Diamond Anniversary

Today's good news is that I have just found my SU label stamps that I had tidied away - luckily I decided to get some quilling bits out tonight and I had stashed the stamps in with my quilling paper - no wonder I hadn't found them before.

Anyway, today's commission is for a Diamond Wedding.

After saying yes I then realised that this isn't as easy as a silver or ruby anniversary where you have a colour to play with.
This card does have rather a silver hue but hopefully enough 'diamond' sparkle too.

Stamp from Woodware (again) and one of their lovely bubble bloom range.  I stamped and embossed it with sparkly embossing powder.  I stamped the leaves again so I could cut them out and 3D them.

Some sparkly card candi added to the blooms along with diamond stickles and some gems.

Sentiment computer generated and mounted as per the main image on a couple of different silvers.  SU punched strip under this and a few more 'diamond' gems to finish.

Flower Shop

The stamp set I have used for this card was my 'must have' from the current Stampin' Up catalogue.

The set is called Flower Shop and naturally has a matching punch!

This is a 5x7" card base from Anna Marie.  I've added a cream layer which I have over stamped with lots of the flowers in the set with the SU in-colour inks for this year.

Several additional flowers stamped separately and added with 3D pad and some pearls to finish the flowers.

Some layering added in the middle and another SU label stamp/punch combo for the sentiment (this card being made before I put these label stamps in a safe place!!).

Six-sided fun

A quick play today with one of my birthday Stampin' up sets!  This is the six-sided sampler set that comes with a matching punch (of course!).

For the first card I have used baked brown sugar ink on cream card and used a selection of the stamps before punching out.

Some are stuck flat to the card, some have 3D pads underneath.

The sentiment is from another SU set and punched out.

The second card uses all the new in-color inks from SU this year.  The sentiment is from Label Something set and - of course - punched out with matching punch!

Christmas is coming!!

Every year I plan to start my Christmas cards earlier but am lucky that I am kept busy until it gets almost too late!

I haven't entirely caught up but allowed myself a small play this weekend as I've got a few stamps I have been itching to play with for ages.

Following on from yesterdays post this is another stamp from Woodware called 'Huge Santa'.
I have paper pieced all the letters, colouring with copics where they overlap (a finishing touch stolen from Francoise Read).

I have also stamped and cut out the hat, coloured with copics, added fun flock to the edge and finished with a pom pom.

I haven't made this image in to a card yet but have posted this while I mull it over!

Another tempting one for Val over at Aquarius blog who I might have encouraged to start a Woodware stash this weekend!

Huge Golf

For the birthday of a friend at work today I have used the very appropriately named 'Huge Golf' stamp from Woodware.

She has been partaking in the sport quite a lot recently and thought I would christen my new stamp which I think I will get a lot of use out of.

For the first outing I have very much 'girlied' it up by paper piecing the letters with pink and flowery paper & layering on a piece of pink card.

The 'O' was stamped on some white card that has been embossed with a swiss dots folder and I coloured the golf club and cut that out separately too & added with 3D pads.

The little sentiment is one of several in the pack too and I punched out using trusty SU punches and added a couple of little gems.

Triple layer stamping

This is a card I made for Crafty Bunch last week which I have now utilised for a Thank You card.

We did triple layer stamping which is very effective.

For this card I used cream card for the stamp layers, kraft card for the backing layers and SU baked brown sugar ink.

I've stamped one of the flowers again on a separate piece of card from the SU Flower Shop set (which I love), punched out with co-ordinating punch and added a 3D pad under it.

The sentiment is also SU and I've just added it to suit the purpose for which the card was intended.

Vintage tags

These are some vintage style gift tags I was asked to make.

The brief was to make them luggage label size which I did out of lovely Anna Marie kraft card.

I did sponge the edges a little with distress ink.
On top of the label I cut a piece of cream card, rounded the edges and distressed them with old paper and tea dye ink.

I've then used the tea dye ink to stamp one of the SU Vintage Vogue stamps around the edge.
The flower is from the same set and I have stamped this, cut out separately and added with a little sticky fixer and pearl to finish.

String added through a punched flower hole which I thought finished it rather differently.