My Boys 17th Birthday using Rev Up The Fun!

Hi there, 

I have a class running this morning but I just wanted to pop on here and share Josh's birthday card from last week. Yep, my biggest boy was 17 last week! Gee that makes me feel old!

 Of course now he's 17 he will be learning to drive, another thing for me to fret about no doubt but it did give me some inspiration for his card ;-)

I used Gorgeous Grunge for the background, with the card from Rev Up the Fun and of course the all important "17" is from Memorable Moments.

 I added this little Hardware clip with a glue dot after tying some twine to it to accent the number

 these chevrons are from the circles thinlits flip card set, I embossed with the dies using this technique then highlighted them using a touch of grey ink and a dauber

 a side view showing the layers

 and a rare, sneaky picture of the birthday boy to finish (taken at Christmas)

Right, I have to dash off now to take kids to school before class.

Thanks for looking today

Stampin' Hugs,

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Products Used to create this project:

Rev Up The Fun!	Memorable Moments	Gorgeous Grunge	Whisper White A4 Card Stock	Basic Gray A4 Card Stock	Smoky Slate Stampin' Write Marker	Real Red A4 Card Stock
Real Red Classic Stampin' Pad	Midnight Muse A4 Card Stock	Circle card Thinlits Die	Premium Crease Pad	Big Shot Die-Cut Machine	Essentials Hardware Clips

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Hello there,
I am back from my holiday now and have a few tons of updates to share with you! 
I hope my scheduled posts kept you going while we were away in Spain visiting with family, the weather was wonderful (not like here right now!) and the relaxation was even better ;-)
So, updates you say? Yep, there have been a few things that have come about whilst we were away so I will do my best to run through them quickly with you before I share a card I made for a lady at Hubbys work. 
As always to place an order just email me with your choices or call, contact details at the end of this post. 
{You should also be able to click on the pics to make them larger.}
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Now, onto the card. I used the (retired) Patio Party papers as I made this a few weeks ago ;-)
I love the colours of these papers still; Midnight Muse, Primrose Petals and Summer Starfruit...

 sentiment is from Memorable Moments, flowers are the Floral Fusion sizzlit and one of the itty bitty punches

 stitched ribbon in Primrose Petals with a vintage faceted button, the decorative edge on the card across the bottom is the lovely Finishing Touches Edgelit

  bunting I stitched across the top corner

and the inside to finish

Wow! Super long post today, I hope you are still with me and if you want to order any of the goodies I have  (or haven't) mentioned then please just email me with your choices :-)
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Memorable Moments with Everything Eleanor for a 40th card

Hello there today!

I am going to make this a super quick post with plenty of pics and not so much chatter as we have sooo much to do this am!!

I was recently asked by my friends husband to make a card for her 40th birthday and of course I said yes!

 I made this card using Memorable moments and For my family (retired) in new colours of Crisp Cantaloupe and Soft Sky *adore* with Sahara Sand as a base ;-)

 the Memorable Moments sentiment set matches the framelits, 

 some 3d flowers in the new cantaloupe, it's a beautiful pale coral colour, I can see this will be a firm favourite!

 new "very vintage" buttons

 and a (blurry, sorry) inside picture

Right, I hope you liked today's card, I have run out of time to schedule any more posts so I will be back on Monday with an update on my weekend and some more cardy stuff of course!!

Thanks for stopping by!

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Secret Garden with a little Framelit Top Tip Tutorial

Hello there,

Following on from this weeks other posts using the Secret Garden stamps and framelits I wanted to make it a bit easier when you use the stamps to find the way the dies fit over the image so I made a quick tutorial for you at the same time :-) Scroll down to see it.

I will start with the last card from the class and its a colour combo of Midnight Muse with Calypso Coral, it's a CAS design and I really liked this look with the set, I teamed it with the frame and sentiment from Memorable Moments... 

(if you want to see more from either set click on the "Labels" link at the end of this post)

 as you can see we die cut out the flowers and leaves curving them with the bone folder for depth just adding some bakers twine in keeping with the CAS look

the Memorable Moments frame and sentiment which I skipped die cutting out and just stamped it straight onto the card layer in Basic Grey

 So, to make die cutting the irregular shaped flower out easier this is what I did;

Start by choosing a "top" section of the flower, I chose an area where there was slightly more gap between the petals but this is up to you ;-) Mark it with a sharpie

 then tip it up so you can see the front and the side edge, mark again directly above the first spot

 turn again and mark the reverse, this mark should be in exactly the same place as the front one

 now, I marked the scrap piece of card I was working on  for the benefit of this tutorial, I would say it was optional when you do this at home because you will be doing each step immediately (not stopping to take pics in between ;-))

 Now, ink and stamp your image ensuring your mark is at the top 

 Place the die over the image and mark at the same point and then each time you need to die cut this image out it should be easy to find the correct position!

 This tutorial is only really necessary with irregular shapes like the flowers from Secret Garden but I do hope it helps someone out there :-)

So, that's all from me for today,

Thanks for visiting!!

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Sweet 16 with Memorable Moments by Stampin' Up!

Hello there,

it was my friends daughters birthday last week  and she asked me to make her a card with 16 and daughter on it. I immediately thought of the new Memorable Moments stamps set, I have used this a few times already! It's a great modern font and I really hope they bring out an alphabet to match soon!! ;-) I used a modern colour combo of Summer Starfruit (LOVE!) and Baja Breeze, pretty but grown up...

  I used Patio Party paper for this card, it has smaller patterns perfectly sized for cards. 

This paper is available in THIS SHARE HERE, message me to get your paper share today :-)

I also used framelits to die cut the frame and the wonderful chevron embossing folder, "daughter" stamp is from the very useful For My Family stamp set.

 New butterfly punch and vintage faceted buttons, love these! A Lot!

 I made small scrunched flowers with the Boho Blossom punch and shimmer paint mixed with alcohol

 and an arty angle shows just how deep this card is

 and a bit of decoration inside

 So, as it was deep I decorated this box to send the card using framelits and more of the DSP

 and finally both together

Well, today's post was a bit picture heave so I hope you managed to stick with it OK?

Thanks as ever for stopping by today

Stampin' Hugs,