Look Whoo

 

This is my last card for the Splitcoast Stampers Creative Crew.

CCREW0811HF, CreativeCrew, SUO or SUM – Holiday Focus:

You had to use this sketch, the paper piercing tool and choose 3 colours from this selection : baja breeze, daffodil delight, early espresso, night of navy, pear pizzazz, poppy parade, rich razzleberry, so saffron, soft suede, whisper white.

It was also meant to be for Friendship Day, Sister’s Day or Family Day which are celebrated on the first Sunday in Aug.

Well I did something a little different and made a card for my daughter’s 10th birthday instead, which just so happened to be on the first Sunday in August too!

 

I decided to make a little owl brooch for her and attach it to the birthday card insert.

All you do is punch a few owl bodies out (6 I think?) and glue them on top of each other (of course decorating the top one).  Then I put crystal effects over it and left it overnight to dry.  The next day I put a brooch back on the other side, again using crystal effects to adhere it and put crystal effects all over the back too.

I just used my crop a dile to punch 2 little holes on the insert so that I could attach the brooch .

 

Ingredients :

Stamps : none

Card : white, espresso, baja, pear, saffron, razzleberry, brights dsp stack

Ink  : old olive

Other : big shot, polka dot ef, button, little leaves, owl punch, crystal effects, timeless type alpha, paper piercer, white gel pen, linen thread, brooch back

 

Kathy

Blushing Hippo

This is my final card for this months Creative Crew challenge.
CCREW0711DF, CreativeCrew, SUO or SUM -- DSP/Color Focus: Show us what you can do with the In Colors! You can use other colors, but In Colors should be the main focus of your project.




This is another Triangle Tri-fold card but this time I used the cute hippo from Pun Fun.  I used dazzling diamonds on the hippo’s bow and balloon and paper pieced her using blushing bride and pear pizzazz card stock.


Ingredients :
Stamps : Pun Fun
Card : pear pizzazz, blushing bride, white, in colour dsp stack
Ink : stazon, pip, old olive
Other : rhinestones, white taffeta ribbon, dazzling diamonds, 2 way glue, scallop trim border punch, big shot, polka dot embossing folder


Unfortunately I must have knocked the little rhinestone when I took the photo and hadn’t realised, so the card looks a bit “off”.  I did fix it before giving it to one of my daughter’s friends for her birthday though and she thought it was very cute!

Kathy

Peaceful Star

This is another card made for the Splitcoast Stampers Creative Crew challenge.
 CCREW0711DF, CreativeCrew, SUO or SUM -- DSP/Color Focus: Show us what you can do with the In Colors! You can use other colors, but In Colors should be the main focus of your project.

I decided to use Pear Pizzazz and Poppy Parade and see if I could come up with an interesting Christmas card.


This is called a  Star Card.  Delys made a lovely one for the JAI Fancy Folds blog hop and she has instructions on her blog if you’d like to try to make one.

I also used the cropadile to punch a little hole in the top and I used a button and linen thread to make a little loop so that the star could be hung somewhere.

Ingredients:
Stamps : Occasional greetings
Card : sahara sand, white, pear pizzazz, poppy parade, in colour dsp stack
Ink : stazon, cherry cobbler, old olive
Other : gold brads, 5 petal punch, nesties, button, linen thread

This is how the card looks when you open it up.


I just left the centre triangle plain to write a message.  I thought I might give it to one of the girls teachers for Christmas. My youngest has a male teacher this year and I think the fold would appeal to him although perhaps the poinsettia on it is a bit too “girly”?

Kathy

Snail Wishes

This is another card for this month’s Splitcoast Creative Crew.
CCREW0711CF, CreativeCrew, SUO or SUM -- Catalog focus: Show off your favorite new catalog or mini catalog item.


It’s another sneak peek of a new set we will get in September when the new catalogue comes out.
It’s from a cute set called Button Buddies and I’ve teamed it with Heard from the Heart.  I used the 2-way glue pen and dazzling diamonds to make a little “snail trail” on the wishes, you can just see a hint of glimmer in the photo.  I also white embossed the grass from Inspired by Nature on top of the dsp.

Ingredients:
Stamps : Button buddies, Inspired by nature, Heard from the heart
Card :  espresso, white, brights dsp
Ink : espresso, versamark
Other : white ep, olive button, olive grosgrain, espresso taffeta, rhinestone, piercer, gel pen, 2-way glue, dazzling diamonds

He would be great to use when you want to send some “snail mail” to someone special!
Kathy

Pretty pink pig

It’s the start of a new month and that means another round of Splitcoast Creative Crew challenges to take part in.
CCREW0711CF, CreativeCrew, SUO or SUM -- Catalog focus: Show off your favorite new catalog or mini catalog item.



In the US the new Stampin Up catalogue has just been released.  We have to wait till September for ours but this is a sneak peek of one of the new sets.
My oldest daughter loves pigs and collects all things “pig”.  This card is for her.  Can you guess what I’m writing on the inside by looking at the front of this card?

Ingredients :
Stamps : Button Buddies, confetti
Card :  pink pirouette, regal rose, pip, white
Ink : pip, white
Other : big shot, square lattice, square scallop, timeless type alpha, rhinestones, white taffeta ribbon, regal rose grosgrain, subtle button, nesties

Hogs and Kisses!
Kathy

Wedding birds

 

This is my final card for this months Splitcoast Stampers Creative Crew.

CCREW0611HF, CreativeCrew, SUO or SUM - Holiday/Seasonal Focus: *Love Birds* It wouldn't be right to have June, weddings, flowers, etc without the birds! Let this Love Birds Shower Ensemble inspire you! You do not have to do wedding cards, however you must use a bird.

 

 

I decided to try using the Awash with Flowers set in a different way.  I embossed it with silver ep on white.  It looks very pretty in real life but the photo doesn’t really capture it.

The other new thing I tried on this card was the bow.  I made a double bow from organza ribbon, attached it with a vintage brad and then used my heat gun to “melt” it a little (like I do with the ribbon flowers).  It gave it a lovely “shabby chic” look.

 

Ingredients :

Stamps : awash with flowers, teeny tiny sentiments

Card : white, black, shimmery white

Ink : versamark

Other : silver embossing powder, pearls, bird punch, big shot, tulip embossing folder, organza ribbon, antique brad, word window punch, modern label punch

 

Kathy

Party Owl

This is another card for this month’s Creative Crew colour challenge.
CCREW0611DF, CreativeCrew, SUO or SUM - DSP/Color Focus:
*Sunny Garden* June, a time for iced tea, gardens bursting, and riots of color. This month we're going bright.  Poppy Parade, Daffodil Delight, Pear Pizzazz, Peach Parfait.



I decided to use my new owl punch again cause he’s so cute!
I used a stamp from Party Hearty for the “Celebrate”.  I masked it to just get the part I wanted.  I punched a circle for the balloon and used crystal effects on it to make it shiny.  I cut a little end piece for the balloon and tied linen thread to it and the owl’s wing. I also just cut a triangle for his party hat.
When I showed this card to my friend Mae (who is also on JAI) she said :
“How did you make the end of the balloon?”
I told her I had just cut it and she said:
“Oh I thought you might have used one of the owl’s feet for it.”
Brilliant!!!
Why didn’t I think of that.  Anyway I’ll know what to do next time.  Thanks Mae.

Ingredients :
Stamps : Party Hearty
Card : black white, pear, poppy, crumb cake, hostess dsp stack, brights dsp stack
Ink : stazon
Other : owl punch, circle punch, linen thread, dimensionals, crystal effects, bird punch, scallop oval punch

These are definitely not my kind of colours …. but I really like how this card turned out. 
Kathy

Owl birthday bag

This bag is for another challenge at the Splitcoast Creative Crew.
CCREW0611DF, CreativeCrew, SUO or SUM - DSP/Color Focus:
*Sunny Garden* June, a time for iced tea, gardens bursting, and riots of color. This month we're going bright (which is a true challenge for me) Poppy Parade, Daffodil Delight, Pear Pizzazz, Peach Parfait.

Of course everyone on the crew is American and not experiencing a cold Tassie winter at this moment. Ha :)

I have never put these colours together before or used any of them very much.  They really were a challenge for me, but I’m happy with how it turned out .

I had only just given in to the lure of the owl punch and so I decided to try it out and make a cute “bright” owl.

I also did some paper piecing.  I stamped and cut out the little bag from the Birthday Bakery set, and also used real tissue paper at the top and linen thread for the handle. 
I added wings to the owl by using the scallop oval punch so that he could hold the bag.

Then I made a very simple little bag using card covered with the same dsp.
I tried to make the big bag the same as the little bag the owl is carrying.

Here is a close up of the owl.





Ingredients :
Stamps : Birthday bakery
Card : pear, poppy, white, peach, daffodil dsp from brights stack, in colour dsp stack
Ink : stazon
Other : owl punch, oval scallop punch, heart to heart punch, linen thread, crop a dile, string, tissue paper, dimensionals

Isn’t he cute!
He’s very fun to play with too, I wish I’d bought him months ago!

Kathy

Island Prayers

Well it’s a new month and that means new challenges at the Splitcoast Stampers Creative Crew.
Here is the challenge:
CCREW0611CF, CreativeCrew, SUO or SUM - Catalog Focus:* FLOWERS*
Stampin' Up! has flowers! Ribbon Flowers, Rub-on Flowers, Button Flowers, Brad Flowers, Crocheted Flowers, Paper Flowers, Die Cut Flowers, Stenciled Flowers! The challenge is to use any flower except stamped flowers!



I had just bought my first flower die for the big shot and decided to use it for the challenge.  It’s the Island Floral Die.  It was actually in the Summer Mini catalogue but it was carried over and is still available.
I saw a gorgeous flower done by Nikki Spencer and she had a link to a tutorial by Joanne Leddy showing how she’d made them.  They are so gorgeous. I did mine the same way except that she used the fancy flower punch instead of the die, so mine is bigger.  I also don’t have the boho blossoms punch amazingly (I’ll have to rectify that soon!) I used a retired punch (trio flower, I think it was called) for my flower centre.  The other thing I did differently was that instead of spraying the flower with water, I sprayed it with white shimmer paint/alcohol solution. So it is very sparkly in real life.
Ingredients :
Stamps : Thoughts and Prayers
Card : vanilla, suede, pink pirouette, river rock
Ink : suede, crumb cake
Other :  Big shot, island floral die, square scallop die, beautiful wings, little leaves, vintage wallpaper, trio flower punch, pearls, brayer, square punch, piercing tool

I think the flower turned out beautifully and I’m very happy with my new purchase. Yay!
I hope you’ll try this challenge too.
Kathy

Baja Nature

 

This card is the last of my Creative Crew challenge entries for this month.

I was lucky that my new Nature Walk set fit perfectly with this colour challenge.  Neutrals with a touch of Baja (my favourite Stampin Up colour).

Next months challenges are a bit more challenging for me. I haven’t even started them yet, oops! Lets just say they’re not my favourite colour combinations and I may have trouble coming up with something that I like. We’ll have to wait and see but I will have some new Creative Crew cards to show you in June!

 

CCREW0511DF, CreativeCrew, SUO or SUM - DSP/Color Focus:
-- Go neutral with a splash of color! Instead of whisper white or very vanilla, try naturals white or ivory, confetti white or cream. Large emphasis on neutrals. Look to the Elegant Soiree DSP this month for inspiration: All neutrals with that splash of baja breeze! You do not have to use the Elegant Soiree DSP but that is the look that we're after.

I did use very vanilla on this card though.

 

I brayered crumb cake onto the tulip embossing folder and ran it through the big shot with very vanilla card..  I liked the effect it gave the card.

I stamped the images with suede and just used an aquapainter to apply touches of Baja to them and sponged the squares with crumbcake.

The ribbon is vanilla taffeta which I tried to kind of pleat rather than gather up this time.

 

Ingredients :

Stamps : Nature walk, because I care, elements of style

Card : naturals ivory, vanilla, baja, crumbcake

Ink : suede, crumbcake, baja

Other : vanilla taffeta ribbon, pearls, hodgepodge hardware, square punch, big shot, framed tulips embossing folder, aquapainter, brayer, sticky strip

 

I was really happy with how this one turned out.  Can you tell I love my new Nature Walk set?

Kathy

Family Nature

 

Just thought I’d show you another challenge from the Splitcoast Stampers Creative Crew.

With this one you have to choose a layout and make a male and female card with it, while keeping the “antique” theme for this month.

CCREW0511HF, CreativeCrew, SUO or SUM - Holiday/Seasonal Focus -- Family Time! Mom's and Dad's days are here, but let's not forget about the Grandmas and Grandpas either. This month we're doing a his & hers challenge. Choose one layout and make a masculine card and a feminine card!

I decided to use Nature Walk and my grid technique to make a male card.  This one was for my Brother in law’s birthday.  I distressed this one quite a lot to try to make it more “manly”. I used the music notes wheel on the crumb cake and really scrunched it and then sponged crumb cake on it.

 

Ingredients : 

Stamps :  Nature walk, music notes, teeny tiny sentiments, sanded

Card : vanilla, naturals ivory, crumb cake, espresso

Ink :  crumb cake, espresso, river rock

Other :  linen thread, mini library clip, sponges, post its, big shot, lots of tags

 

Then this one is using the same layout but was for my Mum for Mother’s Day, so a “girly” version. For the challenge you didn’t need to use the same stamp set, but I love my new Nature Walk set so much I just had to!  

  

Ingredients :

Stamps : Nature walk, very vintage, teeny tiny sentiments

Card : Espresso, vanilla, pink pirouette

Ink : pip, crumb cake, espresso

Other : linen thread, espresso thin taffeta, word window punch, modern label punch, pearls, pip button, big shot, square scallop die, sponges, post its

 

Kathy

Pearl Wedding

This is the first card I made for the Splitcoast Stampers Creative Crew challenge.
The brief was to use Stampin Up products to give a card a distressed look.


I had been asked to make a special 30th wedding anniversary card and I thought distressed would be nice but I didn’t want to go “too over-board” with it because I didn’t know the couple it was going to.  So I made it distressed and pretty at the same time!
I decided to use my Always heart, I haven’t used it for a while and I had forgotten how beautiful it is.  I realised too that it would team beautifully with the finial press embossing folder.  I brayered crumb cake ink onto the folder before putting the river rock in and running it through the big shot. Then I distressed this piece further with a sanding block. The heart is embossed with espresso on 2 layers and cut out.  I distressed all edges using crumb cake and sponged some pretty in pink onto the heart and birds.  I also added some champagne shimmer paint to their wings and tails.  I pulled a thread in the vanilla satin ribbon to give it a vintage look too.
Oh and there had to be pearls because your 30th anniversary is a pearl one if you didn’t already know. I didn’t, I had to look it up :)

Ingredients :
Stamps : Always, teeny tiny sentiments
Card : river rock, naturals ivory, espresso, very vanilla
Ink : espresso, crumb cake, pip
Other :  clear embossing powder, sanding block, daubers, champagne shimmer mist, pearls, bird punch, big shot, lots of tags, finial press, linen thread, brayer, vanilla satin ribbon, timeless type junior alpha

The person who ordered the card was very happy with it when she saw it and she told me later that the anniversary couple truly loved it, they said it was just so beautiful.  Yeah!!!  Love a happy ending!


As for the Creative Crew challenges there are 4 each month.
I’m not showing you all my cards at once though :)
This one is for:
CCREW0511CF, CreativeCrew, SUO or SUM - Catalog Focus -- So Distressing. Use the Distressing Essentials kit, cutter kit, sponges, daubers. Make the new look old.
If you would like to join us and make a distressed card, just upload it to Splitcoaststampers and use the writing here in bold as your keywords.  It is probably easier if you just copy and paste these keywords from my blog.  Just get rid of either SUO or SUM.  The aim of the creative crew challenges is to get more stampin up cards into the gallery.  So cards are Stampin Up Only if possible, or Stampin Up Mostly (using 95% SU). Once you have posted this into the keyword section you upload to splitcoast as usual and you can add extra words to the keyword line such as what stamps you used too.
These challenges run for all of May and then 4 new challenges will be set.
If you have any questions just drop me an email.
I will let you know about one of the other challenges now too.  It’s a scrapbooking challenge and I’m not entering this one.  If a crew member decides to not enter one of the challenges then they enter 2 cards into one of the other challenges instead :)  So if you’re up for a scrapbooking challenge here it is :
CCREW0511SF, CreativeCrew, SUO or SUM - SB Inspiration Focus: -- Vintage Pages. We want to see black and white or Sepia photo's! We want the page to look like it's from a by-gone era, think antiquing, distressing, lace, etc.
Hope some of you can play along with us Crew members this month.
Kathy