Showing posts with label Tag Talk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tag Talk. Show all posts

Monday, 10 November 2014

Stripes and Flowers FMS#161

What a busy weekend! I've had a heap of birthday shopping to do for my November/December grandchildren and my husband's birthday (tomorrow). Sunday I went out with a group of friends and family to see Les Miserables. I hadn't ever seen it before, so I had no idea about the storyline, nor any expectations. It was held at Her Majesty's Theatre in Melbourne, a very fine old theatre, and my daughter-in-law had booked us wonderful seats. The cast were magnificent, the costumes and scenery amazing, which ensured we had several delightful hours of entertainment. Later, we slipped into Chinatown for some yummy dumplings!

Enough about the social life! I wasn't sure that I would be able to complete this challenge for Freshly Made Sketches, but I have. I was determined to get away from the 'pink and pretty' birthday card and settled for Black, White and Daffodil Delight Blendabilities. It's always so relaxing colouring a flower with Blendabilities and you can hardly go wrong. If you love flowers, the hostess set Bloom With Hope is perfect, so many to choose from. I layered and masked just a little and fussy cut them after colouring. I like the fact that it has sentiments and verses for birthdays and bereavements.

However, because of the striped DSP, I felt the birthday label from Tag Talk was better suited here. This card has already made its way into a friend's hand for her birthday. I didn't tell her this morning that it was hot off the press!

Have a great week,

Rachel



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Friday, 12 September 2014

Enjoy Your Birthday (Ride)

Zingy colours and a cute sketch! That's a perfect recipe, to my way of thinking, anyway.

Earlier this week I had another order delivered from Stampin' Up!® and I have been dying to get my fingers inky. Colour Me! supplied the striking colour scheme, while Retro Sketches never let us down with their interesting sketches.

I wasn't too sure about Today & Everyday, so didn't order it straight away, but just take a look at all the gorgeousness made with this stamp set on Pinterest and you'll change your mind, just like I did.
It was a great chance to get Blendabilities out too, all three images in this stamp set are perfect for colouring. I began tentatively with the Coastal Cabana range,but soon became confident and used the Smokey Slate assortment for the tyres and seat.

I pulled out a banner stamp from Amazing Birthday, a Happy Birthday label from Tag Talk and stamped, before punching with the appropriate punch/framelit. There's a little Hello Honey banner between those two, it draws the eye and helps the greeting show up better. I tried a rhinestone in the headlight but it is more of an oval shape. Luckily I remembered that Dazzling Details gives a nice glimmer and gleam too! A slim outline of Coastal Cabana before mounting onto the Hello Honey base and it's all done and dusted.


Hope you are looking forward to some stamping fun too,
Rachel




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Thursday, 4 September 2014

Yellow Flowers for a Happy Birthday

I was asked today, "What have you been doing lately?" and I didn't really have any smart answer for my friend, except that I am just enjoying being happy. It is kinda funny when you feel this content with your lot in life for no particular reason! I suspect it is something to do with the sun showing its face more frequently, but I'm enjoying my work at school, the family are beautiful and we are all relatively healthy.I suspect it is spilling over into my creativity too, as I am using yellow a lot lately.

I have so much to be thankful for.

I've been out and about running messages, and having my weekly swim today, but tonight I have disappeared into my craft room to make this bright, breezy, yellow birthday card using the long-neglected Flower Shop and Petite Petals. I love the matching punches, and I'm so glad I went to the trouble of positioning them correctly when I bought Flower Shop and the Pansy Punch. I have a small 'T' inked at the top of each flower block, to help out further. I wasn't sure how I would arrange this mass of flowers or which greeting would suit, but eventually chose Tag Talk and the matching Label Bracket Punch, so this truly relied very heavily on punches today.

The patterned paper I chose is retired, Eastern Elegance DSP. I haven't ordered much current DSP yet.  I was hoping Stampin' Up!® would offer us the special they offered the North American market recently, but it is beginning to look like we won't have it. In the meantime, it forces me to reduce my stockpile of DSP, not a bad thing.

The Paper Players Challenge is a Tic-Tac-Toe, always lots of fun! I chose the left column: Birthday, Yellow, Patterned Paper.
Too easy!

Shimmery White was the card I used for the base, flowers and label. It gives a lovely shimmer and has more 'body' than Whisper White. You can just see the flowers stamped inside too.
Have a great day!
Rachel



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Saturday, 16 August 2014

What's Your Number?



I bought 25 Days, a photopolymer stamp from the upcoming (28th August) Holiday Catalogue, because
although it is intended for Christmas, I can see a huge potential for number birthday cards. Since I have six grandchildren aged under 7, this is something I will get a lot of use from. Only the numeral 11 is on a Christmas bauble, and that won't be a problem because there is a sum for 22 (11 + 11 = 22). Isn't that cute?

My card is for Rita's sketch at  Freshly Made Sketches and uses the colours at Color Throwdown, and the letters and numbers on the sample triggered my thoughts toward this somewhat generic birthday card. The colours look great together, don't they? I substituted Lucky Limeade for Kiwi Kiss.

I used Tag Talk for the first time today too. It was rather frustrating as I could not find the Label Bracket Punch anywhere. I called my husband to help look for it, sometimes a man-look is more effective than a confused-crafter-look!!!
He couldn't find it either! (Yes, I do have rather a lot of punches!!!) He suggested that I hadn't ordered it yet, and then I began to doubt myself, so I had to check over the invoices until I found it.
Not long after that, I had another look through the three baskets of punches, and there it was!!!The tag was stamped once in Lucky Limeade and once in Bermuda Bay and then I hand cut the Birthday segment and popped it with a couple of Dimensionals. Now that its been christened, I'm sure it will get quite a workout.




Hope you're planning some crafty fun, thanks for reading my blog,

Rachel






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