Butterfly Card

I made these cards using a gorgeous texture plate and SU pink pirouette and riding hood red CS, white taffeta ribbon and crystal brads.The butterfly, words and little pink flowers on the die cut shaoe were from SU too gotta love that company.....

Hugs

Janette

Pink and Lilac

This card was made for our stamp club where the card of the month was using pink and lilac....

The paper was from Carol Anns studio and is printed on pearly paper..I used nesties and SU stamps....I decorated the inside too...seems to be the thing to do on all these blogs I keep visiting.....

Hugs

Janette

Another Autumn card

This is the other card made for the swap......

These colours are not my faves, but I actually quite enjoyed the making of them.

Its good to step outside your comfort zone every now and then isnt it ??????

Bye for now

Janette

Friend card

This card was made for an Autumn Colours swap on a Yahoo group that I belong to.

Its very vanilla, choc chip and more mustard.

The DP I think was called Apple Cider.

I still need to do some organising of my files on the laptop as its arranged differently to my PC.....took me a while to find where this card was LOL !!

Bye for now

Janette x

One stamp set, one colour choice 3 cards

I decided to use Blue Bayou CS with whisper white CS and some blue bayou print paper.

I chose garden Silhouette stamp set and wanted to make 3 cards using these.

This is what I made.....

what do you think ??

Bye for now

Janette

Friends BD card

This card also uses black !! old olive and ruby red.Another CB folder...swiss dots...live the dream SU set, scallop border punch black brads and black and white polka dot ribbon.

I popped up the flower heads on 3D foam pads.

These colours are perfect for my friend, they are not my favourite but I do have to say that I do like the card :)

Bye for now

Janette

Another Navy christmas card

Whilst the navy CS was out I thought I would make another card...another 2 made now off my list LOL....!!

I used a marvy 2" scallop punch, then SU scallop punch in whisper white, then the same in night of navy, then using the 1" SU circle punch I punched out one of the embossed snowflakes from the cuttlebug bacground...then used the rest layered on bashful blue.Again I used the navy ribbon I made earlier and a pale blue pearl brad.

The merry christmas words were inked in white and embossed with irridescant ice EP.

Bye for now

Janette

Forgotten Friday Polar Bear Card

Jenny is having A FORGOTTEN FRIDAY today where she pulls out a set she has *forgotten* and makes a card !!! I thought I would do the same.This is a very old SU stamp set but I just love this cute Polar Bear doing the splits whilst having his Latte !!!

I used Night of Navy and whisper white CS.Cuttlebugged the white layer with the new snow dots folder and added a touch of navy using a stipple brush. I didnt have the ribbon to match so I again I cut what I wanted and ran over the night of navy inkpad...brilliant !!

I colour his boots and scarf using night of navy from the lid of the ink pad and a brush.

Bye for now

Janette

Friendship card

Using the same colours I tried a different layout

still not sure.

I did make the ribbon to match Sage Shadow CS though....that was fun.

I cut the white grosgrain ribbon to length I wanted and then ran it across the inkpad voila...perfectly matched ribbon.....now I must buy more white ribbon LOL

Bye for now

Janette

Happiness Card

I made this card as I wanted to use these colours together now I have I am not so sure I like the lavender colour...the others are Sage Shadow and Blush Blossom.

I used a Hero Arts word stamp and SU garden silhouette flower stamp.

Bye for now

Janette

New SU shelf unit

This is my new unit....it was a 30" wide bookcase that we were going to give away but I had an idea and Tony helped to cut it up and make it into a 12" wide unit as that was all the space I had and voila here it is....

Quite full as you can see, I think I may have to sort out some of the *older* sets pre 2000 !! and sell those to make room for the new ones that I know I will want !!!

These are within arms reach of my desk and so much better than delving through the drawers under the desk....

Bye for now

Janette x

Birthday scallop card

This card was made for my friends birthday.It uses pretty in pink and purely pomegranate cs and berry bliss DP.I pricked the corners on the base card.I made the scallop edge using the corner rounder with the guard taken off.I used the scallop punch and 2 circle punches and the happy birthday image was coloured using markers choc chip and rose red.

Bye for now

Janette

Priceless Butterfly

This card was made with Priceless stamp set.

Choc chip and close to cocoa and preety in pink CS. Close to cocoa DP.

Pink ribbon and brads

I wanted to put some words somewhere

but dont know what or where ??

Any ideas ??

Bye for now

Janette

Daisy Day

I set myself a challenge this week...I wanted to make a card using each of the presents I got for my birthday from my friends ( The Addicted Ladies )......LOL

Sharon got me Stem Sayings from SU so this is the card using that set.I also used Pick a petal.

Choc chip and pretty in pink CS.Pricking tool and mat and CB swiss dots.

I kinda think it needs another petal or so...what do you think....honestly ???

Bye for now

Janette

Cuttlebug card

This is a cuttlebug card I made for a swap on a yahoo group I belong to....

It was inspired by a card that my good friend Jenny made that can be seen here also a card that I rec from my friend Sharon for my birthday a few years back.

For the scallop circle punch I brayered Sage shadow ink onto whisper white to give a more subtle colour that blended with the original colour.

I used the SU marker in sage shadow to go down the white SU ribbon...thanks Jenny for showing us that...mind you my line was not as straight as jenny's !!

Card:- SU Sage shadow and whisper white

Ink:- SU sage shadow, sage shadow marker

Punches:- 2 1/2" scallop punch, SU scallop, 1 3/8" circle and 1 1/4" circle

Stamps:- SU Bitty blossoms,Hero Arts Friend

Acc:- Cuttlebug folder,SU white ribbon,green crystal

Cut up card !!

I saw a card like this on a blog hopping spree......sorry cannot remember where....

I used a square card and tore down the right hand side about 1 1/2" in from that side...

I then decided how much of a gap I wanted and then trimmed that amount off the right hand straight edge.

I attached the two pieces using the word window punch from SU cut out of black CS and used pink brads to attach.

I used a hero arts word stamp delight vertically on the cut off piece.

The shadow oblong stamp and the flower are from the SU Oh so lovely set.

I used the SU corner rounder with the guide off to make the scallop border and then I punched holes in each of the scallops.

Thanks for stopping by

Janette x

A few ideas I wanted to try

This little envelope treat holder idea is just SO cute dont you think....I saw it on SCS and just had to have a go....

I wanted to do the scallop punch with cut edges, also I wanted to try the neat little flower folding trick that I had seen on a blog.

So as I was short of time I decided to combine them all together.

Its an envelope that has been sealed then using the SU large tag punch you slide up the edge of your envelope and punch out the shape you will be left with a tiny edge...snip it off...do the same the other side and there you have it.

Then you decorate however your heart desires :)

Details:-

Cream envelope sealed.

Choc chip and Cameo coral cs and ink

Scallop punch and tag punch from SU

Marvy scallop 2 1/2 punch

Doodle this stamp set from SU

Terrific tags set from SU

Choc chip ribbon from SU

Choc chip marker

Brads from papermania.

Once finished you can open out then envie and stuff with little lightweight treats, irridescant shreds, sachets of bath petals...whatever you want really.

Also you can use any shaped envie to make a holder to suit your requirements.

You could also use DP and make your own envie and then cut out.

How neat is that then !!

Thanks for stopping by

Janette x

Friendship Blooms

I received some new stamps Friday so decided to mount them and have a play :)

This set is called friendship blooms and its from SU...the card did not end up how I imagined when I started LOL

I used basic grey and soft sky ink and cs and grey taffeta ribbon and have you noticed how the ribbon is.....have you...and how neat it is....YEAH......I tied a JENNY knot LOL.....I sat and played yesterday until I worked out where I was going wrong and it was to do with left over right and under or was that over LOL....that was where I went wrong hee hee......

Anyhow......it worked :)

I distressed the edge of the white layer with this neat tool that looks just like pac-man...I'll have to take a pic....then I pricked around the white layer too....using the mat pack from SU

The pearl brad in the center is from a set by papermania and it matches the soft sky perfectly...

Thanks for stopping by...

Janette x

Another Happy Harmony card

Whilst I had the CS and inks out from making previuos card I thought I would make another.

This time I cuttlebugged the white layer with swirl folder and then swiped the perfect plum ink pad over it, the raised embossing picks up the ink beautifully....it looks great using dark CS and a white ink pad...try it.... have fun....experiment !!

Thanks for stopping by

Janette x

Z- Fold Happy Harmony

I decided to have a go at a Z-fold card.

These are really easy to make and very effective as a

*different* card.

I cut a piece of A4 in half lengthways and folded in half.

Fold back the front of the cardand there you have it Z-fold.

Details:-

Perfect plum CS and ink

Sage Shadow CS and ink

Whisper white CS

Stamps.....Happy Harmony and Sanded background

Punches... 1 3/8" circle, 1 1/4" circle and 1" circle

I pricked a circle from the priceless brass stencil then punched with the 1 1/4" circle.

This circle topper is used to keep the card shut by popping a dimensional ( POP dot ) on one half only on the back of the circle.

Thanks for stopping by

Janette x