Everything Eleanor card and colour challenge

Hi all! I was in a colour challenge recently...to use Basic Gray, Pool Party and Summer Starfruit. I would never have considered these colours together! So I pulled out Everything Eleanor and created this card:

It's a simple card, but I really like it!
So what colour combinations have you come up with? Sometimes we think colours won't go well together, but by playing around with them we find out new and interesting combinations!

Chalkborad Technique and Tutorial

One of the cool techniques I taught at my technique class was the Chalkboard technique. It is super easy and so fun! It requires Basic Black card stock, Whisper White craft ink, an embossing buddy, a sponge and a stamp set...lined images work best.

1-cut your basic black card stock at 5" by 3 3/4"
2-take your embossing buddy and smack it on the card stock...it will generate powder. Shake off excess.
3-stamp your images in white craft ink.
4-take your sponge, dab it in the white ink, and lightly sponge around some of your images, and near the corners. Not too much!
5-adhere your black card stock to a mat measuring 5 1/2" by 4"
6-adhere mat to card base.

I chose to add pop up flowers and a sentiment to my card. Get creative! This technique is so fun!
I used the stamp set Raining Flowers (# 122765) and the sentiment from Made For You (#126342)

Scrapbook pages

First, sorry for my absence. The abandoned cat we decided to keep on New Year's eve had 7 kittens last week! Also, my BunBun went into stasis, so we had some emergency vet visits to deal with.  Supplementing kitten feeding, and medicating and hand feeding the BunBun take up a lot of time! :0
Here are the pages:

I used the Storytime designer paper (#126907) and the co-ordinating stamp set, Storybook Friends (#126737) for both pages.
And just for your cuteness quota, here are some kittens:

They are getting big! Their eyes are not yet open; they are a week old as of last night.
Have a great Monday!

Look what's new from Stampin' Up!

Today is my birthday, and what better way to celebrate than with brand new stamp sets from Stampin' Up! Take a look!

Photopolymer stamps, offered for the first time from Stampin' Up! and I LOVE the letters and pennants!

The Best of Flowers is the March set of the month...so excited!

 Let's not forget about this cute stamp set and paper being offered until April 30!

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By The Tide birthday card

Here is one of the cards we made at my Many Masculine card class. I used the By The Tide stamp set from the Stampin' Up! Spring catalogue. This will be perfect for my dad's birthday...he is from New Brunswick...plus he loves lobster!

By The Tide

By The Tide stamp set (#129120)
Netting background stamp (#122655)
Crumb Cake card stock (#120953)
Crumb Cake ink (#126975)
Basic Black card stock (#121045)
Real Red card stock (#102482)
Real Red ink (#126949)
Midnight Muse card stock (#126843)
Black Staz On ink (#101406)
Woodgrain embossing folder (#127821)

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Many Masculine Card Class

I am always getting asked to create masculine cards, and I seem to hear others say how hard they find it to create these cards for the men in our lives...so, I  decided to have a Many Masculine card class! Here are the 6 cards we will be creating at this afternoon's class.

Many Masculine card class

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Mr.and Mrs. wedding card

Mr.and Mrs. single stamp

I LOVE that Stampin' Up! has a collection of single stamps! This one is called Mr. and Mrs. and makes a great wedding card! I am really into gray right now, so this is just a simple card in gray and white.
I used the Lacy Brocade embossing folder for the background.
Basic Gray cardstock (#121044) Whisper White cardstock (#100730) Lacy Brocade folder (#127819) Basic Gray ink (#126981)
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Ears to you!

I finally remembered to order my Ears to You! single stamp from Stampin' Up! I think these bunnies are adorable, and I have made several of these cards in different colour combinations. The new single stamps are available until March 31. Click HERE and HERE to see them!

Ears to you!

The colour combination is Pretty in Pink, Elegant Eggplant, Bashful Blue, Whisper White, Chocolate Chip and Crumb Cake. I also used the Ovals framelits (#129381) and the Apothecary Accents framelits (#127003) and pierced it with the matching Essentials Piercing Pack (#126187). The Whisper White background was embosed with the Perfect Polka Dots folder.

Valentine's Day cards

After seeing a pin on Pinterest about how to elongate one of my framelits dies, I was inspired to make some Valentine's day cards.

Hearts a Flutter stamps and More Amore paper

I used my new favourite designer series paper, More Amore (#129309), and the Hearts a Flutter stamp set and matching framelits (#131098). I stamped the "just for you" sentiment from Teeny Tiny Wishes (#115370) and cut it out with the Bitty Banners framelit (#129267). I really liked how the design turned out, so I tried it again:

P.S. I Love You

 This time I used the retired stamp set P.S. I Love You and embossed the images with black embossing powder (#109133). The colour palette is Real Red, Basic Black and Very Vanilla and I used the First Edition Specialty paper (#121878) for the background.

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Feeling Sentimental cards

One of the FREE Sale-a-Bration items you can choose is this really retro stamp set called Feeling Sentimental, which includes 4 images. Today I made 2 cards, using 2 of the images from this set. I kept my pallette black, grey, red and white for both cards.

I added the Argyle embossing folder here (page 189), on Real Red Core'dinations cardstock, then lightly sanded. I added the ribbon with a safety pin from the Vintage Trinkets accesories on page 175.

For this card, I added the Take a Ticket stamp set, stamped in black ink on Real Red and Basic Gray cardstock, and used the Ticket Duo punch to punch them out.
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