How to make an Easter accordian mini album card with Stampin Up Everybunny stamps

Good morning, just 10 days to go until Easter Sunday, where is the time going? Can't quite believe we will be 1/4 of the way through the year so soon! 

Today's card is a little different, I am trying out some new card styles and thought the accordian style looked fun to make & receive - and a great way to tell a story, especially for young children who are unable to read sentiments. I know my youngest girls would love this little card, take a peek for yourself & let me know what you think ...

Here's the front of the card - it looks a little wonky - have you ever tried to stand an oval egg shape upright? Apologies for the light, it is so grey and dark today despite being right next to the window to take the photographs :(

It opens out into 4 cute embellished Easter theme pages  ....

And here it is all opened out together ..

I love it and think I will be making a few more of these :) 

The images were from the Everybunny stamp set  stamped onto Whisper White cardstock which was coloured using Many Marvellous Markers and layered upon designer series papers from Tea for Two and Birds of a feather. The images & papers were then punched using the scallop circle punch, the scallop square punch, the modern label and decorative label and the label & oval framelits were used with the Big Shot to make the overall so saffron card oval egg shape to begin with. 

The paper piercing was achieved using the piercing pack and mat and the hand rolled flowers were made by spiral cutting a scallop circle. The pansy flower was made using a now retired butterfly punch with Tea for Two papers. The little butterflies were punched in Tea for Two papers using the Bitty butterfly punch new in the Spring/Summer catalogue. I've used pink pirouette taffeta ribbon & crochet lace trim as well as some subtle brads and buttons. The leaves were cut from Gumball Green cardstock and cut using the circle punch technique. 

There are lots & lots (and lots!) of Easter theme card challenges online this week, so I've picked just a random few to enter this card in to ...

Celebrate the Occasion, Clean it Out, Die Cutting Divas, My time to craft, Paper take weekly, Pinspirational challenges, Scrap creations, Shopping our Stash, Use it Tuesday, Hambo Hoedown, Freshly Brewed Challenges (accordion & paper piercing), Addicted to Stamps & More #37 - phew that's a list! 

Right, time to get on and clear my desk ready for the next project - see you again soon! 

Stampin Up pastel Established Elegance

Good morning readers, today I have a pastel themed clean & simple card for you to take a look at, it's using the Established Elegance stamp set which is full of vintage theme objects and designs :)

I've followed the sketch at CAS colours & sketches and the colours at Inspired By Stamping Challenge # 50  as well as the following challenges which required pink, pastels, ribbons or photo inspiration ...

The Ribbon Girl - pink, yellow, aqua, ribbon & flower

Crafty Bloggers Network - spring or pastel

In the pink - lots of pink!

Here's a close-up of the stamps - aren't they gorgeous?

Here's some tags I also made using the same stamp set ...

The first tag was threaded with linen thread through the tiny heart punch at the top (which could've done with being the other way round!) and then the stamped image was decorated with a layer of scrunched chocolate chip tulle (sadly retired from the autumn/winter 2012 catalogue) and finished with a bow made from crochet trim whilst the second tag was purely stamped in chocolate chip, raspberry ripple, gumball green and the sentiment was from the For my family stamp set. The tags were hand cut and rounded on the corners with the super duper handy corner punch. 

Hope you like them, very quick and easy but effective! To make the card or the tags you will need the following which I would be more than happy to order for you (don't forget to order your sale-a-bration freebie with every £45 spent until Friday!), just drop me a line at lisa.barton@hotmail.co.uk and I will do the rest!

• Established Elegance stamps (w) 122530 £24.95, (c) 122532 £19.95
• Pink pirouette, whisper white & Crumb cake card stock 121685 £6.25 
• Crochet trim 118481 £6.25
• Certainly celery, bashful blue & pink pirouette taffeta ribbons
• Small heart punch 117193 £5.75
• Corner punch 119871 £6.25
• Bashful blue, pink pirouette, certainly celery, Raspberry ripple, Gumball green, chocolate chip classic ink pads

Back again tomorrow to continue my challenge quest 

3D Butterfly card using Stampin Up Feel Good stamps & butterfly punch

Hi there, good to see you! Today's card theme is butterflies or "flutterbyes" as my youngest daughter says ;)

The photo looks really crooked doesn't it - the card wasn't I can assure you! Here's a close up of the 3-layered butterflies ...

Continuing on with my daily blog challenge, this card was designed for the following challenges which required either butterflies, so saffron & basic black colours or adhering to a sketch ...

Try Stamping on Tuesday # 109 sketch

Dynamic Duos DD#44 Black & Soft Yellow (dessert option Ribbon)

CAS on Sunday challenge #4 Flutterby

Flutter By Wednesdays

Happy Campers challenge # 12 Flutterby Butterfly

LEJ Designs Challenge Blog - Things with Wings

Fab n Funky - add a sentiment

I used basic black cardstock as my background and layered it with whisper white which was run through the big shot with the polka dot embossing folder. The ribbon is so saffron taffeta and I used the butterfly punch and yellow ptterned designer series papers to make the 3 layered butterflies and then the bitty butterfly punch for the teeny tiny butterflies which were punched from some retired papers from á suite called Mocha Morning. The butterflies were finished with some basic pearls and the sentiment stamped in so saffron using the Feels Good stamp set. 

If you would like any of the products showcased today then please do drop me a line at lisa.barton@hotmail.co.uk and I can order them for you - don't forget it's the last few days of sale-a-bration where every £45 order is rewarded with a freebie product from a huge range of 19! 

Back tomorrow with some more for you :)

How to make a 3D flowerpot card using Stampin Up fun flower die

Hello! So it's day 1 of my new challenge to enter approx 300 online blog challenges during the rest of this year. After a late night researching what's out there, I am pleased to say I found quite a few new challenges I have not previously entered to link this card to ...

A B C Challenges ABC 21 Bring on the Flowers

Critter Sketch Challenge 156 Monochromatic Green

Belli Challege #165 St Patricks Day/Green

The Ribbon Girl Blog March Colour Challenge

Loves Rubber Stamps Challenge Blog - Shades of Green

Robyns Fetish Challenge Blog Challenge # 151 Must Use Green

Make my Monday CAS Monochrome Colours Scheme

Crafty Boots - Flowers

Forever Friends March Challenge - flowers & shaped cards

The Sisterhood of crafters - make em green with envy

Apologies about the photo, the light wasn't in the right position and has reflected back slightly but I hope you can see the detail and the fact that the whole card is in GREEN! I am guessing that with St Patricks Day just behind us there were a lot of challenge blogs that focussed on green being the main colour - I know myself I have produced quite a few green cards in the last week and am looking forward to some new colours now, green being one of my least favourite colours!

This card is a mini flower pot card that I came across here; thank you Helen for sharing - it really is cute! I've used the fun flowers bigz L die (121812 £28.95) to cut the flowers using the bigshot and then sprayed with vanilla shimmer smooch spritz (118772 £4.50 for 11ml), scrunched and layered them together using a green brad (part of subtles brads (119738 £5.75 for 120 assorted colour brads) . The papers are from a range of Polka Dot parade, Summer Smooches, Twitterpated and In Colour designer series paper stack (extra brownie points for me for delving into my paper stash ;) ) 

The "Flower pot" was cut using the big shot and the petal cone bigz l die (121810 £28.95) and then ribboned in certainly celery taffeta (119963 £6.25 for 9.1m) and tagged & stamped in certainly celery using A Little Greeting stamp set (129111 £6.95).

I can see myself making this card over and over again in the future, in fact the part where the flowers are pops out for a hand written note - extra cuteness points! 

That's all for today, am off to check out suitable challenges for tomorrows crafting efforts, see you soon!

Using tags on greetings cards

Hi there, and hope today finds you in fine form. I wanted to show you this little card I recently made for a loved one who is off travelling, all around the world stopping in every continent on a trip of a lifetime! Wow, if only ...

I've used the Fan Fair suite of designer series papers (126918 £9.95 for 12 12"x12" double sided sheets) are they have a gorgeous vintage look to them and have travel related designs on them - two of my favourites together.

The tag is from the papers as well, I've just fussy cut it. I wanted the recipient to remember our good friendship and good times together and know it will be a source of comfort for them on their long travels :)

The colours on the card also lent themselves to the colour challenge over at Colour Throwndown and it was great fun to join in as I would neveer have put these colours together, but I think they work really well, don't you?

I followed this weekly challenge sketch for inspiration as it enabled a good selection of the papers to be displayed in their glory  .

I've also joined in at Creative Creations Challenges for the letter B - buttons, bike, bow!

The sentiment is stamped in pumpkin pie and is from the Feels Good stamp set ((w) 129681£22.95 (c) 129684 £17.95) from the Spring/Summer catalogue which has some gorgeous sayings with meaning and which I am sure will prove priceless over the years, I love the fluidity of the font as well :)

The button is in certinly celery from the subtles range of buttons (119745 £8.25 for 72 assorted colour, size & shape buttons) and is finished with linen thread (104199 £3.95 for 13.7m) and the tag is ribboned with certainly celery taffeta ribbon (119963 £6.25 for 9.1m) as well. 

Will be back tomorrow with some more challenge entries and have set myself a personal challenge to use more of my designer series paper suites as well instead of just lovingly looking at them ;) - see if you can spot them! Bye for now...

Sunday Stamps Top Pick

Good morning readers, just a quick pop in today to say hi and to share with you that my Twitterpated dress up card I blogged a couple of days ago was the ...

What a lovely way to start the week! Be back soon with some more creations for you, bye for now!

Stampin Up Feeling Sentimental masculine card

Hello readers, here's something you may not know .. Penny-farthing bikes were named after the old British penny and farthing coins and were popular in the 1870's - 1890's eventually being replaced by safer bikes less inclined to tip the rider over the handlebars!!

They often represent the innovation of the Victorian age, and the Feeling Sentimental stamp set doths its cap wonderfully towards tradition and bygone days. As I am still in a green phase, I thought it would be fun to enter the Colour Q #180 challenge along with the Mojo Monday 284 sketch challenge & Addicted to Stamps & More sketch challenge & Creative Card Crew - Masculine - and the penny farthing stamp fitted the circles required on the sketch challenge perfectly.

The set is part of the Sale-a-bration range of free products you can choose from for every £45 order - and if you think it might just be impossible to live without it then please hurry as sale-a-bration ends on Friday 22nd March and this set will no longer be available.

To make this card I layered Whisper White & Gumball green cardstock then scallop punched the edge of a thick Whisper White banner piece. The card was tied with basic black ribbon and the scrap banners were made from Summer Smooches designer series paper and some retired Howlstooth & Scaringbone (Halloween themed) paper from 2012. The sentiment is from the Thank You Kindly set which retired last Summer but one which I still find incredibly useful.

Short & sweet from me today, will be back after the weekend with some more challenge crafting, laters ...