Thank You Cards

You can never have enough Thank You cards.  I whipped these up really quickly with left over bits and pieces that I had on my desk.

Enjoy your day and thank you for stopping by.
Sharon

Supplies Used

Stamps:   Painted Petals

Ink:   Soft Sky and Island Indigo
Cardstock:   Soft Sky, Island Indigo and Whisper White
Ribbon:   Island Indigo ¾” (1.9 cm) Chevron Ribbon
Punches:  1” (2.5 cm) Square Punch

Thank You Card

Here is a card that I cased from the main catalogue.  I added a few of my own touches though.

Card Front

Card Inside

I hope you all have a fabulous weekend.  I am having my little Granddaughter for a sleepover on Saturday night so will be in for a busy weekend.  Here is a really cute photo of her with her grandpa.  Hopefully I will get a few more this weekend.

Thanks for stopping by.
Sharon

Supplies Used

Stamps:   Something to Say

Ink:   Hello Honey and Blackberry Bliss
Cardstock:   Blackberry Bliss, Sahara Sand and Whisper White
Ribbon:   Hello Honey 3/8" (1 cm) Stitched Satin
Punches:  Itty Bitty Accents Punch Pack
DSP:  Moonlight Paper Stack
Embellishments:  Pearl Basic Jewels

Easter Treat Bag

Love love love these Petite Café Gift Bags!  They are even food safe.  I cut the oval by placing the framelit in the inside of the bag with the cutting lip facing upwards so that it would not cut through both layers of the bag.  I did use a sticky note to hold the framelit in place.

I did have to buy three lots of Easter eggs as DH ate the first two lots that I bought.  Any chocolate that I buy for class I have to hide otherwise the chocolate doesn't make it to class!

 

 

My granddaughter is obsessed with horses.  We don't own a horse yet but I am sure that will change!  Here she is patting the neighbour's horse.  We did take an apple for the horse but Savanna insisted on eating it instead of feeding the horse.  She is now doing horse riding lessons.

 

 

 

Thank you for stopping by

Sharon

 

 

Supplies Used

Cardstock:   Coastal Cabana, Calypso Coral and Crushed Curry

DSP:   Best Year Ever 2015 Sale-a-bration

Punches:   Itty Bitty Accents - Star

Bigshot:  Mini Treat Bag Thinlits – the word enjoy and Ovals Collection Framelits

Other:  Petite Café Gift Bags



Beautiful Butterflies

I attended stamp camp in February and the card below is the one I made for my swap card.  I received such beautiful swaps back in return.  I had a fabulous time at camp and I am already looking forward to next years one.

 

 

 

I made the same card using soft sky.  

Inside of the card

The other day I had to separate the ewes from the rams.  I thought that this is going to be fun - not, especially as I was leaving for stamp camp later.  I did have the afternoon off as I was looking after my granddaughter.  Imagine one toddler and 18 sheep.  No dogs, only a two year old and me. Well at least I had the whole afternoon to do this.  So off we went to separate the sheep.  My granddaughter was fabulous.  Kept the lambs busy while I separated some of the sheep.  She then helped me move them so that the rams were in one paddock and the ewes in another.  What a trooper and it only took us an hour!  Here is a picture of her climbing over the gate after we had finished.  We went swimming afterwards to cool off.

Thanks for stopping by to visit.
Sharon

Supplies Used
Stamps:   Butterfly Basics
Ink:   Crisp Cantaloupe, Soft Sky (ink pad and reinker) and Crumb Cake
Cardstock:  Crisp Cantaloupe, Soft Sky, Very Vanilla and Crumb Cake

Embellishments:   Artisan Embellishment Kit, Simply Pressed Clay, Blossoms Clay Mould and pearls
Bigshot:  Butterflies Thinlits

Easter Treat Box

I cased this treat box from Sam Donald.  It turned out to be the perfect size for the Maltese Easter Bunny chocolate.  Thanks Sam for sharing the instructions.  Sam has the most amazing tutorials on her blog.  Hop on over and have a look as you won't be disappointed.

I chose to make this box bright and colourful and used the free Sale-a-bration DSP and ribbon.  There are only a few more days left of Sale-a-bration so make sure you don't miss out on your free goodies for every $110 you spend.

 

 

 

 

Our granddaughter has been spending some time with us.  Here she is helping Grandpa wash the car.  I am not sure how much car washing was actually done with her sitting in the bucket of water fully clothed and supervising Grandpa! 

 

We have also had to install lockable bolts on the top of all the doors as she (at 2 years old) knows how to unlock the doors and go outside by herself.  I guess it won't be long before she knows how to drag a chair over to the door and slide open the bolt.  We have anticipated this and made sure all the bolts have locks and removable keys so that there is no way she can get outside by herself.

 

 

 

Thanks for visiting

Sharon

 



Supplies Used

Stamps:   Teeny Tiny Sentiments

Ink:   Coastal Cabana

Cardstock:   Coastal Cabana, Calypso Coral and Whisper White

DSP:   Best Year Ever 2015 Sale-a-bration

Punches:   Word Window and ½” (1.3cm) Circle

Ribbon:  Crushed Curry from Best Year Ever Accessory Pack 2015 Sale-a-bration and Tangerine Tango Bakers Twine

Other:  Scoring Tool



Butterfly Basics

This is another card that I cased from the Occasions catalogue.  When I lose my mojo I always turn to one of the catalogues for ideas. Butterfly Basics is definitely one of my all time favourite stamp sets together with the matching thinlit dies.

Inside the card

I have not been stamping or crafting much.  Been a bit busy in the garden.  Here are a couple of photos of some of the stuff I have been doing.  The green bench is an old one that DH made for me years ago.  I did think of repainting it but have decided that I like the worn weathered look.  I have been spending quite a bit of time in the garden as I would like to enter our local gardening competition in the next couple of years.  I have a really big garden so everything seems to take longer than normal to do.

Don't you love those boots.  I took a old pair of DH's boots and planted some flowers in them.

Here is a photo from the other side.  I found that old scale and thought it would be perfect for the garden with a plant on top of it.  DH surprised me one day and come home with that really cute owl.  Even my little granddaughter thinks it is cute as she cannot leave it alone and wants to keep cuddling it.

Thank you for stopping by today.
Sharon

Supplies Used

Stamps:   Butterfly Basics and Gorgeous Grunge

Ink:   Smokey Slate, Lost Lagoon, Calypso Coral
Cardstock:   Smokey Slate, Lost Lagoon, Calypso Coral, Naturals White, White Vellum and Whisper White
Ribbon:   Tangerine baker’s twine
Punches:  Bitty Butterfly, 2-3/8” (6cm) Scallop Circle and 1” (2.5cm) Circle
Bigshot:  Butterflies Thinlits Dies

Flower Shoppe

This is one of the cards that I cased from the main catalogue - page 67.  I made the card the same as the one in the catty but changed the colours. This card is part of a Christmas package that I gave to all the ladies who come to my card class.  You can see the original post here.

Thanks for visiting.
Sharon

Supplies Used

Stamps:   Flower Shop and Something to Say

Ink:   Cherry Cobbler and Memento Black
Cardstock:   Cherry Cobbler, Basic Black and Very Vanilla

Ribbon:   Cherry Cobbler baker’s twine and Venetian Crochet Trim

DSP:  Typeset

 

From the Herd

 This stamp set has to be one of my all time favourites.  I made this for a very special friend. She lives on a farm so I knew she would appreciate it.  I used the blendie pens but sadly these are no longer available until Stampin Up have resolved some issues they are having with them.

I also stamped the image a second time on a separate piece of cardstock and coloured in the pig, chicken and bird.  I fussy cut them and mounted them with dimensionals over the top of the corresponding animal for a 3D effect.

Thanks for stopping by.
Sharon

Stamps:   From the Herd
Ink:   Memento Black
Cardstock:   Early Espresso, Daffodil Delight and Whisper White
Blendabilities:   Crumb Cake, Smokey Slate, Pink Pirouette, Daffodil Delight and Skin Tone Assortment

Creative Inkers Occasions Blog Hop

 

Welcome to another blog hop with the Creative Inkers team - this time we are show casing the new Occasions Catalogue.  Have a look at my creations and then carry on hoping over to look at the rest of the team's awesome creations!

If you are following the blog hop, you will have come from the very creative Ria Kaire's blog.    If you have just joined my page keep following the loop round to see everyone's gorgeous projects.

There are just so many lovely new items in the Occasion's catalogue that I had such a hard time choosing what to show.  I finally decided on the Something Lacy stamp set. 

Now onto my projects.  I used the blendabilties pens for these cards.  I only used one stamped image and then cut it to make two cards. 

Since I am addicted to colouring I made another card but only used Melon Mamba, Daffodil Delight and Old Olive blendabilities for this one.

See the bottom of the post for the list of supplies.

I hope you've enjoyed my cards - now you're going to head over to Kathe Oldham to see her stunning projects, just click the next button.

http://jorjarose.blogspot.co.nz/2015/01/creative-inkers-blog-hop-occasionals.html

 

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1. Narelle Hoggard
www.handmadebynarelle.wordpress.com
2. Alicia Yap
www.stampcreationswithmunchkin.wordpress.com
3. Kathryn Tyrrell
www.aspotofstamping.co.nzl
4, Bernie Collins
www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/creativeedge/blog
5. Jacque Williams
http://stamphappy.typepad.com/stamp_...blog-hop-.html
6. Rachael Knight
www.knightstamper.blogspot.com
7. Paula Reid
www.yellowbearnz.blogspot.com
8. Sally Williams
www.sallystampingdelights.blogspot.com
9. Delys Cram
www.delysc.wordpress.com
10. Lisa Bullock
http://daffyscrapper.wordpress.com
11 Heather Stewart
www.stampingcraft.blogspot.co.nz
12. Ria Kaire
http://www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/qraftyqueen/blog
13. Sharon de Vos
http://sharonsstampingsnippets.blogspot.com
14. Kathe Oldham
www.jorjarose.com
15. debbie Lamb
http://debstampinstyle.blogspot.com
16: Bev Poultney
www.stampandscrap.co.nz

Supplies Used

 

First Card

Stamps:   Painted Petals and Something Lacy
Ink:   Cherry Cobbler and Memento Black
Cardstock:   Cherry Cobbler, Pear Pizzazz and Whisper White
Blendabilities:   Calypso Coral, Coastal Cabana, Cherry Cobbler, Melon Mamba, Rich Razzleberry, Daffodil Delight and Old Olive
Embellishments:   Pearls

Second Card

Stamps:   Painted Petals and Something Lacy

Ink:   White Stazon and Memento Black
Cardstock:   Wild Wasbi, Basic Black and Whisper White
Blendabilities:   Calypso Coral, Coastal Cabana, Cherry Cobbler, Melon Mamba, Rich Razzleberry, Daffodil Delight and Old Olive
Ribbon:   Wild Wasabi, Painted Blooms Cotton Twine
Embellishments:  Something Borrowed

Third Card

Stamps:   Painted Petals and Something Lacy

Ink:   Melon Mamba and Memento Black
Cardstock:   Daffodil Delight, Wild Wasabi, Strawberry Slush and Whisper White
Blendabilities:   Melon Mamba, Daffodil Delight and Old Olive
Punches:   1” (2.5 cm) Square Punch and Postage Stamp

Creative Inkers Sal-a-bration Blog Hop

Another blog hop with the Creative Inkers team so have a look at my creations and then carry on hoping over to look at the rest of the team's awesome creations!

If you are new to Blog Hopping, just view my post and then click on the link at the bottom of my post to visit the next site and so on.

If you've been following the blog hop, you will have come from Ria Kaire's blog.  Didn't she have a stunning project to show us.  If you have just joined my page keep following the loop round to see everyone's gorgeous projects.  If you get 'lost', there's a list of all the blogs at the bottom of this post.

I am currently sitting outside (under cover of course) in the beautiful, actually extremely hot, summer weather typing up my post, while sipping an ice cold drink and enjoying the lovely breeze that is blowing.  Summer is just such a happy season and who doesn't love summer?

Now onto my projects.  Here are both the cards together.  I used the same stamp set but totally different colours and attempted to change the style but I am not sure I succeeded!!! I tried to keep both cards really simple but I seem to have this thing with layers so I ended up adding them.

For my first card I had to use the gorgeous Irresistibly Yours DSP and sponged Hello Honey diagonally across the centre and Lost Lagoon on the opposite corners.

 

 

For my second card I went for monochrome and only used Pinks and Vanilla.  I stamped the Lotus Blossom all over the front of the cards instead of using plain card or DSP.

 

I also decorated the inside of the card.

 

See the bottom of the post for the list of supplies.

I hope you've enjoyed my cards - now you're going to head over to Kathe Oldham to see her lovely projects, just click the next button.



 

 

 





 

1. Narelle Hoggard
www.handmadebynarelle.wordpress.com

2. Alicia Yap
https://stampcreationswithmunchkin.wordpress.com/

3. Kathryn Tyrrell
www.aspotofstamping.co.nz

4, Bernie Collins
http://www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/creativeedge/blog

5. Jacque Williams
www.stamphapy.co.nz

6. Rachael Knight
www.knightstamper.co.nz

7. Paula Reid
www.yellowbearnz.blogspot.com

8. Sally Williams
www.sallystampingdelights.blogspot.co.nz

9. Delys Cram
www.delysc.wordpress.com

10. Lisa Bullock
http://daffyscrapper.wordpress.com

11 Heather Stewart
Www.stampingcraft.co.nz

12. Ria Kaire
http://www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/qraftyqueen/blog

13. Sharon de Vos  (you are here)
http://sharonsstampinsnippets.blogspot.co.nz

14. Kathe Oldham
www.JorjaRose.com



Thanks for visiting
Sharon

Supplies Used

First Card
Stamps:   Lotus Blossom
Ink:   Lost Lagoon and Hello Honey
Cardstock:   Lost Lagoon and Hello Honey and Whisper White
DSP:   Irresistibly Yours
Punches:   2-3/8” (6cm) Scallop Circle and 1 ¾” (4.4 cm) Circle
Ribbon:  Hello Honey 5/8” (1.6 cm) Quilted Cotton Ribbon
Other:  Daubers

Second Card

Stamps:   Lotus Blossom

Ink:   Strawberry Slush and Blushing Bride
Cardstock:   Strawberry Slush and Very Vanilla