The Sweetest Thing #39

I found The Sweetest Thing challenge blog thanks to Sherry. So I decided to join in. Below is the sketch we were to follow this week. . . .

This is my interpretation of the above sketch. I really love how it came together. Thanks for taking the time to look at my card today and comments are always appreciated.

In the meantime. . . .

Walk about your day with beauty.

The Gypsy

Supplies: SU Kraft, Chocolate Chip and More Mustard cardstock and Chocolate Chip stamp pad, Large scallop oval and Oval All stamp set. Ribbon from my stash. Cosmo Cricket Earth Love 6x6 paper pad. Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder. Ranger Vintage Photo distress ink.

New Products arrived from SU

Today my Stampin' Up! order came and I opened the box up and thought this is so pretty lol I decided to take a pic before I touched anything. Underneath all of the supplies there are eight packs of A4 cardstock assorted and two packs of 12 x 12 designer paper. Oh my I had such a great time unpacking everything. I purchased more tools of the trade this time as I am getting ready to make video tutorials once my video camera comes so I wanted to have as much SU supplies as I could afford. I even bought a Fiskars trimmer from SU so I could use it in my videos but I already have a Kaisercraft one and another type of Fiskars trimmer but this is the official one used by SU. I only bought the Oval All stamp set #116877, Sense Of Time stamp set #116885, Tree Trimmings stamp set #116893 and Kind Heart single stamp for the back of cards I wish to sell #116681. All these stamps sets can be found in the current Spring Mini. So if you wish to order any of these supplies or any other SU product please contact me on my email listed on my blog. Prompt service guaranteed.

So once I unpacked the box and put things away after stroking the designer papers and mounting all the stamp sets I could not wait to ink the Sense Of Time set #116885 up. I stamped the clock onto Whisper White but then used Distress Ink and I was only going to do the borders but decided to change the look all over and I love how it turned out. The grid paper in the background was a free download from the Kaisercraft site and it was a whole bundles including papers etc. I then stamped the clock workings from the set Sense Of Time on the grid paper. I used my brand new SU Spiral punch #108341 which I am in total love with lol and the sentiment is a Hostess level one set called Best Yet and it has some great sentiments in assorted fonts. I punched it out using my new Designer Label punch #107590. The background paper is Cosmo Crickets Earth Love 6 x 6 paper pad another fav of mine. I put this all onto my fav cardstock SU Kraft.

Let me know what you think of the finished card. I made this just because I wanted to and had so much fun doing it. Okay I am off to finish my daughters photo album to send over to England for her husbands sisters children whom they hope to bring out to Australia to live with them.

In the meantime. . . .

Walk about your day with beauty.

The Gypsy

365 Cards - #109 Colour Scheme

The light is not good in my photos tonight so I apologise for that right up front. My fluro light started flickering so I turned it off until my husband can change it tomorrow as he is asleep now lol. And I only have my lamp on so I did the best I could with what I got lol.

So over at 365 Cards Pam set the challenge today as a colour challenge and your card had to include green, orange, yellow, brown and aqua and your card had to be feminine!! Crikey I almost had a fit (maybe it was the fluro flickering) all those colours and it had to be feminine. . .and the inspiration for this colour range came from the Cosmo Cricket "Mr Campy" paper range so what does that tell you. . .yep you guessed it a blokey type of range. So I really had to get the thinking cap on for this one I can tell you!! First I chose SU Kraft cardstock for the actual card and I really thought this is not helping it is leaning towards the blokey end. Then I chose Tangerine Tango (a fav of mine) and the yellow was from the Neutrals paper stack from DCWV. Once I had Cuttlebugged them both I could see where my card was going then and it all came together like magic hehe. This SU stamp set Fresh Cuts has to be my favourite stamp set it has so many uses. I stamped the image in Chocolate Chip and then I used my SU Stampin' Pastels to lightly sponge all the colours that we had to use throughout the image. I think it turned out just beautifully and I was really pleased with the outcome. What do you think?? The rest of the card speaks for itself but you can see what supplies I used at the end of this post under Supplies of course. I did sand the yellow DCWV embossed cardstock so the white core came through, I think it looks great.

This second image is a little brighter than the first one but not much. I could have done it tomorrow but if I don't get my card done at night I dream about what I am going to create until. . .like last night or early this morning (3.30am) I get up and make the jolly thing, so I had to get it made before I went to bed so I could rest properly! So that is it for me today.

In the meantime. . . .

Walk about your day with beauty.

The Gypsy

Supplies: SU Kraft, Chocolate Chip, Tangerine Tango and Very Vanilla cardstock. The yellow and khaki coloured cardstock are from my DCWV Neutrals paper stack. SU Fresh Cuts stamp set. SU Stampin' Pastels and Chocolate Chip stamp pad. SU Oval and Word Window punches. The brads and chocolate chip grosgrain ribbon are from my stash. Cuttlebug Paisley and Swiss Dots embossing folders.