Wobble Gnome Birthday Card

A few days ago I saw a card at my local craft shop with a wobble spring gnome on it and I thought it was adorable!  Gnomes would not normally feature on my 'must have' list but I just found the little fella so appealing and irresistible!  The shop have a sale section where they sell items used in classes and demos at fab reduced prices and whaddya know, there he was - so I just had to bring him 'gnome' with me - sorry!

The Real Red card base measures 5 1/4" square.  I stamped my clouds background, stamped the sentiment, added some grassy paper and the die cut fence pieces.  I stamped the gnome onto watercolour paper and used inks and a waterbrush to colour him in.  After fussy cutting him I attached the wobble spring and placed him on the card.  I then inked and stamped just the flowers from the image, coloured them, fussy cut them and popped them up.  Finally, I added three teeny tiny punched butterflies with jewels. 

Here's a short video so you can see the wobble action!

Here's the inside.

I couldn't resist putting a scene on the front of the envelope!  I sponged Bashful Blue ink for sky, added grassy paper, more fence die cuts, a bird and a couple of butterflies.  I punched pink flowers, shaped them, glued them onto the grass and added silver pen dots to the centres.  The flower punch I used punches out the ten flowers all in one go - very handy!   

I had a goofy smile on my face all the time I was making this card!  I will be giving it to my friend Jan at our June card group meeting as it's her birthday that day.  I think that she will get a kick out of this fun and cute card!  I can see that gnome getting lots of wobble action that day from my card group ladies LOL!

I have one more thing to add - boo, hiss Ikea - say YES to gnomes!

Supplies:
Stamps: Woodware 'A Little Gnome', Hero Arts 'Clouds' background stamp, SU! 'Happiest Birthday Wishes' & 'Wacky Wishes' sets
CS: SU! Real Red, Pacific Point, Melon Mambo, Basic Black & Whisper White, watercolour paper
Patterned paper:  Doodlebug Back Yard
Ink: SU! Bashful Blue, Blush Blossom, Pretty in Pink, Real Red, Pacific Point, Melon Mambo, Lucky Limeade, Cajun Craze, Basic Black & Sahara Sand, VersaFine Onyx Black, Memento Tuxedo Black, Sakura silver pen
Tools: Sizzix Picket Fence Sizzlits die, Martha Stewart multi butterfly punch, Poppystamps Nestled Bird die, Woodware Lilac Blossom punch, waterbrush, sponge
Embellishments & accessories: Action Wobble Spring, SU! Rhinestone Jewels & Dimensionals

CAS Purple Fabric Dress Thank You Card

Sweet Michelle from the Card Grotto sent me a beautiful card and some pretty crafty goodies as a gift for my birthday last month and this is the thank you card I sent to her.  I know Michelle likes purple and I just happen to have some purple and silver fabric in my stash that I thought would be perfect for a dress!  It's been a couple of weeks since I featured a dress card on the blog - I'm not QUITE so obsessed now LOL!

I die cut the dress form and the leaves from silver metallic card and die cut the dress and flower using the fabric.   I used some self adhesive white lace trim as a bodice detail and added silver lurex ribbon and a flower shaped button as a sash.  I stamped the lace strip in silver pigment ink onto a separate piece of CS, heat set it with my heat tool and cut it out.  I added the leafy stem to the lace strip, placed a rhinestone brad in the flower centre and popped the flower up.

Here's a close up photo so you can see the pattern of the fabric more clearly.  The metallic silver spattering looks so lovely against the purples!

Here's the inside with a sentiment, another lace strip and a sweet die cut handbag with a tiny rhinestone brad embellishment.

Here's the front of the envelope - more stamped lacy loveliness - I do love a pretty lace stamp!

Supplies:
Stamps: SU! 'Curly Cute' & 'Sweet Essentials' sets, SU! 'Viola's Lace' wheel stamp & ''Gossamer Lace' stamp
CS: PaperMania A6 white card blank, SU! Elegant Eggplant & Whisper White, Canford metallic silver CS
Ink: SU! Elegant Eggplant, Encore metallic silver pigment ink
Tools: SU! Dress Up Framelit dies, Little Leaves Sizzlits die & Boho Blossoms punch, Memory Box Chic Bag die, Stamp-a-ma-jig
Embellishments & accessories: Woodware double sided adhesive sheet, rhinestone brads, silver lurex ribbon, DoveCraft flower shaped button, Woodware white self adhesive lace, Dimensionals

Cupcake Snowman Merry Christmas Card - 52 {C}CT May Theme Challenge

It's theme week at 52 {C}CT and Mynnette has chosen a really fun theme - Sweet Treats/Holiday Goodies.  Irresistible!

 

The perfect challenge for me to use my very sweet Cupcake Snowman stamp!  I inked the stamp with VersaMark before inking with Early Espresso ink and then I heat embossed the image with clear powder.  I used inks and a blender pen to add colour, fussy cut the image and added Star Dust Stickles so my sweet treat is sparkly.  I thought a doily would be a good accent to go with the cupcake and I die cut a Pool Party doily and an Early Espresso mat.  I decided to keep the circle vibe going and used my Circle Scissor tool to made a 5 1/4" circular card base.  I added a white mat layer plus the doily and cut a smidgen off the bottom of the card so it stands up nicely.  I added an Espresso circle to the centre of the doily, stamped and die cut the sentiment label, popped up the snowman and added snowflakes with jewel centres.  

Here's the inside.

 

For the front of the envelope I used an unmounted snowflake wheel to stamp the border and simply layered it onto an Espresso mat.

So that's what I made, now it's your turn to have some fun with this week's 52 {C}CT challenge!  Before you get inky check out the other sweet inspiration on offer from the rest of the DT.  I'm so looking forward to visiting your blogs to see your cards!

Supplies:
Stamps: Hero Arts 'Cupcake Snowman',  'Merry Christmas' from Elzybells, inside sentiment from Hero Arts 'Wonderful Christmas' cling set, Snowflakes Rollagraph wheel stamp
CS: SU! Pool Party, Early Espresso & Whisper White
Ink: VersaMark, SU! Pool Party, Early Espresso, Crumb Cake, Soft Suede & Pumpkin Pie, blender pen
Tools: EK Success Circle Scissor Pro tool, Cheery Lynn French Pastry doily & angel wing dies, 2" circle punch, Spellbinder's Labels Trio die & square Nestabilities dies, snowflake punches, heat tool, sponge dauber
Embellishments & accessories: clear embossing powder, Star Dust Stickles, SU! Rhinestone Jewels, Dimensionals

Happy Birthday Sandie!

Sandie is my friend and a fellow DT member at Inkspirational and it's her birthday today.  Sandie is a CAS girl and likes purple so I kept those things in mind when making her card.  One of my fave CAS card designs is this one made by Susan.  I've CASEd Susan's design before (click here to see) and decided to have another go at it for Sandie's birthday card.

The card is a side opening A6 size made from Wisteria Wonder CS. I stamped the softer images in Wisteria Wonder and Certainly Celery inks that had been stamped off twice on scrap paper and then stamped the bolder images using full strength Elegant Eggplant and Old Olive inks.  I stamped the sentiment, added the scored lines and cut out the images with a rectangle Nestabilities die.  I popped up the three white panels and decided to add a butterfly to each panel.  This card is now not quite as CAS as Susan's original design but if ever adding butterflies is wrong then I don't want to be right LOL!  I added a rhinestone jewel to each butterfly and then went to work on the inside.

Here's the stamped panel inside the card - and I sneaked a butterfly in too!

Here's the envelope flap - surprise, surprise, another butterfly!

Please pop along to Sandie's London Days blog to wish her a Happy Birthday, I know she'll appreciate it!

Happy Birthday Sandie - have a wonderful day my friend!  {{{{hugs}}}}

Supplies:
Stamps: SU! Garden Silhouettes & Curly Cute sets, Hobby Art 'Sentiments' clear set
CS: SU! Wisteria Wonder, Elegant Eggplant & Whisper White
Ink: SU! Wisteria Wonder, Elegant Eggplant, Certainly Celery & Old Olive
Tools: Plain rectangle Nestabilities die, SU! Beautiful Wings Embosslits die, SU! Simply Scored tool, 1 3/4" & 2" circle punches
Embellishments & accessories: SU! Rhinestone Jewels, Dimensionals

Flourish & Butterfly Happy Birthday Card - Inkspirational May CASE Challenge

At Inkspirational we have a CASE challenge for you this week.  We want you to CASE a lovely card made by Lee Conrey - click here to see Lee's original blog post.

 

I really liked Lee's layout, the wide ribbon strip and the rounded corners so that's what made it into my CASEd version.  My card measures 5 1/4" square and the base was made with Melon Mambo CS.  I stamped the flourish from the Creative Elements set onto Whisper White CS using brown StazOn ink and used inks and a blender pen to colour in the image.  I cut the white panel to size and rounded the bottom corners with my new toy, a Fiskars scallop corner punch - me likey!  I then cut a Choc Chip layer, rounded the bottom corners and added a strip of Choc Chip satin ribbon.  I stamped the sentiment and a butterfly which I fussy cut and popped up.  I love the gorgeous bow Lee has on her card but I'm not sure I could pull that off so I played it safe by adding a flat bow!  I was liking my new scallop corner punch very much and I wasn't quite done with it yet.  I punched two scalloped corners from Lucky Limeade CS, then went in with a square punch and cut out two corner details that I glued to the top of the white panel.  I added a few pearls to complete the card front. 

Here's the inside and the envelope flap. I thought the stamped butterfly was a tad large for inside so I glued the stamped one to the envelope flap and glued a punched Bitty Butterfly inside.  Just plain rounded corners for inside - I decided against more scalloped corners!

I hope you'll play along with us this week and take up our CASE challenge at Inkspirational, I'm looking forward to seeing your interpretations!

Would you like a chance to win some blog candy?  It was Mynnette's birthday on Monday so the Inkspirational DT had a blog hop in her honour and there's a prize on offer.  If you hop along and leave a comment on each blog by Thursday 5.00 pm (EST) you're in with a chance of winning!  Click here for the blog hop post - happy hopping and good luck!

Supplies:
Stamps: SU! 'Creative Elements' set, 'Happy Birthday' from Hobby Art, 'Lovely Day' from Penny Black
CS: SU! Melon Mambo, Chocolate Chip, Lucky Limeade & Whisper White
Ink: Timber Brown StazOn, SU! Melon Mambo, Lucky Limeade & Chocolate Chip, blender pen
Tools: Fiskars scallop corner punch, Crop-A-Dile Corner Chomper, SU! Bitty Butterfly punch, Stamp-a-ma-jig
Embellishments & accessories: SU! Chocolate Chip satin ribbon, Pearl Jewels, Dimensionals

Happy Birthday Mynnette! * Blog Hop *

Today is the marvellous Mynnette's birthday and a blog hop has been arranged in her honour.  Happy Birthday Mynnette, I hope you enjoy your surprise blog hop and have a wonderful day!  If you are hopping along you came here from the very sweet Sandie's London Days blog, welcome!

To celebrate we have birthday cards for Mynnette and we also have blog candy on offer!  In order to have a chance to win, you need to visit each blog and leave a comment on each one, including this one. You will have until 5:00 PM EST on Thursday May 16th to leave your comment. One of the sites will be randomly chosen and we will randomly choose a winner from the comments on that site, using Random.org. The winner will be posted Friday May 17th!
 
Our instructions were to go to Mynnette's blog, choose one of her cards to CASE and then make our version into a birthday card.  Sounds all fine and dandy doesn't it, nice and easy?  Have you ANY idea how many fabulous creations are on Mynnette's blog to choose from?!  I spent hours - happy hours I must say! - at On a Stampage.  I set up a secret board on Pinterest and as I came across CASE candidate cards I pinned.  I kept pinning, then I narrowed it down and I finally chose this beautiful card to CASE.

 

Here is my version.  I stayed pretty faithful to Mynnette's card, I just changed the colours and used a doily in place of the scalloped circles.  

To make the flower and leaves I did some 'messy work' as my friend Jan calls it.  For messy work I place my craft mat on my desk, pat ink pads on it, spritz the mat with water and then smoosh a piece of CS around until the piece is covered.  I dry the piece with a heat tool, stamp the images and fussy cut them.  For the flower I used Pretty in Pink, Regal Rose and Melon Mambo inks and for the leaves I used Pear Pizzazz and Old Olive inks.  It's such a satisfying, fun technique but you do get very inky hands!  

I punched a circle of Old Olive dotty paper to go inside a builder brad to embellish my flower centre.  After I'd stamped the sentiment I wished I'd used two different colours so I then stamped it again on a separate piece of CS in Old Olive ink, cut out the words and glued them over the top.   I popped up the doily and the flower and added the Mynnette signature bling!   

Here's the inside.

Here's the front of the envelope.

Your next stop on the blog hop is Yvonne's blog Journey Into Artistry.  Happy hopping - don't forget to leave comments as you hop to be in with a chance of winning the blog candy!

Here's the full blog hop list:

• Inkspirational
• Ellen In a World of Craft
• Shauna Creating with Paper
• Sandie London Days
• Ruth Flower Sparkle (you are here)
• Yvonne  Journey Into Artistry
• Kylie Kylie is Addicted to Stamps
• Marina My Perfect Life
• Nikki Nicole Stalker
• Meighan Stampin with Meighan
• Want more? The Technique Time Tuesday DT is also hopping for Mynnette’s birthday!

Supplies:
Stamps: Hero Arts 'Small Sweet Petals', 'Three Leaves', 'Fabulous Birthday' stamps, inside sentiment from 'Yummy Treats' clear set, SU! 'Frames with a Flourish' set
CS: SU! Old Olive, Melon Mambo & Whisper White
Patterned paper:  SU! Sunshine & Sprinkles DSP
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, SU! Pretty in Pink, Regal Rose, Melon Mambo, Pear Pizzazz & Old Olive
Tools: Cheery Lynn French Pastry Doily & French Pastry Doily Angel Wing dies, SU! Lacy Brocade embossing folder, SU! Eyelet Border punch, heat tool, paper piercer
Embellishments & accessories: craft mat, SU! Builder Brad, Rhinestone Jewels, Dimensionals

New Challenge Blog - House Of Cards!

Exciting news - Mynnette has asked me to run a new challenge blog with her - House of Cards - and I was delighted to say yes!  Please go and check it out and see how the challenges will run - it's an interesting idea!  Also, there is a DT call going on now until Wednesday May 15th so if you want to apply, get creating and get your applications in!

We're really looking forward to getting the challenge up and running and hope you'll come over to play at our House of Cards, see you there!