Elegant Boarder and Two-Tone Flora -Live with Michele

Published on March 25, 2023March 25, 2023 by Michele Jutrisa

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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Elegant Boarder Dies – Live with Michele

Published on March 19, 2023March 19, 2023 by Michele Jutrisa

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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Elegant Borders Dies

Perfectly Penciled 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper

Go To Greetings Cling Stamp Set (English)

Basic White A4 Thick Cardstock

Flirty Flamingo Stampin' Blends Combo Pack

Daffodil Delight Stampin' Blends Combo Pack

Granny Apple Green Stampin' Blends Combo Pack

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad

Baker's Twine Essentials Pack

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Hello,Irresistible Blooms – Live with Michele

Published on March 7, 2023March 7, 2023 by Michele Jutrisa

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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Hello, Irresistible Suite Collection (English)

Soft Sea Foam A4 Cardstock

Soft Sea Foam Classic Stampin' Pad

Basic White A4 Cardstock

Basics 3 D Embossing Folders

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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Dainty Delight – Live with Michele

Published on February 24, 2023February 24, 2023 by Michele Jutrisa

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

Published on February 24, 2023February 24, 2023 by Michele Jutrisa

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
Fine Shimmer Paper Pack
Iridescent Pastel Gems
Pool Party Grosgrain Ribbon
Fancy Flora Designer series Paper – 12 double sided designs of stunning paint textured image designs, 4 of each

Measurements Used…

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Fancy Flora Suite Collection (English)

White Vellum A4 Card Stock

Basic White A4 Cardstock

Soft Succulent A4 Cardstock

Evening Evergreen A4 Cardstock

Evening Evergreen Classic Stampin' Pad

Soft Succulent Classic Stampin' Pad

Basic Gray Classic Stampin' Pad

Calypso Coral Classic Stampin' Pad

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By the Bay Creativity Abounds Blog Hop

Published on February 16, 2023February 12, 2023 by Michele Jutrisa

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.

Follow the Hop here..

For More Inspiration we have our new Tutorial Bundle

Meet the Design Team of Creativity Abounds..

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Dainty Flowers – Sketch Challenge

Published on February 14, 2023February 12, 2023 by Michele Jutrisa

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

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.

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Dainty Flowers

Published on February 12, 2023February 12, 2023 by Michele Jutrisa

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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Dainty Flowers 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper

Blackberry Bliss A4 Cardstock

Night Of Navy Classic Stampin' Pad

Stylish Shapes Dies

Baker's Twine Essentials Pack

Adhesive Backed Milky Dots

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Hand-Penned Petals Fun Fold

Published on January 27, 2023January 27, 2023 by Michele Jutrisa

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…

Paper	Colour	Imperial/ Letter	Metric/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 Freesia	¾ x 3½”	2 x 9cm
DSP – Back		4¼ x 5½”	10.5 x 14.9cm
DSP – Side		15½ x 5½ “, cut 2	3 x 14.9, cut 2
Back Card Panel	Basic White	4¼ x 5¼”	10 x 14.4cm
DSP Strip		¾ x 5¼”	2 x 14.4cm
Flower	Basic White	3 x 4″	10.5 x 8cm
Sentiment	Pear Pizzazz	2 x 4″	5 x 10cm
Sentiment	Gold Metallic Specialty Paper	2 x 4″	5 x 10cm

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By the Bay

Published on January 25, 2023January 22, 2023 by Michele Jutrisa

Today’s card I used the By the Bay Suite Collection in the 2023 Mini Catalogue by Stampin’ Up!®. The By the Bay 6 x 6″ DSP is the hero of this suite, the designs are stunning.

How to create this card…

The Sea Grasses were cut from DSP using two of the dies and the shells I cut from Basic White cardstock and coloured with Blends – Colypso Coral & Petal Pink. The shells were then lightly curved using a Bone Folder.

The sentiment was stamped in Night Of Navy Ink onto the sentiment strip.

Three of the Flat Adhesive-Backed Pearls attached to card.

A strip of the DSP was added to the side edge of the card

Cutting Measurements

Paper	Colour	Imperial	Metric
Card Base	Balmy Blue	4 ¼ x 11”, score @ 5 ½”	10.5 x 29.9cm, score @ 14.9cm
Card Mat	Basic White	4 x 5 ¼”	10 x 14.4cm
Card Front	DSP	3 ⅞ x 5 ⅛”	9.7 x 14.1cm
Sentiment	Basic White	4 x 5 ¼”	2.5 x 110cm
Card Insert	Basic White	4 x 5 ¼”	10 x 14.4cm
Insert Trim	DSP	¾ x 5 ⅛”	2 x 14.1cm
Shells	Basic White	scraps
Grasses	DSP	scraps

By the Bay Creativity Abounds Stamp Camp

If you love this suite join us at the By the Bay Stamp Camp for all the details click HERE Cost FREE when you purchase the By the Bay Suite Collection from me. If you from live out side of Australia, let me know and I can put you into contact with a Demo in your area from the design team.