Do you like these?

 Do you like Pansies?  These are ever lasting on a card so perfect to cheer up a friend with a very simple hello card.  

All you need is an off cut approximately 5 cm wide by the length of your card.  I used the Fresh Freesia gingham from the Pansy Petals DSP.  I added a die cut scalloped edge in the same colour card stock, but if you don't have a border die you could just use a strip of the card to coordinate and add in the same way.  I've then fussy cut some flowers from the same pack of paper, layering them with glue dots and stampin' dimensionals to give some depth.  

Add a simple stamping, quick sentiment using the very popular Biggest Wish stamp set with the scripted part stamped in a darker colour to the bold HELLO.  

Finish with some coordinating rhinestones and you are done.  If you don't have these but have basic rhinestones they would work really well too or you could colour them with alcohol markers to create the same effect.  

Get using those off cuts of paper and then you can treat yourself to new papers and save 15% on selected papers from my Stampin' Up! shop this month. 

Enjoy the sunshine too of course!

Keep safe and keep stamping. 

Hugs Zoe x

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Christmas Card Club - Blue and Silver theme

Happy Sunday and welcome to another Christmas Card Club Challenge.  Today we are sharing Christmas cards with a colour combo theme of blue and silver.   Mine is a very simple make, but the embossing folder I've used is just so gorgeous that it doesn't need too much fuss.

I've used it on silver foil card and mounted that onto a piece of Night of Navy card. 

My sentiment  is a combo of two stamps. I stamped the Happy in Night of Navy ink, having stamped it off first so that I could stamp with 2nd generation ink for a lighter shade in order to add the second part overlapping a little which I heat embossed with silver powder.  The Christmas stamp will be available soon with a fab new stamp set coming in the Stampin' Up! winter mini catalogue which will be available from 3 August. If you'd like to see all the new stamps and winter stash please ask me for a catalogue. I love the big letters of the Happy they are modern font and connect with so many other sentiments.  

I've added some sparkly ribbon and used a white card base to make the embossed snowflakes really pop.  These would be really easy to make a batch of in no time at all.  

I also made this card for the theme, but I'm not sure about it. It didn't quite go with the idea in my head, but it does follow the theme and as a shaker card will be fun and a little different. 

I used a mask/stencil to create a background using Misty Moonlight and Pool Party inks. I added the ink with a blending brush first with the lighter colour and then a dauber to add the darker colour by dabbing rather than blending to avoid going where I didn't want to with the ink.  I placed the self made paper background into a self seal cello bag and added some sequins.  I've adhered the bag to the card base with tear and tape and then added a die cut frame which I stamped with snowflakes from the Penguin Place stamp set.  The stencil is from the Adorning Designs Decorative Mask set in the upcoming winter mini .

With another piece of embossed foil card I cut some snowflakes using the So Many Snowflakes dies and added a sentient this time just stamped with the two shades of blue.  

Tell me which you prefer of the two cards. 

Keep safe and keep stamping

Zoe x

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