05.10.09
Wild About bright cards!
Here are two more cards that I made for Cindy to choose for her twin boys (turning TWO!) I surprised myself and had a ball playing around with these cards. Previously I felt like I had card-makers-block when trying to do little boy’s cards, but these ones came reasonably easy. Perhaps it’s because I had a reason to make them?
Card by Julia. Images © Stampin’ Up! 1990-2009
I’m just LOVING these bright colours! They come up so well on the Whisper White – please don’t ever use any brand other than Stampin’ Up!’s Whisper White – it’s so smooth and the colours just pop right off the paper!
Card by Julia. Images © Stampin’ Up! 1990-2009
Stamps: Wild About You, Outlined for Fun
Cardstock: Tempting Turquoise, Brilliant Blue, Green Galore, Glorious Green, Yoyo Yellow, Only Orange
Inks: Tempting Turquoise, Brilliant Blue, Only Orange, Gable Green, Basic Black.
Extras: Jersey Shore DSP (last year’s paper), sponges
Card by Julia. Images © Stampin’ Up! 1990-2009
05.09.09
Bugs & Kisses
I looked through my stash of cards that I’d made a while ago and realised that I haven’t made many children’s cards – which is funny considering that I have two young children myself and the majority of my friends and customers have young children too (mostly under 8 years). I had planned to change that, but never really got around to making a good effort with my stamp sets and quite often shied away from bright colours. Luckily for me, my friend Cindy asked me if I would make cards for her twin boys… and I’m *so* glad she did!
It gave me the opportunity to dust off my Bugs & Kisses and Wild About You sets as well as have a play with my NEW Animal Crackers set. I was having so much fun creating cards that I actually made about 6 cards for her to choose from (sorry Cinders!!!). Here are the Bugs & Kisses cards. (Tee hee, Cindy had to grab them all because she couldn’t choose between them).
Card by Julia. Images © Stampin’ Up! 1990-2008
Card by Julia. Images © Stampin’ Up! 1990-2008
Stamps: Bugs & Kisses, Outlined for Fun
Cardstock: Taken With Teal, So Saffron, Tangerine Tango, Whisper White
Ink: Taken With Teal, So Saffron, Tangerine Tango
Extras: Linen Thread, metallic eyelets, own button, staples, Small and Large tag punches
05.04.09
Happy 8th Birthday, Laura!
Our darling daughter turns 8 today!! Wow – where has the time gone? She was born 6 weeks premature and ever since, she’s been taking us by surprise, LOL! However, we took her by surprise this time!!
We bought Laura a new bike for her birthday and Shane hid it in the shed until Sunday. We decided to give it to her her early so that she could spend Sunday riding it rather than getting it today after school and not being able to have much time riding. Tee hee….. Shane set it up in the shed and I made a massive red bow out of tissue paper and stuck it to the handle-bars. We planned a secret code phrase: “Would you like a cup of tea?” so that when I came out into the front garden (where they were all doing some playing and fencing – well, Shane was fencing LOL!), and asked him if he’d like a cup of tea, it meant that I was going to hide in the shed with my camera and wait for them to come down. I positioned myself behind the bike to capture Laura’s face as she opened the door and saw her bike…… so sneaky!! It was great! Laura had no idea and when she saw it she was so surprised – so funny! She got all teary and gave us all big hugs and said she couldn’t believe it. Bless her. Ronan got her small bike and Shane put the training wheels back on so he could ride around – he was over the moon and didn’t even care that it was purple!! He’s going to help dad re-spray it in whatever colours he wants. So Sunday was spent with the children riding around the front doing skids and testing out their ‘new’ bikes. Sweet.
Card by Julia, Images © Stampin’ Up! 1990-2008
When she opened her card this morning she uttered a long, high-pitched “Ooooooooohhhhh!!!!” (I was suitable happy with said response and obviously did ‘okay’ with choosing the stamp set and design *sigh of relief*)
The set I used for this card is Animal Crackers and I chose pinks and purples in bright shades because Laura LOVES purples and I thought a nice bright card would be perfect for her 8th!
Stamp sets: Animal Crackers, Outlined for Fun
Cardstock: Orchid Oppulence,Pink Passion, Yoyo Yellow, Watercolor paper, Pixie Pink and Lavendar Lace for small stars.
Inks: StazOn, Pink Passion, Lovely Lilac, Gable Green and Yoyo Yellow for watercolouring
Accessories: 2 way glue pen, Dazzling Diamond Glitter, Lareg and small star punches, Aqua Painter, wooden number ‘8′ from own stock.
Card by Julia, Images © Stampin’ Up! 1990-2008
And the inside…
By Julia. Images © Stampin’ Up! 1990-2008
Stamped using All in the Family, Family Favourites and Family Phrases with the Stamp-a-ma-jig (AWESOME TOOL!!!) To get the bunch of balloons, I free-hand stamped my first balloon onto the cardstock in the position I wanted, then stamped the balloon onto a Post-It note. I carefully cut around the balloon right on the line, and positioned it on top of my first image. I could then stamp more balloons over-lapping the first, knowing that the Post-It note would protect the first image from being stamped over. I removed the Post-It note and re-positioned it for more balloons and then did the other side. I’ve used Stampin’ Up! watercolor pencils to colour the picture and added Glitter for that extra sparkle!
I think we survived the Birthday weekend quite well – Laura had one friend sleep-over on Friday night, where we all watched High School Musical 3 (borrowed from her friend). I loved it! *laughs* Such a shame that Laura would LOVE to see it again and I just HAVE to buy the DVD so we have our own copy. *cough-nothing-to-do-with-Zac-Effron-at-all!!cough* Good, clean, safe fun! And great songs too *blush*. ANYWAY!!! And then on Saturday we had 3 other friends join in for Pizza lunch, a movie and a bite of cake – a perfect number of girls and nice & simple.
Saturday night we went out to Ju and her husbands’ joint birthday celebrations and had a lovely time! Ju had decorated their house and garden with candles and fairy lights and it was simply beautiful!!! The food was delicious and we had great company with Kelly and her husband and the other guests.
Here is the awesome Invite that Ju sent us:
CArd by Julie Pollit. Images © Stampin’ Up! 1990-2008
Ju, you make beautiful invites!! (I’ve told you that already, but HA! I get to do it all over again!)
05.02.09
Happy hippo
Images © Stampin’ Up! 1990-2008
I just love, love, love this set! Pun Fun is a new set in the 2009/2010 Idea Book & Catalogue and it’s a big favourite because of the lovely effects that can be created with various colouring methods. My favourite right now is water-colouring.
The design inspiration for this card layout came from the IB&C! Check out page 60 and you’ll see a card for the Bugs and Kisses set that uses two srips of green cardstock that has been stapled at one edge…. well… from that simple idea, sprang my own card! How simple is that?!
If you’d like your own copy of the NEW Idea Book & Catalogue you can get yours for $15.oo including postage – simply drop me an email with your address!
Images © Stampin’ Up! 1990-2008
The hippo is just too cute! The great thing about the “hip-hippo-ray!” saying, is that it can be for anything, not just birthdays. I could imagine it for a new baby, congrats cards or Good Luck cards, to list but a few. The complete stamp set has 8 images that are also cute, cute, cute! I’ve made a few cards with some other images and will post them as soon as possible.
Stamps: Pun Fun, Outlined for Fun
Ink: Pretty in Pink, Certainly Celery,
Cardstock: Chocolate Chip, Pretty In Pink, Certainly Celery, Watercolor Paper
Accessories: 2 way glue pen, Dazzling Diamonds Glitter, Aqua Painters
