Cinema Saturday #14 part 7

Yet more Arwen cards for Cinema Saturday #14. These ones are inspired by the "bridge dress", seen when Arwen approaches Aragorn by the shards of Narsil and later when they kiss on the bridge (hence the name) and Arwen gives Aragorn Evenstar. Lots of white on white, which is good because I have been wanting to do another monochromatic white card for some time (though technically this isn't monochromatic as I've used silver, but close enough in this instance). For both cards I have used the So Swirly wheel for the background, stamping in VersaMark then applying Heat & Stick powder, heating that, applying Dazzling Diamonds glitter and then heating it again to fix it. This was to represent Arwen's dress, which was so covered in beads it was very noisy when Liv Tyler moved in it! I've also used a flower from the Pretties because it is pretty and has a similar shape the main part of Evenstar. I've also drawn on her head-dress for the crystals, though I have incorporated the hatpin differently in the two cards.
This second card has an additional scallop edge and is missing the Styled Silver ribbon slide. I wanted the hatpin and clead beads to appear a lot more dangle-y on this card

All supplies by Stampin' Up!
Cardstock: Whisper White, vellum, textured Whisper White
Stamp set: So Swirly
Ink: VersaMark
Accessories: heat & stick powder, Dazzling Diamonds glitter, Pretties Kit, Whisper White taffeta ribbon, Styled Silver Hodgepodge, scallop edge punch, dimensionals
Show watched while creating: Fellowship of course!

KW Colour Inspiration #29

Let's just say I was very happy when I saw Kristina's latest colour challenge. I have been thinking lately how neglected Taken With Teal has been this year, and I can't recall the last time I used Elegant Eggplant... and there she goes and puts them together in a challenge! Pumpkin Pie adds a great contrast, and the colours had me thinking of tropical butterflies. I wanted to combine the butterflies with ribbon to bring in some of the fabric textures from the inspiration photo, so out came the retired Flirty Ribbon Originals so I could use the Teal velvet ribbon. The card itself is pretty straight forward but I did want to point out that I used the crop-a-dile to punch the holes for the brads as this distorts the ribbon less (once you have pulled it back into shape) than if you just poke the brad through. I've used both mini glue dots and dimensionals to attach the butterflies, putting the glue dots under the body and the dimensionals under the wings so the wings are raised off the cardstock at an angle.

All supplies by Stampin' Up! Cardstock: Elegant Eggplant, Whisper White Stamp Sets: Priceless, So Swirly Inks: VersaMark, Pumpkin Pie, Taken With Teal, Brilliant Blue Accessories: mini glue dots, dimensionals, District Ribbon Originals, Flirty Ribbon Originals (retired), Bold Brights brads Show watched while creating: Fresh Prince of Bel Air (what? I had to see the 2 seconds of Chris Judge didn't I?)

Festive Owl

This is something I have been wanting to do with the cute Celebrate Everyday owl but never quite got around to until recently. Crabby's Santa hat is the perfect size for the owl, I'm sure he didn't mind lending it out . I stuck with the Holiday Harmony colours as I thought they'd work well for the owl with the addition of Chocolate Chip. To create the sentiment I carefully inked just the "hoo!" with StazOn (as that's what I had out... a marker probably would have been easier!) and stamped it on my card. This is made easier by the way I have mounted my stamp. This set, along with all the others from the Spring mini, come die cut. The images in Celebrate Everyday have the sentiment attached to the bottom of the image, however I cut the sentiments from the images and have mounted the image part where you normally would mount it on the wood block, and the sentiment is mounted on the end. This was particuarly handy when re-inking the sentiment for the second impression as I only had to avoid the 'w' from "whoo!", instead of the 'w' and the owl. The last "special" thing I did for this card was to colour the owls eyes in with Whisper White pigment ink. I opted to use a blender pen to apply this rather than just use a white gel pen as there were some tight spots I wasn't sure the gel pen would get into.


All supplies by Stampin' Up! Cardstock: River Rock, Mellow Moss, Whisper White, watercolour paper
Stamp Sets: Celebrate Everyday, Crab and Company, Polka Dot, So Swirly
Inks: River Rock, Mellow Moss, StazOn Jet Black
Accessories: Chocolate Chip marker, Sahara Sand marker, River Rock "marker" (blender pen + refill), scallop circle punch, 1 3/8" circle punch, 1 1/4" circle punch, Sherbet Ribbon Originals, dimensionals, mini glue dots

7 Loves of Card Making - Versatility

There are lots of beautiful stamps out there, and as nice as it might be to have all the ones you want it's not always feasabile. It makes sense to buy stamps you are going to get a lot of use out of, but you can also increase the value of a set by using for occasions other than waht it was intend. I actually do this quite a bit, by using general sets for Christmas (for example, this card with Big Pieces to make a random background, or this card also using Big Pieces for baubles). I also like to use alphabet sets for Christmas cards. However, I gave myself the added challenge of using something that was a little more specific in it's intended style and making a Christmas card with it. I ended up making three:

Using Christmas sentiments, colours that were similar to traditional colours and at least for the first two cards I used the stamps to make common Christmas images, baubles and trees, so the cards looked a little more obviously festive.

All supplies by Stampin' Up!
Cardstock: Blush Blossom, Groovy Guava, River Rock, Whisper White, Ivory Naturals
Stamp Sets: Wanted, Many Merry Messages
Inks: Groovy Guava, River Rock
Accessories: 3/16" corner rounder, River Rock "marker" (blender pen + reinker), Groovy Guava "marker" (blender pen + reinker), Blush Blossom marker, Beachside Ribbon Originals, white gel pen, Scallop circle punch, 1 3/8" circle punch, 3/4" circle punch, 1/16" circle punch, linen thread, cutter kit, dimensionals

I then decided that a real challenge would be to use a Christmas set for a non-Christmas card. I've used Season of Joy for this card, inspired by Jodi Sutherland. I recieved a card from Jodi in a team swap and as soon as I saw it I thought "wow - I've gotta try that!" The flower from Season of Joy is non-descript enough that you can easily use it for other occasions.

All supplies by Stampin' Up!
Cardstock: Old Olive, So Saffron, Blue Bayou, Whisper White
Stamp Sets: Season of Joy, So Swirly
Inks: So Saffron, Old Olive, Groovy Guava
Accessories: Groovy Guava double-stitched ribbon, Rich Regals brads, dimensionals

My challenge to you is to use a non-Christmas set to make a Christmas card or use a Christmas set to make a card for an occasion other than Christmas. Put a link to your card in the comments for this post and at the end of the week I'll pick my favourite one and send a little something to that person. Australian residents only, SU! demos welcome.

Priceless Swirls

Here's a cute little card that was the make & take from a weekend workshop. I couldn't resist using one of my favourite colour combinations at the moment, my favourite punch (the scallop circle) and swirls! For accents the large flower was inked with Almost Amethyst and then selected areas coloured with a Lavender Lace marker. The small flowers were inked with Lavender Lace, stamped on Almost Amethyst and then punched out with the Three For You punch.

Tonight I've also uploaded a card over at the Elite Challenges blog, which you can find here. I used another colour combination that I've been loving at the moment, Sage and Pinks, and yes... more swirls!

All supplies by Stampin' Up!
Cardstock: Soft Sky, Blue Bayou, Almost Amethyst, Whisper White
Stamp Sets: Priceless, So Swirly
Inks: Soft Sky, Blue Bayou, Almost Amethyst, Lavender Lace
Accessories: white grosgrain ribbon, scallop circle, 1 3/8" circle punch, 1 1/4" circle punch, Three For You punch, dimensionals, mini glue dots

Swirly Spinner

Last night was the September Inklings Cyberstamp, this month hosted by Lin Mei. This card was for the second challenge, to create a spinner card. Like many of the other Inklings, this is something I have thought of doing for quite some time and never got around to it, so it was great to have it on the "to do" list. I decided to use Priceless and So Swirly together again, and I am so happy with how this card came out I may just use it for Shaelea's birthday card! The colours were supposed to be ones from a Kristina colour challenge that I missed, but once I got creating I forgot that she had specified Very Vanilla and I had used Whisper White... oh well!
The idea with spinner cards is that part of the card spins along a track. Unfortunately, my pictures don't really reflect that... I didn't even attempt taking an "action shot", but I failed to realise that the butterfly was pointing in the same direction after it's bit of a spin!

Almost all supplies by Stampin' Up!
Cardstock: Regal Rose, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White
Stamp Sets: Priceless, So Swirly
Inks: Certainly Celery, Regal Rose, Pretty in Pink
Accessories: Chocolate Chip marker, Regal Rose marker, scallop circle punch, 1 3/8" circle punch, word window punch, dimensionals, 5c coin
Show watched while creating: Aussie women's wheelchair basketball team winning bronze against Japan at the Paralympics

Priceless Butterflies

~*sigh*~ right when I was going to do up another post my net went down and has been down for DAYS! Thankfully I had some things to keep me occupied but I am very glad to have it back, feel rather out of sorts if I don't get on the net every day!

Anyway, for this card I went back to another favourite colour combination of mine, purple and green. I saw this scrap of Whisper White sitting on my desk and decided it was just the right size for a Jumbo wheel, so I wheeled So Swirly across it, stamped a few extra flowers from Priceless, mounted some Rock n Rolled butterflies (very subtle rolling on these), more swirls on the base card, some yummy Kraft taffeta and ribbon slide and I was done! As the spine for the card was on the left I simply cut a slit in it so I could have the ribbon going around the front of the card.

All supplies by Stampin' Up!
Cardstock: Whisper White, Almost Amethyst
Stamp Sets: Priceless, So Swirly jumbo wheel
Inks: Soft Sky, Blue Bayou, Almost Amethyst, Lavender Lace
Accessories: Kraft Taffeta ribbon, Styled Silver Hodgepodge, Lavender Lace marker, mini glue dots, dimensionals
Show watched while creating: Bones

KW Colour Challenge #15

Kristina has posted her latest colour challenge, and this card is my response. While the colours lend them selves to autumn themes, and are also similar to the Outlaw papers and Round Up kit, I wanted to do something a bit different with them. Normally I'd use Vanilla with brown tones so I decided to use white as a bit of a feature with the beads and white gel pen. Once again it's quite a simple card but I do like how it has come out.

All supplies by Stampin' Up!

Cardstock: Chocolate Chip, Close To Cocoa, Really Rust, Certainly Celery, Whisper White
Stamp sets: Occasional Greetings, So Swirly
Inks: Close To Cocoa, Chocolate Chip
Accessories: Pretties Kit, Theater Ribbon Originals pack, dimensionals, 3/16" corner rounder, white gel pen

Swirly and Sassy

The other day I gave my scrap drawer a clean out and found a bunch of Sassy Stem images I had coloured, trimmed and layered. They'd been in there for almost three months, so it was high time I did something with them. Based on the colours used on the image, I pulled out a heap of matching ribbons and set to playing. In the end each card had a slightly different combination of ribbons and brads but the rest of the design was the same. That came together quite quickly when half the work was already done!

All supplies by Stampin' Up!

Cardstock: Old Olive, Soft Sky, watercolour paper
Stamp Sets: Sassy Stems, So Swirly jumbo wheel, Occasional Greetings
Inks: StazOn Jet Black, Tempting Turquoise, Rose Red, Cameo Coral, Groovy Guava, Apricot Appeal, Old olive, Certainly Celery, Soft Sky
Accessories: Aquapainter, Pewter Hodgepodge, Soft Subtles brads, dimensionals

Outlawed Boho Box

This was my response to the Inklings cyberstamp challenge 3, a one-sheet box. For this one I decided to go to another new favourite stamp set, Boho Backgrounds, a team it with an unexpected colour combination. Because the Berry Bliss paper matches the Boho set, a lot of creations I have seen using the set are in the pink & brown colour scheme.However, since seeing the Outlaw paper, I have loved the colour combination of sage, browns and rust, and since I haven't put that to use yet I pulled it together for this challenge! The sheet of Sage Shadow was wheeled with the So Swirly jumbo wheel using VersaMark ink, then score and folded to create the box. For the panel on the front I also wheeled a piece of Creamy Caramel and used my Chocolate Chip marker to ink up a sentiment from the Boho Backgrounds set to stamp along the bottom. I then used the round tab punch to create a large circle hole and layered it on a piece of Chocolate Chip cardstock. I again used my markers to ink the large circular motif, stamped it on Very Vanilla then used the scallop circle punch to shape it. To hold the box closed I've attached a piece of Very Vanilla taffeta ribbon - yep this box uses no adhesive, how cool is that?

Mother's Day Treat

In keeping with the Mother's Day theme, I thought I'd show you the pull treats I made for today's Mother's Day stall at school. I used Kraft cardstock for the main part, rolling the So Swirly wheel across with VersaMark ink. I also used some Naturals Ivory and Close to Cocoa, the sentiment is from the Occasional Greetings set, stamped in Chocoloate Chip, some narrow Chocolate grosgrain (now retired) and on the vanilla tag I wrote "pull" using the Chocolate Chip marker (fine end) since I wouldn't be there to tell anyone who bought one how they worked. Inside is a Jarrah Extreme Chocolate hot chocolate sachet... sounds like a yummy Mother's Day treat to me!