Pinkies Blog Hop: Happy Birthday

Thank you for joining us on another Pinkies Blog Hop! We're showcasing lots of gorgeous
projects using products from the new Stampin' Up!® Spring/Summer Catalogue. Simply use the
buttons at the end of each post to keep hopping! Welcome to my blog. You arrived here from the blog of Heidi. What a beautiful giftbox did she make! I made this card for you, using one of my favourite stampsets in the brandnew catalogue:

 A lovely girly card, with a little joke on it ;-)

 

I absolutely love this stamp set, called Number of Years. It even comes in a bundle with matching Framelit dies.

 I stamped the flowers in coordinating colors, so they would match the stunning Birthday Bouquet DSP. The stamps are photopolymer, so it's easy to see where you place the small flowerstamp on the stems of the flowers.

I used the coordinating framelits in the set to make the small and big banner. The one with "happy" was made by cutting a strip of 1,5 cm cardstock, and putting it in de small bannerpunch on both sides. The washilabel punch was used on the bottom of the card.

Thank you for visiting my blog! I hope I was able to inspire you and I hope you enjoyed my card. 

Now, let's hop over to Michelle who has made a stunning project for you.

 

I hope you'll have a lovely evening hopping from blog to blog.

Xandra

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Pinkies Blog Hop

 Thank you for joining us on another Pinkies Blog Hop! We're showcasing lots of gorgeous projects using products from the new Stampin' Up!® Annual Catalogue. Simply use the buttons at the end of each post to keep hopping!

I made a special card for my little boy David (just turned 4 years old last week). He always watches me making cards for other people, and last Sunday he asked me to make a card for him. So, of course, I did. This is my card for him:

 I used the Moonlight DSP stack. A really fun stack of 48 pages with vibrant colors. Absolutely love it!

The cardbase is Lost Lagoon cardstock, a color which is also used in the DSP stack.

The stampset with the typewriter is called "Tap tap tap". A great and versatile set, which comes with 3 greetings. I colored it a bit with my new Stampin'Blendabilities Marker Ivory, just to make it pop a little more. I stamped the greeting in Lost Lagoon, just like the greeting "You've got courage" from the Something to Say stampset. A little ink around the edged and metal button along with some linen thread did the rest. Love the result of my card (And so did David ;-)  )

 

On the inside of my card I put the "other half" of the greeting. That is the great thing of the Something to say stampset: you can use all the greetings seperately, ánd together with their other halves.

And I thought it was just the right text for our little dude. We are really proud parents!

Thank you for visiting my blog. Next stop is Lisa. Just click on the button, and you will get to her lovely blog!

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I hope you have a lovely weekend.  Xandra

Pinkies Bloghop Autumn/Winter catalogue!

Thank you for joining us on another Pinkies Blog Hop! We're showcasing lots of gorgeous projects using products from the new Stampin' Up!® Autumn/Winter Seasonal Catalogue. Simply use the buttons at the end of each post to keep hopping!

 For today I made a card featuring the really sweet snowman from the Snow Day stampset:

Don't you just LOVE him to bits??? He is really too cute! This fantastic stampset comes with a few accesoires for our little guy, such as a sock, a small heart, a star and a snowflake. The sentiment is also included in this stampset, really love it!

I used the Season of Style DSP-stack. This stack holds 48 sheets of 11,4x16,6 cm. That's just a great size for cards. Did you know I used only one sheet of paper??? There are 2 different sheets in this stack, both doublesided, so you'll have 4 designs to choose from. Just great when you have to make a bunch of Christmascards!

The cardbase and label with our Mr.Snowman on it are Crumb Cake Cardstock. The DSP is matted with Cherry Cobbler cardstock. The little label and the sentiment are Old Olive cardstock. For the small label on the right I used a framelit from the Chalk Talk Framelits.

And then...another favourite of mine from this catalogue: the Season of Style Washi tape! This comes in a set of 3 rolls, each containing 5 metres of yummy yummy tape. Just position it (and reposition when it isn't in the right spot) and tear!

 And voilá, a really great accent on the card. 

And did you know there are lots of other things that can be done with this gourgeous tape? Look at the tealight-holders....;-) They are from IKEA for just €2,00 for 12 of them! Put a little piece of tape around them and you just made yourself a really great gift which everyone will love with the holidays soon being here!

Well, now it's time to hop to the next blog. Really curious what Sarah comes up with!

Thank you so much for hopping over. Looking forward to see you soon!

Love,

Xandra