May 28 & 29/2016 5 Pretty Little Cards

Well, one wasn’t really what you’d call pretty but it was a shaker card using the new Foam Adhesive Strips (p.182 in the 2016 Annual Catalogue).  They are a little thicker than the dimensionals and much easier to use on a shaker card.  The stamp set is new too – Marquee Messages (p.111).
The ‘tag’ card used new DSP from the Playful Palette DSP Stack (p.174) and some of the coordinating washi tape (p.179).
The old car was a ‘fancy fold’ card.  Pretty simple but something a little different.
More new DSP was used on the floral dry embossed card.  The DSP is Affectionately Yours (p.172) and the embossing was done with a new folder, Floral Affection (p.195).
The last card with the tiny balloon and colored pearls was from the April Paper Pumpkin kit.  It included a coordinating envelope that was already prescored so very easy to put together.
Oh and new crinkly ribbon – Emerald Envy and Peekaboo Peach – so pretty!

May 9 & 11/2016 3 Quick Cards

These quick cards just had a little coloring, some washi tape combined with scraps of Designer paper and a die cut window.  They were even colour coordinated!

 

April 23 & 24/16 A Buffet of Birthday Cards

A few masculine cards, a few new techniques, a little masking, some heat embossing and some dry embossing…  It was a busy Saturday and Sunday!!

 

April 6 & 12/2016 3 Quick Cards

This month the cards weren’t very ‘quick’!  There were a few more steps in a special ‘Birthday’ card and some coloring on a general ‘Just Because’ card that took a little longer than usual.  The ‘Just for You’ card made up for the two of them and was indeed a quick one (with a little fussy cutting homework).
               

March 19 & 20/2016 4 Cards & DSP

“Birthday Bouquet” was the Designer Series Paper used for this months four cards.  It is still available in the Occasions Mini but only till the end of this month.

                               

Lots of layers!!                                               A ‘sort of’ watercoloured card.
  
                        
                               Highlighting the paper!

                      

Closed and………                                                open!!

March 9 & 14/2016 3 Quick Cards

This time two of the ‘quick’ cards weren’t all that quick but we managed to stay within the hour allotted to us at the library.  They needed a little coloring and some ‘cloud-making’ but the third card was plain and simple stamping – a true quick card!

     

February 20 & 21/2016 Watercolor Wishes

We had great fun in Edmonton and again in Devon making up the Watercolor Wishes Card Kit from the Stampin’ Up! annual catalogue (p.155).  We took lots of time altering the cards a bit, making 5 new ones and enjoying a potluck lunch (both days for me!).  We left with homework – the alterations took up extra time – but I heard from a few stampers that they had finished up their cards over the weekend.  It took me a few more days, but I am done!!
It was indeed a fun time with great food, stamping and good friends to stamp with.  Here’s what I came up with…