Stampin' Up! Goodies

Finally picked up my goodies from the post office last night.

I had a few things I wanted to get from the retiring list, so I didn't buy many things in the demo pre-order period. Though I did get a couple of the cute hostess stamps (you can view details here):

Here are some cute images from Stampin' Up! using the stamp sets

I love the "Sorry, I'm Not Too Bright" sentiment.

Two on the retiring list:

I also got the Hearth and Home Thinlits to go with the Happy Home stamp set.

Some Project life goodies at a really good clearance rate.  Next quarter I'm going to buy some Project Life albums and inserts and finally start printing out the hundreds of photos I have on my hard drive.  I haven't printed any family photos or photos of the boys since they were born. 

The Happiness Is Accessory Pack is currently $6.78 and the Card Collection (with 100 cards) is $8.38.  Great prices.  Unfortunately my photo does not do justice to the colours, but if you check out the links you can see it better there.

Some background stencils and sponge daubers.  My 4 1/2 year old would like playing this.  He did some stamping with me a few weeks back and keeps asking to play and to learn what the Big Shot does.

Some washi tape (obsessed with washi tape) and some ink and aqua painters so I can try watercolouring stamped images.  Can't afford Copic Markers at the moment.  And the cute, now retired, bird builder punch.  Another tool that I think my son would like playing with.  I really love the Stampin' Up! punches. Very easy to use and I like they how lock flat.

I also got some thick Whisper White card stock, some Whisper White notecards and envelopes, some stamping dimensionals and last but not least some catalogues!

I've got a wish list a mile long, but at least I've got a year to work my way through it.  If you're interested in receiving a catalogue, you can get in touch with me on my demonstrator page

Five

Another birthday card using a Butterick 1965 sewing pattern image.  On the one hand I think the 5 is too small, but the next size up dies looked like they would be too big.  So it was probably better to go with the small but it doesn't stand out as much as I'd like.  The inside is stamped with happy birthday sentiment from a Lawn Fawn set. Didn't photograph it.

Supplies:
Stampin' Up! Whisper White and Calypso Coral cardstock (base, mat and number)
Kaisercraft little numbers die set
Grace Taylor designer paper (discontinued)

Clean and simple using Kaisercraft

I got the 6 1/2" Summer Breeze paper pad on special and made a couple of quick cards last night.  I really liked this paper with the multiple squares on it.  It had 5 x 5 squares so I cut each sheet down to a 3 x 3 and I still have some more squares that I can use on some notecards.

This is the first one I did using Kaisercraft square cards.  These were one of the first items I bought when I started thinking about making cards with my vintage children's books, so I just bought some pre-cut card and envelope packs.  They're a bit disappointing, they haven't been folded very well so the edges were uneven.  I ended up trimming a bit off each one.

I just added some 3D foam stickers to lift the paper up a little and then used some baker's twine.

 

 

 

On the second one, I decided to use my Stampin' Up Decorate Dots embossing folder to give it a little texture.  I think I prefer this one.  You can't see in the photograph but the flowers have a bit of gloss/texture to them.

CAS(E) this Sketch #170

This week's sketch found here:

Had no clue what to do/what I was doing with this one.  It didn't turn out how I envisaged it when I was looking at papers to use.  I don't have a lot of supplies at the moment.  I didn't know to measure out to cut the paper to cut it so it had the cross cut out so I drew it on the back of my patterned paper, which meant when I turned the paper over the sketch was flipped.  So first error.  The sentiment I wanted to cut out which said Lots of Love (which I thought went with the multiple hearts), I ended up ruining because the corner punch stuffed up one of the corners, but it would have been too big anyway.  It is what it is, and it's a learning process for me.

 



Mother's Day Cards

Have been working on a couple Mother's Day cards using Stampin' Up products.  I was trying to work out what to put along the bottom of the card, and decided I wanted a bow.  I bought some ribbon but couldn't for the life of me tie a bow, even after watching videos and looking at pictures.  Will have to keep practising.  So I ended up buying some Christina Re self-adhesive bows today.  They're a bit chunkier than I wanted but with Australia Post's delivery times, doubt I would have been able to find something online and get it delivered in time.

Supplies/Tools used:
Stampin' Up 1" punch.  I can't believe they're retiring this product, glad I bought it.  You can get one at a discounted price here. 
Stampin' Up Pretty Petals Cardstock (Mint Macaron and Old Olive) and Pretty Petals Designer Paper Stack.  Another two on the retiring list.  I just love the paper in this stack.  It's on sale
Stampin' Up Whisper White Cardstock 
Canson Black cardstock
Christina Re self-adhesive bows
Double sided tape
Stampin' Up dimensionals

The cards are A5 size and I cut the black cardstock to 10cm x 10cm, and the white cardstock to 9cm x 9cm.  The black card is adhered to the card base with stampin' dimensionals.

I made another one with Calypso Coral as the base, but forgot to photograph it. 

Five Senses

Got a gorgeous book for 50c at my local Vinnies.  Such sweet images.  The book is called Five Senses by Tasha Tudor and was first printed in 1978.

CAS(E) this Sketch #169

The sketch:

I'm a sucker for stripes and polka dots, and I loved this paper immediately when I saw it.  I feel quite lazy with this one - not much thought went in to it. 

Supplies:

Stampin' Up Whisper White Cardstock
Striped paper from Dear Lizzy's Happy Place 6 x 6 pad (American Crafts)
Stampin' Up Mint Macaron ink.

Happy Birthday

My first real attempt at making a card with papers and punches etc.  Quite like how it turned out except for the sentiment, I think the white is a bit too stark and the stamping wasn't the best.  Maybe should have used an off white/cream colour card.

Supplies:

Stampin' Up Lucky Limeade for the base
Stampin' Up Pretty Petals DSP
Stampin' Up Mossy Meadow Ink Pad
Sentiment - free with a card making magazine but I can't recall which one.
Button - free with a Molly Makes mag that I bought ages ago.

Raggedy Ann and Andy: The Little Gray Kitten

All images used are from a Little Golden Book, "Raggedy Ann and Andy:  The Little Gray Kitten"

More cards from Tales at Bedtime

 



The card below was a disaster - not how I wanted it to turn out.  I just wanted it on plain kraft cardstock, but I wanted to round the edges for something different.  But my little fiskars corner punch does not work properly and massacred the edges. I really wanted to keep the image so I just cut around it and stuck some paper on for the background.  But I don't like it.

 

 

 

 

This image was at the bottom of a story, and the kite string went through the text and the kite was up top.  So I fussy cut the kite and part of the string and tail and lined it up and glued it on.

 

 

 

 

Tales at Bedtime - Children's Bedtime Stories

Went for a drive yesterday and ended up at a Savers recycle store.  They were a bit more expensive than the op shops I normally frequent, but I picked up a couple big children's books - Tales at Bedtime and The Children's Dictionary in Pictures.  I think I'll make some bookmarks with the dictionary one (though I will probably have to buy a laminator, gee this hobby is becoming expensive).

But I've made some cards from the other book already:

CAS(E) this Sketch #168

My 2nd attempt at a sketch.

The design:

 

 

and my attempt:

 

 

 

Supplies:



 

Stampin' Up Whisper White Cardstock

Amy Tangerine papers

 

 

I actually tried to come up with something last night and it was a disaster. A glue disaster which ruined the paper, but then I wasn't happy with the layout anyway and thought, "that's it, I'm giving up, I can't do this cardmarking stuff".  But thought I'd attempt it again today.  Still not entirely thrilled.  Are people just born crafty?  Or is everyone average to begin with and coming up with a design/idea gets easier the more you do?

 

 

 

 

 

 

My Prayer Book

These cards were made with images from the Rand McNally book "My Prayer Book".  Still have a few pages left with smaller images that I'll probably use for gift tags or small note cards.

DL sized cards

Some of the images in the Butterick pattern book are quite big but too cute to not use, so I tried some DL sized cards.

Supplies:

Stampin' Up Whisper White cardstock as the base
Sugar & Spice Studio pastel paper collection for the background paper
Amy Tangerine Die Cut shape
Girl cut out from Butterick pattern book


This one I'm not so sure about.  Not entirely happy with the sentiment I stuck on.  Maybe it could make a mother's day card? 

Supplies:

Stampin' Up Whisper White cardstock as the base
Stampin' Up In colour 2014-2016 cardstock - Hello Honey
Stampin' Up Moonlight Designer Series Paper Stack
Amy Tangerine Die Cut shape
Woman cut out from Butterick pattern book

Dogs and cats

These three images are from The Little Golden Book "Dogs". 

This one is also from a Little Golden Book, but I can't recall the name.  An appropriate card to say sorry? 

The card bases (and envelopes) are packs of 10 from Target I got on clearance for $2ea.  At the moment it's easier for me to use pre-cut bases and I just wanted to buy cheap ones whilst I was experimenting.

Can't recall the name of the book these ones came from (must take note before I pull them apart), I think it was just Ginny. I do remember that's the name of the cat.