With or without the champagne glitter paper?

If you have been following my recent posts you will know that I am helping with wedding favours for my best friends wedding next month (see Playing with wedding favours post).

Now we have a confirmed theme of butterflies, I've had to resort to the retired Butterfly punch to help me out.  The Beautiful Butterflies embosslits die would work just as well but unfortunately it doesn't allow for printing of the bride and groom's names on the back very easily!

Here is my batch of samples which are being mulled over - which would you pick, with or without the Champagne glitter paper that is still available?

Materials:

Butterfly punch (retired);

Card - Pink Pirouette;

Embossing folder - Vintage Wallpaper;

Flowers - non Stampin' Up!;

Champage Glimmer paper - rolled over from the Autumn/Winter catalogue, you can order a pack for £4.50 (item 127885).

Last chance for Sale-A-Bration freebies

There are just 5 days left of the Stampin' Up! Sale-A-Bration event.  If you haven't already taken advantage of the great offers available until 22nd March then I urge you to have a look.  There are 2 amazing offers:

1. Sign up as a Stampin' Up! demonstrator and get £162.50 worth of Stampin' Up! products for just £99 with no further commitment.  That means you don't actually have to become an active demonstrator, you can just buy everything on your wish list and stock up on craft stash!

2. Place an order of £45 or more (excluding postage) and get one of the fabulous limited edition stamp sets or other items for FREE.  check out what is available here.

I've used the Bloomin' Marvelous stamp set from the Sale-A-Bration choices to create the leaves on the card I have to share with you today:

Using Pool Party with So Saffron card stock and a slither of Soft Suede, this is a reasonably quick card and you can change the colours to suit the recipient.

Other materials:

Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder;

Boho Blossoms punch; 

Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp set;

Basic Rhinestones.

If you would like to place an order, just contact me at jadedcrafter@gmail.com. I am also now back in the UK and available to do any last minute parties if you want to get a group of friends together in either the Camberley or Maidstone area... just contact me for availability.

Happy Mothers Day Mum

Being out of the UK I almost forgot that it is Mothers Day today!  

I did make a few cards in haste before departing last month, and fortunately had remembered this one for my Mum :)!

The base is Basic Black and I have embossed a piece of Real Red card stock, cut with one of the Designer Labels Framelits dies, with the Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder and used this for the background.

I've added a butterfly cut from Twitterpated fabric (adhered to card) using the Beautiful Butterflies die and then punched out a Decorative Label punch shape stamped with the sentiment from the Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp set and decorated with one of the stamps from the Bloomin' Marvelous SAB stamp set.

Losing track of the days...

That is my excuse for a late post today... I haven't had a chance to keep my scheduled posts up to date as have been frequenting Cambridge for work the last few weeks and working very long hours :(.

 

I do actually have lots of projects to share with you so will try and improve the updates in the coming days.

 

Today I have a fitting idea for someone like me perhaps... to keep track of what day it is ;).

 

I created 16 of these for the last demonstrator get together that I attended - last Friday.  When we get together we like to create 'swaps', which basically means a project idea in multiples which we then swap with each other so that we can build up our samples and share ideas.

 

I have used one of the new stamp sets from the new main catalogue which was released this week - Memorable Moments.

 

It would be great for age related cards and anniversaries, but here I have used it to create a fridge magnet calendar.



The base is Old Olive and then I have cut a piece of Crumbcake cake stock using one of the Labels Collection Framelits dies and then run it through the Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder.  Onto that I have adhered another framelit with the border image and 2012 stamped in Real Red ink.  Finally a quick border of Real Red cardstock for the mini calendar and a magnet on the back and it's done.

 

These would make great little gifts and are reasonably quick to make, I made 16 remember!

 



Waterfall album

Earlier this month I went along to a fellow demonstrator's Waterfall Album class to try out something a bit different.  I take my hat off to Diane, who braved this class as it's extremely technical... but so so worth it when you finally get to the end.  Here is what my finished album looks like, and I am so please with it, so thank you Diane :).



I got to play with my favourite designer papers from the main Stampin' Up! catalogue - Beau Chateau, combined with the Baroque Motifs stamp set which I have never used before, so I was in heaven!  And the lovely Striped Grosgrain Soft Suede ribbon to co-ordinate ...

The colours are Soft Suede, Marina Mist and Very Vanilla.  You can just see in the photo there is a panel of Soft Suede which has been run through the Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder and then the image panel on the front was created with the Top Note die, both using the Big Shot machine.

I have then used the Baroque Motifs image in Soft Suede and added flowers in Marina Mist ink, which I have then attached the Itty Bitty punch flowers to and a Basic Pearl. 

The sentiment is from the Vintage Vogue stamp set and I have just inked the 'Life Happens' part onto Very Vanilla and then punched out with the Oval punch and mounted on a Scalloped Oval punch from Marina Mist card. 

Here is the inside of the album:



I've stuck with simple pages as hope to add some photo's soon, so just stamped the flower from the Baroque Motifs stamp set in Marina Mist alternatively through the album pages and added a border with strips of the Beau Chateau papers and Marina Mist card punched with the Ribbon Border punch.

I love the idea of creating a flower with ribbon... it's just a case of using red sticky strip around a circle and adding a brad in the centre... I've used the Crochet Trim ribbon here and a Antique Brad.

The other pages fold out like a 'waterfall' when you pull the tab, and at the back I've added another Top Note die shape for the final page.

I have to admit, only special people will receive one of these made by me as it's pretty hard work to complete!

Wedding hearts

Wedding season is upon us it seems.  I don't actually own any of the wedding stamp sets yet, although I have got my eye on the Love and Laughter stamp set in the current Summer mini catalogue.

So, for these wedding cards I have used the Heart punch and some embossing folders.  Actually amazingly simple to make once you have punched out the pieces and embossed them.

The papers are from the Beau Chateau DSP paper pack, which I am sad to say is probably up there in my favourites as it has papers which are suitable for feminine and masculine cards, and sadly I have almost used up my pieces from a paper share ...

The framelits dies make a great background, after I have embossed them with the Perfect Polka dots die, and the lovely Organza ribbon is also moving up my list of favourites as it adds the final touches to give a more luxurious feel.