Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Cup Card

Hi there ,
It has been some time since I last posted. I have been on holidays with no computer :( and have not stamped anything for 3 weeks. Today I went to club, I made this card that the girls have been wanting to make for sometime. You can find the tutourial for the card here.




Recipe:
Stamps: Stampin up - tickled pink (retired)
Card: pretty in pink, Black, Rose Red, Glitz desgin DP, vellum card, shimmery white.
Other: Party straw, ds tape,miro beads,scollop boarder punch.
TFL
Maryann

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

serivette car

I was going through some card photos and came across this one I thought I would share. It was made for my friend's son. I really hate making teenage boy cards, I have alot of cute stamps suitable for girls and little boys not teenages. I came across this serivette when I was shopping and thought WOW. I paper toiled the serivette so the card just popped out of the card and stamped the checks with white ink.
TFL
Maryann

Monday, March 30, 2009

Retro Robin

Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday to you, that is if your name is Janet, today is my sister's birthday and this is the card I made for her. This image is so cute it reminds me of the moment my sister got her little dog Lilly.
The other day I used Masterpiece studios teal and black garden dp, it was still on my desk so I used it to paper piece the pants for this girl. I teamed it with Masterpiece Studios teal and Black stripes.
Stamps: Rubber Romance - Retro Robin
Paper: Masterpiece Studios - teal & black stripes, teal and black garden, black, bashfull blue.
Other: DS black ribbon, brads, copics, photo corner punch

TFL
Maryann

Sunday, March 29, 2009

Easter Bugs

I made this card for the Alota challenge over on PCP, I have just made it as the challenge closes on the 29th. The sketch I have used is one from Taylored Expressions TECC55.
Stamps: Alota - Bugs in Easter Basket
Paper: DP- Hiedi Grace Designs- Vintage stripe,Vineyard flowers, Stampin up - Elegant eggplant, bashfull blue, gable green.
Other: Twinklette, copics,American crafts elements ribbon, paper piercing tool and Mat, brads

TFL
Maryann

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Martini Samantha

I made this card today for another of my daughter's friends who is turning 18. I got to play with some new things that I purchased at the Brisbane Paper Festival the other weekend. Firstly the wonderful Martha Stewart border punch, a bit extravagant in Australia but very nice. The designer paper is also new and it goes wonderfully with stampin up retired cool caribbean, yes I still have some of this.
I had a blue flower from craft affair but it wasn't quite the right shade so I coloured it with my copic marker - frost blue B00. I also added paper piercing to the corners, it doesn't very clearly in the photo but I cut and added a gel sticker to pop out the martini glass.
Recipe:
Stamps: Rubber Romance - Samantha
Paper: DP - teal and Black Garden -Masterpiece studios, Cool Caribbean, black, white.
Other: Paper Piercing tool and mat, double stiched black ribbon, craft affair flowers and jewel, Martha Stewart border punch,copics,gel sticker

TFL
Maryann

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Hip Hip Hooray

Yesterday I spent the day with my friends Frances and Gai we went craft shopping not that we needed anything as we all spent up big at the craft show on the weekend.It is Frances's birthday next week and this is the card that I made for her. Frances loves Owls and I couldn't resist putting one in a cupcake. The sketch I have use is MFTSC58.
Recipe:
Stamps: HeroArts - CL155 Playful Animals, Inkadinkado- Birthday Cupcakes
Paper: Old Olive, Close to Cocoa, Paper Inspirations - MCS217 Favourite Calligraphics.
Other: Wild Wasbi striped ribbon, chocolate chip ribbon, close to cocoa brads, nestibilities, paper piercing mat and tool, scollop border punch.
I also made this ribbon box for Frances, just somewhere to put her little bits of ribbon.
Again I used Hero Arts - Playful Animals and the paper is from Kaiser Selection - 7 colour schemes, this is a great pack 1 sheet vellum, 3 printed and 3 plain all co-ordinated. I used craft affair flowers, label holder and brads. The ribbon is blue bayou and scollop border punch both from stampin up.

Thanks for looking
Hugs
Maryann

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Diamond Fold Basic Grey

The third Wednesday of each month I over to club with friends, this year we have been doing something different and set ourselves homework, just so that we make an effort to stamp something each month even when our life is very busy. Now Frances aka Stampowl is always stamping so she never has our problem so we usually pick something that we like from her blog. This week Gai aka Poppy chose the diamond fold card, I had already cased my diamond fold card from Frances's site several weeks earlier so I chose to make a spring card with a varation. Here are both my cards.

This is the diamond fold.

Stamps: basic grey lotus b2

Paper: dp hiedi grace designs vineyard words, green galore, lavender lace
Ink: brillance pearlescent lavender, victorian violet,bottle green,pearlescent lime
Accessories: jewels, bone folder
This is the spring card varation, you can find the instructions here.
It may not look like it but you use quite a bit of card to make this, I think I may just use this for a special occasion card.
Stamp: Inkadinkado - 97647 You Lucky Duck
Paper: DCWV - the glitter stack, Yoyo Yellow, Green Galore
Other: Nestabilities, foam dots, word window punch, bone scorer

TFL
Maryann

Sunday, March 15, 2009

Cheers to you

Just going throught my previous sketch and found this one that I made for my supervisior last year, a special birthday with a zero. It was my first attempt as using Roses in Winter from Stampin Up
Recipe:
Roses in Winter,Lots of thoughts - Stampin up
White cs, Rose Red, Nana's Nursery - DCWV
Whispers - butterscotch, Sunshine, Savoy Green, Green Leaf. Stampin Up - Purely Pommergranate ribbon, Nestabilities, brads.
TFL
Maryann

Friday, March 13, 2009

Best Things

I made this card very late last night, I was looking for a stamp to make a male card, but a came across this and since I found out my work friend had a birthday this month I just had to ink it up. My friend is always talking about her weight as we work all day with food it is hard not to be tempted with the goodies that we make.
Sorry about the quality of the photo but last night it didn't look blurry, I did not realize it was until I loaded it up today and I have already given the card away, but I think that you will get the general idea.
The sketch I used for this is from Talyor's Taylored Expressions Cupcake challenge TECC38

Recipe:
Stamps: Inkadinkado - 97648 bad or fattening
Paper: DP- GCD cupcakes, Blue Bayou, Real Red, Marigold Morning
Other: Blue Bayou ribbon, nestabilities, sml circle punch.


TFL
Maryann

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Sending Chocolate

I made this card just to add to my emergency cards, you never know when someone might need cheering up.
As it turned out my daughter is going to an eighteenth party and is giving chocolate as a present so it worked out perfect.
The sketch I used can be found at Splitcoast Stampers it is MFTSC66.
Stamps: Stampabilities - House Mouse
Paper: Chocolate chip, Brillant Blue, Soft Sky, DCWV - Brights DP.
Other: Word Window Punch, nestabilities, Chocolate chip ribbon and brads, copics, Cuttlebug houndstooth embossing folder.
TFL
Maryann