Cards and Tags #3 - Snowflake elements & Home for Christmas DSP

 

Our precious little Sapphire turned 3 last Sunday! Three!! What an amazing member of our family she is, adored by all and very excited to be celebrating her birthday! Of course, like most little girls in this day and age she is a Frozen FAN! If you could get Elsa and Anna cats, sausages and swimming pools (things she has TRULY asked me for!!! CUTE!) then her world would be complete!
My last card and tag combo was for her, a combination of snow and sparkle and Elsa! I made this stamp myself with the retired stamp kit SU once stocked which allowed you to make your own stamps! You can see my other card made with it HERE.

 

 

There are some wonderful new goodies in the Holiday Mini including the cute Home for Christmas Designer series Paper and the Snowflake Elements which I used. The sparkle frame is Dazzling Diamonds glimmer paper and the silver metallic thread another new product to Stampin' Up! The words that I put togetherer for the greeting is from the Happy Birthday Everyone Hostess set. It has great greetings including "to my darling," so I did some cutting and pasting to make up the words "our" and "girl." The Happy birthday stamp I popped inside is also from that great set!

 

 

Needless to say Sapphire LOVED her card and her pressie which was a Frozen hopper ball!
I hope you have been inspired to get wrapping and co-ordinate a tag to match your card while all your stamping goodies are out and being used! It's a special way of adding that something extra,

Cards and Tags #2 - Sprinkles of Life & the Bokeh technique

 

Here is the second card and matching tag that I made in the last week for a very, sweet little girl. I went with the very versatile Sprinkles of Life stamp set, it even has a matching punch and is oozing with fabulous images and words only limited by your imagination!!
Way back when the catty was new, Sarah the new CEO of Stampin' Up! (Shellie's daughter) showed a wonderful way of water-colouring the ice-cream image to make it look more vintage style. She also added texture to her cone to give it more of a waffle look so that's what I did here too!

 

The background is done in the Bokeh technique, awesome videos HERE and HERE which I LOVE with the softness of the ice-cream! I recently taught this technique to my Paper Doll stamp club and they were thrilled with the WOW results!

The tag is simple with all the sparkle and fun from the card. Doesn't a bit of scallop trim just finish a project off?? One of my fav trims, must do it more again!
Well that's number 2 idea, one more to show you soon.....

Cards & Tags #1 - Celebrate Today

We have just celebrated 3 birthdays here in our family, so the crafting desk has been busy! I love to make pressies look really inviting to open with all the twine and ribbon and of course a tag to match!
Here is the card and tag I made for Allan's birthday (my super man!) I had some wonderful scraps of DSP on my desk and was inspired to make a hot air balloon with them, after all they are MY favourite!!

 

 

 

 

The Polaroid film frame is a retired goodie, confetti white cardstock as well as the DSP, but the balloon stamp, washi tape and greeting is all VERY current SU products! Celebrate Today is the featured stamp set I used. The cloud background is easy to do, just punch out some scallop circles pop them together and sponge blue over them! Sky with clouds!!
Look out for my next card and tag combo soon!

Perfectly Rustics challenge #44 - Eggs

Can you believe how close that Easter is?? WOW it's really just around the corner..... so with a fun theme to work with (I've always loved themes....) We at Perfectly Rustics are challenging you to come up with a project using.... EGGS!!

I wanted to make a gift bag tag, ready for those yummy delights that soon we will ALL be eating and with the help of my sweet little Ester (she made the chickie) we came up with this!

I do enjoy a bit of punch art, this one works a treat for Easter don't you think??
I also made a little box/bag thingy (with the wonderful envelope board) found HERE! LOVE how cute it is!!! I demonstrated these two projects for my Mother/Child class I'm running each month. Everyone LOVED these projects and now their Easter goodies will not only taste yummo but look great too!!

 

So what will you do with the challenge?? Looking forward to seeing what you come up with!!

Fa la la la gift tag (Kikki.K inspired)

With many a gift to wrap and do up all pretty for the season you must have the perfect tag! While looking through one of my fav Christmas mag's (inside out) I noticed a very groovy tag from the wonderful Kikki.K!! WOW it totally POPPED from the page and I knew that I HAD TO case them!!

 

 

I used an old alphabet set that I love and embossed the words Fa la la in gold. The tag itself is made from the Scallop Tag topper cut at 2" wide by 10 cm long. I LOVE the gold sequin trim and the shiny gold ribbon together for that bling touch!! I've mixed these tags up with a feather one I've designed (post to come) for an elegant look to our gifts this year! Oh and I've also done up a pack of these little goodies for a gift!!

 

What do you think? Liking the black and gold look?? It's definitely a first for me (I'm such a traditionalist when it comes to Christmas colours) and I'm LOVING IT!!!
Happy gift wrapping,

Elizabeth Handmade Market

 Gift tag set with vintage rose, assorted greetings, pack of 6.

I've been very busy in these last few weeks getting ready for... the Elizabeth Handmade Market!!
I'm sooooo super duper excited as this will be the first time I've been involved! YAY!
I hope that can along and see the wonderful arrange of handmade goodies for sale... including mine!!
Here is just a sample of what delights I have to sell.....

 
Can't wait to see you there, only 1 more sleep!!!

Vintage Card in a box and tags too!!

 

Like I said, I'm pretty hocked on these card in a boxes right now!! I've been making LOTS, playing with different designs and making lots of samples ready for my stamp club!! The ladies on Thursday night were totally WOWED by the card I showed, can't wait to show my Monday girls soon too!!
This card was for my amazing friend who lives in Melbourne, she really is such a special part of my life and for that needed a special birthday card!

I wanted to make a frame using the window sheet to highlight the "enjoying" word on the back!! I used a very old set (frames with a flourish) stamped in stazon (love that little pad!!) and then cut out!!

 

 

I added lots of vintage style elements like the gold splatters, smudgy ink, doilies and roses with pearls! I'm sooo happy with how it turned out and sent it off with some handmade gift tags!!!

The images I used are from the hostess set Postage collection, all you need is some pegs, crystal effects and some packaging!!!

Needless to say the present (and card) was loved and I was thrilled to send sooo much love in one little package!!

Merry Christmas to you all!

The gifts have been wrapped and even given out now...... Turkey eaten, plum pudding enjoyed and carols sung!! Truly a wonderful Christmas has been our day today, what a blessing it has been to us all! How I love that God sent His Son Jesus to be born on this earth for all, the most amazing gift of all!

Perfectly Rustics challenge #7 - Embossing

Another challenge is up and running over at Perfectly Rustics this week and it's all about Embossing!! My dear friend Heather LOVES embossing and I've grown quite partial to it myself over the years so that's why I chose it for this challenge!

 

 I have made a tag for a lovely ladies birthday present but if you like you can put it on a card. Like this.....

What do you prefer, the gift or the card?!? Love to see you join in with Kim, Jayne and I for this challenge! Thanks for popping by,

Hello my friends

I've been thinking of you all soooo much my dear friends and just wanted to pop in and say HI! I hope that this month of October has been wonderful and that you're looking forward to amazing things in November......
Hoping to be back soon to share all the wonderful things I've been up to lately!!!

Goodbye beautiful season

In celebration of my favourite month coming to an end I wanted to show you some place-cards that I made for a special dinner party we had with some friends last month. I LOVE to make things pretty, adding my little touches of this and that and this night was a perfect opportunity to share what I love about stamping and Autumn!!!

I rock n' rolled the leaves to give them an authentic look

I made name tags with the initial of each guest and then pegged them to an Autumn leaf I collected and then stapled some leaves to twine and hung them from the ceiling! It looked soooo wonderful, I loved how well it came up!

Goodbye beautiful season, thanks for such wonderful inspiration!