Friends ...

Last week it was the birthday of a very lovely lady, a very good friend of mine. Here's the card I made for her ...

Supplies used:
Cardstock & ink - Primrose petals & midnight muse, Stampin' Up
Paper - Stampin' Up
Stamp & die - Polka dot greetings & Fishtail flags, Die-namics
Punch - Potpourri butterfly, Stampin' Up
Embossing folder - Lattice, Stampin' Up

Her birthday lunch had to be postponed because of that pesky snow! But wasn't it pretty?! Me & my daughter went for a walk & found this ...

Very Narnia like, isn't it! So pretty.

But now it's all gone, my kiddies are back at school & we return to normality *sigh*

Thanks for popping by & take care x

Beaches & balloons!

Another couple of card requests! The first one was for a 21st birthday, the recipient lives in Brighton, so the beach & bright colours were requested. Here's what I came up with ...

I sponged the sky on a white card base with Baja Breeze ink. The beach huts I cut & scored just using my trimmer & the 'roof' is made with the one punch I use again & again, Stampin' Up's Word Window ... neat huh? :)

Supplies used:
Cardstock & ink pads - Old Olive, Melon Mambo, Pacific Point, So Saffron
Punches - Pennant, Circle, Word Window
Ribbon - Old Olive Taffetta, Melon Mambo Striped Grosgrain
Sentiment from Party This Way SU stamp set

The 2nd card was for a male 50th birthday. I always find masculine cards a bit more of a challenge, but I was quite pleased with this one ...

The textured grass was made with the gorgeous Square Lattice embossing folder. The hot air balloon stamp was a free gift with Craft Stamper magazine last year & I've found it really useful for male cards! I stamped the inside of the card too ...

Supplies used:
Cardstock - Baja Breeze, Old Olive, Pacific Point
Paper - Brights Designer Series Paper, Pumpkin Pie & Pacific Point
Dies & punches - Square Lattice embossing folder, Lots of Tags sizzlit die, Word Window punch, cloud & alphabet dies (Quickutz)
Stamp - free with Craft Stamper magazine

Thanks for popping by & take care.

Tam x

Nature walk for lil sis

It was my sister's birthday recently. She's developed a real love of birds & her garden is filled with bird boxes & feeders! So I just had to make her birthday card with my favourite stamp set from the SU mini catalogue, Nature Walk. And here's the finished result. I don't have any rich razzleberry ribbon, so I cheated ... I dragged a rich razzleberry ink pad along a length of white taffeta ribbon, crafty eh? ;)

Supplies used:
Cardstock - rich razzleberry, crumb cake, old olive
Paper - Brights designer paper stack in rich razzleberry
Stamps - Nature Walk, sentiment from Party this Way
Ink pads - old olive, rich razzleberry Punches - Scallop trim border, word window, modern label
Other - Whisper white taffeta ribbon, SU exclusive Square Lattice Embossing Folder, Basic pearls

I'm posting this from my mobile as not only do we have a fault on our phone line, resulting in a dodgy internet connection, but my camera doesn't want to play at the moment :( I have lots of other pics to show you when its fixed including some lovely cards & giftbags I made for my son's teachers!

Take care, and thank you for popping by x

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