Thursday, 31 July 2014

Happiest Birthday PP206 CC15




It's been a very full week, and I have had very few moments to craft. For my card using The Paper Players sketch, I have used some favourites from Stampin' Up! which have retired now, all except Apothecary Art, which is where the "Happiest Birthday" greeting comes from. The paper is from SALE-A-BRATION 2012, and the stamp is from that lovely series from last year, Best of... and this was Best Of Flowers. I love the way the hydranga shows up inked with a Coastal Cabana Stampin' Write Marker. It's been teamed up with Lucky Limeade.

Aqua, Lime and White are the suggested colours at The Card Concept, it is such a fresh, clean combination.I'm sure I will have a bit more time in the coming days.




Thanks for dropping in

Rachel






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Tuesday, 29 July 2014

Celebrate! STS#25 SUO#102

I love having a session colouring with the new Blendabilities, and I prefer it to be in daylight hours when I can see more clearly, especially using this stamp set. In This Together has a lot of very small parts to colour - think: lips,arms, shoes etc. I haven't ever used Copics, but in the past I have loved using Stampin' Write Markers with Blender Pens and Aqua Painters.(and still do). Blendabilities are quite different, and practice certainly improves results.




What a clean design this sketch by Seize The Sketch and Mona Pendleton is. I have my mother's Creative Memories curvy cutter and because I am a Stampin' Up demonstrator, I don't use it very often. This time I used the subtle curve and it hardly shows on this photograph, but it looks great IRL. I had been cutting gold sparkly stars on the Big Shot already, and two made their way onto this card, surrounding a Celebrate from Starburst Sayings. The lovely lass with the glass of champagne has been cut with Apothecary Accents Framelits. SUO Challenges challenged us to use our favourite new toys, and I think Blendabilities are 'it' for me! go take a look at the DT samples.


Cheers!

Rachel

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Monday, 28 July 2014

Happy Cakeday!

What a pretty inspiration picture The Fusion Card Challenge have this time. Those Peonies are displayed gloriously in the jug and look at the detail on the cupcakes!
Then over at Sunday Stamps it's Pink (and look at those cute little biscuits!)
I already had my pieces water-coloured and almost ready to go, so this was a quick and easy card. I took out a shape from the Chalk Talk Framelit Dies, and the tag was already punched, which was lucky because that shape is retired now! The gorgeous stamps have retired too, but I love the pretty images too much to sell it off - and this sort of cake isn't fattening!!!!
I did use one current (and new) stamp set, Age Awareness, which has some great greetings. I especially like "Thanks, Facebook" because FB does alert me to many a birthday.
The paper is from the Subtles DSP Stack and just to add a little more interest, the corners were rounded with the Envelope Punch Board, and a little paper piercing was placed around the edges.

Hope you're having a lovely day,

Rachel





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Sunday, 27 July 2014

You're A Star FMS146 ColourQ#251

The creating half of my week has had some challenges this week, so it was a joy to get up early this morning and see the sun shining on a crisp winter day. I also have had a chance to whip up a couple of quick cards for challenges, so I'm good to face the world!!!!

I have had this idea buzzing in my headsince I saw the sketch at Freshly Made Sketches so it was nice to get it onto card. I used Shimmery White for the base, and simply stamped You're a Star with Blackberry Bliss, stamped off once to give a lighter shade. This stamp is part of a fabulous collection called Pictogram Punches, which co-ordinate with a set of three punches, Itty Bitty Accents Pack. Congratulations, in Elegant Eggplant, is from Big News. Naturally I punched a few stars, although I did heed the advice of SU and only used a die and the Big Shot to cut the Glimmer Gold stars, as rough material like the glimmer sheets does shorten the life of punches.
A scattering of Candy Dots brought in the remainder of the colours at Colour Q (or my closest equivalent) and its done and dusted!!!

Thanks for passing by

Rachel



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Friday, 25 July 2014

CASE-ing The Catty #2 Memory Keeping

Welcome back! This week at CASE-ing The Catty, we are casing Memory Keeping (pages 24-41). You can view the catalogue
online, or if you're local to me (I live in South Morang, Vic and work in Thomastown) I'd be happy to drop one off to you.

Like most scrapbookers, I am w-a-y behind. I've decided to use mainly Project Life for my newest grandchild's photos, and that is going really well, but I am hopelessly behind with the grandchild before him. Alice is the only girl in our huge brood, so her photos really should be up-to-date! Anyway, ever since I made some progress, thanks to Project Life, I have had renewed enthusiasm for traditional scrapbooking too, and have managed to get a number of pages done recently. I see no reason at all why the two systems cannot be used in the same album either, as the Project Life Album is a very sturdy ring binder, and traditional 12" X  12" inserts fit quite easily.

I CASE-d page 30 of the Australia/NZ catalogue and I haven't deviated too far from the plan. I'd have loved to have been able to use Smokey Slate but I didn't have a large piece of card in that colour, so made-do with Sahara Sand. I also wished I had the new Little Letters Thinlets so I could make a title like the catalogue sample, but you can't always have everything straight away! The Pictogram Punches stamp set supplied my title, cut with the small Label from the Label Card Thinlet.



I loved the banner on the left side of the catalogue sample, and copied that, putting a calendar and month stamps from the new photopolymer stamp set Project Life Day to Day. I circled the 10 in red, because I've had a visit from Alice (and her mother & brothers) on two consecutive 10ths of July. I have a feeling that it is because it is school holidays, and I am home from work!!!! The ampersand comes from another Project Life stamp set, Remember This. I bought both of them for a couple of reasons. Firstly, they come in handy for scrap booking and card making and secondly, in photopolymer they are so reasonably priced.
I've used photopolymer stamps before and not been so impressed, but these adhere to the blocks really firmly, and I like being able to see where they are going to stamp. I was able to actually line up the dates on the lines.

I also copied the journaling on strips pasted underneath the photos. Some of the Moonlight DSP, was put through the printer before cutting it up. Instead of using a doiley, I stamped  Daydream Medallion onto the background and then smaller medallions on to white card before cutting with Floral Frames Collection and topping with a Baked Brown embellishment. This is a very pink layout, maybe when you don't have many girls in a family, you can go a bit overboard. There's a token piece of  Soft Sky in the frame around the more recent photo of Alice. It has been cut using On Film Framelits. I was glad that those Framelits made it into the catalogue, but also sad, as it appears I have lost/thrown out the tiny camera which is part of that set. Unfortunately, it is so easy to do, when you're having a clean-up!


Don't forget to check out what other members of the design team have cased, and we'd love to see your projects too.

Cheers....

Rachel

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