Triple Stippled Birthday

Happy Birthday "C" we all hope your day was special. xx

 

This card is an idea CaSE'd from Mercedes Weber 

 I have added my own touches. As this was for a special birthday I did it in the Birthday Girls favourite colour, blue (Baja Breeze & Island Indigo)

This is the first time I had tried the "triple time" stamping technique. It looks hard, but for me the hardest part was converting ~ and adapting ~ measurements from inches to centimetres. I do love this card and I know for sure that Stippled Blossoms will be a  new favourite (or rather, one of many)!

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 I Just HAD to put my ornament on too! I have made a variation of this using green and purple. Its cute and sparkly! I will experiment with other colours and shape combinations too.

Exciting News!
October is "Spool Time" for every $60.00 you spend (less Shipping) you can earn a FREE Spool of Stitched Satin Ribbon. That's a FULL ROLL (9.1m) FOR FREE (value $15.95)! Your choice of colour or you can earn all five colours! Ask me how! 

Keep Stampin' Marls xx

Sunshine, Lollypops and Rainbows

 Well here is the Just Us Girls Challenge for this week

This weeks JUGS challenge is RAINBOWS!  I usually just stick to two or three colours - including the neutral, so I thought this would be a little difficult...  That was until I started thinking about this cake I had made for Natalie's 7th birthday, it was a SEVEN layer rainbow cake - ALL SEVEN COLOURS!  I looked up the Jugs site and couldn't find anything that said I needed to submit a card (as opposed to a cake!) so I thought I would be cheeky... 

Ta Daah! Seven Layer Rainbow cake...

  Just a "simple(?)" vanilla sponge with LOTS of colour! And Heaps of Betty Crocker's ready made Vanilla frosting!

 Oh, and I also made a card for the challenge    ;)

 

I had lots of different ideas for the feature (apart from the rainbow) images, sentiments and the like but none were Stampin 'up! (Oh no - I hear you say...). I think I may just make that card another day...

Until next time, keep stampin'  Marls xx

Missed it by "that much"!

 Well Thanks to Pentaq I'm now able to connect to the world wide web! Unfortunately I missed out on this weeks JUGS challenge, but I'll show you anyway.  The challenge colour this week - I find colour challenges a bit "challenging" sometimes (really?) I just can't get the colours to work the way I want them too but I think I nailed it with my Betsy Blossom bird...

I made this one to give away to a co-worker who is having her birthday today!

 

 

Well, there's only a few more hours until JUGS post the next challenge so I will wait with eager anticipation!  Keep stampin'  - even if you know you can't upload it in time!  ;)  Marls xx

One for the Girls

This week's card was inspired by "Just Us Girls ~ Photo Inspiration Challenge 147" and my sister-in-law! The idea is to get inspired by the photograph (it's just beautiful) and then create your masterpiece. Well, I thought A flower and A butterfly but SIL suggested a bunch of flowers. Took a bit longer but well worth the effort!  So I have a bunch of Baja Breeze and Wisteria Wonder Hydrangeas and some Rose Red Emboss-lit Butterfly's.

 

 My card

My photo does not do the card much justice, I think I need some editing tips from a "proper" photographer!  the flowers are lifted of the page by dimensionals one under first layer and two high under second layer. Also there are little individual flowers (the ones with the pearls) on there also.

After looking at the photo again and then scrolling through the JUGS design team cards I had another idea that I may just post later in the week.

Keep craftin' - but I'm going to bed! Till next time Happy Stampin'  Marls xx

Tea for Tuesday

Yay my Mojo Monday  is done by Tuesday!  As soon as I saw the Sketch challenge this week I knew exactly what stamps I would be using!  Here is the Sketch 

My Card(s) using the Tea Shoppe (10 Piece) stamp set from the Autumn/Winter Mini catalogue

Pink card -Card stock/Paper - Crumb Cake, Whisper White, Twitterpated & Subtles Designer Series Paper Stack. Ink Pretty in Pink. (This card has made me realise that I don't have any Pink Ribbon - I can feel an order coming on...)

Blue card - Card stock/Paper - Crumb Cake, Whisper White, Attic Boutique. Postage Stamp Punch. Pool Party & Crumb Cake Seam Binding Ribbon. Ink Crumb Cake & Pool Party.

1st Post!

Well this is my 1st post! Yay me! I hope you enjoy my blog. I am fairly new to this so I will get better - I promise. I love to get feedback so leave comments if you feel so inclined, remember to be nice :)
I posted this card on the Stampin' Connection site and got some great feedback so I might just post this as my first. When I get more organised I will post some of my earlier work also. Inspired by Mojo Monday #238

xx Marls

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