Paul's Birthday

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Last Thursday was Paul's birthday (DH).

Here is the card I made him.

I found at card on similar to this on Pinterest.

Catherine Pooler made the orginal card, her dimensions didn't work for the card so I put my take on.

Click here to see Catherine card.

 My colour combo is Not Quite Navy, Crumb Cake, Early Espresso and Very Vanilla.

I used 'The Open Sea, Word Play and On Your Birthday' Stamp Sets.

 I embossed 1" squares in the Square Lattice Embossing Folder, added some Early Espresso Bakers Twine and a Antique Brad.

I chose that brad because I thought it looked like a compass.

This the inside of the card.

With Sympathy

Alison Hydes (my upline) lost her mother to a long battle with cancer.

Here is the card I made for her and her family.

 I have used the Double Emboss Technique, which I saw on Jacquelyn Pedersen blog last week.

The colour combo is a combo that Tina one of my costumers is going to use for her Christmas Cards.

Basic Gray, Cherry Cobbler, Sahara Sand, thanks Tina.

I have used Whisper White Craft Ink and Clear Embossing Powder.

I also used 'Two Tags Bigz Die' and Cherry Cobbler Seam Binding Ribbon which are both new to the new Idea Book and Catalogue.

Happy Birthday Darian

Today is Darian's 15th Birthday.

Here is his card.

 I cased this from Ilina Crouse, click here to see her card.

 I have changed some of the stamps.

I have used 'Sentimental Journeys' Stamp Set, this is a fantastic set.

Great for men's cards travel layouts to name a couple.

 I used 'Word Play' Stamp Set for the sentiment.

Inside the card I used Level 1 Stamp Set 'Afterthoughts'.

The DSP is from Summer Mini Catalogue 'Travel Journal'.

 This is another card, from the same sheet of DSP but along a bit.

Better Late Than Never

 On the 24th November was our First Kiwi Stampers Team Meeting.

As per normal we did swaps, we needed to make 17 swaps.

I finished mine this Friday, ( yes ladies I put them in the post on yesterday) hopefully you will recieve them on Monday or Tuesday.

I had them almost finished but my Sentiment Journey Stamp Set (Summer Mini) hadn't arrived when I left for Christchurch were the meeting was. Paul phoned to say it had arrived that afternoon, I had left in the morning but even if I had waited I would have had time to complete them.

So now the long wait is over, I hope the ladies think the wait was worth it.

This is my swap.

I cased this from Michelle Zindorf go check out her blog it is a must visit blog, she does the most beautiful brayer work and she has over 300 tutorials.
When I first saw this on Michelle's blog, I loved the plane with the flourish and I thought of Air New Zealand and the Koru on the tail of there planes.

I have made a complete card as we have friends packing up and moving over the ditch to Aussie and I thought it would be a great card to give to them as they continue on there lifes journey.

This is the inside of the card, the stamp I have used is from 'Word Play' Stamp Set.

It is a fabulous Set, I fell in love with in the 2010-2011 Idea Book and Catalogue.

I thought both stamp sets would be good sets for card making and scrapbooking.

So what do you think are these great sets?

 Supplies List 

Stamps: Sentimental Jounrney and Word Play.

Card Stock: Early Espresso, Melon Mambo, Tangerine Tango and Whisper White.

Ink: Early Espresso, Tempting Turquoise, Pacific Piont, Night of Navy and VersaMark.

Extra: Clear Embossing Powder, Heat Tool, Mat Pack, Paper Piecing Tool, Early Espresso 1/4" Grosgain Ribbon and Pearls.

I will show you the team swap another day soon.