Vintage card

This is one of the cards we created at last month's card class, using one of my favourite Designer Paper ranges from the current Idea Book & Catalogue "Beau Chateaux".  It has such a vintage feel and I love the colours in the papers, will be sad to see them go at the end of September.

The whole card has a vintage touch, quite a lot of work and not something you would want to be making batches of but great to give to someone special.

We used the "Creative Elemants" stamp set for the Butterfly which was coloured using the Marker Pens and also "French Foliage" on the designer paper layer.

A lovely colour combo of Soft Suede, Marina Mist and Blushing Bride.  Lots of texture with the "Vintage Wallpaper" embossing powder which was also inked with Whisper White Kraft Ink, the spiral flowers and the pleated rosette.

When we visited France last year I fell in love with the architecture around me, the beautiful narrow cobble streets with lovely brickwork covered with flower baskets and found myself constantly with my camera pointing upwards at the view, a bit like being in New York really!!

These photographs captured just a little of what I loved and I wanted to share this on a layout.

The patterned papers are from "Pocketful of Posies" which is in the April Promotion, so if you place an order with me for £45 you can choose this whole pack of paper for FREE, worth £9.95.  You get 12 sheets of double sided 12x12 papers which are fantastic quality and of course, co-ordinate with the colour families that Stampin' Up! has.

I used a colour combo of Rich Razzlebery, Marina Mist, Baja Breeze and some Pear Pizzazz throw in.

The stamps are "Creative Elements", a set I was given for attending Convention in Paris last year and it is beautiful, gorgeous flowers that you can decoupage and lovely butterfly which looks great coloured with your Marker Pens.

We added some of the spiral flowers amongst our stamped images to create some texture.  The leaves were die cut using the Sizzlits die "Little Leaves", which is a bargain at £4.50.

The next Scrapbooking class is on May 22nd, a little later than usual due to the Bank Holiday at the beginning of the month, places must be booked in advance to ensure I have enough products to create your kits.

Big Shot Class - Two Tags

At this month's Big Shot Class we used the "Two Tags" die to create our projects.  This die is just so versatile and there are so many different ways of using it other than for tags.

We make 3 projects at this class, usually 2 cards and a 3D item and the colour combo we used is Wisteria Wonder, Concorde Crush, Very Vanilla and Crumb Cake.

The first project was a bookmark card which would make a lovely gift in itself.  The stamps used are from "Creative Elements" and this set has a gorgeous swirly background stamp which we stamped onto our Wisteria Wonder layer in the same colour ink.  The set also has a beautiful butterfly and 6 lovely stamps, including a flower that can be decoupaged.  You will find the set on Page 67 of the Idea Book & Catalogue.

The ribbons also co-ordinate with the card, and I used Wisteria Wonder Ruffled and Concorde Crush Stitched Poly on this one.  We stamped more images from "Creative Elements" onto the bookmark.  The greeting is from a Hostess set called "Happiest Birthday Wishes".  The stripy paper is from the In Colour stack, you get a whole pad of 40 sheets of double sided patterned paper for an amazing £19.50, it just lasts and lasts and has so many uses.

 

We used the "Blossom Party" die with the Big Shot to die cut the Wisteria Wonder flower then layered with a 1/2" Pear Pizzazz circle and a gorgeous Concorde Crush Glimmer Brad.

If you would like to get your hands on the products used to create this card, just email me at stampinkerry@aol.com for more information or why not host a party and earn them for free!

Back tomorrow with the other projects.