Mothers Day Card using Spring Mini Wedding Set

Here is a Mothers Day Card I made for one of my Nephews to give to his Mum.

I used the Wedding set from the Spring Mini Catalogue.  I started by colouring straight on to the flower stamp and randomly stamping the flowers in the bottom corner of the card.  I then used the edge of the Elizabeth stamp around the top.

The label was then stamped and using the words from the family set.

This was all then layered up with baby pink and on a yellow card.  Very springlike I think

Bundle of Love Baby Boy Card

My friend was due to have a baby at the end of last week so this card and the one posted a few days ago were my two cards depending on whether she had a boy or girl.  Just found out a little girl.

This card is made using the Bundle of Love stamp set, page 42 of catalogue and priced at £21.95.  This was stamped using a variety of stamps from the one set - the pram, baby, bootees and little babygro.  It was then coloured with Promarkers to match the papers and then layered up on the Designer Series Paper Stack (subtles) from page 99 of the catalogue and priced at £19.50 for 40 12x12 sheets and the baja breeze card from the A4 smooth card stock set (subtles) page 92 of the catalogue for 24 various coloured A4 sheets at £6.25.

If you were to buy these three items  it would come to just over £47 and you would then get one of the Sale-A-Bration sets free.

Everything Eleanor Flourish CAS Card

Here is a lovely simple card using a design layout borrowed from Michelle Last's fantastic blog  I thought this style was very clean and simple (CAS) even though it took a bit longer than I expected.  I did however work on the basis of a one sheet wonder by stamping the cream cardstock all over with the flourish from the Everything Eleanor stamp set (page

I then cut this into four strips for each card.  I then punched two very long strips of co-ordinating card to go down the sides and adhered this to both sides of the four strips.  I then chose a sentiment, any would do and stamped this straight on to the actual card and punched out a selection of butterflies.  I then dotted some pearls down the body of the butterflies and hey presto, card done.

Four cards were made in this style, with birthday, get well and sympathy all done on the same format.

Baby Girl Card - Bundle of Love

Today's card is made from the lovely Stampin Up Bundle of Love stamp set (page 42 of main catalogue - £21.95).  I started with the pram, then added the baby and the bootees to the picture.  This was then coloured in with Promarkers.  I then stamped three of the babygros from the same set and coloured them then cut them out.

The background papers are all from the designer paper stacks, subtles collection (page 99 of the main catalogue - £19.50 for a pack of 40 12x12 sheets).

If you were to buy this stamp set along with the paper stack and the co-ordinated A4 smooth cardstock pack in the subtles range it would come to just over £47 and you would be eligible for the Sale-A Bration.

Stamps - Bundle of Love
Papers - Patterns Designer Paper Stack - Subtles
Inkpad - Black Versafine and Promarkers to colour

Spice Cake and Spiced Paisley Birthday Cards

Here are another couple of cards from the class.  I will try to post you some new cards during the week.

The cards are made using the Spice Cake papers, ruffled ribbon and plain white card.  The background of the main card has been stamped using the Spiced Paisley stamps using a versamark stamp pad.

Stamps - Spiced Paisley, Happiest of Birthdays (hostess set)
Paper - Spice Cake
Cardstock- Very Vanilla, Soft Suede and Pool Party
Inkpads - Versamark, More Mustard and Soft Suede
Accessories - Ruffled ribbon, corner round and mini brads.

Pair of Perfect Postage Stamp Birthday Cards

These two cards were made with very similar bases.  The base cardstock is Bashful Blue with Cherry Cobbler Square and then postage stamps punched out and stamped up using the Perfect Postage stamp set.  Random postage stamps were embossed to make a different texture to the squares.  Little flowers were then added with mini brads in the middle.

There are the second to last cards from the class I attended.

Stamps - Perfect Postage (page 20 of Mini Spring catalogue - £8.95 in clear)

Cardstock - Bashful blue, whisper white, Cherry Cobbler, Pear Pizzaz, Crumb Cake (all available from pages 90-95 of the catalogue - £6.25 for a pack of 24 A4 sheets)

Ink - Cherry Cobbler (page 93 - £4.95)

Accessories - Postage Stamp punch (page 20 of Spring Mini - £14.25), Itty Bitty Punch Pack (page 116 - £15.50), Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder (page 124 - £6.95), mini brads (page 109 - £2.95).

If you purchased the Perfect Postage stamps and matching punch, a packet of mixed A4 cardstock, Cherry Cobbler Inkpad and the Itty Bitty Punch pack, this would come to £49.90 and you would then be entitled to the free Sale-a-bration gift.

Pair of Spice Cake Button Cards

Here are a couple of cards I made using the Spice Cake Designer papers and matching/co-ordinating buttons.  Plain cardstock was used for the card bases and then Pear Pizzaz and More Mustard card layered on top with a piece of velvet ribbon put across the line between the card colours.  The corners of the bottoms of the cards were then rounded off.

Four circles of various designs of the Spice Cake papers were then punched out and a matching button put on top of one of the paper circles, with a little linen thread put through the button first.

The cards were then personalised with the Happy Birthday stamps.  So simple, but very good, particularly for those akward mens cards!!

Stamps - Happiest Birthday Wishes (Hostess only set - £16 in clear)
Paper - Spice Cake Designer Papers (pg 10 of the Spring Mini - £9.95 for 24 sheets of 12x12)
Cardstock - Pear Pizzaz (page 90 - 2010-12 In Color range £6.25 for 24 A4 sheets or you can buy a set of 20 A4 sheets of In Color card range for £6.25) and More Mustard (page 93 - £6.25 for 24 A4 sheets or you can buy the Regals Collection of 20 A4 sheets for £6.25)
Ink - Soft Suede (page 94 - £4.95)
Accessories - Velvet ribbon (page 11 of Spring Mini - £6.95 for approx 9.14m of 3/8" ribbon), Linen Thread (page 107 - £3.75 for approx 13.7m ), Corner Rounder (page 118 - £6.25) and Spice Cake Buttons (page 11 of Spring Mini - £6.50 for 15 very large buttons)


If you would like to purchase any of these items, please contact me.  For instance, if you bought the Spice Cake Papers, Matching Buttons, a pack of 12x12 cardstock (instead of the A4), the inkpad, ribbon, thread and corner rounder this would come to £47.10 and you would be eligible for a free Sale-a-bration gift which includes stamps and designer papers.  You would then have a good base to start crafting from.