Feel's like Spring - Piece of Cake

Happy Monday guys, I hope you've had a fantastic weekend. It's been very cold and windy here and I'm really looking forward to Spring, which inspired my card this week.

I found this beautiful card on Pinterest by Chris Slogar. Chris had made this card design in three different colours and I just couldn't wait to make a similar card. You can see Chris's amazing cards over on her blog: Buckeye Inklings.

This is my version:

It's seriously so bright and cheerful and just makes me think of warm days, time with the family enjoying the sun. I really loved colouring the fun cake on this card. I seriously can't put my Stampin' Blends away at the moment (which I think you'll realize over the next couple of weeks!)

And can we just talk about this stunning new embossing folder!! I have all the love eyes for this one. The text is so soft and gentle but still gives the perfect amount of impact. Another item you guys NEED to order right away.

So here's to a fantastic week with lots of crafting on the horizon... hopefully!!

Happy Crafting,
Chlo

Product List 

Piece Of Cake Photopolymer Stamp Set [148610]	Piece Of Cake Photopolymer Bundle [150579]	Whisper White A4 Card Stock [106549]	Powder Pink A4 Cardstock [144251]	Flirty Flamingo A4 Cardstock [141421]
Flirty Flamingo Stampin' Blends Markers Combo Pack [147278]	Pumpkin Pie Stampin' Blends Markers Combo Pack [144599]	Highland Heather Stampin' Blends Markers Combo Pack [147276]	Gray Granite Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [149537]	Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708]
Rhinestone Basic Jewels [144220]	Layering Ovals Dies [141706]	Stitched Shapes Dies [145372]	Scripty 3D Embossing Folder [149634]	Cake Builder Punch [148525]

Global Design Project 200 - Piece of Cake

What an amazing milestone to have hit and celebrate. Huge congratulations to all the talented crafters over at the Global Design Project, for hitting their 200th Challenge. That is pretty amazing. And to celebrate, this week we Casing the Designer which is the awesome Janneke De Jong.

I kept my card pretty close to the original design because I love Janneke's work and how can you improve on perfection!

I'm really pleased how the blended strip came out and have to admit I did create a few different colours, some I'm sure you'll see on my up coming cards. And it's so simple to do too. You will need some masking tape or painters tape and I've been using make up brushes to do my blending as I find they really help to get a nice even layer. Maybe I should do a video to demonstrate... hmmm food for thought.

It's hard to see on the male version of the card but the end of the blended strip is actually using gold metallic Encore ink. I miss using these gorgeous inks but the good news is there is something similar in the NEW Holiday catty, so it made me dig my old ones out for a bit of a play. I also added some metallic frost shimmer paint as a subtle splatter.

The blends got a work out, colouring the cute little cakes and I do love that we have a coordinating punch, so I only had to fussy cut the candles.

Thank you for stopping by and don't forget to check out the Global Design Project design teams cards, as t
hey are gorgeous!

Happy Crafting,
Chlo  

Product List 
 

Piece Of Cake Photopolymer Stamp Set [148610]	Piece Of Cake Photopolymer Bundle [150579]	Powder Pink Classic Stampin' Pad [144084]	Flirty Flamingo Classic Stampin' Pad [147052]	Melon Mambo Classic Stampin' Pad [147051]
Rich Razzleberry Classic Stampin' Pad [147091]	Crumb Cake Classic Stampin' Pad [147116]	Soft Suede Classic Stampin' Pad [147115]	Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708]	Metallic Gold Encore Pad [132141]
Whisper White A4 Card Stock [106549]	Rich Razzleberry A4 Card Stock [119981]	Early Espresso A4 Card Stock [121686]	Petal Pink Stampin' Blends Markers Combo Pack [147272]	Flirty Flamingo Stampin' Blends Markers Combo Pack [147278]
Lovely Lipstick Stampin' Blends Markers Combo Pack [147281]	Daffodil Delight Stampin' Blends Markers Combo Pack [144603]	Pumpkin Pie Stampin' Blends Markers Combo Pack [144599]	Crumb Cake Stampin' Blends Markers Combo Pack [144601]	Ivory Stampin' Blends Marker [144606]
Bronze Stampin' Blends Marker [144607]	Soft Suede Stampin' Blends Markers Combo Pack [147273]	Pearl Basic Jewels [144219]

Never Ending 50th Card - Piece of Cake

When you have a special birthday coming up and you need a special card, you can't go past a fancy fold card, but sometimes they can be super tricky and fiddly and then don't quite fold like they should.

Well I needed to make a special 50th card and decided that maybe it was time I tried out the Never Ending fold. I was pretty nervous about it, but let me tell you it was as easy as 1,2,3...

This is the starting page:

This is the second fold:

This is the 3rd fold:

And finally the last fold:

From the last fold, it will then fold around again and you will be back to the beginning!! And the actual main part of the card is only made out of two piece of cardstock, in my case I've used Petal Pink, and I think it was about 6 score lines.

I have been wanting to use the new Piece of Cake stamp set and coordinating punch ever since it arrived in my pre pre-order. I think it goes absolutely perfectly with this card.

Honestly this type of card is so simple, I think the hardest part was choosing which pieces of designer series paper I wanted to use!!

Happy Crafting,
Chlo


Product List 
 

Picture Perfect Birthday Photopolymer Stamp Set [145519]	Perennial Birthday Clear-Mount Stamp Set [145760]	Share What You Love Specialty Designer Series Paper [146926]	Petal Pink A4 Cardstock [147009]	Whisper White A4 Card Stock [106549]
Crumb Cake A4 Card Stock [121685]	Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708]	Petal Pink Stampin' Blends Markers Combo Pack [147272]	Rich Razzleberry Stampin' Blends Markers Combo Pack [144602]	Crumb Cake Stampin' Blends Markers Combo Pack [144601]
Daffodil Delight Stampin' Blends Markers Combo Pack [144603]	Shaded Spruce Combo Pack Stampin' Blends [147938]	Gold Glimmer Paper [146958]	Big Shot [143263]	Layering Squares Framelits Dies [141708]
Layering Ovals Framelits Dies [141706]	Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies [145372]	Stampin' Trimmer [129722]	Stampin' Trimmer Scoring Blades [126996]	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430]
Glue Dots [103683]	Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755]	Metallics Sequin Assortment [144214]