Spring Mini 2009 Launch

I know it's been a little while since I've posted, but I do have a good excuse - my parents are visiting! They came up for Miss Luana's birthday and it's been great to have some time off work and spend some time with them. Nothing exciting, just hanging around the house (in between me running around town for meetings... even though it was my week off...). I also held a Spring Mini Catalogue launch last weekend, which Mum was here in time for.

Our first project was this cute little page corner bookmark from the July Impressions (our Stampin' Up! demonstrator newsletter - one of the bonuses of being a demo!). I made the So Saffron one as the sample, and the Basic Grey one on the day. The technique featured on this project was masking, to keep everything as flat as possible for use in a book! They work wonderfully!! (I've just finished Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)

For our second project we made a Father's Day card (thanks for the reminder Sharon) using Sense of Time and LOTS of distressing. The main clock face was unceremoniously scrunched after stamping and after 'flattening back out', a litle bit of Close to Cocoa pastel was rubbed on (with fingers) to add to the aged effect. All edges were distressed with scissors, and Sanded provided the perfect background. The cogs in the greeting panel were second generation stamped, as well as being scrunched and pasteled, and the word window was edged in Close to Cocoa (greeting was in Old Olive). This sketch was based on the Mojo Monday #98 one which I didn't get photographed in time to enter...

I love the dino I made for Leah's July challenge so much I just had to use him again! I also wanted to show that Christmas DSP can be used for non-Christmas projects. I ended up offering the option of making this little fella with Chocolate Chip spine plates in the workshop and he looked really good (I didn't get mine finished :) - we only had one SNAIL between 5 of us by the end of the afternoon, and he takes a bit of time to stick together...). Due to adhesive supply issues, this card took the longest of all the projects!!

We had a great afternoon - leave a comment or e-mail me if you would like me to contact you about my next workshop.

Butterfly Bookmark

Stamps: Great Friend (Spring Mini)

Card: So Saffron/Basic Grey

DSP: Walk in the Park (Spring Mini)

Ink: Baja Breeze, Cameo Coral

Other: paper piercer

Time for Father

Stamps: Sense of Time (Spring Mini), Wonderful Favourites, Sanded

Card: More Mustard, Old Olive, Very Vanilla

DSP: Haiku

Ink: Close to Cocoa, Old Olive

Other: Stampin' Pastels, Aged Brass brad, word window punch

Happy Birthday Dino

Stamps: Birthday Wish (Spring Mini)

Card: Baja Breeze, Real Red, Old Olive

DSP: Ski Slope (Spring Mini)

Ink: Old Olive

Punches: 1 1/4" square, 1 3/8" square, 1 3/8" circle, 5 petal flower, small oval, large oval, word window, crop-o-dile

Other: paper piercer

One Cupcake....

It's Luana's birthday coming up and I've been playing around with what to do for her card. I used Crazy for Cupcakes for her invites, and thought I'd use it for her card too but have had a bit of a block as to how. Karen's latest Sweet Sunday Sketch (No. 29) provided some inspiration...

I don't have any buttons in my stash, so have substituted one ofthe funky new Flower Assortment Designer brads from the brand new Spring Mini.

I paper pieced the bottom of the large cupcake from Crazy for Cupcakes using Sweet Always DSP, glitter-fied the cake part and popped it up using dimensionals. The Pumpkin Pie base has some paper piercing around the edge for a bit of interest. I used Chocolate Chip grosgrain ribbon either side of the Sweet Always spotty panel for a bit of texture. For the banner sentiment, I used a pop up glue dot in the middle to make it look as though it's waving in the breeze.

I think I may have OD'd on the chunky glitter, I'm not quite sure. This one will be going into my display box as it's not quite right for my precious little one - stay tuned to see what I come up with!

Stamps: Crazy for Cupcakes, Sweet Little Sentiments (Level 1 Hostess Set)
Card: Regal Rose, Pumpkin Pie, Whisper White
Paper: Sweet Always
Ink: Chocolate Chip, Pumpkin Pie
Other: Chunky glitter, Flower Assortment Designer Brad (Summer Mini), Chocolate Chip grosgrain ribbon, pop up glue dots, paper piercer

Curtain Call Colour Challenge Act 2 with Inkspirations Sketch #11

I've had a busy few days that haven't allowed much time for stamping, so I was quite please with myself when I figured out I could pair up Stacey's Curtain Call Colour Challenge Act 2 with Keesh's latest (gorgeous) sketch for her Inkspirations Challenge.

Bravo Burgandy is a colour I don't pull out all that often, but gee it looks good in this combo.

More circles!! I rotated Keesh's sketch and moved the circles/brads down closer to the panel. I only received my Sense of Time this week so I've been itching to play with it; Paul used to work with watches, so I couldn't not add this set to my collection!

I stamped the clock in Bravo Burgandy on So Saffron, and the 'Learn, Live, Hope' quote in Mellow Moss on Whisper White. Next to the quote I stamped the cogs in So Saffron, using the Stamp-a-ma-jig to line the cogs up so it looks like they are all working together. I continued the cog line for to the top of the card. The bottom cog was cut out separately and mounted with a dimensioal after popping a pewter brad through the centre. Three pewter brads finished the sketch.

This card is actually quite a small one (3 1/2" square), and I think it's worked out not too badly at all!

Stamps: Sense of Time (Spring Mini)

Card: Mellow Moss, Bravo Burgandy, So Saffron, Whisper White

Ink: Mellow Moss, Bravo Burgandy, So Saffron

Other: Pewter brads

Here Comes the Stegosaurus

I think dinosaurs are pretty cool and the stegosaurus is my favourite. When I was pregnant I found a shop that sold plush dinos, but no stegosaurus :( I'm quite happy Luana has got into 'Harry and the Bucketful of Dinosaurs' - she was actually telling me all their names today! So, I was a bit excited about Leah's July Challenge and had planned what I was going to make weeks ago, but it was left 'til today to actually make the card - oops! And Luana was having a velcro day, so not much time for stamping...

Leah pulled the colours Pacific Point. Baja Breeze, Kiwi Kiss, Riding Hood Red and Whisper White. I (of course) had to run with the dinosaur theme too!

I know there are some very talented paper crafters out there, and using punches to create critters is not one of my strong points, so I did a bit of a search and found this cute little fellow on Kristen's Kreations and as an added bonus, it was a stegosaurus!! I tried really hard to think how I could do a triceratops using the scallop circle punch too, but creativity eluded me... If you know, could you please leave a comment!! Thanks!
I've made a couple of little adjustments to Kristen's original - I added in an extra layer of spine plates to emulate the double row, and I've added in tail spikes too which I just cut free hand. The reason Luana was telling me all about Harry's Dinosaurs is because I went on-line to double check Steggy's colours - he's a light blue with purple spine plates, so my little fella became Baja Breeze with Pacific Point spine plates! (I made an all Kiwi Kiss one as a prototype, so I'll pop him on a card and show you all at some stage). The rest of the card is quite straight forward - many thanks to my brother for humouring me and giving me suggestions on the layout!!

Thanks again Leah - this was a lot of fun!!

Stamps: Birthday Wish

Card: Pacific Point, Baja Breeze, Kiwi Kiss, Riding Hood Red, Whisper White

Paper: Urban Oasis, Washington Apple, Hand Drawn (from the Level 3 Hostess Bundle Hand Drawn)

Ink: Riding Hood Red

Punches: word window, 1 3/8" circle, small oval, large oval, 5 petal flower, Crop-o-dile, 1 1/4" square, 1 3/8" square

Other: paper piercer, Basic Black Stampin' Write Journaller

Curtain Call Colour Challenge Act 1

If you haven't been over to check out Stacey's Stamping Stage recently, head on over! She's recently had a blog makeover and it looks FABULOUS! Unfortunately, the makeover also heralded the end of her Jewellery Coloour Inspiration Challenges, but these have been replaced with the Curtain Call Colour Challenge.

What a great colour combo to start with! So crisp and fresh. I decided to team these colours with the latest Sweet Sunday Sketch.

Circles! I cringe a bit when I see circles (especially larger ones) in sketches because I only have 2 circle punches. I need a circle cutting system; hand cut ones with distressed edges just don't work for all projects!

This big flower is great for layering in different layers and the Boho Blossoms punch was fantastic for the smaller flowers - not so much fiddly cutting! Clear rhinstone brads finished off the flowers nicely, and some paper piercing completed the card.

Thanks again girls!

Stamps: One of a Kind

Card: Night of Navy, Not Quite Navy, Whisper White

Paper: Urban Garden

Ink: Night of Navy, Not Quite Navy

Other: Boho Blossoms punch, clear rhinestone brads, paper piercer

Another Masculine Birthday Offering

I hope you have been having a great week, mine seems to have flown. We were up in Darwin over the weekend, which always puts a different spin on the week following, but I was also home with a not-100% little person on Monday so had an ever shorter working week than usual. This weekend is a long one for us too; we have a wedding on Saturday and the circus is in town so we'll see if we get to that - Luana's not all that keen to go at the moment.

This week Makeesha's Inskpiration Challenge is an Inspiration one and my intial instinct was masculine and stripes. I do love the colours in this bedding set too - I reckon I could get Paul to agree to that for our room!!

True to my intial instincts, I decided to make a card for my cousin who celebrates his 22nd birthday next week. I've gone with the stripes, but have also drawn inspiration from the diamond shape in the doona cover, the layered pillows, the black pillow and the silver handles of the wardrobe, and of course the lovely colours - I used Basic Grey, Basic Black, So Saffron, Whisper White, Close to Cocoa and Tempting Turquoise.

The stripe across the card reflects quite closely the stripe across the bottom of the doona cover; I've used the small 'happy birthday' from Big Bold Birthday for the thin black stripe. I decided to slightly layer the diamonds over the stripe to emulate the pile of pillows on the bed, and I kept the black diamonds plain, just like the little black pillow in the middle of the pile. The present reflects the small turquoise pillow with white detail and the silver bow links in with the silver on the wardrobe.

A bit different to what I had originally thought, but I think my cousin will like it!

Stamps: Big Bold Birthday

Card: Basic Grey, So Saffron, Basic Black, Whisper White, Close to Cocoa, Tempting Turquoise

Paper: Basic Grey Patterns (Level 1 Hostess Set)

Ink: Basic Black, Tempting Turquoise

Other: 1 1/4" square punch, 1 3/8" square punch, silver cord (retired)

Be Prepared for Chistmas Workshop Projects

Sounds a little but like a workshop for Cubs or Scouts! As promised, here are the projects we made at my Christmas workshop last Friday. We had a great night with lots of laughs, gossip and creating.

We made three projects, and I'm thinking I maybe should have called the workshop Glitterati or something similar as I didn't realise I used Dazzling Diamonds in every project until I was getting together all the supplies. I ended up covered! But did look rather 'Dazzling' for the evening!!

Our first project was gift tags. I love the combo of blue and silver for Christmas, so used this as my starting point. The rectangle tags are 1 1/2" X 2 1/2". The star punches were used for the first two, punching Ballet Blue and Brushed Silver. The second two tags used the oval punches as the tag with the smaller 'joy' circle and three of the flower petals stamped a second time, cut out and attached with dimensionals. You can't see in in this (the-best-I-could-do) photo, but I've also added a bit of detail with a silver gel pen - dots on the 'joy' tag and the centre dots on the flower one. Last but not least, I stamped the tree from Season of Joy directly into the tag and Dazzled the star, and stamped off the swirl from Spotlight on Christmas before stamping directly onto the tag. The large star punch was used to punch out the star from the same set, which had also been Dazzled.

This second card was inspired by two swaps I received at Adelaide regionals last year from Kerrie Rootsey and Tamara Conroy - thank you ladies! I'm sorry but I don't have any blog links for them.
I inked the words square from Season of Joy in Almost Amethyst, removed the ink off one word (in this one 'joy') with a blender pen, then inked it with a Lovely Lilac marker. I inked and stamped 'joy' a second time, this time cutting out the 'o' and adding some sparkle before attaching it with a dimensional. So Swirly Jumbo wheel was inked in Almost Amethyst and wheeled on one half of the base card, with the spots being highlighted by a white gel pen.

Last but not least we made this traditional card. Scroll down to my next post for the details.

I will be holding my next workshop for the Spring Mini Catalogue Launch on Saturday August 8th at 2pm. If you would like to join us for a fun afternoon, e-mail me.

Gift Tags

Stamps: Season of Joy, Spotlight in Christmas
Card: Ballet Blue, Whisper White, Brushed Silver
Ink: Ballet Blue
Other: Large star punch, small star punch, small oval punch, large oval punch, Dazzling Diamonds, silver gel pen (non-SU!)




Swirls of the Season Card
Stamps: Season of Joy, So Swirly Jumbo Wheel
Card: Almost Amethyst, Lovely Lilac, Whisper White
Ink: Almost Amethyst, Lovely Lilac
Other: white gel pen, Dazzling Diamonds

Joy Shared Flower Card:

Stamps: Spotlight on Christmas, Many Merry Messages

Card: Rose Red, Mellow Moss, Always Artichoke, Very Vanilla

Ink: Rose Red, Always Artichoke

Other: 5 petal flower punch, Dazzling Diamonds, paper piercer

Christmas Inspiration Already?!

Gee, we're almost at the end of July, and before we know it, it will be Christmas. It's a time of year that always seems to sneak up on me; must be because there seems to be a lot of conferences and professional development sessions around this time of year, so I'm not spending quite as much time in the office... We also don't have any public holidays in the NT after Picnic Day in August until Christmas.

In an effort (!) to be a bit organised this year, and to help other people like myself who have Christmas sneak up on them, I am holding a Christmas card workshop Friday night. The colours in Makeesha's latest Inkspiration colour combo were perfect inspiration for such an occasion!

I wanted to keep the card quite simple so that it would be easy enough to make 50 or so of them without too much stress if need be , but still pretty. Spotlight on Christmas is an awesome set where every stamp coordinates with a punch (even the swirl) - no cutting!! I haven't stretched the imagination too much, but layered the flowers and leaves punched with the 5 petal punch. I stamped the flower in Always Artichoke on Mellow Moss so it wasn't quite so heavy. The flower in the bottom right hand corner is popped up from the leaves, then popped up from the other two flowers with dimensionals. A little bit of Dazzling Diamonds and some paper piercing and that's about it!

I am working on the other two projects for the workshop tonight, so will post them after the workshop.

Have a great weekend!

Stamps: Spotlight on Christmas, Many Merry Messages
Card: Rose Red, Always Artichoke, Mellow Moss, Very Vanilla
Ink: Rose Red, Always Artichoke
Other: 5 petal flower punch, Dazzling Diamonds, paper piercer

Rock'n Roll Burgandy Butterfly

You've gotta give it to Dawn, she puts forward wonderful photos as inspiration for her Raspberry Suite Colour Challenges, and this week was no exception. The most gorgeous colour combinations occur in nature that I know I would never usually think to put together (like the last Pink and Red one!!).

This weeks colour combo coupled with Karen's latest Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge provided some fabulous inspiration. BTW, I was the winner of the the SSSC #26!!! Thanks Karen!

I was so tempted not to stamp tonight, but instead curl up on the couch and watch Supersize vs Superskinny, but I really wanted to give these challenges a go... so I watched from the table instead of the couch.

Not a bad result! This colour combo and the sketch really are lovely - I'll be pulling them out again.

I stamped the big butterfly from Garden Whimsy in Pink Passion, then rock'n rolled it in Bravo Burgandy. I normally put Dazzling Diamonds on the wings, but thought I would give it a miss this time. The edges of the circles were distressed (great way to hide hand cutting!) and I inked up a small section of the Scribble Jumbo wheel with my Certainly Celery marker so I didn't get a 'straight' line of image across the circle. I also used this wheel on the Bravo Burgandy card base. A little bit of scalloping on the edge of the Pink Passion adds a bit of interest, as do the folds on the ribbon. I don't own a sewing machine, so glue dots make do!

Thanks again ladies - love your work!

Stamps: Garden Whimsy, A Little Birthday Cheer, Scribble Junbo Wheel

Card: Bravo Burgandy, Pink Passion, Certainly Celery, Very Vanilla

Ink: Bravo Burgandy, Pink Passion, Certainly Celery

Other: Scallop edge punch, Very Vanilla grosgrain ribbon

Colour Throwdown Commotion

The girls over at Color Throwdown have put together yet another great combo - it's been a while since I've been organised enough to play along.
I thinks it's always interesting what comes to mind when you first see colour combos. For this one, my thoughts were along the lines of using the a-little-challenging-to-use set Ocean Commotion. I must admit, I've pulled it out a little bit lately...

I am really happy with how this turned out. No fancy techniques, just a little bit of stamping off , a little bit of tearing (for the sand) and fussy cutting, but the colours just work so well.

Thanks for the inspiration!

Stamps: Ocean Commotion, Short & Sweet

Card: Garden Green, Lavendar Lace, So Saffron, Whisper White

Paper: So Saffron Patterns

Ink: Garden Green, So Saffron, Lavendar Lace

Other: Small oval punch

Live Life

This is my last post for today - honest. I'm about to head to bed...

It feels like a while since I've played along with Kristina's Colour Challenge, and boy, did working with 5 colours plus white test the ol' brain a bit!

I FINALLY inked up the Level 1 Hostess set Live Like You Mean It. I think it's a great set, but just haven't found the right project to use it until now. I quite like the lots of layers in this card. A little bit different to what I normally work with. Each of the flowers was stamped in So Saffron, had the outline stamped in Pumpkin Pie, were fussy cut, had a bit of Dazzling Diamonds added to the centre and were mounted with dimensionals.

I'll take a better photo tomorrow in daylight.
ETA: New photo uploaded as promised

Hope you're having a great weekend.


Stamps: Live Like You Mean It (Level 1 Hostess)
Card: Ballet Blue, Pumpkin Pie, So Saffron, Certainly Celery, Whisper White
Paper: So Saffron Patterns
Ink: Certainly Celery, So Saffronm Pumpkin Pie, Ballet Blue
Other: Rose Red double stitched ribbon, Dazzling Diamonds, 1 1/4" circle punch, 1 3/8" circle punch, paper piercer, Styled Silver Hodgepodge Hardware

Rubies, Plums and Lavendar (no amethysts)

Stacey's Jewellery Colour Inspiration this week featured purples once again - yay!! But alas, I don't have Rich Razzleberry so substituted Perfect Plum as another reddish-purple, like in the last challenge I posted today. I don't pull out Lavendar Lace a lot either, in fact, I'm yet to purchase the large ink pad...

Stacey chose yet another gorgeous piece to inspire us.



I thought and thought about what I could do with this colour combo and eventually came up with a one sheet wonder type solution. I actually only stamped a 1/4 of a sheet of card, and still have the left over bit waiting to be made into another card. I wanted to get this one up and posted though. I'm quite happy with how the sheet turned out. For accents, I inked the butterfly with Lavendar Lace (Stampin' Write markers are so versatile!) and rock 'n rolled it in Perfect Plum - lovely effect, and added it with dimensionals on the edge of a piece of Styled Silver Hodgepodge so it's wings 'flutter'. The strip of Ruby Red has also been pierced along the edges to link in with the dots in the Priceless stamps.

Thanks for another great combo Stacey!

Stamps: Priceless, Big Bold Birthday
Card: Lavendar Lace, Perfect Plum, Ruby Red, Whisper White
Ink: Lavendar Lace, Perfect Plum, Ruby Red
Other: paper piercer, Whisper White grosgrain ribbon, Styled Silver Hodgepodge Hardware, small oval punch

One for Birthday and One for a Best Friend

Luana's sleeping, Paul's been trying to figure out the Wii and is now watching footy, so that leaves me just to potter - don't you love lazy weekend days like this?! We have a long weekend here for this one; we had Show Day yesterday which was quite long (I'm glad it's only here once a year!) but a really good day. Luana's now at that age where she's really gets excited about things, but doesn't quite get the whole commercial aspect. I know that will come all too soon. Luana was lucky enough to have her face painted (twice! she rubbed the first one off):


This is the second one. The first was pink - of course! We also had the opportunity to go up in a helicopter for a quick ride. This was both Paul and Luana's first time in one and I'm not sure who was more excited! They even gave Luana little purple ear muffs to wear! We were lucky enough to see our house while we were up too:

It's in there! We live in a block of units.

Anyway, enough of our Show experience, onto a couple of the cards I have been making this week. I haven't had the time to play along with Karen's Sweet Sunday Sketch much lately, but made the time for this one - it's great! I thought it would be just the layout for a little girl's birthday coming up.

I've rotated the sketch, and moved the brads a bit...

The centre of the flower is from Time to Party - such a cool set! I used the retired 1/4" circle punch to punch out a 3 stamped and edged in Apricot Appeal and attached it with a bit of a dimensional to make it stand our a little bit more. The 1 3/8" circle punch fits the large circle just right! A little bit of Certainly Celery card punched with the scallop edge punch provided the grass (and linked in with the scallop circle flower!). The Almost Amethyst DSP is the retired Prints from last year. So Swirly was wheeled in the background, and the ice rhinestone brads finished the sketch - albeit down the bottom instead of the top.

As I adjusted the sketch a little bit, I thought I'd make another card that fit it better, this time using the latest Scrapmaster's Paradise Colour Combo.

What great colours, but we don't have Rich Razzleberry (am SO hoping it will be released to us in a Mini or something - I think it's GORGEOUS and will be really disappointed if we miss out!), so I substituted Perfect Plum as another reddish-purple.

Quite a straight forward card, but I think we often forget about the versatility of wheels. Scatter Sunshine was wheeled in Baja Breeze and mounted in Perfect Plum. The greeting comes from Garden Whimsy, and I stamped the spiky flower from Simply Said across the diagonal for a bit of a background. A little bit of Chocolate Chip taffeta ribbon and a couple of layered Baja Breeze felt flowers from Flower Fusion Too with pewter brads added the finishing touches.

Now, Luana's still sleeping, so I'm off to make some more cards!

Third Birthday Card

Stamps: Time to Party, So Swirly Jumbo Wheel

Card: Almost Amethyst, Certainly Celery, Whisper White

Paper: Apricot Appeal Patterns, Almost Amethyst Prints (retired)

Ink: Certainly Celery, Apricot Appeal, Almost Amethyst

Other: 1/4" circle punch (retired), 1 3/8" circle punch, scallop circle punch, scallop edge punch, Certainly Celery grosgrain ribbon, Ice Rhinestone brads

Best Friends Listen card

Stamps: Simply Said, Garden Whimsy, Scatter Sunshine Jumbo Wheel

Card: Kiwi Kiss, Perfect Plum, Whisper White

Ink: Baja Breeze, Perfect Plum

Other: Chocolate Chip taffeta ribbon, Flower Fusion Too, pewter brads

BRIGHT Fifth Avenue

I wasn't sure if I was going to post this card just yet as I made it for a very special person who celebrates a special birthday very soon.. oh well, lets just hope she's a bit busy for the next few weeks and doesn't have time to blog surf!

I found this funky card on SCS last week and thought 'yep, that adds just the special something I want for this persons card'. Teamed with Makeesha's latest sketch (again!) I'm really happy with how it turned out. I chose the BRIGHT Pink Flamingo DSP because this person leans towards brighter colour choices and it suited her to a 't'. Plus, I could use the fabulous Fifth Avenue Floral lily - again.

The card itself it quite self-explanatory, lots of panels of colour!!

I triple layered the lily again - see detailed photo below - after white embossing it. I also clear embossed the stamen before fussy cutting them and adding a little bit of chunky glitter on the very ends (you know the bits that get EVERYWHERE in real lilies!!). For the back circle, I layered a few circles of Tempting Turquoise that had been inked around the edge. I fussy cut a daisy from the DSP to attache onto the greeting and added some more sparkle with chunky glitter. When I set the card up, I realised the large flower on the back left hand panel was looking a bit... white, so used my blender pen with Summer Sun to colour in the center dots of it. Much better!!

Back view - I used my blender pen and Cameo Coral for the outside flowers, and my good ol' Real Red Stampin' Write marker for the inside one.

Back view closed.

Just a bit if detail for you!

Thanks Keesh for helping make this special card what it is!

Stamps: Fifth Avenue Floral, A Little Birthday Cheer

Card: Cameo Coral, Tempting Turquoise, Summer Sun, Real Red, Whisper White

Paper: Pink Flamingo
Ink: Versamark, Cameo Coral, Tempting Turquoise, Real Red, Summer Sun
Other: white embossing powder, clear embossing powder, 1 1/4" circle punch, word window punch, chunky glitter, Real Red 5/8" grosgrain ribbon

Just Because in Summer Sun

The card I put together last night for Kelly Jo's latest Colour Chef Challenge was in complete contrast to the other card I made - very simple and straight forward compared to embossing, fussy cutting and colouring...

The challenge this week was to use Black, White and Yellow. I used some Summer Sun DSP from the Pink Flamingo pack as that's what I already had out and thought it would work. Add a little bit of ribbon, a bit of bling and a sentiment and I was done! Gotta love the ones that come together without too much playing around!

I added a strip of black ribbon across the Basic Black card underneath the greeting and bow to add a bit of dimension.

I will post the other card I made last night soon too - watch this space!

Stamps: Best Yet (Level 1 Hostess Set)

Card: Basic Black, Whisper White

Paper: Pink Flamingo

Ink: Summer Sun

Other: Basic Black grosgrain ribbon, Large Oval punch, Clear Rhinestone brad