Vintage Leaves

Good Morning! Tonight is my last Stamp a Stack of the summer and I will be back on Friday 25th September with the next one, or I have places left at my All Day Christmas Stamp a Stack on 24th October - details on my Classes/Events page.

Tonight we will be making this card x 2 plus another 10 cards (5 more designs) and its a little bit of a break from the flowers and butterflies that I have been creating lately. I used the new Vintage Leaves stamp set and the matching Leaflets framelits. I love the detail on the leaves and think these would be a really useful set to have. Almost makes me wish my boys had an Autumn school project to do!

I also used another new stamp, can you see it? Yes its the Watercolour Wash stamp for the background. A very easy way of creating a lovely water coloured background.

Right thats me off for today down to the craft den. I need to finish final preps for this evening and get things ready for my Technique class tomorrow afternoon.

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Oooops.... more males

I lied to you! I have another male make for you! Sorry about that! I hope you don't mind more inspiration. This card was designed for my Tuesday Club which sadly didn't happen as I was too ill to run the class, having sinusitis AND tonsillitis at the same time - YUCK!

Again I have used the Hardwood stamp for the umpteenth time and teamed it with the Lovely as a Tree stamp.

 I made a gatefold style card that is 14.8cm square and used the Always Artichoke again together with Baked Brown Sugar and Very Vanilla. Inside I layered a piece of Very Vanilla and stamped the tree stamp again in the corner (sorry, forgot to take a photo inside!)

Hope you like this one, I really enjoyed making it!

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Hardwood	Lovely As A Tree	Wetlands	Deco Labels Collection Framelits Dies
Decorative Label Punch	Extra-Large Oval Punch	Always Artichoke Classic Stampin' Pad	Pool Party Classic Stampin' Pad
Baked Brown Sugar Classic Stampin' Pad	Very Vanilla A4 Card Stock	Always Artichoke A4 Card Stock	Card Stock A4 Baked Brown Sugar

Loving Lovely as a Tree

Hello there and Happy Friday to you! Another week gone by in a flash and May already! 

Today I am sharing a card from last Friday's Stamp a Stack. This was my favourite one from the class and was cased from my downline Allie (again) although I used very different colours. I have of course used my favourite Hardwood background stamp! I think I have definitely had my moneys worth out of this stamp!

I have paired it up with the Lovely as a Tree stamp, a timeless classic that is still in our catalogue since 2007. The colours I have used are Baked Brown Sugar for the Hardwood stamp and card base. The trees were stamped in Always Artichoke and then I sponged the sky with Pool Party and the grass with more Always Artichoke. It is a lot easier than it looks and very effective. I just use the sponges in the catalogue and cut each of them into 6 pieces.

 The sentiment is from the Wetlands stamp set and I punched it out with the Ticket Duo punch (which I don't use often enough). I think I will make a batch of these up, they are so easy to do and a great male make! Thanks again Allie for the inspiration!

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Hardwood	Lovely As A Tree	Wetlands	Ticket Duo Punch
7/16" Natural Trim Ribbon	Baked Brown Sugar Classic Stampin' Pad	Pool Party Classic Stampin' Pad	Always Artichoke Classic Stampin' Pad
Very Vanilla A4 Card Stock	Always Artichoke A4 Card Stock	Card Stock A4 Baked Brown Sugar

Tuesday Club - Hardwood meets the Bird Punch

Hello there! I am excited today as my little Evan is back tonight and I will be so happy to see him! It has been so strange not doing the school runs but it's also given me a taster of what September will be like! Today has seemed so productive as I wasn't "clock watching" all day!

You may remember me talking about out teams weekly colour challenge, Wade's Weekly Warm Up? Well this weeks colours were right up my street and I couldn't wait to get cracking with them. A card that Julie made totally inspired me and I came up with a class based on the Hardwood stamp and the Bird punch. Here is one of the cards we made last night, I will share the other 2 on Thursday and Friday.

I'd seen a couple of fence style cards with the Hardwood stamp and had logged it in my brain, AKA my Pinterest board to make one at some point and yesterday was the day! I am so pleased with how this came out although I had to cheat a bit on the colour challenge as it was So Saffron, Pink Pirouette, Soft Sky and Baked Brown Sugar and I added a little Pear Pizazz too!!!

 The daffodils are made using the Petite Petal punch and the Boho Blossoms punch and of course I was let loose with the Fringe Scissors again for the grass!!! I am so pleased with how this card turned out, I can't wait to share the other 2 cards with you!

Today and the next 2 days I am finishing off my final preps for my Paper Haven Retreat day on Saturday. I am really looking forward to a 12 hour crafty day with my 17 ladies!

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Wetlands	Hardwood	Papillon Potpourri	Bitty Butterfly Punch	Petite Petals Punch
Chevron Border Punch	Cupcake Punch	Large Oval Punch	Scallop Oval Punch	Boho Blossoms Punch
Fringe Scissors	Pink Pirouette Classic Stampin' Pad	So Saffron Classic Stampin' Pad	Baked Brown Sugar Classic Stampin' Pad	Pink Pirouette A4 Card Stock
Card Stock A4 Soft Sky	Crumb Cake A4 Card Stock	So Saffron A4 Card Stock	Card Stock A4 Pear Pizzazz	Whisper White A4 Card Stock