I have another design team contribution for Addicted to stamps and more and this time the challenge is ‘any occasion’.
I made a series of hello cards having a play session with gelatos and this is one of the cards I made.
Once I had added the colour to the background I added stamping using Paperartsy stamps and then grabbed bits and pieces from the desk to add the focal piece … old olive ribbon, linen lacy trim, a stamped berry and leaf twig and paper twine. I stamped and die cut the sentiment and then added the gems to finish off!
Love the earthy colour to this and the pops of bright yellow and lime.
Off to see what the rest of the design team have been up to making for this too.
So at the start of the year I thought I would do one sheet wonders all year for the Craftyhazelnuts patterned paper challenge but this month I didn’t fancy it and instead grabbed what was left of a piece of dsp from a project I made a while ago and created four cards using just 1 panel of dsp for each.
The paper I used was the expressions in Ink dsp in the Pale Papaya pattern. Love this paper so much and with the gold elements in it, it really doesn’t need much else to make it special. But I then grabbed some of the shimmer vellum in soft succulent and pale Papaya to add some more shimmer.
I decided to punch the jar out of the soft succulent and create 4 flower arrangements. Two I did using the Jar of Flowers rose stamps and the other two using the Berry Blessings stamps where I turned the berries into ‘peaches’? Well they look fab regardless of how real they are! 😆
I added some bakers twine to each jar and two of the jars I added some foam behind them to give them dimension.
I added sentiments from the Sweet Strawberry stamps set and then used the banner punch for the ends.
I also added some of the glitter gems in gold to go with the gold bits in the dsp.
A fab set of little cards … sorry I didn’t stick to the OSW idea I had but sometimes you just have to go with the flow of what you fancy creating!
For today’s Stampin Up Sunday I added to the Ladybird Book Journal with a page which documents Maya Blackberry picking… and in turn my memories of blackberry picking with my grandad.
Of course I had to use the Berry Delightful dsp and the Berry Blessings stamps… I mean it was the perfect reason to use them!
I created a flip page and also added a slot for the hidden journalling.
I teamed the Berry Delightful papers with the Oh So Ombre papers as the colour match is perfect.
Love how this came together. Feel like I might need to raid the sticker stash for a few finishing touches, but this is how I’ve left it for now.
Tomorrow is Mothers day here in the UK (it’s also my daughters birthday so going to delay celebrating it for me by a week!) and so today I am sharing the card I made for my Mum.
Now I actually made this in January following a tutorial Sue Boothby did with us on a craftalong zoom session with my SU teamies.
She also used the Berry Delightful dsp but chose to use the Snail Mail stamps … I kept to the Berry theme for mine however as my parents surname is Berry so it seemed apt!
It was a complex card to make with all the panels and layers and mine didn’t quite work perfectly (I am rubbish at following instructions) but I made it work!
So there were panels and cards going backwards and forwards… its sort of difficult to explain so hope you get the idea from the pictures!
I just love the fresh look of these papers and the card was so special it had to be turned into a Mothers Day card for my Mum.
Hope those of you who are celebrating mothering Sunday tomorrow have a wonderful day.
This week for Tag Thursday I actually turned the two tags I made into cards. I played with some dsp I had cut into for another project and left over Pear Pizazz card I had on the desk.
I started with this little tag and a scrap of the dsp with a bit of fussy cutting and layering (the bottom berry is layered up with a dimensional.
The sentiment I had to ink a bit at a time to get it to fit but I think it still looks great.
The second tag is a bit bigger and I went for a horizontal layout.
Again fussy cutting the berries and using the reverse for the main background panel.
I decided these would make great toppers for cards and that the reverse paper with all the berries would make a fun background.
The first one I added the doodle lines like on the tag, the second one I added one more berry as it needed it for balancing the layout.
Hi lovelies… hope you are well this Sunday morning. I am fine, may have consumed a little more wine last night than strictly wise, but after a face mask this morning I at least look hunan again!
This morning I am contemplating exercise…. I think the hubby has popped for a walk after his trip to the tip this morning to dispose of excess boxes from our house. We are doing a step challenge again this weekend so I think he is trying to compete with the fact I was several thousand steps ahead at the end of yesterday… I don’t mind if he wins this weekend… if it means he actually got off his bum for a while and did a bit of exercise! So maybe I will sit and drink my coffee and not do a little workout whilst he is out? Decisions, decisions!
This afternoon the teenager and I are going to watch Anola Holmes. She’s already seen it but I want to watch it to, so a bit of a blanket session on the couch is planned, before hubby then gets the couch and TV for some football match… I think at that point crafting may happen! Talking of which…
Today I have three ATCs I made yesterday for the UK stampers forum swap using the fab Saleabration Berry Blessinga stamp set.
The theme of the swap was the blues and it had to be using shades of blue with black and white.
I chose to coat the ATCs cut from packaging with some Baltic Blue paperartsy chalk acrylic paint and then dragged the Mermaid colour over the top using a fan brush. Once it had dried I did a bit of stamping in a bright turquoise ink over the top but it didn’t show up very well.
Next I took pieces of scrap fabric and stapled them together with blue staples. I also had some blue and white twine I added into the mix.
I then stamped and cut out three sprigs with blueberries from the stamp set, just using the shading stamps and Night of Navy ink.
I added these on top of the fabric to create a cluster and adhered it to the ATC background.
Next I stamped from the Itty Bitty Sentiments set the little sentiment panels and added ink to the edges and a glossy accents top to give them dimension.
Finally I grabbed some gems from the stash to add to the background.
Love how these turned out… a really enjoyable play with blues!
Saying howdy always reminds me of my friend Julie who I used to work with… miss her loads.
Anyways … today’s slice of life is …
The Serpent… who has watched this on the BBC, and how addictive is it? My word, not sure I will sleep until I get to the end… wow!
And in other non TV news:
1) the hair is back to being brown, the teenager did a great job of helping me dye it.
2) I exercised a bit last night, back to being knackered again tonight but going to push myself to do a bit more tonight.
3) my friend Michelle has got me all motivated to lose weight so I am tracking all food again.
Now onto the crafting.
Today I have a long YouTube video to share from the weekend as I ended up doing a One Sheet Wonder using the Berry Delightful dso and the Berry Blessings stamps. It was lots of fun… but even speeding loads of the process up it was over an hour long. Well I know some people find watching the long videos relaxing… but I really need to learn how to do a quick project! 🤣🤣🤣
So here is the template I used for cutting the 6×6 piece of paper …
And here is what I made…
Loved playing with the stamp set and this gorgeous paper…
In fact after I gave up filming I also decorated the inside of the cards with strips of paper …
And the envelopes I added the paper to the flap and stamped on the fronts…
… once I had done that it felt like the project was properly finished. Eight cards and envelopes beautifully decorated!
Love these freebies from Saleabration and looking forward to playing with them again!
Inkyfingeredcat 