Thinking of you!

Hello all,
I have got another card to upload. Unfortunately this was a sympathy card to my aunt, who sadly lost her daughter between Christmas and New Year.

I used the Botanical Blooms set (which is retired - ie no longer in catalogue). However, you can use the Greenhouse Garden on p51 of the current catalogue. You need a stamp set where you can create 'two-step stampin'. This is where you stamp the image with one colour, and then you could either re-stamp it with a lighter colour or sometimes the stamp set comes with a similar picture but it might be just the outline. This is what I did above, I stamped the outline in old olive, then again with the full stamp. Hope this makes sense. The card and 'thinking of you' stamp were my own.

Baby Blues!

Here is my first ever baby card. This is for a colleague who recently had a baby boy.

Luckily and very kindly I borrowed the following from my SU (Stampin' Up!) Mom Caroline as mine are in the post! These were the 'Bundle of Love 121223 (wood mounted - £26.95) 121291  (clear £21.95)  for 16 stamps. I also used the jumbo Stampin' Around wheel with Baby Tees (118621 - £8.50). The card was my own stock and I used Marina Mist Stampin' Up! Ink Pad. Here are the steps of how I made this:

I first used the Jumbo Stampin' Around wheel with the Baby Tees to do the background, the ink used was Marina Mist. I trimmed this card so that it fitted in the A5 cream card with about 1cm border (Hope that makes sense!).

I printed the pram and cut round the edge for an extra effect and mounted. I then wondered how I was going to put this on the front of the card and thought of hanging it from the top. So I put two holes exactly in the centre of the navy paper, one at the top and one at the bottom. I also printed a little caption and hole punched this in the centre as shown in the picture below.

The ribbon was then attached to the pale blue background using the snail adhesive, which is a double sided sticky tape. 

And here is the final product, let me know what you thought, I am sure the mum is going to love this!

Happy New Year everyone!

Hi to all in 2011.
Before I wipe the slate clean, so to speak, I just wanted to upload the last few pictures of some Christmas treat boxes I made for some colleagues at work.

These were also filled with a few Christmas Shortbread biscuits. The person who got me into Stampin' Up! Helen (see her blog on my list!) kindly gave me the 'pattern'. If you would like the instructions - it requires a drawing to be somehow translated into word - I will try! Email me at head-over-heels-by-dlm@hotmail.com and I will send it to you!