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!

SAM October Challenge

Hey all! It's Stamp A Memory challenge time again! This month, the challenge was to scrap your fears. I had a hard time with this one - and I'm still to do the journalling for it!!

This is the page, ready for the journalling to go into the pocket:

 

I'm not afraid of creepy crawlies or anything like that (except perhaps cockroaches!!!). My fears are more of a personal nature - which is why I've created the pocket to contain my journalling.

I am a very shy & insecure person and one of my biggest fears is of never being able to fit in. I am also worried about never being good enough.  There are other fears I have, which I don't want to publicly state, some of which are fact and not fears unfortunately! I found it quite therapeutic to do this page though and I'm glad it is (almost) complete!

I wanted a vintage feel  for this layout, so I chose the 'Well Worn' Designer Series Paper - it was just perfect! And what do you think of the new lace border punch? Isn't it fabulous!! I can see I will be getting a lot of use out of that punch for sure!

Do you have any fears - I'm sure you do. Why not enter the challenge and scrap them too! You can enter the challenge here, and also see the fabulous layouts that the rest of the DT girls have created!

 

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Materials Used:

• Well Worn Designer Series Paper
• Crumb Cake, Cherry Cobbler, Confetti Vanilla, Marina Mist, Early Espresso cardstock
• Jumbo Brads
• Scallop Envelope Die, Timeless Type Junior alphabet die, Simple Letters alphabet die
• Lace Ribbon Border punch
• Chocolate Chip Scallop Dots Ribbon
• French Foliage,Exteme Elements stamp sets
• Marina Mist, Cherry Cobbler, Early Espresso inks

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

Case Study Challenge #50

 
It is the 1st Anniversary of The CASE Study Challenge blog and to celebrate, the challenge this month is to CASE a card from one of their fabulous Design Team members. I have chosen to CASE  a card from the awesome Teneale Williams.

This is her card:

 
And this is what I have come up with for my entry:

 

I adore Teneales' work and I simply love the 'Because I Care' stamp set, so I have used the same stamp set and the same papers as Teneale has done. I have also pretty much stuck to the same layout as well (though I haven't used as many layers) but instead of a card, I have made an Easel Desktop Tidy/Calendar. At the end of the month, you just remove the current month on display and replace with the next month. The drawers can be filled with whatever you like!

Here is a view from the top:

 

I just love how Teneale uses lots of layering and gives her work a vintage feel - she is such a super-talented lady! Thank you Teneale for providing such inspiration for us all and allowing us to CASE your work!!

Ingredients Used:

• Botanical Gazette DSP
• Early Espresso, Very Vanilla Cardstock
• All A Flutter, French Foliage, Because I Care stampsets
• Early Espresso, Crumb Cake, Old Olive, Marina Mist inkpads
• Vintage Brads, Old Olive Satin Ribbon

 

Thanks for looking.

 

Card Swap

 

Just thought I'd share with you a card I made for a recent swap I participated in:

 

 

I've CASE-d the layout from one that Teneale Williams did. My goodness that lady has some talent!!!

The only criteria for the swap was that we had was that we had to use the Bigshot in some way, so I have used one of Stampin' Ups embossing folders on a corner of the vase. The vase itself has been made by using the ornament punch and just cutting off a little on one edge. What do you think??

My swaps have all been posted off now and I am eagerly awaiting receving mine in the post soon!!.

 

Card Ingredients:

• Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, Elegant Eggplant cardstock
• Brights Designer Series Paper Stack
• Friends 24-7, French Foliage, Nature Walk stamp sets
• Elegant Eggplant, Crumb Cake ink
• Elegant Eggplant, Old Olive, Early Esspresso markers
• Ornament punch,
• Finial Press embossing folder, Bigshot, Spritzer

Have a great day!!

 

Brayered Upsy Daisy

I've been using my Upsy Daisy stamp set a bit lately. Don't know if you're like me but I have fads where I use a particular set for a while and then change to something else!

This card I had originally intended to submit as an entry to CASE Study, but I never got around to uploading it LOL!!

 
 I'm not sure about the background paper with this card but I do like the brayered effect.

I've used Certainly Celery and Marina Mist to brayer over the stamped image, then inked the edges with Early Espresso. The whole image was then misted with water to allow the colours tomerge a little more, then I spritzed the image with early Espresso markers and stamped with the splatter image from the 'French Foliage' stamp set.

Would love to hear what you think of this one!

Cheers,