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I think I had one of Kellie's cards in my head when I made it, as I realised it's very similar to the second card in this great post. First I stamped the ‘Upsy Daisy’ flowers in pink pirouette ink, then matted it on some pink pirouette card, teamed it with some ‘Sweet Always’ designer series paper – I can’t resist a good spot & the colours in this paper look great together. The greeting is from the level 1 hostess set, ‘Best Yet’, which I think is my fave one this year (so far!). I’ve just punched it out & laid it over some wrapped choc chip ribbon. Oh, the inside has a white panel, partially stamped with the daisies too.Here are some other Upsy Daisy cards, to show you more ways you can use it.
Brocade Blue Daisy
Speaking of Kellie (*waving* at ya Kelllie), I have another Upsy Daisy card to show you, which was a definite case of the first card in the same post, with a couple of twists.I’ve seen lots of cards with the daisy image stamped twice to get a shaded effect, but I loved Kellie’s really easy idea of creating a shadow down the side with a grey marker & did it on this one - it's hard to see in the pic but much better IRL. I stamped the main image in brocade blue on very vanilla card, the greeting (also from ‘Upsy Daisy’) in night of navy ink & then matted the stamped panel on old olive card. I folded a little brocade blue ribbon behind the panel, near the greeting & mounted the panel on the base, with dimensionals. The base is bashful blue, with a strip of brocade blue ‘Patterns’ paper from the level 1 hostess pack & some twill tape.
Pam’s Daisy
This is a total case of a really simple card that Stampin' Up!’s Pam Morgan demonstrated at convention. Pam is a brilliant presenter who always has great ideas to show & this time was no exception.To create the multicoloured flowers, the daisies were inked up with kiwi kiss, regal rose & rose red ink using sponge daubers, then stamped onto whisper white card. The stamped card was mounted onto a strip of baja breeze, a greeting was added (also from Upsy Daisy), then finished off with a kiwi kiss satin ribbon knot (gorgeous!). My version is a bit messy, as I was trying to finish it about 5 minutes before I picked up Cara, but I’m sure you get the idea.
Marelle’s Daisy
This last card is a mixed up case of a card that the super talented Marelle Taylor demonstrated at convention.As Marelle showed us, I inked up the daisies in 3 shades of ink before stamping. First, the whole stamp was inked in so saffron, then, the bottom two thirds in more mustard & the bottom third in tangerine tango. The joins were blended with a sponge dauber & stamped on white card. This gives a really effective look that I hope you can see in the pic. The rest of the card is super easy – tangerine tango base, strip of ‘Haiku’ paper (love it!) & a greeting. For the greeting, I stamped the best wishes greeting (‘Cute & Curly’) with really rust & old olive markers & punched out with the curly label punch. As the daisies were popped off the front with dimensionals, I attached two more mustard punched shapes to the back of the punched greeting to give a bit of height & weight. So, that’s my take on Marelle’s lovely card, which is the second card in this post.
Anyway, hope you liked seeing these. Back soon with more cards & some news!
Inky wishes
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Supplies:
Sweet Upsy Daisy
Stamps: Upsy Daisy, Best Yet
Card/Paper: choc chip, pink pirouette & whisper white card, Sweet Always DSP
Ink: Pink pirouette, chocolate chip ink pads
Accessories: choc chip 1 inch stitched grosgrain ribbon
Tools: curly label punch (Curly label punch bundle)
Brocade Blue Daisy
Stamps: Upsy Daisy
Card/Paper: bashful blue, old olive, whisper white card, Brocade Blue Patterns 1 hostess DSP
Ink: Brocade blue & night of navy ink pad, basic grey marker
Accessories: brocade blue grosgrain ribbon, twill tape
Pam’s Daisy
Stamps: Upsy Daisy
Card/Paper: kiwi kiss, baja breeze & whisper white card
Ink: kiwi kiss, regal rose, rose red & baja breeze ink pads
Accessories: kiwi kiss satin ribbon
Marelle’s Daisy
Stamps: Upsy Daisy, Cute & Curly (Curly label punch bundle)
Card/Paper: tangerine tango, more mustard & whisper white
Ink: so saffron, more mustard, tangerine tango ink pads, really rust & old olive markers
Tools: curly label punch (Curly label punch bundle)
I think it’s a very simple & modern card. The colours are baja breeze, kiwi kiss, not quite navy & white, which I took directly from the striped paper (from the sooo stylish Urban Garden paper pack). The silhouette images from ‘Pocket Silhouettes’ were stamped in kiwi kiss & not quite navy ink. The bracketed best wishes greeting (I just love brackets) from ‘Cute & Curly was stamped in not quite navy ink. Both the image & greeting are punched out with the curly label punch (which comes in a bundle with the Cute & Curly stamp set – this one is going to get a work-out!). You may not be able to see it, but the greeting is mounted with dimensionals onto a punched not quite navy label to give a little more depth. Some of the ladies used smaller greetings punched out with the large oval punch, which looked great....but I forgot to take pics of these. Sorry!
For this softer monochromatic version, I used the pretty floral print on the other side of the striped paper. The stem images were stamped in baja breeze & not quite navy ink & sit behid a popped frame of not quite navy punched out with the curly label. I added some white taffeta ribbon & an elegant greeting from ‘On Your Birthday’ set, to add to the soft look. Here’s a close up of the frame:
For this one, both the stem image & greeting are from ‘Pocket Silhouettes’ & the ribbon is white taffeta. 
... into this sweet, beautiful & funny 8 year old, seemingly in the blink of an eye. 
All I know is that when I arrived home from convention, she seemed to have grown a few inches! After we opened pressies (the bright pink ipod seemed to be a winner!), we celebrated with her delicious Choc Trio cake from our favourite patisserie, 
I wanted to make a bright & fun card for my special girl, so I started with a favourite colour of hers - red...or riding hood red in SU speak, & this is what I came up with, modelled by the birthday girl herself (in crazy face mode)!
The riding hood red base is 21cm x 20cm (front 10cm x 21cm) & the patterned paper is from the 'Washington Apple' pack (isn't it yummy?). The 'Good Friend' birdie got his first inking too, with riding hood red, so saffron & pumpkin pie ink. I thought he needed something to cheep about, so I added a birthday cupcake (from 'Big Bold Birthday') & a word window bubble for him to tweet happy birthday. All the stamped elements are all popped on dimensionals. Cara loves glitter so I decided to glitter birdie & the cupcake with dazzling diamonds at the last minute ( I have to confess that I wasn't happy with the effect on the cupcake but Cara loved it so that was OK!). Anyhooo, here's a slightly blurry close up of them both... 
... & here's the inside & matching envelope just to finish it off.
Thanks for sharing this happy mummy moment with me & I hope you liked her card too. Bye for now. 
Avid readers (are there any of you out there?) will realise this is a modified version of 
So what swaps did I receive in return? I haven't had a chance to take pics yet, but I've included some links to some I've found online so far, so you can see how cool they are too. If I find more, I'll add to the links.
I was also thrilled to meet up with some blogging friends who really inspire me, many of whom I've never met in person before. There was the all round fabulous 
There was much squealing when I found the lovely 
Then, we found 
I was also very excited to finally meet 
I'm sure you recognise 'Pick a Petal' – can you believe it's the first time I've used it in a class? The colours are close to cocoa, sage shadow, pale plum & perfect plum, which I wasn't sure of initially, but they really grew on me. The background is rolled with the Scribble jumbo roller, as I liked how the tiny flowers matched the large Pick a Petal ones. The flower head is made of two sets of five petals & the centre is a punched ½ inch circle with a lilac rhinestone brad in the centre (Looks fab with a large brad from the styled silver hodgepodge set too!). Some of the guys at the class didn't want to make a second Mother's Day card, so we also used greetings from 'Sincere Salutations'. The flower & greeting is popped on dimensionals
It's almost a total case of