sage and eggplant

Two colours I don't use very often... Sage Shadow and Elegant Eggplant.  I thought I'd combine them in this card.  My starting point was actually a piece of the new Nouveau Chic patterned paper.  Sage Shadow is one of the colours featured heavily in those papers, which made me decide to use it along with the patterned paper...  and I think it looks great with the deep purple shade. 

Oh... and there's the medallion stamp again!  I've used a small amount of Old Olive ink in the centre of the medallion to give it a slight "two tone" effect.

holiday extravaganza promotion!

November already!  Time flies.  Some good news to kick off this new month...

From 1st November to 29th December inclusive, Stampin' Up! is offering a free small tag punch or tag punch (items 6 and 7 on page 88 of the current catalogue) worth £12.50 for each £45 you spend on specific items.  Spend £90 and qualify for both free punches!  There is no "catch"; the only requirement is that you select your products from the items shown on the leaflet above; click on the image to enlarge it or click here to visit the Stampin' Up! web-site for more information.  Other items are excluded from the promotion.

There are some brilliant items included in the promotion, including the new Circle Circus stamp set at £23.95 (useful for both card-making and scrapbooking) and the new On Board art journal books (perfect for making mini scrapbooks or for creating journal books to use as gifts).  There are some staple card-making items too, like Whisper White, Real Red and Old Olive A4 cardstock, Old Olive and Real Red 5/8" grosgrain ribbons (£6.25 each) and Bold Brights Stampin' Write marker pens (£24.95 for a set of 12)... so... if you've been thinking of buying any of these products, now is the time to do so!

I'll be posting some samples made with some of the items on the leaflet and both of the tag punches.  Meantime, please contact me (by clicking here) to place your order!  Likewise, please get in touch if you have any questions.  Thanks!

joy

Joy?  This medallion stamp brings me joy... I'm obsessed with it!  It's so versatile... I've been using it for scrapbook page backgrounds too.  

I thought I'd have a go at making some Christmas cards with it and this is the first of the batch.  The "joy" stamp is from the Perfect Presents stamp set.  There's a thick stripe of Dazzling Diamonds glitter along the left hand side of the Merry Moments patterned paper... again, I've used the new glue pen. 

If you'd like to purchase the medallion stamp, please contact me by clicking here. 

Thanks for looking!

stuff for sale

I have a few old Stampin' Up! stamp sets for sale.  You can view them on the side bar of my other blog by clicking here.  Thanks!

joy

This is the last of the batch of Christmas cards made last week using the Season of Joy stamp set and So Swirly background stamp.  To be honest, I'm not so keen on this one....  I think it is the red ink sponged around the focal stamped piece which doesn't do it for me!  I do sponge and distress everything to death, but I don't like the effect with red ink (well, not on this card, at least).

I do like the strip of Dazzling Diamonds glitter along the top of the scallop edged border, though - I used the new chisel tip glue pen to draw a line of glue and sprinkled the glitter over it.

cocoa christmas

Another Christmas card made at the same time as the other batch last week.  Again, I've used the Season of Joy stamp set and the So Swirly wheel.  The base layer was made from Close to Cocoa cardstock and the card itself was made from Naturals Ivory cardstock (my favourite!).

I've stamped the poinsettia stamp in Old Olive and cut out some extra petals to use as leaves.  The tree was coloured with markers and stamped; you can see the use of the two shades of green markers (Old Olive and Garden Green) much better in this photo. 

double layer tree

Another easy Christmas card using the Season of Joy stamp set.  I've coloured the tree with markers twice (two shades of green for the tree itself - Old Olive and Garden Green)... one tree was cut with paper snips and layered on top of the other.  I've layered the second tree slightly lower than the first tree using Dimensionals and I've covered it in Dazzling Diamonds glitter.  The Real Red base card was stamped using the So Swirly wheel stamp with versamark ink to give a scroll effect watermark... love those wheels... so quick and easy!

I've used Close to Cocoa card to mount the sentiment and the tree (both of which were stamped on Whisper White).  The patterned paper is from the Merry Moments set.

Have a good weekend!

tree trimmings

I love this new Tree Trimmings stamp set!  I finally managed to mount the stamps and use it a few days ago.  For this card, I've cut out the baubles and mounted them using Dimensionals foam pads.  The swirl on the base card was stamped with Chocolate Chip ink using the swirl stamp from the Season of Joy stamp set.  I also love the new Old Olive stripe ribbon... so glad we've got it in our new catalogue; I've been using it on quite a few of my Christmas cards.