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Simply Sketched Saturday Challenge #3

Stampin' Up! UK Simple Sketched Challenge Season of Cheer

Stampin' Up! Sketch Challenge

Thank you for joining us for another Simply Sketched Saturday Challenge! We’re so excited to be sharing this hop with you.  The products used are all available in the current Annual, or seasonal, Stampin’ Up!® Catalogues*.  Simply use the buttons at the bottom of the post to keep hopping!

 

Its time for another Simply Sketched Saturday Challenge! and another sketch which caused my great difficulty!

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I very rarely use ribbon on cards, and tying a big bow on the front of a card definitely isn’t me! I did consider changing the bow for a different image, but then couldn’t think of anything to change it to! But I still didn’t want to use ribbon, well then Stampin’ Up!® came to my rescue with the Bow Builder Punch!

Stampin' Up! UK Simple Sketched Challenge Season of Cheer

There are some retiring products on this card, and I really hope you can grab them before they sell out! I’ve LOVED used the Season of Cheer Designer Series Paper featured on the bottom half of this card, its a perfect blend of colours and watercolour effect for the perfect Christmas feel.

The sentiment comes from the Festive Fireside stamp set, also on the retiring list, stamped in Cherry Cobbler, surrounded by a Wreath of Mossy Meadow

Before I go, I have a few Bow Builder Punch Tips!

  • punch all your pieces first (that’s two punches!) and curl them with your bone folder to prevent creases in your bow
  • stick your bow together with glue dots, but attach the completed bow to your project with Tombow Liquid Glue. I also find that my bow holds together better if I add some Tombow to the underside of the bow before I stick it down
  • Stampin’ Up!® have a great video on the assembling the bow on their YouTube channel

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Festive Fireplace Week – Tealight Holder

Stampin' Up! UK Festive Fireplace Tealights

Stampin Up! Festive Fireplace Week

Welcome to the final post in my Festive Fireplace week blog series, I do hope you have enjoyed it and found some inspiration. You can find all the other projects in this weeks worth of posts by searching for ‘Festive Fireplace’ in my search bar

Stampin' Up! UK Festive Fireplace Candles cat Christmas

This project comes with a bit of a disclaimer – DO NOT put real tealights inside! Please use electric tealights for this, I will not be held responsible for any accidents caused by this project!

Right, with that out of the way, fancy making one?

They are really simple to make, and I am loving the cat with the bow collar too. The Chocolate Chip version uses Very Vanilla, Cherry Cobbler and Tip Top Taupe, while the Soft Sky version uses Whisper White, Pear Pizzazz and Sahara Sand

Stampin' Up! UK Festive Fireplace Tealights

Measurements:

Card stock – 11 3/4 x 3″ (29 x 7.5 cm)

Score on the long side at 5″ (12.5 cm) rotate by 180 degrees and score 5″ again

Stamp your fireplace on both sides, lining the bottom edge up with the score lines you have just made, and cut out the centre of the fireplaces with a craft knife and metal ruler

Use Tear’n’Tape to attach vellum behind the fireplaces, and add mantle pieces, cats and any other decor items.

Form into a tent shape, rounding the corner with the Project Life by Stampin’ Up! corner punch, and joining the tops together with a staple.

Cover the staple with a bow, and insert your electric tealight

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Festive Fireplace Week | Vellum Shaker Card

Stampin' Up! UK Festive Fireplace Shaker card

Stampin Up! Festive Fireplace Week

I hope you are enjoying this week of blog posts, you can find the other projects in this series by searching for ‘Festive Fireplace’ in my search bar (near the top of the side bar). I am loving this stamp set, although this card didn’t turn out quite as I imagined.

Stampin' Up! UK Festive Fireplace Shaker card

The shaker part of this one was created using the Winter Wonderland Designer Vellum; I cut a piece 2 1/2 x 6″ and scored at 3″, taped the two sides together leaving the top open, added some sequins from my stash (although there are some great sequins in this years annual catalogue, links below) and sealed the pocket with my handy stapler! I had planned to have this pocket open to the outside and inside of the card, but managed to stick the whole thing together before I had cut the hole! Silly me!

The Fireplace is stamped in Cherry Cobbler on Very Vanilla, and the centre cut out with my trusty craft knife. The only further additions are then the garland atop the fireplace and the sentiment stamped in Mossy Meadow

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Festive Fireplace Week | Ink Blending

Stampin' Up! UK festive fireplace black cat christmas card

Stampin Up! Festive Fireplace Week

I don’t usually post a card on a Wednesday, but seeing as I’m posting all week about the same stamp set I thought I would add another card in here! Seeing as it is Wednesday though, please do go and check out this weeks Weekly Deals!

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 This card would look extra awesome with a bow of Early Espresso ribbon! and those Gold Basic Metal Buttons are a must, so pretty!

Stampin' Up! UK festive fireplace black cat christmas cardI’ve been getting inky in my craft room again with this one! The Fireplace is stamped in Sahara Sand, straight onto my Whisper White matt. Then, using my handy sticky notes I masked off the area inside the fireplace and added Daffodil Delight, Delightful Dijon and Tangelo Twist with a sponge.

Stampin' Up! UK festive fireplace week ink blending

The fire is stamped using other handy Stampin’ Write markers (Early Espresso,Tangerine Tango and Crushed Curry), colouring directly onto the stamp to get a multi-coloured effect, before die-cutting with those matching framelits (loving those!) and with a black cat added to finish.

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Festive Fireplace Week | Technique Tuesday edition!

Stampin Up! Festive Fireplace Week

I have been playing around with this stamp set for a few weeks, and it makes lovely Christmas cards, but I knew I could stretch this one and make some cards for other occasions too!

Stampin' Up! UK Festive Fireplace Birthday Card

It is one of my brother in laws birthdays at the end of the month (am I damn near positive he is never going to see this post so I’m not worrying about sharing it early!) and decided this was the perfect opportunity to try something a little different with both the stamp set and my supplies!

I am completely in love with watercolour at the moment, and have some plans for some paintings soon (scary!) but I always use my ink pads to watercolour with and decided I would try something different with my Stampin’ Write Markers. I have to say, it didnt work as well as I had hoped. These markers are water based, and use the same ink as our ink pads, so I decided to try watercolouring with them direct to paper. I did get some movement of the ink, but not as much as I do when I apply the ink with a paint-brush so I think I’ll be sticking to that in future!

This card also features the wonderful Winter Wonderland Designer Vellum, which I cannot get enough of! and have used as part of this months Stampin@Home kit class, for more information on that click on the image below

Thanks for visiting my little blog today and I hope to see you again tomorrow for another card using the Festive Fireplace!

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Festive Fireplace Week | Catalogue Case

Stampin' Up! UK Festive Fireplace

Stampin Up! Festive Fireplace Week

Welcome to a brand new week at StampinByHannah! I have great plans for this week, all using the Festive Fireplace bundle from Stampin’ Up!®

When the latest catalogue dropped through my door (well, popped into my email!) I fell in love with this stamp set. I think it’s probably the cat image, although I am still working out how to colour it like my Freda.

Stampin' Up! UK Festive Fireplace

This card is a CASE (copy and share everything) from the catalogue, and it just shows why I love this bundle – could I ever be bothered to cut out that fire? or the stockings? nope! but the dies are awesome!

I am also loving watercolour at the moment (more of that coming tomorrow!) and adding water to soften these images really makes this card gorgeous!

The only thing with this card is that it is all on Watercolour Paper, and so some of the dies needed to run through my Big Shot twice just because it is a thicker paper.

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