Stampin' Pals: Bordering Blooms

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Wednesday, 12 November 2014

Happy Holidays!

This sketch from Sunday Stamps is such a cutie. It would have been fun to use the Tape It! stamp set and Polaroid frame but that seemed far too obvious, and too easy. I began by pulling Tap, Tap, Tap from my shelf, and stamped the typewriter onto a Chalk Talk tag. I liked it, but it wasn't developing the way I'd imagined, so I've put that away for another day.

I scrolled through some more challenges and found the colour challenge at The Paper Players. I had already stamped on Whisper White before I registered that it was actually supposed to be Very Vanilla, and I'm sure it would have looked lovely, but since I wanted to use the snowflake from Frosted Sequins, the white works better.
One of the four borders in Bordering Blooms has been stamped three times across the middle of the Cherry Cobbler layer. Mingle All the Way has some great Christmas tags and this one is my favourite. I love all the different fonts and it cuts beautifully with the Banners Framelits. They are in the Weekly Deals this week! All in all, this is a quick Christmas card.

We are heading toward our summer break at Christmas, and there is only 5½ weeks of school left! Also means there's not too long till Christmas itself....have you made many cards?

Thanks for looking
Rachel

Thursday, 23 October 2014

Kirsten's Birthday

Last week, my youngest son's girlfriend turned 21. I had already purchased a gift, but wanted to include something handcrafted as well. Sometime back, I made this decorated letter for CASE-ing The Catty Home Decor. Bronwyn Eastley made these.

I used Bordering Blooms on a pre-painted wooden letter, and added a scattering of Rhinestones for a bit of class.

Luckily, Kirsten seemed to love both parts of her gift.
Cheers,
Rachel

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Friday, 17 October 2014

Bordering On Thanks CTS#96

I haven't been doing a lot of creating this week because I needed to tidy up my craft space, and sort out retired stamp sets, ink etc to put up for sale. The wonderful thing about this is, I can locate things a little easier, and it will be even easier when it some of it is in the post on its way to a new home!!!

So tonight, I have given myself some time-out to stamp and colour and create. What bliss! I had saved this sketch from N@ Ali for CAS(E) This Sketch because I wanted to use one of the border stamps with it. I may yet make several more, with different borders, just 'cos it's fun and easy.

I pulled out three colours of Blendabilities for this one and it didn't take terribly long to colour the floral strip. Bordering Blooms has four delightful floral strips. I would have used Melon Mambo, but that pack is in transit as I write this.

I wasn't sure about the photopolymer stamps that Stampin' Up!® has introduced, and I still prefer my red rubber wood-mount stamps. However, while saying that, they are superb for accurate placement. To 'get it right' I laid the stamp onto the white card, and placed the block on top, as there is a tendency to place it crookedly because the photopolymer is so flexible. That of course gives great opportunities to twist them any old way you want.

I took another photo of the card in landscape orientation, because I expect that is how the recipient will view it.

Now, I'm looking forward to a sunny weekend. That is sure to put a big smile on my face and a spring in my step, what about you?

Rachel