Balloon Bokeh

Welcome to a beautiful Friday in Melbourne! The last two days have been quite hot - 37 degrees (Celsius) yesterday but it has been the warm and very humid nights that have been the hardest. But it seems that is finally on the way out - we are more used to a dry heat -  the humid weather usually doesn't get this far south!! And it is a Holiday weekend  - we celebrate Australia Day on Monday so will be great chance to get away and enjoy the sun for many :-)

Today's card continues the theme of the last one - bokeh. As mentioned in my last post, I saw a tutorial by Dawn Olshefski and you can see more info on that here. This time, I experimented with some really bright (put your sunglasses on!) colours and used the whole background on the card.
And I'm also entering it into the SUO Challenge to add "dots" ….certainly a few of them here :-)

I did warn you it was bright :-)

So to create the background I sponged both Calypso Coral and Tempting Turquoise. And once that was dry I used my home made acetate circle stencil to add the White Craft ink and again set it aside to dry.

The basket and ropes image is stamped directly on the background using the Momento Tuxedo Black ink and then I stamped on a piece of white card and cut out the basket and added with a dimensional. The balloon is stamped in Turquoise and the birthday added. For accessories - it is pretty hard to go past the gorgeous Calypso Coral Pom Pom trim I think :-) And some gold sequins for a touch of sparkle and a hot summer sky card is made :-)

Card stock: Whisper White, Tempting Turquoise

Inks: Tempting Turquoise, Calypso Coral, Craft White

Stamps: Celebrate Today

Accessories: Big Shot, Balloon Framelits, Calypso Coral Pom Pom Trim, Gold Sequin Trim, dimensionals

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you have a moment to check out all the great inspiration form the Team at SUO Challenges and maybe you might be the next to enter!

Happy stamping until next time,

Jan

CAS Christmas Card

Good afternoon and welcome to a beautiful Spring - like day in Melbourne, Australia. And yes, Winter seems to have vanished - and you'll hear no complaints from me :-)
Today I was looking forward to using my new Bright and Beautiful stars set and saw the CAS challenge this week at SUO Challenges and decided to join in. I do love CAS cards - even though the odd layer and some bling are usually present on all my cards, the CAS style is my favourite to make. So here is the first Christmas card of 2014:

So I kept a pretty simple colour theme - Pool Party, Silver and white :-)

The card base is some Pool Party Card topped with some White card that has been stamped lightly with the dots stamp from gorgeous Grunge using the Silver Encore ink (from SU), Next I heat embossed the stars in Pool Party EP on some Whisper White card and cut them out with the co-ordinating framelits and added in a piece of the beautiful Silver Glimmer paper too :-)

And for the sentiment I cut  the Noel from the Wonderful Wreath framelits and added that using a Glue pen. And last - but never least! - are some silver sequins from the Frosted Sequins assortment also available in the Holiday Catalog.

Card stock: Pool Party, Whisper white, Silver Glimmer

Ink: Versamark, Silver Encore

Stamps: Bright & Beautiful, Gorgeous Grunge

Accessories: Big Shot, Stars Framelits, Pool Party EP, Heat Tool, Wonderful Wreath Framelits,  Frosted Sequin

Thanks so much for stopping by today and I do hope you have time to check out all the cards by the team at SUO challenges this week!

Happy stamping until next time,

Jan