Party Time

Hi Stampers

My 10 year old had his birthday this month, I kept his invites very easy as I left it to the last minute to do – it has been a very busy month for me.

 

My go to stamp set for anything ‘boy’ is of cause ‘Need for Speed’, this has been a very versatile set.

Thanks for stopping by

Cherie

Triple time stamping

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I have made several cards this month as August is a busy month for our family. All the cards that have gone out from this house have been using the triple time stamping technique.

 

 

Riding Hood Red and Field flowers are always a good combination

Basic Black and Wild Wasabi is so the colours of my sisters wardrobe, this card is so her, it has just a bit of bling as well:)

 

This is the front of my niece’s card, two she was. There was a first version of this card for Jorja but no photo as I finished it with just seconds left before we went to the party

And the inside was a pop-up, the colours came from the little fairies mobile that were her gift.

Just one  week left of the retirement list

Thanks for stopping by

Cherie

Happy 40th

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Today is my DH’s birthday. The big ‘4’ ‘0’ today. Last night we had the party to help celebrate the special event. Here is the card that I made special – just for him.

   I had seen this type of card done before with the top or the bottom but when I looked into it further for ideas and inspiration I found that you could do both on the one card, tops one side and bottoms the other. Of course why wouldn’t you, lol………

Sometimes it is the most obvious and the most simple that step up and slap you in the face (so to speak) and you think ‘of course’

The DSP is Twitterpated with Riding Hood Ribbon (retired) a paper flower and a brad – all for a man’s card – who would have thought,lol :)

Anyway, Happy 40th to all those who turn ‘40’ today.

Cherie

Masculine Cards

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Having boys in the house I am always needing masculine cards and here are a couple that I have made for birthdays…

This was a total copy of a swap that I received from my Upline Vicki, I think I have used her original card as well.

The spotlight technique was one that we did at Stamp Club, Need for speed is the stamp set of choice here again.

Okay - I know that this Split negative technique with Lovely as a tree has been done to death but it is still a good fallback when all else fails and your mojo has left the building.

Another Need for Speed and spotlight technique card using Tangerine Tango.

Enjoy

Thanks for stopping by

Cherie

I’m Here

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Gosh it has been a while since I blogged, life keeps getting in the way of my stamping and blogging. I’m back from Convention feeling more motivated and ready to start again. I have a couple of projects here that I have done for birthdays and I will try and get a picture of my swap that I did for Convention up in the next couple of posts as well.

 

Here is the first card that I did for 2 girls Simone and Chloe. Nearly the same except I changed the flower, the rick racks and the solid colour background. I was really happy with the final look of both cards,

 

I am loving the DSP Twitterpated from the Autumn- Winter catalogue. The DSP on these cards is using the Twitterpated paper.

This card was for Blair who had an ‘Under the Sea’ themed 5th party. Luca gave this card to Blair on the day of his birthday.

With this card I based the layout on the same as the cards above, this time using Pacific Point then layering with the DSP from the Everyday Enchantment then used Marina Mist for the solid blue and stamped it using the retired ‘All wrapped up” set and the retired ‘Ahoy Matey’ set and used the White gel pen for the air bubbles. The Whale was from the retired set ‘Pun Fun. The colour spritzer tool was used on the whale and then it was covered in crystal effects. The little mini Vintage Tag was stamped with the word ‘whale’ and I used the marker to achieve this.

Thanks for looking today

Cherie

Catch up cards

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I have a busy month planned ahead so I thought I would take a minute or two and do a blog post. I done a few projects over the last few months but never seem to get round to posting. Anyway here are a few….

These were for brothers whom had there party together, both boys played rugby and cricket so the best of both worlds are combined here.

My now 9 year son designed his birthday invites this year, based on the All Blacks everything was black and white

This tri fold card and twist top box were thrown together for a friend of the boys. We travelled to Toko for this celebration and had the best day.

This side step card was for a boys 7 year old party. Very cool the way this card design has grown.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cherie

More random cards

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Here are a couple of more cards that I found, This first one was my Mother’s day card (oops Mother’s day is May – goes to show that I need to blog much more regularly)

   

 

 

 

 

 

I have used the ‘Inspired by Nature’ stamp set here, coloured using markers but what you can’t see is that I have clear embossed over the top using clear embossing powder and the En Français background stamp. If you look at the top picture you may see it, my clear embossing powder has become contaminated with other products like ‘heat and Stick’ and other coloured embossing powders so clear is not so clear as multi.

This this next project was for Paige’s birthday back in May, this box held some yummy Rocky Road, money and a gift card fro Smiggles (a very popular Stationary shop)      

 

 

 

 

 

I think that this idea was called a drop box, fun to make and here the DSP ‘Celebrations’ was ideal for this card idea. 

This last card was for my little brother turning ‘31’ not so little now I guess. Here I hung the Jumbo Eyelet from the ribbon and just had it hanging there. Pacific Point and Basic Black cardstock, Newsprint DSP and Whisper White craft ink coloured over with the blue Watercolour pencils that Stampin’ Up have on page 142.

The retiring list is out here – be sure to get that item before it sell out, once it’s gone it’s gone.

Cherie

It’s a cupcake Day

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It was my neighbours daughters birthday a week or so back and I made her this ‘cupcake’ set. I reckon this is so cute.

So here is what the set is made up of, this cute little cupcake box inside and out.

Of course inside is filled with homemade Rocky Road, yum

This box is like a oversized milk carton which I CASED from an Easter box that I was gifted at Easter filled with chocolate eggs

The gift inside is a ‘Smiggles’ stacker tin which held the gift of money. Yay for money

Last up is the card outside and inside

The little flowers are made from the scallop punch from the Itty Bitty Shapes Punch pack and a Pink Pirouette circle made with the crop-a-dile then covered with Crystal effects, these were left to dry overnight and then I adhered then using the Tombow multipurpose glue.

On the milk carton I used the Simple Birthday Thanks and on the card the ‘Create a Cupcake’ stamp set and the punch. The crimper was used as well.

Check my Stampin’ Up site here for other projects

Cherie

Sail Away Birthday Card

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Sail Away is a stamp from Stampin’ Up’s ‘a la carte’ range of single stamps that is at the back of the Autumn-Winter mini catalogue which is due to finish up at the end of this month.

This is a card that I made back in March.

 

I had a play with the Pearls that are page 140 of the Catalogue and coloured it in using the Marina Mist marker

 

Check my Stampin’ Up site here for the latest promotions from Stampin’ Up.

Cherie

Birthday Cards

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I may have struggled getting back into things after convention but these to cards I made for parties that the boys went along to.

This first card was for a  friend of Mason’s. You may be able to make out the clouds that are sponged in the background. Always handy to these treat cups around and this cards has the trap door so that the lollies can be got to without tearing the card apart.

This next card was made for Blair, punch art, not sure that I’m a big fan of it as my cards never look as good as so many of the others that you see round.

Did you guess it was a race car, well done if you did lol. I made this Lightening McQueen car as well. I filled the box with Rocky Road for the birthday boy.

This very clever design is a tutorial by the very clever and talented Lynn Pratt. This project took so much longer than I first thought but I can’t complain with the end result.

Thanks for looking

Cherie

The birthday pack

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My girlfriends daughter turned ‘9’ this month, oh gosh where did that time go. So yay for me I get to do something girlie for a change So I started with pink cause that is this girls favourite colour………

This is the card, outside of course and this is

the inside of course and then onto the money holder

and then this very cute box that held the homemade Rocky Road, yum, this is always a favourite

and all three together

but wait there’s more, I brought a gift as well because we have a new shop here called Smiggles and all the kids love it so I had to buy a Smiggles gift. I needed a something to pop it into so I made a bag but in the meantime I spoke to my friend who explained that pink was no longer the right colour, we have moved onto blue '”oh no” everything I made was in pink. So what did I do – made a blue bag of course, it didn’t match the set but it was more about the thought.

So not quite the matching set that I had pictured but you know it has a little bit of everything. Here is a close up of the bag.

The pink items were made using the inlay technique. A very cool technique to play with. Punch out your shapes and layer on top of each other using ‘Tombow Adhesive’ and then run through the ‘Big Shot’ using an Embossing folder that has a tight pattern. As easy as that

Everything used in these projects was Stampin’ Up of course.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cherie