Decades to celebrate

Seem to have had a spate of Birthday's with zeros on the end, so thought I would gather them together to show you here.

As a collective we thought an appropriate gift for Mark would be a zip wire experience in Snowdonia, so made this card to go along with the present.

Stamp Set: Sassy Salutations

Ink: Versa Ink and Pewter Embossing powder

Card stock: Soft Sky, Old Olive, Garden Green, Whisper white, Silver Glimmer and Vellum

Accessories: Island Indigo Baker Twine for the zip wire and Big Shot numbers

Here's one that I simply used a Pacific Point Hello You thinlit greeting with some embellishments that were hanging round at home, on a background of Pink Pirouette card stock, and some rhinestone embellishments. 

For friends, there is NEVER enough bunting . . . . 

As you can see I'm obsessed with the Hello You Thinlit, here in Brushed Silver, on a background of retired DSP. With Tempting Turquoise numbers and Banner Bunting with Birthday silver writing.

My other fail safe on the quick card front is the Celebrate Today Stamp set and co-coordinating Balloon Framelit Die. I prefer to use card stock with the die and then the Photopolymer stamp set makes positioning easy.

Stamp set: Celebrate Today

Ink: Night of Navy

Card stock: Cherry cobbler, Tempting Turquoise, retired DSP, Silver Glimmer

Accessories: Balloon Framelit die, Confetti Stars Border Punch

And last but not least . . . . 

A little sparkle for a 70th :-)

Stamp set: Everything Elanor for the background swirl, Butterfly Basics

Card stock: Tempting Turquoise, Blackberry Bliss, Silver glimmer

Accessories: Butterflies thinlits, Big shot numbers, Rhinestones

Keep on crafting, whichever decade you're in :-) GenGen xxxx

Double Celebrations!

Somehow the twins have reached their 7th Birthday, this years card is simple in essence, and of course inspired in a back to front way as I did the tags for their Birthday parcels.

Stamp set: Sprinkles with Life

Ink: Night of Navy

Card stock: Soft Sky, Silver Glimmer

Accessories: Hello You Thinlits, Little Letters Thinlits, Tree Builder Punch

Here's the parcel tag that started it all off . . . 

Here is the other side of the dynamic duo . . . in Strawberry Slush and Blushing Bride . . 

Parcel tags too . . . 

In the parcel was a journal and they started it by putting their name tags in the first page, undoubtedly they have done lots of exciting things over the summer holidays that they have been able to document.

Keep on crafting, GenGen xxxx

Way past retirement! Workshop May 2015!

Sorry! Somehow have been distracted by other things and am now running spectacularly late, even for me! So in an attempt to catch up I'm going to try and share with you some of the things I've been doing!

The wonderful Card Club invited me to do a workshop for them in May, so I took the opportunity to theme it with retiring items, and that gave me the IDEAL excuse to make the most of the retiring lists :-)

Here's a card we dis using the retiring Mosaic Madness, as you can see I've been playing around with the punch to create the greeting at the bottom. The colours of the DSP were so striking, I simply used them as the colour palette for the card.

Stamp Set: Mosaic Madness, and a sentiment set

Card Stock: Island Indigo, Pool Party, Pumpkin Pie, Strawberry Slush

DSP: Quatrefancy

Accessories; Mosaic punch, Pearl embellishments, Modern Mosaic embossing folder

Then something simple, but useful for the recipient :-) A card with a bookmark greeting! Great excuse for a little introduction to Blackberry Bliss for the background emboss ;-)

Stamp set: Painted Petals (from Spring/Summer Catalogue)

Card Stock: Blackberry Bliss, Whisper White

(Background DSP: Painted Blooms)

Ink: Blackberry Bliss, Blushing Bride and Pear Pizzazz

Accessories: Blackberry Bliss Stitched 3/8" Satin Ribbon, Scalloped Tag Topper Punch, Spring Petals embossing folder

And finally, just for fun a little card, for a little one, and a marvelous excuse for bunting! At the workshop I let people choose Pink or Blue . . . .

Stamp set: Itty Bitty Baby

Card Stock: Soft Sky and Whisper White

Inks: Pacific Point, Soft Sky

Accessories: Baker's Twine,Banner Punch

Keep on Crating, GenGen xxxx

Congratulations!!

It's always so wonderful when your family has a new addition and excitingly this little one arrived on Mum and Dad's Birthday so joint celebrations for all!!

The soft toy I bought for this little one was a brightly coloured giraffe with Blue and Orange being key to welcoming this baby boy, I have managed to use retired stamp sets for the card, with Soft Sky and Pumpkin Pie for card stock and inks. There are just some stamps sets I can't seem to part with ;-)

My Godparents celebrated their Golden Anniversary at the end of May, so I created a card that took a little more time, to celebrate their 50 years of marriage . . . 

A white tatted heart with gold seed beads, on a Gold Foil card stock, with the fantastic Fancy Foil Designer Vellum as a background. It was a wonderful celebratory lunch, with a few golden elements for the marquee, made by me ;-)

The Tables had a Hill theme so for the tables I made little Golden Foil Hills with their names on, place name cards with a Gold foil edge and Menus for the table with the gorgeous Gold 1/8" Ribbon.

Keep on crafting, GenGen xxxx 

Clearance rack - supplies while they last!

Just wanted to bring everyone's attention to the clearance rack as well as the weekly deals, this promotion is from the 1st July-4th August 2015, so have linked the picture in the right bar to go to the promotion from this page. Just to give you a little inspiration, here's a card that I made with the Snowflake thinlit die.

It is of course a Birthday card inspired by the Disney film Frozen, that we can all sing the theme to now! I used some retired Christmas DSP and Bermuda Bay, Whisper White, Basic Black, Chocolate Chip and Pumpkin Pie card stock, and silver glimmer too. Greeting from Something to Say stamp set. It's so much better when it's open . . . 

Keep on crafting, GenGen xxxx

Birthday Bonanza!

And so continues the obsession with Hello You thinlits!

You know you're never too old to have a card with your age on ;-)

Stamp Sets: Crazy about you, Big Day and Linen background

Card stock: Cream card base and Chocolate chip core dinations

Ink: Night of Navy, Chocolate chip

Accesories: Hello You thinlit and big shot dies for numbers, letters

A simple variation with Birthday Bunting

Stamp sets: Crazy about you, Big Day

Card stock: Pacific Point, Tempting Turquoise, Soft sky, Whisper White, Crumb cake

Ink: Night of Navy

Accessories: Banner punch. Whisper White baker's twine, two brads and stars from In Colour sequins

As a little deviation, but still with Birthday Banners in mind, with Soft Sky, Night of Navy, with simply using a star punch for embellishment

For the Birthday present a simple bow made with the Bow builder punch and some Designer Series Paper :-)

Keep on crafting Gen Gen xxxx

Somehow we're in July!!!!

Somehow it's July and I am playing catch up! It;s not that I haven't been doing anything, as I'm sure you are all feeling at the moment, life is rushing past, and I'm having difficulty keeping up with it! Anyway, enough of the excuses, here is that start of the catch up!! As I'm so behind I'm going to group celebrations together, at least that's the plan!

Stamp Sets: Crazy About You, Petal Potpourri
Card stock: Old Olive, Melon Mambo, Whisper White
Inks: Old Olive, Melon Mambo
Accessories: Old Olive organza ribbon, Flower Medallion Punch, Hello You thinlit, Pearl Jewel for flower centre.

Stamp Sets: Sheltering Tree, Crazy About You, Simply Wonderful
Card Stock; Cream card stock, Gold foil
Inks: Early Espresso, Old Olive
Accessories: Hello You thinlit

As you can see I'm quite obsessed with the Hello You thinlits ;-), sticking to my keep it simple motto  and letting the stamps shine through, at least that's my excuse for less is more ;-)

Keep on crafting, Gen Gen xxxx