Christmas has certainly arrived in our house, I am busy designing and finalising a huge number of Christmas projects for my wonderful Stampin’ Up! customers, my craft stores and of course the brilliant Making Cards magazine too!  Publishing seems to be an alternate universe you work so far ahead!!!  But I adore Christmas so Ho Ho Ho !!!!! ( Do expect to see some Christmas cards this week!)

So onto my card for today, my fantastic team of Inspiring Inkees have set up a challenge blog and I am soooooooo behind with completing the challenges so this is my first card to get caught up. This is for Challenge No 4 here.

When my daughter saw the front of this card, it was “well that’s rubbish Mum” no holding back that’s my wonderful Kim!  I do agree though, quite plain but it’s a card for a man and I like to have the element of surprise !

This is the inside.

A side view for the mechanics!

Now I am trying a new way of detailing out all the products I have used to make it easy for you my dear readers, Please let me know what you think, is this easier?

Stamps : In the Stars
Inks: Red Red, Brilliant Blue
Cardstock: Real Red, Brilliant Blue, Whisper White
Accessories: Star Punch, Silver Brads

The most important thing to remember with this type of pop-up is to use 2 layers of cardstock.  Paper for the inner layer will not have the strength to hold up the pop-up.

Happy Stampin’

Amanda

He is a real inventor and engineer so I’ve made him a card he can take it apart to see how it works!

This is a fold flat box card made from Textured Close to Cocoa card with a chipboard ‘6′ coloured and heat embossed with a little glitter.  Wrapped around the card is taffeta ribbon in Bashful Blue and a Whisper white scallop punch is hanging from silver cord.  On the scallop circle I have used the arch stamps from Crazy for Cupcakes stamped in Close to Cocoa and Bashful Blue and I’ve used the matching marker pens to write Joshua.  The springs are made from 26 gauge wire wrapped around a pencil and the toppers are stamped and cut out images from In the Stars again stamped in both Close to Cocoa and Bashful Blue.

Happy Birthday Josh xxxx

Happy Stampin’

Aunty Amanda 

Now this card is my very first Challenge card………..The challenge was set by the wonderful Vannessa over at our new Inspiring Inkin’ Challenge blog.  Many of my team love to take part in challenges and they wanted to complete Stampin’ Up! only challenges on a site that was purely for fun!  Vannessa kindly said she would set it up and it looks wonderful!  You can visit it here.

Now the way challenge blogs work, bear with me because I have only just learnt……….is a challenge is set and people make cards within the set criteria, this time it was a sketch and a second challenge of using a colour you don’t normally use!  This is why my card is so loud!  I have used Only Orange, Yoyo Yellow and Green Galore.  I Have never used the Only Orange and only once Yoyo Yellow so it was definitely a challenge for me.  But that is the fun of it.

I hope you will join in with us, if you make a card there is a way of linking your picture on your blog to the challenge blog so we can all see it, all the details are on the blog and if you get stuck please email me.

Happy Stampin’

Amanda

I hope they like them.

Happy Stampin’

Amanda