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.

Adding Shape To Easel Cards

I thought you might like to see these pretty shaped easel cards that I have been making with my Big Shot. By using the fantastic Scallop Circle and Top Note dies from Stampin' Up! you are able to create some really lovely shapes to work with. To make the Scallop Circle Easel card, I started with a folded 5"x5" square card base and placed it over the die, so that fold was inside the die shape. To make the Top Note shaped card, I started with a folded C6 card base and placed it inside the die shape before passing through the Big Shot.

Once they have die cut the base card, score one side of the card in half.

Then make a single die cut shape in the same design and stick it to the lower part of the fold.

The best thing is, you can then die cut your patterned paper to cover it exactly with no extra cutting out by hand and it will fit perfectly! Here is a close up and more details of the two designs:
Made with Springtime Vintage papers and Nature Walk stamp setMade using Elegant Soiree papers and Vintage Vogue stamps.

Pretty Pillow Boxes

I've just received my new Stampin' Up! pillow box die and suddenly making boxes is so easy!

Decorating the boxes is a great way of using up leftovers and they are the perfect size for small gifts like choccies, jewellery and soap. This die will prove invaluable for my collection. I love it!

These pillow boxes have been made fom Marina Mist cardstock and leftovers are Springtime Vintage and Blueberry Crisp papers. I have decorated the boxed with Stampin' Up! punches.

Springtime Is Here!

The trees are getting greener, the tulips are out and we have had the most glorious start to April, so what better way to get some spring spirit than by indulging in the new Springtime Vintage papers from Stampin' Up.

This pretty collection of papers will take you all the way into summer with pretty florals, stripes and prints. I have teamed them with:

• Pear Pizzazz and Very Vanilla cardstock



• Rose Red and Pear Pizzazz inks



• curly frame stamp from the Baby Blossoms stamp set



• dotty frame stamp from the Four Frames stamp set.

The butterfly was made using the butterfly stamp (Salebrations Pot Pourri set) or you could use any butterfly from the Butterfly Prints set.

Thanks for looking!

Ness x