CAS Card Making: Day 3 - Tone On Tone

Day 3 of the Clean And Simple Card Making Online Course had Jennifer McGuire showing how she used a die to make a tone-on-tone background!  I really liked this and couldn't wait to try it myself.

Here I've used this butterfly die, some Whisper White and Regal Rose (I know, I know, more Regal Rose!) cardstock to make each butterfly a little raised and "popped"!  Each butterfly has about 5 white dies and the top pink 1.  I probably shouldn't have used as many as 5, but I guess I got a little carried away Big-Shotting!  I chose to use Stampin' Up's 2-Way Glue Pen to adhere each layer, but I did find it was getting a little sticky so I started to just use Snail which worked really well.

I have white embossed the sentiment which is PaperTrey's Signature Greetings Vol. 3 No. 63. Some little pearl bling and I had to stop myself from tizzing away - reminding myself CLEAN and SIMPLE!!!

My card base is Glossy White again - I love the feel of glossy!

Just Add Ink #90 - Sketch

This week at Just Add Ink the sketch challenge was provided to us by Bronwyn Eastley.


I have used a chocolate chip base and stamped KaiserCraft "Devonshire" lace stamp down the left hand side in a cream ink (not sure on the brand).

I used my new favourites, my nesties (Nestabilities) in lavendar lace and confetti cream.

The bird from Stampin' Up Friends 24-7 is popped up on dimensionals and I've stamped the Papertrey Ink stamp from Signature Greetings Vol 3 #63 in chocolate chip and embossed it using versamark and clear embossing powder.

Of course I couldn't resist adding some flowers, so I've rolled a few roses in the lavendar lace and confetti cream and added some chantilly crochet trim.

Papertrey Paper Dolls: Challenge #29

Still home alone and still making cards!!! Why? Because I now have some time to! It's so lovely!

Now this one is for Papertrey Paper Dolls - "Simplicity" and simple it is! It was difficult for me not to tizz, so met myself halfway and placed one and only one little bling in the centre of the flower on the left!

stamps: su! live like you mean it, pti signature greetings
cardstock: naturals ivory
ink: poppy parade, wild wasabi, basic black
corner rounder, rhinestone

Colour Cue #11

I'm still enjoying my peace and quiet while Miss Charlotte is staying at Nanny and Poppy's house - so today I made two cards. I played along for the first time and did Colour Cue #11Baja Breeze, Pink Pirouette, Whisper White and I chose Going Grey for the "Pick A Neutral".
I made the rose using the Fancy Flower punch - you can see the tutorial I made here.

stamps: pti signature greetings
cardstock: glossy white, going grey, pink pirouette, whisper white
ink: basic grey, pink pirouette, blushing bride
sponger daubers, sticky strip, silver glimer mist, organze white ribbon, basic pearls

Teacher's Thank You Presents

Today, Charlotte and I gave her Kindy teacher and teacher's aide these little boxes fill with homemade rocky-road and coconut ice!

The Baja Breeze set was for the teacher, Mrs. Emma Folo, and it kind of made her cry!
She's been such a wonderful 1st teacher for Charlotte and I am truly grateful for her fun, positive personality that has made Charlotte's year such an awesome one!

This red/black set was given to the wonderful Mrs. Colleen Peardon. Charlotte did a bit of investigating earlier in the week and found out that Mrs. Folo's favourite colour was blue and Mrs. Peardon's favourite colour was red! That made things a bit simpler!

The girls at Just Add Ink participated in a Secret Santa this year and my fabulous SS gave me a gift voucher for "My Time Made Easy" and this is one of the templates I purchased. You can find it here.

Gabby's 30th Birthday Card

My good friend's little sister, Gab, turned 30 the other day! 30!!!
She's been a good friend and I think she's just stunning and wonderful!
I wanted to give her a special little pressie to make her feel "special" so I gave her a beautiful black flower clip and some cocoa butter in a cute little leopard print bag AND this little card. I CAS'd the wonderful Tania Gould! If you haven't already, you should check out her blog here! ;)

You can find the tutorial to how I made the rose here.

I sprayed the rose with silver shimmer mist, several times. Actually, it was quite a few times, got a bit carried away! Love that stuff!

Thanks for popping by! Come again soon!

stamps: congrats, my favourite stamp set of all time, flourishes from kaiser
cardstock: basic black, melon mambo (agghh my last piece!), glossy white, whisper white
ink: basic black, versamark
clear embossing power, dimensionals, large flower punch, crystal effects, crimper, scallop punch

Would this pass for "Vintage"?

Here's another attempt of mine at "Vintage"....Vintage has so many different styles, so hard to know if it fits or not? What do you think?
This card absolutely did my head in trying to photograph it. My camera and I are at logger-heads lately. Focus focus focus!
I'd really love to know what you think....Vintage or not?

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cardstock: pink pirouette, confetti white, crumb cake, early espresso, neutrals DSP
ink: sahara sand, early espresso, versamark
stamps: en francais, vintage vogue, Papertrey
white taffeta ribbon, 2-step owl extra large punch, bird punch, pearls, clear embossing powder