Growing Green Birthday Card

Are any of you as sick of the rain as I am? My kids have been home sick for half of last week, and they are going absolutely crazy today. Please please please can the rain stop as I think we all need to get outside and I would like to get some washing done!

Now on to something far more interesting ... One of my fellow Stampin' Up! demonstrators had her birthday last week and this is the card I made for her. I used the Growing Green stamp set, and managed to whip this card up in half an hour. It came together exactly how I had imagined it, and believe me that doesn't happen too often.

Here is a close up of the flower, which I coloured with my blender pen and ink pad.

I was very happy with how it turned out.

I have a couple of birthday cards I received to share with you over the next week, so be sure to come back and check them out.

Keep on creating.

xx Nicky

Hostess Gift

This is the hostess gift I made for a workshop I had last weekend. I made 9 cards to go in it, using the stamps from the level 1 hostess set, punch potpourri. I kept them all together with some black striped ribbon tied with some twine, a button and tag from the tiny tags stamp set.One of the demos at the Stampin Up Regional event in Sydney had used this idea as a hostess gift, and I thought it was a great one. You just make a 4" square card, stamp the image on the bottom right of the front cover, colour it in and punch it out. Once punched out, close the card and adhere the punched images in the holes with dimensionals.

Card design #1 -

Carde design #2:

Card design #3:

The only image you can't use in this stamp set is the bird. I was really pleased with how it turned out, it was so quick and easy to do.

Have a great weekend, I have a stamp-a-stack on tomorrow, so I'm off to prepare for that.

Keep on creating.

xx Nicky

New wheel...

Well I have been home a whole week but trying to find time to take photos of all the cards I made while I was away, edit them and blog them has been difficult. Life seems to be so busy at the moment.

What a fantastic weekend it was. There were 27 amazingly talented ladies, loads of inspiration, new goodies to play with, great food and not much sleep!

First up is a sneak peak of a new jumbo wheel that is in the new catalogue which is released on Wednesday. I had seen it in the US catalogue and fell in love with it then, so when it was included in our pre-order, it was at the top of my wish list.

For this card I used pretty in pink, pink pirouette and chocolate chip. I inked the wheel with stazon ink and then rolled out two images, the first I cut to fit the card front then coloured it and the second I just coloured the duck jumpsuit. I cut it out and mounted it onto the first one. Here is a close up of the duck suit.

For the sentiment I stamped the outline from tiny tags and stamped the baby in the middle then used the matching punch to punch it out - gotta love that, so quick and easy. I then used linen thread to tie it onto the coathanger. Here is a close up.

I have a father's day card to show you next, so be sure to check back in a couple of days to see it.

Til next time,

Keep on creating.

xx Nicky

Supplies:
Stamps: Tiny tags
Wheel: Baby Tees jumbo wheel
Card: Chocolate chip, pretty in pink, pink pirouette, whisper white

Ink: Chocolate chip, pretty in pink, pink pirouette, so saffron

Big Shot: Perfect polka dots embossing folder
Other: Jewellery tag punch, stampin dimensionals, blender pen, linen thread