Gabrielle Butterfly

Once again using Bo Bunny Gabrielle papers I made this card.  Actually it's a case from one of Sharon's card at Stamp Simply.  The teal card stock is Bo Bunny's double dot with matches the papers exactly.  The ribbon banner I absolutely love, so easy to use. Stampin' Up very vanilla seam binding was scrunched into a bow and secured with flowers. The teal velvet ribbon is so yummy.

OK, must get on and hopefully today will get some more cards done.  I do have one half made so will get that finished too.

Enjoy your day everyone.

Watermelon Gabrielle.

I had been saving this Bo Bunny Gabrielle paper pad until I had more matching ribbons and accessories to go with it but just couldn't resist making this card after seeing Sharon's latest creation.

It's pretty self explanatory really, just very vanilla base, with matching coral double dot c/s for the next layer.  Watermelon lace and very vanilla SU satin ribbon with a antique brad, roses and some punches leaves finished off the right hand corner.  The greeting is a SU one which I 'found' the other day in amongst my stamps.  I then split the flourish and adhered it to top and bottom of the greeting.

Thanks for visiting today.

Motorbike on Navy & Orange.

Stampin' Up's a la carte Motorbike stamp is perfect for those male cards.  This card uses the now retired Travel Journal dsp.  I was at the time making another motorbike card and had this piece of embossed silver card leftover.  So to use it up I made this card.  Simple but reasonably effective I thought.  The cord at the bottom belongs to my camera and isn't part of the card.  Can't take the photo again 'cause I don't have the card anymore.  Wish I'd realised at the time.

Have a wonderful day everyone and thanks for visiting.

More Vintage!!

I became an admirer of Joanne Leddy, Creative Stamping Ideas, when I stumbled across her blog from several sources in my blog hopping around times.

I love the way this lady can mix and match papers, colours, ribbons and embellishments, things that I wouldn't think of putting together, to make a fabulous piece of artwork.

When I saw this card, I thought, wow, fancy putting the black spot with those papers but it works!! 

Here are my attempts to recreate Joanne's card.

My cards have extra layers on them, and use a die cut doily die instead of crochet. In the centre of the flowers are  SU Antique brads.  I did dye the seam binding with So Saffron reinker with a few sprays of pearl glimmer mist.  The hand made flower is liberally coated in pearl glimmer mist...love this stuff.  The cardstock is very vanilla, pale plum (retired) and so saffron.  The so saffron dsp is some that I had put away and I can't even tell you which pack it's from.  Long gone I think.

The images are from a gorgeous vintage set from Crafty Secrets which I stamped onto very vanilla and lightly water coloured with pale plum, so saffron, pear pizzazz and soft suede. I distressed the edges with tea stain ink from the new SU distressing kit. Am loving this kit.

Once again, my sewing machine came into use and overall I'm really happy with the results.

This morning I went to the Tourist Centre to book some cards in and before I could get them into the display racks, one of these cards below had sold.  Great hey?  I was so pleased.

Hope everyone has a wonderful day or what's left of it.
Take care and thanks for visiting my blog.

ETA: I must apologise for the quality of the photos.  I took them at night and the editing program didn't lighten them as much as I thought it would.