Phoenix Inspirations

This card uses images solely from the Beautiful Friendship set and was very quick to make. Take a look The blue flowers are actually quite a large stamp so it's very easy to cover your paper in a very short time. I think - but I can't remember - the colour I used may have been Balmy Blue and Pear Pizzazz to stamp my leaves. The sentiment is also from the set and is stamped in Basic Gray. I am entering this card into the challenge over at Less is More That's it for now - thanks for stopping by - J xx

I have a challenge card to share with you today using the lovely Hostess set Soft Spring. I've used the sketch from this week's challenge over at  Freshly Made Sketches Here is my card I used a pale pink card stock and over layered it with a piece of vellum that I had stamped my image on to. I stamped it with Versamark ink and then heat embossed it with white embossing powder. The sentiment is from Beautiful Friendship and it was stamped with Melon Mambo ink. The ribbon is some I had in my stash but it matched perfectly with my colour scheme. I have actually started making some Christmas cards this past week - they're not all put together yet but I've started! Thanks for stopping by today - see you soon - J xx

Beautiful Friendship again - this time stamped on vellum. It's a little tricky as sometimes the ink stays wet longer than on card stock but it does make the images glow don't you think? So after stamping the vellum it was cut up and attached to a Kraft card base A fancy banner was added with a copper embossed sentiment along with a couple of branches punched with the Sprig punch. Don't you just love the metal embellishments in the corners? They are my new Designer Elements. There's copper, gold and silver - lush. That's all for now - see you soon - j xx

So my last post was Beautiful Friendship but in black - today I've stepped it up a notch and it's in green and pink. I also used my new Stitched Nested Labels for this - perfect for quick and easy matting and layering. Thanks for stopping by to visit - see you soon - j xx

Our challenge over at HERE is Oooooh I thought - grab a stamp, some black ink, bish bash bosh job done! It doesn't happen quite like that though does it? I did some masking and only just left enough room for my sentiment and left  a finger print on the card so I had to add to add some gems!! Never mind though take a look at my card The set I used is Stampin' Up Beautiful Friendship. I haven't used this nearly enough yet as it looks great coloured. I've been gardening today - clearing some of the old finished flowers. I was having great fun in the sunshine and even managed to avoid the neighbours' bully of a cat. He's a huge ginger tom named Tigger and it's his life mission to attack me at least once a day. Today though I thwarted him - I had on my gardening gloves  - too thick for his grabbing paws and teeth. He left very disappointed! Thanks for looking - see you soon - J xx