September House of Cards Challenge

Its been a great summer but we now have the feel of Autumn. Our DT challenge at House of Cards is the following photo inspiration! I love these autumnal colours!

So I decided to use my Stampin Up "Work of Art" stamp set and stamp a simple panel in these colours:-
Cajun Craze, Tangerine Tango, Early Espresso, Always Artichoke and Pear Pizzazz. Ive stamped the sentiment using a Winnie&Walter sentiment. I then heat embossed gold leaves using Stampin Up's French Foliage. Finished off with a tiny tag and gold thread.

Stamps & Fun = Creativity

This week our DT challenge is to make something with the theme "Butterflies". I have lots of stamps and dies to choose from, they just never go out of fashion! I decided to make a flip card using a Stampin Up die, stamp set and some patterned paper that needing using up. Banner sentiment is from Clearly Besotted. Colours are Crumb cake, Always Artichoke and Baja Breeze.

By The Sea

Its been a while since I showed a scrapbook page! This layout uses papers from the Graphic 45 By the Sea collection. This is a picture of my husband and his sister taken some time ago! I stamped the background. The kit has  a large piece of hessian fabric which can be die cut to make flowers although I decided to simply use it as a strip along the bottom edge. I used a circle cutter to cut out the larger circles and punches for the small ones. You can use dinner plates instead. I used the threads in the hessian to wrap around the button. Lots of inking. the kit comes with an inking tool as well. I added gold glitter to the shells and to replicate sand just beneath the cut out of the children. 

Stamps + Fun = Creativity

Back again with our SFC challenge....to make a card using this sketch!

I rarely make anything that looks like the original sketch but you can see similarity with my card?!
Tag made with Stampin Up tag topper punch, flower die from Simon Says Stamp, leaves cut from coloured cork.

52 Christmas Card Throwdown

This week the challenge is to make a card using an old sketch. Delving into the archives I decided on this one from May 2013

I used spellbinder dies to cut the cream and brown centrepiece and used a cheap nasty stamp from a magazine.....the quality is so bad when you stamp with it! Anyway, I coloured in with markers and mounted onto cardstock with a couple of old Stampin Up paper scraps. I'm determined to use this pack of paper up before this Christmas! A gold thread bow and sentiment to finish.

Stamps + Fun = Creativity

After the summer break we are back with our challenges at SFC! For our first week of September we have "Three Layers of Paper".

This card uses papers from a paper stack thats lost the cover so I don't know the name, plus I just had to use my new die from Papertrey Ink. Plus a punched arrow from balsa wood (thank you Lorraine!)

A selection of cards....

My lovely funny friend Lorraine came over last week and we made some cards together. Always a laugh!

Here they are, nice and simple:-