Awesome Teacher Thank You Card

How is it possible that over an entire week of school holidays has flashed passed?

Actually it has felt like an eternity due to a series of unfortunate events - Small Crafty Dude managed to get sick, I had an infusion about a week ago and it takes some time to recover from, rank (read hot and unpleasant) weather and of course my ongoing order of Thank You cards.  SCD accompanied me to the hospital (BEFORE he got sick) and we tandem-coloured during part of the many hours we spent there.

So as usual, I had a thank you card to make for Small Crafty Dude's teacher.  I also try to make cards for him to give to his friends but just didn't happen this year.

All his teachers (except one a number of years ago) have been amazing but this year's teacher was even more than that.  

His teacher is also a "spoonie" so we both understood each other limitations and what it's like to look "OK on the outside" but have a serious chronic illness that goes unseen.

I realised the cute stamps I had in mind had not been ordered since I was in denial and stuck in September thinking I had lots of time.

This situation called for stash diving.  I decided i wanted to colour a kiddo in what looked like SCD's school uniform.  Ideally a boy but failing that a girl would do also.

I came across Formal Luka from La-La Land and realised he's be perfect for the job.  His mop even resembled SCD when he's overdue for a haircut.

I "borrowed" the spoon from Sugar n Spice Marci and carefully separated Luka's hand from the the jacket and inserted the spoon that I excised from Marci.

The school themed "accessories" came from a bunch of stamps from

various manufacturers incl Taylored Expressions, Maya Road and more.

I removed the top layer of books thinking I'd  put them on top of the table, but I couldn't get it to look right so the beaker and conical flask went there instead (science and English are two of SCD's favourite subjects).

After some basic colouring (no blending on the smaller items (only Luka) ), I stuck them onto a 5x5 card.  Purple (blackberry bliss) partly because of the uniform and partly SCD's awesome teacher's (hence the sentiment from verve) favourite colour is purple.

A paper layer from an older DSP pack was an appropriate choice, but the current AC has one with similar pages so I'll link it down below.

I'm far from thrilled with the widespread sequins.  I prefer a more controlled sprinkle along the diagonal.  It looks more natural than this. :-/

Apologies for the blurry photo.  Shaky hands affected everything from colouring to sequin placement and I was against the clock to leave home to deliver the card and a small gift.

Over the next few days I'll be sharing the the order of Thank You cards that have taken up so much time lately and also info about upcoming Sale-A-Bration.

Stampin' Up! Supplies Used:

Heat Tool (Au & Nz)	Stampin' Trimmer	Silver Stampin' Emboss Powder	Versamark Pad
Snail Permanent Adhesive	Stampin' Dimensionals	Fine-Tip Glue Pen	Paper Snips
Blackberry Bliss A4 Cardstock	Metallics Sequin Assortment	Typeset Specialty Designer Series Paper

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S'Up, Mama?

A lot has been going down in Pink Crafty Land since my last post (and little time for tea I can assure you!).

I have been commissioned to make a set of thank you cards, I have end-of-year cards to make for Small Crafty Dude to give to his friends and a couple of cards for specific occasions.

I'm planning and preparing for actual classes between all this and slowly diving into the remaining boxes of randomness which linger from my attempts at organisation.

I have a very hard task mistress as you can see

The other Crafty Cat is pleased with my efforts and he promptly falls asleep among piles of sorted supplies about to be put away.

I've also been working on the card series I promised - hoping to make and post videos every so often.  Right now I have Technical Support (AKA The Crafty Hubster) sorting out lighting because it's aways TOO YELLOW for my liking.  

Just look at the cheeky minx mocking me!  She is totally ROFL-ing at one of my ideas.  How rude!!

The upcoming weekend will be devoted to the thank you cards which I'll share in due course and after that I hope to bring you the long awaited series and videos.

Cards for a New Baby Girl Part II

Saturday - It's Baby Day!

While waiting for news I made my card.  I wanted to try something new (there's a surprise!) so I was tossing up between an exploding box or a folding box/pop up.  I decided on the latter since it looks nicer when it's on display.  It also looks deceptively ordinary in its' flat, folded state.

Choosing the patterned papers was not such an easy feat.  The Lullaby DSP from the last annual catalogue co-ordinates really well with the Best Year Ever DSP from last Sale-a-Bration but I wanted to mix it up a little more especially with something that had some cute images.  I came across Hello World by Websters Pages and many of the colours were a good fit and it brought in a few others for variety and plenty of images too.

The down side is that most of the colours were the recently retired In-Colours, but I still had plenty on hand and Strawberry Slush was chosen as the card base.

The hot air balloons and bunting reminded me of the Celebrate Today stamp set and dies so I decided to use one of these balloons as the feature image and fussy cut onesies and smaller balloons from the patterned paper.

A strip of paper and the bow builder punch added a finishing touch

I was also desperate to combine two words ("Totes" and "Adorbs") from the Slang Gang stamp set by Paper Smooches and this seemed like the perfect opportunity.

The panel on the back of the card gives plenty of room for a lovely long message.

That's it for cards, but I made a "baby bouquet" again so I'll post pics of that in the coming days.  I have a major craftermath to take care of after several days of frenzied crafting, but after that I'm keen to get back to working on the series I started preparing in late september!

Here's a little animation of the card folded and then open.

Stampin' Up! Supplies:

Big Shot	Magnetic Platform	Stampin' Trimmer	Paper Snips
Bone Folder	Bow Builder Punch	Whisper White A4 Cardstock	Tear & Tape Adhesive
Snail Permanent Adhesive	Stampin' Dimensionals	Fine-Tip Glue Pen	Celebrate Today Photopolymer Bundle
Coastal Cabana Thick Baker's Twine

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Cards For a New Baby Girl Part I

On Friday, the arrival of our new niece was only 24 hours away so my sister Helz and I had congratulatory cards to make.

Hels picked this baby mobile card on pinterest made by Tilly McLeod.  Please visit her blog and check our her amazing crafts.  Thanks for the inspiration, Tilly!

Helz wanted a colour scheme of mint green, pale purple and light grey.  Mint Macaron, Wisteria Wonder and Smoky Slate were perfect.

"Do Stampin' Up! alliterate EVERYTHING?" asks Helz.  Blushing furiously I had to answer in the affirmative.  It's one thing I'm not hugely fond of I have to admit.

Helz wanted to use Copic markers again and picked the animals from a couple of Mama Elephant stamp sets.  She went with a 5x7 inch card to make sure she had enough room and did a great job.

Meanwhile I made a card for our parents to give.  The weather was miserable and I was lacking inspiration so I turned to Pinterest.  I knew I wanted to do a square card but that's it.  I found this card by Stasia Sloma.  The animal print onesies are so on trend and the new mum loves animal print so it was perfect!  Please visit her blog.  Thank you so much for the inspiration, Stasia!

I used the leopard print since it was a smaller scale for the onesies from the Go Wild DSP pad and a couple of different pinks from a couple of different Dear Lizzy collections and some neutral patterns from My Mind's Eye.  I'm not totally happy with the card to be honest and I think Stasia did a much better job with hers.  I love the pearl detail she used!

I might try the design again some time and see if I'm happier with it.

The photos aren't great, but evening was upon us, light was fading fast and we needed to finish!

Stay tuned for more new baby cards and crafts coming up over the next few days!


Stampin' Up! Products Used: 

Big Shot	Magnetic Platform	Little Letters Thinlits Die	Hello You Thinlits Dies
Baby's First Framelits Dies	Smoky Slate A4 Cardstock	Wisteria Wonder A4 Cardstock	Mint Macaron A4 Cardstock
Whisper White A4 Cardstock	2015-2017 In Color 12" X 12" Cardstock	Go Wild Designer Series Paper Stack	Curvy Corner Trio Punch
Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad	Stampin' Trimmer	Snail Permanent Adhesive	Fine-Tip Glue Pen
Stampin' Dimensionals	Bone Folder

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