Classy and Fabulous

I am always on the lookout for stamps that make great cards suitable for young adults. I couldn't believe my luck when this stamp came free with the docrafts creativity magazine, in fact the set contained 8 free stamps. The text is also new and will go with a lot of my other stamps it is from Art Impressions girlfriends range.

Card Challenge: C4C164 - Put a bow on it

Supplies:
Stamps: Papermania strictly party stamps, Artimpressions
Paper: DCWV citrus stack, cream base card
Other: cuttlebug embossing folder, nestabilities, ribbon, button, copic pens, MFT crown border die-namic

Baby Bear

For today's card I used Alota Rubber Stamps sketch 95 for the layout inspiration. This image is one of my favorites for creating baby cards, it is wood mounted fern gully stamp made in Australia, I have had it for some time. The ribbon is from my supplies I have also had it for years and it was still brand new. The little embossed pieces are so cute.

Thanks for looking
Maryann

Imogen Birthday girl

I needed a card for a little girl who had just turned 2 and is having a rainbow party. I hope she likes this. I have used the cherry lynn flourish and MFT PI stamp and some very bright card and ribbon.

Celebrate being sporty

This is Easel card that doubles as a gift card holder made for a young man. I don't have many suitable young male stamps so I have a few 3D layered images. You may wonder where is the gift card, well it was bright yellow and it certainly did not match the colour scheme, so I made an insert and taped the card to the back.

Faux pressed flowers

This card was inspired by a new technique that I found on Splitcoast stampers called Faux pressed flowers. In the tutorial they have used stamps and paper flowers but all the items I have used on the centre card have been die cut, glued in place and the whole card is then embossed using a folder. This gives it a very interesting look, I will be sure to try out some other folders to see how they turn out.

 

Supplies

MFT die-namics, cherry lynn flourish, Nellie Snellen die, cuttlebug embossing folder, ribbon, designer paper, cream and pink card stock.

Sponged Dye leaves

I had some supplies still on my table from a card I made last month. This card is created with masking, sponged dye ink and assorted leaf images.

Have a great day
Maryann

Black and gold cheers

This card was created for a Goddess Party, while this isn't a goddess stamp I don't think you can go wrong using a MFT A'la mode stamp.

I tried something new for this card I wanted to use  nestabling. Nestabling is self adhesive bling desgined to coordinate with spellbinder nestabilities.The image is better suited to a round die but I only had gold nestabling in oval so I stamped the image and cut around the legs and positioned the oval nestability die so that it would cut off the legs. The dress and the shoes were coloured with twinkletts glitter pen the colour matched perfectly with DCWV glitter card.

 

This is also the first time I have used two ribbons for the bow it is so easy to make bows using a bow maker. The cream designer paper is from chatter box artsy.licious collection

 

Thanks for looking

 

Paint Chip Gift Card Holder

My daughter's friend just got married this is what I made to hold the gift card. The young couple just purchased a house, my daughter came home from the hardware store with a gift card, a paint brush and some sample paint chips and asked Mum can you make something with this here is what I came up with.

 I cut the large paint chip samples smaller keeping the paint names in the corner and layered them along with spellbinder die hearts and punched letters.

 I scored the card to make a folder and attached the paint brush so it wouldn't fall out. Then using a black panel with punched edges I created a pocket for the gift card. And finished it off with a bow.

Supplies
Spellbinders heart die, letter punches; paint chip samples,Martha stewart punches, ribbon, DCWV card.

Here comes the bride

This card was made for a bridal shower, in the same colours that will be in the bridal party. I used MFT die-namics perfect petal trio and cut each flower out twice, I sponged the edges, scrunched each petal several times then attached the brad in the centre and crinkled each layer. This has to be the easiest way to make paper flowers.

Supplies:

Stamps: Stampin up

Paper: DCWV green and Stampin up very vanilla

Other: sizzlits little leaves, MFT Die-namic, Fiskars border punch,grosgrain ribbon, brad, adirondack ink juniper, nestabilities oval & lacey oval.

Sweet Petals

We have had a busy time here creating, my daughter who is studying marketing had a group assignment where they had to create an item and a marketing campaign and sell their item at market day. The group decided  they liked the idea for the cuppa chup flowers that I had found on line but also wanted to use chocolate hearts for those who don't like lollies. They liked the sample I created using a Martha Stewart border punch, scor pal and hot glue.

 I donated the paper and tools and the group had a workshop to create 170 sweet petals which were a great sucess at market day.