Happy Mothers Day in the USA

So although ours is long gone... it is Mothers Day in the US today... and in a few other countries too... so a perfect opportunity to share this card that I made a while ago... and to wish everyone a lovely Mothers Day - or just a lovely Sunday... wherever you may be...

So another Double Pop Out Swing Card... for which you will find other versions and the Tutorial here...

Note that this was the first prototype card I made to test the new card fold I had designed... and that I just used the Everyday Label punch to create the apertures on this one...

I then quickly brought out the Lots of Labels dies for the follow up cards... as getting the apertures central and straight was a bit hit and miss with just the punch! Shame!

Stampin Up Products used
Petal Passion papers
Labels to Love stamps
Thoughtful Banners stamps
Brushwork Alphabet stamps
Everyday Label Punch
Lots of Labels dies (not used on this sample... but makes the card easier!)

Double Pop Up Swing card for Mothers Day...

Quick post today... but I wanted to share one of my brand new card fold designs, a Double Pop Up Swing card... aka Double Lever Card... though I will be back another day with more details...

Rather a lot of snow has fallen in these parts... which has changed my plans somewhat this week... and my husbands a lot! Don't think he has ever not got to work for 2 days (so far!) before... but it has been lovely watching all the families with young kids wandering around the village pulling sledges... the street has been a lot busier with bodies than usual!

So decoratively on this card ... I used...

Smoky Slate cardstock... and Springtime Foils papers ... yours exclusively for free with every £45 ordered during the Sale A Bration promotion until 31st March. This time the beautiful silver foil stripe and the gorgeous silver foil leafy patterned papers...

And quite a lot of stamps, punches and dies...

Lots of Labels dies for the apertures...

Labels to Love stamped frame punched out with the Everyday Label Punch ... which co-ordinates well with the Lots of Labels shape...

Along with Brushwork Alphabet stamps for MUM & Teeny Tiny Sentiments (aka Teeny Tiny Wishes on other parts of the world) for the Mothers Day greeting... in a Thoughtful Banners frame... which is punched out with the Classic Label Punch

And finished off with a vellum Sweet Soiree Embellishment with the leaves coloured in using a non-SU! gold Signo gel pen to match the small gold foil leaves in the papers...

I am really pleased how this card fold turned out... What do you think?

Mediterranean Moments - New Home

Simple little Watercolor Pencil watercoloured Mediterranean Moments card to welcome someone to their new home... they happen to be into scooters so it really is just the perfect image!

But as any good demonstrator (unfortunately) knows... finding New Home wording amongst our current stash is a tad difficult!! So I had to get creative with the wording... so this is what I used!

HAPPY and JUST SAYIN'  from Crazy About You (one of my first "go-to" sets for wording)
NEW from the words New Beginnings in the Happy Celebrations set
And HOME using the lower case letters in Brushwork Alphabet...

And spot the detail... his new house has a grey door so I ended up with the chrome parts of the scooter blending into the background... so I grabbed my non-SU! silver pen ( happens to be a Uniball Signo) and added chrome parts to the scooter (and the grille above the door). Really makes it pop

Can't wait to see his face when this card is handed over...

Double Tri-Display Card

Time to bring you my my latest card invention! Another World Exclusive (I believe!) 

A total re-design of my uber-popular Large Square Double Display Card to incorporate 6 panels with Large Letters die-cuts on... 

Amazing what happens when I have a supply of 12"x 12" card again.... thanks to the Falling in Love Cardstock Pack (which I didn't realise was 12 x 12 until it arrived in the special Demo Bundle that Stampin' Up! put together for our pre-orders!! Oops nearly missed it....)

So by popular request - most of my classes this month are concentrating on Mother's Day cards ( as Mother's Day is 26 March in the UK - rather than the the 14 May in the US) & Wedding/Wedding Anniversary cards  - and the Falling in Love papers & Suite called out to be used. As well as some specific requests for Dragonflies!

I hope to be able to re-make, photo and write up a tutorial in the next week - or two... but in the meantime... a bit about the decoration of this version...

Dragonflies care of Dragonfly Dreams... left hand one cut out of watercolour paper... watercolour washed using the Aqua Painter with Blushing Bride and then Sweet Sugarplum and popped onto a solid Copper Foil die cut. Right hand one copper embossed, wings and body stamped with Blushing Bride - and then wuiped off with a tissue paper before cutting out the solid shape

Mother care of the Large Letters dies and Very Vanilla cardstock...and then 2 of the letters (O,E) stamped in Sahara Sand using the flower stamp in the Window Shopping stamp set. And 'S at the far right hand side (of the R) care of Brushwork Alphabet

Copper embossed greetings of Happy & Day care of the one Happy Day stamp I mutilated (cut in half!) in the spirit of easy stamping!! From the Perfectly Wrapped set