Happily Ever After

Hi Crafting friends, 

This is the card I made for my daughters wedding, the colour theme was red and white and black. After her first date was cancelled due to Covid 19 restrictions earlier in the year she decided not to put it off any longer and still has a 2020 date, but only a very small number of guests.

Firstly I layered my base card with the die cut layers, inside and out. On the front I have used the frame out of the Flip Frame popup dies set along with an Stamping Bella image, that I have had for awhile.

On the inside of the card I have used Karen Burniston's  Flip Frame pop up die and the flowers included in the set.

Then the Happily ever after die and the slim frames. The leaves are made in gold card stock and I added gem stones to the center of the flowers.

I have used my favourite wedding charm set from Karen's previous design company days. It has the Bride and Groom and the rings.

I added a boarder around the frame with white gel pen just to add some contrast to the black frame.

                        I added this white panel so that I had a place to write, our well wishes.

Thanks for looking today.....................

Happy Smoochie day

It is challenge time with the CCEE Stampers design team.

 Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day. Make a masculine Valentine in nontraditional colors (no RED or pink).

 

For my card I have used the Altenew Radial Heats cover die. Foam mounted it above a darker blue card stock. The stamped images and from Stamping Bella - Smoochie Knomes.

Don't forget to check out the CCEE Stampers blog to see the rest of the creations the CCEE Stampers have created this week. You can also see more details of their creations on their individual blogs.

Anne Harmon

Liz Williams

Lois Bak

Lynn McAuley

Frances Byrne

Vicky Gould

Kelly Santi

Maryann Einam- You are here

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Sending sweet vibes.

Hello my card today is for the CCEE stampers team challenge.

This Sunday (June 23) is National Pink Day.  Today's challenge is really easy -- make a pink card.

Don't forget to check out the CCEE Stampers blog to see the rest of the creations the CCEE Stampers have created this week. You can also see more details of their creations on their individual blogs.

Anne Harmon

Joanne Grzelak

Liz Williams

Lois Bak

Lynn McAuley

Frances Byrne

Vicky Gould

Kelly Santi

Maryann Einam- You are here

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Simply a Gift box

Today it is challenge day with the crazy team on crazy4challenges.

 Let’s make an ABC! That’s Anything But a Card! Maybe a scrapbook or art journal page, a tag or ATC, gift packaging, a mixed canvas, postcard or maybe even a flip book!

No doubt you will be seeing lots of wedding items on my blog. Both my daughter's became engaged last month, while the weddings are still in the planning stages I am just working on some ideas that they may like to use.

I had this spellbinders - amazing paper grace wedding collection - favorable simple gift box die for some time and thought it was time I used it. I pulled some of my old MFT dies for decoration.

Don't forget to check out the rest of the “Crazies” cards over on the Crazy 4 Challenges blog and also their individual blogs for more details.

Frances Byrne

Joanne Grzelak

Karen Aicken

Raquel Mason

Rebecca Endie

Kathleen Adams

Amy Ottmers 

Karen Ostergard

Tracey Farr

Maryann Einam- You are here

April Guest Designer - Cindy Lawrence

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Floral wedding

Welcome to this week Sketch challenge with the Crazy 4 challenge team.

I had another request for a floral wedding card, the invitation came with native flowers on it, so I incorporated that into the theme.

 The main image is one I have had for awhile it is from Stamping Bella - Uptown couple Brett and Brenda get married.

 The dies are from Ultimate crafts Australiana collection -  ironbark branch. I chose the red flowers of the Ironbark( they do come in different colours) to match the red roses and the red flowers in the designer paper.

I just carried on with the colour scheme on the inside with tonic studio dies.

Don't forget to check out the rest of the “Crazies” cards over on the Crazy 4 Challenges blog and also their individual blogs for more details.

Frances Byrne
Anja de Regt
Joanne Grzelak
Karen Aicken
Raquel Mason
Rebecca Endie
Amy Ottmers 
Kathleen Adams
Maryann Einam- You are here
October Guest Designer - Joseph Nguyen

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Bridal Shower

Welcome to this weeks challenge with the crazies team. This is Hostess Bonnie's first time issuing challenges since joining the team.

Today is World Cardmaking Day so my challenge to you is so easy....
MAKE A CARD!!....any design, any shape!!

I was asked to make a bridal shower/kitchen tea card for a spring wedding. As you can see I have used this stamping Bella bridal shower stamp set and used spring yellows for my colour theme.
All the dies I have used are from Elizabeth Craft Designs

Don't forget to check out the rest of the “Crazies” cards over on the Crazy 4 Challenges blog and also their individual blogs for more details.

Frances Byrne
Anja de Regt
Jessie Rone
Joanne Grzelak
Karen Aicken
Raquel Mason
Rebecca Endie
Cas Counsell
Bonnie Sharp
Judy Rozema
Amber Trubiak
Amy Ottmers 
Kathleen Adams
Maryann Einam- Thats me
October Guest designer-  Marcie Sharp cardmakinchaos


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CCEE1525 Long Days

This week for our Challenge on CCEE Stampers, Hostess Liz had challenged us to make a long card inspired by the longest day of the year, June 21st. Well for me it is the shortest day so I am creating my own sunshine with this Stamping Bella Uptown girl and Penny Black scenery set.

Thanks for looking today

Maryann

Read between the wines

This is a card I made awhile ago and I have just realized the it needed to be blogged. I have used the Stamping Bella uptown girl , a sentiment from verses and a MFT die-namic die.

Maryann

CCEE1431 Song Inspiration

Our challenge on CCEE this week is to create a card inspired by a song.
I have had an idea since I purchased this Stamping Bella stamp, it was actually inspired by the Movie - Funny Face, where Fred Astaire does sing a song of the same title to Audrey Hepburn. Of course there is the Donna Fargo or the Red Hot Chili Peppers songs with the same title, so I hope that I have met the brief this week.

All stamps are from Stamping Bella and the dies are from My Favorite Things.

Now pop on over to the CCEE Blog and look at the other designer creations, while you are there add your own creation to the link.

Cheers

Maryann

CCEE 1430 Recipe Challenge

It's CCEE challenge time again and Shirley brings us another fun challenge this week. 
It's a Recipe Challenge ..... Follow this recipe - Use 2 circles, 1 oval and two or more octagons (or hexagons/decagons) on your card.

For my base card I have used the Sizzix circle flip it 2 die set designed by Stephanie Barnard

 For the background I have used TCW stencil template and sponged Adirondack inks ginger and raisin. The butterfly in the corner in a Elizabeth craft designs butterfly die on shimmer sheetz. The Fairy is Ketto from Stamping Bella.

Thanks for looking
Maryann

Birthday triple Pivot

Today is my daughter's birthday and for her card I have made a Triple Pivot card, I have been wanting to made a triple pivot card, since I saw the tutorial on Karen Burniston's blog.

For this pivot card I have used the heart pivot die  from Elizabeth craft designs, all the dies for the layers are included in this set. For the center of the heart I have used gold card and designer paper and shimmer sheetz also from Elizabeth Craft designs. 

The stamped image is a Stamping Bella uptown girl and the words are die cut and covered with micro fine diamond glitter.

The card folds flat for postage and when you open the card the hearts pivot out.

The hearts then lay flat once the card is fully open. In the bottom corner I used the Katie label die to write my own sentiments. One the other side I used the tattered lace champagne die that came free with a tattered lace magazine. I placed double sided adhesive on the back of gold card before die cutting to create a sticker, I then placed the sticker on top of blue shimmer sheetz that was also backed with double sided adhesive, before cutting out the champagne bottle.

 Here is a close up of the shimmer champagne bottle and heart.

Have a good day
Maryann

Tomorrow is another day

Once a month I get together with a couple of friends for an outing to a craft store. After a trip in January we decided for this year we would choose a purchased item that we all own to create a card before we would meet up again. For the month of February with was to use any of the sizzix grid dies to create a project.

I started with the die cut frame in black and glued in place on Some blue sticker paper that looks like water. The cute little guy was coloured with copic pens and mounted with foam tape. The text is a my Favourite Things stamp and it was cut and mounted to look like a banner.

Summer Fun

Yeah, Finally I have had time to made a card and up load it, December is the first month of Summer here in Australia, while it has been a mild one so far I am sure it will warm up very soon.

To start, the base card was cut using the sizzix A2 pop n cut base, the background paper is from the surf's up DCWV stack. The image is a Stamping Bella Uptown Girl Sandy and her sombrero, the waves is a memory box die.

 The insert paper is another page from the DCWV stack cut using the circle circle label insert pop n cut. The message is a MFT Stamp and it was layered using the MFT Die-namics Layered treat tag. The finish off the card I added gem stones to look like water droplets.

Thanks for looking
Maryann