Ginger Blossom Blooms

Tuesday night was our monthly Inklings cyberstamp, this month hosted by Kari. This card is actually for challenge 3, based on a layout that Kari came across on the Stampin' Up! website. I do plan to use the "sketch" of the layout to make a layout of my own, but for now I contented myself to just make a card. I decided to base my card around the Ginger Blossom papers, I really love the colour combination in it so went from there. The center piece is a chipboard frame with inset. I covered the frame with DSP and used the faux metal technique on the inset piece as I thought this would work well with the "HB" stamp.

The retirement list post has also been updated today.

All supplies by Stampin' Up!
Cardstock: River Rock, River Rock textured, Groovy Guava textured, Cameo Coral textured, Whisper White textured
Stamp Sets: It's Your Birthday, Eastern Blooms
Inks: VersaMark, Groovy Guava, Cameo Coral, River Rock (sponging)
Accessories: gold embossing powder, Blossoms & Basics chipboard, Ginger Blossom DSP, scallop circle punch, 1 1/4" circle punch, Earth Elements buttons, Antique Brass hodgepodge, River Rock double-stitched ribbon, groovy Guava double stitched ribbon, dauber
Show watched while creating: House

Bring on the Bling!

This is my card for Cinema Saturday this week, the movie being Bride & Prejudice. I hadn't seen this movie before but had wanted to because I expected it to be fun - I wasn't wrong there! Our requirement this week was to bling up our cards - not hard to do! In conjunction with some Bali Breeze paper I stamped the (retiring ) Paisley on Orchid Opulence cardstock - had to get some purple in! Once all my layers were stuck down I went over certain parts with my 2-way glue pen and then dumped lots of Dazzling Diamonds all over it. To create the center piece I took a piece of chipboard, covered it in VersaMark then heat embossed gold embossing powder over top. I repeated this another 2 or 3 times (can't remember!) then stamped the flower stamp into the warm embossing powder. This left an impression of the flower that I then went over with the Tombow glue and covered that in Dazzling Diamonds glitter. Below you get a better idea of just how much glitter is on this card.
Brooke also wanted to know what our favourite dance scene was from the movie. I would have to say mine is the first, I still crack up laughing at Sayid shaking his goove thang! It also brings back some memories of uni life... though nothing was that elaborate!

All supplies by Stampin' Up!
Cardstock: brushed gold, Orchid Opulence
Stamp Sets: Paisley, In The Spotlight
Inks: Orchid Opulence, VersaMark
Accessories: Bali Breeze DSP, Tombow Multi Mono adhesive, 2-way glue pen, Dazzling Diamonds glitter, Blossoms & Basics chipboard, gold embossing powder, Pretties Kit
Show watched while creating: Bride & Prejudice

PS I also wanted to let you know that I have updated the availability list for retiring products, and I have two cards over at the Elite Challenge blog: Wild Orchid Nights and SC 19.

Horsey Wishes

It's Melbourne Cup day tomorrow, so I felt a horsey card was in order. I had to use Navy and White for this, Victoria's colours (go the big white V!), and teamed it with some Outlaw paper and gold accents. The star in the top left has been made using the faux metal technique, very simple but effective. The layout is Jen's Sketch For You To Try this week.

All supplies by Stampin' Up!
Cardstock: Chocolate Chip, Brushed Gold, Night of Navy, Whisper White, Ivory Neutrals
Stamp Sets: Wanted, Short & Sweet
Inks: Chocolate Chip, Night of Navy, VersaMark
Accessories: On Board Blossoms & Basics, gold embossing powder, cutter kit, Night of Navy grosgrain, Antique Brass hodgepodge