Last Minute Masks

Hello! It's almost the weekend...yay!

Are you going to any parties this weekend? Maybe a masquerade party? No? Oh well neither am I but I do have a card I was commissioned to make for someone who did have a masquerade ball for her 30th birthday last week!

I found these fabby masks, Last Minute Masks, on the My Digital Studio download page. I added them to my blank page, changed the colours, printed and there you go! I stamped and heat embossed the black one with Flowering Flourishes to give a lovely pattern and added some gems and feathers.

I sprayed the pink one with Silver Glimmer Spray and added lots of nail art gems from my stash and a feather.

I used Silver Glimmer Paper and some retired DSP for the background. The sticks for the masks are cocktail sticks wrapped with ribbon.

Stampin' Up! supplies used

Please click on the pictures to buy direct from my online store.

This card was one of those that I knew exactly what I was going to do as soon as I was asked and I thoroughly enjoyed making it! 

Thanks for visiting! 

A man card! (with glitter!)

Hello!

I have a man card to show you today! It's the second one this week!!

I have used Midnight Muse DSP (from In Color 2013/14) for the background on a Whisper White card base. I stamped Dictionary onto the banner shape using Smoky Slate and added a few splodges of Gorgeous Grunge, also in Smoky Slate.

The sentiment is from Label Love and is embossed with Pewter Stampin' Emboss. I finished with a few stars cut from Silver Glimmer Paper.

I'm entering my card into these challenges...

Stampin' Celebration - #74

Paper Craft Crew - #75

Stampin' Up! Supplies Used

   

Please click on the products to buy direct from my online store.

I am starting a brand new Stampers 6 club on the 30th January, details of which can be found here. If you join you will have 3 months' opportunity to enjoy the benefits of the Sale-a-Bration promotion, and with the brand new Spring/Summer catalogue released at the same time, I'm sure you will get yourself some wonderful products for free! Please contact me for more details and to join.

I hope your Tuesday is a good one! :)

Need a Hug? Monster Hugs for Christmas!

Hello!

Ooooh I have a real treat for you today!

Do you need a hug? Well you can have one from me!

I had my Stampin' Up! delivery on Monday, and in it were some very cute little fellas (and lasses!)

How adorable are they?? And check out their peachy bums too!

Anyway, I decided that I wanted to use them for my son Keiran's Christmas card this year, so here is the card...

And a close up of the little fella...

They are super quick to put together as they are, but of course mine had to be different! I have done a little video tutorial on how to make them into Christmassy monsters...

See? Very easy! And at only £5.50 for 18 they are a bargain too! (click on the pictures above to buy them). I suspect these will be popular at school fairs and on stalls all over the place!

I have decided to enter my card into the sketch challenge at Create With Connie and Mary this week

I hope you enjoyed today's post and hope to see you tomorrow!

A girly owl bookmark!

Hello!

How are you today? 

I have a little something different to show you...a little bookmark I made for my work colleague as I recently discovered that she loves owls! Oh and yes, she reads real paper books...I know, cool huh! ;)

I have used the lovely little Owl Builder Punch and I even made eyelashes to make her really girly!

The embossed part is made using the Woodgrain EF, and I mounted it onto Bermuda Bay cardstock. Isn't she cute?

Supplies

Cardstock - Whisper White, Bermuda Bay, Crumb Cake, Silver Glimmer paper

Designer Series Paper - Polka Dot Parade

Embossing - Woodgrain EF

Punch - Owl Builder

If you would like to buy any of the products I have used here, or in any of my projects, please do click through to my online shop using the link on my sidebar.

I am starting a new Stampers 6 club in January, just in time for the new Sale-a-Bration promotion, where you will receive free products for every £45 spend! If you would like to know more about Stampers 6, you can read about it here, or feel free to contact me with any queries.

Thanks for popping by today and don't forget to go check out the Clearance Rack in my online shop...there are lots of gorgeous items on there with up to a MASSIVE 80% off!!

C6 Box Envelope for UK sized cards!

Good morning!

Did you see my midnight post? If you did, you'll know all about the brilliant new Envelope Punch board. I promised to show you a fab project using this wonderfully versatile tool, and here it is.

This box envelope is the perfect size for UK standard C6 envelopes and cards.

I made these 4 cards to fit in mine, with 4 envelopes, but I reckon it would take 6, depending how much embellishment you put on them.

I have kept them quite simple and along the same theme, but they are very classy and elegant I think.

Supplies
Cardstock - Pool Party, Whisper White
Designer Paper - Winter Frost, Silver Glimmer Paper
Stamps - More Merry Messages, Warmth & Wonder (hostess)
Ink - Encore Silver, Pool Party, Smoky Slate, Versamark
Embossing - Pool Party Stampin' Emboss
Ribbon - Silver Ribbon 
Framelits - Ovals Collection, Labels Collection, Apothecary Accents
Other - Dazzling Details Silver Sparkle
Tools - Envelope Punch Board, Simply Scored, Heat Tool

I have made my first video tutorial for this great little box... 

 I hope you find it useful...let me know what you think!

Have a lovely Friday!

Guest Design spot at CAS!!

Good morning!
Well guess what? I have been asked by the very lovely Jacqueline at CAS - Colours and Sketches if I would be a guest designer this week! Of course, I was honoured to be asked and jumped at the chance! So here is my card for their current sketch challenge...

As soon as I saw the sketch I knew I wanted to use the Festive Flurry snowflake dies! I cut it out of Silver Glimmer Paper and added a sentiment from the Chalk Talk set.

I embossed the bottom panel twice with one of the folders from the Adorning Accents Embossing set. The ribbon is the lovely Bermuda Bay Chevron Ribbon. The paper is from the Winter Frost set...stunning!

Supplies

Stamp - Chalk Talk

Ink - Pool Party, Bermuda Bay

Designer Series Paper - Winter Frost, Silver Glimmer Paper

Embossing - Adorning Accents EF

Dies - Festive Flurry

Ribbon - Bermuda Bay Chevron

If you would like to buy any of the products I have shown you today, please do contact me or click on my online shop link. And while you're there, don't forget to use this week's hostess code for your chance to win this week's hostess rewards!

Thanks for stopping by today...see you tomorrow! :)

Sparkly Snowflake

Hello!

Have you had a nice weekend? I won't say the 'M' word...I'll just get on with today's post! ;)

I hope you don't mind, but I have made another 'Tealight Easel card'...I have a feeling I shall be making many of these for my upcoming Christmas markets! 

I have used the very lovely Winter Frost designer paper from the new seasonal catalogue. It's so cool and elegant don't you think?

I made a snowflake using the Festive Flurry Framelits and the ever sparkly Silver Glimmer paper...it's so sparkly it sparkles in the pictures! I have had so many orders for this and I can't blame them! Not only is it so sparkly but the glitter just does not come off! So you don't end up with an envelope (instead of a card) full of glitter!

Again, I have used the stunning candles from Asda...they really match the Stampin' Up colours so well!

I finished the card with a little Designer Faceted Button and some Pool Party Baker's Twine as a closure for the little card/box.

If you would like to see how to make a similar card to this, please check out my original easel card here

If you would like to order any of the items used here, please do so by visiting my online store. Don't forget to use this week's Mystery Hostess Code

MAXYUMSP

to give you the chance of winning this week's hostess rewards!

(for more information, click on the Hostess Codes tab)

Alternatively, please do contact me for more information about products, details of workshops in your area, Stampers 6 clubs or becoming a Demonstrator.

Challenges

Freshly Made Sketches - #102

Just Add Ink - #181

Crafty Cardmakers - Christmas Snow and Ice

Sparkles Christmas Challenges - Non Traditional Colours

Winter Wonderland - Candles

Thank you for joining me today and have a lovely M... oops, nearly said it! 

More Snowflake Flurries!

Hello :)
This is a very quick post today, as was typing it last night and I didn't feel too great. 

I have made another Christmas card...getting in the mood now!

I used the Festive Flurry bundle and the Northern Flurry Embossing Folder. I backed the panel with Silver Glimmer Paper...isn't it sparkly??

The snowflake is embossed in Pool Party Stampin' Emboss then Iridescent Ice. The sentiment is from Sweet Essentials, stamped in Silver Encore.

Supplies

Stamps - Festive Flurry, Sweet Essentials

Dies - Festive Flurry

Ink - Encore Silver

Embossing - Versamark, Pool Party Stampin' Emboss Powder, Iridescent Ice EP, Northern Flurry EF

Other - Silver Ribbon

Challenges

Try Stampin' On Tuesday - #133

ABC Christmas Challenge - Q is for Quick

Thanks, as always, for stopping by!