Meandering Meadows – Live with Michele

This card turned out really well…..I used the Meandering Meadows Suite found on the Stampin’ Up! ® page under the Online Exclusives. This is a stunning suite, the stamp images a simple and easy to colour and add elements to the beautiful papers in Meandering Meadows Designer Series Paper.

This card is a Fun Fold – Spanner Panel Card (why it’s called that …I don’t know). I liked this fun fold for this card because it highlights the Designer Series Paper beautifully. You get the hint of the scene on the front and then open it up to see more of the stunning meadows. Open the center flap to find the greeting….It’s a card that just keeps getting better.

I have added the YouTube Live Video below.

Measurements Used…

 ColourImperial/LetterMetric/A4
Card BaseOrchid Oasis5½ x 8½”, score @ 4¼”14.9 x 21cm, score @ 10.5cm
Card FrontWindow Sheet1⅛ x 5”3 x 14cm
Side PanelsOrchid Oasis1⅛ x 4”3 x 10cm
Card Front  DSP2½ x 4”7.2 x 10cm
Card Insert SidesDSP1⅛ x 4”3 x 10cm
Card InsertBasic White2½ x 4”7.2 x 10cm
Stylish Shapes Circle, Stamping & die cut gateBasic White3 x 3” Circle 1½ x 3¼” Gate 2½ x 5” Stamping7 x 7cm Circle 4 x 8 cm Gate 6 x 12cm Stamping

Tips & Tricks

  • Side panels are 3.5cm wide (1 ⅜”), in the video the first base I cut it was too narrow, you will see me discard that one and re cut.
  • I used Window Sheet across the base so it allows the view of the meadow to be seen through the gate. Rather than blocking it off with solid cardstock.
  • The DSP on card front you could make the same width as center panel…either way would look great.
  • Colouring with the Stampin’ Up! ® Blends is very simple and you don’t need to use the same number of colours.

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Gift of Giving

On my Friday’s ‘Live with Michele’, I created this simple and fun Accordion Fold Card using Stampin’ Up!® Gift of Giving Stamps and Merry Bold & Bright Designer series Paper.

I saw this card by Connie Stewart, Simple Simple Stamping and had to re-create it, replacing the accordion cardstock with Designer Series paper.

This is a very simple card and simple to recreate using any image and Designer Series Paper. Measurements and video are below.

Measurements Used…

 ColourImperial/LetterMetric/A4
Card BaseLemon Lime Twist4 ¼ x 5 ½” 2¾ x 5 ½”10.5 x 14.9 7 x 14.9cm
Card FrontBasic White2½ x 5¼”6.5 x 14.4cm
Card InsertBasic White2½ x 4”6.5 x 11cm
AccordionDSP4 ¼ x 8¼” Score @ 2¾, 5 ½”12 x 22.5 Score @ 7.5, 15cm

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Hey Chuck – 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 a ‘Picture Inspiration’, – create a project using the below picture as your inspiration. It may be the colours, images or sketches. This challenge was given to us by Maheswari, I had a lot of fun creating this card, not only with the challenge but with ‘Hey Chuck’ Bundle.

I have chosen 3 elements from the ‘Picture Inspiration’

  • 3 Rectangle elements
  • Torn Edges
  • Elements from behind the last rectangle

Hey Chuck

This is my second card using the ‘Hey Chuck’ Bundle and I seem to be creating a theme with these cards. They are bright and lots of fun, in both creating them as well as enjoying the finished card.

3 Rectangle elements – My use of the above elements is very broad as my chooks would not stay in the confines of the rectangles.

Torn Edges – The Lemon Lime Twist card stock is from the White Center Specialty Paper and when torn the white core shows.

Elements from behind the last rectangle – The die cut sun, wind vane and ‘Rise & Shine’ sign and the elements from behind the last rectangle.

How to Make….

  • Cut all cardstock and score.
  • Card Mat – Tear approx 1cm off top and bottom of Lemon Lime Twist White Center Specialty Paper and adhere to the card base. Keep torn off pieces, one to be used on the card insert.
    • Tip- If you want the white core to be on the front of the Card Base, have right side up and tear towards yourself.
  • Die cut 3 rectangles with the Deckled Rectangles using the 2nd smallest die.
  • Die cut Sun and Wind Vanes
  • Stamp Chock and Fence images in Memento Tuxedo Black. You can see how I coloured fences and chocks from my YouTube Video -Live with Michele
  • Fences and Chooks coloured with Stampin’ Blends
    • Fences using Blends – Crumb Cake Combo & Bronze
    • Chooks
      1. Bodies- Daffodil Delight Combo, Wild Wheat
      2. Tails – Poppy Parade, Tranquil Tide
      3. Tails – Tranquil Tide, Granny Apple Green, Starry Sky
      4. Tails – Fresh Freesia Combo, Orchid Oasis Light, Blackberry Bliss Combo
  • Sentiment ‘Rise & Shine’
    • Stamp in Early Espresso Ink
    • Use Deckled Rectangles to cut sentiment – there is no die the right size for this, I used a larger die to cut 2 sides & then moved die to cut other 2 sides.
    • With blending brush and Crumb Cake Ink colour the sentiment.
  • Adhere the 3 rectangles to card front, leave room to slip sun behind last rectangle.
  • Using Multi Purpose Glue adhere the fences onto the rectangles.
  • Add dimensionals to the back of the chooks and add to card front.
  • Tuck sun behind the last rectangle.
  • Glue wind vane and sentiment to card front.
  • Card Insert
    • Glue one of the torn Lemon Lime Twist White Center Specialty Paper pieces to the bottom edge of the card insert.
    • Add fence and Wind Vane
    • Stamp ‘It’s your Birthday’ sentiment with Early Espresso Ink.

Cutting Measurements

PaperColourImperial/LetterMetric/A4
Card Base Misty Moonlight5½ x 8½” score at 4 ¼”14.9 x 21cm, score at 10.5cm
Card Mat Lemon Lime Twist
White Center Specialty Paper
4¼ x 5½ ”10.5 x 14.9cm
3 RectanglesBasic White4 x 6″9 x 14.9cm
Card InsertBasic White 4 x 5¼” 10 x 14.4cm
Stamping – Chocks x 3Basic White 4¼ x 5½ 10.5 x 14.9cm
SentimentBasic White1 x 2½3 x 6cm
Stamping – Fence x 4Basic White2½ x 4¼”7.5 x 10.5 cm
Sun Die CutCrushed Curry2 x 3″4 x 7cm
Wind Vane x 2Basic Black2½ x 4¼”7.5 x 10.5cm

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Hey Chuck

This week on my ‘Live with Michele’ I created this fun card using the Stampin’ Up!® ‘Hey Chuck’ Bundle. I was inspired by lots of different cards created by some very talented Stampin’ Up!® Demonstrators.

The rooster – Chuck! I coloured using the Stampin Blends, on my video below you will see what colours I used and how they were used to create this ‘Loud and a bit Crazy’ Rooster.

I also added clouds with a template made using the Basic Boarders Die and Starry Sky Link brushed on with a blending Brush.

Measurements Used…Sorry I have had to remove the measurements…

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Zoo Crew – Live with Michele

Today my card I have created to give to friend that has just become a first time Grandmother.

I thought the Lama from the Zoo Crew Suite was a must for this card, with her sitting there busy knitting away….maybe creating something fun for a new baby.

I stamped the Lama with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink and coloured it using Stampin’ Up! Blends.

When layering the Designer series Paper I felt it needed a bit of a lift, the two pieces of DSP with a white background was just too similar and needed to be a little different. A good way to change this with out completely changing the paper is to colour it. There are many ways you can colour your DSP and for this card I used the Lemon Lolly Blends. By using the Brush Nib end of your blend, colour the DSP – making sure you use the side of the brush not the point.

How to make this card…

If you get lost for ideas on card layouts, check out places like Pinterest. Here you can find lots of ideas by searching ‘Card Templates’ or ‘Card Sketches’. CardMaps and MojoSketch on Pinterest. I have a board on my Pinterest site called ‘Card Templates’ were I have saved card ideas. Sometimes I use these ideas when I’m feeling a bit lost for an idea or need some inspiration. When you do use an idea that not your own and share on Social Media (etc), then give credit to Where or Who inspired you.

Cutting Measurements

PaperColourImperial/LetterMetric/A4
Card Base Boho Blue4 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
Card FrontBoho Blue3⅞ x 5⅛”9.7 x 14.1cm
DSP 1¼ x 4¼”3 x 11cm
DSP  ¾ x 4″ 2 x 11cm
 DSP  2 x 2 5 x 5cm
Circle 2½”Vellum3 x 3″7.5 x 7.5cm
Sentimentbasic White2 x 4″ (scrap)5 x 10cm 9Scrap)

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Elegant Boarder Dies – Live with Michele

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…

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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….

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    Let’s Craft Together Blog Hop – Colour Challenge #001

    Welcome to Let’s Craft Together, we are a group of Stampin’ Up!® friends and Independent Demonstrators from Australia. We love to crafting together and challenging each other each month to create new projects which we want to share with you. Each month we will be showing different ideas based around products, themes and challenges. So I hope you can join us and follow along with our Blog Hops.

    Colour Challenge #001

    Our first Challenge for 2023 is a Colour Challenge, using colours that gives you the feel of ‘Summer Fun’

    Dainty Delight

    Dainty Delight Bundle 160675 is a new bundle from the Jan- April 2023 Stampin’ Up! ® Mini Catalogue. It is just as the name says “dainty’. The bundle includes dies that cut out the stamped images, it also includes extra flowers, leaves and this beautiful ‘Vine’. Layer them altogether to create amazing floral elements for cards and scrapbook pages.

    For my card today I have stamped one of the floral images with Memento Tuxedo Black and coloured it with the Blends from the challenge colour palette. All 6 colours were used and below is an image showing were they are used.

    Under the flowers I added the ‘Vine’ Die cut from Granny Apple Green cardstock, this just gives a nice base for the floral image. I also added 2 die cut pieces, cut from vellum and lightly coloured using Highland Heather Blends.

    I love the new embossing folder, Cane Weave 3D 160580. It is part of the Regency Park Suite Collection 160583 and it is a brilliant base for this card. I can see I will be using this one a lot.

    The Sentiment ‘Happy Birthday’ comes from the Sentimental Park 160561 stamps which is also from the Regency Park Suite Collection 160583.

    When you purchase Dainty Delight Bundle 160675 $96.25 (AU), you can choose a Sale-A-Bration item for FREE. YES, it’s that time of the year again…..and in the SAB there is a coordinating Designer Series Paper – Dainty Flowers – it’s a must have.

    SALE-A-BRATION…spend $90 or $180 and choose an item for free from the Sale-A-Bration Catalogue. ( will share Links to the Mini and SAB after 5th Jan)

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    Honeybee Home Bundle

    Today on Live with Michele I created this card using the Honeybee Home Bundle. Along with the other products from the Heart & Home Suite.

    The flowers were coloured using Stampin’ Up! Blends Fresh Freesia, Highland Heather, Mint Macron, Just Jade, So Saffron, Daffodil Delight, Bally Blue, Smoky Slate and Basic Black. The flower spray was then die cut and layered on top of the Vellum leaf. The Vellum Leaf was die cut from a die from the Meadow Dies.

    The video below shows how the card was created. 2/3rds through the video my phone went flat…I was able to change phones and complete the card….Lesson learnt, make sure phones are charged.

    Measurements Used…

    • Card Base Misty Moonlight: 10.4 x 29.9cm, score at 14.9cm
    • Card Mat Fresh Freesia: 10 x 14.4cm
    • Card Front DSP: 9.7 x 14.1cm
    • Strip DSP: 3.5 x 14.4cm
    • Vellum: 7.5 x 10.5cm
    • Stamped Images Basic White: 5 x 14.9cm
    • Sentiment Basic White: 3 x 7.5cm
    • Card Insert Basic White: 10 x 14.4cm
    • Insert Strip Fresh Freesia: 2 x 10cm’
    • Insert Strip DSP: 1.7 x 10cm

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    Be Jolly- Facebook Live Friday

    Hi and welcome today to my Blog.

    I love this card…it took a bit of work and it turned out so well!

    I made this card using the Be Jolly Stamps found in the July- December 2021 Mini Catalogue by Stampin’ Up!®

    In 2016 I made a card for Global Design Project- Hey, Chick using the same layout. But instead of a chick stamped on an oval, Santa is fussy cut and sitting on a rectangle of vellum.

    Below are all the cutting measurements plus the video showing how I Stamped, coloured and cut this card.

    Measurements Used…

    • Card Base Garden Green – 10.5 x 29.9cm, score at 14.9cm
    • Card Front Mat Real Red- 10 x 14.4cm
    • Card Front crumb Cake- 10 x 14.9cm
    • Vellum Scrap- cut with Stitched Rectangle Die measured approx 3.5 x 8.7cm
    • Basic White Scrap to stamp Santa
    • Basic Black Scrap- smallest Taylor Made Tag Die
    • Card Insert Basic White- 10 x 14.4cm

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