Yesterday I showed you one of the cards I made for my sisters anniversary last month, well today I'm going to show you the second one I made that was sent from me and hubby.  I decided to use a very reliable and versatile set, Vintage Vogue.  I just love this set as no matter what colour you do it in, it always looks stunning.  For this card my colour theme was Elegant Eggplant, Pink Pirquette and Wild Wasabi.

As you can see some flowers have been cut out and attached to the card using dimentionals.  I've also added some pearls to the centre.  The main  body of the card is the Cream Confetti card, it is the same or similar weight as the coloured card making it nice and sturdy.  I've then layered it with Elegant Eggplant and Very Vanilla which is what has been stamped on.  The sentiment in the corner is from the set Curvy Verse.

Thanks for stopping by, if you wish to purchase any of the items mentioned then please get in touch and I'll happily place an order for you.  Comments are also well received :)

Hugs 
Tracy -x-


Products used:
Stamp set: Vintage Vogue, Curvy Cute
Inks - Elegant Eggplant, Wild Wasabi, Pink Pirquette
Cardstock: Cream Confetti, Elegant Eggplant, Very Vanilla
Accessories: Very Vanilla satin ribbon, Adhesive Pearls, Flower brads

Vintage Vogue and Greenhouse Garden

As I've already said on numerous occasions I  recently attended Regional training in Leeds and one of the tasks we had to do was make our own name badges.  This has never been requested before and, to be honest, I kept forgetting all about it despite several reminders from my fellow demo's.

You may have read that I didn't finish my swaps until 11.30pm on the Friday night before training on the Saturday so the last thing I then wanted to do was design a name tag.   I had in my mind what I wanted to do so I was half way there, I just didn't have enough time.

Anyway, Saturday morning arrived and I was up bright and early so that I was ready for when my lift arrived.  Having done what I needed to do I had 10 minutes spare so I thought, I'll try and do my badge, if it goes wrong I'll just take the one from convention last year, I know it was "cheating" but what was a girl supposed to do in a hurry!!!!!!l

I decided to use the Framelits Die ( have I told you how much I loooovvvve these dies!!!!) along with Vintage Vogue and Braodsheet alphabet set.   I cut the two largest sizes out in Perfect Plum and Very Vanilla.  I stamped my name in Perfect Plum Ink onto the Very Vanilla.  I was going to use the Stamp a ma jig to line them up but decided I didn't have the time so I just went for it.  To my utter amazement they all came out in a straight line....yay.  To decorate around the edges I used the foliage stamp from Vintage Vogue and the little flower from Greenhouse Garden.

I was very pleased with the end result especially as it only took me 5 minutes to make so at least I wasn't the odd one out at training....lol

Thanks for stopping by, a full list of products will be shown below this post.  Take care until next time

Hugs
Tracy -x-

Products
Big Shot and Framelits dies
Stamp sets - Vintage Vogue, Greenhouse Garden, Broadsheet Alphabet
Inks - Perfect Plum, Rose Red
Cardstock - Perfect Plum, Very Vanilla
Accessories - Adhesive pearls

Mothers day pressie....

Oh my I can't believe its over a month since I last blogged, where does the time go???   I haven't been doing too much as my back hasn't allowed me to but I have made a few projects like my mums card for today and my grandson's christening keepsake for last Sunday but more of that another day.  One thing I was asked to do by my daughter was to make a 3d picture frame for my grandson's other mama, Julie, for mothers day.  She teamed up with her partners sister and they took their children to have a joint photo session so that I had one photo of all three to work with. 

Its difficult to make something for someone you don't really know as I've only met Julie three times and not really had the chance to chat with her too much.  However, her daughter said that the colour theme in her house was green and when she looked at my colour chart last weekend she said it was a similar collour to Old Olive so I had a bit of a starting point.

So I painted the frame with Gesso (not a SU product) and then, using a stamp from Vintage Vogue, I stamped around the frame in Basic Black.  I them used the smallest butterfly out of Flight of the Butterfly and stamped the image in Platinum shimmer paint.   I had a thin piece of rubber that came with my ink pad holder so I used the Beautiful Wings Embosslits dies with the big shot to make the smaller butterflies.  The shimmer paint was added using a dauber.  So that was the frame complete but I didn't get the actual picture until Friday so I wasn't sure what colours I was working with. 

Anyway once I got the photo I noticed that the main colours were dark blue and baby pink.  Now, using my colour coach I looked at what colours went with Old Olive and to my delight I saw that one of the set of recommended colours contained Pretty in Pink and the other set contained Night of Navy, how lucky was that!!!  Here is the end result.....

The base card was 12x12 Old Olive I then used a sheet of the paper from the Flirtatious Speciality Paper (pg 96) as the second layer and created the border with the Eyelet punch (pg116).  The next layer is Night of Navy and again I used the eyelit border punch.  The corners of the photo were created using the FancyFlower Punch (pg 118) and I cut a slit in the shape and put the corners of the photo through, this was a technique recently shown in a Demo magazine.  You can try it with any punch such as the curly label, square etc and see the different effects.  To make the flowers I followed a technique shown on another Demo's site here, where I stamped the sentiment En Francais on tissue paper.  I then folded the tissue paper 4 times and  used the 5 Petal Punch to punch out the shape.  I used some old olive card at the same time to give some stability as I punched the shape out, this was used as the base to the flower.  A brad was then put through the middle of all layers and the tissue paper crumpled up to create the flower.

The sentiment at the bottom was made using Very Vanilla card and Timeless Type Junior Alphabet die in conjunction with the big shot.  The little flowers were made using the Boho Blossoms punch.  Other materials used were buttons from the Regals collection, pearls and glimmer brads.

My daughter and her parterner were very happy with the end result as was his sister but the telling time was when they gave it to his mum as her present.   Luckily she liked it so I'm happy.   I'll be honest but whilst making it I thought I was missing out on something like this.... I need not to have worried as my daughters did a frame with 3 sections to it and the middle one was a photo taken of me and the girls last Sunday at Leo's christening and either side to that was little Leo.... I couldn't have asked for a better pressie, all my babies together.  I haven't taken a picture yet but when I do I'll show you. :)

Sorry for such a long post, I'll try and be quicker next time.  Til then take care.

Hugs

Tracy -x-

Something different

Sunday was not only fathers day but my sister in laws birthday and I wanted to try something new and I came across a technique called black magic on U Tube.  No not the chocolates or witch craft but a stamping technique.

This technique allows you to put colour onto black card by using whisper white craft ink.  You will need to stamp a fairly solid image, I've used Greenhouse Garden, and once the ink has dried you colour it in.  On the video I saw the demo was using watercolurs but, as I don't have these yet, I used chalks on mine and I think the effect was just as good.

As Greenhouse Garden is a two step stamp set I stamped the second image in whisper white over the coloured image which I think is very effective.  The background foliage is from Vintage Vogue and I've used DSP Love Letter.

My sister in law loved it so I was very pleased with my efforts.  Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog and please leave a comment as I love to read them.

Hugs
Tracy -x-

Niece's card

Hello everyone,

Its been a while since I've posted but its been busy busy busy again both at home and work. On Friday it was my nieces 18th birthday and, true to fashion, I left making her card right until the last minute.  Luckily I had Friday afternoon off so was able to go and buy her pressie and also make the card.  Not bad considering we were at her BBQ at 6 that night...lol.  This is the finished product:

I've used the elegant bouquet embossing folder from the mini catalogue, Vintage Vogue, Braodsheet  alphabet and Curly Cute stamp sets and the colour combo is pumpkin pie and whisper white.  Accessories are Rhinestone brads, pumpkin pie ribbon and a beveled window, again from the mini catalogue.

Thanks for looking and if you wish to order any of the products please get in touch and I'll be happy to do that for you.

Hugs
Tracy -x-

Double tri-shutter card

It was my good friend, and upliner, Victoria's birthday on Thursday and she turned 40 so I wanted to do a special card for her so decided to do a double tri shutter card AKA Tri shutter album.  I got the instructions from Scrapthat's blog and they are so easy to follow.  I didn't take it round until yesterday as she had a "family" day on Thursday, and with the launch of the mini taking precedence yesterday, haven't posted it until now.  The card is very very long to say the least and so I tried to take a picture using my panoramic setting on the camera.   Now I have used this setting before and got excellent results but did that happen this time.... oh no and I didn't realise until I looked at it last night so it was too late to take another.  Never mind you'll get the gist of how it should look ...lol

For this card I have used Perfect Plum 12x12, Sahara Sand and Early Espresso card stock, Woodland Walk DSP, Just Believe, Vintage Vogue, Occasional Greetings, Silhouette Sentiments (hostess set), Curvey Verses and Greenhouse Garden stamp sets, round scallop and boarder punches, very vanilla ribbon, crimper, paper from the subtle paper stack, white gel pen, Stampin write markers and basic pearls jewels.

As you can see a lot of products were used to make this card all of which are SU.  If you would like to purchase any please contact me.  You can browse both the mini and main catalogue by clicking on the pictures on the right hand side of my blog.

Thank you for stopping by and please leave a comment as its nice to know who's popped in for a peek.

Hugs

Tracy -x-

Scrapbook pages

Remember in February when I said it was my sister's 50th birthday and I was doing her a scrapbook as a pressie, well...... I've finally finished it.  I did give it to her on the day but left the last page blank so I could end it with the last page actually being the day of her 50th.  We were all meant to be going out for a meal as her big day fell on a Saturday, perfect.  However, things didn't actually go to plan and poor Teresa was ill and so the meal had to be postponed.  We eventually went out about a fortnight later and had a really nice curry.   A good time was had by all and I've never seen my eldest eat so much, mind you she is eating for 2 lol.

                     

Thank you for taking the time to look at my blog.  Please leave a comment as I'd like to know who's popped on :)

Hugs

Tracy -x-









Vintage Vogue 2

Hello,

Although it looks nice outside its bloomin cold. Its been a busy morning for me today, I've been and done the food shopping and cleaned the house from top to bottom with the help of hubby. My few days holiday have flown by.

My youngest, who is 19 next week, is in Paris at the moment, she went this morning with her boyfriend, it was a christmas present from him. I had to laugh, I sent a text making sure she had got there ok and she told me they had but they couldn't find the hotel. Luckily they did eventually find it but couldn't check in for another 4 hours..lol Its her first time away without adult supervision so I'm expecting lots of eventful stories when she gets back on Monday.

Yesterday I told you that I was making cards from my sister's 50th birthday and here is the second one. Again it's using SU Vintage Vogue stamp set and this time I have used the wheel on the bottom of the card and embossed it with gold embossing powder.



Now its my time to chill out and I'm going to do what I love the most and thats crafting :)

Happy crafting ladies

Tracy -x-

Vintage Vogue

Hello,

I've been off work since Wednesday on leave so thought it was about time I got my act together and started on my sisters birthday cards. She is the big 50 a week on Saturday and I have to make cards for my mum, my girls to give her and ours... so 4 in total. On top of that my youngest daughters is the day after so have another 3 to make there!!!!! Now, my problem is that I've had crafting block and could not think of a single thing to do so have wasted hours just looking at my stash, getting it out, putting it back, you know what I mean don't you?

Well yesterday I finally got my act into gear and produced this card using the Vintage Vogue stamp set from SU. I just love the colours and the "50th" has been made from die cuts. I first stamped the vine image onto Very Vanilla in Old Olive so that it matched the card.



I am also planning to do her a 12x12 scrapbook as a present so wish me luck on that one. I have made 2 more cards today but will post them another time.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs
Tracy -x-

2 step bird punch Card

Oh my its STILL snowing, will it ever stop? I haven't been out of the house since Tuesday evening when I walked, yes I said walked..lol, up to the shops with hubby. The white stuff looks lovely but I hope we get some rain soon so that it clears quickly as I'm back at work Tuesday. If it keeps up I'm going to have to do my christmas shopping online :-(

Here are a few pictures of my garden yesterday, its even more covered today!!!



Anyway, I said I'd pop some pictures on here of the cards I have done recently for people and here's the first one. It was for a friends birthday last months. Hope you like it.



All products used are SU and include 2 step bird punch, new scallop punch, stamp sets Vintage Vogue and Greenhouse Garden. Cardstock is Cherry cobbler and very vanilla plus various inks were used.

Thanks for looking.

Big warm hugs

Tracy -x-

Vintage Vogue

Oh my, where has the month gone, it'll soon be christmas.

Now what have I been up too.... not a lot really....lol Well thats not exactly true as I've been doing my card candy swap for the SU convention in November, work on my diploma and a few cards. I was at a SU training event last Friday in Manchester and had such a fab time, met a lot of lovely ladies and, by joining in the swaps, have some lovley cards for ideas for future classes. Myself and Victoria, my upliner, stayed over as we didn't fancy the journey back very late at night. It was a wonderful night away from the kids (for Victoria that is mine are a little older) and, instead of making the most of it by catching up on our sleep we spent the night chatting. For a short while after the training had finished we had the delightful company of 3 other SU demos, Monica, Jo and Paula, thank you ladies it was really nice getting to know you. We finally got to sleep at 4am and we were both up by 7. Boy was it a long day on Saturday but worth it.

I've been making a few cards and last Wednesday was my friends birthday, this is what I came up with.



I used all SU items other than the ribbon.

Thank you for stopping by.

Hugs
Tracy -x-

Special Friend

I wanted to let my upliner, Victoria, know that I appreciate all her support and friendship she has shown me since becoming a demo. Not only has she been there for all the silly questions I've asked about SU but also through my recent illness, always at the end of the phone or txt whenever I needed to moan...lol. So, to let her know I valued our friendship, I did her this card.



Thanks for looking and leaving any comments

Hugs
Tracy -x-

Sympathy Card

Sadly a friends dad passed away suddenly and I was asked to make a card for the office to give to her. I didn't want to do the "normal" sympathy card so came up with this, I will be taking it round over the bank holiday with some flowers.

SU items used: Whisper white card
Hodgepodge elements
Pretties Kit
Chocolate chip Ink pad (used to colour the flowers)
Very vintage wheel used for the background and also over the flower
Soft suede ribbon
Sentiment taken from Vintage Vogue set
Rhinestone brads
Own items: Deckled edged card
Brown card stock


Tracy

Good afternoon

Wow I can't believe its the weekend, and a long one at that. I've been sat here waiting in anticipation for my starter kit to arrive so I can play over the next 3 days only to be told by Victoria that UPS don't deliver on a weekend.... how annoying is that?

Over the last week or so I have been playing with the SU products I already have and these are some of the results:

Items used;

SU products : Very Vintage Jumbo wheel, Perfect plum cartridge, Whimsical words and Vintage Vogue stamp set
Own Stash : Card stock, ribbon, circle punch and pearls
I stamped the flowers using the masking technique, then cut out a seperate image and placed it on the centre flower.

Items Used:
SU products: Very vintage large wheel, flight of the butterfly stamp set, scollped punch, brayer, Boardering blue ink,
Own Stash: Pearlescent Card, ribbon, brad, glitter, boarder punch, gloss photo paper, acetate, stazon ink, versamark ink (the last 3 products are available from SU but I already had them)
Using the versamark I stamped the butterfly on to the photo paper then brayered over it with the boardering blue ink to give a resist look. With the wheel I stamped the pearlescent card, nd a piece of white card. The scolloped punched was using the resist effect again but with the wheel instead. Using stazon I stamped the butterfly image onto acetate and glittered from the back. I then assembled as shown.

Finally this was made using the following products:
SU products : Bride paper pack, chocolate chip ink, brayer, oval scolloped punch, oval punch, word window punch.
Own Stash : Butterflies, brad, ribbon and sentiment
I basically brayered over the bride paper and matt and layered as shown.
Thanks for taking the time to look at my projects.
Hugs
Tracy xx