Recipe Challenge

I had a go at the First ever Recipe Challenge over on Stamp with Us

The recipe is:

2 x patterned paper

1 x ribbon

4 x brads


I used

Stamps - Soft Summer, Oval All
Card Stock - Regal Rose, Whisper White
Designer Series Paper - Sweet Always
Ink - Regal Rose, Pixie Pink, Green Galore, Old Olive, Barely Banana, Blush Blossom, Yoyo Yellow, Basic Black.
Ribbon - Regal Rose 5/8" Grosgrain
Brads - Pretty in Pink

Another 'Wild' Baby Card

Another baby card, for a friend at work ;0)


Recipe:
Stamps - Wild About You, Congratulations (SAB)
Ink - Bashful Blue, So Saffron, Certainly Celery, Almost Amethyst
Cardstock - Old Olive, So Saffron, So Saffron
Designer Series Paper - Junior Varsity and Washington Apple (mini catalogue)
Ribbon- From stash
Supplies - Large sliver brad from the Stampin Up Hodgepodge Hardware collection, dimensional, tiny silver brad and buttons from stash.

Was hoping to get some cards made for for a swap I'm involved with over on ILWS as RoyalMail has lost my original submission a whole 20 cards! but the weather is just too nice, going out to potter in the garden for a while. Will be back to it later ;D

ILWS Colour Challenge 256

This weeks colour challenge is using

Chocolate Chip

Brocaide Blue

Pumpkin Pie

More Mustard

or substitutes if you don't have or use Stampin Up markers, ink or cardstock. If you do take part in this challenge on ILWS please quote ILWSCC256 when uploading this challenge.

This is the card I made


A friend at work asked me to make a card for her husband's 50th birthday, she knows I really struggle with male cards ... but she loves my cards so I couldn't refuse. So I doubly tested myself this week by setting the colour challenge to it as well. The colours work really well with some of the papers from Washington Apple Designer Series

The card was taken from a sketch I've had in my sketch pad from some months and knew it would be useful for the 'right' project ;0)

The 50 was cut out on my Robo, DH showed me how to use the Robo and now that I know how easy it is to use I think I'll be using it an awful lot more - good thing really, as it cost a lot and its just been sitting on the shelf since August!

Recipe:
Stamps - Seeing Spots
Ink - Versomark
Cardstock - Chocolate Chip, Brocade Blue, Pumpkin Pie, More Mustard
Designer Series Paper - Washington Apple
Ribbon - Brocade Blue, More Mustard
Supplies - Hardware frame and silver brads from the Stampin Up Hodgepodge Hardware collection.

I hope you'll join in on this colour challenge, please upload your project to the ILWS site I'd love to see it.

I'd also love to read any feedback on mine ...

Wild About - New Baby

One of my work colleagues had her baby girl the other day, four weeks early - both mum and baby doing fine :0)

This is the card I made for her

Recipe:
Stamps - Wild About You, Congratulations (SAB)
Ink - Pretty in Pink, So Saffron, Certainly Celery, Almost Amethyst
Cardstock - Pretty in Pink, So Saffron, Almost Amethyst
Designer Series Paper - Tea Party (mini catalogue)
Ribbon- From stash colour matched to Pretty in Pink
Supplies - Large sliver brad from the Stampin Up Hodgepodge Hardware collection, white button from Button Latte Collection (mini catalogue), pink buttons colour matched to Pretty in Pink from stash.

I hope you like the card I made, please leave me a comment, tell me what you think of it ...

Another Chocolate Chip Fresh Cut

And another Chocolate chip card stamped up using Fresh Cuts again using both the resist embossing and spotlight techniques. I love Chocolate chip, I especially love to add a 'crazy' colour, this time I added Taken with Teal which is another favourite of mine :0)


Recipe:
Stamps - Fresh Cuts
Ink - Taken with Teal, Green Galore, Chocolate Chip, Embossing ink
Cardstock - Chocolate Chip, Taken with Teal
Ribbon- Chocolate Chip
Supplies - Clear Embossing Powder. Raised dots designer holder from the Stampin Up Hodgepodge Hardware collection


I'll be back tomorrow with a fab card I made this evening for a collegue who had her baby girl yesterday.

Stamp with Us Colour Challenge

The Stamp with Us challenge this week is a colour challenge, inspired by a chocolate cupcake - yum, which means yummy chocolate colours ...



Heres my entry



Recipe:
Stamps - Fresh Cuts
Ink - Chocolate Chip, Embossing ink
Cardstock - Chocolate Chip, Creamy Caramel
DSP - Chocolate Chip
Ribbon- Chocolate Chip
Supplies - Brads colour matched to choclate chip.

I've seen so many cards in the last week or so highlighting the Spotlighting technique I thought I should have a go, the main image has been resist embossed with chocolate chip ink - this is probably one of my favourite techniques ;0)

I've made quite a few cards in chocolate chip with some 'bright' co-ordinating colours using Fresh Cuts - I'll post more tomorrow.

Ally Pally

It was a really long, but fantastic day yesterday. I left the house at 6.45 to get to Saltdean for an 8am minibus departure which I made in plenty of time. Big thank you to Clair for organising the minibus it saved me the hassle of the train or driving through London and gave me the chance to meet all these virtual people IRL ;0) as well as make some new friends ...

We got there later than originally planned, but I still managed to meet up with friends from ILWS and UKS, it was fab to put some faces to names ;0) I can't believe I didn't get my camera out ;(

I didn't spend nearly as much as I though I would, even though I had custody of DH's credit card for the day ;)



I'm off to do some of the dreaded HW now, but hope to have a play with the new toys later ...

Stamp With Us Theme Challenge

The Stamp with Us Challenge was actually set on Sunday, I can't believe its Friday already! lucky we had a week to get them in, today was the first chance I had to get to this one. This weeks theme is nice and easy - Birthday. I knew what I was going to do it was just getting round to actually doing it. I've always fancied having a go at a Spring card, they are so easy ...


Recipe:
Stamps - Crazy for Cupcakes
Ink - Pumpkin Pie, Bashful Blue, Basic Black
Cardstock - Pumpkin Pie, Bashful Blue, So Saffron
Supplies - Dazzling Diamond, white gel pen
Flower Punch - Non SU

I love the SU Dazzling Diamonds, look how they sparkle, they're even better IRL ;0)

Another Challenge on ILWS

Kraftykate over on ILWS set the challenge yesterday, and what a fab challenge it was ... This time it was an Inspiration and Themes challenge, the inspiration piece was a photo from Harlequin Fabrics and Wallpaper all you have to do is create a card or other papercrafted project based on a picture, upload it to the gallery on ILWS, with ITC17 in the title and link back on the thread here , thats it, easy. This is my submission, I love this one, its so girly ...



This is the inspirational picture.

Recipe:
Stamps - Soft Summer, Botanical Blooms, Oval All
Ink - Regal Rose, Pretty in Pink, Old Olive, Summer Sun, So Saffron, Close to Cocoa, Blush Blossom, Basic Black.
Cardstock - Regal Rose, Pretty in Pink, Old Olive, Very Vanilla, Whisper White
Ribbon: Pretty in Pink Taffeta Ribbon
Brads: Colour matched to Pretty in Pink and Old Olive

Not sure how well it came out in the picture but I tried to pick out the quilting from the bedspread. I 'quilted' the CS by scoring the wrong side - It looks fab IRL ;0)

Card Swap Group 1

And following on from my entry yesterday here's the cards swaps from from group 1 ...


Jackie/JayC



Debbi/Debbi Taylor


Val/ValMoody


Vicki /IslaBella


Deborah /Munchkiduk


Tricia/triciaquarius

Ruth/ Ruthfearn

Amanda/9399 Amanda

Mine





Ngaire/Lovin'stampin




Don't you think all 20 are just FANTABULOUS - these swaps are hard work but are so worth it. I love them, they give me so many ideas.