Having 3 hobbies

Sometimes when you go into your craft room, it feels like you have 3 hobbies, buying supplies, tidying supplies and making cards. Sometimes the first 2 overtake the actual card making. Or if you are not feeling so hot, buying supplies is the main hobby. Then when you finally go in to the craft room, you feel a bit overwhelmed. I tend to pick some colours and a stamp set and try to make a card.

I love this card I created, I decided that I wanted to use Marina Mist,  using the Silver Embossing Paste, Sweet Soiree Decorative Masks, the  Sweet Cake Framelits and the Beautiful Day stamps. I did also sneek in the Berry Burst, I love the flower, I decided to leave the die cut pieces inside the flower rather than popping them out. I think that it makes the flower prettier. I popped the sentiment up with dimensions.

All in all I think that it was a productive hour in the craft room. Hope you like it, I have card of a similar design to show you in the next few days.

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Gorgeous Birthdays

I have a number of family and friends whose birthday it is this month, this is my latest creation. I was trying to avoid the Berry Burst, but it sneaked its way in. I was attempting to use a Marina Mist, silver and Basic Grey colour combination, but it looked a bit dull.

For inspiration I went through the new catalogue and found the pictures of the Sweet Soiree suite. I loved the flowers from the new Sweet Cake Framelits, originally I left the cuttings in the flower, but they didn't look right. I did keep the paper in the tag though. I used a flower and the Happy Birthdays stamps from Cake Soiree. When I put the card together I thought something was missing. it took a bit of placing the card on different coloured pieces.

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I added the dots from the Petal Palette to add some more interest. I love these stamps and love how the card turned out. I hope you like it!

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Gorgeous Stampin' Up! Daisy Birthday

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I have been making example cards over the last few weeks. I have been using some of my favourite items from the catalogue. One of these is the Delightful daisy suite, I love it. I have loved it since I first saw it at 'OnStage' in April. I love abstract patterns, my favourite papers last year was the Blooms and Bliss, this paper reminds me of that. The swirlsand colours add to the beauty of the leaves. I think that the colours are not what you expect and that they give you so many colours to choose from. I love Pool Part and Soft Sky, I have always been a blue, person I think I get it from my mother she always seems to be drawn to blue. I used the stamp set from Beautiful You. It contains some gorgeous sentiments.

Measurements:

  •  Soft Sky: 21cm x 14.8cm (8 1/4" x 5 13/16") , scored at 10.5cm (4 1/8") then folded to create card base
  •  Daisy Delight DSP: 10cm x 14.3cm (3 15/16” x 5 5/8”)
  • Strip of DSP - 1.5cm x 9.5c m (5/8"x 3 7/8")
  • Whisper White: 13.8cm x 9.5cm ( 5 7/8" x 3 7/8") for the inside of the card
  •  Soft Sky: scrap for Square
  • Whisper White: scrap for Square and two Daisies.
  1. Cut and score the card base.
  2. Use the square Framelits to cut out a Soft Sky square.
  3. Cut a smaller square in Whisper White
  4. Stamp the Daisies in Soft Sky and colour in one with a blender pen, using Soft Sky ink.
  5. Stamp the sentiment in Soft Sky ink on the Whisper White square.
  6. Stamp the leaf in Old Olive.
  7. Stamp the sentiment on the Whisper White, for the inside of the card.
  8. Attach the strip of DSP to the bottom of inside piece of Whisper White.
  9. Attach the Whisper White to the inside of the card.
  10. Attach the Daisies to the front of the card using glue dots.
  11. Attach the square to the DSP using SNAIL.
  12. Attach the DSP to the card front using SNAIL.

I really like this card, but I may still be addicted to the Delightful Daisy set.

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