NSU Family Christmas

(This is my second post today - scroll down for Christmas tags)

Some more Christmas cards for you today and these ones are predominantly non SU stamps, though some of the papers are SU.

First up a very simple card featuring a delightful Lili of the Valley stamp that I could not resist as it is just perfect for my husband. I'm sure many of you have partners like mine who always need that little snooze after their Christmas Dinner!

Next up is my card for DD19. The angels stamp is from LOTV and the dsp from my stash - I loved how it incorporated blue (DD19's fav colour) and cherry cobbler (my fav colour and our theme for Xmas this year). The stars are glitter card which add a lovely touch of sparkle.

For DD13 plenty of green (her fav colour) and some delightful gingerbread whimsy! This is gingerbread Tilda and as you can see, I found plenty of gingerbread accents to match!

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers
Kez

Robins for Robyn

Today's card is for my good mate Rob, who is coming for a Xmas play day today - we'll be making tags, I think, as I desperately need some for pressies!

The stamp is from LOTV but everything else is SU.

Aren't those little robins soooooo cute!? The inside is decorated too, but I foolishly wrote my message before I took photos!

Coming soon - cards for my "spesh peeps".

Thanks for calling in.

Cheers
Kez

NSU - Cuteness Factor

I've got some birthday cards for you today and the first two feature stamps from Lili of the Valley's newest ranges.

Pastel shades for this pretty card with a ribbon and button feature:

Materials used:

• stamps - LOTV, SU Think Happy Thoughts
• card - certainly celery, pretty in pink, whisper white, watercolour, dotted paper from stash
• punches - 35 mm circle, 38 mm circle (non SU), scallop circle
• other - so saffron ribbon, pink buttons (non SU)

For my wizard card I made my own background using stamps and gold embossing, then added some embedded embossing on the mustard panel. The sentiment was done on the computer. This one is particularly topical with the release of the last Harry Potter movie!

Materials used:

• stamps - LOTV, SU Starring You
• card - cherry cobbler, more mustard, night of navy, watercolour, very vanilla
• punches - small star
• other - nestabilities die, square lattice embossing folder, gold embossing powder, heat tool

Lastly I couldn't have a cute colouring in session without a Magnolia card too, now could I? Tilda is blowing some birthday wishes in this pretty floral card.

Materials used:

• stamps - Magnolia, SU Sincere Salutations
• card - bravo burgundy, very vanilla, always artichoke, pink pirouette patterned paper, Kaiser English roses paper, watercolour
• other - nestabilities die, Martha Stewart doily lace punch, very vanilla satin ribbon

Hope you get some time to do some colouring in today. Thanks for calling in.

Cheers
Kez

NSU - Best of Friends

NSU is Non Stampin' Up! so if you want to see only SU content, skip this post. I'll try to use NSU in each blog post title where the content is predominantly other brands.

Yesterday I spent a very pleasant afternoon watercolouring after inking up a new stamp for the first time. I just adore these two sweet girls in their pretty frocks and pinafores.

Materials used:

• stamps - Penny Black
• card/paper - Pacific Point and Whisper White (SU), watercolour paper (Canson), designer papers by The Girls Paperie
• other - Martha Stewart doily lace punch, Rose Red seam binding ribbon (SU), Kaiser pearls
• inks - all SU

While I was on a roll, I inked up a gorgeous LOTV stamp and broke out some new PTI goodies. Here's my second card:

Materials used:

• stamps - Lily of the Valley, Verve
• card/paper - aqua mist, berry sorbet and ocean tides from Papertrey Ink, watercolour paper from Canson, whisper white from SU
• punches - large oval and scallop oval (SU), doily lace (Martha Stewart)
• other - dimensionals (SU), pearls (Kaiser), PTI satin ribbon
• inks - PTI, SU and Versamagic

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Kez