Birthday Passionette.. Greenhouse Garden

Hellooo today is happy day, Bekka my friend and dear Passionette is celebrating her happy day today!! Happy birthday Bekka hope you’re enjoying a fab day!!

Bekka loves Marina Mist and I used it here paired with Wild wasabi and Perfect Plum. I have chose to use the greenhouse garden stamp set from the Stampin’Up main catalogue as is been a while since I gave it some inky love.

The wasabi layer has been stamped with wasabi ink for a subtle background and some of the  flowers were stamped directly onto my white layer and some were stamped,  hand cut and mounted on dimensionals.

You can see it better in this shot.

Here’s the supply list: All products Stampin’Up! unless otherwise stated.
PAPER: Wild Wasabi, Perfect plum and whisper white card stock, Marina Mist Designer paper from the Subtles stack
INK: Basic Black pad, Wild Wasabi, Perfect plum, marina mist
STAMPS: Greenhouse garden, perfect punches
TOOLS: Scallop trim border punch, scallop circle die, big shot machine 
ACCESSORIES: pearls and marina mist satin ribbon

Start with a Wild wasabi card blank measuring 15 cm x 15 cm. Stamp a background using wasabi ink.

Cut a piece of whisper white card stock at 9cm x 15 cm and add a decorative edge on both sides.

Cut Marina Mist dsp at 6.5cm x 15cm and add to the scalloped white layer then onto the card blank. Tie a bow in marina mist satin ribbon.

Cut the scallop circle in perfect plum card and cut a slightly smaller circle in white. Stamp some of the flowers straight onto the white layer and stamp some more separately cut out and mount of 3 d dimensionals. Stamp you’re sentiment and you’re done.

I hope Bekka liked her card!! Thank you for stopping by and come back soon. till then big hugs xx

 

 

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Birthday Passionette!!!

Hello there, how are you?

Time has run away with me this week and I never had the chance to post about Jayne's Special Day yesterday so here I am a day late.

Jayne loves hot pink and I love this combo.

I have managed to have a play with a very cool new tool that will help with your cardmaking  tremendously, but of course I cannot reveal anything until the 1st October. I found about this clovely ombo and I had to try it out.

Old Olive, Melon Mambo and Basic Gray, gorgeous colours together and so grown up. I have used the Greenhouse Garden stamp set to stamp and cut out the blooms and the extra Large bird punch to punch out a few branches from Basic Gray card. The lovely sentiment is from the Happy Everything now this is a set is retiring at the end of Septemeber so if you want it please get in touch and order it.  Is a shame is going as is a lovely set so very useful for card making as well as scrapbooking.

I punched a small circle of Olive card for the centre of each flowers and topped it with a flat pearl.

The top part of the card blank was stamped with the new polka dot  background.

Here s a close up where you can see what I mean about the centres

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I love those flowers aren't they sweet? and that little bit of green in the centre just sets things off.

Jayne I hope you had a wonderful birthday full of nice surprises BIG HUGS and lots of love.

I will see you with more tomorrow as I have another Passionette celebrating her Birthday.

Till next time Hugs xxx

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Vintage Greenhouse Garden

Hi there, there is a growing trend in the cardmaking world towards the vintage style which is absolutely gorgeous. I have to admit at finding it a bit out of my comfort zone but I am the kind of crafter that likes to push herself so I will start to try and incorporate more vintage in my work. Vintage is all to do with layering and incorporating fun techniques like splattering tearing, crumpling etc. Of course it should also have girly elements like pearls and lace. So I decided to try my hand at it and made mum's card for Mother's Day. Here is my effort

I have used the Greenhouse Garden again, I just can't help it those flowers are beautiful and lots of you think that as I have sold 18 sets this month, (my target is 20, so hopefully will achieve that). Now for the background I have used the Paisely stamped in More Mustard over Confetti card stock and En Francaise big background stamped in Creamy Caramel and over that I have used the big flourish from Baroque Motifs in Mellow Moss ink. It all came together very quick, it was so much fun to keep stamping on top of other backgrounds, but I didn't stop there I added a lot of splattering on top for good measure and some tearing. I love the end result. The Mellow Moss layer had the sentiment stamped on and the whole piece was splattered and torn. The flowers stamped in Bashful Blue and Brocade Blue were decoupaged and arranged on the front and the whole piece was added to a Chocolate Chip base. Bashful taffeta and Mellow Moss taffeta were the ribbons used and of course flat pearls and crystal beads were added from the Pretties kit. I hope mum will love it as she likes flowers so I cannot wait to see what she makes of it.

Oh and I want to show you something else today you know I told you I went shopping for me on Sunday? Well I didn't buy much apart from this

I went to buy some clothes and ended up buying a travel bag ?????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I couldn't resist it though how gorgeous is it? By Ted Baker bought it in Boots and I simply adore it. I didn't need a new one but it screamed BUY ME so I did. Of course I had to have the matching little purse as well, click on the picture to make it bigger the colours are just gorgeous.

Right I am off, my sis is coming with little Luca today for a long weekend and I cannot wait I am counting the minutes away. I have plans of getting him to stamp for the first time....aaaaaahhhh.

hugs xxx

Stampin'Up! and Haiti

Hi there, I am sure you have all watched the terrible and traumatic times Haiti has witnessed recently. You cannot help but feel for their immense pain and suffering as well as rejoice when you hear miraculous stories like the most recent one about the girl they found alive after being buried in the rubble for the last 15 days.
I am so proud to be associated with a company that cares and takes action whenever there's heartache and help is much needed.
You've probably read that Stampin'Up! have decided to actively take part and help the victims affected by this terrible disaster. We can all make a difference. Here's how

From now until 28 February, 2010, £1 from every Greenhouse Garden stamp set sold will be donated Red Cross’ International Response Fund. The Red Cross is already well-established in Haiti, and this money will be used to provide immediate relief and long-term support through supplies, technical assistance and other support to help those in need.

A lovely way to make a difference and help those in need, and what a beautiful set they chose, I adore this set myself and I will match Stampin'Up!'s kind gesture by donating a further £1 to the Red cross Fund from each sold set.

Here's a bright and very cheery card made with the gorgeous Greenhouse Garden

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The colours are Pink Passion, Summer Sun and Chocolate Chip. This set is a 2 step stamping one and I have set myself a modest challenge of selling at least 5 sets which I think is very do able/ BUT if I double this by the end of Feb and I end up selling 10 I will add every person that purchase this set from myself into a draw and one lucky winner will receive a £25 Stampin'Up! voucher. In adition to that everyone purchasing this set from myself will get the following class for free.

Contact me today to order your set and make a difference. hugs xx

Birthday Passionette...........

Hellooooo.....(echo hello, hello, hello)

UGH the Christmas rush got the better of me. And as I am sure you know exactly what I mean and I won't bore you with details.

Is Stevie's Happy Birthday today !!!!!!!!!!!!!! She is one of the nicest people I have met in my entire life and I am so glad to have her in my life and is all due to Stampin'Up!

Stevie's favourite colours surprisingly are the same as Chel's, green and brown. She does prefer a lime kinda of green and when I designed her card I kept this in mind.

Here we go

I had this stamp set a while now and I am glad I have finally inked it up. I knew I would love it but I didn't know I would love this much.

I chose to make an easel card and I have used a colour I ever hardly use in fact I struggled to find a sheet spare it is Gable Green and it is such a glorious colour, I really love it and I have ordered a full pack the other day. I am now excited about future colour combination, is funny how we stick with our most used colours sometimes. Ok so stamp set is called Garden Greenhouse, colour combo is Gable Green , Choc Chip and Whisper White. Sentiment from the Sincere Salutation set.

Stevie I hope you liked your card and I hope you had a wonderful day.

I am now off to write a few more Christmas cards and stick a few more stamps on, don't forget tomorrow is the last day for 2nd class post after that you will have to go up to 1st class, and if your cards are handmade and have lots of layers that will cost you a whooping 0.61 pence per card not bad if you have 10 but if you have 300........................................Big hugs and I hope your preparations run smoothly, remember Christmas is not all about perfect gifts and perfectly roasted spuds, don't stress about it. Monica xxxx