Miracle on 34th Street

This week the Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge is based on the movie Miracle on 34th Street:


I had not seen this movie before so off I went to hire it, and I watched it today.

It was lovely, really inspiring. My favourite scenes are:
1/ where Mara Wilson is admiring Kris Kringle's beautiful Santa suit with the gold thread and gold buttons, and
2/ where New York is busy advertising here there and everywhere that they believe!

So I took these two themes, and created the following card:


The Mistletoe is also mean't to be representative of the blossoming love between Elizabeth Perkins' and Dylan McDermott's characters.

The base cardstock is Basic Black. Then there is a thin strip of Glossy white which has been stamped with the Mistletoe from the Peaceful Wishes stamp set, in Real Red classic ink. Then there is a strip of Textured Real Red cardstock which has been embroidered with the word 'Believe'. I have used Metallic Gold DMC thread, and made a template using the Lucida Calligraphy font in Word. The red velvet ribbon is from Basic Grey, and the buttons are from...somewhere?!!!

Thanks for having a look. If you haven't checked out the Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge blog...you should! It is a lot of fun.

Ciao,
Sam.

Mademoiselle Butterfly

Just another 'because' scrapbook page!



* Because I really like the photo - what a cute dreamy look;
* Because I've had a bit of a thing about embroidery recently;
* Because I've been thinking about how pretty butterflies are;
* Because I can!

So I sat down in front of the telly last night and did some embroidery on this page. It was lucky I had something to put my mind to because even Josh Duhamel's fine form couldn't save last night's movie from being just plain bad! I would have been better of watching some Olympics.......those Jamaican boys can really RUN!

Anyway, back to the page: The colours are Elegant Eggplant, Pink Passion, Pumpkin Pie and Whisper White. The stamp set is Stampin' Up!'s simply beautiful 'Bold Butterfly'. I have highlighted the butterflies with Crystal Effects...which you can probably see a bit better in this shot:



The mademoiselle is my beautiful pixie girl!

Have a great weekend!
Sam.

PS. Go Libby, Go Grant, Go Michael!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Another Colour Challenge Card...for Mum!

Well, I got down to making Mum her Mother's Day card tonight (LATE...UGH!)....Mum if you are reading my blog....avert your eyes....you can't look until Sunday (ok?).

Anyway...I decided I'd use Kristina's Colour Challenge Colours again...because, as I said last week, all that stuff was strewn all over my craft table anyway.

This is the card that I made:



I saw a card on Jayne Mercer's Blog recently that had a flower with multiple stems and I had to use the idea....although mine are a bit swirlier than Jayne's. Thanks Jayne!

Now, really quickly because my eyes are drooping out of my head and I'm yawning every 15 seconds...I have used:

- Brilliant Blue Cardstock
- Jersey Shore Double-Sided Designer Series Paper
- White Embroidery Thread
- Crafter's Toolkit
- 3/4 inch circle punch
- On Board Blossoms and Basics Chipboard
- Crop-a-dile
- Crystal effects
- Dimensionals
- White Gel Pen

If you check out the flower centre closely, this is what you will see:




Apparently this is what happens to Crystal Effects when you are impatient for it to dry so you whip out your Heat Tool and give it a blast to speed along the drying process! It looks like little shock waves rippling out from the centre of the circle. It still dried glassy though, so I thought it looked kinda cool. It sort of reminds me of a Lifesaver. I had punched the hole in the centre of the circle (using the Crop-a-dile of course ;-) thinking that I would put a brad of some sort in there.....but after I got the ripple effect in the Crystal Effects I thought I'd leave it as is.

And that is all there is to it!
Sam.

Camouflage Lion ;-)

I had to wait to post this fun card.....I wanted the recipient to receive it before it went online. I hope you like it....:-).

The colours are Elegant Eggplant, Real Red, Summer Sun and Whisper White. I was tidying my cardstock scraps into individual clear sleeves on the weekend, and those four ended up next to each other...at which point I thought...hey, that looks...bright! So I wacked them together this morning. I had the Lion floating around in the odd-bits pile, so I went with the flowered lion on Elegant Eggplant...as you do!!!! The base layer has been Faux Stitched around the edge. I love Faux Stitching ALMOST as much as I love ribbon and flowers. The Real Red layer has some Gel Pen Doodle dots on all around it. There is some background stamping in Summer Sun on the Summer Sun layer. The edges of the smaller Elegant Eggplant layer have been sponged with Elegant Eggplant and has Doodled Flowers around the edges. The next layer is Real Red and finally the 'Kissed' Lion has been stamped on Whisper White (possibly in Vintage Violet ink......but I don't think that's such a big deal.
The ribbon is Red Grosgrain and the 'Happy Birthday' sentiment is from the Eat Cake set. It made me feel cheery making it.

Ciao,
Sam.

PS. Looking back at the image...the yellow is possibly Marigold Morning!! I might have to label those scrap bags eh? DOH!!!!!

Thank You Card

These are the very first Stampin' Up! colours I fell in love with! Chocolate Chip, Pumpkin Pie and Old Olive...all great foods too...except I prefer my olives on the newer side, rather than old ;-).

The background is Choc Chip and has Faux Stitching around the edges. The next layer is half Old Olive stamped in Old Olive with one of the flowers from Bodacious Bouquet, and half Pumpkin Pie...which has been crimped :-).

I've wrapped White and Chocolate Grosgrain around the card. Stamped the 'Thanks' from Everyday Flexible Phrases along the top. The circular embellishment is crimped Whisper White cardstock, then stamped Old Olive, then a flower from the Spring Flowers Punch attached with a brass brad from the Vintage set. The whole thing is mounted on dimensionals, and topped with a Choc Chip bow.

I'm off to make Lucky Door Prizes in this colour scheme now!