On this weeks ‘Live’ I created a card that steps a little out of my comfort zone. I wanted to try to push myself a little further but it just didn’t happen. My plain was to use a variety of stamps from different sets and I had a few lined up. But as I started working I ended up using just the one set – Two-Tone Flora along with one of the Elegant Boarder Dies cards I cut last week.
Even though I used the Flirty Flamingo Classic Stampin’ Pad, I ended up using the Calypso Coral Cardstock…it still works OK. These things happen when you do a Live and afterwards you think…Why did I do that?
The Elegant Boarder Dies in one of the Online Exclusives found on my Online Store. These items will not be found in any catalogue. Also while you are there make sure you have a look at the punches..Stampin’ Up! ® have added back 2 circle punches…always a good idea to always check the Online Store for Clearance Rack or any new products.
As you will see watching the video below it was still a lot of fun and sometimes doing something different can be good.
Measurements Used…
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Stampin’ Up! products used in today’s Project
All products used are listed below and are linked to my On-Line Store
Did you see my ‘Live” on Friday, if you missed it and can catch up on the replay below.
I love these stunning ‘Elegant Boarder Dies‘, they are part of the NEW Online Exclusives. These products will be only found on my “Online Store’ under -Online Exclusives, they will not be in any Catalogue. New products will be added through out the year so check back to my Online store.
Elegant Boarder Dies
Measurements Used…
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.
Fancy Flora Suite Collection
I am really enjoying playing with this suite, I put of buying it for a little while, until I worked out what I was wanting……In the end I just had to get it, I love the flowers and the Designer Series Paper is stunning. There is so much in this suite it is totally worth the extra cost. There are 2 Bundles of Stamps and coordinating dies. But don’t feel you have to purchase the lot you can purchase just what you want.
** Remember you get a 10% off when you purchase the Bundles – Two-Tone Flora Bundle and Something Fancy Bundle
This is a 3 Fold Card, where the left side folds in first and then the left over the top. This card has two card fronts and I needed to show off this DSP, i just love all these colours.
This is a two step stamp and I found it easier to stamp the detailed image first and then using the same colour and the second image, stamp off onto a scrap of paper before stamping the rest of the flower. I used the centers of the flowers (stamen) as my guide for lining yp the images.
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
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…
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
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.
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
Paper
Colour
Imperial/Letter
Metric/A4
Card Base
Basic White Thick Cardstock
4 ¼ x 11”, score @ 5 ½”
10.5 x 29.9cm, score @ 14.9cm
Card Front
Basic White Card stock
4 x 5 ¼”
10 x 14.4cm
Frames
Basic White Card stock
3½ x 4½” x 2
9 x 12cm x 2
Flowers
Basic White Card stock
4 ¼ x 5½”
10.5 x 14.9cm
Sentiment
Basic Black
1½ x 3″
3 x 8cm
Card Insert
Basic 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!
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.
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.
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
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 –
Two-Tone Flora Bundle – two step stamps flowers, easy to line up for six beautiful flowers and two one-step leaves. This also has the coordinating dies to cut out your stamped images.
Something Fancy Bundle – 10 sentiments and frame dies that could be used on any card or scrapbook layout
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
Paper
Colour
Imperial
Metric
Card Base
Basic White
4 ¼ x 11”, score @ 5 ½”
10.5 x 29.9cm, score @ 14.9cm
CardFront
Basic White
4 x 5 ¼”
10 x 14.4cm
Strip
Basic White
1 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
MetricCard – 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
Thank you for stopping by and reading my Blog. I hope you have enjoyed my projects & that you’re inspired to get crafty!
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.
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.
Follow the Hop here..
For More Inspiration we have our new Tutorial Bundle
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.
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
Paper
Colour
Imperial
Metric
Card Base
Blushing Bride
4 ¼ x 11”, score @ 5 ½”
10.5 x 29.9cm, score @ 14.9cm
Card Front
DSP – Blushing Bride
4 ¼ x 5 ½”
10.5 x 14.9cm
Vellum
3 x 4½”
8 x 11.5cm
Diagonal Strip
Basic White
1 x 8″
2.5 x 20cm
Vertical Strip
Blushing Bride
1¼ x 6″
3.3 x 15cm
Stamping – Flowers and sentiment
Basic White
3 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.
Thank you for stopping by and reading my Blog. I hope you have enjoyed my projects & that you’re inspired to get crafty!
