When you're short on inspiration...

The Stampin' Up! Ideas catalogue is such an amazing resource!  I've been having trouble getting the creative juices flowing lately, so I went to the catalogue (again!!).  There are so many ideas to get you started, whether it's colour combinations, layouts, just name it!

Here's a colour combination I'm loving at the moment: Garden Green & Elegant Eggplant.  They just look yummy together!

Pop on some silver brads and some gorgeous buttons from the Stampin' Up! button die cut and voila!

Just Add Ink 51 - entry two

...and here is my "simple" entry for the Just Add Ink challenge 51:

Ingredients:

Card stock: Basic Black, Basic Grey and Whisper White
Ink: Basic Black, Basic Grey
Stamps: Sincere Salutations, Delight in Life
Miscellaneous: Eyelet Border Punch, silver brads .

Just Add Ink 51 - entry one

I've been a busy girl today!  

The lovely ladies over at Just Add Ink have given us a great THEME challenge this week:

Just Add MONOCHROME!

I managed to get TWO entries completed this week - one busy and one simple.  Here is my "busy" entry:

  

Ingredients:

Card stock & Ink:  Basic Black, Basic Grey and Whisper White

Stamps:  Wings & Things (I think!!) standard roller, Delight in Life, Loving Hearts, Heavenly Days

Miscellaneous:  Beautiful Butterflies die

My first CASE.

A friend asked me make a birthday card for her mum and being seriously short of inspiration, I called upon the talents of Paula Dobson.  Her post about stamping on multiple layers was just what I needed!  Thank you, Paula!

Here's mine:

Wow, cool!

I just received a FAB award from the wonderful Paula Dobson - check out her site if you haven't already.  Thank you so much, Paula!

Something totally un-Christmassy, just before Christmas

A friend's son had a birthday the other day, and being the blingy girl I am, I always look forward to the challenge of doing "man cards".

This also gave me an opportunity to use my new Buttons die.  LOVE them!

The letter's in Jack's name are actually little monsters.  :) 

Time for a little challenge...

I was chatting with the fabulous Paula Dobson one day and the subject of stepping outside one's comfort zone when creating came up.  So Paula challenged me to create a project using ONLY Stampin' Up! products.  "I'm up for that", I thought... and waited for inspiration to settle over me.

Settle over me it did - in the form of one of Lauren Meader's fantastic 3D projects - check out her amazing site here.  I chose The Flapper Box (maybe because it was full of chocolate??).  The straight-forward instructions made constructing this REALLY easy - and FUN!

Here's the list of ingredients used:

Card Stock: Blushing Bride, Espresso, Very Vanilla

Ink: Soft Suede, Pink Pirouette

Stamps: Yummy, Happy Harmony

Miscellany: Blushing Bride ribbon, silver brads, Eyelet Border punch, Photo Corners punch



This yummy choccie box is going straight to Paula - to say Merry Christmas and thanks for all your creative help and guidance since I started stamping.  SURPRISE!