The Tower

I decided to work on another double layout since I have so many pictures of the Tower of London from my last visit to London. I chose the colours for the flowers by looking at the colours in the Designer Series Paper (Elegant Soiree) and the background (Bravo Burgundy). This is page 1...

Page 2...

... and side by side ...

I hope you like them.

Ingredients

Cardstock: Bravo Burgundy, Soft Suede

Patterned Paper: Elegant Soiree Designer Series Paper
Ink: Baja Breeze, Bravo Burgundy, Soft Suede, Crumb Cake

Marker: Bravo Burgundy

Stamps: Punch Potpourri

Punches: Boho Blossums Extra Large, Scallop Edge

Ribbon: Very Vanilla Grosgrain

Accessories: Paper Daisies, Timeless Type Alphabet Junior Dies, Gold brads, Daubers

Happy Birthday Tristan

One of my friends is holding a party tomorrow for her son, Tristan's 1st birthday. I decided to pull out the very versatile stamp set, Fox and Friends to make his card. Along with a new set, Funky Four, which is where those cute little mushrooms come from. Once again, I've referred to the colour coach to find the colour combination of Marina Mist, Cajun Craze and Crumb Cake (I added the Whisper White to match the fabulous Organza Ribbon).

Happy Birthday Nakita

My beautiful niece, Nakita celebrated her 6th birthday last week. This is the card I made for her. It uses two stamp sets which I received in the mail last week: The Nicest Things and Style Beautiful. Once again, I pulled out my colour coach for the colour combination. I never would have used these two colours together without the colour coach, but I'm quite pleased with how this card turned out.

Ingredients

Stamp Sets - The Nicest Things, Style Beautiful

Cardstock - Pretty In Pink, Certainly Celery. Watercolour paper

Ink - Stazon Black

Ribbon - Pretty In Pink Taffeta ribbon

Other - Stampin' Pastels, Basic Pearl Jewels

GIANT Craft Sale

A reminder about my team's GIANT craft sale this Saturday. Come along and grab a bargain. You could even win one of our lucky door prizes.

Where: The Church Hall (Blacktown East Presbyterian) Corner of Heffron Rd and Gallop Gve, Lalor Park.

When: Saturday 23 October 9am to 1pm.

Hope to see you there.

Stamp-a-stack

The lovely ladies that came to my class today have just left. This is one of the cards we made. I took the colours from the great new colour coach (see page 117 of the Idea Book and Catalogue). I just picked the base colour, found the card in the colour coach and took out the cardstock in the colours listed. It makes picking colour combinations so much easier.

Ingredients
Cardstock: Crumb Cake, Riding Hood Red, Not Quite Navy, Garden Green, Whisper White
Ink: Riding Hood Red, Not Quite Navy
Stamps: Punch Potpourri Hostess Set, Wonderful Favourites
Punches: 1/2" Circle, Two-Step Bird, 1-3/4"x7/8" Oval, 1-3/8"x5/8" Oval
Marker: Basic Black (for the bird's eye)

Forest Friends

Our little friend Lucas turns 2 today so I made him this card. The little bunnies are perfect for a toddler and these colours go so well together. Look closely - I've drawn bits of grass around the bunnies with Garden Green marker.


Hope you've had a wonderful birthday Lucas. xxx.


Ingredients


Cardstock: Night of Navy, Real Red, Garden Green, Whisper White
Ink: Night of Navy, Real Red
Markers: Garden Green
Stamp Sets: Forest Friends, Great Friend
Punches: 1-3/8" x 5/8" Oval, 1-3/4" x 7/8" Oval

Father's Day

I'm looking forward to spending Father's Day with my Dad, my brother (who is also a dad) and my 5 year old niece tomorrow. My husband and I are planning to go to my Dad's for breakfast where my niece has promised to make us pancakes! Then all of us except my husband (who has an exam on Monday) will be going to lunch in the Rocks in the city. Happy Father's Day Dad - love you lots!

Ingredients for the card above...

Cardstock: Soft Suede, Certainly Celery, Very Vanilla

Ink: Soft Suede, Certainly Celery

Stamps: For You Flower, Trendy Trees, Circle Circus

Punches: Fancy Flower, Scallop Edge Border, 1-1/4" Circle

Other: Vintage Brads

Join the In Crowd

If you join my team between now and 15 October, you will receive a complete set of FREE In-Colours including all the ink pads, Stampin' Write Markers and an assortment of card stock. That's $84.90 worth of product absolutely free.

What a great start to your business...

If you'd like to join, please contact me.

Stampers Anonymous Blog Hop

Welcome to our Stampers Anonymous SU Blog Tour! Tonight we are delighted to show you projects using products that were available to us in our demo sneak peek from the 2010-2011 Idea Book and Catalogue.

You may have just come from the blog of Kirrily Matthews but if you are starting here, don't worry... you can make the complete tour just by following the links at the end of each post. There are 14 stops along the way and we hope you will visit each one to see the wonderful creations we have to show you! Please feel free to leave some comment love along the way...

At the end of each post there will be a link to take you to the next stop on the tour.

So grab a cuppa, sit back and enjoy!


My first creation is an early Christmas Spring Card using the masking technique.


Ingredients

Cardstock: Melon Mambo, Whisper White
Ink: Melon Mambo, Baja Breeze
Stamps: Contempo Christmas, Tiny Tags
Punch: Jewelry Tag Medium
Other: Dazzling Diamonds, Hemp Twine


My second card is a fun birthday card using a great new punch and some new stamp sets.

Ingredients

Cardstock: Pacific Point, Riding Hood Red, Very Vanilla

Ink: Pacific Point, Riding Hood Red

Stamps: For You Flower, Printed Petals, Party This Way

Punches: 1-3/8" Circle, Fancy Flower

Other: Basic Black Marker

My third card uses my new favourite stamp set, Artistic Etchings. I've used some of the new jewels to accentuate the background image.

Ingredients

Cardstock: Soft Suede, Very Vanilla

Ink: Soft Suede

Stamps: Artistic Etchings, Oval All

Stampin' Around Wheel: Very Vintage

Punches: Scallop Oval, 1-3/4" x 7/8" Oval

Other: Basic Pearl Jewels


Now you're off to enjoy the wonderful creations of Marelle Taylor. Thanks for stopping by!

If you happen to lose your way, here's a list of all participants.

1. Fiona Harvey
2. Juliette Chapman
3. Kerry Bunting
4. Kirrily Matthews
5. Lorna Casha
6. Marelle Taylor
7. Meighan Wheller
8. Melissa Gillis
9. Michelle Marchant
10. Nikki Stalker
11. Sally Williams
12. Sam Coppack
13. Sandy Quail
14. Sharon Wilson