Serene Silhouettes

This is a card I made last year for a card night with some of the lovely ladies who come and stamp with me.  At the time, I looked everywhere for inspiration with this stamp set, Serene Silhouettes, but in the end I was inspired by one of my own cards!  Honestly, that doesn’t happen often. But this is the card that inspired me here.

I really like this colour combo of Raspberry Ripple, Primrose Petals, Wild Wasabi, Crumb Cake, Early Espresso and Very Vanilla.

Here is a close up of the same card with the sentiment “just for you” instead:

Thanks for looking!

Rachel

Joshua’s 7th Birthday party

And fast on the heels of Harry’s birthday post, my middle son, Joshua, celebrated his 7th birthday party last month (I’m getting better with the fast posting, lol!).  Again, no matter how much we suggested a party at Lollipops would be great, Josh wanted his party at home and he wanted a Justice League party.  But it couldn’t be a “Super Hero” party because at least Justice League had a girl and he wanted the girls to feel happy coming as well.  In the end, we went for a Justice League/Princess party!

So these were the invitations I made.  I used Stampin’ Up!’s World Spectacular DSP and World’s Greatest stamp, to help me with the theme – so Josh’s party really ended up being a “World’s Greatest Superhero/Princess” theme, lol!  Here are the superheroes:

And here are the princesses:

I used Versamark ink with the stamp set, Up Up and Away, with clear embossing powder to create a cool background. Here are some closeups:

Here are the punch-art thin cello bags I made as party treats to take home.  Of course, Batman and Spiderman for the boys and Princess Ariel for the girls:

Closeups:

I made a special banner for the birthday boy (I will try and do some closeup photos of this to put up too):

This was the party table:

And on the party table, we had superhero sticks (inspired from Pinterest) using googlie eyes and SU paper for capes:

Then we had Green Goblin Formula (aka green cordial):

Next was some yummy Ariel Strawberries and Spiderman Strawberries:

There were Rainbow jelly cups:

and, of course, Captain America Star Fruit:

The incredible cupcakes and birthday cake were made by one of the school mums, Rose, who you can check out at Cakes by Rose here – http://cakesbyrose.wordpress.com/.

And finally I made the Lolly Bags to take home, again using World Spectacular DSP and also the Stampin’ Up! Petal Cone Die and Big Shot, which I hung from my Stampin’ Up! card tree:

Thanks for looking!

Rachel

Harrison’s 5th Birthday party

Well, last year my youngest turned 5 (yes, I know, I’m a little slow at getting photos up on my blog!).  Anyway, despite all our encouragement for a party at a venue instead of at home, Harry wanted his party at home.  And he wanted a Spiderman party.

So here are some photos from his party.  First, here is a photo of the birthday boy with his cupcakes for school and the invitations I made for his friends:

A close up of the Spiderman head on the invites:

Next were the Spidey Strawberries:

Then there were the Stampin’ Up! Fancy Favor Bigz Die Spidey popcorn boxes:

A pile of Watermelon Super Stars:

 

 

A Spiderman Cupcake Tower:

A homemade Spiderman birthday cake:

And blowing out the candles:

Thanks for looking!

Rachel

Black Swallowtail Sympathy card

This is the Swallowtail stamp, inked and Versamark and heat-embossed with black powder.

I love the colours Black and Crumb Cake together! And Versamark ink is so useful. Along with the embossing powder, I’ve also stamped Serene Silhouettes for a background effect in Versamark ink. There is a Teeny Tiny Sentiments stamp, “with sympathy”, stamped in the corner of the card with black ink.

This took 10 minutes to create!

Thanks for looking!
Rachel

Swallowtail Butterfly

This is a gorgeous stamp, Swallowtail, available in Stampin’ Up!’s Seasonal Catalogue. I have stamped the butterfly in Versamark ink, then stamped into onto the Tea for Two DSP. I then embossed it with Pewter embossing powder (love that powder) and sponged some Island Indigo ink on the butterfly for colour.

You can make so many different cards with this stamp, and quickly too. I’ll post more of this beautiful butterfly from an afternoon of stamping soon.

Thanks for looking!
Rachel