using a flower in chocolate from the same set on to a piece of scrap patterned paper from the Brights Stack. I punched it out  using the 1" circle punch, layered it onto a
1 1/4" circle in Chocolate Chip card and finally stamped the Flower For You in Regal Rose on to Whisper White card and punched out with the matching Fancy Flower Punch.

Not sure if the photos shows it but it's all layered up with Dimensionals. It took me ages when making this card to decide if it should be landscape or portrait, I finally settled on landscape as don't do them very often.

Gotta dash before my living room gets totally trashed.
Hugs
Pin It

Another March Frenzy Project

Ooooh so lovely when the sun is shining so bright like today. All the washing hanging out in the garden instead of all over the house! Bliss. Children nodding off.....me enjoying a cuppa.

So on a bright and sunny day I thought I'd share a lovely bright card I made yesterday:

I've used Certainly Celery for my card base and added a strip rub on from Hidden Garden Blossoms. The flower on the Melon Mambo square is a rub on from the same set. I used a mat of Chocolate Chip card to match the rub ons. Aren't they scrummy?

To finish off I just added a Subtles button and attached it with linen thread. I love this card.

Back in a mo with a ribbon share.....
Hugs
Pin It

Tutorial for you

If you visited yesterday you will know Stampin' Up! have just launched their latest promotion ' March Frenzy'. I've made a cute set of cards using some of the products included in the offer and put a mini tutorial together for you too.

These cards are made usinhg the following supplies which are included in the discounted products offer:

• Cheer and Wishes stamp set - Reduced by 30% to just £11.87
• Hidden Garden Blossoms rub ons - Reduced by 30% to £5.95
• Blender pens (pack of 3) - Reduced by 20% to £6.36

I have also used Crumb cake card for the base, Rich Razzleberry, Early Espresso and Whisper White ink pads and the Corner Rounder Punch.

These are so easy to make:

Apply your rub ons and stamp your choice of sentiment and then squeeze your inkpads whilst they are closed. When you openm them, there will be ink in the lid as shown in the photo above. This becomes your painting palette.

Pick the ink up by dabbing the blender pen nib into the ink in the lid. The blender pens suck up the ink, allowing you to colour with them. Then colour your images! You don't need a blender pen for each colour as you simply carry on colouring on a scrap of paper and the pen becomes clear again. For this card I have used one end for each colour for speed.

All you need to do is add ink and blend, just like you would with other colouring tools. The Whisper White helps to lift the darker colour and the best thing is it doesn't soak through the card, making one layer cards a breeze.

When colouring like this I tend to start with the darker shade and blend the white ink in afterwards. This works just as well with stamped images as you may have seen on recent posts of mine.

I hope you'll give it a try and let me know as I'd love to see what you create.

Hugs
Pin It

March Frenzy is here!!

Oh my word - we just said good bye to the awesome Sale-A-Bration promotion yesterday and we wake up to another fabulous offer this morning. Welcome to March Frenzy!!!!

So what is it all about? Well Stampin' Up! are offering you discounts on selected products of up to 30%. How good is that? These are the products on offer, you can click on the image to make it easier to view!

These products are all fabulous and will be showing you some projects made with them throughout the month. I should mention though that these products are on offer until stocks run out and then they will return to their full price so you might want to be quick!

I've enjoyed playing with the Hidden Garden Blossoms Rub Ons recently and have a double scrapbook page layout to share with you using them. These layouts are both 12x12:

I love this photo, it's of me and my Mum on her 60 something birthday in Torrox, Spain. Mum lives in Spain with my Step Dad so vistiting is always fun! I've used Basic Black card, Brights and Neutrals DSP, All in the Family stamps, and of course the Hidden Garden Blossom rub ons - don't they look fab against the patterned papers?

This photo always makes me smile, it's me and James when I was pregnant with Zac chilling out on my Mum's roof terrace in Frigiliana. I've used the rub ons again down the black card and onto the photo and also as a little feature in the punched circles next to my journalling. Here are the layouts together:

I've used the layout and two optional extra themes from my current months scrapbook challenge. If you'd like to join in you can see the details and the prize HERE.

Got to dash now and pick Zac up from pre-school. Luckily my Mum in Law is here today so I don't have to take Blake with me!

Hugs
Pin It

More rub ons

I enjoyed what I created yesterday using the Hidden Garden Blossoms rub ons so had another go today.

This is a little bit more detailed than yesterday but again an unusual colour combo for me. I found this combo on the Colour Coach and decided to give it a go!

It's Chocolate Chip, Always Artichoke and Tangerine Tango! Nice colour mix but wouldn't fancy cooking with it! I've made pretty much the same card as yesterday except I've added a layer and used a different sentiment:

And the matching box is stuffed full of crafting goodies, ribbons etc, nice sized box it is:

Well it's Valentine's Day and the kids will be off to bed soon and me and Hubby can sit down and have a nice meal together (kind of hoping he's doing the cooking!).

Hugs
Pin It

Hidden Garden Bodge Up

After a craft free day yesterday I was itching to create this morning. My friends Chrissie and Mandi launched their new challenge blog last week 'Less is More' and their first week was a huge success. Let's keep the momentum going and join in with their second challenge which is a one layer card featured flowers or trees. Here's mine:

Now I've strayed out of my comfort zone for a change and used Always Artichoke card as my base and a rub on as the feature! The gorgeous flower is from the rub on set Hidden Garden Blossoms. I was going to create a border around the image but decided I've seen this alreday on lots of other cards and wanted to do something else. So I chose my sentiment from the Sale-A-Bration FREE stamp set So Happy For You. It's easy to think of this particluar sentiment as one to use on a sympathy card, but sometimes a friend just needs to know you are there, perfect I think. I stamped it using Versamark and heat embossed with white embossing powder before drawing my line with the white gel pen. Again I had to stop myself drawing the white border all the way around the card!

I  wanted to use the smaller matching rub on to make a gift tag to match and here is whefre my total bodge job happened! Erm, I'd just finished the heat embossing when I dropped the card and smudged the sentiment. Humph:

Decided it wasn't good enough and used another image to create the gift card instead:

Now do I get points out of ten for resisting to use any ribbon, pearls or gems on this? Have a fun Sunday whatever you're doing. I'm off for a soak in the bath and then an afternoon of crafting awaits me whilst hubby and the boys have an afternoon to themselves.

Hugs
Pin It