Card Catch Up

Here are some of the cards I have made lately. This first one was for my niece who turned 6 in October. I have used the Summer Picnic DSP and the Tart and Tangy stamp set from the Spring Mini that will be ending at the end of November. The ribbon is Real Red Striped Grosgrain and I used my Old Olive and Real Red Markers to colour the strawberry image. The idea for this card came from this tutorial by Dawn at Dawns Stamping Thoughts This card was for my friends son. The colours are Really Rust, More Mustard and Chocolate Chip. The Lion is from "Wild About You" and has been coloured with markers and stamped on glossy cardstock and punched out with the scallop circle punch and then mounted on another scallop circle. The chocolate chip layer has been crimped using the crimper. The DSP I have used is Spring Showers.

This last card uses Summer Picnic DSP (If you like this you will need to order it this month because it will soon retire when the spring mini ends Nov 30). The ribbon is Real Red Striped Grosgrain and I used my Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie and Real Red Markers to colour the image from "Boho Backgrounds" and the sentiment. (You will be able to order single SU markers from Nov 10th till Nov 30th). I have made a custom envelope using whisper white CS and stamped it to match the card.

Well I hope you like these cards. I have heaps more to show you, I just have to get the time to write them all up.

I have a new little feature on the right hand side of my blog where you can follow my blog. So click on the link so I am able to see who is reading my ramblings. It will let you know when I have put up a new post.

Well bye for now. I am going back to playing with all my pre-order goodies from the new Summer Mini catalogue that starts December 1st, (I loved it so much I ordered one of everything except 3 things.....oops lucky my husband doesn't follow my blog).

My Son is 4!

It was my son's 4th Birthday today so I thought I would show you the card I made. I used some non SU items on this card because he is a mad Spiderman fan. I made the wall using Brilliant Blue CS that was scored to look like bricks with my Cutter and scoring blade and then sponged on some Brilliant Blue ink and Basic black ink with my sponge daubers. The "Happy Birthday to You!" is from the SU Rub-Ons pack "A Perfect Day" and I have to say they are the easiest Rub-Ons I have ever used. Keep a look out for a fantastic Rub-On Special coming soon. I have used Basic Black CS for the road and the card base is Real Red. His name has been written with my Basic Black Marker.

We wrapped his present in brown paper and my husband drew a cool web on the top and I made a cute little spider out of SU punches. I saw this idea on this blog here by Jenni Oliver. I changed it slightly because I wanted my spider to have 8 legs. It uses the scallop circle, photo corner, 1/2 inch circle and the 1/4 inch circle punches. I used two black scallop circles and attached the legs in between them so they wouldn't fall off.

I have been making so many cards in the last couple of weeks but haven't put them on my blog so hopefully over the next few days I will be posting them on here, so stay tuned.

New Challenge at the Cardinal Stampers Blog

Just a heads up that there is a new challenge up at the Cardinal Stampers Blog for anyone who is interested in having a go. The challenge this week is to make a girly card using the colours Certainly Celery, Pretty in Pink and Whisper White. Here is my card. For more information on this card head over to the Cardinal Stampers blog at http://cardinalstampers.blogspot.com/.

KWERNERDESIGN Color Inspiration #27

Here is my attempt at Kristina's Challenge for this week. I was lucky and had made this card the day before the challenge went up and happened to use the right colours. It is for my friends (Zarna) daughters first birthday.

I have used Rose Red, Regal Rose and So Saffron Card Stock, Water Colour Paper, Black Stazon, white gel pen, Aqua Painter, Rich Regal Water Colour Crayons, and wide Regal Rose Grosgrain ribbon. The stamp sets I used are both level 1 hostess sets, For a Friend and A Little Bit of Happiness. I used the corner rounder with the guard removed to do the scalloped edge.

My First Christmas Card for the Year

I have finally started making my Christmas cards for this year. The layout for this card has been CASED from this card http://stampingmommyof4.com/jingle-all-the-way. I have used different stamp sets and Designer Paper. Cardstock - Real Red and Whisper White

Markers - Old Olive, Bashful Blue and Real Red

Stamps - Season of Joy and Many Merry Messages on the inside (which you can't see)

DSP - Summer Picnic (Is there anything it can't do?)

Accessories - Dimensionals, Snail, Old Olive wide Grosgrain Ribbon

KWERNERDESIGN Color Inspiration #25

I wanted to make a First Birthday card so I decided to use the colours from Kristina's colour challenge (here http://kwernerdesign.com/blog/2008/10/color-inspiration-25.html) for my card. I have used Celery and So Saffron Prints DSP, Ballet Blue Grosgrain ribbon, sponge daubers, versamark and clear embossing powder. The stamp sets I used are Time Well Spent (Level 3 hostess set) and Well Worn Numbers (retired).
I have used the emboss resist technique for the main feature pannel.

Fathers Day Cards

I know I am very late in putting these up on my blog but better late than never. I made a lot of Fathers day cards this year (not all for my family but for other people as well). For this first one I found a great tutorial last year on how to make these shirts. The tutorial can be found here - http://cambriaturnbow.blogspot.com/2007/06/palette-o-prints-father-shirt.html. I have used some Close to Cocoa Prints DSP and the Outlaw DSP and used the colours Chocolate Chip and Close to Cocoa to match.

These next three used the Outlaw and Fall Flowers DSP and the stamp sets I used were Occasional Greetings and Seeing Spots.
I also helped my Daughters class make cards for their dads and this is what we used. Because they were only Kinder and Year 1 kids I did the stamping and cutting and they put the card together, coloured in the image and wrote inside. The colours used were Very Vanilla, Sage Shadow, Really Rust, Chocolat Chip and Not Quite Navy. The stamp sets we used we Occasional Greetings and Summer by the Sea.
This card was what I made for my Dad, My husband and My Step Father. I found the tutorial to make this wallet card here - http://danniesdesigns.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/05/fathers-day-wal.html.

These wallet cards are a great idea if you want to give money, gift cards or even scratchies. I didn't have any cash on hand for the photo but you get the idea.