Sympathy card - carte de sympathie

A quick share tonight!

A Sympathy card I made for Julie's friend.

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Ingredients:
Everything used is from Stampin'Up, except the background paper (Basic Grey Wisteria 6 x 6 paper pad).

Stamps:
Flower:  Love and Sympathy
Greeting:  Voeux mignons
Gems: Stampin'Up crystals
Ribbon:  Omer de Serres craft store

The flower was colored with markers.  The image was distressed with Tim Holtz Forest Moss Distress ink.  The whole image and part of the card was sprayed with Sheer Shimmer Spritz.

The purple and green CS are from Stampin'Up (Pear Pizzazz and Bordering Blue).

Thanks for visiting my blog.  Merci de votre visite.

Summer Card Camp Week one Challenge

Hi there!


I am trying to slowly get back into my stamping.... my own, not preparing classes, which is what I have been doing mainly for the last few months.  Time for me!!!


I am participating in the Summer Card Camp with Jennifer McGuire and Kristina Werner.
The challenge this first week is to do a card with these colours:

Because it was a very busy weekend after all (Jim retired on Thursday and I celebrated my birthday on Friday and we are still very busy continuing to plant in our garden renovation... (I will show photos when it is all completed)), Anyway I did a very quick card....

Here it is:

I misplaced my camera,  so I had to scan, that's why the glitter looks funny.... and it is slightly out of focus in the lower corner....

I used the flowers from the Basic Grey set Sweet Threads (CG309).

I used Nick Bantock Rose Madder ink and Color Box chalk Wisteria.

The cardstock are from a DCWV pad.

The "Hello" is from set "Happy Day Animals" from Hero Arts (CL153).

The little tag was punched with a Fiskar punch. And the ribbon is Stampin'Up Pumpkin Pie.I also used a gem from Hero Arts Hero Hues Dots.

Thanks for looking!

Merci de visiter mon blog!

Flower Garden - Jardin de fleurs

Just a quick share:  A card I made with a technique described by Jennifer McGuire.

Using Distress inks for the background and a Perfect pearl solution to blend over an embossed image of an Hero Arts image.

Supplies:

Stamp:  Hero Arts cling stamp (don't have the number - I lost the packaging)

Distress inks:  Tim Holtz 

PP:  Basic Grey 

Ribbon:  Stamping 'Up satin ribbon Bashful blue

Cardstock:  Stampin'Up

Pearls:  Hero Arts

White Embossing powder:  Hero Arts.

Thanks for y our visit.  Merci de votre visite.

Louise

                                                                               

Published on a website

I'm so excited! The box that I made for a class has been selected to appear on the "manufacturer's" website!

Because of my contract with SU, I cannot give you the link to the website, but I'm sure you can find it by yourself.

The Manufacturer is BG.... Wow I'm so happy!!

These are the 2 photos they selected:






If you have a chance, go visit and leave some comments! Thanks!

and thank you for visiting my blog! Merci de votre visite!

Louise

Christmas card

Just trying to get cards done a few at the time.

Love that image from Stampavie..... email me for details.

Thanks for visiting my blog. Merci de votre visite.

Louise

A third class

Another class for my local stamp store (Told you I was busy lately preparing classes.... And there's more....).

This one is a scallop book for special Christmas Memories.

Email me if you are interested (louisecharlton@videotron.ca).




The 2 "puppies" in the photo on the right are Piper and Phoebe. I miss my Phoebe so much.... It is hard to believe how much room she took in my life... Thank goodness I have had to take care of Piper (she got injured in my back yard and had to have serious surgery on her leg. She had to be almost immobile for 8 weeks.... 2 more weeks to go. She is starting to feel better and is getting more difficult to control.... She wants to run, but her bone is not yet completely healed. So taking care of her makes me miss my Phoebe less)....

Thanks for visiting my blog. Merci de votre visite!

Louise

New class - Nouveau cours

This is a class I gave at Bonnidée last week.  I will give it again.  If you live nearby and are interested, contact Bonnidée (or me).

Voici un cours que j'ai donné chez Bonnidée la semaine dernière.  Si vous demeurez dans le coin et que vous êtes intéressée, communiquez avec Bonnidée ou moi-même.

C'est une boîte Origami avec des petites cartes.  La boîte fait un super cadeau d'hôtesse.  On peut y mettre des cartes, des chandelles, des chocolats, n'importe quel petit cadeau...

This is an Origami box containing 4 little cards.  The box also makes a great hostess gift.  You can fill it with cards, candles, chocolates, anything small that fits in...

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I used the beautiful Basic Grey Papers Porcelain and Hero Arts stamps.  

J'ai utilisé les beaux papiers Basic Grey Porcelain et des étampes par Hero Arts.

Thanks for visiting my blog!  Merci de votre visite.

Louise

2 new cards

I know it's been a while since I posted - I was away in Toronto all last week for a craft show. I had lots of fun.
I attended a Copic Workshop and received my Copic Certification! Yeah!
Did a class with Kim of Spellbinders - did a beautiful set of pages! Love the new border dies.
I will be doing the pages as a class, so I'll show them later on.

Also did a class with Sizzix, lots of new beautiful dies coming out.

I also played with the Making Memories Slice. It is nice, but it is difficult to justify buying a new cutting tool when I have all the others!

I did not forget our blog candy - will be posting about that soon.

In the meantime, I would like to share 2 new cards I did recently.

This first one is a Bella Stamp - Stella has her fix...


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Here is the recipe:
Stamps: Bella stamp (Stella), Best Friends, also Bella stamp
Papers: Basic Grey
Cardstock: from my stash
tools: Nestabilities dies, Sewing machine
Embellishments: Ribbon: from my stash, flower: Chatterbox, dew drops: Dollarama
Inks/markers: Memento Tuxedo Black, Copic markers, Atiyou Spika glitter markers.

For the second card, I used a stamp I borrowed from my friend Claudia. We fell in love with the Stampavie line.
(I have ordered a few....). Julie's room used to be decorated with Holly Hobbies when she was little - these stamps remind me of her.

Here is the card - I find it a little bright... What do you think?


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Recipe:
Stamp: Stampavie
Papers:  Making Memories (green dots) and Basic Grey (lace strips)
Cardstock:  SU
Inks/markers:  Memento Tuxedo Black ink, Copic Markers
tools:  Nestabilities
Embellishments:  Lace strip (inked with pink):  Martha Stewart; Flowers:  Prima; Pearl:  Kaiser Krafts


Merci de visiter mon blog!  Thanks for your visit!

Louise