Blooming with kindness

I'm a big fan of Making Cards magazine, mostly because they give you lots of lovely free craft papers!  In February's edition there were also 3 stampin up cards to make designed by Deborah O'Donahue, I made two of them and this is the first.

It uses the Blooming with kindness stamp set, it's such a simple little card yet very effective and so easy to make, you could very quickly make a few of these for those unexpected birthdays.

The butterflies are punched out using the Bitty Butterfly punch in soft sky and  Soft Suede. I've also embossed the whisper white card with the honeycomb embossing folder.

Just a quick one today dear readers, hope you enjoy it

Happy Crafting

Deb xxx

Ovals Collection Framelits Dies	Big Shot Die-Cut Machine	Whisper White A4 Card Stock	Card Stock A4 Soft Sky	Bitty Butterfly Punch
Blooming With Kindness Clear-Mount Stamp Set	Soft Sky Classic Stampin' Pad	Soft Suede Classic Stampin' Pad	Soft Suede A4 Card Stock	Basic Pearls Jewel Accents
Honeycomb Textured Impressions Embossing Folder

Table built using Stampin' Up! Product Table Builder from The Crafty Owl.

Best of Flowers

Morning lovely people, I hope today finds you all well.  Lots to do here today from house hunting to making bath bombs lol

Today's card uses the Best of Flowers stamp set, It's one of the sets that Stampin up are using to celebrate 25 years.  They will be releasing one set per month until October.  This months set is Best of flowers and includes some old favorites and one never before seen stamp, it costs £13.95 for 4 stamps.

Again I've used the En Francias as a background stamp on this and teamed together the colours Baja Creeze and Chocolate chip.  I stamped the flower in chocolate chip as well then coloured it using the stampin write markers.

Bit of a closer look for you

The sentiment is made just by punching out two of the decorative label cutting it in half and sticking the chocolate chip to the ends of the very vanilla.  Simple yet effective.

List of Supplies

Stamps
Best of Flowers
En Francias
Blooming With Kindness (sentiment)

Card
Very Vanilla
Chocolate Chip
Baja Breeze

Ink
Chocolate Chip

Stampin Up Accessories
Stampin Write Markers (Garden Green, Wisteria Wonder )
Decorative Label Punch
Pearls

Well time for me to go, if you would like to order any of the products used to make this card please email me at debbie72keating@yahoo.co.uk.

A Birthday Friend

Well I'm feeling a little more like myself today, which means I can finish moving into my new craft studio, Yay!  The great Raymundo did some for me on Sunday but you know how it is, can't expect a man to get all the crafty bits right ;-)

Todays card was for a friend at work, we have a birthday fund where we all put in some money and on our birthday we get a card and some birthday dosh, lovely!  Myself and another cardmaker at work have been nominated to make the cards (I wonder why lol) but I'm flying solo at the moment as Judith my partner in crime is on the mend after an operation to her foot.  I did offer to fit a roller skate to it for her so she could come in but for some reason she wasn't so keen, I even offered to wheel her about which she was even less happy with, for the life of me I can't think why, anybody would think she didn't trust me ;-). The card I've made is for Julie who celebrated her birthday on 30th. Happy Birthday Julie!

So heres the card

I've used whisper white and Baja Breeze.  I used the edgelets to create the scalloped edge along the bottom of the baja breeze card.  I've stamped using baja breeze and midnight muse inks and finished it off with a bit of bling and some taffeta ribbon.  The stamp set used is the Blooming with Kindness set.

If you would like to email any of the items I used to make this card please email me

Happy Crafting

Deb xx

Birthday wishes

I thought I'd show you my attempt at double stamping, well it should be tripple stampin but I only had two layers lol.

Not bad for a first attempt.  I used the new in colours for this.  Summer Star fruit and Primrose Petals, I used the Blooming with kindness stamp set and used the Boho Blossoms punch for the little flower, although I thought afterwards that I should have used one of the new in colour dahlias, not to worry I'll know next time. I also made a card using the same colours the other way around;

I really love these cards really simple to do yet very effective, hope you like them.

Happy Crafting

Deb xxx