Design Mode

I am in design mode at the moment since I will be demo-ing at the craft event in April at the Bury Sports & Leisure Centre. I am putting together several boards full of cards and scrapbook pages to use for display.

Here are a few designs I've come up with so far.

This is an 8" x 8" page which shows how you can stamp your own background papers. The flowers and the 'sweet' text are also created with rubber stamps. I am using the Upsy Daisy designs.

This card uses the same techniques but also uses a black peel off greeting.

This card is created entirely with stamps - only the ribbon isn't stamped!

These ones all make up the 'blue' board since I have tried to create and collate items on boards by colour.

When I got tired of working with blues I decided to use purples and lilacs. This is a mini card with rounded corners that's kinda sweet. Just about everything is stamped except the dark paper and ribbon.

I'm not sure what I was aiming for with this one. Sometimes you just have to create and you won't like them all but at least they get you headed in the right direction - maybe?

This one turned out far too busy for my liking but it shows you what you can do with stamps anyhow.

I finally ended up doing a design I liked. I had several scraps lying around from trimming paper so I decided to use them. You just cut strips at an angle and layer them on a card. I used black strip peel offs to add more detail and to tie in with the black on the 'pen' stitches. Since I hadn't used the circle text stamps I decided to add one of these to finish the card. I really like this quick and easy card and I've made several like this in the past.

After deciding I wasn't doing so well with the purple colour family I switched to pinks and reds with a hint of green. This card is more my style and it's a mini one too so it's doubly cute. This uses another circle text stamp from Upsy Daisy designs.

I was inspired by the card to create an 8" x 8" page using the same cute designer tag. All I need now are some photos to add to the pages.

Here's another shot of the tag. I first stamped the 'love' with one of the round text stamps. Then I added it to pink cardstock and cut around with scalloped scissors. Because the scissors don't cut evenly, i.e. you end up back where you started with a half scallop; I covered this up with the ribbon which I stapled to the tag. Next I stamped a flower on pink cardstock, cut it out and 3D mounted it in the centre with a jewel on top. Finally I stamped and added the green leaves to hide the staple and add the finishing touch.

I could use this tag over and over again on numerous projects. I just love it.

Well I have several more but I will share them later.