Lynn Powell

Welcome Baby

A friend of ours just recently had a gorgeous little baby girl and I wanted to make her a special card to welcome her new little daughter. It had to be pink (of course) so I thought I would use the Flirtatious Specialty DSP to see how it would turn out. This is what I made:

I quite like houw it turned out! it is a Double Z Fold card and when you open it up, this is what you get:

I think it looks bright and cheery with the lovely splash of pumpkin cardstock and paper!

 

Supplies used:

• Pretty In Pink, Pumpkin Pie, Whisper White cardstock
• Flirtatious SPecialty DSP
• All In The Family & A Word For You stampsets
• Punches:    Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border, 6cm Scallop Circle
• Circle Scissor Plus (to create the circles)
• Basic Black Inkpad
• Pretty In Pink, Pumpkin Pie, Early Espresso, Blushing Bride markers.
• Organza Ribbon
• (non SU diamantes - had them in my stash!!)

Thanks for stopping by!!

 

The Open Sea

I've been having a play with 'The Open Sea' stampset and macthing paper - 'Nautical Expedition' from the Summer Mini catalogue. Such a great stampset and perfect for creating male cards! I know I always struggle making masculine cards!

Here is the my first card:

I really like this stampset - it has a very vintage, olde worlde feel to it. This is the inside:

Very plain, but you can use the card for any occasion really just by adding a sentiment of your choice - or none at all!

Here is my second card using this stamp set:

I've made this one specifically for my Dad's birthday which is coming up in March (hence the big Dad on the front!!)

And here is the inside of this one:

Just love these colours!!

Here is a list of product used to make these cards:

 

Not Quite Navy, Very Vanilla, Cherry Cobbler & early Espresso cardstock

• Nautical Expedition DSP
• White Twine, Cherry Cobbler Twine
• Early Espresso, Cherry Cobbler Not Quite Navy, Crumb Cake inkpads
• Regal Brads
• The Open Sea & For My Family stampsets
• Punches:  Small Oval, 3/4 inch circle, Extra Large Oval, Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border
• Lots of Tags Sizzlets Die Set, Simple Letters Alphabet Bigz Die, Bigshot

 

Thanks for stopping by and I hope these give you some inspiration to make some masculine cards for yourself!!

 

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!!

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

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!

Growing Green

Here's a card I made yesterday using the 'Growing Green' stampset:

 
The Growing Green stampset is a line image set so you can colour the image however you want. For this card, I have stamped on watercolour paper using versamark ink and heatset it with black embossing powder. I've then used my inkpads and aqua pen to colour the images with Certainly Celery & Old Olive ink (for the stems) and Bashful Blue & Marina Mist for the flowers.

I've also used the French Foliage & Grunge Rock stampsets to give my card a more vintage feel. I am really quite happy with the way this card has turned out and think I might make a couple more!

What do you think???

 

Card Recipe:

• Early Espresso, Very Vanilla, watercolour cardstock
• Early Espresso, Crumb Cake, Old Olive, Certainly Celery, Bashful Blue, Marina Mist, Versamark inks
• Black embossing powder, aqua pen
• Botanical gazette DSP (from the Autumn - Winter Mini)
• Growing Green, French Foliage, Grunge Rock stampsets
• Brads
• Old Olive taffeta ribbon