Birthday Mood Board

I loved the inspiration photo on the Monday Mood Board over on the WPlus9 blog this week - the orange and green really spoke to me.  http://stampawaywithme.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/monday-mood-board-12.html   The Birthday theme is because both Dawn and her DH have birthdays coming up - so what better way to celebrate than with a gallery full of birthday cards ;-)

I wanted to add some solid blocks of the orange and green so immediately jumped on Quilt Prints and stamped up a full background with pear tart and morocco momento inks using the dotted diamond to pick up on the confetti in the image.  I LOVE stamping up this background - it's so relaxing - and soooo thrilling when the last bit of the pattern is stamped in place and all the little bits mean the design possibilities are near endless!

I took further inspiration from the stacked cups and threw in some red using my new favourite Fresh Baked set stacking up bowls and a jug and coating in glossy accents and adding a thin fussy cut black border to help it stand out from the quilt pattern.  Simply finished with an embossed black sentiment also from Fresh Baked and a black mat before mounting onto a 3 x 3 card base.

Foodie Gift Tag

I don't often make gift tags - not sure why - it just never seems to occur to me.   However it just so happened that I had a small cookbook I was passing to a friend as a gift today and I saw that Kath is running a gift tag challenge over on the Moxie Fab world to promote the Cards and Gifts Special issue of Paper Crafts Magazine so I thought I'd make a tag for the book and join in. http://www.moxiefabworld.com/2013/05/350-cards-gifts-week-gift-tag-challenge.html

I used my new and VERY handy set of baking related stamps from Wplus9 and stamped a selection of images from the set in browns, blue and black as the gift is for a guy so the tag needed to be masculine (I don't think he spotted the flower on the dish "wink")

Fresh Baked

I've been having a little play with some new stamps from WPlus9 - I fell in love with both sets the second I saw them.  I was lucky to win a challenge so got them shipped from the USA, but they will no doubt be in stock soon at Make the Day Special.  I used them to make a simple card for this weeks
 CASe this sketch challenge.

I used the quilt stamp set to stamp the band on the sketch with vibrant red and orange gingham.  I used a tag die to create a little shelf and heat embossed a sentiment onto it.  I then stamped the crock pot from the Fresh Baked set onto a piece of kraft cut with the matching die - I cut 4 more die cuts and layered them up for dimension and after colouring the little flower with pencils I covered the whole front with glossy accents.

Here's a link to the challenge and the sketch to follow - http://casethissketch.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/case-this-sketch-26.htm

Time for a bath now - early start tomorrow as my friend and I are off to check out the new shopping centre in Leeds - we're long overdue a shopping trip so Leeds, you have been warned......