STAMPIN' UP!'S FOX & FRIENDS : FOR DD #11 AND SC 049/12

I'm on a bit of a 'baby card' kick at the moment, and had an idea that works for two of my favourite challenges.

Dynamic Duos has this gorgeous, soft, colour combination as the challenge this week:

and Sunny Challenges & Creations' challenge is to use circles on a papercraft project:

Here's the card I made, combining these two challenges:

Stamps: Fox & Friends, A to Z, Confetti, Short & Sweet

Card: Crumb Cake, Whisper White, Pink Pirouette, Baja Breeze

Ink: Pink Pirouette, Baja Breeze and Crumb Cake stampin' pads, Versamark inkpad

Other: 1 3/4" Circle punch, White embossing powder, sponge daubers, Stamp-a-ma-jig, Baja Breeze seam binding, Pink Pirouette taffeta ribbon, Whisper White taffeta ribbon, Word Window punch, Modern Label punch, mini glue dots

My boys are back at school, after 2 weeks holiday (actually, the eldest had almost 4 weeks, since he went on a Central Australia trip with school in the week leading up to the holidays), so the house is very quiet today!  As much as I love the holidays, I do like to get back into a 'normal' routine - although soon you might have to remind me I said that, as we get busier and busier, leading into cricket pre-season!!



CR84FN #30 COLOUR CHALLENGE

BEAUTIFUL colour challenge over at CR84FN this week, don't you think?

I have teamed some DCWV (Nana's Nursery) papers, with Stampin' Up! goodies, to make a baby card.  I don't actually know anyone who is about to have twins, but I designed this card with twins in mind!

Here is the result of my photographic endeavour on a very grey, cloudy, Melbourne afternoon:

Stamps: Fox & Friends, Baby Steps

Card: Crumb Cake, So Saffron textured, Whisper White smooth and textured

Paper: DCWV (Nana's Nursery, Baby Boy) paper stack

Ink: Baja Breeze, So Saffron and Crumb Cake stampin' pads

Other: Whisper White organza ribbon, 1 3/4" circle punch, Itty Bitty shapes punch, sponge dauber, paper snips, mini glue dots, Kraft corduroy button

FOX & FRIENDS BIRTHDAY FOR SUO CHALLENGE #16

The current challenge running at SUO Challenges, is to make a card or other papercraft project with animals on it.

It's well past time for me to bring out my rather neglected Fox & Friends stamp set; do animal images come any cuter?

I've made a little birthday 'set', of a card and a favour box, using Fox & Friends, and three of this year's In Colours - Peach Parfait, Pear Pizzazz, and Concord Crush.

Here are my creations together:

.... and individually ....

Stamps: Fox & Friends, Seeing Stars, Party This Way

Card: Concord Crush, Peach Parfait, Pear Pizzazz and Whisper White

DSP: Peach Parfait and Pear Pizzazz Patterns Designer Series Paper

Ink: Peach Parfait stampin' pad and marker, Pear Pizzazz and Concord Crush stampin' pads

Other: Pear Pizzazz stitched-poly ribbon, Word Window punch, Modern Label punch, Buttons #5 Sizzlits die, Square Lattice embossing folder, Fancy Favor Die, 1 3/4" x 7/8" Oval punch, Scallop Oval punch, Spiral punch, Circle Fire rhinestone brad, Stampin' dimensionals, Stamping sponges

JUST ADD INK #60

This week at Just Add Ink, the challenge is to use the following colours on a card, scrapbook page, or other papercraft project:

I have made a very simple, kind of playful, card.  Would you believe that it took SEVEN stamp sets to make this card???!!!

Stamps: Fox & Friends; Cheep Talk; Flight of the Butterfly; Inspired by Nature; Pocket Silhouettes; Silhouette Sentiments; Hello, You

Card: Crumb Cake, Rich Razzleberry, Whisper White

DSP: Crumb Cake Patterns Designer Series Paper

Ink: Old Olive, Rich Razzleberry and Crumb Cake stampin' pads

Other: Modern Label punch, 1" circle punch, 1 1/4" circle punch, Stamp-a-ma-jig, Basic Rhinestones, sponge daubers

I plan to have at least one more attempt at making a card using these colours, as they go so well together.

SALLY'S CARD-MAKING PARTY

I have just farewelled four lovely girls who came over for a play in my craft room - what a nice way to start the school holidays, don't you think?!  Sally (Andrew's niece) turned 14 last week, and asked if she could bring a few friends over to make cards, before a whole group of friends descended on her house for the 'traditional' birthday party.  Of course I jumped at the chance to have some girls come over and make cards - a welcome change to having a houseful of males, 2/3 of whom don't appreciate the whole "stamping" thing!


Here are the 3 things that we made in the fairly short amount of time we had available - all the girls did really well to finish on-time!  This is always a bit of a challenge .... my usual classes often stretch up to an hour past the scheduled finish :)




Bit of a 'bird theme' happening, which wasn't entirely intentional - I just love owls, and my bird punch.  I'm pretty sure Sal and her friends were happy with the cards and the cute little pillow box.

(If you want to know any of the 'ingredients', please feel free to email me, and I'll be happy to share.)


Here are the girls displaying their own finished projects:





Much to my dismay, I have to work a couple of days this week; hopefully I'll still get plenty of stamping time in, and will be able to share some more cards soon.


Please do come back and visit my blog this weekend, as on Saturday 3rd July it is time for my team's monthly blog hop.  I have a few fun things to show you, and am sure the other 11 demonstrators taking part will also inspire you .... the blog hop has a theme of "Christmas in July", to help get you started on your Christmas projects.  Mark it on your calendars, and come back to visit on the weekend if you can!
 

FOX & FRIENDS ..... altogether TOO cute!

The cheeky monkey card I showed you, in my post about my catalogue launch event, was made using the adorable Fox & Friends stamp set.  Personally, I think it should be called Owl & Friends, because I have a little favourite bird in this set, but we'll continue to refer to it as Fox & Friends, to avoid confusion!

This stamp set is available in both woodmount option, or clear mount - which I chose.  A set of 7 gorgeous stamps, for only $23.95 - can't beat that!  Here's a picture of the index from the storage case, so you can see all the little creatures in the set:







Cute, huh?  They're the perfect size to fit in a number of Stampin' Up!'s punches.  I have opted for the square punches, again, and a similar layout to my monkey card.  This is a card I made for a special young friend, whose birthday was a few days ago:





Now can you see why I love the owl??!  I love how beautiful the details stamp out.  Plus it's just plain cute!

See that bright paper in the background?   That's one of the bright, happy sheets from the also-new Sunny Day Simply Scrappin' Kit.

Here's the list of products used to make this card:

Stamps: Polka Dot, Fox & Friends, Wow Flowers, Flight of the Butterfly

Card: Kiwi Kiss, Melon Mambo, Whisper White

Ink: Versamark inkpad, Kiwi Kiss and Melon Mambo stampin' pads

Other: Melon Mambo grosgrain ribbon, Scallop Edge punch, 1 1/4" square punch, 1 3/8" square punch, sponge daubers, dimensionals, clear rhinestone brad


Thanks for coming to visit my little corner of the world.

Christine :)