Friday Mashup & Freshly Made Sketches

Here is my entry, as promised, in the Firday Mashup Challenge 96 and Freshly Made Sketches 72.



It started out, not even with a challenge entry as a basis, but I bought a set of 3 Cheery Lyn butterfly dies.  It's a little bit unconventional for me to step outside the Stampin Up! realm, but I love the detail in these dies and Stampin Up! doesn't have a similar alternative.  I thought it would look amazing on the multi-coloured viney sheet of DSP from the Sycamore Street collection, and I do believe I was right!

The Firday Mashup challenge this week is to use a time theme and/or use black.  I've just gone with the black this time.  I didn't really have anything timey up my sleeve.  I originally tried another version us ing Summer Starfruit as a main colour, but I didn't really like it much so I had another go.  Nothing beats Pool Party and black!

The butterfly sort of fits on the second-smallest of the Beautiful Butterflies die.  I've also used the Cloudy Day embossing folder, Sycamore Street DSP, the sentiment is Curly Cute and the ribbon is just a piece of black velvet ribbon.

Thanks for looking,

Bub

Pinwheels and Wiper Card

Hey,

Firstly, here is the second of my cards in the "make two more cards with pinwheels" challenge:

I was in the mood to use my circle dies (which I didn't stick down too carefully), so that was the basis for my design.  I stamped the pinwheel stamp from the Happy You hostess set in Stazon and coloured in with my markers with Lucky Limeade and Calypso Coral.  I had to do this prior to running the Cloudy Day embossing folder through the big shot, so it was.... er... totally on purpose that I debossed instead of embossed.  There are no mistakes in papercraft!

The colours are Lucky Limeade and Calypso Coral and the DSP is Tea for Two out of the Seasonal Mini.

More of that retired Calypso Coral organza ribbon....



I also have a card to share with you that some of us made at our craft gathering this week.  It is called a wiper card and has a little pop-up element that swings like a windscreen wiper as you open and close the card.  My friend, Vanessa provided the instructions!

Here is a picture with the card opened (mostly)

Mostly Closed

And fully closed

I used the retired Spice Cake DSP, Papillon Potpourri Stamp Set, Soft Suede, Pool Party and Very Vanilla Card Stock.  I used Soft Suede Taffeta Ribbon and I forgot to take any stamps with me for a sentiment so I borrowed Vanessa's Petite Pairs.  Being acutely indecisive, I chose this one, because of the three sets that she offered me, this is the one that I don't own (to everyone's horror).

Thanks for stopping by - I'll be back shortly with another post... a challenge entry!  I also realised I've done a couple of other things but haven't taken photos with them yet, so will return with them at some stage too.


Bub

Pinwheels!

I was crafting with a couple of special young ladies and we did a case of the following card, created by Mary Fish.  It was pretty much a straight case, except we didn't have the stamp set she used for the sentiment, and couldn't decide on one, so left it blank for now.

We used Crumb Cake, Primrose Petals, Very vanilla and DSP from the Print Poetry DSP stack.  We embossed using the polka dot embossing folder and of course we used the teeny tiny Pinwheel sizzlit.

Sharon then set the challenge that over the next two weeks we would create two more cards using pinwheels and text our results to each other as we go.

So far, this is my first card:

I based it on this card by Robin Messenheimer, which is based on this weeks sketch challenge at Create with Connie and Mary.  I wanted to do a case of this card because I'm in love with the designer builder brads in the Seasonal mini, but the pinwheel challenge had been set and I thought I could easily interchange it for the pinwheel.  The brads will wait until another project!

The colours are Very Vanilla Real Red, Basic Black, Pool Party (the DSP also has Primrose Petals on it).  The DSP is from More Amore specialty DSP, The Pool Party DSP is from the 2011-2013 in colour stack and the Real Red is from Polka Dot Parade.  The sentiment is from Sassy Salutations and the brad is non-SU as I don't have any SU ones that are that small!  The doily is cut from the laser cut sheets in the retired Flirtatious Specialty DSP with the "wrong" side sponged black with a dauber, but if you didn't have any of those you could do the same thing with one of the hearts from the More Amore specialty paper.

I will be in touch with my second pinwheel card!

Bub

More Recent Projects

Here is a card I made using inspiration from the Friday Mashup challenge a few weeks ago.  I never got to enter it in the challenge because my computer was playing up and it didn't get fixed until after the challenge closed.  I wasn't 100% happy with it.  After I stuck the elephant down I decided maybe I should have rotated it.  I think it would have looked a bit better.  It's a fairly simple looking card which took a lot of effort!

The challenge was to use patterns of some sort and/or at least three of the following colours:  Summer Starfruit, Tangerine Tango, Island Indigo, Early Espresso and Sahara Sand.

I managed to use three main colours, but also incorporated all five into the panel with the elephant on.  This uses my "shimmery" technique with a base of shimmer paint on glossy white cardstock, ink refills dropped onto the card, a layer of shimmer mist all dried out with the heat tool and then adhered to acetate using crystal effects.  The elephant is stamped on the acetate using stazon

 My patterns on the card were the honeycomb embossing, the random patterns of the ink, the pattern on the elephant and the fact that he comes from the Patterned Occasions Sale-a-Bration stamp set.

Here's a project that I forgot to post last time - I knew I'd done more than I gave myself credit for!

This was for my friend Tania's 40th from all of our craft friends.  She loved it!

This uses some retired Berry Blossoms DSP and Calypso Coral DSP from the In Colour patterned paper collection.  The big heart is the Scalloped Heart of Hearts embosslit and the small hearts are punched out using the small heart punch.  The ribbon is Wisteria Wonder Ruffled Ribbon.

This is a card that I made for my friend Lisa's birthday a week ago and haven't posted yet.  Oops!  I mean I made it a while ago but her birthday was a week ago and I haven't mailed it as opposed to posting it here.  I was playing with my shimmery technique again.  The sentiment is from Pretty Petites, another SAB stamp set which co-ordinates with the cute little Curly Label punch, also a SAB item.  I also used the XL Curly Label punch.  The main image is Pleasant Poppies.  I have used Real Red, Calypso Coral, Daffodil Delight and Lucky Limeade ink.  The ribbon is Calypso Coral and it was one of last years SAB items.

This is my recreation of a card that featured in the January Impressions magazine for SU demonstrators.  It showcases some of this years SAB items:  Vine Street embossing folder, Sycamore Street DSP and Madison Avenue stamp set.  Wow!  Looking at this photo my stamp-a-ma-jigging looks really crooked - it doesn't look this bad IRL.

This is a card I made for my Father-in-Law - his birthday is later in the week, so I do plan on posting this one today!!!  It uses the leaves from French Foliage and a sentiment from Sincere Salutations.  The embossing on the large oval is from the Designer Frames embossing folders.  I have used Cajun Craze, Lucky Limeade and Always Artichoke.

This one is for my Mother-in-Law, whose birthday is later in the month.  I will post it in the same envelope as the one above!  I'm getting a bit lazy with my explanations because I'm posting so much at once!  Sorry!  I used Rose Red and Perfect Plum.  The ribbon is retired ant the embossing folder on the plum is non-SU!

The following three are gift card holders for my niece, nephew and brother-in-law, whose birthdays all occur in a row.  I'm going to visit them tomorrow.

My niece's favourite colour is green and the sentiment is a bit cheesy but it so suits her!

The lady whose blog I found the instructions for the bow on asked for credit when posting, but I have no idea where I found it!  I printed off the instructions and read it later.  If this was you, please let me know.

More SAB items for the boys' ones!  Sycamore St DSP and Tangerine Tango ribbon from the ribbon and button pack.  I have only stuck down half the sentiment (from the Bitty Banners stamp set and framelits) with dimensionals so that the ribbon can slide off.

 

 

Wow!  You made it all the way to the end of my post!  Thanks for visiting!

 

 

Bub

 



Recent Projects

It turns out I don't have as many pictures of projects as I thought.  I have created some other things, but I mustn't have considered them share-worthy.  I think my mojo has been taking a break over Christmas, but I am getting back into it now.  A couple of packages from Stampin Up! have helped.

Here are a couple of pics of a birthday book that I created.  I didn't go nuts taking pics of every page - you get the idea...

 

 

Each "page" is a C4 sized envelope with the days of the month pasted onto the back.  You write in birthdays on the appropriate dates, and when you have made a card for a birthday, you put it in the envelope for that month until their birthday rolls around.

 

 

 

The other project I have to share is from my friend Jay's 30th Birthday.  He had a cocktail party and he asked me to do something crafty with the cocktail menus.  Pretty classy we both thought...

 

 

 

 

 

That is all I have to share for today.

 

Thanks for looking,

 

Bub



I'm entering a Challenge!

So, I've made a whole lot of things that I planned on sharing on my blog, but I just haven't gotten around to sharing yet, but since I have a blog I've decided to enter a challenge!  I thought I had better post this before I get around to sharing the other things I've done, because I only have until noon Monday PST - and I have no idea when that is in my time!

Anyway this is the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches

And here is what I came up with:

 

 

 

I'm a bit impressed that I managed to incorporate all of the colours on the DSP without anything looking out of place or too overboard.  It wasn't a goal that I started out with, but it did happen that way.

 

I have used the new Stampin Up! Sale-a-bration DSP, Sycamore Street, and the Sale-a-bration Island Indigo ribbon.

 

The colours of the cardstock are Island Indigo, Pool Party, Tangerine Tango, Rich Razzleberry and Summer Starfruit.

 

The xoxo stamp is from the My Little Valentine stamp set, which is available during January as a promo.

 

Thanks for looking,

 

Bub



Oh Dear! - Heal Soon!

So my niece broke her leg and did a really good job of it, breaking both bones in her lower leg above her ankle.  So I decided to make her a card.  "Get Well" isn't really an appropriate salutation, since she's not sick as such - this is why I like the Sassy Salutations stamp set (126705 wood, 126707 clear) which has "Feel Better" instead - still good for sick people but also appropriate when get well is not.  Unfortunately this is still on my wish list so I had to think outside the box.  This is what I came up with:

Her favourite colour is purple, so I have used a combination of Elegant Eggplant, Wisteria Wonder and Melon Mambo.  The dear is the retired Dasher with his antlers cut off - I was NOT cutting around them!  I cut a small length of 1/8" very vanilla taffeta ribbon, which was still too wide for dasher's delicate paw, so I cut it in half up the middle.  This also caused it to fray a bit and made a more authentic looking bandage.

Cardstock:  Very Vanilla, Elegant Eggplant, Melon Mambo, Wisteria Wonder

DSP:  Flirtatious (Retired)

Stamp Sets:  Dasher (Retired), Lovely Letters Alphabet (116392 wood, 127796 clear)

Other:  2 3/8" Scallop Circle Punch (118874), Elegant Eggplant Scallop Dot Ribbon, 1 3/4" Circle Punch (119850), Timeless Type Junior Alphabet Sizzlits (Retired)

I'm not always in the habit of decorating envelopes, and I was short on time so this was no exception, but if there's anyone in our family who is likely to get sick or hurt - it's Mikayla.  I was going to include a photo, but I can't figure out how to rotate it how I want, but it is addressed Mikayla Mikayla Mikayla.  Say it slowly and shake your head!

Bub