Hi again,

Well it’s been a long time since I participated in my group Southern Belles weekly challenge. So I finally got my act together and have made a card for this challenge, which is to make a card including a tag.

Here it is:

Cindy Banks - Images© 1990-2009 Stampin Up!®

I love this stamp set “Good Friend” and thought this stamp set just suited this challenge well. I have used Cardstock Pacific Point, Kiwi Kiss and Chocolate Chip. DSP - Good Morning Sunshine. Ink - Chocolate Chip, Pacific Point, Kiwi Kiss and Versa Mark Pad to stamp the circle stamp as the background. Designer Label Punch, Hemp Twine and a button.

Hope you like it.

Till next time

Cindy

Hi there,

Here is the card I have made for Keesh’s  Colour Challenge:

Cindy Banks - Images © 1990-2009 Stampin’ Up!®

I really like this colour combo and enjoyed the challenge.

Till next time

Cindy

Hi Again,

My friends youngest daughter turned 10 this week and naughty me completely forgot and am feeling very embarrassed that I could do such a thing. (As I have remembered every other year). I  have quickly made this card so I could get it into the post so it would only be a couple of days late for her birthday.

What a great name for a stamp set “Crazy for Cupcakes” and who doesn’t love cupcakes on there birthday.

Recipe:

Stamp Set: Crazy for Cupcakes & Retired Set: Birthday Whimsy. Cardstock: Whisper White, Regal Rose cardstock as the base of the card and the scalloped centre piece, Regal Rose gross-grain 5/8″ ribbon. Ink: Cupcake: Regal Rose, Chocolate Chip Sprinkles: Green Galore, Lovely Lilac, Yo Yo Yellow and Tempting Turquoise. Stampin’ Write Marker: Chocolate Chip for Faux stitching. Pattern Paper: DCWV The Sweet Stack Collection.

Well I hope she likes it.

Till next time

Cindy

Hi Again,

To get my self inspired again I thought I would have a go at Keesh’s Inspiration Challenge.

Here is my card:

I have cut out the Flower from my Cricut in Whipser White and the leaves, as well from the Cricut in Sahara Sand Cardstock. Then I have rolled the Jumbo Wheel “It’s Beautiful” in Sahara Sand ink over the flower and in the Whisper White Craft ink over the leaves. The card base is Sahara Sand and I have postioned and adhered the flower and leaves on top of Kiwi Kiss cardstock. I have finished off by placing a button in the centre of the flower and stamped the words from the 2009 SAB set “Yummy”. 

I hope you like It.

Till next time

Cindy

Some Images© 1990-2009 Stampin Up!®

Hi Again,

Well I finally have made it here again, It seems that my weeks are going by very quickly and I am sad to say I’m finding it very hard to actually find time for scrapbooking and card making at the moment and the lack of posting is because I haven’t had anything to show of late. But that is about to change as I have been working on some Cd Covers by request from my sister-inlaw.

She works as a Pre-Primary Teacher and at the end of this term she is leaving, as she and her husband are expecting their first child. The cd covers are for gift for the parents as she has taken quite a few photo’s of the children over the year and she asked me to help.

I have only made these up a samples to show her, she will choose her own colours and papers etc….

The first is a card which you open and the cd sits inside of the card in a pocket. I have made one of these before which you can see here Cd Cover (For some reason in the post the inside cover pic isn’t showing, but if you click on it, the picture will come up).

CD Cover Card 1:

Some Images © 1990-2009 Stampin’ Up!®

CD Cover 2:

 Images © 1990-2009 Stampin’ Up!®

I love this little stamp set Funky Trees and Stampin Wheel to match, I hadn’t had a chance to use this set and thought this was a good opportunity to get some use of it for the cd cover.

CD Cover 3:

 Images © 1990-2009 Stampin’ Up!®

This is another cute little stamp set Tart & Tangy, I was so glad that this set ended up in the 2009-2010 Idea Book & Catalogue as I have used this set so much.

Well I hope these cd covers have inspired you to make one for a gift or one for yourself!

Until next time

Cindy

Hi There,

Today was mine & my husbands 13th Wedding Anniversary and 13 wonderful years they have been. Anyway we decided this year that we would just give each other a small gift, so part of my gift to him was some of his favourite chocolates, but they look so boring in the package that they come in. So I made this great box called Choc Top Box from a tutorial designed by Makeesha Byl.

So here it is:

I used black cardstock to make the box and covered it just with wrapping paper that I had left over from wrapping his other presents. Stamped out the words from the 2009 Sale-A-Bration set “Yummy” on Whisper White cardstock and then cut it out and adhered it to black cardstock and attached it to the top of the box with black raffier.

Normally my husband digs right into a box of chocolates but this time he said it looked too nice to open. I’m still waiting to be offered one.

Till next time

Cindy

Some Images© 1990-2009 Stampin’ Up!®

Hi again,

I was challenged this week when one of the Mum’s from school showed me this card she had made at a class using acetate, I actually hadn’t seen it done before so when I saw the card she had made, I was challenged to make one myself. Straight away I pictured in my head what I wanted to do (that doesn’t happen very often) and I came home to make it.

So here is my version:

From the stamp set Friends 24-7, I stamped the Damask stamp in Stazon Opaque Cotton White onto the acetate randomly, then I stamped the Damask stamp in Sahara Sand Ink onto some Whisper White cardstock randomly and then repeated over the stamped images with Pink Pirouette ink. Then I sponged over the Whisper White cardstock with Sahara Sand Ink. I stamped the Bird image with Close to Cocoa directly onto the Damask stamped images. I used Close to Cocoa and Pink Pirouette Cardstock to mat the stamped image as well on the inside of the card to write the message. Finally I added flowers with pearl accents to the middle of the flowers to finish off.

I can actually say I was really happy with the way this card turned out. Hope you like it too.

Till next time

Cindy

Design Cindy Banks-Images© 1990-2009 Stampin’ Up!®

Hi there,

I was asked by my sons school teacher to help the kids make a Mothers Day gift. She had already bought some cream material roses and asked if I could come up with something using them. 

Here is what I came up with:

I got these cute vases from Ikea and tied some Blue Ribbon around them, which the roses sat nicely in. Then I just got the kids to make a simply little card to go with it. I think the kids really enjoyed making them and some of them amazed me with their talent.

Here’s a closer view of the card:

It was a real enjoyable day with the kids, the only thing is that I knew what I was getting for Mothers Day, Oh well!

To all the Mum’s Happy Mothers Day!

Till next time

Cindy

Hi there,

I have had my new stamp sets from the new Stampin’ Up!® catalogue for a couple of weeks now, which I have been dying to have a play with so the first stamp set I have used is called Friends 24-7 the moment I saw this set I just loved it.

Here is a couple of quick cards I made.

With this first card you may recognize this from the new 2009-2010 Idea Book & catalogue as I have cased it similar to the card idea on page 81 in the book, but I have used Baja Breeze and Sahara Sand as the base colours, as well as chocolate chip and just changed the card slightly.

This card I have also cased from the catalogue, but again changed the layout & colours, using Pink Pirouette and Certainly Celery as the base colours and Designer Series Paper - Pink Pirouette.

Hope to be back to show you some more of my creations with the new stamps sets I have.

Till next time

Cindy

Images© 1990-2009 Stampin’ Up!©

Hi Again,

Sorry it’s been a few weeks, but my lack of time recently has left my creativity at a stand still. But today I would like to show you this lovely hen that my Mum made me. My Mum is amazing, we saw these similar hens in a gift shop one day when we were shopping which I took a photo of with my phone and from the photo Mum made this gorgeous hen for me.

Here is the side angle:

and a close up of the hens face:

I think she so gorgeous and very sweet of my Mum to make her for me. Hope you like her to.

Hope to be back soon with some of my own creativity soon.

Till next time

Cindy