Bright card alert! Get your sunglasses on!  Well if you can’t pull out the bright colours for a kids card then when can you?  I must admit I’m usually confounded by making kids cards but I figure that anything with lollies has to be a hit with the kids.  I made this card for my son’s friend who is celebrating his birthday today.

The gumball machine was stamped and then stamped again, cut out and layered on top of the original image to give a 3D effect.  The 1 3/4″ circle punch is the perfect size for the gumball machine image and also fits the Sweet Treats Cup perfectly.  I filled the cup with Skittles and also made an opening at the back with a pull-tag at the side so that the birthday boy could pull open the tag to get to the Skittles without having to destroy the card.

Please note that all the rubber stamps used in this card are only available until 31st March 2010 when the Australian Summer Mini Catalogue ends.  As usual, we never know which products from the mini catalogues will end up transferring to the main catalogue so if you like the rubber stamps used above and would like to purchase them then please email me today.

Rubber Stamps:
Sweet Somethings (Australian Summer Mini Catalogue)

Inkpads & Colouring:
Pacific Point
Only Orange
Yoyo Yellow
Green Galore

Cardstock & Paper:
Whisper White
Pacific Point
Green Galore

Accessories:
Pacific Point Striped Ribbon
Sweet Treat Cups

Tools:
1 3/4″ Circle Punch
Designer Label Punch
1″ Circle Punch
Oval Punch

Adhesives:
SNAIL Adhesive
Stampin’ Dimensionals

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Would you like to join me to make these two cards and super cute faux-alligator purse?

Explore three different ways to use the Stampin’ Up!’s Top Note die for the Big Shot and create something a little different

Date: Thursday 1st April
Time: 7:30pm to approximately 9:30pm
Location: Lane Cove, Sydney.  Australia
Cost: $25.  Includes all materials and use of tools during the class plus refreshments

Places are strictly limited so please email now to secure your spot.

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Hi everyone, I’m back from four days at CraftExpo in Sydney and wow what an amazing 4 days!  It was wonderful to see so many crafters.  The highlight for me was helping others to create their own rubber stamped greeting card to take home.  It’s such an awesome feeling to see the joy on people’s faces when they’ve finished creating a card, especially those who created their very first handmade card.

Thank you to everyone who dropped in to say ‘hello’.   It was lovely to meet you all and get to know you better.

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I’m not sure what I’m going to use this card for but I feel it could make a masculine card or sympathy or thinking of you or just ‘hello’ or ‘thank you’ for someone who enjoys warm autumnal colours.

It’s coming into Autumn now in Australia and the day I made this card was quite a gloomy cool day so I felt like using some warm rich colours for a change.  The tree image I’ve stamped here is from the Le Jardin Botanique stamp set by Stampin’ Up! and I’ve stamped it using Basic Brown inkpad onto watercolour paper.  To colour in the stamp I simply applied some watercolour crayon onto my aquapainter and then dabbed it randomly over the tree.  The colours I’ve used to watercolour are: Old Olive, Bravo Burgundy, Ruby Red and More Mustard to try and give the tree an autumnal feel.  For the background I stamped other images from the same stamp set randomly over some So Saffron cardstock then scrunched the cardstock up several time to create lots of creases on the cardstock and then ran the So Saffron inkpad lightly over the top of the cardstock to ink up any creases that were prominent – this gives the background a worn vintage feel and it’s just so easy to do.

I feel like I’ve warmed up a bit now so I’m off to make myself a coffee and pull out some more warm colours to see what else I can make.  Do you find you start to use different colours in your cardmaking depending on the weather or season? Please comment and let us all know if you do or don’t.

(All products used to make this card are by Stampin’ Up! and can be ordered through me – just email me for more details.

Rubber Stamps:
Le Jardin

Inkpads & Colouring:
Basic Brown
Creamy Caramel
So Saffron
Watercolour Crayons

Cardstock & Paper:
Watercolour paper
So Saffron
Old Olive (smooth and textured)
Bravo Burgundy (textured)

Accessories:
Playground Designer Buttons
Linen Thread

Tools:
Aquapainter

Adhesives:
SNAIL Adhesive
Stampin’ Dimensionals
Glue Dots

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Doesn’t this birthday card just look so edible?  The pink , chocolate and touch of yellow theme of this card reminds me so much of cupcakes and soft centred chocolates.  This is the card that I made for my daughter’s 12th birthday and I’m happy to say she loved it.  So difficult to impress the child of a cardmaker! But I think that the sparkly cupcakes did it.

The fun background on this card was so easy to make but I think it makes a real impact on the card without taking away from the main image.  The background is simply adhesive die-cut borders – which is a fancy way of saying ‘stickers’ – that I trimmed down to size and placed onto a piece of Regal Rose cardstock.  The main image of the cupcakes on the cake stand was stamped twice onto white cardstock and coloured in using a blender pen and the ink from my inkpads.  The first image was trimmed down and layered onto coloured cardstock while the second image I coloured just the cupcakes, cut around each cupcake and then mounted onto the main image using Stampin’ Dimensionals to make them pop up from the card.

Hope you like my card.  If you do, please leave a comment.  If you wish to purchase any of the products I’ve used to make this card or if you simply want me to answer some questions then please feel free to email me.

(All products used in this card are from the current Australian Stampin’ Up! catalogue)

Rubber Stamps:
Crazy for Cupcakes

Inkpads:
StazOn Jet Black
Regal Rose
Close to Cocoa
Riding Hood Red

Cardstock & Paper:
Whisper White
Chocolate Chip
Regal Rose
Love Sparkles Simply Scrappin’ Kit (Die-Cut border stickers to make background)

Accessories:
Dazzling Diamonds Glitter

Tools:
Blender Pen

Adhesives:
SNAIL Adhesive
Stampin’ Dimensionals
2-Way Glue Pen (to cover cupcakes with then add glitter)
Crystal Effects (a drop on each cherry to make it shine)

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