Ringed with Nature – Live with Michele

Today I am taking part in the Global Design Project #414 | Sketch Challenge. For my card I am using the Ringed with Nature Stamps and Tree Rings Hybrid Embossing Folder & Dies by Stampin’ Up! ®. You can find these products in the Annual Catalogue. I have teamed them up with the Joy of Christmas Designer Series Paper from the 2023 Sept – Dec mini Catalogue.

Christmas card created using the Ringed with Nature stamps and coordinating dies, Three Rings Dies by Stampin' Up!®

All the details for this card you will find in the video below

Measurements Used…

Cutting Measurements

 ColourImperial/LetterMetric/A4
Card BaseOld Olive5½ x 8½”, score @ 4¼”14.9 x 21cm, score @ 10.5cm
Card FrontDSP4½ x 4¼”11.9 x 10.5cm
Side StripsCherry Cobbler1 x 4¼”2.5 x 10.5cm
Card Insert 4 x 5 ¼”10 x 14.4cm
Card Insert StripDSP½ x 4¼”1 x 14.4cm
Wood RingsCrumb Cake Pecan Pie3½ x 3½” 3½ x 3½”9 x 9cm 9 x 9cm
House & Poinsettia SentimentBasic White4¼ x 5½10.5 x 14.9cm
Branches/LeavesOld Olive Shaded Spruce VellumThere are 4 dies, cut 1 set in each paper using scraps. Cut 1 extra for card insert
Branch/ Berry’sCherry CobblerCut x 4 from scraps, 3 for front of card and 1 for card insert

Global Design Project #414 | Sketch Challenge

It’s time for a fabulous sketch challenge this week – there are so many great ways to interpret this sketch and make it your own. We know you’ll love it as much as we do!

And now … here is the sketch for this week’s challenge:

Why don’t you go to Global Design Project site and check out the other projects completed by the Design Team …. also the other entries.


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Distressed Tile 3D Embossing Folder

Today I have used a NEW product found in the Sept-Dec 2023 Stampin’ Up! ® Mini Catalogue…..Distressed Tile 3D Embossing Folder.

It has that old world charm, that has been worn over time. It’s like that rug on the floor that has had people walking over it for hundreds of years, it has patches were the pattern is no longer visible but in other areas still vibrant and loved.

I embossed the vellum with the Distressed Tile 3D Folder, which left areas on the vellum that were sheer (allowing the DSP under the vellum to show through) and other areas opaque.

To complete the card I added Timeless Arrangements Bundle and Masterfully Made Designer Series Paper .

I used this card as my entry for the Global Design Project #406

Global Design Project #406 | Sketch Challenge

It’s time for a fabulous sketch challenge this week – there are so many great ways to interpret this sketch and make it your own. We know you’ll love it as much as we do! Here’s the sketch for this week’s challenge:

Why don’t you go to Global Design Project site and check out the other projects completed by the Design Team …. also the other entries.

How to make this card…

  • Cut all Cardstock and DSP
  • Vellum – Emboss with Distress Tile 3D Embossing Folder
  • Die cut leaves and flowers from Timeless Arrangements
    • Leaves- Pretty Peacock x 1
    • Flowers- Fresh Freesia x 1
    • Sm. Flower sprig – Berry Burst x 2
  • Sentiment – stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black
  • Adhere DSP to card base
  • Attach embossed vellum with glue dots over the DSP. Glue Dots are hidden under the textured parts of embossed vellum.
  • Adhere the layer flowers and leaves behind the sentiment, add dimensional’s and attach to card front. Add Berry Burst flowers with Multi Purpose Glue, tucking them amongst the other flowers and leaves.
  • Add In-Colour dots to card front. i used the Moody Mauve Dots which work with the Berry Burst in the card.
  • Adhere the DSP strip to card insert and attach to the inside of the card.

Cutting Measurements

PaperColourImperialMetric
Card Base Berry Burst5 ½” x 8½”, score @ 4 ¼”14.9 x 21cm, score @ 10.5 cm
DSP layer DSP3 x 5 ½”7.5 x 14.9cm
Vellum Vellum3½ x 4½”9 x 12cm
SentimentsBasic White1¼” x 2½” (Scrap)3 x 6.5cm (Scrap)
Leaves (on bar)Pretty Peacock3 x 3″ (Scrap)7 x 8cm (Scrap)
Flower (on bar)Berry Burst1½” x 4″ (Scrap)4 x 10cm (Scrap)
Small FlowersFresh Freesia2 x 3″ (Scrap)5 x 7cm (Scrap)
Card Insert Basic White 4 x 5¼” (Scrap) 10 x 14.4cm (Scrap)
 Insert Strip DSP ½ x 5¼” 1 x 14.4cm

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Paper Florist Dies – Live with Michele

Today on my ‘Live’ I created a card using the Paper Florist Dies and Bright & Beautiful Designer Series Paper. This was a fun card to make, keeping it simple using the Daisy Dies, leaves and bud dies.

To give the background some interest I used the Lemon Lolly Strips from the Bright & Beautiful Designer Series Paper. This also fulfilled the requirements for the Global Design Project Theme Challenge #403. It’s been a while since I’ve entered the GDP challenge and it fills good to be back.

My other inspiration for this card was the sentiment – ‘Hey, there!’. Cleaning my desk I found the Charming Sentiments stamps, which is a bunch of sentiments for any occasion.

Global Design Project #403 | Theme challenge

This week’s Global Design Project theme challenge is stripes. What a fun challenge!

Why don’t you go to Global Design Project site and check out the other projects completed by the Design Team …. also the other entries.

How to make this card…

  • Using Sm Blending Brush, brush Old Olive ink lightly onto the Soft Sea Foam leaves.
  • Using Sm. Blending Brush, brush Bubble Bath ink onto flower petal and buds.

Cutting Measurements

PaperColourImperialMetric
Card Base Bubble Bath8½ x 5½”, score @ 4¼”14.9 x 29.9cm, score @ 10.5cm
Card Mat Basic White3¾ x 5″8 x 13.4cm
Card Front DSP3½ x 4¾”8.5 x 12.9cm
SentimentBasic White2 x 2″5 x 5cm
Leaves, stemsSoft Sea Foam, Old Olive
FlowersBasic White
Card Insert Basic White 4 x 5¼” 10 x 14.4cm

Live with Michele Video

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Global Design Project #190- Sketch Challenge

Good Morning and thanks for dropping by to my Blog.

Have you seen the challenge this week by Global Design Team it’s this beautiful Sketch ‘Click’ on the image below and to visit Global Design Project. The Design team have some great examples using this sketch and while your there have a look at the other entry’s for the challenge.

My Card…. Bird Ballad Suite by Stampin’ Up!

I have decided to use the beautiful Bird Ballad Suite by Stampin’ Up! for this card. At the moment it is my favorite range of product in the new Stampin’ Up! Catalogue and a lot of fun to colour.

  • Bird Ballad designer Series Paper
  • Free as a Bird Stamps

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How to make my card…

  • Card Base – Pool Party 13 x 26cm, scored at 13cm.
  • Mat -Bird Ballad Designer Series Paper (DSP) 12 x 12cm -Yellow Bird Feet.
  • Card Front– Whisper White Cardstock 12 x12cm. Stamp Bird Image and ONLY COLOUR FEET AND GROUND using Crumb Cake Duo Blends and Pumpkin Pie Dark Blend. Also stamp your sentiment, I used the Stamparatus to get it nice and straight.
  • Trim– 8mm x 10.5cm – Blue & Yellow flower Paper (reverse side to Yellow). Using a piece of the Delightfully Detailed Laser-Cut Specialty Paper Boarder lengths cut to 10.5cm colour with Calypso Coral Dark Blend and adhere to DSP. Adhere to Whisper White Card front across the un-coloured bird.
  • Adhere card front (Whisper White) to the Mat (DSP) and attach to Card Base
  • Stamped the bird onto a scrap of Whisper White Cardstock with Momento Black Ink and coloured with Blends in Pool Party Duo, Daffodil Delight Duo, Calypso Coral Duo and Pumpkin Pie Dark. Fussy cut around the body removing the legs. Attach mini dimenionals and adhere over the top of the bird on the card front.

This was a fun card to make, I hope you enjoyed it.

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Enjoy the simple moments…

Its so nice to take a moment, enjoy the quite times when everything around you is going a hundred miles an hour and your just sitting back watching the waves and the seagulls.



Global Design Project 178 Sketch Challenge

It’s time for a fabulous sketch challenge this week – there are so many great ways to interpret this sketch and make it your own. We know you’ll love it as much as we do! Here’s the sketch for this week’s challenge:

Make sure you go and check out GDP to see all the fantastic projects done by the Design Team and the other Entries in the Challenge. The Link is HERE

This week I have mixed things up a bit by using the image from one stamp set and the sentiment from another. The two sets come from the Stampin’ Up! Sale-A-Bration Catalogue and you can get either one FREE when you spend $90 (AU) or spend $180 (AU) and get both for FREE

How to make my card..

Product required-

  • By the Bay stamp set 149739
  • Home to Roost149736
  • Early Espresso cardstock – Card base 14.5 x 21 cm, scoured at 10.5 cm & banner 9.7 x 1 cm
  • Pool Party cardstock – mat 14 x 10 cm & a small piece for under the banner 10.7 x .5 cm
  • Crumb Cake cardstock – card front 13.7 x 9.7 cm
  • watercolour paper 8 x 8cm
  • Very Vanilla cardstock – insert 14 x 10 cm
  • Stampin’ Pads – Pool Party, Balmy Blue, Smokey Slate, Daffodil Delight & Calypso Coral
  • Stazon Black
  • Aqua Painter
  • Stitched Shapes Framelits – 2nd largest circle
  • White Embossing Powder, VersaMark, Embossing Buddy, Heat Gun

How to-

  • Watercolour Paper – stamp seagulls all over using Stazon ink.
  • Loosely colour the image with inks using Aqua Painter
  • Cut using the Stitched Framelit circle
  • Stamp the seagulls also onto the Crumb Cake cardstock with the Crumb Cake ink.
  • Emboss the sentiment onto the Early Espresso banner with the White Embossing Powder and heat set.
    TIP: Don’t cut your Banner down to above measurements until after Embossing. I use a Post-it Note to help like a handle when positioning under the Trimmer so that I can get a narrow strip.
  • Adhere the Pool Party Strip/Banner to back of the Banner peeking out a little at the bottom. Attach Mini Dimensionals to the underneath of banner.
  • Adhere card together.

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Happy, Happy Birthday

Love the bright colours used in this card and the fun and life that flows from it.

Global Design Project 176 | CASE the Designer

The challenge this week is to CASE a gorgeous card by Steffi Helmschrott from Germany.

CASE = Copy And Selectively Edit
When you CASE a project you can take what you like from the design and make it your own. It might be the stamp set – the colors, the layout, the theme, the images – whatever you like that has inspired you to make a card of your own.

Make sure you go over to Global Design Project and see all the wonderful projects made by the Design Team and the other entries to this challenge. To help you here is the link…Click HERE!

My Card……

This card I kept very simple using the colour and the embossed circles to be the focus of the card.

The five Stampin’ Up! colours – Melon Mambo, Pumpkin Pie, Daffodil Delight, Granny Apple Green and Pacific Point were all sponged and blended on Whisper White cardstock. Water was sprinkled on the cardstock to lift some of the colour to give more interest to the colours. The Basic Black card base makes the colours ‘POP’.

With white embossing powder I stamped and embossed the smallest circle from Stampin’ Up! Swirly Frames stamp set to mimic the circles on Steffi’s card.

The sentiment is built from words from the ‘Well Said’ Bundle found in the 2019 Occasions Catalogue. Combining both the stamped embossed words and Framelit words together. TIP: Adhere Multipurpose Adhesive sheets to your cardstock before running the framlits through the Big Shot.

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All the Good Things

This weeks Global Design Project is a ‘Theme Challenge’ – GDP#175 and the theme is ‘Down the garden path’. To see all the projects made by the Design Team and the other entries in the GDP#175 Challenge CLICK HERE

Now I’m not much of a gardener, I pretty much tend to kill anything I try to grow. But I do like to look at lovely gardens and last year my son took my husband (his father) and myself to the National Arboretum Canberra.

While there we went and saw the National Bonsai and Penjing Collection…….it was amazing. If you are ever in Canberra it is worth the visit. And I am glad I’m not the one to look after these magnificent little gardens.

Thankfully Stampin’ Up! have a stamp that I hope I can’t kill and it doesn’t need to be watered….and reminds me of that time we spent with Hayden in Canberra.

All the Good Things by Stampin’ Up!

146558 – Clear , 146555 – Wood

How have I coloured this stamp….

Instead of using just one colour on this stamp, I have used seven colours…that’s right SEVEN colours….HOW?

First off you have to use the ‘Stamparutus’ this cannot be done with out it. Why? Because you need to go back adding one colour at a time and this is what the Stamparutus allows you to do.

Secondly, I used a Sponge Dauber to add the link to the stamp.

So what colours and where…..

  • Pot – Cajun Craze and Fresh Fig used to highlight the edges and bottom of the pot.
  • Tree Trunk – Early Espresso
  • Leaves – Old Olive, Shaded Spruce and Tranquil Tide.
  • Added Gold Shimmer Paint to leaves also..(from Holiday Catalogue)

The card base is Early Espresso, a piece of Fresh Fig – embossed with the Subtle Embossing Folder and a strip of Designer Series Paper from the Nature’s Poem collection. The Stamped image was cut using the new Rectangle Stitched Framelits Dies found in the Occasions Catalogue on page 28.

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Forever Lovely….GDP#174

WOW!……It’s another week….and February already, the first month of 2019 has gone. Christmas and New Year has been packed away and now we are looking toward the next ‘Event’ on the calendar.

Valentines Day – a day where we celebrate those we love whether that is Husbands, wives, boyfriends, girlfriends or family and friends. Its those that we keep close in our hearts, those we want to tell “You are special to me!”

Stampin’ Up! have released in the Occasions Catalogue a beautiful Suite that celebrates ‘LOVE’. I used it last week in the Global Design Project Challenge and I can’t get enough of it. So I’m using it again….‘All My Love’

The card I have made is not a ‘Valentines Day Card’…but I made it in mind for a couple getting married or engaged..

Global Design Project 174 – Sketch Challenge

GDP#174- Sketch Challenge has given us another wonderful sketch to use…if you pop over to their Blog you will find some amazing projects using this sketch. Here’s the LINK to make it easy for you to find..

How was my card made….

Stampin’ Up! Designer Series Paper (DSP) used on this card is part of the ‘All My Love Suite’ which includes the Forever Lovely stamp/bundle and its called ‘All My Love’. The colours that co-ordinate with the DSP are..Balmy Blue, Crumb Cake, Lovely Lipstick, Flirty Flamingo, Soft Sea Foam and Whisper White. I think I have managed to use all of these in my card.

The flowers were stamped in Flirty Flamingo and the leaves in Soft sea Foam.

Tip 1:

Make sure your ink pad is not too juicy…..I had to used the back of a spoon to push down the ink. These stamps are part of the Distinctive Stamp range which means that you are able to stamp with one colour but because of the texture of the stamp its self you get different tones of that colour. Example you will see on my card some leaves are dark and others are lighter – one colour, one stamp.

The DSP used has loose outlines of the flower and leaves done in white. I would have loved to be able to White Emboss the same on my card…but the are distinctive stamps and its only one stamp…

Tip 2:

So I used a white gel pen to out line my flowers. Before the flowers looked too heavy now the white just pulls it all together. I found it easier to also stamp these images with the Stamparutus.

My sentiments I used comes from the ‘First Frost’ stamps from the 2018 Holiday Catalogue and its one of the carry-over products…“YAY!”  you can still purchase it. The small scalloped edge is from the Delightfully Detailed Laser-cut Specialty Paper.

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Wishing you a lovely day….

Thank you for visiting my Blog and I hope you too are having a lovely day. Today here in Australia it is Australia Day and usually I’d be in Berrima celebrating with street parades, markets and great food. But today it has been so hot that Joe and I didn’t want to leave the house….

So what do you do when you don’t want to do anything but stay cool…………. make a card!

This card was made for the Global Design Project #173 Challenge.


Global Design Project 173 – Color Challenge

The GDP#173 – color challenge is a soft, sweet combination of Soft Sea Foam, So Saffron and Petal Pink. The Design Team have shared some beautiful projects to inspire us. To see their projects and what others have have made as part of the challenge …Click HERE!

My Card…

For my card I have used the ‘Forever Lovely Bundle’ 150580. This bundle consists of a Forever Lovely photopolymer stamp set and co-ordinating ‘Lovely Flowers Edgelit Dies’. By purchasing as a bundle you get a 10% discount….Bargin!

This card is made up of layers – The card base I used Very Vanilla cardstock, which is not a colour I use a lot but keeps in with the subtleness of the card. The ‘Subtle’ 3D Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder gives some texture to the mat. The card front was stamped using the 2 stamps from the stamp set – one stamping the flowers and the other the leaves. In between these two layers I added a layer of vellum cut using the flower edgelit die and other flower and leaf images also cut using the dies that come with this bundle.

With a beautiful sentiment stamped in Momento Ink, a few extra hearts in So Saffron and clear rhinestones just finishes this lovely card.

Thank you for taking the time to read my Blog.

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Global Design Project 144 | CASE the Designer

This week the Challenge set by Global Design Project is to CASE the designer, Charlet Mallett.

CASE = Copy And Selectively Edit

I love the way Charlet has put her card together, its simple and very effective.

To see other cards made by the GDP team using Charlet’s card as inspiration then click HERE

All of the products I used in my card are from the Nature’s Poem Suite found on page 142 of the Stampin’ Up! 2018-19 Annual Catalogue.

I love the way my card turned out, I made a few small changes by adding a mat behind the Designer Series Paper and that just because I love mats…I love them behind photos and on my cards because I think it frames the card. The mat is very subtle as its the same colour as the card but I have added texture by using the new Subtle Embossing Folder 143706. And when they say subtle it is very subtle….It gives the paper a linen weave look. I also used the same folder on the piece of white cardstock on the front of the card. I think this embossing folder is going to become a favorite of mine, so watch out you may see a lot more of it.

The stamp set I used on this card is called Rooted in Nature and can be purchased as part of a bundle with Nature’s Roots Framelits Dies 148353 – ClearWooden 148352. This set has 16 rubber stamps depicting trees, leaves and the end of a log – the rings. Along with these there are 6 sentiments that work beautifully with all of these elements.

 The beautiful paper used is also from this suite and is called Nature’s Poem Designer Series Paper 146338. I love how these papers work so well together and there are 9 coordinating colours in the cardstock.

I finished my card off with one of the stunning leaves from the Leaves Trinkets 146343 and a piece of Crumb Cake twine from Natural Twine 146342 ,tied to the copper leaf and the ends frayed.

This card was fun to do and I will be sharing this card with the girls attending this months Card Class.

If you also love this beautiful Designer Series Paper – Nature’s Poem, you can purchase it as part of the Buy 3, Get 1 Free Promotion. Only for the month of July.

Thank You for reading my Blog, below you will find a list of all the products used in this card with links to my On-line Store

 

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