Modern colours...

Today's sample is one inspired by a new baby coming soon in our family. When I was born baby colours were limited to white, all white for 12 months according to my mum 😉, and  baby blue or baby pink !!! Now days ideas have changed quite a lot! Parents today have the choice of a vast colour pallet bold strong colours mixed with soft neutral or non gender specific colourways like Apple green and dark teal . For the card today I've gone for bright tempting turquoise and basic grey In a nod to contemporary choices 😊

Tempting turquoise..

This week I'm sharing projects that contain the colour Tempting turquoise  a beautiful bright blue that make me think of summer and warm clear seas 😊 just what I need in the cold dark and dismal days of winter here in the UK  😉
Well today I'm sharing a card that's bright and zingy . Hope it helps brighten your day where ever you are 😊

Cake Soiree - Day 5

Today I've made a male birthday card with the stamp set.

I wasn't sure that I could but I'm pleased that I can.

I've used Sahara Sand and Very Vanilla cardstock for this one and 

Chocolate Chip Ink Pad for the stamping.

I embossed the Sahara Sand front mat using the Petal Pair Textured Impressions Embossing Folder and added 2 strips of Copper Trim. 

I stamped a plain cake for this one (not many men would like a highly decorated cake) and added 

thin strips of Copper Foiled card to 'decorate' the cake.

I die cut the tag using the coordination framelits and stamped the Happy Birthday onto it.

The message inside was stamped twice. Once on the card but I covered the Happy Birthday.

Then stamped the whole message again and removed the message and kept the 

Happy Birthday this time to use for the card stand.

Thank you for joining me this week. 

I hope I have given you some inspiration to make some lovely cards yourselves.

Please pop in next week to see what amazing things Cary has designed.

Gill xxx

Cake Soiree - Day 4

Once again I have stamped all over the Whisper White mat with the decorated cake this time,

I used Lemon Lime Twist Ink pad for all of the stamping.

I stamped the cake and die cut the cake stand then backed them both with Silver Foiled card.

I think this card would be ideal to give for a wedding or engagement celebration. 

Cake Soiree - Day 3

For today's card, I have used Berry Burst and Whisper White cardstock and Ink pad.

I first stamped over the White mat with the 2 flower stamps to make the background. 

I used Powder Pink Ink Pad for the background.

 Using the flower die from the Sweet Cake framelits which coordinate with the stamps,

I die cut some in white and some in Berry Burst then swapped the inside pieces over to give

them a mix and match effect.

Very thin strips of cardstock to make the flowers into balloons and attached to 

the back of the suitcase.

Cake Soiree - Day 2

Today's card is a very simple one.

2 Cases stamped and cut out then added to one of the cards from the FREE Saleabration set 

called Sweet Soiree Memories and More Card Pack

Melon Mambo card base and a Whisper White mat, followed by 

Basic Gray and Melon Mambo Ink pads for the suitcases and message.

As I said Very simple and quick to make using the FREE product once again.

Weekly Inspiration - Cake Soiree

Cake Soiree

This week I am showing some cards made with the Cake Soiree stamp set

from the NEW Stampin' Up!Seasonal Spring/Summer Catalogue.

I call this a Peekaboo card. I don't know the proper name but this is what my granddaughter 

called it!

I recently made this card using the Layering Ovals dies for a class and again as my swap at our team training. 

Cary had made another from my card using the Lots of Labels dies as I've used here.

Much easier than it looks, I made 23 the day before training.

 

 I used the Sweet Cake Framelits Dies which coordinate with the stamps. 

They have some lovely leaf shapes which I used to embellish the front of my card.

  

I used Whisper White, Bermuda Bay and Pool Party Ink and Cardstock.

The coordinating Designer Series Paper Stack, was used for the 2 mats.

Here is the original card that I made for the class. 

This one I used Pool Party and Whisper White Cardstock and Ink pad.

 

I used the Lovely Wishes stamp set for the messages on this one.