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Crystal Inspired 2

Hopefully you read yesterday’s post and are here to see what other combination I made Makeesha’s lovely card in from her Make It Monday #36 tutorial. Now if you didn’t see yesterday’s card then scroll down and check it out.

Here is my other combination:

and a close up to show the Crystal Effects:

Can you guess what the colours are??

Well here’s a list of supplies just in case.

Supplies:
Stamp set: Inspired by Nature
Card: Tangerine Tango, Kiwi Kiss, Whisper White
Ink: Chocolate Chip, Old Olive & Tangerine Tango* Stampin’ Write Markers, Kiwi Kiss & Chocolate Chip Inkpads
Accessories: Tangerine Tango 5/8” Striped Grosgrain ribbon, Circle Fire Rhinestone Brads, Crystal Effects, Stamp-a-ma-jig, Mat Pack & Piercing Tool.

Which colour combination do you like?

If you have another combination that you have created this card in please leave me a comment with a link to check it out or if there is another combination you’d like to see let me know also by leaving a comment and I’ll see what I can do for you.

Crystal Inspired 1

During June Makeesha Byl created a lovely card tutorial for Make It Monday #36. Makeesha used the Inspired by Nature stamp set and Crystal Effects.

I finally managed to make time to do the tutorial and CASE Makeesha’s lovely card. I did change one thing on my cards (can you pick it??) and I also created another using different colours.

Here is my version of Makeesha’s card:

and here’s a close up of the flowers so you can see the Crystal Effects:

Supplies:
Stamp sets: Inspired by Nature
Card: Real Red, Kiwi Kiss, Whisper White
Ink: Real Red, Chocolate Chip & Old Olive Stampin’ Write Markers, Kiwi Kiss Inkpad, Stazon Black inkpad
Accessories: Real Red 1/2” Striped Grosgrain Ribbon, Stamp-a-ma-jig, Crystal Effects, Bold Brights Brads, Mat Pack & Piercer.

I really liked this card but wondered how it would look in ………………..

Come back tomorrow and see what the other combination was I tried.

Stamp Club + Birthday Cards

Last night was Stamp Club and we all made the Paper Block Holders as I mentioned earlier this week but silly me forgot to snap a picture of everyone’s creations so that I could upload to share with you all. I do however have a picture of my 2nd and 3rd one I’ve now made.

This one is using some of the lovely Bella Rose DSP.

And this one is using some more of the yummy Raspberry Tart DSP.

As the ladies in my stamp club are also friends and we regularly stamp together every fortnight we continued on for the night, and a couple of us into the wee hours of the morning….hehehe. I managed to complete my 3rd set of 30 swap cards for the upcoming Stampin’ Up Convention which is taking place in a fortnight down in Canberra and I also made 2 of the 3 Birthday cards I needed for a luncheon with some online stamping friends today.

I decided I would make them all using the new set called ‘Upsy Daisy’ and just vary the colour combinations and technique/method of stamping on them.

The first card I made is using the colour combination of Perfect Plum, Pale Plum, Kiwi Kiss and Chocolate Chip. I stamped the image in Perfect Plum first and then stamped again in Pale Plum positioning the image just off skew to give a shadow effect.

For the 2nd card I have used the colour combination of Riding Hood Red, Kiwi Kiss, Taken With Teal and Basic Black. The image has been coloured in with markers (I’ve made my own in colour markers following Carol Dunstan’s Tutorial).

This last card I made this morning after being inspired by this card Stephanie Pike made. I was thinking blues myself and then when I saw Steph’s card I knew this was the technique I was going to use along with Pacific Point, Baja Breeze and Whisper White.

I’m stamping again tonight with Meighan (my friend and neighbour) so hopefully I’ll have some more things to show you tomorrow too although I’m a little late with a few things I owe some members of Stampin’ Up in Oz so I must get those done and out first but won’t be able to share those until they have received them which I’m sure you’ll understand.

Raspberry Tart Paper Block Holder

This project is another MIM (Make it Monday) from Makeesha. I look forward to Makeesha’s projects each week but don’t always get to make them straight away.

I start my first Stamp Club this Friday night and decided we would all make one of these each and use some new Designer Series Papers. I knew exactly which DSP pack I was going to use for my sample to show the ladies and that was the new gorgeous Raspberry Tart papers. I just love the colour combination used in this pack. It’s nice and bright, cheery and looks so yummy looking.

So would you like to see????

The hardest thing with this was to find some small pencils. I had no luck sourcing some so purchased full length ones and my darling hubby cut them into 2 for me.

If you would like to make one of these you will find the tutorial here.

I’ll share a photo next week of all the Paper Block Holders the ladies make at club so you can see some of the other DSP we used.

MIM – Goodie Bag Wrap

Last week Makeesha shared her MIM Goodie Bag Wrap tutorial with us. You can view the tutorial here on Makeesha’s site.

This morning I was finally organised enough to sit down and make one.

I decided to use this as part of my Stamp Class for March so if you attend you can make one too, complete with Easter eggs. (Read my next post for further details or visit my website classes page)

This is very quick and easy to make so is ideal if you needed to make a nice small gift for many people.

Supplies:
Stamp sets: Seasonal Wishes
Card: Apricot Appeal, Whisper White, Certainly Celery Prints DSP
Ink: Regal Rose
Accessories: Regal Rose 5/8” grosgrain ribbon, Certainly Celery 1/4” grosgrain ribbon, Large Oval Punch, Medium Cellophane Bag.