Create Flowers of the Season

If you think of flowers in summer, you will probably think of roses and what better way is there of bringing some seasonal colour to your creativity, than by making these lovely fabric roses from seam binding ribbon. They will add a great dimension to your cards/layouts and when teamed with stamped images, give a very elegant look to your work. They are also extremely satisfying to make!

In the sample card, the roses have been teamed with stamped images using the Greenhouse Garden two-step stamps and the paper is from the Springtime Vintage collection.
If you'd like to have a go at making them, we will be making them in some of our Caerphilly cardmaking and scrapbooking workshops throughout August, so if you don't want to miss out, book your place now!
The seam binding ribbon is available in four gorgeous colours: Baja Breeze, Crumb Cake, Pear Pizzazz (pictured in my card) and Rose Red. here is the colour chart from the catalogue.

So Cute!

I have been having more fun with die-cuts today. Claire (my Stampin' Up! upline) sent me some die cuts using the new Mini Milk Carton Bigz L die, Beautiful Butterflies Bigz die and Beautiful Wings Embosslits die and I couldn't wait to get started on them. The milk carton are so cute and perfect for gifts like jewellery and choccies and the butterflies are so pretty and useful. I just love the swirl on the largest butterfly on the embosslits die. So elegant. I can now see them all appearing on my next order, thanks Claire!

MONOCHROMATIC CLASSICS Stampin' Up!'s Core Colour Collection is simply the most versatile selection of products that make gorgeous and stylish projects quickly and effortlessly, just when you need them!

All you need to make the following cards is any colour or pattern paper from one of the Patterns Designer Series Paper Stacks, a sheet of matching card, a matching ink pad and whisper white card plus a few wonderful Stampin' Up stamps and punches.

Lots Of Hearts Card -sample in Perfect Plum from Subtles collection. You will also need: Hearts stamp from Love You Much set, Greeting stamp from Heard From The Heart set Heart to Heart punch, A border punch.

• Make a 6" square card from Whisper White cardstock.



• Cut a square of patterned paper approx. 13cm square.



• Mount onto whisper white card and trim to leave a narrow border around.



• Mount onto matching cardstock and trim to leave a narrow border around.



• Onto whisper white card, stamp greeting of choice in matching ink.



• Trim into a strip and then punch both sides with a border punch.



• Stick into position down centre of background mount.



• Trim off excess and stick onto a 6" square base card.



• Onto Whisper White cardstock, stamp hearts twice using matching ink.



• Punch out using Heart to Heart punch and stick into position on card.

Love Heart Card - sample in Melon Mambo from Brights collection

You will also need: Large Heart and Love stamps from Love You Much stamp set, Basic Pearls, A border punch.

• Make a 6" square card from Whisper White cardstock.



• Cut two strip of patterned paper in different patterns but the same colour to approx. 2.5" wide and 5" long.



• Punch the ends of one strip with a border punch. Stick into position.



• Stamp Love You Much stamp in space between the l-shape, in matching ink.



• Stamp large Heart stamp on white card and cut out. Stick in position.



• Add gems.

Stampin' Up!'s Colour Core Collection includes Designer Series Paper Stacks, Cardstock packs, ribbons, ink pads, inks and markers - all in a wonderful series of colours that match perfectly for a totally professional finish! To order these products, contact me.