Just a few Hearts and Butterflies

Well, this is our last class where we will be using the products from the current 2013-2014 Annual Catalogue.  I have been able to have a sneak peak of the new one and it is full of some great stamp sets, new colours, papers, accessories etc so make sure you come along to my July class on Monday 14th to have a look too.

Ok, back to this months class.  We had a couple of suggestions from last months' class on what sort of cards our ladies would like to make.  Our first was a wedding card. This one can also be used for an anniversary or engagement card as well.  The main colours are whipser white, sahara sand and very vanilla with smoky slate ink.  The hearts were stamped in smoky slate ink using the Hearts a Flutter stamp set and cut out using the Hearts a Flutter framelits.  The greeting on this card was taken from Petit Pairs and stamped again using smoky slate onto whisper white card, punched out with the large oval and backed by a piece of sahara sand punched out using the scallop oval punch.  A few basic pearls really give that extra touch to this card.

The second idea was for a 21st female birthday card so the idea I came up with can be used for either a general birthday or a special 'age' one.  The main card stock is very vanilla, then using the Woodgrain stamp stamped using crumb cake ink onto crumb cake cardstock.  The surround that the butterflies are 'perched on' was made using the Window Frames Collection framelits and pear pizzazz cardstock.

 The butterflies were made by stamping the smaller butterflies from the Papillon Potpourrir stamp set in Versamark onto wisteria wonder, blushing bride and pool party card stock and then punched out with the Bitty Butterfly punch.  The greeting or number is mounted onto a backing piece of very vanilla cardstock, cut using the 'in-between' size framelit die.  The number was cut out of Silver Glimmer paper using the Typeset Alphabet Bigz die. The greeting was stamped using the Memorable Moments stamp set in Early Espresso ink.  Finally the flowers were punched using scraps of pool party, wisteria wonder and blushing bride using the the Itty Bitty Punch pack with a small basic pearl in the middle.

This months box is a 'pillow box'.  This can be used to contain a scarf, tie, some sweets or any other small gift.  For this design, we drew around a template I had made onto basic black cardstock.  The band is a piece of Modern Medley DSP edged with a strip of real red cardstock cut using the scallop trim border.  The butteflies and border for the greeting were taken from the Creative Elements stamp set.  The butterflies were stamped in real red ink onto very vanilla cardstock and hand cut, the greeting was taken from the Express Yourself hostess stamp set in basic black onto very vanilla cardstock.  Finally the leaves were punched out using the Bird Builder punch in basic black.

January's Class - Hearts a Flutter and Rev Up The Fun

A belated Happy New Year! For January's class we created a card suitable for a wedding, anniversary birthday or Valentines day by using the Hearts a Flutter stamp set; and a male card using the Rev Up The Fun stamp set.

First the romantic card! This card uses a tri fold technique where a sheet of A4 is cut with an off-set diagonal with the card in landscape so that two can be made from one sheet.  The card is then folded into three which I hope you can see from the photo.  Most of the hearts were stamped using the Hearts a Flutter stamp set in the current in-color Raspberry Ripple onto Whisper White card stock and then cut out using the matching Hearts a Flutter Big Shot Frame-lits. Other hearts were made by stamping the larger stamp from Creative Elements onto Whisper White and then cut out using the Full Heart punch, by cutting out Whisper White hearts and then embossing using the Perfect Polka Dots Embossing folder.  The hearts were randomly adhered onto the angled edges of the card as seen in the photo.  Little silver hearts were added for a bit of sparkle and punched from Silver Glimmer paper using the Small Heart Punch.  The greeting was stamped using the Teeny Tiny Sentiments and punched out using the word window punch and backed with a piece of Raspberry Ripple cardstock punched out using the Modern Label punch.

Our second card for the evening was made using the Rev Up The Fun stamp set - ideal for any male.  I gave my ladies a choice of which design to use, with the motorbike or the car. The stamp was inked using the Real Red and Basic Grey Marker pens.  The 'sand' was created using the exhaust stamp in Versa Mark.  The sky effect was created using the daubing technique with Pool Party ink on a sponge and masked using a scrap piece of card punched out with the 1 3/4" Scallop Circle.The main colours for the card were Pool Party, Real Red, Basic Grey and Crushed Curry.  Three Candy Dots from the Brights collection were used to represent traffic lights.  A strip of I Am Me DSP was used to back the piece of Real Red 1/4" stitched grosgrain.  My ladies had the option of using the greeting from the stamp set or one from the Itty Bitty Banners. 

Just thought I would share what we created at our last workshop - we had a lovely time sharing Stampin' Up! products with some lovely ladies. I love the background stamp En Francais and it has been used lots as you can see within this card! The other stamp sets we used were Secret Garden and Curly Cute for the greeting. The main card is Whisper White, with Sahara Sand for the background, spritzed in rich razzleberry and Sahara Sand ink. The En Francais was stamped using rich razzleberry onto Certainly Celery cardstock with co-ordinating rich razzleberry card positioned behind to great effect. The Secret Garden stamp set was stamped onto sahara sand, rich razzleberry and vanilla card and built up in layers. The Bitty Butterfly punch was used to create the butterflies in whisper white and rich razzleberry to finish it off nicely! Hope you like it too!

It is always nice to give the lovely hostess a gift, as a thank you for inviting us along! Below is a little gift set which I gave our hostess Sarah. I used the Hearts a Flutter stamp set and coordinating More Amore Speciality Designer Series Paper. The main colours used are Melon Mambo, Poole Party and Island Indigo.