August Stamp Club Challenge

I normally leave my challenges to the last week and sometimes the night before but I having got more organized I have been getting on to them earlier and earlier. This time it was to create a masculine card. These ones came about from inspiration and I just had to try them out. The first was from one of my sons shirts, they have several with camouflage on them. The second was from a bible cover that I saw. I have to say that this seems to have become very much a part of my style and a personal challenge. See something and try to recreate it using what I have. It ultimately leads to a desire to create the stamps that I need.

Colours: basic grey, going grey, red, white
Stamps: birthday whimsy, oh so lovely (SU)
Finishing touches: felt, vintage brad (SU), red thread, red embossing powder, distressing tool, colour spritzer

Colour: pumpkin pie, chocolate chip, old olive, white
Stamps: small pieces, baroque motifs, friendship blooms, vintage labels
Finishing touches: stitched ribbon, designer label punch, colour spritzer tool

Long overdue baby card

While I have been getting my birthday cards completed and in some cases ahead of myself I have been meaning to make and send a gift and card to a friend for too long. I finally got onto it and this is what I came up with. I started with the Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge #79 I wanted to use my favourite baby stamps from Clear Dollar Stamps the Patchpals
I love doing girls cards. Now I need to get onto all the boys and male cards that are coming up

Colours: rich razzleberry, old olive, pale plum
Stamps: patchpal giraffe (CDS), whimsical words (SU)
Finishing touches, polka dot ribbon rich razzleberry, plum pearls (kaiser)

July Stamp Club Challenge

Our challenge for this month was rose red and one of the flowers that we did at stamp club last month. Not having much if any in the way of papers in rose red I wanted to create my own so started from there. Having gone through some of my bits and pieces I came across a piece of ribbon that I had kept despite being tiny and wanted to use it (even though it wasn't stampn up). So the initial inspiration went on from there. What was to be fairly simple turned into one of my play times where I try lots of different things before I am happy with it. I was quite pleased with the end result. If you want to see what the others came up with check out the link here.

Colours: rose red, pumpkin pie, chocolate chip, pink pirouette
Stamps: background sampler, vintage labels and big and little pieces (SU)
Finishing touches: scallop punch, rhinestone brad and linen thread (SU),stitching, ribbon, tag punch

A special occasion

It has been my intention to sell cards since I started investing in stamps. I have made some that I have sold you can see them here and here. A friend asked me for two 70th birthday cards and these are what I came up with. The first I kept fairly feminine in colour and the second I wanted something different so used some inspiration from a resene magazine.

Colour: white, old olive, rich razzleberry
Stamps: vintage labels and circle of friendship (SU)
Paper: cottage garden DSP (SU)
Finishing touches: alpha stickers (american crafts), circle scallop punch (SU), square punch, pearls (kaiser), buttons

Colour: taken with teal, white, certainly celery
Stamps: vintage labels and whimsical words (SU), storytime alpha (CDS)
Paper: esperance (kaiser)
Finishing touches: apron lace punch (fiskars), ribbon, flowers (kaiser), buttons, green thread, white embossing powder

Flower fun

I have been wanting to have a go at some felt flowers since I got templates from Chris at Scraptacular. I finally got around to it and this is what I came up with using the colours I had. With the detail in the flowers I kept the rest very simple. I love the whimsical words stamp set from stampn up

Birthday fun

Another birthday card. The box is filling up fast. I haven't done many of my boy ones. They seem to get put to the bottom of the pile even though I have some great stamp sets to use for them. I love this stamp set from Clear Dollar Stamps - Monster Mash I have been using some of my papers for inspiration to get started.

Colours: taken with team, ruby red, pumpkin pie
Paper: funfair (kaiser)
Stamps: monster mash (CDS)
Rinishing touches: round tab punch, spiral punch and linen thread (SU), button, hole punch

Another attempt

I had another attempt at my graffiti grunge look with a bit more success. Here are others I have tried. Using the Kaiser papers was definitely helpful.

Colours: going gray, basic black, pumpkin pie
Paper: rewind collection (kaiser)
Stamps: All about me (kaiser)
Finishing touches: black brads and colour spritzer (SU) distress tool, large corner punch (fiskars)