Anniversary Sentiments

Today is a year to the day my hubby and I finally tied the knot and I just wanted to share a post with you all of my very first scrapbook pages I have made to mark this special occasion.  As you read this I will hopefully already be off somewhere special to celebrate with some pampering and some time with my man. 

 

I knew when I saw the Artisan Embellishment kit that this was going to be perfect to remember our special day with as the vintage-style lace matched in with my gown and my wedding colours were green and dusky pink so the ribbon and buttons would tie-in great too.

 

The background for the pages are stamped with the Elements of Style which has that beautiful springtime blossom stamp, which I love. 

I have used some other extras as as you will know I have already used some of my Artisan kit for other projects.  I certainly have been making it last, until now.  I used extra Vintage Faceted Buttons, Flower Trim and Pearls for the two page spread. 

Many of my favourite pictures from the wedding, and indeed the ones I have selected for the pages, are in black and white so I have accented the colours of the wedding theme by colouring the flower trim with the Certainly Celery and Pink Pirouette (I think!) marker pens.

 

......and for the Anniversary card........

 

 

More of the Artisan kit.  I have used a pre-cut card and again used the same background.  Some simple lace border and doily layered give the artisan touch to the card.  The button is a layered with a pearl to finish it. 

I included too the teatime trinket of the teacup as part of today's special treats is afternoon tea!  Mmmm.....yummy!  The stamps on the card are the Elements of Style (again), Musical Notes (on the Special Edition DSP), You Are Loved and Broadsheet Alphabet and For My Family - phew! Quite a few stamps then!

The 'LOVE' lettering is stamped with ink and then I have accented with a white gel pen.

 

Well I hope you are having a great day too....back soon with some more crafting.......

 

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Springtime Artisan Embellishments

Well I am truely in Birthday Month for our family.  You know there is always one month, or two in the year which is busier for family birthdays, well May is one of those months for our family.  Not only have we birthdays, we also have our 1st wedding anniversary coming up and our little one's 3rd birthday!  So, as you can imagine, it's been a busy time crafting cards more than I have had time to sit down to photo and show you them all.  Lucky for you it does mean I have lots to show you today!

Today's post is some of my favourites so far from the month. What better way to celebrate a birthday than with a little tea and cake. See the teapot hanging on my middle banner.

I love anything small and cute and so the Teatime trinkets from the Spring/Summer catalogue immediately caught my magpie eyes when the catalogue first came out - a teapot, tea cups and clock faces, perfect for marking special occasions.

The catalogue has a Tea for Two designer paper for teatime too, but I have used here some paper I already have which is now retired.  There is a strip of the Storytime papers for the scallop under the taffeta ribbon though and spot the First Edition papers again in the line up!

The Hearts a Flutter Framelits dies for the Big Shot in the Spring/Summer Catalogue make the banner making so much quicker and easier - out pop your banners all neatly cut the same size!  I have rolled the top edge over some dyed baker's twine for my washing line .  The die set comes with some lovely other banner shapes including hearts and there is a matching stamp set of course too!
 

The second card to show you is for my Aunt, it's her birthday today (safely hand-delivered this weekend).
I used the Scallop Square punch here for my springtime flower collection and the stamped images are the big stamp from the Elements of Style set again.  I have stamped in Always Artichoke and then used a blender to add Pretty in Pink highlighting to the flowers. 





I wanted to use my flowers from the Artisan Embellishments Kit on this one so bunched a few together and secured them with some glue dots - a lasting bunch of flowers for the occasion!

 Now to show you just how many projects you can make with a kit from SU, I have a card made with some more of the Artisan Embellishment Kit (there is even more to come later this month from this kit too!).



 Not a birthday card this time, an engagement celebration!  Well it's all about the love so this kit was just the ticket - see the ticket in there!  This was so easy to make with all the pieces already in the kit.  I just layered some DSP onto the Crumb Cake and added the Doily and the Hearts card which the ribbon wraps round in the kit and I was half way there.  The Heart button and seam binding ribbon are all part of the Artisan embellishments kit too.

The scallop circle layer is from the Afternoon Daydream Scrapbook kit which is in the same In Colour of Primrose Petals. I have added a flower trim flower coloured with ink and a 'Congratulations' from the For My Family stamp Set. Also couple of pearls and all done. What an easy way to make a truly beautiful card for a happy occasion!

I am going to need to place an order to replenish my stock of the Spring/Summer items I love, as remember, they do not always carry into the new Annual Catalogue (out in July).  This Spring/Summer catalogue ends on 31st June, remember to contact me for anything you need to order before stock runs out.  Stock for product in colours which are retiring are also proving very popular at the moment so order yours soon if you do not want to miss out!

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Vintage Feeling

Here to share today is the make from a hostess party recently.  All the lovely ladies had fun making this card to take home with them.  I included the Very Vintage wheel as my hostess was interested in trying the stamp wheels on offer.  Everyone's card looked super at the end of the evening. Job well done!

I used the Framelits Labels Collection for my version, however for the make in the evening we used the Decorative Label punch which looked just as effective on the cards.  The flower is from the You Are Loved Stamps and is standing proud on some Dimensionals.

The ladies had the opportunity to use the piercing pack to outline their labels for their cards too as there is a template for this as well as the Framelit Labels in the piercing packs.

Spot the doily?  Just a small piece of a doily as a feature on the card.  The Doiles are a very popular item in the Spring catalogue.  Remember to order yours before the end of the catalogue in June!

Another card with the Very Vintage wheel - can you see it peeping through?  It is on the background behind the Vellum overlay!  This card is very similar to one by Marian M Garcia I had seen displayed on the internet.  For mine, I have used the flourishes from the Elements of Style Set with Gold embossing. 

I love that I could colour the Glimmer Paper with a dauber and some crumb cake ink to give it a Champagne makeover!  The 'Mr & Mrs' and the design round it are from the Tiny Tags stamp set.

Come back tomorrow for an Easter Chick Treat.........

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Springtime Mini Love and Flowers

 

There are some products that you just love the minute you set eyes on them in the catalogue.  I could not resist purchasing some of the lovely delicate Flower Trim especially after seeing a card my upline Amanda Fowler made with it.  The trim comes in ivory on a mesh background, you can cut it into individual flowers as I have done and colour it using ink, markers or even your ink refills.  

 

I have followed Amanda's great example and made a simple Congratulations card ready for the wedding season.  This design would even look great as a wedding invitation design.  I used Certainly Celery as the green for my card and Pink Pirouette for the accent colour and for the taffeta ribbon.  I love the cute little 'Mr and Mrs' tag from the Tiny Tags stamps and I added this to give it another little wedding touch.

 



 

The second card layout and design was also inspired by another European demonstrator, although their version was not with the flower trim.  I loved the different colours used for the card.  My card includes the Flower Trim and the 'Love' ticket from the Artisan Embellishments kit, both from the Spring Mini catalogue. I coloured the flowers using my marker pens - so easy and so effective!  The stamp, you may recognise, is from the free Sale-a-bration set, Feeling Sentimental. 

If you love the ticket design on this card then look at the main catalogue for the Ticket Builder Punch (126883) to make your own tickets in two different sizes.  There are also co-ordinating stamp sets in the main catalogue and a lovely set, 'That's the ticket' in the Spring mini on page 27.

 

All the Spring mini catalogue items mentioned today are available only for a limited period so make sure you don't miss out:

 

126869 Flower Trim

129328 Artisan Embellishments Kit

128072 That's the Ticket stamp set (wood-mount)

 

Just 5 more days of Sale-A-Bration to go!  Remember if you order before the end of 22nd March and spend over £45 you earn a choice of free product from the Sale-A-Bration brochure.

 

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Mother's Day Stampin' with Love

Well it is a little early to post these as it is before Mother's Day, but I have been having so much fun with my Elements of Style stamp set I just wanted to show you all what I had been making.

The triple-layer stamping is one I had seen around and been wanting to try ever since I saw an example with this same stamp set. It looks beautiful and so effective with this set.I love creating shadow of the bigger stamp on the background by stamping with the Crumb Cake then again with soft suede.

 





 Another Mother's Day card with the same set, but this time pretty in pink. I stamped and coloured with blender pens and then cut out the flowers to overlay a framelit. I used some sponge daubing on this card to give it a vintage feel.

The Embosslit butterflies feature here with one of the Vintage Faceted Buttons. These buttons look just fab with a pearl in the middle as I used here. I am already well on my way through my second pot of buttons.

The background for this card is with the larger stamp as a watermark effect. You cannot see the back of the card, but I stamped all over the back too and a little on the inside corners which finished the the card off.

 

As the rain seems to be back again this is a reminder of the few days of sunshine we have had this week.  It almost felt like summer - well a British summer anyway! 

My last card for today's post, a challenge to myself to create something with less stamping!  My creative inspiration, the Floral District designer papers and some of the standard designer papers in Daffodil Delight.

This card is all punching, cutting and scoring, except for the sentiment of course (from the 'Deligthful Dozen' set).  The background border has been created with the Simply Scored scorepad and the new Scored Borders plate found in the spring catalogue (p26). This creates beautiful embossed borders matching your framelits shapes or can just be used alone for embossing.  There are full size continuous designs for using on scrapbook pages or just on the edge of a card design as I have. The plate has it's own template to help you line up and keep on track too - no slip-ups!    

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Feeling Sentimental

Today's post is a card in early preparation - so unlike me I know, but I received one of the Sale-a-Bration stamp sets this week and it was just perfect for a Father's Day card.  It is often hard to find inspiration for a masculine card, so when I saw this stamp set in the free products I had to place my order to get it free.  A set of lovely nostalgic pictures, a telephone box, a penny farthing, a big wheel and the sentiment 'Celebrate', perfect for a number of occasions.

I decided to use some colour on the card so used a little Rose Red card stock with matching brads and designer paper to accent the colours.  There has been a little vintage makeover to the card though to keep it less girly.  I have distressed and curled the layered paper corners and even rubbed the brads with a file to distress them a little.  Of course the daubers were out to add the vintage colour to the edges and I also used the Very Vintage wheel to create a border by using a large circle of card as a mask.

In case you are wondering, the 'For You' is from my other new stamp set ' Elements of style'.  It fits perfectly into an 1" circle and I am loving adding this to my projects.   The 'Happy Father's Day' is from the Delightful Dozen - already used this set more than a dozen times - it has everything!

Also spot the trinket?  It is one of the Teatime Trinkets from the Spring/Summer catalogue. These come in a pack of 5 (£5.50) and add that extra special to projects don't you think?  They come with link rings and spring catches (I am not sure how to describe these) which you can attach and even add them to jewellery as charms too.

To place a £45 order to get the Feeling Sentimental stamp set or another free choice, email me at craftyinkbuds@sky.com

New Spring Catalogue Launch

Spring has Sprung!  The new Spring/Summer catalogue is here. Even more products to celebrate and share for the 25th anniversary celebrations for Stampin' Up!  If you have not received a copy of the catalogue in the post fro me  and cannot wait you can go and see the catalogue right here.

Already a customer of mine and you cannot resist a lovely glossy catalogue for your coffee table viewing?  Contact me to have one sent in the post or reserve a copy for our next workshop meeting.

Planning on a Stampin' Up! party and wish to book a date in the calendar? Contact me now for available dates.  Now is just the best time for a get-together with friends as remember it is Sale-a-Bration time, free products for hostess and customers all-round.  On booking, as a thank you, you will receive your complimentary copy of the Spring catalogue and the full annual catalogue too!

I love the products in the new Spring catalogue - I found myself liking something every turn of the page.  There is something for everyone - card-makers, scrapbookers or those who love working with fabric too.  Lots of extra special embellishments to make those projects with a difference.  I cannot wait until my first order comes in the next few days!

I will be posting some projects using new products, including those from the Spring catalogue soon.

Good news this week leaves me with just the reason I needed to use one of my new stamps 'two-by-two' to welcome the arrival of a baby for friends.  This is a single stamp from the annual catalogue and it is just so cute.  Of course, this version was for a boy.  I used the Adorned Accents for the hearts emboss on the white which lifted the card with some added texture. 

I made a second copy of the stamped image and coloured it without so much blue and before you know it I had made a birthday card from it today.  I just overlaid the 'Congratulations' with a 'Happy Birthday' banner to change the sentiment.

Another card to show you today.  It's based on a design I had seen from another demonstrator, but as I did not have all the same products, some slight changes.  My card uses the 'Very Vintage' stamp wheel background in Crumb Cake.  It is the 'You are loved' for the sentiment again and the 'Perfect Postage' for the Heart design in the Scallop Square. Oh and I was playing with my new stamps 'Elements of Style' so added the 'For You' from this set too (just visible above the 'Happy Valentine's Day'.

Hope you like them and don't forget to come back soon to see the new products.

Suzanne


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