Can you hear me sniffing .... and snuffling ... no I haven't caught a cold I'm just so sad that Extreme Elements didn't make it into the new catalogue.
It makes fabulous teenage cards for boys or groovy dads.
And fabulous scrapbooking pages.
More backgrounds - this time for teenage girls.
For more inspiration click HERE - the set's on page 60 - $47.95 - call me before it expires.
Nikki
I've been away from blog land for far too long - I promise I have been creating just not sharing ... but I am here to make amends!
I'm taking part in a monthly blog hop with friends, showing what is often thought of as a difficult thing to create - something for the boys and men in our lives.
Olivia asked for an 18th card for one of her friends (this time I had over a week's notice which is good - last time I had about an hour!). I was inspired by a swap from Convention with the bandana technique. It was a bit fiddly and I kind of went with the artistic approach to the white gel pen outlines, but I really like the end result.
I've used Cajun Craze, Daffodil Delight and Marina Mist with the Extreme Elements stamp set used in Basic Black. I just can't create a card without ribbon - so this time I used Bakers Twine - but thinking that some thin black ribbon would have been good too.
Off you hop now to visit Di Dunk - she is sure to have created a whole heap of lovely things.
Pop back soon - I've plenty lined up for you to make up for my absence.
Nikki
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I needed a birthday card for a 16 year old in December - Extreme Elements is such a cool set to use, I just picked three colours and stamped away.
And it was so easy to create another one using the same colours - Night of Navy, So Saffron and Baja Breeze. I've used the new Bakers Twine from the Summer Mini.
Why not take a look at some of your stamp sets and see what you have that you can randomly stamp some images with to create some quick and effective cards.
Happy stampin'
Nikki
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I've been a bad Auntie - poor Emma, my eldest niece will be receiving a belated birthday card this year so I thought I had better post this a little late (it should have been posted a couple of days ago), I'm hoping that her card has arrived before it appears on the internet.
I made it ages ago and then forgot to post it - it travelled around in my handbag for over a week - don't you hate it when that happens - so organised and then just so forgetful - oh dear.
Well lovely Emma I hope that you had a super day and that you loved your bright and fluttery birthday card.
With love from Auntie Nikki, Uncle Paul, Olivia and Kieran xxx
This moth's challenge over at Stampamemory, is to produce a page using a Page Map. I love Page Maps - they make one of the hardest parts of deciding where and how to lay out the page just so easy .... and then of course using Stampin' Up!'s range of coordinating products makes chosing and matching product and colours a breeze .... scrapbooking isn't hard at all now!
And here's my interpretation. I've used this layout design before - and I love it. Inspired by this month's Gift with Purchase, I used the colours of the free ribbon and buttons as my colour choice for this page - (see yesterday's post to check out how to qualify for this freebie).
These two girls are in some ways like chalk and cheese and in others just so similar. They have been friends for over half their lives and for as long as we have lived in Australia. When they are together - there is always a camera ... they are definiately not camera shy :)
Which is good for a scrapbooking mum!
I've added in heaps of different textures including tearing, using the polkadot embossing folder and the Pompom trim from the soon to be retiring Autumn Winter Mini.
The title is from Fun and Fast Notes set - if you love this set a little birdie told me that it will be retiring in August - so check it out on page 46, and you want / need it have a chat with your demostrator or contact one of us from Stampamemory.
I also created a sheet of my own DSP. Using the Extreme Elements stamp set, Daffodil Deight, Pacific Point and Melon Mambo inks, I stamped away and created an A4 sheet of customised cardstock. I punched 1 1/4" squares and backed them with 1 3/8" squares - love how the SU punches just coordinate in size - made this job super quick and super easy. I'll be making a couple of cards from the left over pieces so keep an eye out for them later this month.
So that's the challenge for this month .... have a go, its great fun. If you want to check out my other page using this map have a little looksee here.
Nikki
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Here's another of those Extreme Elements cards - how cool is it? Get out your Colour Coach and just stamp - it works a treat.
Happy Stampin!
Nikki
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Oh my goodness me .... our boy is 13 today .... where has the time gone?
In 13 years he has gone from being 51 centimtres and 6lb 13 oz to a hulking 5ft 8" and goodness how heavy! No wonder I have no food left in the cupboards!
I am in love with Extreme Elements. I love love love this set and what a great card it made. I actually made two and Olivia chose this one for Kieran. Can't wait to make some girl versions - so super quick and super impressive - reckon this could be my next workshop Make and Take.
Happy Birthday KP - pressies included Turtle Beaches - very very expensive headphones for xBox 'Live' nuts .... thankfully we found them in the US so they were half the price, a special gift from dad - a new Manchester United soccer strip and a week of celebrations which started last Sunday as his dad can't be home with us today.
Happy birthday sweetheart.
Love Mum, Dad, Olivia, Max and Spencer
xxxxxx
Another challenge, I like challenges! This time the Inkspirations Colour Challenge.
My new male stamp set - Extreme Surf with Extreme Elements. I punched the stars and used the Tombow glue to stick them into place before I ran the cardstock through the Bigshot Waffle folder - seems to squish (that's a technical crafty term LOL) the stars into the background .... works well I think.
The sentiment is from the new Sale-a-brations set ... yes the one that 'should be used' with the scallop square punch ... I stamped the image, punched out the sentiment using the star punch and then 'filled in' the unstamped bits by touching them up with the ink which was left on the stamp ... now I wonder ... did I explain that okay - does that makes sense?
Hope you like the card and that you will find time to take part in a challenge or two this week.
Happy stamping.
Nikki
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