Simon Says Stamp CASE...

Hey,

Hope you had a nice weekend. I had a very relaxing one.

I really wanted to make cards for my July card swap. I usually turn to my Simon Says Stamp cardkit when making the cards for card swap.

I think I choose the kits because when I can make anything I want my stash can be a bit daunting!! So I look for inspiration with the kits and get to pull in other items..

This time, I saw this great idea on the inspiration sheet -

It's by Debby Hughes - I love her work..

My stitched circle dies arrived recently, so I was totally able to do something similar.

I used papers from the kit, a sentiment stamp and the smile die. The little starburst stamp is from another SSS stamp set - sorry I forget which one, as this handy little stamp permanently lives on my desk :)

These cards are so bright and cheery - thanks to Debby for inspiring my July swaps.

Cx

May Card Swap...

Hey,

Happy Friday!

Only 2 weeks and Ma will be here - crazy!

I thought I'd welcome you to May, by showing you my May Card Swap cards. I am part of a small card swap group organised by Super Stamp Girl. It's fun, I get to play and make multiples of things.

I decided to use some NBUS - Lawn Fawn I wheelie like you dies and stamps. After the cutting and stamping I coloured the Gerbil/Hamster with Promarkers.

I found some blue card blanks and cut a white MFT stitched rounded rectangle from white card stock.

I stamped 2 rows of hearts, the stamp is only 4 hearts long, so I had to stamp over a heart here and there, I like the random effect.

To finish the card, I mounted the gerbil/hamster and the wheel and stamped the sentiment under the hearts.

So fun, so sweet, I love them and feel a bit inspired by Jenn Shurkus.

Have a great weekend. If you need me I'll either be at my desk or on the sofa with Hubby.

Cx

Friendship has it's perks...

Hey,

Happy Friday.

So I was digging around for some inspiration for April card swap and I decided to pull out one of my Simon Says Stamp card kits.

They are great to work with and I am really enjoying using them - great investment!

I chose to use the October Stamp Kit -

You can go here and see all the fabulous cards people made...mine is there too.

I've used this kit quite a bit and there aren't many papers left ;(

The little mug die is one of my faves!

I decided to use the 'Friendship has it's perks' sentiment and based my card around that.

From the kit I used a pretty patterned paper that has foxes on it, the sentiment stamp, the die and the steam stamp. I also used navy blue paper and a glittery blue scrap from my stash.

I decided to heat emboss the sentiment using white ink and detail embossing powder, I like the almost opaque feel to it.

I'm pretty pleased with the way this turned out and it now has 4 friends to match and is sitting in the card swap box next to March :)

I've decided to enter it into this weeks Simon Says Stamp Weds Challenge - anything goes - seems fitting as it's all SSS loveliness.

Have a great weekend.

Cx

2015 Card Swap...

Hey,

I am part of a Card Swap group here in NYC, via  a great lady that I met here in blogland.

I have been having fun making the cards for this year. I got a jump start, as I had some time just before Christmas and after.

I have 3 months ready to go.

The main photo today uses a great stamp set that I got a few months ago in the sale at Paper Presentation. I stamped and coloured her on white stock, which I then die cut using a fancy label die. I used 3 different papers - all by American Crafts. I printed the sentiment on my computer and punched it out using a Stampin' Up label punch.

I think it's cute and I like the fact her dress matches the blue strip of paper.

The card above was so much fun to make. I die-cut a white rectangle for my backing paper using a stitched rectangle die by SSS, then I inked up my new Hexagon stamp (Hero Arts), I used Mustard Seed distress ink..I wanted it to be a bit patchy. I added a strip of black paper and a strip of black gems - I only did this because the black paper found it's way onto my card overnight?! The be happy stamp is from a set I have and the bee embellishment was a $20 challenge gift from JT.

I love the patchy feel to the Hexagon stamp - adding the bling makes the card feel quite special.

My final card uses the December SSS Card Kit -

This card is so simple and feels really calm! The backing paper is by Recollections, so are the square blue blingy things! The blue paper and the stamps are by SSS. I used blue ink, so despite the hearts this card feels kind of masculine..

I love card swap it's so much fun to play with random parts of my stash.

Oh and throughout I have been using American Craft coloured card blanks.

Cx

WOYWW #286 - Almost time for Turkey...

Hey everyone,

Happy WOYWW to everyone, I missed last week, as I worked a bejillion hours on Mon/Tues, went home passed out and went back to work...

Anyway, enough of me banging on about that - it's fun to be playing along with Julia and the gang over at her blog Stamping Ground, for the weekly desk nose.

My desk is quite funny this week - everything I am working on seems to be to the left of my craft mat?! There is a random card on my mat along with my mouse and that is it! Funny thing is I really don't remember leaving my desk like this?!

As always here is a card for you -

This is one of x5 identical cards for the card swap group I am in, thanks SSG. I really like them and they are based loosely on my bee card from a couple of weeks ago. The yellow background behind the stamp was done using Gelatos and an Aquabrush.

For those of you in the US, heading out for the Thanksgiving holiday, have a safe journey and a happy holiday with your families. Hubby and I are heading to Atlantic City for some crazy fun!

Cx

4 More to go...

Hey,

So yesterday was a great day for me - stupid busy at work, but I got a surprise induction into the 100% club - which recognises employees that give 100% all of the time. It made me feel all fluffy!!

The post title refers to the fact that I am only 4 posts away from this years goal of 200 posts!!! How on earth did that happen, it makes me so happy.

Today's card is one I made for the card swap that I do here in the US with a group of fellow crafters organised by SuperStampGirl - whom I met via WOYWW.

I re-purposed a previous idea, as I really enjoyed making it and thought that it would be great to do it again with a different colour palette.

Here I used a Recollections patterned card base, corrugated card for the heart, Bo Bunny graphic stamps, sequins, bling, Woodware heart punches and a Hero Arts sentiment stamp.

Cx