Season of Chic meets Go To Greetings

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and  thank you for joining me today!

Happy Birthday to Sima & Lindsey

This is my first go at using the season of chic suite, so to make it easier for myself I copied a card I liked from pinterest, which was originally created by 'stampingwithmelodie', I also changed the size to metric, like melodie I did both a green and a gray card. 

Materials required for this card are:

Card Stock: evening evergreen, gray granite, petal pink, soft succulent, whisper white

Designer Series Paper: distressed gold paper, texture chic

Dies: chic

Ink: evening evergreen, petal pink, soft succulent, 

Stamp Sets: go to greetings, season of chic

Accessories: *genial gems, stamparatus

 

* = no longer available

1. Base card 14.5 x 21 scored at 10.5, dsp 8.5 x10.5, sentiment 2.5 x 10.5
2. stamp the  front of the base card using the splodge stamp
3. using the stamparatus stamp the flowers and leaves (2 step stamping)
4. stamp the sentiment
5. die cut all flowers, leaves and gold background
6. adhere the dsp and background to the base card using liquid glue
7. adhere the flowers and leave's under the sentiment using liquid glue
8. Attach the sentiment & top flowers using dimensionals
9. adhere gems to flowers.

Hope you liked today's card. If you would like more information on how to make it, please don't hesitate to contact me, I'd love to hear from you.

If you wish to buy any of the items used, go to contacting me at the top of the page for details on how to order.

Will be back again soon with more cards, in the meantime take care and have a great day.

Annette 😘

A Good Man and more

Hello and welcome to my haven in a hectic world!

Thank you for joining me today!

My friend Donna came over yesterday and firstly we went for a beautiful ploughman's lunch at a local cafe, which is situated in what used to be our local library. I must admit, we could eat out every day of the week in a different establishment without going to the same place twice. What's even better is we'd never walk further than 5 minutes away from home. When we got back she wanted to make a card for her son and after looking on Pinterest she decided on this one. Once the card was finished she was very happy with what she'd created. 

It was then a cup of camomile tea and my darling hubby took her home.

Materials required for this card are:

Card stock: *blueberry bushel, whisper white

Ink: gray granite, memento black, night of navy, seaside spray

Stampin' blends: balmy blue, ivory, petal pink, *pineapple punch, poppy parade, night of navy

Stamp sets: a good man, *perennial birthday, *varied vases, well said

Accessories: Stamparatus

* = retired

Hope you liked today's card. If you would like more information on how to make it, please don't hesitate to contact me, I'd love to hear from you.

If you wish to buy any of the items used, go to contacting me at the top of the page for details on how to order.

Will be back again soon with more cards, in the meantime take care and have a great day.

Annette 😘 

Nature's Thoughts meets painted Labels and more

Hello and welcome to my haven in a hectic world, it's so nice of you to pop by.

We still can't go out for Sunday dinner so here's another card for Sue and her family (between them they cook and deliver our lovely dinner every week).

It's a clean and crisp card today

 Last Sunday I had a lovely picture drawn on the box holding our dinners, which made me smile, should have taken a photo of it but didn't think about it until now.

(cs) = card stock, (ef) = embossing folder, (r) = retired, (su) = stampin' up

Today I'm using a (su) note cards, mint macaron, night of navy, pear pizzazz, (r) pineapple punch and whisper white (cs), night of navy, smoky slate ink,  polka dot tulle ribbon.

•  To do the sentiment I used my stamparatus.
• with a larger piece of whisper white (cs) than you need,  die cut the scalloped circle from the painted labels dies.
• put the scalloped circle to one side for the moment and work with the negative piece.
• position the sentiment  from the (r) oh so eclectic (ss) in your stamparatus and stamp onto the grid paper. 
• position the negative over the sentiment making sure it's in the middle and hold in place with your magnets.
• place the scalloped circle over the sentiment (you may need to use re-positionable tape to keep it place) and then stamp the sentiment a second time.
• Remove from stamparatus.
• With whisper white (cs) stamp the feather from the positive thought's (ss) in smoky slate.
• Now die cut the following using the nature's thoughts dies
• night of navy butterfly
• mint macaron & pear pizza leaves
• pineapple punch & whisper white blooms
• Stamped feather
• with the painted labels dies and pineapple punch (cs) die cut the large swirled circle.
• Emboss the front of the note card using the bricks n mortar (ef) and lightly sponge it using smoky slate ink.
• zig zag some of the polka dot tulle ribbon across the back of the swirled circle and attach using double sided tape.
• adhere this to the (cb) using liquid glue.
• attach the sentiment using dimensional pads.
• adhere the feather, leaves, butterfly and white bloom using liquid glue.
• attach the pineapple punch bloom using dimesional pads.
• add a basic rhinestone to the butterfly.

If you wish to buy any of the items used, go to contact me at the top of the page for details on how to order.

Will be back again soon with more cards, enjoy the rest of your day.
Annette X

Eclectic Expressions meets Little Letters

The card for today very simple and bright, using the Stamparatus and hinge method.

I made it for last year and lost it hence the fact some of it's retired product, but having looked in the current catalogue there are plenty alternative stamps and dies.

Happy Birthday Dad!

Measurements are in centimetres, (cs) = card stock, (r) = retired, (ss) = stamp set

Card base whisper white 14.85 x 21 scored at 10.5,  2 pieces of grapefruit grove 10 x 14.3 (1st layer) & 2 x 2.5 (letter A), whisper white 9.5 x 13.8 (2nd layer), night of navy 4 x 2.5 (letter D twice).

Colours are: grapefruit grove, night of navy, whisper white

1. Place the 2nd layer (cs) in the top right corner of the stamparatus and position the splodge from the (r) eclectic expressions (ss) in line with the first hinge and stamp in grapefruit grove, come down a hinge and stamp again, miss the next hinge and then stamp again for the next 2 hinges, you now have 4 splodge's evenly spaced.
2. Now flip the plate and position the sentiment over the splodge and stamp in night of navy over each of the splodge's.
3.  Die cut the A in grapefruit grove (cs), and the D twice in night of navy (cs) using the (r) little letter dies.
4. Attach the letters to form the DAD using small dimensional pads cut it half.
5. Adhere the (r) night of navy satin ribbon down the left hand side (I use sellotape at the back of the layer to do this), then do the same with the grapefruit grove grosgrain ribbon then with a strip of the grapefruit grove ribbon about 6cm long, wrap it around the attached piece and tie in a knot to create a bow, trim the ends so they are about equal at both ends.
6. Attach the 2nd layer to the 1st layer using dimensional pads
7. Now adhere the 1st layer to the card base using liquid glue.

Hope you enjoyed this card.

Will be back again soon with more cards
Annette X