Pretty Cute

 

This week at stilladdINKtive we are featuring 3 of the stamp sets from the new sale-a-bration catalogue.

Patterned Occasions, Pretty Petites and Bloomin' Marvellous

The first sale-a-bration set I chose was Pretty Petites and it has a matching punch too.  You can get these for free with every $100 spend from now until March 22.

I decided to use it with one of the little girl stamps from Greeting Card Kids. 

I cut the girl out and cut off the heart she was holding and replaced it with the “happy b-day” Pretty Petite.

I thought they might look cute together.

I also thought she might look cute on top of the cake from Topsy-Turvy Celebration.

I’m thinking maybe a bit too much cute? 

My girls thought it was adorable though and there definitely wasn’t too much pink, purple and glitter cuteness as far as they were concerned anyway :)

 

Ingredients :

Stamps : Pretty Petites, greeting card kids, topsy-turvy celebration

Card : wisteria, white, subtles dsp stack, brights dsp stack

Ink : memento black, wisteria, pip, regal rose, crumb cake

Other : regal rose ribbon (ret.), petite curly label punch, big shot, labels framelits, copics, dazzling details

 

Bronwyn has designed a template for each of these gorgeous cards and every entrant in our challenge this week will get one template per link sent to them via their email. What a fantastic offer!

 

Please take a look at what our wonderful stilladdINKtive team have created this week and play along with us.

 

Kathy

Christmas Stash

 

This week at Just Add Ink we have a sketch from Mae to inspire us.

My sister sent me an email last week and she asked whether maybe I had a secret stash of Christmas cards ready to put up on my blog because I haven’t posted many!  NO!  THERE IS DEFINITELY NO STASH!

She shocked me into realising that I’d better get started making some!

So I thought I’d use this sketch challenge to make a Christmas card to add to my very small collection.

 

Ingredients :

Stamps : Greeting card kids, Teeny tiny sentiments

Card : crumb cake, x-press it, marina mist, cherry cobbler, Be of good cheer dsp

Ink : crumb cake, memento black

Other : copics, rhinestones, cherry seam binding, square punch

 

Please check out what the rest of the design team have come up with this week.  There are so many gorgeous cards!  I don’t think anyone else has made a Christmas card, perhaps they already have a large Christmas Card Stash?

Kathy

Pop-up Greetings

Well amazingly I am entering a challenge this week!  I just haven’t had time for any extra lately, with my design team work for Just Add Ink and the Dirty Dozen.  But I have missed them.

My club hostess this month asked if we could do a Christmas Card and so I went searching for a good sketch and found this great one at one of my favourite sites Freshly Made Sketches.





 


I coloured the girl with watercolour crayons and sponged the card a fair bit for an “antique” look.  I used the core’dinations card stock for the first time too and I was happy with how it turned out.

I always like to teach my club something new and so I made it a Pop-up Gift Card Holder.  This is how the card looks on the inside.
There is a great tutorial for this on Splitcoast here if you’d like to give it a try.  I did change mine slightly though.





Ingredients :
Stamps : Greeting card kids, Curly cute
Card : watercolour paper, vanilla, crumb cake, cherry core’dinations, festival of prints dsp stack
Ink : stazon, crumb cake
Other : sticky strip, aqua painter, watercolour crayons, linen thread, big shot, petals a plenty ef, square punch


This card was lots of fun to make and nowhere near as hard as I thought it was going to be :)

Kathy