Fabulous Forty!

 

My fabulous friend Jo reached the fabulous milestone of 40 first, so I made her this elegant triple layer card that I had seen so fantastically demonstrated on the SU demo site - thank you! Here I used Early Espresso and Crumb Cake ink with the Crative Elelments stamp set on Very Vanilla card stock, a little crumb cake seam binding and Gold card stock for the numbers.

 

 

As part of her present I made this little gift holder from a 12"x12" sheet of now retired DSP, in the pockets are emergency chocolate and revival tea bags at the front, some shopping vouchers for her fabulous trip to NY, a little diary and pen for the exciting year ahead and then in the left pocket 5 3"x3" note cards that I made from the same retired DSP series, seen here . . .

 

 

 

I really loved this series of paper, and simply added a Decorative Label punch in Very Vanilla to be able to write onto the envelope - fabulous goodies for my fabulous friend - where has the time gone?

 

Keep on crafting, Gen xxx

 

 



Last but my no means least!

 

I was asked by a group that I demo for about three times a year if they could do the Christmas ornament from the front of the Autumn/Winter catalogue - well, what a fabulous excuse to get to do it myself too - hee hee hee!

 

 

So here is our version - thanks to all those dedicated SU demos who have posted tutorials online and made making this creation so much easier. As each decoration takes 20 green ornaments and 20 red ornaments that is 40 for each decoration. Luckily for a workshop of 10 Teressa came over to help stamp the images and pre cut them to save time at the actual workshop - thanks Teressa!

 

I only wish I had taken a picture of all the decorations together as they were stunning!

 

 

Sorry for the darkness of the above photo. I was really eager to use the Holiday Frame Embossing folder (Mini cat p7) and the detail is so gorgeous that I choose to simply use whisper white card stock, leaving a small border of the metallic base card. I simply wanted to showcase the Ornament Keepsake stamp set so used Lucky Limeade for one of the small ornaments stamped three times to make a 3D decoration hung from simple organza ribbon, that I had free with an earlier promotion - hee hee hee! I also wanted this group to see the builder wheel and simply used Whisper White craft ink and the Good Cheer builder wheel on Cherry Cobbler card stock for the greeting that runs along the bottom of the card.

 

To finish this workshop we finished with background stamping an A4 sheet of Whisper White card with the Snowflake Soiree stamp set in Midnight Muse, Tempting Turquoise and Pacific Point and then cutting this A4 sheet gives you 8 card layout from one sheet of printing. Use this link for the One Sheet Wonder to see what I mean, and give it a go yourself. It's a great template - TFS.

 

Keep on crafting, Gen xxx

 

Workshop catch up continues!

 

The recent workshops were too good an excuse to try out all of the gorgeous things showcased in the Autumn/Winter Mini catalogue ;-)

 

 

This is of course the gorgeous Ornament Keepsake Bundle (Mini p3) - an easier way to get your hands on the stamp set and matching Holiday Ornament Framelits Dies. Here I used Real Red on Whisper White card stock, two of the medium sized snowflakes from the Snow Flurry Bigz Die (Mini p14) in the centre, with the New Naturals Designer Button (Main cat p176), secured into place with white baker twine (p172).

 

 I'm thinking I NEED at least 6 for my Christmas tree and saw a fabulous card last weekend where there was a decoration as the central motif for the card - what a wonderful ideal for sharing!

 

 

With the Snow Flurry Die there are three snowflakes in different sizes, so modified the design from the card on page 14 of the Autumn/Winter mini catalogue, using glimmer paper and Scallop Circle Bigz Die for the background of the snowflake and then the Mixed Medley Hostess set for the central snowflake in Real Red and Gumball green - who can resist a bit of sparkle.

 

 

And finally for a Birthday workshop we have to find an excuse for scented embossing powder - in this case Vanilla! I've used the party bunting stamp from the Owl Occasions stamp set (Mini p13) and then the greeting from the Itty Bitty Banner stamp set (Main cat p134) using the matching Bitty Banners framelit dies - as I was using my Big shot anyway - (MC p191). Then of course the Create a Cupcake stamp set for background stamping, and the central cupcake, punched out with the Cupcake Builder Punch (MC p185), using a bit of left over glimmer paper for the cherry on the top.

 

Keep on crafting, only one more workshop catch up ;-) Gen x

 



Workshops - sharing the fun!

So to continue with my catch up theme I thought I would show you what I've been up to in my recent workshops.

 

 

Here I used 2011-2013 In Colours Wisteria Wonder, Pool Party and Calypso Coral with Mixed Bunch stamp set using matching Blossom punch and Curly Label punch for the Get Well Sentiment from the Delightful Dozen stamp set. I simply used matching In Colour Designer Series Paper (Main Cat p152) as a background paper and some of my favourite organza ribbon (p173).

So here is my simply quick Christmas card done with Old Olive Jolly Jingles Jumbo wheel (p16), with Real Red Grosgrain ribbon and for the Christmas scallop sentiment punched out using 1 3/4" scallop punch, all printed on Very Vanilla card stock.

And here I couldn't resist the possibility of tempting others with my new stash, using shimmer card stock, Pacific Point and Night of Navy colours and standard wheel Cheerful Christmas and then the Snowflake Party and Good Cheer builder wheels (Autumn/Winter mini cat p5) and the fabulous Mixed Medley snowflake with the gorgeous 1 1/4" scallop circle punch.

 

Something a little different a Gate Fold card, with Cherry Cobbler background, Silver card stock Scalloped Heart Embosslit (p188), another sentiment from the Perfect Punches stamp set (p120) punched out with the matching Modern Label punch (p183). This can easily be enhanced by background stamping the Cherry Cobbler background, but kept it simple for the workshop.

 

Will be updating more soon - honest! Keep on crafting, Gen x