Stampin' Up! Australia - Stampin' Up! Sweetheart Punch

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Welcome to this week's Create with Connie and Mary Thursday Challenge.

I couldn't make my card work in landscape so I switched to portrait and flipped the greeting to the other side.

I used the Sweetheart Punch to fulfil the circle elements from the sketch. I added a greeting from the Tin of Cards stamp set and stamped a cute little red heart above it. Some sequins finished it off. 

TIP #1 -  use up your old DSP by making Envelope Liners with the Envelope Liner Framelit Dies. This is from a retired Valentine paper stack. The Real Red matches the red circle and the red heart on my card. :)

TIP #2 - use the Fine Tip Glue Pen from the Holiday Catalogue to glue down your sequins. ZERO mess! :)

I was also inspired by the theme at CASOLOGY this week....

Card recipe

Stamp - Tin of Cards

Ink - Night of Navy, Real Red

Cardstock - Whisper White, Night of Navy, Pink Pirouette, Real Red

Tools - Big Shot, Envelope Liner Framelit Dies, Stampin' Trimmer, Stampin' Dimensionals, SNAIL, 
Fine Tip Glue Pen (for the sequins) , Sweetheart Punch, 
Small Heart Punch (retired) but use the Heart from the Itty Bitty Punch Pack instead. 
Accessories - Metallics Sequins Assortment

I hope you will join in and create a card with us.....and please feel free to leave me and the other CCMC participants some comments! :)

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Stampin' Up! Australia - Embellished Ornaments Christmas Card

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Welcome to this week's Artful Stampers Blog Hop and welcome from Tamsin's blog.

I wanted to make a fairly monochromatic Christmas Card with this week's challenge colours and used a page from the Merry Moments Designer Series paper pack (Annual Catalogue) as my base.

You may see that I have added a very subtle amount of Lost Lagoon by way of the marker pen and adding little dots to the ornament.

Here are our colours for this week...

I used the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches....

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Stamp - Embellished Ornaments

Ink - Pear Pizzazz, Basic Gray, Lost Lagoon Stampin' Write Marker  

Cardstock - Whisper White Thick, Whisper White, Merry Moments DSP 

Tools - Big Shot, Stampin' Trimmer, Dimensionals, Delicate Ornaments Thinlits Dies

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Stampin' Up! Australia - Happy Hallowe'en

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Welcome to this week's CASE-ing the Catty Blog Hop! Welcome from Tricia's blog.

This week the Blog Hop challenge is all about CASE-ing a project inspired by the Halloween samples from the Stampin' Up! Holiday catalogue.

CASE stands for Copy and Share Everything.  This whole blog hop is about using the current Stampin' Up! Catalogues to help you create.  Sometimes crafters need a springboard to just get started and the catalogues are certainly a demonstrator or customer's best resource.

A lot of Australians don't do Halloween and many protest that it is an American holiday and we shouldn't celebrate it....

Well....I LOVE Halloween...being a student of the dark arts and all.....it's an excuse for me to get out my retired goth clothes and play some Siouxsie and the Banshees while the kids from the neighbourhood come trick or treating.

Yes, you heard me....the families in our little Australian neck of the woods go trick or treating. In fact, our street is renowned for the Halloween spirit....families drive from elsewhere to our suburb to visit. Last year we had about 150 kids visit our door. My son's were SO excited. I decorated our front door (my American friends would call this the porch) with a Halloween wreath, pumpkins, spooky faces and I hid fake glowing eyes in the garden. It looked SO COOL!

Anyway....on to the project...

I used a jar from Kmart and filled it with large Jaffas. My label is from a retired set called Toxic Treats. I used the label from the image below as my inspiration and I flipped the landscape design to portrait. 

Here's my inspiration image:

Click below to go to Jessica's blog....

Stamp - Toxic Treats (vintage)

Ink - Versamark

Cardstock - Basic Black, Basic Black DSP (retired), Pumpkin Pie

Tools  - Big Shot, Labels Framelit Dies (vintage), Triple Banner Punch, Dimensionals

Accessories - Basic Black Satin Ribbon, Silver ribbon

I hope you like my project!

The 2015-2016 Annual Catalogue  and the Stampin' Up! Holiday Catalogue are out NOW so if you would like to know how to get your free copy, just send me an email. :)

Alternatively, you may download the catalogue here!

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Stampin' Up! Australia - English Garden Designer Series Paper - BEES!

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Welcome to this week's Create with Connie and Mary Thursday Challenge.

The colour challenge this week had me stumped until I realised that all three colours reside within the  gorgeous pages of the English Garden Designer Series Paper pack.

I chose my favourite page....the BEES!

I also realised that the Mossy Meadow washi tape is HEXAGON patterned....how fortuitous....

Card recipe

Stamp - none

Ink - none

Cardstock - Whisper White, English Garden DSP, Mossy Meadow 

Tools - Stampin' Trimmer, Stampin' Dimensionals, SNAIL
Accessories - Mossy Meadow Washi Tape, Natural Expressions Wooden Accents. 

I hope you will join in and create a card with us.....and please feel free to leave me and the other CCMC participants some comments! :)

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Stampin' Up! Australia - Stampin' Up! Blended Bloom

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The inspiration image at The Card Concept's this week is a beautiful elegant bouquet of flowers on a thanksgiving/fall table setting.

Since we don't celebrate Thanksgiving here in Australia, I took my design cues from the cluster of flowers and the colour palette.

I masked off my centre panel and stamped the Blended Blooms stamp in Blushing Bride, Blackberry Bliss and Early Espresso. I then sponged Blushing Bride around the edges and painted over the panel with Wink of Stella Clear which caused the colours to wash and bleed a bit which gave a beautiful marbled effect.

Here is the image:

Card recipe

Stamps - Blended Bloom

Ink - Blushing Bride, Early Espresso, Blackberry Bliss

Cardstock - Very Vanilla

Tools - Stampin' Trimmer, Stampin' Dimensionals, Stampin' Sponges

Post-it notes, Wink of Stella (clear) 

I hope you like my card.

The 2015-2016 Annual Catalogue (download)  AND the Holiday catalogue (download)  are out NOW so if you would like to know how to get your free copy, just send me an email. :)

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Stampin' Up! Australia - Happy Birthday Everyone - English Garden DSP

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Welcome to this week's Artful Stampers Blog Hop and welcome from Tamsin's blog!

When I sat down to create this card, I had NO idea what I was going to do. So I reached for the first pack of Designer Series Paper and decided to commit to the first one that was on the top of the pile.  It happened to be English Garden and then this set the tone for my card. I used the coordinating colours of the DSP....Old Olive for the base mat, Mossy Meadow for the banner, Blushing Bride for the flower and border strip and Melon Mambo for the greeting.

Here is our sketch for this week....

TIP! The miniature leaves for my flower were punched from Old Olive card stock using the Tree Builder punch....the little teardrop shape! Perfect for little leaves. :)

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Stamp - Happy Birthday Everyone

Ink - Melon Mambo

Cardstock - Whisper White Thick, Whisper White, Old Olive, Mossy Meadow, Blushing Bride, Blushing Bride DSP (vintage), English Garden Designer Series Paper

Accessories - Pearls

Tools - Stampin' Trimmer, Dimensionals, Itty Bitty Accents Punch Pack, 

Tree Builder Punch, Glue Dots. 

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Stampin' Up! Australia - Stampin' Up! Mint Macaron Christmas Wreath.

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Welcome to this week's CASE-ing the Catty Blog Hop! Welcome from Rebecca's blog.

This week the Blog Hop challenge is all about CASE-ing a project inspired by the Project Life samples from the Stampin' Up! Holiday catalogue.

CASE stands for Copy and Share Everything.  This whole blog hop is about using the current Stampin' Up! Catalogues to help you create.  Sometimes crafters need a springboard to just get started and the catalogues are certainly a demonstrator or customer's best resource.

I don't have any Project Life supplies so I thought I would CASE one of the Project Life pieces in the catalogue by using a current Christmas stamp set in the same colours. 

I stamped Wondrous Wreath in Mint Macaron and the ribbon and bow in Real Red. I threw in a Wooden Embellishment as the greeting. 

Very clean and simple, but I like it! :)

Here's my inspiration image:

I also did another card with some retired Project Life accessories. Do you like it?

Click below to go to Rebecca's blog...

I hope you like my cards. If you have been inspired by it and would like to support my creative business, all the supplies may be found by clicking through the links below which will take you to my store.

The 2015-2016 Annual Catalogue  and the Stampin' Up! Holiday Catalogue are out NOW so if you would like to know how to get your free copy, just send me an email. :)

Alternatively, you may download the catalogue here!

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Product List

Wonderous Wreath Photopolymer Bundle $73.00	Expressions Natural Elements $8.75	Whisper White A4 Thick Cardstock $12.25	Real Red Classic Stampin' Pad $11.50
Mint Macaron Classic Stampin' Pad $11.50	SNAIL Permanent Adhesive $12.00	Stampin' Trimmer ...	Stampin' Dimensionals $7.00
Glue Dots $9.00	Big Shot $169.00

Stampin' Up! Australia - Stampin' Up! Sassy Salutations Birthday Card

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Welcome to this week's Create with Connie and Mary Thursday Challenge.

Isn't this a cool sketch? The possibilities are endless and the best bit is....you get to use up those skinny scraps!!!

I used strips of Cucumber Crush, Real Red and Crushed Curry and stamped a greeting from Sassy Salutations onto Whisper White card stock. I then cut this with an Oval Framelit in the Big Shot.

Here is our cool sketch...

The colours came from the inspiring colour palette at The Paper Players this week. :)

Card recipe

Stamp - Sassy Salutations

Ink - Real Red 

Cardstock - Whisper White, Real Red, Cucumber Crush, Crushed Curry

Tools - Stampin' Trimmer, Stampin' Dimensionals, SNAIL, Big Shot, Oval Framelits
Accessories - White Perfect Accents

I hope you will join in and create a card with us.....and please feel free to leave me and the other CCMC participants some comments! :)

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Stampin' Up! Australia - Stampin' Up! Thank You card

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Welcome to this week's Artful Stampers Blog Hop and welcome from Amanda's blog!

I went really simple with this card....just some butterfly punches, a wooden embellishment and some candy dots.

Here are our colours for this week...

Here is the sketch I used from CASE This Sketch ....

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