Lynn Powell

Faith In Nature Birthday Card

Two posts in one day!!!

I've been wanting to use the 'Faith In Nature' stampset ever since I bought it, but haven't had the opportunity to do so until now.  I found a tutorial for making a 6 Fold card on Splitcoast, but through lack of concentration (not unusual for me!!) I did a little whoopsy and mine has ended up as a 4 fold card - LOL!

Here is the front of the card:

This is the card opened up:

And this is the inside:

I've used the really yummy Spice Cake Dsp for this card (in the Summer Mini catty), which I just LOVE!!! Considering I made a booboo, I think it still turned out OK. What do you think??

Supplies Used:

• Soft Suede, Very Vanilla, Baha Breeze Cardstock
• Spice Cake DSP
• Faith In Nature, Occasional Quotes, French Foliage  stampsets
• Soft Suede, More Mustard, Cajun Craze, Old Olive, Crumb Cake  inkpads
• Baha Breeze Seam Binding
• Large Oval punch
• (other dies non SU)

 

 

Telescoping Cards

I've seen a few of these Telescope cards around lately and I wanted to make a birthday card that was a little bit different for my friend, so I thought I would give one a try. They are really quite easy and fun to make.

Here is my finished card, showing it closed:

And here it is opened up:

I've used circles to make my card, but you can really use any shape you like that works well, they just need to be different sizes. I'm going to use this card as a tag on her birthday present!! Hope she likes it!!

Supplies Used:

• Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, Early Espresso, Blushing Bride cardstock
• Mocha Morning Speicalty DSP
• Old Olive, Blushing Bride Markers
• Early Espresso, Blushing Bride, Crumb Cake inkpads
• Established Elegance, French Foliage, Bring On The Cake stampsets
• Tools: Perfect Pennants, Scallop Circle No 2 Dies, Circle Scissor Plus, Crop-A-Dile
• Clear Rhinestone brads, Rhinestone Jewels, Blushing Bride Stitched Poly ribbon

 

Thanks for looking!

A Wedding Card

We are all so focussed on Christmas at this time of year, creating cards & gifts to give away, but today I have a non traditional wedding card to share with you:

This is a card I made for my nephew's wedding which was on 16th December. It's a Joy Fold Card and I have used some non traditional papers to create it.  Here is another view showing the layers in the card:

 

And this is the inside of the card:

 

I have used the 'Mocha Morning' Specialty paper to create this card.  It has some lovely flocked sheets of paper that matched in perfectly with the invitations that Rob & Crystal sent out.  The stamp sets used are  'Established Elegance' (in the 2012 Catty) and 'Marry Me' which is in the Summer Mini catalogue.  This particular stamp set is only available until  31 March 2012, so if you are wanting to get your hands on a set, you can contact me on my email.

I couldn't make the wedding unfortunately but I hope they had a fantastic time!!

SAM December Challenge

The challenge this month over at Stamp A Memory, was to use this photo as an inspiration to create a layout:

 

I really wasn't sure what I was going to do with this challenge, so in the end I took the blue & white colours from the tablecloth and runner, the white daisies from the centrepieceand and came up with this:

Looks nothing like the photo does it?? But, hey, the photo is only there for inspiration! Sorry the photo is quite dark, but this is the best out of all I took. It's become quite dark and sultry over here in WA at the moment - and I am NOT the best photographer at the best of times!!

Once again, I've made good use of Stampin' Up's punches and dies to create the embellishments for my layout.  I had a lot of white space left on this layout and wasn't too happy with it, so I stamped some petals from the 'Pick A Petal' stamp set (retired but I didn't have the flower image I eanted to use!) to add some colour and interest to the background.

So what inspiration do you get from the photo? I would love to see what you can be inspired to create. You can enter the challenge here at Stamp-A-Memory. You will also get some fabulous inspiration from the rest of the DT girls too!

Here is a list of products used on this layout:

Paisley Petals DSP, Subtles Collection Paper Stack

Whisper White, Bashful Blue cardstock

• Bashful Blue, Crumb Cake, Early Espresso inkpads
• Early Espresso Marker
• Pick A Petal (retired), Notes & Details stamp sets
• Paper Daisies, Antique Brads, Neutral brads
• Dotted Scallop Border punch, 1 3/4" & 2 1/2" circle punches
• Tasteful Trim, Two Tags, Perfect Pennants & Timeless Type Junior Alphabet Dies
• Bigshot, Crop-A-Dile

 

Have a great day!!

Christmas Giftset

Just thought I'd share with you  a Christmas Gift set we did recently at an in-home workshop with some of my customers:

And a close-up of the box:

It's a great little set and so easy to do and can be modified to suit any occasion. If you're interested in having your own in-home workshop and making this set, contact me for more info

Me And My Girl

Here is a sneak peak at my latest layout.

To see more, click here to go the the Stamp-A-Memory blog

Stamp A Memory November Challenge

The challenge this month over at Stamp-A-Memory is to scrap a double-page layout. these are my favourite layouts to do as you can incorporate lots of photos on the page, PLUS they look good in your album having it fill the whole opening.

I chose to scrap a recent trip my girlfriend & I made to Port Lincoln in South Australia:

We drove there and back & as it was a girl's trip, on the way back decided to stage a 'Thelma & Louise' moment (I guess you really had to be there!!) These photos were taken from a hill overlooking Eucla.

I've used my punches & Bigshot a lot to create embellishments for this layout - from the scallop border, title & my little journalling spot. The scallop border was created using the Tasteful Trim Die and and my Crop-A-Dile. I've also used my 5-Petal flower punch to punch out a flower from chipboard. this gave me a flower to use as an embellishment, plus I used the negative piece as another embellishment. Both pieces were run through the Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder.

Stampin' Up have a fabulous new Designer Frames embossing Folder set, so I though I would use it to create a little journalling spot. I first diecut an oval with the Ovals Die, then ran it through the ovals embossing folder to create the back. I don't know if you can really see the effect to well, but it has a raised border & a row of raised dots around the outside edge. The top layer was punched out using the extra large oval punch.

I hope you find the time to join in the challenge this month, I would love to see what you come up with. You can enter the challenge here. I would also love to hear what you think of this layout, so please leave me a little comment!!

Happy scrapping!

 Product Used:

• Crumb Cake, Bashful Blue, Early Espresso, Basic Black, Cherry Cobbler Cardstock
• Paisley Petals DSP, First Editon Specialty DSP
• Tasteful Trims Die, Simple Letters Die, Timeless Type Junior AlphabetDesigner Frames Embossing Folder, Pefect Polka Dots Embossing Folder, Large oval punch, 5-petal Flower punch, Baroque Motifs stampset
• Other: Brads, Paper Daisies

 

Pendant Park

This is a remake of a card I made previously using the Pendant Park stamp set:

I've just used different papers and colours. What do you think?? Would love to hear your comments!

Card Recipe:

• Pendant Park, Teeny Tiny Sentiments stamp sets
• Timeless Portrait, First Edition Specialty DSP
• Cherry Cobbler, Not Quite Navy, Very Vanilla Cardstock
• Basic Black, Old Olive inkpads
• Crumb Cake Seam Binding
• Scallop Oval, Large Oval punches
• Pearls

 

 

Field Flowers

I just love this new stamp set from this years Catalogue and I know I'm going to be using it A LOT!!

 

It's a two-step stamp set so it gives a lovely watercolour effect when you stamp the two images over each other. I just love it!! I've used Marina Mist to stamp the first layer of my flower, then Pacific Point to stamp the second layer. The background on my card base has been created using the flourish fom the 'Elements Of Style' stampset.

What do you think??

Card Recipe:

• Field Flowers, Elements of Style stampsets
• First Edition Specialty DSP
• Marina Mist, Very Vanilla, Early Espresso, Old Olive, Not Quite Navy cardstock
• Top Note Die, Finial Press Embossing Folder
• Marina Mist, Pacific Point, Old Olive, Crumb Cake, Early Espress inkpads
• Early Espresso Satin ribbon
• Designer Buttons

 

 

Elebration

It's been a while since I have posted up a card here - I just don't know where the days are going! Life is very busy for me at the moment and I'm struggling to find a bit of time to myself! However, I have finally found a bit of time to post a picture of a card i have made:

This is using the Oh So Cute 'Elebration' stamp. Isn't he just gorgeous!!  I've coloured him using inkpads and an aqua brush.The sentiment is from a retired Sale-A-Bration stamp set.

Card Recipe:

• Elebration, So HappyFor You (retired) stamp sets
• Flirtatious Specialty, Regals DSP
• Pink Pirouette, Elegant Eggplant, Very Vanilla cardstock, Watercolour paper
• Very Vanilla Satin Ribbon
• Scallop Circle #2 Bigz Die, Scallop Trim Border Punch,  Circle Scissor Plus
• Bigshot
• Basic Grey, Black Stazon inkpads
• Chocolate Chip, Pink Pirouette markers, Aqua Pen

Thanks for looking!