Sam's Pirate Birthday Invitation

As promised I have Sam's birthday invitation to show you today. I let Sam choose the colours for his invitation and much to my delight he chose marina mist and wild wasabi. I am loving both of these colours, they are so clean and crisp when teamed with white. Here is the invitation. I knew I wanted to make a pull out invitation so started off by making the cover. I stamped the treasure chest and pirate on scrap card and coloured them with my blender pen and markers before attaching. I ended up printing off the invitation in matching colours and attached these pieces to a piece of marina mist card and placed the pirate on top of that. You just pull on the pirate and the invitation piece comes out.

Here is a picture of the cover.

I was really pleased with how they turned out and Sam loved them. I have made a pirate cake today and just have to ice it tomorrow and make some goodie bags (oh and I guess I should make him a card!).

We have a whole weekend of celebrations planned so I will be back next week to share the goodie bags, cake and card.

Keep on creating.

xx Nicky

Supplies:

Stamps: Ahoy matey (retired)
Card: Marina mist, wild wasabi, whisper white
Ink: Marina mist, wild wasabi

Other: blender pen

Pirate # 1

Sam had to go to a pirate party for one of his friends last week. It must be a popular theme for 5 year old boys from his daycare because when given the choice of cowboy, superhero or pirate for his party which is on Saturday, he chose Pirate. I was overjoyed as I knew I had the ahoy matey stamp set in the cupboard and doing invitations was going to be oh so easy.

This is the card I made for Sam's friend.
I used not quite navy, real red and baja breeze for the colour scheme. I used the matching wheel with versamark on the background and stamped the ship on a scrap piece of card and then coloured it and cut it out. The number 5 was cut out with my big shot alphabet.

Here is a close up of the boat.

Next time I will show you Sam's birthday invitation.

Til then, keep on creating.

xx Nicky

Supplies:

Stamp Set: Ahoy Matey (retired) with matching wheel (not sure of it's name)
Card: Not quite navy, baja breeze, real red, whisper white
Ink: Stazon, versamark, not quite navy, baja breeze, real red
Punches: Scallop circle, 1 3/8" circle, 1 1/4" circle
Big Shot: Timeless type junior alphabet
Other: blender pen, dimensionals

Elmo

My nephew Joshua turned 2 a couple of months ago, so I decided to make him a big Elmo card. I had made a smaller version a while ago, and after i saw the bigshot scallop circle, I thought there was no reason I couldn't make a bigger version. Here is what I came up with. It uses all punches. The 1 3/8" circle for the eyes and nose, a 1/2" circle for the eyeballs and the extra large oval cut in half for the mouth.

I made the card out of confetti white card as it is a bit more sturdy than whisper white and stamped a no 2 all over it, then just pieced Elmo's face together and the card was finished. I was really pleased when Joshua actually recognised it as Elmo!

Well the school holidays are over now, so hopefully things will get back to normal around here. It has been lovely having the kids at home, but very noisy, and I do love my quiet time.

Til next time, keep on creating.

xx Nicky

Supplies:

Stamp sets: unknown number
Card: confetti white, real red, pumpkin pie, basic black
Big shot: scallop circle die
Punches: 1 3/8" circle, 1/2" circle, extra large oval

Cute by the Inch swap card

Today I have my latest swap card to share with you. I designed this card for a new catalogue swap with my INKlings team-mates. I loved the new level 2 hostess set cute by the inch as soon as I saw it and decided to use it with the matching punch as the starting point for this card.

To decide what colours to use, I used the new colour coach. It has some fabulous colour combos on it. This card uses marina mist, early espresso, tangerine tango and whisper white.
I stamped the marina mist piece with the new french filigree background stamp and embossed the tangerine tango piece with the vintage wallpaper embossing folder.

Having markers for all the Stampin' Up! colours is just fabulous, it means you can ink up all your stamps with whichever colour you need. I used the early espresso, marina mist and tangerine tango markers directly onto the stamp and then stamped it onto a piece of whisper white. I cut it out and then used the matching petal card punch to punch out some early espresso to make the flower piece.

Here is a close up of the flower piece.

If you fold the petals up, it looks really good. This is what it looks like from the side.

I was really happy with how my card turned out and will definately be using this colour combination again.

Next time I have my 2 year old nephew's elmo card to show you.

Keep on creating.

xx Nicky

Supplies:

Stamp sets: french filigree, cute by the inch (level 2 hostess)
Cardstock: early espresso, tangerine tango, marina mist, whisper white
Ink/markers: early espresso, tangerine tango, marina mist
Punches: petal card extra large double
Big shot: vintage wallpaper embossing folder

Christmas Card #3

After my last card didn't turn out anything like I had imagined, this was the total opposite and is exactly what I imagined. It has a card base of bravo burgundy with basic black and very vanilla. I started off by tying a knot in the gorgeous new 1 1/4" striped grosgrain ribbon and then hung the bauble off that with linen thread.
The sentiment at the bottom is from the new christmas greetings stamp set. There are two stamps in the set, the merry christmas and a really lovely saying for the inside of your card as well. Here is a close up of the bauble which I have matted on a cut out of the ornament from the holiday window movers and shapers moveable pieces. As this is a brand new solid stamp, the ink coverage isn't the best at the moment, and that is why it is a little blotchy, but after a bit more use it will stamp perfectly.
I am liking this version a lot and I think it is a front runner in my christmas card selection at the moment, I will have to see what else I can come up with, before I make my final decision.

Next time, I have my latest swap card to share with you.

Keep on creating.

xx Nicky

Supplies:

Stamps: delightful decorations, christmas greetings
Card: bravo burgundy, basic black, very vanilla
Ink: bravo burgundy
Big Shot: holiday windows moveable pieces
Other: 1 1/4" black striped grosgrain, linen thread, ornament punch

kimono kids

My very good friend Kylie's baby girl Emily turned one last week and she had a party for her on Saturday. Of course I had to make her a card, so I used the new Kimono Kids stamp set with some new in-colours. The card ended up being completely different to what I had designed in my head, but sometimes that it just how things work out. I used the new concord crush, peach parfait and pear pizazz for the card base and coloured the images with all the new in-colours and my blender pen.
Here is a close up of the lanterns. I stamped a "1" and placed it on the middle lantern.

And a close up of the girls.

I was really happy with how the card turned out and had a lot of fun making it, as it had everything I love, cutting out and colouring! This was the first time I had used the new in-colours and I think I will be using them a lot more.

Keep on creating.

xx Nicky

Supplies:

Stamp sets: kimono kids
Card: concord crush, peach parfait, pear pizazz, whisper white
Ink: black stazon, concord crush, peach parfait, pear pizazz, blushing bride, poppy parade
Other: paper snips, snail