Bethinking

Splash!

Felicity is having a "water play" party to celebrate her 5th birthday, so I thought that I'd take the opportunity to use the Sweet Treat cups to make a fishy, splashy invitation! Kids love interactive cards, so everyone has been having a ball shaking the water and glitter around, then watching it settle again to show the fish underneath.

I also used some dots of Crystal Effects on the stamped polka dots so that they looked a bit like water. I had to add some pink glitter, too, at her request!

The Sweet Treats cups have lots of fun uses, and are only available until the end of March, so please let me know if you would like to order some.

Supplies Used

Stamps: Polka Dot background, Family Phrases, Animal Stories, Classic Alphabet {retired}

Cardstock: Pretty in Pink, Whisper White, Tempting Turquoise

Accessories: Sweet Treats cups, Chunky Sprinkles glitter, Fine Supernova glitter, Crystal Effects, Sticky Strip, 1/2" circle punch.

More Cupcakes

I'm finding this "Crazy for Cupcakes" set really easy to use to make quick, effective birthday cards. I've been using it a lot with the "Sweet Always" papers, and the colour combination works really nicely.

Nothing fancy about this card, but I hope that it inspires you to go and create something yourself!

Supplies Used:

Stamps: Crazy for Cupcakes, Short and Sweet, Polka Dot background.

Cardstock: Sweet Always DSP, Chocolate Chip, Regal Rose, Pink Pirouette, Whisper White

Inks: StazOn, Regal Rose.

Accessories: Markers, blender pens, glitter, small oval punch, pink rhinestone brad, Regal Rose ribbon, scallop edge punch.

Workshop Cards

Here are a few different cards that we've made at workshops recently. If you'd like to get together with a few friends and learn how to make cards like these, then you should host a workshop of your own. There's a great special in June and July for workshop hosts, which you can read about here . You can even choose which cards you'd like to make! Please contact me if you're interested. 

An Egg-Cellent Easter

We'll be spending Easter Sunday with a bunch of friends, so we'll be having the traditional Easter Egg Hunt for the kids! This year they'll be able to collect their eggs in these egg-cellent (ha-ha!) Gable Boxes.

I've used the new stamp set "An Egg-Cellent Easter" for the images and greetings on the boxes. The colours are all from the Soft Subtles range, and I love how they look altogether.

Felicity and Emily helped me yesterday to make some glittery letters so that we'll be able to tell whose box is whose. There's now glitter all over me and my house, but that's what you get when you work with a 2 year old and a 4 year old!

Birthday Girl

 Just this week I received something exciting in the mail (I love getting happy mail!). It was a new stamp set, and although you might think that's too regular an occurrence for me to be excited about it, the extra great thing about this one was that it was free!

I got to choose any stamp set that I wanted from the Stampin' Up! Idea Book and Catalogue because I won the So Shelli Creative Challenge with this scrapbook page. So, because I love scrapbooking so much, I chose an alphabet set, Jumbo Outline Alpha, to use on my pages. It's something different from me because it's an Outline set, so for the Birthday Girl title I stamped it once straight onto my page and then coloured it in with Watercolour Crayons, then I stamped it once on patterned paper and cut out the letters. I love it!

For the rest of the page, I used my Short and Sweet stamp set for the accents, Seeing Spots and Polka Dot to make the background, and some Berry Bliss Designer Paper (retiring soon!)

Valentine

Here's to a Happy Valentine's Day for everyone; a time to cherish and appreciate our loved ones.

Thanks to Marelle of thINKspot for the sketch inspiration for this card.

Stamps used: "Priceless" (part of the Bush Fire appeal), Polka Dot background and A Happy Heart.

Colours: Pretty in Pink, Regal Rose, Close to Cocoa and Chocolate Chip.

Welcome, Little One

We met a new sweet little friend on Monday - Eva Rose. I made this card for her and luckily it came together very quickly, because I left it 'til the last minute (as often happens!). The stamp in the middle is from the "In the Stars" set, and says, "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, do you know how loved you are?"

The colours are Pretty in Pink, Certainly Celery and So Saffron. The paper is from the Petals and Paisleys set which has lots of beautiful colours and patterns in it. And, there's nothing like personalising a card with the person's name. It's fun to make a card for such a joyful occasion!