An easel card for the colour challenge at ILWS

Our colour challenge this month over at In Love With Stamping is to use:

Tempting Turquoise, Real Red and Old Olive

I opted to keep my Tempting Turquoise as an accent for this card:

Recipe

Stamp set: Season of Joy

Cardstock: Real Red, Old Olive, Very Vanilla

Ink: Real Red, Old Olive, Versamarker

Simply Scrappin' Kit: Christmas Jingle

Punch: 1-1/4" Circle, Boho Blossoms

Other: Heat and Stick Powder, Fine Cosmo Glitter, Silver Elastic Cord

The card blank is an A6 portrait easel card (so a normal portrait card with a fold line scored halfway down the card front). A layer of DSP from the Simply Scrappin' Kit was adhered to a layer of Old Olive and a 1-1/4" Circle punched from the upper right hand corner. The snowflake from the Season of Joy stamp set was coloured direct to stamp with the Versamarker, stamped onto Very Vanilla card, covered with Heat and Stick powder and heat embossed. Turquoise glitter from the Fine Cosmo set was added to the sticky image and heated gently to set. This was punched out with the largest flower from the Boho Blossoms. A second flower was punched from Very Vanilla card and a thread of Silver Elastic Cord was sandwiched between the two with a dimensional. An Old Olive Scallop Circle sticker from the Kit had a 1-1/4" Circle punched from the centre and was then adhered over the aperture to secure the snowflake in place. The whole front panel was adhered direct to the bottom half of the card front. The tree was stamped in Old Olive ink onto Very Vanilla card and cut out. The flourishes were traced with the fine nozzle of the Tombow glue and Turquoise glitter added. The tree was popped up on the card front with dimensionals. A Very Vanilla insert was added to the inside and the sentiment stamped in Real Red ink in the bottom right corner. A stopper bar for the easel card was made by adding a strip of card ribbon from the Kit, popped up on dimensionals.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Sara xx

A mini scrapbook album for wedding photos

Here is the mini scrapbook album that I made for my newlywed friends. I followed Helen's excellent instructions over at All Things Stampy here, for a sweet little album that just keeps on unfolding.

Recipe

Punch: Scallop Edge

Taffeta Ribbon: Chocolate Chip

Other: Love Stories Simply Scrappin' Kit

I really had to add very little to the supplies from the kit to make this album, just a little ribbon for the closure. The base of the album is the very lush textured cardstock from the kit and I've layered it with the co-ordinating DSP for the inner pages. The kit comes with die-cut edging in Pretty in Pink and to keep the bulk of the pages down, I added my own Close to Cocoa edging by using the Scallop Edge punch on some off-cuts of the DSP. Layers of DSP and more textured card hide the ribbon ties and the album front is finished with more die-cuts. And there's plenty of kit left over for more scapbooking projects or cardmaking. This kit will be available in the new catty while stocks last but the taffeta ribbon will be retiring.

Here's how the album unfolds:

All ready for Laetitia and her hubby to add their own photos, journalling and any personal embellishments if they want to.

I wish them much happiness in their new life together.

Sara xx

Recipe for sneak peek 8 Christmas Jingle Scrappin' Kit

For this duo I used just a teeny, tiny portion of the Simply Scrappin' kit, Christmas Jingle, and nothing else except a cutter, glue and dimensionals.

These kits are fabulous not just for scrapbooking but for cardmaking and ready made embellishments. Every kit comes with textured cardstock (2 sheets of each), great quality double sided papers (3 sheets of each) and card weight stickers, both shaped and ribbon (2 sheets of each) all colour co-ordinated for you. All very lush and a great price.

Recipe

Simply Scrappin' kit: Christmas Jingle

This took about two minutes to make up, if that. It took me longer to open the packet and stroke the papers, lol. A handy kit to have in for any last minute cards you might need to make.

This card I made to show that even with the Christmas kit there's still room to make cards for other occasions. I think this would be great as a valentine card to a friend.

Of course you could bling them up further if you wish with brads or glitter, add stamped images, add rub-ons to the textured card or any combination but I just wanted to show that you can keep it quick and simple and still have a great card to show.

Just get in touch if you'd like to order a set (or two).

Sara xx