Getting ready for Christmas (Already!)

These are the Christmas Cards I have started making.  I made them using the set Jolly Bingo Bits.  I will post a close up soon!

Happy 16th Birthday!

A very Happy 16th Birthday to my twin neices!  I can't believe it, they can start learning how to drive-amazing.   As I think I have mentioned, my nieces have always been- one pink and one blue, and they still don't deviate from it much.  It's the colour of their clothes, their rooms- everything.

I made these cards out of a new stamp set we got at the Stampin' Up! Convention.  It will be out in September, it's called: Memorable Moments.

Happy Easter with Nature Walk

Wishing everyone a very Happy Easter.  On Good Friday, I had my family over for a 'Family Funday Good Friday Garden Clean up Day'.  I have started doing it every Good Friday and it ends up being a lot of fun.  We acheived a lot and the place looks great.

Easter Cards are a little tricky as you need to send them out before the solemn day of Good Friday.  I sent this card out last week.  It is a very close copy of a lady that I saw on You Tube a year ago, so I don't know her name.  It uses a lovely stamp set called Nature Walk (for the eggs) and a retired stamp called Sanded and the Happy Easter is from Teeny Tiny Sentiments.  To get the eggs different colours, I used the Stamp'n'Write markers- I coloured-in the stamp then breathed on it before stamping it.  It seems strange to see it, but breathing on it re-activates the ink!

Again, Happy Easter,

Ness xx

Party This Way

I have had the Party This Way stamp set for ages, but mainly only used the greeting of 'Happy Birthday'.   I got this set out the other day and had a play with it.  This set looks great in bright colours.  All I did was stamp the ballons and then drew a 'string' with a Stamp'n'Write Marker.  It took me about 5 mins to make and I think it looks really effective.

Ness xx

More Fresh Vintage

Here are two other cards we made on Sunday at the cardmaking day that I held at my house.  I decided to use the Fresh Vintage stamp set again, but only using 'In Colors'.  The 'In Colors' are colours that only hang around for 2 years and then they are gone forever!  The colours are ones that I would not normally use- it's taken me months to use the Calypso Coral!  I also got to use my new postage punch, which I love.

I did a new 'thing' with the ribbon.  I put 'sticky strip' on the ribon itself and then folded it together, then laid out some more sticky strip to attach it to the card.  Normal tape will not hold it.  I put the cardstock through the Big Shot using the Square Lattice Textrured Impressions Embossing Folders.  Here are close ups of the 2 cards.

Fresh Vintage

Fresh Vintage is a beautiful Stamp set that is free when you spend $100 on Stampin'Up! products.  The special only lasts 'til the end of this month, so let me know if you'd like to put an order in. 

For this card, I used one of my favourtite colours- Concord Crush, as I think it is so striking against the white.  The greeting is from a staple stamp set called Sincere salutations.  I used the oval punch for the greeting and punched out 2 ovals in the concord Crush which I used to mat the greeting.  We had a lot of fun making these in all sorts of colours at the cardmaking day at my house on Sunday.

Scrapbooking with Stampin'Up!

As you may already know, scrapbooking was my first love (and you never really get over your first love!).  I went on a scrapbooking weekend last weekend and had the best time- staying awake 'til 2am!  Who knew people would get such joy out of scrapbooking for 3 days and nights!

I wanted to show you how I use my Stampin'Up! supplies in my scrapbooking.  On this weekend I used the Stampin'Up! punches a lot as they are great for using up your scraps.