Hello,Irresistible Blooms – Live with Michele

Hello, Irresistible Blooms Suite Collection is a NEW Suite offered in the ‘ONLINE EXCLUSIVE’. What is the Online Exclusive? Though out the year Stampin’ Up!® will be offering products that won’t be found in our catalogues. It’s a must to go and check it out, there are some new products that are stunning.

Today on my ‘Live’ I used products from the Hello, Irresistible Blooms Suite Collection to create my Card. I also added one of the Basics 3D Embossing Folders, also found in the Online Exclusives. The folder I used gives you a beautiful subtle texture to your cardstock.

Below is measurements and video to show you how this card was created.

Measurements Used…

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Online Exclusives

Online Exclusives, Just released…….Stampin’ Up! ® have NEW products, you won’t find these products in any catalogue. You can find the new products from the convenience of my online store. More Online Exclusives will be released throughout the year.

Below are just a taste of what you will find in the Online Exclusive. Make sure you head over to my Online Store to see what is available.

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Regency Park #003 Sketch Challenge – Let’s Craft Together Blog Hop

Welcome to Let’s Craft Together Blog Hop. We are a group of Australian Stampin’ Up!® Demonstrators that are coming together to share our creative ideas with you. We are happy that you can join us and hope that we can Inspire you to make creations of your own. Each month we will be showing different ideas based around products, themes and challenges.

Our challenge this month is a Sketch Challenge by Maheswari. I love the layers of two frames that are slightly twisted, with decorative elements on diagonal corners.

Regency Park

For my card I have used the Regency Park Suite by Stampin’ Up!® and to create my card I used manly the Petal Park Bundle. This is such a simple bundle to use, you can colour the flowers by hand with any medium you wish or use the stamps to colour the flowers. The suite includes a simple simple punch to make cut out the flowers and one leaf quick and easy.

The suite consists of two Bundles

  • Petal Park Bundle 160577 Flowers & leaf stamps plus the Punch
  • Sentimental Park Bundle 160567 – Sentiments, more flowers & leaves and Dies

It then has other items in the suite including

  • Textured 12 x12 Shimmer Paper
  • Can Weave 3D Embossing Folder
  • Night of Navy Boardered Ribbon
  • Adhesive Backed Milky Dots
  • Regency Park 6 x 6 DSP

I created the two rectangle frames cut from the Rectangle Stitched Frames and Basic White Cardstock.

The Flowers are coloured with Watercolour Pencils onto Basic White Cardstock. Instead of Blending the pencils water or Blender Pens I have used Memento Ink and Blends Colour Lifter. Patty Bennett did a very good video on this technique – Blending Watercolor Pencils with Color Lifter

How to make this card…

  • Card Front – Embossed, I used for this one of the Basic 3D Folders 161598 from the Online Exclusive, you could of course use the 3D embossing folder that comes with the suite, but I wanted something a little more subtle.
  • Frames – Placing one die side of the other, die cut 2 frames.
  • Flowers Stamping – Stamp 3 sets of flowers and 8 leaves using Memento Tuxedo.
  • Flowers, coloured with pencils and blended with Blends Colour Lifter
    • Large flowers – Balmy Blue and Night of Navy
    • Medium Flowers – Flirty Flamingo, Mellon Mambo & Daffodil Delight
    • Small Flower – Gorgeous Grape & Mellon Mambo
    • Leaves – Old Olive & Granny Apple Green
  • Bakers twine split and added under flowers
  • Sentiment – Embossed in White Embossing Powder
  • Card Insert – Insert strip embossed with the 3D Embossing Folder

Cutting Measurements

PaperColourImperial/LetterMetric/A4
Card Base Basic White Thick Cardstock4 ¼ x 11”, score @ 5 ½”10.5 x 29.9cm, score @ 14.9cm
Card Front Basic White Card stock4 x 5 ¼”10 x 14.4cm
Frames Basic White Card stock3½ x 4½” x 29 x 12cm x 2
FlowersBasic White Card stock4 ¼ x 5½”10.5 x 14.9cm
SentimentBasic Black1½ x 3″3 x 8cm
Card InsertBasic White Card stock  4 x 5 ¼” 10 x 14.4cm
Card Insert Strip Basic White Card stock 1 x 4″ 2.5 x 10cm

Thank you for stopping by and reading my Blog. I hope you have enjoyed my projects & that you’re inspired to get crafty!  

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Dainty Delight – Live with Michele

I spend a lot of time watching interesting YouTube Videos by different card makers both Stampin’ Up! and others. Learning new techniques and ideas on different ways to create cards. I take these ideas and then try to recreate cards using Stampin’ Up! products. They wont be exactly the same as these are my interpretations.

This card was taken by ideas from Lavinia Stamps . I love the use of layers created by different stamps around a masked circle

My card uses a variety of stamps, with the Dainty Delight Stamps being the feature in the center and around the edges.

Other stamps used

  • Dainty Delight – Flowers in Smoky Slate & Branches in Evening Evergreen, stamped and stamped off
  • Quite Meadow – the words stamped off in Smoky Slate
  • Forever Fern – Dots stamped in Fresh Freesia
  • Eden’s Garden – leaves in Soft Succulent

Measurements Used…

The card below is the test card I made before my ‘Live’…instead of Smoky Slate I used Pear Pizzazz, Shimmery White Cardstock and a tent fold.

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Fancy Flora -Live with Michele

The card I made last week is made using the Fancy Flora Suite Collection, which I made on my ‘Live with Michele’. every Friday at 1pm (AEDT). This week I was running a bit late having too much fun playing with this suite. Have added the link to the video below.

There is a lot is this suite –

Measurements Used…

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Two-Toned Flora

This was a fun card to make using the Two-Tone Dies and Something Fancy Bundle found in the Stampin’ Up! 2023 Mini Catalogue.

Last weekend the Creativity Abounds Team ran a By the Bay Stamp Camp, it was so much fun. Kylie Swain gave us a Colour Challenge and this card I made using her challenge.

How to make this card…

Cutting Measurements

PaperColourImperialMetric
Card Base Basic White4 ¼ x 11”, score @ 5 ½”10.5 x 29.9cm, score @ 14.9cm
Card Front Basic White4 x 5 ¼”10 x 14.4cm
Strip Basic White1 x 4″2.5 x 10cm
Sentiment Basic White 1 x 3″2.5 x 7cm 
  • Cut all cardstock
  • Card Front
    • Using large Die Cut, die cut in Basic White cardstock. You may need to run through twice.
    • Trim Die cut piece to 10cm (4″) wide, trim length down to 13.7cm (5 ⅜”)
    • With Blending brush, brush on the ink onto the flowers and leaves. Colours used- Polished Pink, Granny Apple Green, Bermuda Bay and Crushed Curry
    • Metric Card – Card Front I normally use is 14.4cm, to make up the difference cut card into 2 pieces about where the strip will cover. Spread the two pieces and adhere one piece from the top down and the other from the bottom up. Leaving a gap as per photo below.
    • Dot multi purpose glue onto the back of die cut and attach to the card.
  • Strip – With Granny Apple Green ink and blending brush, brush ink around all four sides.
  • Add diamenionals to the back of the strip and adhere to the card.
  • Stamp ‘Happy Birthday’ sentiment in Memento Tuxedo Black onto basic White Cardstock. Die cut with die from the Something Fancy Bundle. Attach with dimensionals.

Colour Challenge

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By the Bay Creativity Abounds Blog Hop

Welcome to Creativity Abounds Blog Hop.   We are a group of very keen Stampin’ Up!® Demonstrators from all around the world that are coming together to share our creative ideas with you.  We are happy that you can join us and hope that we can Inspire you to make creations of your own.

By the Bay

The Creativity Abounds Blog Hop Theme this month is By the Bay Suite Collection.

This card was created for our Stamp Camp held last weekend. It was amazing and the project created by the other team members were amazing. To see them follow the Hop, links are listed below. I hope next time you can join us….Our next Camp will be in July, so watch for more details as we get closer.

Here is my card that I created for the camp and this hop.

This card is made of layers, of Crumb Cake and Bermuda Bay Cardstock. The circle background was created by colouring vellum with Stampin’ Blends (Tahitian Tide & Bermuda Bay) and 99% Alcohol. I wanted the alcohol background to give the feeling of movement and water.

To see how I created this background, see my video using this technique HERE, from a few years ago.

The card Insert kept very simple….

You may be starting here or have come from someone else’s blog – either way there is a list at the end of this post to help you move around all the different blogs and get many amazing ideas. We all have our country listed – so if you are looking for a demonstrator in your country, these demonstrators would love to look after you with your Stampin’ Up! ® shopping or if you would like to join our Stampin’ Up!® teams.

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For More Inspiration we have our new Tutorial Bundle

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    Dainty Flowers – Sketch Challenge

    Last weekend I took part in the Creativity Abound Stamp Camp, our Theme for the camp was BY the Bay Suite. Besides creating cards with the themed suite we also have challenges for the participants to take part in. Tracy Held from the team designed this a Sketch Challenge for us to recreate in any products we wanted.

    This is my take on her challenge using the Dainty Delight Bundle and Dainty Flowers Designer Series Paper.

    The Dainty Delight Bundle is found in the 2023 Stampin’ Up! Mini Catalogue $ 96.25 (AUD) By purchasing the Dainty Delight Bundle, allows you to choose an item for FREE from the Sale-A-Bration Catalogue and why not make that the Dainty Flowers DSP.

    Sale-A-Bration finishes at the end of February, see below for Catalogues and recently added products.

    Sketch Challenge by Tracy Held

    Cutting Measurements

    PaperColourImperialMetric
    Card Base Blushing Bride4 ¼ x 11”, score @ 5 ½”10.5 x 29.9cm, score @ 14.9cm
    Card Front DSP – Blushing Bride4 ¼ x 5 ½”10.5 x 14.9cm
    Vellum 3 x 4½”8 x 11.5cm
    Diagonal Strip Basic White1 x 8″2.5 x 20cm
    Vertical StripBlushing Bride1¼ x 6″3.3 x 15cm
    Stamping –
    Flowers and sentiment
    Basic White3 x 6″8 x 15
    Card Insert Basic White 4 x 5 ¼” 10 x 14.4cm
    • Adhere Card Front to Card Base
    • Flowers and Sentiment
      • Stamp floral image with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink
      • Colour the flowers and leaves in the Blushing Bride and Pear Pizzazz Ink using a Blender Pen
      • On the same piece of cardstock stamp the sentiment in Blushing Bride.
      • Die Cut the flowers and fussy cut the sentiment
    • Vellum – Die cut scalloped rectangle
    • Adhere the flower image to the vellum die cut, add mini dimenionals to the back of the sentiment and attach onto flowers and vellum.
    • Diagonal Strip
      • using Blushing Bride ink stamp leaf randomly over the strip.
      • Colour the leaves in Pear Pizzazz using the Blender Pen
      • Lay strip on to the card at the angle you want and trim back to the card edges
      • With Blending Brush and Blushing Bride Ink, brush colour around all the edges.
      • Attach diagonal strip to the card fron with multi purpose glue.
    • Vertical Strip
      • Using the scalloped edge die, die cut the scallops along the bottom edge.
      • Lay the vertical diecut strip onto the card and position it evenly across the card. Trim back and adhere.
      • Place dimensionals onto the back of the vellum, hiding them behind the flowers and sentiment
      • White Bakers Twine – tie a small bow and attach with a glue dot
    • Card Insert
      • Stamp image onto the bottom right corner using Blushing Bride Ink.
      • Colour leaves in Pear Pizzazz with a Blender Pen.
      • With Blending Brush add Blushing Bride Ink on the right corner edges
      • Adhere insert into the card.

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    Dainty Flowers

    On Friday’s ‘Live’ I created the card below using the Dainty Flowers Designer Series Paper from the Sale-A-Bration Catalogue. This paper coordinates with the Dainty Delight Bundle found in the Mini Catalogue. Purchasing the Dainty Delight Bundle for $96.25 (AUD), allows you to choose an item for FREE from the Sale-A-Bration Catalogue and why not make that the Dainty Flowers DSP.

    Measurements Used..

    ** By using a larger piece of DSP to cut your circle you can decided which portion of the flowers you want to use.

    Don’t know why but I couldn’t upload my live as I would normally do…don’t you just love the world of technology….But instead click on the image above and it will take you to my YouTube Live.

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    Rain or Shine #002 -Let’s Craft Together Blog Hop

    Welcome to Let’s Craft Together Blog Hop. We are a group of Australian Stampin’ Up!® Demonstrators that are coming together to share our creative ideas with you. We are happy that you can join us and hope that we can Inspire you to make creations of your own. Each month we will be showing different ideas based around products, themes and challenges.

    Our Theme this month is Rain or Shine Suite Collection. This is just a little taste of whats to come with our our first Stamp Camp happening on 4th March, which I hope you can join us...HERE are the details.

    This card I have used my Blends to colour the Rabbit in and also some Paper Piecing to give him a coloured jacket.

    I love a matted card front, it can give it a different feel or make what elements you use ‘POP!’. This card has a white on white card base and card mat. The DSP and Velum have been cut to size using the Deckled Rectangle Dies. The vellum making the fun little rabbit stand out.

    How to make this card…

    • Adhere the DSP Panel to the Card Mat.
    • Using a small amount of Seal adhere the Vellum to the DSP, it is placed more to the left of the card. Make sure the placement of the seal will be hidden under the Rabbit.
    • A length of ribbon was wrapped around the card and attached behind the card mat.
    • Adhere the matted card front to the card base.
    • The Rabbit was stamped onto a piece of Basic White Cardstock using Tuxedo Black Memento Ink and also onto a piece of DSP.
    • He was coloured using Blends – Gray Granite and Flirty Flamingo.
    • Paper Piecing – The jacket was cut from the DSP using a craft knife and Glass Plate (see my Video on Fussy Cutting made on this a few years back)
    • After cutting the Rabbit using the coordinating dies adhere the jacket onto the Rabbit
    • With dimensionals attach the rabbit to your card front.
    • Tie a separate bow and adhered with a glue dot to the left of the Rabbit
    • Sentiment was stamped into a piece of Basic White cardstock and cut using one of the smaller Layering Circle Dies. Using one of the small blending brush blend on Balmy Blue ink around the edges. Adhere to card front with multi-pupose glue.
    • On the Card Insert I have also added a DSP strip and a length of Ribbon but instead of a bow I just tied a half knot, so as the card is not too bumpy inside.
    • Adhere the insert into the inside of the card.

    Cutting Measurements

    PaperColourImperialMetric
    Card Base Thick Basic White4 ¼ x 11”, score @ 5 ½”10.5 x 29.9cm, score @ 14.9cm
    Card Mat Basic White4 x 5 ¼”10 x 14.4cm
    DSP3½ x 5″9 x 13cm
    Vellum2¼ x 3½”6 x 9cm
    Card Insert Basic White 4 x 5 ¼” 10 x 14.4cm
     DSP Strip  ¾ x 5 ¼” 2 x 14.4cm
    CircleBasic White2 x2″5 x 5cm
    RabbitBasic White2½ x 2½ “7 x 7cm
    DSP Scrap1½ x 1½”4 x 4cm

    Thank you for stopping by and reading my Blog. I hope you have enjoyed my projects & that you’re inspired to get crafty!  

    You may be starting here or have come from someone else’s blog – either way there is a list at the end of this post to help you move around all the different blogs and get many amazing ideas. We all have our country listed – so if you are looking for a demonstrator in your country, these demonstrators would love to look after you with your Stampin’ Up! ® shopping or if you would like to join our Stampin’ Up!® teams.

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    Stamp Camp – Rain or Shine

    I hope you can Join us on the 4th March for a fun day of crafting with the ‘Let’s Craft Together Team’.

    All the details can be found HERE

    Any questions please ask….hope to see you on the 4th

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    Hand-Penned Petals Fun Fold

    Today on my ‘Live’ I created this great Fun Fold, this is another interesting find on Instagram that I just had to try. I have used the Hand-Penned Petal Stamps and coordinating Penned Flowers Dies. The Designer Series Paper used for this card is from the Dainty Flowers 12 x12″ found in the current Sale-A-Bration. When you spend $90 or $180 you can earn a product for FREE from the Sale-A-Bration Catalogue. Links to Catalogues and my Online Store can be found towards the end of my post.

    The sentiment was die cut using the Amazing Thanks Dies

    I am now following a Blog called Pinkfresh Studio and this is from a post back in last November. They have called it Fun Fold Birthday Inspiration Card with a Pop-Up Twist. It is great to be inspired by so many wonderful card makers.

    Below I have added the measurements I used in both Metric/A4 and Imperial/ Letter (this is a smaller size card to Australia A4)

    Measurements Used…

    PaperColourImperial/ LetterMetric/A4
    Card Base Fresh Freesia 5½ x 8½”, cut 2
    Score- 1, 1¾, 3, 4½
    21 x 14.9cm, cut 2
    Score – 2.5, 4.5,7.5, 10.5cm
    Front Strip Fresh Freesia¾ x 3½”2 x 9cm
    DSP – Back 4¼ x 5½”10.5 x 14.9cm
    DSP – Side15½ x 5½ “, cut 2 3 x 14.9, cut 2
    Back Card Panel Basic White 4¼ x 5¼” 10 x 14.4cm
    DSP Strip¾ x 5¼”2 x 14.4cm
    FlowerBasic White3 x 4″10.5 x 8cm
    SentimentPear Pizzazz2 x 4″5 x 10cm
    SentimentGold Metallic Specialty Paper2 x 4″5 x 10cm

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