friends

This card is made from Stampin Up friends who know (from 2014 catalogue). 

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 I've stamped and embossed in pool party on to navy card (I like the coloured embossing - so effective especially on coloured card). As  the stamp co-ordinates with labels framelets, I've used one to cut out my image, and a larger one as a mask when sponging the background.  The butterfly is a memory box butterfly and is just the finishing touch.

Hello Baby

Both girls have friends with babies on the way, and requested baby shower cards.  Both are using memory box dies (so cute).

This one is using a background made from photo paper (nice and shiny).  The baackground roughly brayered and sponged, using for inks/card pool party, calyspo coral and hello honey (not sure if a boy or girl, so played safe with yellow)  and wanted to stay away from too obviously pastel baby blue and pink).

This one is so cute - love the little onsie die.  This uses baya breeze ink which is sponged on to neutral seam binding ribbon and a onsie.  The embossing folder is Couture creations tied together.

Congrats Rachel & Laura.

Chocolate Baroque - Punky Flowers

I've been playing with some new Chocolate Baroque stamps.  Both cards shown here use the Punky Flowers set.  But two completely different syles.

Steam Punk cogs - the spiky flowers are stamped and embossed in gold, the larger flowers were left to dry a bit, and so the embossing powder has taken less.  This was to try and give an illusion of depth.  The yellow is SU Hello Honey, such a lovely old gold type colour.  Although the background was sponged and coloured, I gave some texture by using an embossing folder with cogs.  

This card is for my niece who is studying science - Happy 21st Jen!

In the same set are some lovely art deco flowers which I embossed on to some card I had inked, and added a sentiment from the Chocolate Baroque Mackintosh sentiments.  The inky background is SU Blackberry Bliss (I know its more purple really, but when watered down and smudged across the paper is this gorgeous pinky purple) and Hello Honey.