Festive Friday #40

Oops, there was an issue with the uploading of this post for this week's Festive Friday Challenge, so I have made a couple of tweaks including this great graphic which might give you a clue to the theme for this week's Product Challenge ...

Yes, it is to Use Buttons.  Big buttons, small buttons, plastic, glass or wood buttons the choice is yours - use one or use many. The great thing about the challenge this week is that you can use them any way you want, check out the design team for some extra inspiration if you need it.

I have used buttons in two ways today, one for the body of this cute little snowman from Button Buddies (the title of that set certainly called to me for this challenge).  I also used a couple of Old Olive flower buttons on the sentiment label.  Do you recognise the label?  It is one from the Apothecary Accents Framelits but I have trimmed it down to remove some of the detail on the top and bottom to simplify it just a little.

Now it's your turn, get Festive with buttons and add your card to the linkie at Festive Friday.

Happy Stamping

Dynamic 411

This weekend I had the time and mojo needed to make a couple of cards and join in a couple of challenges! Great achievement all things considered!  The two cards I made I will post next week as they are birthday cards for my mum and niece, and as mum checks my blog I don't want to spoil the surprise. I joined in two challenges with this card Stamping 411 and Dynamic Duos, Rich Razzleberry and Old Olive were two of my favourite colours when I first joined Stampin' Up! as a demonstrator but I don't use them as much as I used to, and certainly not together.

I tipped the 411 layout onto its side and added the sentiment window - the window is cut from the DSP and the sentiment is stamped onto the base card stock. I have used the Fun Flowers Die for the bottom two layers of the flower, one in card stock and the other in Newsprint DSP stamped with Creative Elements.  The top layer of the flower is stamped with the flower from Button Buddies embossed in white.  I am totally loving white embossing powder and the crisp bright white effect it gives you.  The base layer of DSP is actually from the Christmas papers Letters to Santa. 

Happy Stamping

On A Roll

 Having been out of mojo for a little while now I am pleased that I have created another card for a double challenge entry.  This one is for Just Add Ink colour challenge and Pals Paper Arts sketch challenge.

I used to absolutely love these earthy tones when I first started with Stampin' Up! but lately for some reason they have found themselves on my barely used pile!  Even when I did use them I tended to team them up with my old favourite Old Olive, so I was excited to try them with Bashful Blue instead.  I think the lighter blue really gives them a lift.  These colours together remind me of the poem "My Country" by Dorothea Mackellar  I think it is mental images of the blue of our Australian skies paired with the red dust of our outback.  Even the picture that is with the poem in that link has these colours in it!!

Stamps: Button Buddies, Perfect Punches

Paper: Cajun Craze, Bashful Blue and Very Vanilla Card Stock

Ink: Cajun Craze, Peach Parfait, Bashful Blue

Tools: , Scallop Circle Punch, 1 1/4" Circle Punch

Special Touches: Polka Dot Embossing Folder, Champaigne Shimmer Mist, Dazzling Diamonds, Crystal Effects

Happy Stamping

Last Minute Mashup!

I don't know where time has gone these days, but somehow we are in July, half of 2011 has slipped by and it's been ages since I made a post!  Today when I got home I had a quick look at The Friday Mashup! and discovered I still had time to do a quick entry. 

The theme this week was Red, White and Blue, Patriotic.  Now while we Aussies are patriotic it is not usually with the Red White and Blue theme, more Green and Yellow, or Green and Gold as we like to call it.  So this week for the first time ever, I am not doing the whole mashup challenge!!! 

I have been wanting to ink up the Button Buddies set ever since Shelli announced at Convention that we were all going to be lucky enough to take it home.  You should have heard the roar around the convention hall.  Each of the stamps works well on it's own, but even better with one of the Stampin' Up! buttons as a feature.  In this card I have used the flower stamp and done both red (cherry cobbler) and blue (night of navy) flowers, with a contrasting button in the middle flower.  The two outside flowers I left plain to show off their centres which I highlighted with some sponging.

I hope you have enjoyed this creation.  I hope to get a couple more done over the weekend, but I am heading off to visit my family for a couple of weeks so won't be doing stamping, and it is possible you won't hear from me again until I return.

Happy Stamping