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17th May 2016

Can You Case It #120 – Sketch Challenge

Watercolour Wishes Thanks Card using Stampin' Up! products

Hello! I have 2 challenge posts coming today and tomorrow. I know I don’t usually post on a Tuesday afternoon (or a Wedneday!) but I couldn’t miss this weeks Challenges.

The first is from Can You Case It!

Now, I love this type of sketch, really basic with plenty of room for imagination!

Recently I took the stamp set out of my Watercolour Wishes card kit. It is such a great stamp set that leaving it in the kit was just a waste! I have used it so much since it appeared on my shelves! I sponged the corner first in Basic Grey and then in Mint Macaron ink, and then stamped the little hearts in Mint Macaron. The ‘Thanks’ is heat embossed in White onto a 1″ strip of Vellum.

Keeping it simple today, but just wait until you see what I did for tomorrows challenge post!

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Watercolor Wishes Card Kit

[140406]

£31.50

Mint Macaron A4 Cardstock

[138344]

£6.50

Mint Macaron Classic Stampin’ Pad

[138326]

£6.00

Basic Gray A4 Card Stock

[121689]

£6.50

Basic Gray Archival Stampin’ Pad

[140932]

£6.50

Stamping Sponges

[141337]

£3.25

White Vellum A4 Card Stock

[106584]

£6.00

White Stampin’ Emboss Powder

[109132]

£4.50

Versamark Pad

[102283]

£7.00

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17th May 2016

Picture Perfect Humming Bird

Humming Bird Card featuring Picture Perfect from Stampin' Up! UK

This card was totally inspired by the fabulous Brandy Cox, a few weeks ago she created a great card using this humming bird in a similar colour combination as well as creating a bird with two wings. I loved it and just had to have a go to!

This bird is stunning! I will admit that I bought the Picture Perfect stamp set purely for the Rose stamp (Which I used in my Make It Monday video yesterday!) but once it arrived this bird just made my heart sing! I have so many ideas for this one, and so little time to play with it! There are so many colour combinations that would make this bird look awesome, here I have used Soft Sky, Tempting Turquoise, Basic Black and Delightful Dijon. I never even thought of using Basic Black on this bird until I saw Brandy’s sample, but it really works!

The humming bird stamp actually only has one wing, but I really love the idea of adding a second to really make the bird appear as if in flight. I simply stamped an extra bird and just fussy cut the wing, then added the second wing behind the fussy cut bird with a dab of Tombow glue

I had to use my favourite embossing folder on this card too! My Lovely Lace embossing folder looks worse for wear, I really need to buy a new one, but it still works – even if it is held together by parcel tape! (on an important note; this is why I don’t advise you run your embossing folders through the big shot sideways too often, or you will need parcel tape too!)

Measurements:

Card Base – Delightful Dijon – Half A4 folded in half

Tempting Turquoise – 14.3 x 10 cm

Very Vanilla – 13.8 x 9.5 cm

Tempting Turquoise – 7.5 x 7.5 cm

Very Vanilla – 7 x 7 cm

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Picture Perfect Photopolymer Stamp Set

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£7.00

Soft Sky Classic Stampin’ Pad

[131181]

£6.00

Tempting Turquoise Classic Stampin’ Pad

[126952]

£6.00

Basic Black Archival Stampin’ Pad

[140931]

£6.50

Delightful Dijon Classic Stampin’ Pad

[138327]

£6.00

Delightful Dijon A4 Cardstock

[138345]

£6.50

Tempting Turquoise A4 Card Stock

[108598]

£6.50

Very Vanilla A4 Card Stock

[106550]

£7.25

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£9.00

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16th May 2016

Make It Monday | 2 Step Stamping

Make It Monday Video Tutorial 2 Step Stamping Picture Perfect from Stampin' Up! UK

Welcome to another week of Make It Monday!

I have been loving playing with the Picture Perfect stamp set recently, and have a few cards to share with you using this stamp set over the next week or so. I am so pleased that this stamp set is in our new Annual catalogue too. (I do have a few spare catalogues, let me know if you want one!)

How pretty is this rose? Little known fact about me, one of my middle names is Rose – I rebelled against it for a LONG time, but these days I love it and really embrace the Rose in my name. James went through a period a few years ago of buying me heaps of Roses (flower not chocolates, although he has bought me plenty of those too!) but recently I haven’t had any flowers, maybe I should send him this blog post as I reminder!

Back to the stamping …. These roses look really complex, but are super simple to stamp. They are a 3 layer stamped image, which means that there are 3 stamps stamped one on top of the other, in different colours to create the full flower. The leaves are the formed in the same way. You can see exactly how to stamp these in the video tutorial below

I adore this colour combination, Rose Red and Crumb Cake. The roses are stamped in Blushing Bride and Rose Red, while the leaves are a combination of Pear Pizzazz and Old Olive.

I arranged the flowers before I stuck everything down, I do this a lot when I’ve fussy or die cut elements, just to check my composition works. I found that this card was missing something, Stampin’ Up! have some great stamp sets for this event, but Gorgeous Grunge is my favourite! So I added some Crumb Cake spatter using Gorgeous Grunge, and that was the card complete!

Measurements:

Card Base – Rose Red – 14.85 x 21 cm (half a sheet of A4) Scored at 10.5 cm

Crumb Cake Layer – 14.3 x 10 cm

Whisper White Layer – 13.8 x 9.5 cm

Product List

Picture Perfect Photopolymer Stamp Set

[140520]

£24.00

Rose Red Classic Stampin’ Pad

[126954]

£6.00

Blushing Bride Classic Stampin’ Pad

[131172]

£6.00

Pear Pizzazz Classic Stampin’ Pad

[131180]

£6.00

Old Olive Classic Stampin’ Pad

[126953]

£6.00

Crumb Cake Classic Stampin’ Pad

[126975]

£6.00

Gorgeous Grunge Clear Stamp Set

[130517]

£18.00

Paper Snips Scissors

[103579]

£9.00

Crumb Cake A4 Card Stock

[121685]

£6.50

Rose Red A4 Card Stock

[108613]

£6.50

Whisper White A4 Card Stock

[106549]

£7.25

Stampin’ Dimensionals

[104430]

£3.75

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13th May 2016

Fancy Fold Friday | Simple Easel Card

Fancy Fold Friday Easel Card Video Tutorial using Stampin' Up! UK products

Welcome to Fancy Fold Friday! Today I thought I would share my most commonly made Fancy Fold Card! A Simply Easel – I love doing a twist on the Easel card but today I’m heading back to basics and keeping it simple!

I am still totally in love with this stamp set too! Awesomely Artistic is a great layering stamp set, and you can see me layer these stamps in the video tutorial below!

Easel cards are super simple, but require one very key component – the stopper! This is the part of the card that makes the card front stand up. Here I have used the Decorative Label punch to create my stopper, popping my punched out sentiment on a dimensional.

Measurements:

Card Base: Mint Macaron – 21 x 14.8 cm, Scored on the long side at 10.5 cm and 5.2 cm

Card Layers: Tip Top Taupe – 10 x 14.2 cm and Whisper White – 9.5 x 13.8 cm

Don’t forget that you will also need a scrap of Mint Macaron card stock for the stopper.

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Awesomely Artistic Clear-Mount Stamp Set

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12th May 2016

You’re Sublime…..

I love sending cards to my friends, and will often send cards after an event to say thanks. I sent this card last week to my friend Heidi – I’m hoping that it has arrived with her before this goes live! Heidi is awesome and does some amazing boxes and fancy fold cards, you should totally check her out!

I am hoping that Heidi wasn’t too offended that I sent her a card with crabs all over it! The inside also included the crab, and I even stamped the envelope! I often forget about envelope, although I’m sure that my customers have noticed that recently I have started to add Washi Tape to my envelopes to differentiate cards from bills!

The Crab is watercoloured in Watermelon Wonder onto Shimmery White Card Stock. I created the wash of Tempting Turquoise first before stamping the crab and sentiment in Basic Grey. Did you know that our Basic Grey ink is archival the same as the Basic Black which means that it is great for watercolour too!

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10th May 2016

Thank You Garden In Bloom

Thank You Card using Garden in Bloom and Tin of Cards from Stampin' Up! UK

As you know I love Watercolour, and getting really inky and messy when I’m card making. However, sometimes you just need a super quick card….

But, I still want that watercolour / inky artsy look. I LOVE Garden in Bloom for this, it is designed to make you look like a watercolour master – but all you have used is stamps and ink!

Here I have used Blushing Bride for the flowers – there are other stamps that I could have layered but I was keeping things simple here! – with Melon Mambo for the smaller flowers and Pear Pizzazz leaves.

The sentiment is taken from Tin of Cards, and the strip of Designer Series Paper is from Go Wild!

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9th May 2016

Make It Monday | Large Numbers Birthday Card

Large Numbers Birthday card Video Tutorial Featuring Stampin' Up! UK products

Hello! Welcome to another Make It Monday! As soon as I spotted the Large Numbers Framelits Dies in this years Spring/Summer catalogue this card sprang into my head! Yes, it has taken me an AGE to get around making it, but I thought I would share making it with you!

This card was super simple to make! This would be a great boys birthday card (maybe not with the pink!) or men’s cards too.

My top tips for this card are to use Tombow glue to adhere the numbers, as to adhere the numbers in a random way; upside down, and off the edges. This technique is also known as faux embossing because the numbers are the same colour as the card stock underneath, however this card could be really cool in rainbow!

Measurements:

Card base: Basic Grey – 21 x 14.8 cm

Layer: Basic Grey – 10 x 14.2 cm

Numbers: Basic Grey Scraps

Melon Mambo: scrap, approx 6.5 x 6.5 cm

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6th May 2016

Fancy Fold Friday | Diagonal Double Pocket Planner Insert

Fancy Fold Friday Diagonal Double Pocket Fold Planner Insert

I am loving being back with my Fancy Fold Fridays! I hope you are too!

I am not going to limit myself though just to cards, I know I love a fancy fold card as much as the next crazy paper lady however I am going to include some other folding projects too, and this is one of those.

Pinterest has a LOT to answer for here! I have a whole board of fancy fold ideas, and this popped up one day, I love the idea but the measurements are for 8 1/2 x 11″ card stock AKA: American sized paper! which when you live an A4 sized world is really annoying. But I chopped down a piece of 12×12 Designer Series Paper to give it ago anyway, and chucked it into my planner – I store heaps of cards and ideas in my planner including prototypes – and I had an epiphany, what an AWESOME planner insert! Plus, trying to cut a piece of 12×12 Designer Series Paper down to A4 is a bit of a nuisance.

I use an Erin Condren Life Planner (LOVE!) but you could totally fit these into other types planners just by punching the appropriate holes. They are a great place to store tickets, receipts, business cards and other important bits of paper.

The insert I am currently using uses the retiring English Garden Designer Series Paper which is so super pretty, but the one in the video uses a piece of the Neutrals Designer Series Paper stack, which includes pieces of Gold and Silver (so lovely) that would make gorgeous planner inserts!

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English Garden Designer Series Paper

[138440]

£10.00

Neutrals Designer Series Paper Stack

[138435]

£20.00

Simply Scored

[122334]

£27.00

Tear & Tape Adhesive

[138995]

£6.25

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5th May 2016

Go Wild Scrapbook Page

12x12 Scrapbook page Engagement shoot Designer Series Paper Stampin' Up!

Something that you may not know about me, is that originally I was a 12×12 scrapbooker, and I only started making cards to use up my scraps of patterned paper. I don’t tend to show you guys much memory keeping on the blog, mainly because I don’t get much time to make 12×12 layouts very often anymore. However, I am about to embark on the enormous project that is my Wedding Album! I have everything ready, I just haven’t gotten around to printing the pictures! I am hoping to have at least made a start on the album by the time our first anniversary rolls around in August.

So, this layout will be finding its way into the Wedding Album, as it is part of our Engagement photo shoot.

I was challenged by my wonderful upline to use up a pack of Designer Series Paper a few weeks ago. At a Team Training event she presented us all with a pack of the Go Wild Designer Series Paper, as well as a couple of embellishment type bits and bobs and asked us to see what we could create. I have a whole heap of card using this paper now – which you will see if you are subscribed to my Email Newsletter today.

The layout is actually pretty simple. There are several layers of Designer Series Paper and Card Stock behind the photo. Because I enjoy the layered effect some of the layers have raised corner – popped up with a dimensional, and then I die cut the Rose Garden thinlits out of Blushing Bride Card Stock as embellishments. The title is stamped using the Layered Letters Alphabet, and the layout was completed with a scattering of Blushing Bride sequins.

The Go Wild Designer Series Paper stack is retiring soon (end of May) and is currently available for a reduced price of £5.08! Awesome!

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Whisper White 12″ X 12″ Card Stock

[124302]

£5.50

Go Wild Designer Series Paper Stack

[138441]

£7.25

Blushing Bride Sequin Trim

[138400]

£4.50

Rose Garden Thinlits Dies

[140619]

£28.00

Layered Letters Alphabet Photopolymer Stamp

[138692]

£24.00

Sahara Sand Classic Stampin’ Pad

[126976]

£6.00

Stampin’ Dimensionals

[104430]

£3.75

Fine-Tip Glue Pen

[138309]

£6.25

Card Stock A4 Blushing Bride

[131287]

£6.50

Basic Black A4 Card Stock

[121688]

£6.50

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4th May 2016

Global Design Project #034 | Sketch Challenge

Global Design Project Mint Macaron Watercolour Wishes Card using Stampin' Up! products

I had so much fun with the Global Design Project Colour Challenge last week that I’m joining in again this week with their Sketch Challenge. One of the things I love about joining in with the Global Design Project is that the type of challenge changes, so its not a sketch each week. Love that!

I love this sketch, but I think I was more inspired by the Global Design Project colour scheme this week – maybe my brain hasn’t moved on from the colour challenge last week!

I have just dug out the stamp set from the Watercolour Wishes Card Kit. I really have to finish making the cards from that kit because they are gorgeous, but I realised last week that I haven’t used the stamp set included in the kit! shocking! So, seeing as it is coming back again next year, I thought I would move the stamps out of the kit and store them with the rest of my stamps!

I did think about watercolouring the background of this card, as per the sketch, but decided that I would rather sponge today. Once I had a good coverage of Mint Macaron ink I heat embossed the sentiment in White. I did add some extra ink after to make the sentiment pop.

The card was finished with a layer of vellum and a scattering of Silver sequins from my roll of sequin trim!

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