Keeping With The Bright

This is another card for a nephew. It must've been about a year ago now that I saw these four Sesame St characters made out of the scallop circle punch and thought "well I know what I'm doing for Rory's birthday card next year!", though I didn't think it would take me this long to get around to doing it for the first time! Each character has a scallop circle head, 1/2" circle eyes and 3/16" circle pupils and then various other punched shapes - some trimmed - to complete their look. Even though the colours aren't an exact match, my gathered supplies for the characters reminded me of this paper from the Good Morning Sunshine pack, and it worked well for the underneath layer.

All supplies by Stampin' Up!
Cardstock: Real Red, Basic Black, Summer Sun, Old Olive, Chocolate Chip, Pumpkin Pie, Brilliant Blue, Close To Cocoa, Pixie Pink (inside beak)
Stamp set: Happy Everything
Ink: Basic Black
Accessories: Scallop Circle punch, 1/2" circle punch, Crop-A-Dile (for pupils), small oval punch, 1 1/4" circle punch, 3/4" circle punch, Boho Blossoms punch (for cookie bite, double punched), Chocolate Chip marker (for the chocolate chips no less!)
Show watched while creating: Doctor Who

Cinema Saturday #22

Doesn't this card just scream Singin' In The Rain!?!

No? No it doesn't... but that is the movie that inspired it, for this weeks Cinema Saturday challenge. As much as I wanted this card to represent the singing and dancing, I just couldn't see a way to make it happen. And you know I am a sucker for costumes, right? Well, I was inspired by this costume:

Our additional recquirement this week was to include something related to water. If I had gone the singin' and dancin' route it would have been drops of Crystal Effects, but I didn't so I had to think of something else... and the jewelry worn with this dress has pearls so there's my water element. You could also say the clear beads and rhinestone brad fit that too (especially the "drop" shaped ones...). The sentiment reflects the singin' and dancin' though, so it's kinda in there!

All supplies by Stampin' Up!
Cardstock: Whisper White, Regal Rose, vellum cardstock, brushed silver
Stamp Sets: Happy Everything, Fine Lace, Leaves a la Carte
Inks: Whisper White, Encore silver
Accessories: Pretties Kit, Fairytale Ribbon Originals, clear embossing powder, dimensionals, mini glue dots
Show watched while creating: Singin' In The Rain

KW Colour Inspiration #41

A day late and a dollar short again... it's rather frustrating to miss the cut off, hence I haven't uploaded this even though it was done yesterday. And given the late hour, I'm gonna just cut to the chase.

All supplies by Stampin' Up!
Cardstock: Basic Gray, Purely Pomegrate, Whisper White
Stamp Set: Looks Like Spring, Happy Everything
Inks: Basic Gray, Basic Black, Purely Pomegrate, VersaMark
Accessories: Sherbet Ribbon Originals, Spring Bouquet punch, 1" Circle punch, white embossing powder, Pretties Kit
Show watched while creating: Stargate (directors cut - don't ask me what was different, it's been too long since I saw the original)

Inklings Cyberstamp Challenge 2

The second challenge for the Inklings cyberstamp was a sketch challenge, based on a card in the Stampin' Up! catalogue.


I originally didn't plan to have paper piercing around my image just as it was done in the original card, but I saw this set sitting on my desk and thought it would be fun to pierce around the heart - it also meant I had done the last challenge for the Elite Challenges blog for February. The dotty papers from the Prints packs works in really well too. I think this is the closest I have followed a sketch ever!


You can see all my Elite Challenge cards for this month over at the Elite Challenges blog.

All supplies by Stampin' Up!
Cardstock: Certainly Celery, Regal Rose
Stamp Set: Polka Dot Punches, Happy Everything
Inks: Rose Red, Chocolate Chip
Accessories: paper piercing tool, Prints paper in Old Olive and Rose Red, scallop edge punch, Celery grosgrain ribbon, linen thread, Word Window punch, dimensionals

KW Colour Inspiration #30 part 2

I grabbed a few minutes this morning to have another crack at Kristina's colour challenge. I had this basic idea in my head from the start, but opted for the pretty flowers idea first time round... and when I say I grabbed a few minutes I really do mean just a few! This would have to be the fastest card I have ever made! I already had the flowers stamped, punched and layered, I just had to do the rest of the punching, stamp the sentiment and stick it all together. There's still no ribbon on this one but I don't think this one minds.

All supplies by Stampin' Up!
Cardstock: Old Olive, Whisper White, Sahara Sand
Stamp Sets: Boho Backgrounds, Happy Everything
Inks: Old Olive
Accessories: Old Olive marker, Certainly Celery marker, Sahara Sand marker, dimensionals, Certainly Celery and Old Olive Prints Papers, 1 1/4" square punch, 1 3/8" square punch

Happy Days Hat-trick

I haven't had a chance to finish any projects today, so I thought I would share with you some simple & quick cards I made last week. Admittedly there's not a lot of stamping, but hey... kinda makes for some of the insane things I attempt at other times!
I selected some sheets of Certainly Celery paper (these ones are actually from the Palette of Prints pad) and then cut them in half. I adhered them along the top to a card base and then trimmed the excess off with my scissors. Unfortunately I wasn't thinking straight when I made this first one and didn't think to do the stamping until after everything else was done! Lesson learnt, the stamping was done at this point on the other cards.
I then attached the ribbon. The one above has the ribbon tucked in behind the paper on both sides, the other two have it only tucked under on the right. And the last step was that final piece of embellishment. What I like best about these cards is they would be suitable for men or women (ok, maybe not the flowery one below so much, but you could get away with it!).
All supplies by Stampin' Up!

Cardstock: River Rock, Soft Sky
Paper: Certainly Celery Prints
Stamp set: Happy Everything
Ink: Wild Wasabi
Accessories: Theater Ribbon Originals, Blue Bayou Double-Stitched ribbon, Antique Brass Hodgepodge, Ice Square Rhinestone Brads

Happy Days

Another card I did the other day, and unusually very pink! SU Happy Everything and Paisly background, See D's Mehndi stamp for the border. Had to have a Perfect Plum as the card base to make up for all that Pale Pink and Rose Red, and there's also a bit of Mellow Moss. Silver brads I think are Renoir and the ribbon is Celebration from Spotlight.

Sassy Scribble

The Elite Stampers, downlines of Angela Sargeant, had a cyberstamp on Wednesday night and this is my card for challenge #2 - to use Elegant Eggplant, Not Quite Navy and Garden Green. I have been using these colours separately lately, but the thought of putting them all together on one card was a little daunting! However, this finally came through (notice the dominance of Elegant Eggplant? Mmmm). I stamped the Sassy Stems flower on watercolour paper with StazOn black and coloured with an aquapainter and inks and distressed the edges with the cutter kit. It is then layered on Elegant Eggplant, vellum paper, Garden Green and Not quite Navy. The sentiment, from Happy Everything, is stamped in Whisper White. The eggplant card base has been stamped with the Scribble wheel in VersaMark ink.