Party Set!

Supplies: Food On the Go Stamp Set – Jane’s Doodles

Wonderful Words Additions – Papertrey Ink

“you” die – Wonderful words die collection – Papertrey ink

Kraft Cardstock – Anita’s docrafts
White Gift Bag - Cupcakecrafting.co.uk

Merry Rhinestones – Lost & Found Christmas – My Mind’s Eye

White, Red and Aqua cardstock - Canson

Machine stitching

Black Tuxedo Ink – Memento

Copics-0, C1, C3, C5, G14, Y00, Y15, Y21, YR23, YG23, 
YG91, E18, E31, E33, E35, E43, R27, R37

Guillotine - Purple Cows

Sharing a set I made for a recent submission that wasn't picked up!  Think it was my second time submitting - no luck yet!!! Just have to keep on trying!

I had an idea in my head and was pretty happy with how it converted into real life.  I love aqua and red together and you know I am a huge fan of Jane's Doodles Stamps.

The set comprises of a gift bag, card and gift card holder.

Thanks for peeking - hope you are having a great week and have an even better weekend.

Happy Birthday

Supplies:  Waltzingmouse Stamps - Free Spirit Boy , PTI sentiment and guitar,
Memento Tuxedo Black ink, Kraft card blank - papermania, Quickutz 
cookie cutter circle dies, black cardstock Canson, and
glossy accents - ranger industries.

It is all girl birthday's this weekend but I have a boy card to share!  

Yeah - I know, it's just the way things work out.  

My son needed a card for a 9 year old friend last week and I made this fun one - all stamps from Waltzingmouse and PTI.

Thanks for peeking - hope you have a wonderful weekend.  Huge Birthday wishes to Bláithín, Karen and Anne (might even get a chance to share their birthday cards next week!).

Hooray for you!

Supplies:  Kaisercraft pp -Pina Colada Collection, Papermania orange 

textured cardstock, PTI sentiment die and vintage PTI button, Folia 

pink cardstock, machine stitching, cork, Stampin up Butterfly die, 

embroidery floss, white ink, pop dots, stapler and adhesive.

I entered this card into the Paper Crafts August 2011 Gallery Challenge over on Flickr on Wednesday night.  I had lots of fun making this card.

I love the texture and look of cork on a card/project and had got a lot of it a while back and had been saving it... what for you ask?  Good question - so I opened it up and got cutting.

I got a Sizzix Big Butterfly die by Stampin' Up whilst on holidays in the US (it is only available Stateside).  I have admired it for so long and am so thrilled to have it in my stash now.

I layered the cork with some of the reverse side of the patterned paper by Kaisercraft and added a PTI Raspberry Fizz button.  Thanks so much for peeking.

Hope you have a wonderful weekend.

Birthday Card - Thinking Inking

Supplies:  Jillibean Soup Kraft card blank, PTI Blooming Button Bits 

- flower, leaves and sentiment.  Colorbox Pigment Ink in Eggplant, Versacolor ink - Sage, 

Clear embossing powder, doodlebug gems and vintage white buttons from Nancy 

Okay... I have been cleaning my house all morning and have taken a quick break!!!  Have guests arriving from out of town tomorrow... so have to get the place ship shape.  

I stamped the flower in eggplant, leaves in sage then coated in clear ep - used my heat tool and then put it straight back into the ep, did several layers to get a high shine/thick layer of embossing on the flowers and on the leaves.  This is what Jennifer McGuire did with her roses on this week's thinking inking too.  I cut out and adhered to a kraft card blank.  Added stitching with emboidery floss to the wonderful vintage buttons that Nancy sent me (Thank you Nancy) and added gems to one card.

Created the box around the card with a eggplant coloured gel pen.  Thanks so much for peeking.. have to go back to the cleaning!

Check out the wonderful 2peas class - Thinking Inking right here for amazing inspiration from Jennifer McGuire.  Have a fun day!

Set of Cards - Teacher Gift

Hard to believe that we are at the end of another school year - my DS's finish on Wednesday - woohoo!.  Looking forward to getting to spend fun times together without the daily chore of homework and assignments.  We are all looking forward to getting to spend time on the water, play outdoors and generally have fun - therefore my blog will suffer and I won't be here as often as I would like... but hey!  it's only 8 weeks and I have set up some auto posts so that I can truly focus on my boys.

Want to share a set of cards that I made yesterday morning for one of my DS's to give to a helper in his school.  I used the new DeLovely range from Cosmo Cricket - boy do I ADORE these new papers.  I only purchased a 6x6 mini stack so I managed to get two cards from each sheet of 6x6!  

I used kraft card blanks with matching kraft envelopes.  Used my "ruffled bloom" stamp from Stampendous and coloured them with copics in YG03, B02 and BG15 and also a promarker in Cerise (as my copic in that shade was dry!).

I added machine stitching, gems from Papermania and Hero Arts, glossy accents (on one flower centre) and the sentiments are from Hero Arts, PTI and Papermania.

The kraft card blanks are from Paperchase (sold in Ireland through Awear).  I then packaged them up in a clear box from Clear Bags and made a thank you tag to attach.

I am entering them into the challenge on my partner in crafting crime which is school, teacher or student inspired creations.  Thanks so much for peeking - hope you have a wonderful day.

Paperplay - "Home"

This week's challenge on Paperplay is set by DT Member Evonne.  She has chosen the theme of "Home" - cards or LO's inspired by something in your home.  The challenge this week is very kindly sponsored by Simon Says Stamp.

I used the stamp set - On my couch from Papertrey Ink for this card as I recently needed to send a get well card to a friend.  I stamped the image on white cardstock with dark chocolate ink, added the feet! and stamped the sentiment directly on to the card.  Cut out the sofa with a scissors... don't have the die cut to match this set yet! and added it to the card with pop dots.

Thanks so much for stopping by and I really hope you have a chance to play along with Paperplay this week.