Dinosaurs!

Hi all,

Thought I'd show you the first of a few cards I made while I was off work a couple of weeks ago.  I borrowed a load of stamp sets of a friend and was really looking forward to having a play with the Dinoroar set.  This one was for one of my cousins in Finland - I hope he liked it, it was really fun to make!

Stamp Set: Dinoroar

Ink: Old Olive, Certainly Celery, Basic Black, Early Expresso, Pumpkin Pie, Daffodil Delight, Versamark

Embossing Powder: White

Cardstock: Pool Party, Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake

Punches: Build a Cupcake

Accessories: Blender Pen, Paper Piercer, Mat Pack, Heat Tool, sponger

I actually used the inverse of the cupcake punch as a stencil to make the clouds as at the time I didn't have the corresponding stamps - think it worked quite well as I didn't want it to look punched out.  I decided on the paper piercing right at the end cus I felt it needed a little extra and I like how it finished off the card.

Let me know what you think :)

Loves,

Ally

xxx

Lots of Flowers

Hi all,

Been a bit of a rubbish week this week - hurt my back at work on Monday and had to go to hospital :( went in an ambulance and got to have gas and air woo!  Haha was an experience!  Waited at A&E for 5 hours just for them to give me painkillers and send me home.  Anyway, been in lots of pain and had to take the week off work to recover and heal, but it's meant I've managed to make loads of card yay :) most were orders from my mum and brother so I have to wait until they're given to post some of those.  I'm trying to get a stash of different cards made so I can sell some, but until I've got a decent amount, I can't take them anywhere!

Anyhow, today's card I actually made a while ago for a friend and it uses a mixture of Stampin Up! and generic stuff.  Hope you like it :)

Stamp Set: Silhouette Sentiments, Basic Phrases

Ink: Pretty in Pink, Certainly Celery, Versamark

Stampin' Pastels: Pink Pirouette

Cardstock: Certainly Celery, Pretty in Pink, Daffodil Delight, Rich Razzleberry

Punch: [All non-SU] Butterfly - 1" & 1/8", fancy heart border, 1/8" Flower

Accessories: Mini Brads, Pretty in Pink Grosgrain Ribbon

Some of you may be wondering why I used Versamark and Stampin' Pastels - well, I don't have any markers and I wanted to use my chalks because at the time they were new so I masked off the flowers on the stamp and just stamped the green, then used the stampamajig to then stamp the versamark in the right place.  I then chalked the flowers I wanted coloured.  Sounds like a lot of work for not all that much point?!  Yeah, well, I'm unlikely to do that again haha!

Til next time then!

Have a good week :)

Loves,

Ally

xxx