Partridge & Pears & Blendabilities

I think I'll always love to colour in, childhood pastimes or new mediums to play with, it will always be a favourite thing of mine.

The images on these cards have not been stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black, But with Stampin' Up! Soft Suede and Baked Brown Sugar, these inks are water based and will not bleed with Blendabilities (Alcohol Markers).

This card was inspired by a card I seen by Tanja Kolar. It was simple yet beautiful.

Stamp set: Partridge & Pears.
Card Stock: Naturals Ivory & Whisper White
Ink: Soft Suede
Blendabilities: Crumb Cake, Old Olive, Daffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie,  Bronze, Natural & Colour Lifter.
Textured Embossing Folder: Filigree Frame
Extras: Gold Glitter & Gold Baker's Twine.

Here you can see a bit of the gold glitter on the fruit.

I wanted to do something a little different with this one and I think the soft pink with the other colours reminds me of a fairy tale/fantasy kind of Christmas... but that was not intentional, it's just how it turned out.

Stamp set: Partridge & Pears.
Card Stock: Blushing Bride & Whisper White
Ink:  Baked Brown Sugar, Pear Pizzazz, Daffodil Delight, Blushing Bride & Crisp Cantaloupe.
Blendabilities: Crumb Cake, Old Olive, Daffodil Delight, Calypso Coral, Blush,  Bronze, Natural, Ivory & Colour Lifter.
Framelits: Circles
Extras: Gold Sequins, Gold Baker's Twine, White Taffeta Ribbon & Venetian Crochet Trim.

Nothing else seemed to be working with this card, so I just layered several pretty ribbons in coordinating colours, added a greeting on a banner curved with the bone folder & popped up with dimesionals.

I softly sponged the background of this stamp with similar colours to that which I have coloured it in with, that way the colours wouldn't clash if I happened to be too heavy handed with sponging straight over the top of the image.
I also cut the partridge out and popped it up on dimensionals too.

Screen Card- with Holiday Home Blendabilties & sponging the seasons

I hadn't made one of these screen card before, but discovered it was a great card for practicing sponging techniques & Blendabilities. All sun and moon masks were made with post-it notes and 1 1/4" Circle punch.

All the ground (grass/hills) were made with acetate, cut into a wavy shape. The clouds in the wintery night scene were also made with acetate, just cut into a scallop cloud shape. The autumn cloud was made with the Cupcake builder punch. All houses were stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black, and coloured with Belndabilities.

Stamp sets: Holiday Home
Card stock: Naturals White, Basic Black & Whisper White.
Punches: Decorative Label, 1 1/4" Circle & Cupcake Builder.
Framelits: Holiday Home (+scissors).

Sponged Ink: Melon Mambo, Calypso Coral, Pumpkin Pie, Daffodil Delight, Old Olive & Bermuda Bay.
Stampin' Write Markers: Chocolate Chip & Always Artichoke.
Blendabilities: Calypso Coral, Melon Mambo, Crumb Cake, Pumpkin Pie, Night of Navy & Colour Lifter.
+ White Chalk  Pen

Sponged Ink: Daffodil Delight, So Saffron, Soft Sky, Marina Mist, Smokey Slate & Pear Pizzazz.
Stamin' Write Markers: So Saffron, Pumpkin Pie, Calypso Coral, Crumb Cake & Baked Brown Sugar.
Blendabilities: Calypso Coral, Pumpkin Pie, Night of Navy & Colour Lifter.
+ White Chalk Pen

Sponged Ink: Soft Sky, Marina Mist, Night of Navy, Smoky Slate & Mossy Meadow.
Stamped: Early Espresso
Blendabilities: Night of Navy, Daffodil Delight, Smoky Slate & Colour lifter
+ White Chalk Pen

Sponged Ink: Soft Sky, Pool Party, Coastal Cabana, So Saffron, Daffodil Delight, Crushed Curry, Wild Wasabi & Garden Green.
Stampin' Write Markers: Chocolate Chip & Old Olive.
Blendabilities: Coastal Cabana, Daffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie, Marina Mist & Colour Lifter
+ White Chalk Pen

Workshop Projects - Slider & Card in a Box

Once a year for the last few years Shari, and I have gone down to Melbourne, to do a class with a friend of a friend's crafting church group. We split the group in two and Shari done her project with half the group while I done my project with the other half, then we swapped.  Here are some prizes and projects for the day.

Door Prizes.

Slider card. This was my project.
I've done this card in a few workshops now, & it's always a good one to do, because it's nice & easy.

Stamp sets: Endless Wishes
Card stock: Pear Pizzazz, Whisper White & All is Calm dsp.
Ink: Pear Pizzazz & Versa Mark.
Framelits: Labels Collection.
Extras: Piercing tool/matt, All is Calm Washi Tape,  All is Calm Sequins & Gold Embossing  Powder.
Ribbon: Pear Pizzazz Taffeta & Gold Sequin.

Not that you can tell from the photo, but I have stamped off some of the Pear Pizzazz ink when stamping some of the images to achieve different shades of green.

Slider Card Instructions!

 Shari's Project was the card in the box.... which I didn't take a photo of (yet). It was such a lovely card, it looked like a red front door with a christmas wreath on it when closed and when opened it had three little punch-art angels inside, singing "Glory to the newborn king" ( well not really, but that's the impression). Anway.... It was gorgeous. Like I said, I don't have photo of Shari's card-in-a-box, but I did make a sample while testing out her instructions for her (because she changed the measurements). So this is it - even though my card looks nothing like Shari's.

Stamp set: Holiday home
Card stock: Baked Brown sugar, Garden Green, Soft Sky & Nordic Noel dsp.
Ink: Black Stazon, Garden Green, White Craft, Baked Brown Sugar, Real Red, Calypso Coral & Soft Sky.
Framelits: Holiday Home.
Punches: Word Window
Techniques: Watercolouring
Extras: Real Red Ribbon.

Pop-up Present Card & Box-in-a-Bag

When we were invited to my sister in-law Carolyn's, 30th I got stuck for ideas. Till I discovered the pop-up present card. I thought Turning 30 is a nice round number, so I thought why not make a box-a-bag in matching paper & fill it with 30 Fredo Frogs.

Flirtatious Specialty designer series paper, Creative Elements stamp set, Scallop Trim Border Punch,  Decorative Label Punch, Sm & Lg Tag Punches, Wisteria Wonder & Concord Crush.

White Taffeta Ribbon in a double bow & Rhinestone Jewel on the butterfly.

Pop-up presents inside the card.

Some other attempts at making Carolyn's birthday card, with the advice my daughter gave me, that Carolyn likes purple, frogs & butterflies.
This card is made with inspiration from Paula Dobson's fabulous sponging technique.
All a Flutter & Inspired by Nature.

All a Flutter, Nature Walk, Clearly for you & French Foliage.

The butterflies have a little touch of White Frost Shimmer Paint added to the wings.

Perfectly Penned, Strength & Hope, Lace Ribbon Border Punch, Dazzling Diamonds Glitter, Rich Razzleberry.

I've added glitter to the White Embossing Powder for a sparkling emboss & resist technique.
Stripes Textured Embossing Folder.