Paisley Petals Card

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Today I am sharing the third project from our February classes. With this one my lovely ladies could choose to create a more or less distressed look - but this one is moderately distressed - lots of daubing, but no actual tearing of the gorgeous designer paper.

The greeting comes from Oval All and we used brads and a punched Fancy Flower layer to finish.

The envelope and inside the card are stamped with Spiced Paisley stamp set. We have decided this year to do more stamping on the inside of our cards.

Love Elizabeth X

Top Note Gift Card Holder

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Today I am sharing another of the projects we made during our November classes. This idea originally came from my lovely upline Amanda, and I changed the stamps and papers to come up with this idea.

The nice thing about this design, is that it is a card and gift card holder in one.

We made it using the new zingy Lucky Limeade cardstock and co-ordinating Designer Paper and the stamps are from Tags till Christmas and Oval All.

I managed to take some scissors to my reel of fabby Cherry Cobbler Scallop Dots ribbon - isn't it pretty?


Love Elizabeth X

Forever Young in Island Indigo

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As promised, I am back with a project made using the beautiful Forever Young stamp set. I chose to use the Island Indigo ink and cardstock, one of our new In Colors for this year.

Within the stamp set you get the clock image, the frame, the two silhouettes and a beautiful tree with a girl on a swing.

I used a punched portion of the tree and swing stamp for this next card in the same colour way - you can see I also used the matching designer paper called Timeless Portrait - I love the way you can match everything with Stampin' Up! goodies. :)

If you look closely you will see that I used the punched out piece of this card in the one at the top - crafters never waste anything!

The greeting in this one is from Curvy Verses and the top one from Oval All.

Hope you like them.




Love Elizabeth X

Two-step Stamping

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Just a quick post today.
Today's project is using a 2-step stamping set from Stampin' Up! For those who don't know 2-step stamping is when you have two images that are stamped one over the over to create a single image. Now that sounds more complicated than it is - so what I really mean is that you stamp, in this case, the outline of the flower and then the inside of the flower over the top.

This card is made with a stamp set called Cottage Garden and the sentiment comes from Oval All. The idea is that you don't line the images up 'perfectly' to get the effect. Difficult for this neat freak - but I guess I see what they mean.

I finished with a couple of those lovely rhinestones. Back in a couple of days with more.

Circle Circus in Red and Black

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I don't own this stamp set - but I got to stamp with it at a shoebox swap. Michelle Gattrell designed this card - I always like her designs and enjoyed making this one.

They are great colours aren't they? Just Real Red, Black and White - I must use them again soon!

Gift Bag Project

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This is the 3D project I taught at our August classes. This cute little gift bag with pleated sides was designed by my talented upline Amanda.
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It is such a pretty design and we made them using all the fabulous Sweet Pea paper from the paper stack in the mini catalogue. Everyone got to choose their paper - and there weren't *too* many arguments! LOL
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The sentiment is from Oval All, which fits perfectly with the oval and scallop oval punches.
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Back in a couple of days with the final yummy August project.
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See you soon.

Amanda's Design

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Today's card was designed by my lovely upline Amanda - and made by me! I love these colours and some are retiring - so get stocked up while you can!
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This card starts with the En Francais background stamp, which is stamped off once and then stamped on the whisper white cardstock, which makes a subtle and beautiful background.
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Next I used images from Baroque Motifs - beautiful swirls and flowers.

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The card is finished with a punched oval greeting, (stamp set is Oval All) and a strip of ribbon.

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This card is SO fast to put together - and I love the design. Hope you do too.