I love it when there is rubbish on televison!

 

The reason I love it when there is rubbish on television of an evening is that it gives me the perfect excuse to sit at my table and play! I expect if I was really very truthful............I dont need an excuse at all!!!

Before I cleaned up my table yet again I thought I should have a little more creative time which was definitely better than watching the DVD Concerned Citizen.

I can sit there in my own little world and do as I wish, but also be able to pick up a phrase here and there or glance up and see a fleeting

moment of a scene, and when my husband talks to me about the movie I am at least able to make some 'intelligable" comment! Whew!!!

This time I thought that I would play with Dasher, Snow Swirled, Season of Joy and some more of my another day stash, as well as other stamps and I couldnt resist having a play with the set Baby Bundle. It is just so so cute.

My another day stash must sound as if it is huge! It isnt really, but when I get new embossing folders, or dies I just cant wait to try them out, and as a result I have a heap of Whisper white cut 10.5 vx 14.98 and the same in usually retired card stock, and when the pieces are embossed or cut they go into ther another day box. It does come in handy when you're in a hurry to make a card when you have all these embossed pieces of cardstock etc. I also did some cards using the Thoughts and Prayers stamp set, but becasuse I am such a terrible photograher they didnt turn out, which was disappointing because I really loved the combination that aI used. I used So Safron for the card, Always Artichoke (embossed using Petals a Plenty), stamped the flowers from Thoughts and Prayers onto a piece of Certain Celery, which was matted on So Safron. I then stamped the image twice, once in Always Artichoke and then in White Craft. The sentiment I stamped straight onto the So Safron card base. It really does look striking and I must try to take some more pics. When I had done that card I was so taken by it, I grabbed some scrap from my another day box and stamped some trees and flowers from this set using the same technique but in various colours. Those images have gone back into the box for re-use. I did make one other, but as yet I havent photographed it.

I have fallen in love with the Baby Bundle stamp set, it is so cute. One of my ladies rang the other night and said could I please make her a baby card, as her daughter had just given birth to a little boy, and this is what I came up with. I used Bashful Blue Cardstock, Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder, andthe Word Window Punch and the Modern Label Punch. The little duck is not SU.

I finished it all off with just a dash of Dazzling Diamonds in the heart, coloured the dots on the stroller and wheels with Baja Breeze Stamp and Write Marker pen, and used the black Marker pen to do the dashes in the pram hood. Because the Baby bundle set is in Clear Mount, I took all the small images and put them onto one of the clear stamp blocks and stamped all over the Whisper White to give the card a ;real; nursery feel to it. My lady was thrilled with the result, and I sort of got the picture right. I have made some other cards (or they re in the process of being made) and I will share them over the next couple of days as they are completed. So till next time, keep stampin'

Debossing Class

Last Friday I held a Technique Class and the ladies had a wonderful time learning and creating. Of course there was a lot of laughter and good times to be had by us all. I must say, one of the most satsisfying aspects of stamping would have to be that everyone is so helpful to each other. So not only do I get the chance to Share what I Love, the other ladies are sharing as well. The Debossing Technique is such a simple yet stunning way to show off some of our wonderful embossing folders that we have available to us from

Stampin Up. Firstly we embossed the Very Vanilla Cardstock, and then using a very light hand brayered over it using Sahara Sand on the raised side. On the 2nd piece of cardstock that was embossed we reversed the techniqued and brayered the other side of the cardstock. We ended up with two totally diffferent looks. The card was then finished off using the Dasher single stamp and the greeting from Snow Swirled. It was surprising how different the cards looked when they were finished.

The other technique I showed the ladies was this. Take the remaining cardstock from around (in this case ovals) dies that had been cut in the Big Shot that would normally be thrown out, and place it over some Very Vanilla Cardstock keeping it in place using Dotto. We used Old Olive to sponge the foreground and Baja Breeze to spong the sky. The stamp set used was Lovley as a Tree and was stamped in Old Olive within the oval area. The sentiments, once again come from Teeny Tiny Wishes. What resulted was a very delicate card that with the change of a sentiment could be used in so many ways. Why is it that when we become papercrafters we never look at a scrap of paper, ribbon, brad etc etc the same way again? In our previous life it would have been binned, in this life it is recycled!