Hi Again,

My best friend youngest daughter turned 9 this week and as life gets to hectic we often find it hard to catch up around birthday time, so I sent this card I made in the mail so she would get it 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,

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:

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CD Cover 2:

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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:

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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,

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

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Hi again,

My sons wanted to give there teachers a chocolate egg for Easter, so in the pursuit to find an idea to create something to put a egg in I came across this cute basket from Running with Scissor’s blog.  I have modified the size of my basket to fit a 60g egg.

I made them both in different papers but the same style, here they are together:

They are so cute and very easy to make.

Happy Easter!!!

Till next time 

Cindy

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Hi again,

I’ve just popped in to show you another card I have made as it is also my niece’s birthday this week as well. This time I have used the Big Bold Birthday stamp set as I wanted to go with the cup cake theme, as I had this great pattern paper from DCWV Inc.

Here it is:

Card Recipe: Stamp Set: Big Bold Birthday. Cardstock: Bashful Blue, Pink Pirouette and Whisper White. Ink: Close to Cocoa and Pink Pirouette. Stampin’ Write Markers: Pumpkin Pie, Summer Sun and Bashful Blue. Ribbon: Taffeta-Pretty in Pink. Pattern Paper: DCWV-Sweet Collection. Kindy Glitz-Pink.

Till next time

Cindy

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Hi there,

My Sister in-laws birthday is this week so I have made her this card using this new stamp set Rustic Rooster. This is a level 2 Hostess set from the 2009-2010 Idea & Catalogue Book from Stampin’ Up!

Here is the card:

Card Recipe: Stamp set: Rustic Rooster. Cardstock: Chocolate Chip and Ruby Red. Ink: Basic Black. Pattern Paper: Basic Grey Boxer Collection: Vintage Tee.

I really love this Stamp set and hope to show some more creations I made using this set in the future.

Till next time

Cindy

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Hi again,

I decided to participate in Keesh’s Colour Challenge this week, here are the colours: 

 This is what I came up with:

Card Recipe: Stamp Set: Garden Whimsy. Cardstock: Whisper White, Purely Pomegranate, Regal Rose and Pumpkin Pie. Ink Pads: Pumpkin Pie, Regal Rose and Versa Mark. Designer Series Paper: Spring Break. Tool: Mat Pack.

I really enjoyed this challenge, great colour combination’s. Hope you like it to.

till next time

Cindy

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Hi there!

Sorry for the lack of blogging, this year has kicked off to be busier than I thought and I have had to put my creativity aside for a good portion, due to family commitments. But I do have some cards to show you that I have made in the last week for some friends Birthday’s.

So here they are:

The first card is a male card:

This card I made is for an 11 year old:

and this card I actually made for a friend who has been unwell:

Hope you like them.

Until next time

Cindy 

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Hi again,

Today is my son’s 11th Birthday and as per usual I have left it till today to make his card. Good on ya Mum!!!!  Anyway I have whipped up this card quickly, while he is at school. I have wrapped his presents in some cute froggy paper so I thought I would go with the frog theme for the card as well. Plus his favourite colour is green.

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

I have used the “Unfrogettable’ Set and background stamp “On the Spot”, which very sadly are both Retiring.

I hope he likes its!

Till next time

Cindy

Hi again,

This weeks Southern Belles challenge was to revisit an old challenge and create it again. As I have actually got so behind in the challenges I sat down and completed the last 4 challenges I missed doing. So here they are:

Old Challenge Revisited/Pink & Brown Colour Challenge:

Emboss Resist Technique Challenge:

Rich Regals Colour Challenge:

Feminine Challenge:

I really enjoyed taking the time to make these cards, but I’m going to try and keep up with the challenges from now on.

till next time

Cindy

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