Let’s Sail Away

Now I have my mojo back I’ve been on a bit of a roll with different stamp sets, and I just can’t get enough of the Sail away suite. There are so many possibilities with this set, and it more than fits my 5 ways rule! So far I’ve used it for scrapbooking, making cards, in a photo album for a friend and on tags, the possibilities are endless! And its been on my desk pretty much permanently since it arrived.

For my last class I used it to make some watercolour cards......

For these cards I used a couple of different watercolour techniques, a mix of using sponges and brushes to make the backgrounds, and a mix of colouring with watercolour pencils and a aqua brush and ink pads. Finished off with a bit of stamping using the high tide stamp set, and some of the images from Sailing Home, which are then die cut with the matching framelits, and I had 2 simple quick cards.

Next I turned to a moving card.......

This was a slider card, made with some help from my penny jar! A hidden greeting when the card is closed and then revealed when it slides.

If you would like to purchase any of the ‘ingredients’ please drop me a line.

I’ll be back soon with one more card in this set, but for now I have small people waiting for a trip to the beach!

Happy stamping

J x

Summer Daisies

Welcome back, I hope that you have been enjoying the summer weather, It’s been the school holidays for us which means I’ve had lots of small people to entertain and we’ve been busy with lots of different activities, so my crafting has had to take a back seat.  I have found time to play with the Daisy Lane stamps and punches and this is what I came up with.......

This is the first card I made, I got the inspiration from Pinterest, I forgot to note who had pinned this card, so if you recognise it thank you for the inspiration, when my mojo has deserted me, I find Pinterest really helpful for giving me a starting point, next I went to one of my go to blogs for some
more inspiration and found this......

A huge thank you to Amanda Charlesworth at Scrimping Mommy for the tutorial on how to make this flower pot card, I changes the dimensions slightly but otherwise all the credit goes to her, this card will take a gift card, always handy.

Next I played with an idea I had, I like interactive cards that double as a small gift for those moments you need to show someone you’re thinking of them.......

I’ve reverted to my go to yellow and used some of the retired Gingham Gala paper together with those fabulous daisies and made a card with a removable bookmark.

Finally I used up some left overs from a previous class I held and used some stitched rectangle left overs to make a frame for this card........

I bought in some of the stamps from the Daisy Delight stamp set.

I kept it simple with the stamping and let the colours make the impact, adding some wink of Stella to make it shimmery,  and adding a couple of butterflies from the butterfly punch.  Stampin Up! Really make it easy for us to co-ordinate different stamp sets so that a bit of scrap card stock and some simple stamping make, I hope you’ll agree, a lovely card.

That’s all for me for today, thank you to everyone who help regain my mojo, if you would like to order any of the products I’ve used in these cards, please feel free to drop me a line.

Happy Stamping 

Jx