Topsy-Turvy Celebration - From Disaster to Perfection

Good morning everyone, I thought I would give you a rest from Sale-A-Bration cards today and show you something different. It was my step-son's 16th birthday recently and I wanted to use one of my new stamp sets, Topsy-Turvy Celebration. This is what I made for him:



Do you ever have one of those days when everything goes wrong? Well that is what it was like making this card. First of all I spent ages stacking my cakes by masking them and adding the number candles. I then moved on to the greeting and didn't watch where I put my 'inked' piece of plastic that I use with my Stamp-A-Ma-Jig and this was the result:





What a mess. I tried doing it again but that didn't go too well either so in the end I decided to cut the cakes out. I  mounted them on some 3D pads on the inside of a Midnight Muse card. I die cut a backgrounf frame of Gumball Green, using the Framelits dies:



Next I stamped the greeting. I was really pleased at how well I managed to get the numbers from the Memorable Moments set to line up and then I stamped 'Son' from the For My Family stamp set. All it needed was 'birthday'. Look what happened - aaargh:

I had to do it all again:

I used one of the Framelits to cut out an aperature from the front of the card and stamped 'Celebrate' on the inside which I embossed with white embossing powder.  

I was actually very pleased with the end result, and so was he, but it took far longer than it should have. x 

 

 

Calendar Class Wed 16th - January

Hi everyone, well my good intentions re blogging haven't gone too well so far but here I am with news of our first class of 2013.

We will be making inserts for the Stampin Up Calendar display and in this class we'll be making January-June. Therw will be another class later in the year to amke July-December.

To give you a bit of a taste of what we'll be doing, this is January's insert:



I used the Decorative label punch to punch labels from the Patio Party designer papers and folded them in half. I used Midnight Muse for the background and printed the months from the internet onto Very Vanilla cardstock. (You can find them here)

The numbers were stamped using the Memorable Moments stamp set and punched using the 3/4 circle punch.



The 'hello' is from the My Friend stamp set. It was stamped in Versamark ink and embossed with gold embossing powder.



If you would like to join us for this class, using lots of different stamp sets and techniques, then please contact me by 6pm on Tuesday 15th Jan. Cost is £12 and this includes the calendar display case.

I'll show you the other months we've made over the next few posts. Remember that the Autumn/Winter catalogue finishes on the 31st January so if you'd like to order anything from this catalogue, don't wait too long and let me know. x

Diary class, matching card

Good morning everyone, as promised here is the matching card to go with the diary and box we made in card class:



And here's the close up:



And here are all three projects together.

The photos weren't very good, now it gets dark so early, so here's another one:

If you want to buy any of the products needed to make these projects, please contact me. I'll be back soon with more. x

2013 Diary and box class

Hi everyone, this is what we made in card class this week. We altered a diary and made a matching box so you can give it as a present. To complete the set, we also made a matching card. Here are the diary and box:



We used the Twitterpated Designer Series papers and I designed everything else around those papers, choosing to use Indigo Island as a my main colour with a bit of Riding Hood Red. This is the front of the box:



The sentiment stamp has been discontinued but it's one of my all time favourites so I'm not quite ready to let it go yet. The butterfly is from the Creative Elements stamp set and the label outline and number stamps are from the extremely versatile Memorable Moments stamp set. As you can see the stamp matches the Framelits Labels Collection:

Because I use my diary all the time at work and it's in and out of my bag all day long, I wanted to keep everything very flat. That isn't the case for the box so I was able to put the butterflies on 3D pads to give them some depth. The flowers on the diary were punched using the Itty Bitty Shapes Punch Pack and the leaves were cut using the Little Leaves Sizzlets and Big Shot.

Here's another look at the diary:



And the matching box:



I hope you liked these. I'll show you the matching card next time. x