Sharing in Your Sorrow

Sadly, I needed to make a card for a dear friend who lost her mother last night. It's made me very sad for her so I made a card to let her know she's in my thoughts. Luckily, I found the perfect sketch over on Clean & Simple which made my job a lot easier.

Recipe
Stamps : Loving Thoughts, Betsy's Blossoms
Ink : Basic Black, Raspberry Ripple
Cardstock : Shimmery White, Basic Black, Raspberry Ripple
Accessories : 1/2 Pearl, 2 1/2" Circle Punch, Dotted EF, Big Shot

Graduation!

I was asked by a friend to make some Graduation Cards. The school colours are green and white ~ I'd seen the owl with a grad cap tons of times before but never actually had a go myself. I think these turned out to be very sweet!

Recipe
stamps : Teeny Tiny Wishes (sentiment)
Cardstock : Shimmery White, Wild Wasabi, Basic Black, Patterned Pack
Ink : Wild Wasabi
Accessories : Owl Punch, Bird Punch, Scallop Oval Punch, Pennant Punch, 3/4" Circle Punch

ETA : A few people wanted to know how I made the grad cap. Please see this post for all the details.

Everything Eleanor

I managed to fit in some play time this weekend with a new stamp set which they've had in England for a while now, but we are just getting in our new big Catalog. I have to admit that I find this set hard to use ... so I decided to try, try and try again until I made something I like. This is what I managed ... and I do like it!

Recipe

Stamps : Everything Eleanor, Loving Thoughts, French Foliage

Ink : Raspberry Ripple, Crumb Cake

Cardstock : Very Vanilla, Raspberry Ripple, Crumb Cake 

Accessories : Crumb Cake Seam Binding Ribbon, Tasteful Trim Die, Big Shot, Dimensionals

Debossing

Happy Monday to you! There's a great 'older' technique challenge for today on SCS. It's to make a card using the 'debossing' technique. So, we all use EMbossing, where you run a folder through your Big Shot and get raised shapes on your cardstock. Well DEbossing is when you turn it over and the cardstock has the negative impression showing. I have never used this technique so decided to have a go ... AND I went out of my comfort zone and used a vintage style set called Nature's Pace. I am not very good at the vintage style, so I made a cross between Vintage and CAS. Ha! Not sure it worked out very well, but it's unique!!!

Recipe
Stamps : Nature's Pace
Cardstock : Very Vanilla, Rich Razzleberry
Ink : Soft Suede, Crumb Cake, River Rock
Accessories : Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border Punch, Embossing Folders, Big Shot, Markers, Ribbon

Katie's Birthday

It's my cousin Katie's birthday next week so I went looking for a couple of challenge blogs I could use as a starting place for her card. I found this sketch on the Clean & Simple stamping blog. I've only just starting using these wonderful crisp and clean sketches, they're fabulous for my style of cardmaking. Then I went over to the Simply Stampin' Challenge blog and chose to play along with this week's colour challenge. I used my new Apothecary Frames Framelit Die and the new 'Make a Cake' stamp set. Loving playing with new goodies this week!

Recipe

Stamps : Make a Cake, Curly Cute (sentiment), Distressed Dots (background)

Ink : Island Indigo, Real Red, Regal Rose

Cardstock : Shimmery White, Island Indigo

Accessories : Big Shot, Apothecary Labels Framelits, dimensionals, Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border Punch, Crystal Effects, 1/2 Crystal

Quite the Colour Challenge!

I struggled a little with the Colours on today's CC over at Splitcoast. Certainly Celery, Pacific Point & Crumb Cake! It was Pacific Point which threw me. I tried to watercolour the deep blue colour onto the Crumb Cake flowers and it didn't quite work, but after I'd spent some time working on it, I decided to post it here anyway. I think if I'd left the flowers the neutral Crumb Cake colour it would have looked MUCH better! Oh well, they're called 'challenges' for a reason!!!

Recipe

Stamps : Everything Eleanor

Cardstock : Watercolour paper, Certainly Celery, Crumb Cake

Ink : Crumb Cake, Pacific Point, Certainly Celery

Accessories : Oval Accents Die, Big Shot, Diagonal Scoring Plate, Crumb Cake Seam Binding Ribbon, Sponge, Blender Pen

Sweet Sunday Sketch

This is the Sweet Sunday Sketch this week. I used the upcoming new 'Betsy's Blossoms' Set for this one, along with the cute little sentiment from 'Itty Bitty Banners'.

Recipe
Stamps : Betsy's Blossoms, Itty Bitty Banners
Ink : Baja Breeze, Summer Starfruit
Cardstock : Shimmery White, Summer Starfruit, Floral District DSP
Accessories : Bitty Banners Framelits, Big Shot, White Baker's Twine, 2 3/8" Circle Punch