Congratulations

 

 I had to make another Wedding card this time I had the idea of using the Stamping up set I think it’s called Forever Fern. 

I used Simon says Stamp Congratulations die, I cut it twice with white the once more in gold. The glasses is a stamp  with a matching die. 

Apologies for the crooked photo.

Now I’m back making men cards and I can’t show you them till after their birthdays and it’s a bit too hot to make them but I’ve got a deadline.

Wedding

A few weeks ago Simon says Stamp Wednesday Challenge had a Wedding/Anniversary but I had made a Wedding Card for Steph who works for Simon Says Stamp.

I used the Stamping Bella image Uptown Couple Brett and Brenda Got Married but I used the Simon says Stamp Stitched Oval so only used part of the image.

Now it was a while ago when I made the card to get to the US in time, so I can's actual remember what Simon says Stamp set the leaves on the oval come from, all I do remember it was definitely Simon says Stamp. You need a solid stamp and if I made the card again I would use the second impression of the stamp so it didn't stand out so much.

The Flickering Butterflies and the Congratulations are all Simon says Stamp that I am sure.

The papers are Carta Bella Spring Market and the little hearts are Doodlebug Heart Shape Sprinkles.

Something New

Hi all and welcome to another year on the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge

HAPPY NEW YEAR! 

Thank you for joining us for the Anything Goes Challenge and we hope you will all join us again this week and throughout the coming year too.

This week the challenge is

Something New 

If Santa brought you some new crafty goodies we would love to see them! You could also make something for a New Baby, New Job, New Home, New Life Adventures etc.
We are showcasing our very own Simon's Exclusive Brand Products this week. You don't have to use them to join in but if you have some we would love to see them used

The lovely folks over at Simon Says Stamp are generously giving away a FABULOUS $50 voucher to shop at the  Simon Says Stamp Store! All you have to do is take out your crafty supplies, make something following this week’s prompt, and add a link in the Inlinkz at the bottom of this post! You can join 5 times so you could have 5 chances to win! How AWESOME is that!! All winners are chosen randomly, so everyone has an equal chance to win! Woo Hoo!! Good Luck to everyone! The Design Team is looking forward to seeing your crafty makes and will pop around to visit you ASAP!

I was lucky to be sent the Always and Forever stamp set but due to our post having a few delays I didn't receive it till I had already ordered this stamp set and the dies. I had originally made today's card but when the dies arrived I cut out the words and glasses again and layered them over the direct to paper ones
The card below is the first one made and you can tell that having the dies helps the words and glasses pop.

The floral panel is made using Simon says Stamp Sketch Ranunculus and you can just work out I had Yana-ed the flower heads using the Nuvo Shimmer Pen so pleased my camera picked up the shimmer.

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Red and White

Hi all and welcome to another week on the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge

Thank you for joining us for the Anything Goes Challenge and we hope you will all join us again this week too.

This week the challenge is

Red, White and/or Blue 

We are showcasing our very own Simon Says Stamp Products this week. You don't have to use them to join in but if you have some we would sure love to see them used!

The lovely folks over at Simon Says Stamp are generously giving away a FABULOUS $50 voucher to shop at the  Simon Says Stamp Store! All you have to do is take out your crafty supplies, make something following this week’s prompt, and add a link in the Inlinkz at the bottom of this post! You can join 5 times so you could have 5 chances to win! How AWESOME is that!! All winners are chosen randomly, so everyone has an equal chance to win! Woo Hoo!! Good Luck to everyone! The Design Team is looking forward to seeing your crafty makes and will pop around to visit you ASAP!

I love using White and Red for Christmas Cards, so I thought I would challenge myself not to make one and the one I made was more for a Wedding or an Engagement.

To make it easier to write my post my card all the products I used are Simon Says Stamp.

First up I used the Falling Hearts stencil and used it to emboss my hearts I should have done that after I used the Wonky Frames to prevent the rollers making my hearts slightly flat.

I used the Cluster of Leaves, trimming it  slightly to fit my card. My flowers are the Hydrangea Petals die with Stitched Snowflakes cut in red in the centre. I've told a lie I have used another companies product the Tim Holtz Gearhead Thinlets die, some of the gears have circles for waste and I used them for the round centres.

Back to Simon Says Stamp products I used their Love die which I cut in red as well as white. The small sentiment is from their sentiment stamps called Messages for Everday and I stamped it first and when properly dried I used the Simon says Stamp Stitched Banners.  Finally some red butterflies using the Flickering Butterflies die.

Little did I know when I was making this card that England would play and win to the Quarter Finals.

To all my friends at Simon Says Stamp and the USA

 have a wonderful

 4th July.

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Congrats

Hi all and welcome to another week on the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge
Thank you for joining us for the Anything Goes Challenge and we hope you will all join us again this week too.
This week the challenge is

Anniversary/Wedding 

We are showcasing Impression Obsession Products this week. You don't have to use them to join in but if you have some we would love to see them used.

If you join in with the challenge YOU could win a  $50 voucher to shop at the fabulous Simon Says Stamp Store! You may enter up to 5 times so you would have 5 chances to win! All winners are chosen at random so everyone has an equal chance! All you have to do is take out your 'romantic' supplies and join in the fun! The Design Team are all looking forward to seeing what you make!!

It's been real tricky getting back into card making after my hols and still struggling a bit. I had to get my DT cards done and Mr Mojo is still sailing somewhere over the Med.

I decided to make my own patterned Vellum that part was easy, the Impression Obession Rosebuds was stamped randomly with Versamark and then embossed with WOW Bright White Opagne powder. The hard part was trying to tearing it, perhaps it would help if I had my eye open, hate tearing paper. I purposely made my piece of stamped vellum larger because I made a fold and attached it to the back of the card. I carefully place a piece of tape behind some of the stems to attached to the card too.

I used the Simon Says Stamp Painted Congrats die but I've noticed its out of stock for now but there's no reason why you can't use their Congrats. I used Kraft card and White card for my actual card and to hide all the blank space I used Simon Says Stamp Flickering Butterflies but I would be quick before they are out of stock.

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Wedding Stationery

First of all a bit of a warning there are a lot of pictures.

So here is the wedding stationery that I was involved in along with my Sister, the Bride and her Mum, plus anyone who had to help with the homework.

The Wedding flavour box was made with Stamping Up dies and I wasn't involved in drinking any of the bottles for the corks!

We made the covers for the Order of Service I used the Cuttlebug heart embossing folder and had to use the folder twice. The scallop heart border is Lawn Fawn and the heart is a Spellbinder die.
The ribbon is from a very nice man in Hong Kong and the Heart ribbon slider supplied by the bride.
The Bride was in charge of printing the rest and attaching them with a long arm stapler.
It wasn't without a bit of drama of previous day of her Wedding the chap in charge of the music rang the bride to say the service had the wrong version of a hymn and last minute printing a remaking of the Order of Service.

I knew the Bride had an idea of what she wanted for her invites and I seriously tried to change it. She wanted best way to describe as flip book. As you lifted the front page the different pages were titled at the bottom at different lengths.

So first I had to make a spine with folds and this time the Bride Mother was with us and once the spine was made I had her place some red double sided tape on all the sides. She took them home to finish and never wants to see a piece of red tape ever.

We made the cover using a similar version of the Order of Service. I was left making the scallop caps for my homework. The Bride then printed all the pages on the matching card and assembled everything together. We even had a perforated one to send back as a RSVP.

The table names all done similar to rest of the stationery and we backed it so the nice linen look card was on the back.

The name places were done all like save the date and it was the Groom's job to cut the corks.

The table plan was was placed on a mirror not the easiest thing to photo. My Cuttlebug folder certainly earned its keep and I still remember when I mislaid it the day before the Bride was coming to my house to use it. It's retired and you can't buy it and all the other folders are not the same.

Here's the table all ready.

There was lots of little touches.

And the Bride and Groom were very naughty here are my beautifully flowers and I have a gift token. I was more than happy to be a part of making my niece's wedding day how she wanted it.

Married

I'm scheduling this post on Wednesday morning before the heat rises and the sun is on my dining room where the PC is. I believe today is the last day of heatwave. I for one will be relieved my joints don't like it this hot and my craftroom gets too hot for me in the afternoons.

But I did manage to make my Mo's card this week, I think I may have already said that this year is all about Weddings and Babies which are also my favourite cards to make. I found out I didn't have this fun Wedding image called Married from Mo and it deserved to be used.

Since Mr Mojo has disappeared I looked in my cards I saw a card similar to this one and I knew with this image is would work great too.

My scallop curved borders are from Spellbinders and the hearts are Simon Says Stamp dies. For a change I stamped and embossed the sentiment in gold. The sentiment is from a Simon Says Stamp set but I have written retired on it so not sure it is still available. Nearly forgot the background paper is from MFT.

Wedding Card

Another card that had to wait to be posted, my daughter wanted a Wedding Card for her friend so here it is.

The paper is Stampin Up and I'm using my all time favourite die Floral Oval from Spellbinders but I do have to cut out the centre. I do this my drawing a line round the inside of the die before taking it off the card stock. Using a craft knife I cute the centre out, helped by using a glass cutting mat.

There has to be ribbon and lace on a Wedding card so I've ticked that box. The heart die is from Penny Black, I carefully snipped the hearts of a second die cut so I could layer the hearts.

The fabulous die is a Cheery Lynn one, that my niece has brought for her Wedding Cards that she very kindly let me borrow them. Last but not least the fabulous image is from Tiddly Inks and possibly my favourite Wedding image.

Blog Hop

We're Blog Hopping on Mo's Dream Team and this month's theme is Hearts, I decided on a Wedding card using the gorgeous Garden Bride.

I used a stitched square die for the main image mat, she only just fitted but I was happy that by layering would hide that. I know its a very simple card but I hope its looks elegant too but I've noticed I forgot the bow, now I don't know if the card needs it not.

The hearts are Memory Box die but I used double side tape when I cut them out of the beige card so I didn't have to worry how to stick them to the card. I then using them again in the pattern paper, well actually I had to gut the main mat as I only had one piece left out of the Lawn Fawn pack.

To finish I used a Whiff of Joy sentiment, but I don't think they're trading any more.

Back to the Blog Hop now you should have arrived from Anneke and now you need to HOP, SKIP and JUMP over to Erin don't forget to comment along the way so you are in for a chance of one of the two $5 gift vouchers.

Embossed Hearts

Yes I know its Monday but I have a card to post not sure how long that will last, have a busy week and its suppose to be hot which will sapped my energy but we will see.

I needed some Wedding Cards, one for DD whose already taken her choice and one for my Son who can't chose between this one or another I previously made.

The embossed hearts are Taylored Expression, the hearts are slightly larger than the old cuttlebug one. I tried to line up the Lawn Fawn Stitched Scallop Border but it doesn't work that well and the OCD is annoyed that the scallops are not evenly spaced with the hearts.

The Congratulations is from Simon Says Stamp and has been cut out twice and layered. I add double sided tape to the back before I cut out makes layered a bit easier but not much.

Tiddly wedding

Another Wedding card and this one has been bagged already by my daughter. The image is from Tiddly Inks and of course the oval is Floral Oval.

The papers are Kaisercrafts  and the hearts are Memory Box and so are the leaves I think they are Birch leaves but don't hold me to that.  The sentiment could be Stampin Up I know the oval and scallop oval are Stampin Up punches but  I cut out the smaller one.

Oh before I forget there is a little bit of Flowersoft in her hair instead of trying to cut them out I think it works well. I did it on another Wedding card using a Mo Images as well.

I'm resisting all calls for going out from the other half having a few busy weeks lately I just want one at home.

The Bride

I have to make a couple of Wedding cards for my grown up children. I will probably end up making a few for them to chose from but whats the betting they both what this one with Mo's The Bride and I end up making two.

I have to thank my team-mate Gaynor on the Dream Team for the frame idea she embossed round the image on this card. Since I far to lazy to emboss first and layer my image I used the Spellbinder Die to cut out the centre them embossed. Then I cut round the frame and used a rounded corner punch.

The papers are from Stampin Up they are so pretty and perfect for a Wedding card. Usual details ribbon and my favourite lace. The Ivy is a die from Creative Expression I think and the Congratulations is a Simon Says Stamp die, cut from white twice and then the navy. One down more to go.

luv

Debby

White Wedding

I was ask for yet another wedding card but this card is tinged with sadness, I made this for our friends who was travelling to the wedding party so no worries it being squashed in the post. Unfortunately they never made it to the wedding party since one of our friends became ill with pneumonia and was admitted to hospital where it was touch and go but he seemed to improve only for a week later he had an heart attack and past away. The card still made it to the couple who got married and Hubby and I have a funeral to go to.

I used all my favourite dies, the Floral Oval, Simon Says Stamp Congratulations die, Cheery Lynn swirl with leaves and some Memory box flowers and one of their hanging hearts. Nearly forgot the heart embossing folder.

The names were cut out using Memory Box Alphabet Soup dies, I now have the lower case too now but they are fiddly.

I do have a Penny Black card for tomorrow but thats it in my drafts, fingers crossed a have card making frenzy this weekend.

Wedding

My niece asked me for a Wedding Card with a mint and Vintage influence, I just go into panic mode because what I like isn't what everyone likes so just in case I made two.

So the first one I found some minty distressing paper. I used the old retired Stampin Up stamps with the couple initials and printed the date on some matching paper. Favourite Floral Image die and I used one of the centres that came with it. Lace and ribbon and some hearts from Simon Says Stamp doily die and a random heart die. The embossed lines are using a houghie board.

The second one was all in white with a touch of mint again using the Spellbinder Floral Oval but I cut out the centre. I printed the date eventually my printer was having a hissy with the linen card, the letters cut from my cricut.

Favourite Tender Fern die from Memory Box not sure on the other leaves but I sure its another Memory Box. MFT divine swirl some white flowers and some pearls on acetate which I've noticed I need some more.

My niece made their wedding cake she is truly gifted and amazing and we had some really brilliant news about her Dad/My Brother he got the all clear thank god he went straight to the Doctors when he saw something was wrong. Anyway this is the fabulous cake she made.

Mr and Mrs

Time for another challenge on Everybody Art Challenge this on is for Wedding and I got the chance to use my Mr & Mrs stamp from stamping up. I embossed it silver but I had to do it twice because I had stamped on the linen side of the card and it didn't quite stamp that well. So once I used the heat gun once I quickly added more powder to heat it again.

I used a Spellbinder die but before I took off the centre die I blended some colour round the the edges and then I embossed the words. I also add some sticky pads to raise the centre.

I stick the outside die cut to the paper which I think is an old sheet from Stampin Up, then cut round the edge and stuck onto another white card for a border.

Do pop over and check out the team, hope you can join us this week.

Wedding Love

Well the card has been delivered not sure the Bride and Groom had time to open it yet but I can safely post it now.
I've used the fabulous image from Tiddly Inks and I used my favourite Floral Oval for the image.
Its quite plain because once the Avery Elle Love die was added it didn't need much more.
The patterned paper is from LOTV and I added the LaLa Land corner dies to help draw your eyes to the image.
I've obviously had to schedule this post because we stayed overnight in Rye.

Tiddly Wedding

One of my favourite bloggers, blogged a beautiful card using I think a Spellbinder for the main body of a card and I had this couple waiting to be made into a card and I thought yes if I could make it work.
Has you can see it did indeed and really once I added the red and the image there wasn't much I needed to do.
I simply had to have this Tiddly Inks image I absolutely love the gothic couple that became my favourite wedding image you can see the image I mean on this card but you never can have too many wedding images.
A bit of ribbon to finish and bow to finish which that flipping bow was a pain and that one is the best of the bad bunch.
I've been busy making cards whoo hoo and I almost love them all, I'm trying to get ahead with DT cards and lucky for me I have a couple ideas for them.

Wedding

It's a new challenge on Everybody Art Challenge, this week its Wedding, boy did this card give me a headache. I was forever having to redo bits.
First of all I gave the wedding dress of Mo's Bride and Groom image some colour only lightly but left the train white. But one I overlap the Spellbinder Arch Window die over the image that left an odd bit of colour. So of course I realised this after everything was stuck down so I have to fiddle to over lay the new white dress bit.
I also originally stamp the sentiment too low in the corner and since it annoyed me I cut it off but then I was left with what do I do now. So I chose a different sentiment from the Simon Says Stamp Congratulation set that would work across the bottom so it looks like it meant to look that way!
Blasted I've just notice his hands moved probably when I was messing with the dress. Seems the way of my cards at the moment.
Any way hope you can join us this week and have better luck than me, don't forget to check out the team.
At last I've got my injections done although didn't appreciate he wanted some blood as well and he's referring me back to hospital. So its a few days taking things very easy while my shoulders settle down did manage to finish the card sitting on my desk since last Thursday but its not going to help with my DT cards back to CAS ones I guess.

Perfect Love

I'm still relying on sketches this one is from Sweet Sunday Sketch 252 and since I found my favourite love words from Simon Say Stamp Perfect Love. Apparently I had it in my scrapbooking bag for when I was doing some wedding layouts.

I also used the Simon Says Stamp Stitched Squares and Bundle of Stitched Shapes. To finish I added the small heart and outline heart from the Simon Say Stamp Heart Doily with the added Holiday Shape Heart in a colour to match the words.

The background is a Penny Black Interlocking die which decided it would misbehave and several runs through the Bigshot told it I was in charge. I added pearls I could have used Liquid pearls but at this point I didn't think my patience to could be pushed that far.