Category Archives: Cards

Learn for Free!

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Would you like to make one of these cards completely FREE?  If you live in the Adelaide area and would like to know more, just contact me, details below.   You even get to choose which card you would like to make (there are plenty more designs for you to choose from), and I will go through each step with you.

   

So just contact me via email: dotdotstamping@gmail.com or call and leave a message on 0449976203.

I will sticky this post at the start of my blog for the next couple of weeks, so scroll on down for my regular updates of what crafty stuff I have been up to.
Happy stamping!
Chris

Sweet Treat Cup Bunnies

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These cute little fellows are ready for the markets.  I have put a few small eggs inside the sweet treat cups since I took the photo, and they look very cute!

Again, they use mainly retired cardstock and DSP, along with lots of punched out shapes and layers.  They were a little bit time consuming, but heaps of fun to make.

Just a short post tonight as I still have a bit to do for the markets on Sunday.
Hope you have a crafty weekend.

Happy stamping!
Chris

Black and White with a splash of colour!

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That is this week’s challenge from Our Creative Corner, and didn’t that open up some possibilities!!  I have so many ideas floating around in my head for this one that I think I need to spend the rest of the week doing nothing but stamping! Hmm yes well, nice try.
This one features that gorgeous DSP Morning Mocha, and so my “splash of colour” is Soft Suede.

And I enjoyed making this one so much, that I have made a set of cards, all in the same layout and style, just using different colours and embellishments.
Leave me a comment and let me know which one you like best.  Personally, I like the pink one, and my son’s favourite is the blue one, but that’s not really very surprising! 🙂

Happy stamping!
Chris

    

Colour Challenge

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The colours of today’s card are from this week’s Just Add Ink challenge, and the colours are: Pool Party, So Saffron, Wisteria Wonder and Certainly Celery.  And yes, it definitely was a challenge.  I found it very hard to add the Certainly Celery.  It is a little hard to see, but behind the main image is a layer of Wisteria Wonder cardstock and then a layer of Certainly Celery Cardstock.  I really wanted to take out the Certainly Celery layer, it just doesn’t fit for me, but I guess that is the idea of challenges 🙂 
I have combined the colour challenge in with a sketch from Clean & Simple Stamping, but to be honest, I am not really all that happy with the end result.
Perhaps that is because I am completely exhausted from our move.  However, we are in our new house – not very organised and still with a lot of work to do here, but we are here!  And I have been trying to give myself a few minutes of stamping every day, just to take the edge off the stress of moving.  So I do have more to share with you, and will be back again real soon.  Hope you are having a fantastic Monday.
Happy Stamping!
Chris

“My Thoughts” Card

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I am very happy to be able to tell you that the long spell of hot weather we have been having here is at an end, as of tomorrow.  And while it has given me an excuse to stay in doors in the middle of the day and do some stamping, it is starting to get to everyone.  So the cooler weather will be a relief.
And on top of that, kids are all back at school tomorrow.  For us homeschoolers, that means we get the parks, playgrounds, beaches and zoos etc back to ourselves, to visit without heaps of other people there.  They become “our” parks again 🙂  That’s not to say we avoid other people, but some things are just much more enjoyable when you can take your time, browse, play and just spend as much time as you want to without rushing and pushing.

Anyway, today’s card uses more of the Everyday Enchantment DSP, along with the Field Flowers stamp set, which is my absolute favourite set.  And I have used the Big Shot and Top Note Die (another favourite), along with some sponging and faux stitching.
I had best go and do some stamping while I have the chance – park day tomorrow!!
Happy stamping!
Chris

Just Add Ink 89

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This week’s challenge at Just Add Ink is an inspiration challenge which looks like this:
Gorgeous photo!!  And here is my card based on the photo:
The background layer is just some sponging on white cardstock.  Then I have stamped the gorgeous Medallion in Tangerine Tango on a separate piece of white cardstock and cut all the way around it, then layered it over the sponged layer.  Then I have heat embossed with black embossing powder some stalks of….. something…. 🙂 using the Autumn Days stamp set, and the flowers are from the Vintage Vogue set.  There is a thin strip of So Saffron DSP along the bottom which is a little hard to see in the photo, and a strip of Not Quite Navy cardstock which was torn along both edges. 

I had a lovely box full of new goodies arrive today, so watch this space, I can’t wait to get ink on them!

Happy stamping!
Chris

 

Busy, busy….

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It’s been a while since I have had time to stamp – Jamie and I had a quick trip up into the Flinders Ranges to go on the steam train that runs out of Quorn, called the Pichi Richi Railway.  We had a ball!
But back home and back to life including stamping!!
Today’s card is another Clean and Simple Stamping sketch (FTL 162), and again I have used one of the new Designer Series Papers, this time Just Add Cake, which I have combined with the stamp set Up, Up and Away!

I am not entirely happy with this card, I think I should have done the second balloon in orange instead of green, just to brighten it up a little.
The balloons have both been stamped onto the white cardstock base, and then I have stamped a second one, cut it out and layered it over the top of the first.  It is probably a bit hard to tell from the photo, but this does give the card some nice depth.
I hope you are enjoying the beautiful weather (well, it is here anyway!).
Happy stamping,
Chris

SFF093011

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I have used the very pretty Flirtatious Speciality DSP for this challenge from Sketch Frenzy Friday, it is just gorgeous paper for those girly cards.

The colours are Pretty in Pink, a touch of Melon Mambo and a new favourite for me, Wisteria Wonder.
The greeting comes from the Up, Up and Away! stamp set, which is going to be a very versatile and useful set. (Watch this space!!)  And of course, a little bit of necessary bling, with some half back rhinestones.
That’s it for me for today.  Happy Stamping!
Chris

Sketch Frenzy Friday

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I know it’s not Friday – although with the lifestyle we lead, sometimes I have no idea what day of the week it is! 
Sketch Frenzy Friday have some great sketch ideas to use for your card making, and I have used the sketch from last weeks challenge for this card.
The yacht is from the Seaworthy Stamp Set (page 79 of the catalogue).  I have used markers to ink the stamp up, and then done some very light watercolouring using a blender pen.  The greeting is from On Your Birthday (page 107), and the DSP is Well Worn – fantastic papers if you are making cards for the men in your life. 
I will be back tomorrow with some more inspiration using the new DSP – they are all so beautiful, I could spend all of my days making “stuff” with them! 🙂

Happy stamping!
Chris