June Bride

For this weeks CCEE Stampers Challenge Liz shared a memory from her past, A June Bride feature segment in the local paper. Our Challenge was to create a card featuring a bridal couple or a wedding cake.

Liz didn't know but this challenge was extra special for me, as I was a June Bride. Two days ago we  celebrated our 31st wedding anniversary.

For my card I have used all dies, a couple of them were new purchases at the last craft show.
Spellbinders - floral oval
Tattered Lace - Couple
Crafter's Companion - Edge'ables congratulations
Ultimate Crafts - Australiana collection ironbark branch

You can find all the other team members creations on the CCEE Stampers Blog

Thanks for Looking
Maryann

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

Everythings coming up Roses

The flower for June is the rose. There are so many varieties and colors in roses. So, Liz's challenge to you for this week is to make a card or project that makes use of a rose or a bouquet of roses. Come join us in the rose garden this week and share your creations on our CCEE Stampers link.

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For my card I have used a new die from Little B designer dies. The front panel was die cut in black card, the bottom of the die also has an embossed panel. I have used the micro fine glitter technique and copic pens to colour in theses flowers.

Thanks for looking
Maryann

Brewed Beer

My Daughter works in a craft beer brew house and one of the customers bought in his sample brew for them to try after work. This is the thank you card we designed together, I know exactly how I wanted the inside of the card to look like but the front was another matter. With Kait's great photoshop skills she created some panels for the card front.

 I have used the Karen Bruniston designed pop n cut coffee mug (from when Karen designed for Sizzix. Karen now designs for Elizabeth craft designs) and changed it into a Beer Mug.

After cutting the mug in brown card I then die cut a mug out of acetate and embossed and attached it to the card. Then cut another mug out of designer paper removing the mug and used the rest of it for a backing sheet.  The foaming bubbles and the sentiment panel were cut with Elizabeth craft design dies.


Supplies:
Sizzix - Thinlits grid works, pop n cut mug,pop n cut base plate
Elizabeth Craft Designs - Lucy Label, bathtub pop stand
words- rub ons, acetate, distressed inks. designer paper

Maryann

Rolling into the season

Hi, It is challenge day with my CCEE Stamper friends.
 Our June hostess Liz says "Summer seems to just be "rolling" right in. This week is going to be a technique challenge to use a brayer. You can google "stamping techniques using brayers" to get some fabulous ideas to try. If you don't have a brayer, try some other things that can roll on ink or paint! Be creative and have fun!"
Well it is certainly not rolling into Summer here in Australia but into Winter. I live it what is called the sunshine state as it mostly warm and sunny but this first week has seen our morning temperatures drop to 1ºC= 33.80000ºF  we never see snow but there has been some falls in the southern states.

For my card I had to dust off the brayer. It was nice to pull out a tool that I used to use a lot. I also dusted off all the other items to make this card. To make the background I used the brayer with Kaleidacolor dye ink on semi-gloss photo paper. And used some wood mounted Stampscapes rubber stamps to create this early morning scene. Making it into a birthday card with the Happy Birthday stamp.
Thanks for looking, don't forget to pop on over to CCEE Stampers Blog and follow this links to the other team member's cards.
Maryann

21 Wishes

Today's card is another request card from my Daughter, one of her friends whom she met at Tennis club while she was in school has turned twenty one. I must say this My Favorite Things a'la mode girl is one of my most used stamp sets.

For the base card I have used the rectangle pull card die designed by Karen Burniston for Elizabeth Craft designs.

 I found some designer paper with a pattern that reminded me of a tennis net so I have used that as a mat, also on the designer paper was some cupcakes so using the postage stamps die I matted one of the cakes and placed it on the left hand side.

On the inside I had another A'la mode girl with a tennis racket, and added some words die cut numbers and a key.

Maryann

CCEE1522 Get out your tools

Today is the last May challenge for hostess Joanne on CCEE Stampers.

We had to get out our tools for this one.  It was a must have something heat embossed, have some paper piercing, paper piecing, AND some type of framing on this card/project.  It should be pretty easy to get ALL these elements on one creation.  Have fun!!!

Well I don't know about fun as it was certainly a challenge to put all the elements on this card, when it came to embossing all I could think was dry embossing as it has been so long since I had heat embossed. 

Okay paper piece -  tick

paper pierce - tick

framing - tick

heat emboss it - tick

Yeah I got it all done.

The image for my card today is from the Cat's Pajamas, it is one that I have had for years, every so often I like to pull it out for some inking. The patty paper, frosting, party hats, candle, star,present have all been paper pieced. The sentiment heat embossed. The imaged has also been framed with paper piercing and a fancy frame die.

So happy to have completed this challenge
Maryann

FGM Robots

Today is project day with my friends Frances and Gai. Last month we found this cute Robot set from Stampendous at our favourite craft store The Craft Giraffe.

I found this great designer paper in my supplies that I thought would work really well so I decided to make two fun cards. 

For the first one I used the circle pull card die designed by Karen Burniston for Elizabeth Craft Designs

On the inside I attached the speech bubble on the spinner piece out of the rectangle pull card set.

On the front of my next card I used the clock face and gears set.

For the inside I used the Lucy Label pop up with the stamped images and some more die cut gears.

Supplies
Stampendous - Screwloose N Sparky stamp set
Elizabeth Craft Designs dies - Spiral circle pull, Rectangle pull, Lucy Label pop up, clock and gears.

Thanks for looking today
Maryann

Boxed Flowers

Today for our CCEE Stampers challenge we were asked to use something corrugated and fabric other than ribbon.

For Mother's day earlier this month my Daughter gave me a lovely box filled with fresh flowers. I loved looking at them everyday so much that they are the inspiration for today's card.

I started with the basic box format then added the corrugated card. The lattice work and the leaves and small flowers were made with Elizabeth Craft designs dies and the daisy flowers and bow are a My Favorite Things dies. The bow and some of the smaller flower parts are made from felt, I have used brads and pearls gems for the flower centers.

 Here is the boxed folded to fit in the envelope for postage.

I have seen several different tutorials of creating a popup boxes they all work with the same princpal, here is a link to one that I found very good.
http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/popupboxcard/

Hope you are having a good day and enjoying the CCEE  Challenges.
Maryann

Autumn Standup

We are half way through our last month of Autumn here in Australia and they days are just glorious. Beautiful sunny days with blue cloudless skies and moderate temperatures 8-24 degrees Celsius.

This is a Autumn themed card using orange and brown colours. I have used the Stamps of Life stand up die for my base card and the coordinating framelits.

The butterfly is a glittered overlay and a shimmer sheetz base and the lace is a black sticker all from Elizabeth Craft Designs.

Maryann