Friendly Friday

Hi Stampers!

Today I want you to meet my friend Laura Haffke from It's a La Dee Dah Day!  She's a very talented stamper, here are a few of her recent posts you might want to check out:

 

You know I love the You're Amazing stamp set!  I normally use it with bright colours, but here Laura made a beautiful card using some deeper colours, making a card with a more grown up feel.

 

Aren't these Muslin Bags from the Holiday Catalogue great!?!  I have one sitting here I haven't done anything with.  Such a cute little pouch for any small surprise...

 

       

Laura also has some great ideas for altering the design from My Paper Pumpkin in a few different ways to end up with a variety of great cards.

 

I think this one is my favourite!  The Swallowtail stamp set can do no wrong.  It always looks great, and I just love all of the interesting details Laura added to her card.  From the background stamp to the sponged circles, and then the adorable banners.  It's got so many things to look at, but none of those details distract from the star of the show, that amazing butterfly!

 

Thanks for sharing Laura!  If you enjoyed Laura's projects, click on any of the pictures to visit her blog and be sure to leave her a comment while you're there.  Inspired now?

 

Go stamp something!

Diane

 

 

 

 

 



You're Amazing!

Hi Stampers,

Yesterday we had a first birthday party to go to.  Of course the first thing I start thinking about is what kind of card I'm going to make!  I flipped though my stamp sets and settled on You're
Amazing.

I didn't think I would use this set very much when I got it, how often do I need a circus themed card or scrapbook page?  I've actually used it a lot--in a non-circus kind of way.  The You're Amazing and Happy Birthday sentiments have come in really handy when I want the words to take centre stage in my project, they're nice and bold and look great stamped in a vibrant colour.  The hot air balloon actually makes a nice soft background image when stamped in a subtle colour or used tone on tone.  The tickets have a coordinating punch, love that!  The image I haven't really used much is the elephant, until now...

He is so cute in his party hat!  Since I was making a first birthday card, I decided to go with bright colours: Pacific Point, Real Red and Pumpkin Pie.  I used four of the images from You're Amazing, and two images from That's the Ticket, and at the last minute I added the lines in the background from Gorgeous Grunge.  I just felt like the background needed something.  Since I didn't have a DSP to coordinate with my colour combination, I made my own using the hot air balloon image and the tiny ticket image and the three colours of ink on a 1 1/4" strip of Whisper White card stock.  I used one of the Apothecary Accents Framelits Dies to cut out Happy Birthday and a couple of punches for the adorable party elephant.  Two mini brads and a few dimensionals later, here we are, a cute birthday card!

 

I think since he's one he won't care what his card looks like, but I love it, and I think his mom will too.  Happy Birthday Luke!!  Think about what events you have coming up and...

 

Go stamp something!

Diane