This is such a simple suite to use….if your not sure on how to colour the images. Then the Storybook Gnome DSP is already done for you and the dies that come in the Kindest Gnome Bundle will cut the Gnomes and Mushroom houses. It makes card making so quick and simple. But of course if you want to step it up…stamp the images onto Basic White cardstock and colour them in with you Blends.
For my card I kept it simple and die cut my DSP…see the video linked below.
Measurements Used for my Storybook Gnomes Card…
Card Base Balmy Blue – 10.5 x 29.9cm, score @ 14.9cm
Card Mat Basic White – 10 x 14.4cm
Card Front DSP – 9.7 x 14.1cm
Circle basic White – 9 x 9cm, large circle from Stylish Shape Dies
Banner Night of Navy – 1.5 x 7.5cm
Card Insert Basic White – 10 x 14.4cm
Thank you for stopping by and reading my Blog. I hope you have enjoyed my projects & that you’re inspired to get crafty!
Stampin’ Up! products used in today’s Project
All products used are listed below and are linked to my On-Line Store
Come and JOIN me at Boughs of Holly Stamp Camp it is 24 hours of FUN and INSPIRATION
Join me and the other Demonstrators from the Creativity Abounds Design Team on a 2 day International Stamp Camp. Dates for this event are 29-30th October were we will be featuring the Boughs of Holly.
Our design team comes from all over the globe so every 2 hours (Approx.) there will be another project and challenges happening. Plus others in the Facebook Group that you can chat with and share your completed projects with. To join ask see all the details below or contact me on 0408868771 (AU only) or michele@jutrisa.com
There will be ‘Make and Takes’ for 13 projects and PDF for you to follow along while creating also YouTube videos for each of the projects. You will also have access to an exclusive Facebook group where additional LIVE presentations will be held during over the 2 day weekend. The Facebook Group will be there for you to watch any time after the event has finished.
The Boughs of Holly Suite Collection consists of:
Leaves of Holly Bundle
Natural Woven Ribbon
Textural Elements
Boughs of Holly Designer Series Paper 30.5 x 30.5 (12 x 12″)
You can order these products by clicking on the ADD TO CART below
Cost:FREE when you purchase the Boughs of Holly Suite Collection. If you already have purchased the suite and want to attend, all you need to do is place an order with me for the equivalent amount using the Hostess Code –UNWJSJC7
Registration Close: 19th October 2022 Order early to get your products in time so you can create on the day.
Registrations are open to Australian residence only. Not from Australia and want to take part let me know and I can put you in touch with one of our other Demonstrators.
What you receive…
Join an Exclusive Facebook Group
12 Make and Take projects using the Hues of Happiness Suite Collection (posted out to you) All cut and ready to go! Just follow the Video Tutorials
Bonus 12 Facebook Live projects & with full PDF Instructions.
Access to an exclusive Facebook group where LIVE presentations will hold on the 2 days of this MEGA EVENTS . You can access the recorded Live videos anytime.
Ink Pads, if you don’t have the colours used in any of the projects swap them out with other colours you may have. I would suggest to have a Black Ink pad such as Memento Tuxedo Black
Extra cardstock for those BONUS projects- see the colours that co-ordinate with the suite in the Mini Catalogue or ask me
On ‘Live with Michele’ this week I created a card using Stampin’ Up!® Trees for Sale Stamps (mini Catalogue) and Tree Lot Dies (Sale-A-Bration).
Sale-A-Bration finishes this week on Wednesday 31st August….and these dies will no longer be available.
They are so cute and great for building a scene. Here I have tried to create a scene on the beach at Christmas….a lot of families in Australia spend Christmas and Christmas holidays on beaches or near water, eating seafood and playing beach cricket.
Building scenes and telling stories with dies are so much fun.
YouTube Video
If you enjoyed also enjoy making story scenes using Dies then come along to my Birthday Piggy Class in September.
Thank you for stopping by and reading my Blog. I hope you have enjoyed my projects & that you’re inspired to get crafty!
Stampin’ Up! products used in today’s Project
All products used are listed below and are linked to my On-Line Store
Weeeee!….these were so much fun to make!……..So I have decided to share them with you
The Birthday Piggy was so much fun to play with and I have made three cute little easel cards using nearly all the dies that come with the bundle. They are all so cute, I don’t know which is my favorite.
So I have decided to do an Online Class, giving you a step by step instructions via a Zoom Meeting. I hope you can join me, as I want to share the fun with you.
To Purchase…CLICK the BUY NOW…check for shopping card in the bottom right hand corner of your screen
We will be using Stampin’ Blends to colour our pigs and Blending brushes to colour the backgrounds. The dies that come in the bundle add all those extra details.
The Birthday Piggy stamps can be found in both the Annual and Mini Catalogues but ONLY as a stamp set- No Dies
On the 1st September to 30th September you will be able to purchase The Birthday Piggys as a Bundle -With Dies, along with another 5 bundles to choose from. (See below)
This is a special promotion – Perfect Partners and all the details are below. If you already have the stamps, you will be able to purchase the matching dies. If you don’t have the stamps then buy them as a BUNDLE and get a 10% discount. This is a one off special, so don’t miss out.
So PLACE YOUR ORDER on the 1st September and get the “The Birthday Piggy Bundle” and Join my Class on the 23rd September
Perfect Partners
Some things are great on their own but become epic when they are paired with something else: cereal and milk, toast and butter, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. We may be biased, but our favorite combo is our stamp sets and dies—and that’s what the Perfect Partners promotion is all about!
We created six new dies that coordinate with stamp sets in the 2022–2023 Annual Catalogue and the July–December 2022 Mini Catalogue. These coordinating dies will only be available during this promotion and will not be offered in any catalogue. These stamp sets and dies are available separately or as a bundle. By buying the bundle, you will save 10% off the retail price.
Put these wonderful stamp sets and dies together for more paper-crafting fun! Order now!
Thank you for stopping by and reading my Blog. I hope you have enjoyed my projects & that you’re inspired to get crafty!
Stampin’ Up!® Used…
(Excluding the Dies which start on the 1st September – 30th September)
Last week on ‘Live with Michele’ I created a stamped scrapbook page using Stampin’ Up! ® Brightest Beauty Bundle, Pretty medallion stamp and Crane of Fortune (Discontinued from Jan-Jun 2022 Mini)
This week I used my created sheet of DSP and completed a scrapbook page for my Wedding Album. This is a simple layout, with lots of layers in mats surrounding the photo’s. I wanted to keep it simple as there is a lot going on the stamped page.
A layer of vellum was added under the photo’s to give a little separation between the photo’s and printed cardstock. The back ground is busy and I wanted to tone it down slightly but still see the images coming through.
Both photo’s are the same size and I wanted to give the impression that one was larger than the other. To do this I did larger mats and decorated one so it stood out from the page more.The second photo i extended the bottom mat in depth to allow area for jornalling.
Thank you for stopping by and reading my Blog. I hope you have enjoyed my projects & that you’re inspired to get crafty!
Stampin’ Up! products used in today’s Project
All products used are listed below and are linked to my On-Line Store
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.
Our theme this month is Anything But Christmas. This is where we can use any product from the Stampin’ Up! ® Catalogues and make a card that doesn’t have a Christmas theme and as we are now getting closer to Christmas and the Stampin’ Up! ® Mini Catalogue is all about the Holiday Seasons it’s good to just make something not holiday related.
My cards in both the Blog Hop and the Tutorial focus on….
Brightest Beauty
Last Friday on my ‘Live with Michele’ I created a stamped 12 x 12″ Designer Series Paper(DSP) to be used in my Wedding Scrapbook Album. I also created a piece on A4 Basic White Cardstock and decided to use this piece to create this card.
The base of my card I used Sahara Sand Cardstock and made a mat using the Split Card Textures Dies. The mat piece I used the Blending Brushes and Soft Suede Stampin’ Pad to go around the edges and die cut areas to add a little colour.
The DSP I cut down slightly smaller than my mat and tore down one side at a angle giving me a rough edge. I again added Soft Suede ink to all my edges….I just wanted to give it a earthy sort of tone.
The sentiment is from the Go to Greetings Stamp Set. This is such a great set using four basic greetings like – Happy Birthday, Just a Note, Thank You and Thinking of you and 3 different fonts. This will be my go to set for sentiments. The sentiment was die cut out using the frame die from the Brightest Beauty Bundle.
I finished of the card by adding a generous triple bow, and the sentiment just sits below but with parts of the bow under caught under it. Some Rustic Metallic Adhesive Backed Dots
On the inside of my card I have added an insert using a piece of DSP where I hadn’t stamped all the way. So if you don’t like adding lots of writing it’s perfect.
Live with Michele
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.
Follow the Hop here..
For More Inspiration we have our new Tutorial Bundle
he projects featured in this bundle are totally EXCLUSIVE, which means they can not be found anywhere else online.
Measurements are in both Imperial/ US Letter size and Metric/ A4.
There are a couple of different ways to get this tutorial…
Here is another Bundle by the Creativity Abounds Design Team. This month we have come up with some fantastic ideas for you to make and to inspire you. The Theme for this month is ‘Anything But Christmas’. Si in this tutorial is a range for different cards using different stamps, folds and inspiration.
Here are 13 Exclusive Tutorials using different products from the Stampin’ Up!® Catalogues.
Measurements are in both Imperial/ US Letter size and Metric/ A4.
I have set up an Etsy Shop to make purchasing of my tutorials easier. As soon as payment is made you can download your tutorial. You can click on the link below
Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators are welcome to purchase the Tutorial and can be used in Classes. But PLEASE give Credit back to the Designer and Creativity Abounds Team. Any questions, please feel free to message me.
Click below the Buy Now Creativity Abounds Gift Packaging Tutorial Bundle.
There are a couple of different ways to get this tutorial…
Mini Pocket Envelope Dies…. are just the right size for a Gift Tag, to hold a Gift Card, you can add it to the front of a card with an extra message inside or add on to a scrapbook page to hold your journaling…the ideas are endless.
On my ‘Live’ today I used the Stampin’ Up! Mini Pocket Envelope Dies to created a very ‘Shabby Chic’ style or even ‘Grunge’ style Pocket Envelope.
To decorate the envelope I used Quite Meadow Stamps, Stitchery Stamps, Meadow Dies and Brilliant Wings Dies
I used the blending brushes to add layers of age around the edges and splatters of White craft Ink and Wink of Stella.
This style is so out of my comfort zone …. but I had so much fun creating it. In the gallery above is also photo’s showing the another Mini Pocket Envelope using the Hues of Happiness suite.
Please excuse the start of the video as I had a small sound issue which we fixed..this is Live no editing…so I hope you enjoy
Thank you for stopping by and reading my Blog. I hope you have enjoyed my projects & that you’re inspired to get crafty!
Stampin’ Up! products used in today’s Project
All products used are listed below and are linked to my On-Line Store