Candlelight Christmas

Hello, the end of another weekend and I hope you have had a good one. 

Showing a second Christmas card made with the Candlelight Speciality Designer papers. Just a simple design making a feature of the sentiment. 

To make the card first mat and layer your Raspberry Ripple base card with Lucky Limeade card stock and the designer paper.

Then cut a label with one of the new Apothecary Accents Framelit dies in both paper and card and stick the two together to make a firm base. 

Next cut some equal size squares from left over scraps of  paper (for this I used the 1 3/8 " square punch) and roll them up diagonally across the paper, glueing as you roll, to form the 'tubes' (I rolled mine round a piercing tool or you could use a cotton bud with the ends cut off).

Now fix the tubes to your label using super sticky tape. Layer up several foam dimensional pads on the top of your label in the area between the the tubes (this stops your sentiment from squashing). Then add more tape on top of the tubes and fix your sentiment. You can now punch some holes in your label, wrap around some bakers twine and fix to your card.

Please note that becuase of the depth of this card it would cost extra to post, so is best hand delivered to someone special.

The sentiment used here is from the Open Sleigh stamp set. 

All items from Stampin' Up.

Colours used:

Card - Raspberry Ripple, Lucky Limeade

Ink - Raspberry Ripple

Back soon,

Julia

Easy Events - Merry Christmas

Hello to you all. 

Well the clocks have changed, so I suppose it is on with winter and cosy evenings to make Christmas cards. Showing a card today with an image from the Easy Events stamp set.

Here I have used papers for the background from the Candelight Christmas Speciality designer paper pack, and stippled some white ink around the edges of the lower paper. If you use the white craft ink remember it is a pigment ink which stays wetter for longer and so needs to be dried with a heat tool. 

This paper set is on a gift with purchase offer at the monent so please go to www2.stampinup.com if you would like more details.

These papers are in colour combinations of Early Espresso, Lucky Limeade, Primrose Petals, Real Red and Very Vanilla, which is a little bit different for Christmas and are currently in the Autumn/Winter mini catalogue, see the left hand side of my blog. I stamped my design above in Always Artichoke ink and lightly water brushed Lucky Limeade for the leaves and So Saffron for the berries.

I added one of the new Dahlia Adornments, but only one because they are precious little things.

Back soon,

Julia

Christmas Card-Making Kit

Good Morning,

A few people have been asking about the card-making kits I offered earlier this year, and so I have decided to put together a Christmas kit.

Sneak peak ..........

The kit on offer will include:

Clear mount stamp set ‘Open Sleigh’ with a nostalgic style sleigh, a lovely stripey stocking, a beautiful swirl design, a greeting, and a verse

4 x pre-scored card blanks

3 x A4 Real Red card

3 x A4 Gumball Green card

3 x A4 Whisper White card

1 metre of ribbon

Silver brads

Die-cut shapes

Inspiration sheet with four card ideas to get you started

In total you should be able to make at least 10 cards from this set.

Cost of the kit is £20, which includes the stamp set worth £14.95. If I need to post your kit to you I would need to add a further £2, but hopefully you can collect from me or I can deliver you live close by.

If you are interested in ordering this kit please let me know by Tuesday the 6^th November either by phone on 07796 682902 or email juliajor@googlemail.com and we can discuss payment. I will obviously need to know numbers so that I can order the stamp sets and hopefully get the kits out to you during the week commencing 12th November 2012.

Have a good week.

Julia

Nature Walk - A different Style

Hello, and welcome to a chilly weekend. Looking forward to a workshop this afternoon with Julie and her friends, so filling time with this post. I couldn't have said I had time to fill a few weeks ago when I was still working - retirement is good!

Now on to my card, which is a different style for me.

I challenged myself to make something a little different, and something that would not instantly be recognised as Stampin' Up style but to show how versatile all the products are. All stamps, inks, card, paper and embellishments are from SU, the only non SU items I used were a couple of stencils used around the edge of the background paper. 

A closer look ..........

The First Edition background paper has been lightly sponged all over in colours of Summer Starfruit, Gumball Green and Raspberry Ripple with the larger sponges now available in the new catalogue. I then stencilled around the edges with two different patterns in Summer Starfruit and Raspberry Ripple. The background for the bird has been lightly sponged with Summer Starfruit, whereas for the greetings I have stamped the fancy template shape in the Everything Eleanor set to give a stronger colour - then stamped the greetings in black and cut or punched the shapes. 

Stamp sets used are Nature Walk and Aviary - all stamped in black ink.

Greetings from Bring on the Cake.

Back soon,

Julia

Summer Silhouettes

Hello again, today I am showing a couple of cards made with the new Summer Silhouettes stamp set, seems a bit silly to mention summer when the weather is supposed to turn really cold and wintery this weekend.

The stamps in this set are all separate stems and flower heads etc. so it is easy to put together a multi coloured design. My card is similar to an idea in the new Annual Catalogue but I have created a border using the little 'stamen' stamp and used an Edgelet die to scallop the edge. See more detail ........

My second card below is very similar, just a little more stamping, a second impression on the seed heads and a different border.

My card next time will something different for me, back soon.

Julia

In Colours 2012 - 2014

Welcome everyone. Showing three cards today using more of the new 'In Colours' and taking inspiration from designs in the new Annual Catalogue.

In the first card above the colours are Gumball Green, Summer Starfruit and Primrose Petals. The stamp is from Just Believe. 

The next card uses a combination of Raspberry Ripple, Primrose Petals and Summer Starfruit with the butterfly from Creative Elements.

And the final colour scheme below is Primrose Petals and Summer Starfruit. The stamps are from Build a Blossom and the petals cut with the Blossom Petals Builder punch. For this card I used the Naturals White card stock which has a slightly speckled finish.

Hope you like these cards, thank you for visiting.

Julia

The Open Sea - New In Colours

A popular set from the previous mini catalogue and now available in the new annual catalogue - The Open Sea.

Card stock and ink colours for this card are the new In Colours of Gumball Green, Midnight Muse and Summer Starfruit. I used the Modern Label punch to make a 'tab' for the top of the tag and secured this with a glimmer brad.

Julia