Hunkydory Wedding Cards

Here are a selection of lovely wedding cards made using three Hunkydory sheets from their Milestones collection.  The set comes with an A4 sheet of toppers and two A4 background sheets, one decorative and one foiled.  From these sheets I made these four cards, plus another one not included in the photos.

I really love the simplicity of these kits, they enable me to make a batch of cards even if I have no inspiration to do my stamping cards.

Hunkydory Congratulations and Men's Birthday Card

Today's cards are a bit different.... As much as I love Stampin Up and other stamps I occasionally fancy a more simple approach to card making and this generally involves Hunkydory.

These cards are made from the Milestones Hunkydory Set which included three A4 sheets, one with the toppers, one a decorated backing card and the third being a decorated backing card with foiling.  From these three sheets I made these two cards, plus have enough bits left to do another two cards, what a bargain.

Aviary Birthday and Thank You Cards

Here are a couple of photos from the lovely Aviary set, sorry another retired set.

The cards are a selection of birthday and thank you cards using crumb cake, chocolate chip, cherry cobbler and pacific point.

You are Loved, Engagement Card - Stampin Up

I have at last managed to work out how to put my photos on with my IPad so will endeavour to keep blogging from now on.

My niece rang at the weekend to tell me that she had just got engaged so, a card just had to be made!  She loves pink but I didn't want to make anything too pink so kraft card was needed, or as Stampin Up like to call it, Crumb Cake.

The stamp set is called You are Loved, which is now a retired set but makes beautiful Valentines, wedding, engagement cards.

I stamped the heart using Versamark and then heat embossed with opaque white Wow Powder onto Crumb Cake card stock.  I then layered this onto Blushing Bride pink card stock.  The next layer was the same Crumb Cake and Blushing Bride layers one stamped using the Congratulations words from another retired set called Congratulations and the other stamp set called Love and Laughter used the words Congratulations on your engagement.

The Love and Laughter set is still available and is £16.95 in the clear set.

Please keep looking at my page as I will now start to update regularly.

Everything Eleanor Birthday Card

I am now going to start to make a concerted effort to blog at least once a week, lets see how it goes.

This card was made using the gorgeous, but in my case, under used Everything Eleanor stamp set.  The colours used are Crumb Cake and Calypso Coral, which work so well together.

I used a standard square stock cream card layered this up with Whisper White cardstock stamped with the swirl design from Everything Eleanor in Crumb Cake and then overstamped with the large flower design in Calypso Coral.  I then restamped some more of the flowers and cut these out and raised them with 3d foam onto the single layered images.  I only did this with 3 of the flowers to get some depth into the card.

I finished off the card with a sentiment stamp from Hobby Art, a few gems in the centres of the flowers and a little metal/enamel butterfly that I had in stock (no idea where from).

The final section was to layer the card onto Calypso Coral card and then a subtle strip of Crumbe Cake across the centre back of the card.  A flower was then stamped on the front of the envelope to really give it the personal treatment.

Hope you like!

Reason to Smile Flowery Card - Wisteria Wonder and Lucky Limeade

I know this particular stamp set is retired but you could do this style card with any flower stamp.

I used Wisteria Wonder and Lucky Limeade as the colour scheme for this card and stamped the flowers from the set onto three layered up pieces of Whisper White card.  These three layers were then mounted onto Wisteria Wonder cardstock and matted and layered onto a Wisteria Wonder square card based.

I also then stamped the gerbera/daisy style flower direct onto Wisteria Wonder cardstock with a black inkpad and cut around this.  Mounting this with a die cut leaf from Lucky Limeade cardstock on top of a strip of Wisteria Wonder ruffled ribbon just finished this card off.

I did not add a sentiment as wanted to leave it simple.

Pennant Parade Good Luck Card

This card was made for my friend at work who retired a few weeks ago.  I haven't got a retirement stamp (yet!) and so I used good luck from the retired Sincere Salutations set, which is often on ebay if you are after a set.

I stamped the Pennant Parade stamp set up with Crumb Cake and Not Quite Navy and then punched the bunting out with the builder punch.  I then used the round Itty Bitty Punch set to punch out the stars.  A little bit of Linen Thread, a must for any craft stash, just finished it off.

I really like this combination, particularly for blokes, but the Not Quite Navy is one of the retiring colours, so please order as much as you can before it goes.