Sunday 29 December 2013

Congrats
Hi! My dad set me a challenge to use mini playing cards that he got in a Christmas cracker and this is the card I got. Since ace, king, queen, jack and ten is the winning hand in poker, I thought it would be a good congratulations card.

Materials:
Cardboard: Green and black
Ink: Garden Green, Stazon black
Accessories: mini playing cards
Hope you like it,
Caity

Saturday 28 December 2013

Birthday Wishes
Hi! This is a lovely birthday card to give, sell or donate. I saw it on Pinterest and copied it. I just can't stop making cards with this stamp set! I love it!
Materials:
Cardboard: Dark pink
Ink: Strawberry Slush, Island Indigo, Coastal Cabana
Stamps: Mosaic Madness
Accessories: Mosaic embossing folder, mosaic punch, oval punch, oval scallop punch
Method:
1. Get all your cardboard to size
2. Emboss the smaller piece of white cardboard
3. Stamp and punch out the mosaics
4. Stamp and punch out the sentiment and the scallop to go behind it
5. Then stick it all together
I hope you like this card,
Caity :)
Coastal Mosaic and Crisp Mosaic
Hey guys! These two cards are pretty much the same except the colours are different. I CASEd these beautiful cards from darhm on Splitcoaststampers.

Materials:
Cardboard: Coastal Cabana
Ink: Coastal Cabana
Stamps: Mosaic Madness, Thank you kindly
Accessories: Sponge, rhinestones, oval scallop punch
Method:
1. Get all your cardboard to size
2. Emboss the smallest white card
3. Stamp the mosaics inside the mosaics that are embossed
4. Stamp and cut out your sentiment
5. Add the rhinestones and stick it all together
I hope you like these cards.They are really simple and easy to make, yet lovely.
Keep Stampin,
Caity

Thursday 26 December 2013

Crisp Cake Cabana
Hey! I CASEd this lovely card from 'basement stamper' on Splitcoaststampers.

 Materials:
Cardboard: SU Crumb Cake, White
Ink: Crisp Cantaloupe, Crumb Cake, Coastal Cabana
Stamps: Mosaic Madness, Thank you kindly
Accessories: Mosaic Embossing Folder, Mosaic punch
Method:
1. Measure all your cardboard to size
2. Emboss the smaller white card
3. Stamp the mosaics on a separate piece of white paper and punch them out. Then stamp and punch out the flowers and stick them on the mosaics.
4. Stamp  out your sentiment, cut it out and cut the crumb cake back and stick it together.
5. Stick it all together and you have a lovely card to give away.
I hope you like it,
Caity :)
Crisp Baked Pistachio
Hey! This is a wonderful simple card that I CASEd from patstamps2001 on Splitcoaststampers.
Materials:
Cardboard: White
Ink: Crisp Cantaloupe, Pistachio Parade, Baked Brown Sugar
Stamps: Mosaic Madness
Accessories: Pearls
Method:
I think this card should be simple enough to figure out.
Hope you like it,
Caity
Island Sun
Hey guys!! This is an ok card. It isn't one of my favourites but it is still ok. I saw this card on Pinterest.
Materials:
Cardboard: SU Island Indigo, White
Ink: Strawberry Slush, Pool Party, Summer Sun, Island Indigo, Pumpkin Pie
Stamps: Mosaic Madness
Accessories: Mosaic Bundle
Method:
I think that this one is really simple to figure out so yeah.
I hope you like this card,
Caity :)

Wednesday 25 December 2013

Strawberry Birthday
Hey! Another nice card to make. Again, I CASEd it and can't remember who from so if you know, please let me know.
Materials:
Cardboard: White
Ink: Crisp Cantaloupe, Coastal Cabana, Strawberry Slush
Stamps: Mosaic Madness
Method:
I think that this card would be pretty easy to figure out but if you can't figure it out, let me know and I will put the full method up.
I hope you like this card,
Caity :)
Strawberry Cabana
Hey again!! This is a BEAUTIFUL card. It is one of my favourites. And again, I have CASEd this card and forgotten who from. If you know, please let me know.
Materials:
Cardboard: Strawberry Slush, Coastal Cabana
Ink: Strawberry Slush, Coastal Cabana
Stamps: Mosaic Madness
Accessories: Flower Punch, Mosaics Punch
Method:
1. Measure your card to size.
2. Emboss your white card.
3. Stamp out the mosaics  on a separate piece of white card and punch them out
4. Punch out small flowers to go in the middle of the mosaics in Strawberry Slush and Coastal Cabana. Stick the flowers on, opposite colours to the mosaics.
5. Stamp a happy birthday stamp and cut it out.
6. Now stick everything together
Hope you like it,
Caity :)
TIP: When you emboss the white card and stick on the mosaics, fit the mosaics in the embossing shape of the mosaics.
Mosaic Birthday
Hi again! This is ANOTHER beautiful card to make. As usual, I CASEd this card but forgot who from. If you know, please let me know.
Materials:
Cardboard: SU Baked Brown Sugar
Ink: Strawberry Slush, Crisp Cantaloupe, Coastal Cabana, Pistachio Parade, Baked Brown Sugar
Stamps: Mosaic Madness
Method:
1. First, measure all your card to size.
2. Second, emboss the right corner of the smaller white card.
3. Next, stamp the long stamp on the left in Baked brown sugar.
4. Stamp the mosaics on another piece of white. Then punch them out.
5. Then stamp the sentiment (whatever you want) and stick on the mosaics
6. Stick the rest of the card together and you have got a great card
Hope you like it,
Caity
Kindness Makes a Difference
Hey!! This is another great, simple car to make. I also CASEd this card but (as usual) I don't know who from. If you know, please tell me.
Materials:
Cardboard: SU Baked Brown Sugar, Crisp Cantaloupe, Pistachio Parade, Strawberry Slush, Coastal Cabana
Ink: SU Baked Brown Sugar, Crisp Cantaloupe, Pistachio Parade, Strawberry Slush, Coastal Cabana
Stamps: Mosaic Madness, Blooming with Kindness
Accessories: Mosaic Bundle, 1 1/4 square punch
Method:
1. Get your white cardboard ready
2. Stamp the Mosaic Madness stamps on a separate piece of whit card.
3. Punch out the stamps and then punch out a square of each colour card.
4. Stick the punched out stamp onto the coloured card with mounting tape.
5. Measure and cut out the Baked Brown Sugar card and emboss it.
6. Stamp the "Your kindness makes such a difference stamp (or whatever stamp you are using).
7. Now stick it all together and there you have it
Hope you like it,
Caity :)
Seahorse
Hi guys!! This is another great card that you can use for anything. I also CASEd this card (as I do with nearly all my cards) but I don't know who from. If anyone knows, can you please tell me.
Materials:
Cardboard: SU More Mustard, Tempting Turquoise
Stamps: By the Tide
Ink: SU Tempting Turquoise, More Mustard, Old Olive
Method:
I think that this card is pretty simple to work out. On the white card, first you stamp the words in Old Olive ink, then the other whats-ma-call-it in more mustard and then the seahorse in Tempting Turquoise.
Hugs,
Caity
P.S. If you can't figure it out, tell me and I will write it out, though it should be pretty simple.
Christmas Tree
Hi guys!! This is a cute and simple Christmas card to make. I know it is a bit late but you can still make it for next year. Oh and MERRY CHRISTMAS!! I got this idea from a Splitcoaststampers tutorial.

Materials
Cardboard: SU Garden Green, Summer Sun
Accessories: White gel pen, SU watercolour crayons, star/snowflake punch
Method
1. Get half of an A5 piece of paper (that is the size that I used but you can make it bigger or smaller. It works either way.) and measure the length of it at the top and figure out what half of it is and make a small mark.Then draw a line from that mark to each corner and cut the tree out.
2. Now time for decorating. Make dots all over the cardboard with your white gel pen. Make sure there aren't any big gaps or anything. Then go over them with the crayons. Use quite a few colours, not just one. The colours I used were SU more mustard, Cajun craze, Cherry cobbler, Garden green, Elegant eggplant and Not quite navy.
3. Draw little dots (with your white gel pen again) in lines going down the tree.
4. Last but not least, punch out the star/snowflake and stick it on top. Stick a back on it and voila!!
Hope you like it,
Caity

Tuesday 24 December 2013

Ship Birthday
Hi guys! This is a REALLY cool birthday card to make. I gave something similar to my teacher for his birthday and he loved it.
 


Materials:
Cardboard: SU Basic Black, Basic Grey and White
Ink: SU Marina Mist, Not quite Navy, Stazon Black
Accessories: Brads, Scallop punch, white gel pen, shaving cream, ink refills, die cutters
Method:
1. Measure all the cardboard to size (like you would in any card)
2. Measure your basic grey cardboard and mark out where the white lines will go. Do that on both sides and then draw the line. Make a second jaggered line underneath on all of them.
3. Then, put a bit of shaving cream on an ice-cream lid (or whatever you would like to use eg. plastic container lid). Put a blob of marina mist and not quite navy from the refills on the shaving cream and mix it around a bit. Let it dry.
4. While it is drying, you can cut the white ring to go around it. Measure the stamp on it and see what size (sorry, but I don't know what sizes) to make it. Then put the 2 circles in your cuttlebug or big shot.
5. After the shaving cream is dry, stamp the ship with stazon black ink. Then measure out the brad positioning and stick the brads in.
6. Now stamp the happy birthday stamp, cut it and the black back round out. With the scallop punch, put the corner into one of the scallops and punch it. Do that with all the corners.
7. Now stick everything together.
8. Stick a back on and step back and admirer it. 😊😊
Hugs,
Caity 🎈🎁
P.S. I CASEd this card from someone but can't remember who. If you know, please tell me.

Thursday 26 September 2013

Turtle's Thank you

Hi guys!!
This is a nice thank you card and it is quite fun to make.
Materials
Cardboard: Dark green, light green and white
Ink: Stazon black
Stamps: Nature's nest
Accessories: SU crayons, blender pen
Method
1. Cut the light green to size against the dark green
2. Then cut the white to size against the light green
3. Stamp the turtles (or whatever you want to stamp) in stazon black ink
4. Now you stamp your sentiment. I do it before I do the colouring because if you mess up the sentiment after colouring it in, it wastes your time and your crayons
5. After stamping your sentiment, you can colour in the turtles. You can also use markers or ink pads but I use the SU crayons. To use the crayons, you put a few darkish strokes in the area that you want that colour. You don't have to colour it in because the blender pen will do that. With the blender pen, go over the crayon strokes and spread out the colour.
Tip: Remember, the SU crayons are especially made for card making so don't go using any type of crayon.
Keep stampin,
Caity
P.S. I CASEd this card from someone but can't remember who. If you know, please tell me.

Bunny

Hi guys!!
This is a cute card that you can use for anything.
Materials
Cardboard: SU ruby red, SU elegant eggplant and white
Ink: Elegant eggplant
Accessories: Ribbon, rhinestones, SU patterned paper, 1 1/2 circle punch, scallop punch
Method
1. First, cut the red cardboard
2. Then, cut the purple card to size against the red
3. Measure up the patterned paper as shown on the picture
4. Stamp the bunny or whatever you want to and brush the edges
5. Punch out the stamp and the red scallop and stick them together
6. Stick on the patterned paper, the bunny, the ribbon and the rhinestones
7. One last thing before you are finished. You have to put a back on it so it can stand! All you have to do is fold an A5 piece of white cardboard and stick it on the back.
The reason that you don't use coloured cardboard to make the back is because one A5 piece of coloured cardboard, can make two cards. Coloured cardboard is also more expensive than plain white cardboard.
Keep stampin,
Caity
P.S. I CASEd this card from someone but can't remember who. If you know, please tell me.

Pool Party Flowers

Hi guys!!
This is a simple card to make. Here is what you need and what you need to do.
Materials
Cardboard: SU pool party and white
Ink: Pool party
Stamps: Madison avenue
Accessories: Rhinestones
Method
1. Fold your A5 piece of white cardboard
2. Then measure the coloured piece of cardboard against the white. Remember, you can use any colour you want to.
3. Measure the 2nd piece of white cardboard against the coloured one.
4. Stamp your stamp onto the 2nd piece of white cardboard.
5. Stick it all together and add the rhinestones and there you have it!
Keep stampin,
Caity
P.S. I CASEd this card from someone but can't remember who. If you know, please tell me.

Wednesday 25 September 2013

5 Thank you's

Hi guys!
This is my new thank you card. Here is what you need and how to make it.
Materials:
Cardboard: SU melon mambo, white
Ink: SU melon mambo, SU daffodil delight, SU lucky limeade
Stamps: Itty bitty banners, Madison avenue
Accessories: Rhinestones
Method
1. Fold your A5 piece of white cardboard in half.
2. Then cut your coloured cardboard and measure it against the white. Remember, you can use any colour
3. Cut the other piece of white cardboard that you need and measure it against the coloured cardboard.
4. Stamp the stems and flowers. If you haven't realised, the yellow flowers are raised up and are on another piece of cardboard.
5. Now you can stamp your thank you (or which ever sentiment you choose) and add the rhinestones.
Voila!! You now have a wonderful card.
Keep stampin,
Caity
P.S. I CASEd this card from someone but can't remember who. If you know, please tell me.

Best Wishes

Hi guys!
This is a very simple and pretty best wishes card. Here is what you need and how to make it.
Materials:
Cardboard: Stampin up (SU) blushing bride, light green and white
Ink: SU regal rose, SU garden green and stazon black
Stamps: SU simply soft
Accessories: Circle die cut, SU markers, embossing folders, pearls
Method:
1. First, you get your A5 piece of white cardboard, and fold it in half.
2. Then you measure the pink and green cardboard, cut it, and emboss it. Remember, you don't have to use pink and green. It would look nice in other colours too
3. You then stamp your image onto a piece of white cardboard in stazon black ink. Stazon ink is the best to use because it is a waterproof inkpad.
4. Now, you cut out the stamp with your die cut. I would do that first before colouring in the stamp and stamping the sentiment.
5. Colouring in time now. You can colour in the flowers now and stamp the sentiment.
6. After that, you can stick everything on and piece it together!
Hope you like it!
Keep stampin,
Caity
P.S. I CASEd this card from someone but can't remember who. If you know, please tell me.

Thinking of you

This is my new 'Thinking of you' card.
Materials:
Cardboard: Stampin up blushing bride and white
Ink: Stampin up blushing bride and garden green
Stamps: Simply soft
Accessories: Pearls
Method
1. Fold your A5 piece of white cardboard in half.
2. Then measure your coloured cardboard against the white. Remember, you can make it any colour.
3. Measure the other piece of white cardboard against the coloured.
4. Now, you can stamp your three flowers and your sentiment.
5. Colour in your flowers and add the pearls and voila!!
Hope you like it
Keep stampin,
Caity
P.S. I CASEd this card from someone but can't remember who. If you know, please tell me.