Birthday Boy

I had to make this one in a bit of a hurry

(as seems to often be the case lately.....do you have the same problem?)

I like the colours of this retired halloween paper,

so combined it with my stamp punch, a stamp set that has loads of cute images you can layer up,

and a retired greeting.

I tried to do a kind of postcard layout.......

I can't wait till my Postcard stamp arrives, and I'll share it with you when I get chance!

I'm thinking of doing some christmas cards with it....

I'm starting christmas cards in my September classes if you fancy getting ahead!

For Sue

I did Sue's at the same time as Ros's,

but just changed it a little.

Spot the difference from yesterdays?

I stamped one of the 'Best of Flowers' in the foreground in chocolate chip.

 I rarely use black, as I think brown is softer.

For Ros

As promised, here's a card using the inked acrylic block background.

It worked well with one of the new hostess stamp sets.

Wisteria Wonder and Pool Party are lovely soft colours.

I stamped the poppy again and decoupaged it.

I made the card to fit our lovely crumb cake envelopes from Stampin' Up!

An ideal opportunity to stamp the envelope too.

I often mean to add a stamped image to envelopes, but usually forget,

or run out of time!

It adds a lovely finishing touch don't you think?

my swap

Well I was going to show my swap, but it seems I didn't take a pic,

so I'll show you that when I get around to showing you how to do the chevron folds.

I made them work on our play day!

I showed them how to do the folds on their 'swap', then later suggested we get a bit inky!

Using an acrylic block, I placed ink from two pads,

placed it on the card to make this background.

Sarn kindly let us play with her Wetlands stamp set

(which we all now 'need'!)

Then we tried the same method, but spritzing the block with water,

before placing it on the card.

Can you see the difference a bit of water makes?

I love experimenting and getting inky!

I also used the stamp-a-ma-jig to get a line of wading birds.....

Come back tomorrow and I'll show you a finished card using this technique.

Sarn's swap

Here's the lovely Sarn's projects from our play day...

Her swap is a lovely ticket/ gift card/ tag holder....

or anything else you want it to be!

Love the soft colours, elegant flower, and the decoupaged flower.....

 Opens to reveal.......

the two little pockets, in which she popped two cute tags

in complimenting colours....

I admired her fancy fold projects on her blog, so she taught us this one....

Take a sheet of paper 11" square....

fold it, stick it, add some stamped layers...

 and hey presto!

This lovely card!

Check out her blog for more lovely Sarn designs

http://stampingforpleasure.blogspot.co.uk/

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Liz's swap....

Let's hope autumn is not around the corner just yet....

but here's a lush project from Liz at our team play day...

Love the embossed vellum leaf, but the large leaf is awesome!

All different colours, and spritzed with glitz shimmer,

and then the acorn is glazed.....all mounted on my favourite En Francais background.

Here's her make n take with the Flower shop set, which I'm desperately trying to resist buying!

I don't do many flowers, but this set is scrummy, and the matching punch makes it

all so easy...true Stampin' Up! style and quality...

We embossed the label shapes from Apothecary Accents dies,

then inked them with a marker pen.

Did you spot one of the new labels?

Love that set too!.......Just for you!

Check out her blog here 

http://playtimepostings.blogspot.co.uk/