Colourful Delicate Ornaments

I have more Delicate Ornament cards to share with you today. These ones use the long ornament dies.

Once again I made a set of six cards, however my plans changed drastically once cutting a lot of the dies out. With some of the little pieces popped out I could start positioning them where I wanted them on the ornament and I decided that things weren't going to look quite how I wanted them. So Plan B was to change the colour combinations a little and cut more ornaments so there were two on each card.

 All of the ornament cards I have posted over the last few weeks I actually started on the same day. On the Saturday I cut all of the ornaments out (except for the extra ones I did for this once I changed my mind), and on the Sunday I started putting them together - as you can see in these Instagram photos. These are definately the easiest of the ornament dies to do this technique with as the majority of the pieces are a decent size - easier to pop out and easier to handle. I did start with these when putting them together, but they were the last to be made into actual cards. I did finish them all over the space of a few days but wanted to spread out the posts for them so you weren't looking at ornament cards for a whole week! After preparing this post I saw a card by Mary Brown on Pinterest that is remarkably similar - clearly a case of great minds think alike! I'm really glad to see someone else doing this :D

Very non traditional colours in these!

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Feeling Special?

Time for another card using thick Whisper White cardstock for the cardbase.

I had thought I would load this one up and really give the cardbase a workout... but ultimately opted for another simple card. The outlines for the flower and leaves were stamped in colour rather than the standard black - or for this card that would have been Early Espresso. I inked up the flowers and leaves in the same colour as their outlines, then lightly stamped them off before stamping on the card to give a little more variation in the colours. To help the sentiment layer stand out I went around the edge with the Lost Lagoon marker.

Today's colours are:

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TBT - Petite Pennants

My desk is generally tidy - I've got no space to create otherwise - but I was doing some more tidying last week and camea cross a background piece I had made quite some time back and decided it was time to actually make it into a card.

I used the straight edge pennant from the Petite Pennants punch to make a bunch of triangles and then arranged them into this background. With the background already made, this card was pretty quick to put together. Though I remember the longest part of making the background was just deciding where I wanted each colour... the actual sticking them down went together much faster! I do remember at the time I deliberately avoided using the triangle punch for this effect as they would be smaller and take longer to put together, but in true Carol style that idea is grawing at me from the back of my head so I might end up giving it a go one day. Both the pennant and triangle punches are now retired, but you can pick up the triangle punch from the Clearance Rack while stocks last.

Some what amazingly, all the colours I used are still current!

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The Festival Of Trees Continues

The Festival Of Trees stamp set was released in the Holiday catalogue last year, was carried over to the Occasions catalogue and is now included in the new annual catalogue! I'm sooooo happy that the Christmas section has returned to the annual catalogue, and having the option of Christmas sets available all year round... because let's face it, it's never too early to start on your Christmas cards! With that in mind, I thought I would get started on mine in June, and hopefully I won't end up in what has become a mad rush the last few years. The worst part about that isn't so much the "chasing your tail" feeling, but the burn-out I often feel afterwards, and needing a break from stamping for a while. Anyway, enough jibber-jabber, here's the cards:

yep... I couldn't settle on one design so I made four. Design is based on Sweet Sunday Sketch #272.

I also kept with my tradition of non-traditional Christmas colours... it felt a little too soon in the year for that!

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Flower Potpourri Farewell

Tomorrow is the last chance you will have to order products from the current Stampin' Up! catalogue, and the Stampin' Up! Occasions catalogue. Fabulous products like these...

I so so love the Spring Flowers embossing folder, and I am really sad it isn't carrying over to the next catalogue. The Petal Potpourri set also won't be in the new catalogue either, nor will the coordinating Flower Medallion punch. I loved the variety of styles in Petal Potpourri, and of course I am a punch fanatic so always sad to see one go. As sad as that is, tomorrow will be your first opportunity to purchase new items, like the Mint Macaron cardstock and Dotted Lace Trim! There's so many things I love in the new catalogue that it does ease the pain of what we'll be saying goodbye to.

This card is pretty straight forward, the flower was stamped on watercolour paper in the Rose Red and Perfect Plum ink, then the aquapainter was used to just spread the colour to fill in the petals and flower center. I also picked up a bit of ink from the inkpad itself to add a bit more to the base of the petals to make the colour there more intense and add a bit more depth to them. I also sponged a little bit of Pear Pizzazz around the edges of the punched leaves to help them stand out against the Mint cardstock.

And today's colours are...

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