Stampin’ Up! Australia - Stampin’ Up! Halloween Birthday card

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The inspiration image at The Card Concept's challenge this week is beautiful patterned pumpkin decoration - look at those cool chevrons!

I was inspired by the orange chevrons and the Halloween imagery. I know we don’t ‘do’ Halloween here in Australia, but our street and most of our suburb celebrate it and it is a lot of fun. Last year we got about 220 kids through the street - that’s a lot of sugar!! :)

I have a friend who recently celebrated a birthday - so this card is a belated greeting to her. She, like me, loves witches and the ‘stranger things’ so this little stamp is perfect!

Here’s the inspiration image:

I hope you like my card! :)

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Stampin’ Up! Australia - Watercolour Wishes Birthday Card

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

Here are the essentials:

• I used a fun cursive sentiment stamp from the Watercolour Wishes card kit. 
• Use up your scraps! This great sketch from CASE This Sketch really lends itself to a good rummage through the scraps folder. :)
• Layer the pink. I layered a Flirty Flamingo layer onto the Blushing Bride card base since these two colours were part of the same spectrum. 

Here are our colours for this week:

Here’s the sketch from CASE This Sketch:

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Stamp - Watercolour Wishes

Ink - Flirty Flamingo

Cardstock - Flirty Flamingo, Blushing Bride, Whisper White, Old Olive DSP (retired), Blushing Bride DSP (retired), Marina Mist, Tip Top Taupe

Tools - Stampin’ Trimmer, Glue Dots, Glue Pen

Accessories - Wooden Butterfly from Watercolour Wishes card kit, white sequins

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Stampin’ Up! Australia - Stampin’ Up! Number of Years

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The inspiration image at The Card Concept's challenge this week is all about citrus colour!!

I was trying to channel some sort of graphic card that featured fun colourful circles but it wasn’t working so I looked to the ‘Number of Years’ stamp and decided to be guided by the bright colours for inspiration.

I thought it would be fun to make a teenage girl card.....keep it fresh and simple.

Here’s the inspiration image:

Here’s the sketch inspiration from CASE(E) This Sketch:

I hope you like my card! :)

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Stampin’ Up! Australia - Stampin’ Up! Fairy Celebration

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

I made this card for little girl in my son’s class. He attended her 6th birthday today and I thought she might like this card. :)

I used the technique for this week - the Faux Wax Seal - on the envelope. I stamped the little fairy image into the molten copper embossing powder and it left a cool effect! Shelli Gardner does a great little tutorial on this on her blog here. 

The seal looks nicer in real life. It kinda looks like a brown blob in my photo but actually it is very shiny and pretty. My advice is to keep the embossing powder nice and thick - you want that displaced look around the edges for an authentic wax seal look.  

I took the colouring cues for the fairy image from the colours featured in the Affectionately Yours DSP. They work beautifully I think. I also put some sparkly Wink of Stella on her wings, the flowers and the toadstool. :)

Here’s our theme for this week:

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Stamp - Fairy Celebration

Ink - Archival Black, Watermelon Wonder, Crumb Cake, Cucumber Crush, Mint Macaron, Night of Navy, Flirty Flamingo, Daffodil Delight, Blush Blossom Marker, Versamark 
Tools - Copper Embossing Powder, Heat Tool, Silicon Mat

Cardstock - Crumb Cake, Affectionately Yours DSP, Very Vanilla, Watercolour Paper

Accessories - Classy Designer Buttons, Linen Thread, SNAIL, Stampin Dimensionals

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Stampin’ Up! Australia - Stampin’ Up! Pineapple Birthday Card

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I’m loving this new Pineapple background stamp from the new 2016-2017 Annual Catalogue. I went crazy with some rainbow brush strokes (from Work of Art) in the background - a mix of 4 new In Colors and 3 from last year.

I used the sketch from CAS(E) This Sketch and flipped it. :)

I hope you like my card! :)

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Stamps - Pineapple, Work of Art

Ink - Flirty Flamingo, Sweet Sugarplum, Dapper Denim, Cucumber Crush, Delightful Dijon, Peekaboo Peach, Watermelon Wonder, Archival Black, Versamark

Cardstock - Whisper White, Basic Black, Whisper White Thick yardstick

Tools - White Emboss Powder, Embossing Buddy, Heat Tool

Accessories - White Accents, Stampin’ Dimensionals, SNAIL

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Stampin’ Up! Australia - Bohemian DSP + Butterfly Framelits

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

Here are the essentials:

• The background is a piece of Delightful Dijon DSP from the Bohemian DSP pack. 
• The sentiment is from Butterfly Basics
• The layered butterfly is from a combo of framelits - Sahara Sand layer from the ‘Butterflies’ Framelits and the Lost Lagoon layer from the "Bold Butterfly” framelits
• The card is 12 cm x 12 cm square.

Here are our colours for this week

Card recipe

Stamp - Butterfly Basics

Ink - Lost Lagoon
Cardstock - Very Vanilla, Bohemian DSP, Delightful Dijon, Sahara Sand, Lost Lagoon

Tools - Stampin' Trimmer, SNAIL, Big Shot, Bold Butterfly Framelits, Butterflies Framelits, Glue Dots
Accessories - In Color Blossom 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! No Bones About It in PINK!

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

Here are the essentials:

• I  found a scrap piece of a stamped dinosaur that didn’t quite make it onto a card a while ago. It is stamped in Melon Mambo and the bones are stamped in Tempting Turquoise. 
• I used the Bohemian DSP and washi tape. 
• some gold sequin trim finished off the sketch!

Here is our sketch for this week:

Card recipe

Stamp - No Bones About It

Ink - Melon Mambo, Tempting Turquoise, Bermuda Bay, Rich Razzleberry

Cardstock - Whisper White cardstock, Bohemian DSP, Melon Mambo

Tools - Stampin' Trimmer, Stampin’ Dimensionals, SNAIL, Big Shot, Oval Framelits, Paper Snips, Glue Pen, Stapler
Accessories - Gold Sequin Trim, Bohemian Washi Tape 

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! Botanical Gardens + Happy Birthday Everyone

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

Here are the essentials:

• I wanted to use a bold pattern as my background and have all the other elements as miniature pieces. Botanical Gardens DSP has some amazing patterns and I chose the leafy one for this card. 
• The angled greeting took on a life of its own and became a tag. I used the Gold Glitter Tape and made a faux-ribbon.  
• Use your scraps! I had a doily-cut off, a vellum scrap piece and a gold glimmer butterfly that I had punched but not used sitting in my embellishments case. I threw them on this card and it worked in an eclectic kinda way.  

Here is our sketch for this week:

Card recipe

Stamp - Happy Birthday Everyone

Ink - Mossy Meadow

Cardstock - Whisper White cardstock, Botanical Gardens DSP, Botanical Gardens Vellum, Gold Glimmer Paper

Tools - Stampin' Trimmer, Stampin’ Dimensionals, SNAIL, Itty Butterfly Punch, Scallop Tag Topper Punch, Paper Snips
Accessories - Metallic Sequins, Gold Glitter Tape, Doily

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! Pretty Petals DSP

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

Here are the essentials:

• I went to my often neglected pile of Designer Series Paper stacks...this one is Pretty Petals. 
• I made a square card and an custom envelope to match from the In Colors Envelope Paper in Tip Top Taupe. I did some tone-on-tone stamping & masking with the line stamp from Tin of Cards and made an address window. :)
• The greeting is from Tin of Cards and the background flower is from Botanical Blooms (stamped off once in Calypso Coral)
• Embellishments....I like having my embellishments in threes so I used 3 Calypso Coral Candy Dots in the top left corner. 
• Gasp - ribbon! I hardly ever use ribbon on my cards as I have a mental block with bows so I did a faux-bow...essentially a knot...with the Tip Top Taupe Lace Ribbon....it’s so pretty! 
• The layout is from Freshly Made Sketches this week.  

Here are our colours for this week:

Here is the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches:

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Stamp - Botanical Blooms, Tin of Cards

Ink - Tip Top Taupe, Calypso Coral

Cardstock -Very Vanilla, Old Olive, Calypso Coral, Pretty Petals DSP

Tools - Stampin’ Trimmer, SNAIL, Stampin Dimensionals

Accessories - Tip Top Taupe Lace Ribbon, Candy Dots - Subtles

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Stampin’ Up! Australia - Tin of Cards Birthday Card

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

Here are the essentials:

• I used some scraps of Cherry on Top DSP (including the tag) and teamed them with some of the new Metallics Gold Glitter Tape. 
• Stamp on your patterned paper...the black archival ink is perfect to get a bold stamped image over a busy background. I used the birthday sentiment from the Tin of Cards stamp set on my DSP tag. 
• The cotton paper is fantastic for making flowers....I punched 12 flowers with the pansy punch and secured with a brad...just scrunch the layers until you get a flower! 
• My card looked a bit naked even after I added the flower and ribbon so a scattering of sequins was in order. :)

Here is our sketch for this week:

Card recipe

Stamp - Tin of Cards

Ink - Archival Black ink

Cardstock - Whisper White Thick cardstock, Cherry on Top DSP, Cotton Paper

Tools - Stampin' Trimmer, Stampin’ Dimensionals, SNAIL, Tag Topper Punch, Pansy Flower Punch
Accessories - Metallics Sequins, Metallics Gold Glitter Tape, Satin Ribbon Basic Black, Gold ribbon

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! Butterfly Bokeh

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

Here are the essentials:

• This card was pulled together from scraps.....seriously...it was!
• The base is Kraft and then theres a layer of Very Vanilla card stock stamped with Hardwood in Crumb Cake and then sponged and ‘distressed’ with Gorgeous Grunge. I had this layer in my stash as it didn’t make the cut for another card. 
• The bokeh layer was done so long ago that I can’t remember the colours....but any tones in yellow, orange, pink and green would work if you wanted to reproduce this. 
• You can stamp on vellum and it comes out beautifully soft. I chose vellum to let the bokeh layer through. I stamped a sentiment from Botanicals for You in Crumb Cake. 
• The Pool Party butterfly framelit was also an off-cut. You may also notice that the frame-lit has had surgical enhancement. The two pointy bits at the bottom were too low for my card, so I creatively snipped them off and made sure that the edge had a curve like the rest of the butterfly. 
• A vellum butterfly and a metal-rimmed pearl are the perfect finishing embellishment. 

Here is our sketch for this week:

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Stamp - Botanicals For You, Hardwood, Gorgeous Grunge

Ink - Crumb Cake + assorted inks for bokeh layer

Cardstock - Kraft, Watercolour, Very Vanilla, Vellum, Pool Party

Tools - Stampin’ Trimmer, SNAIL, Aquapainter, Glue Dots, Elegant Butterfly Punch, Big Shot, Bold Butterfly Framelit Die

Accessories - Metal Rimmed Pearl

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Stampin’ Up! Australia - Stampin’ Up! Butterfly Framelit Die

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

Here are the essentials:

• No white cardstock!! A complete departure of style for me, but only in the colour department...I've still kept the design simple and let the colours speak for themselves.
• Kraft + wood. Wooden elements work beautifully with Kraft cardstock - try it!
• Keep the die cut intact. I kept the intricate pieces of the butterfly intact for effect - just make the Big Shot sandwich shallower so that the pieces don't get cut all the way through.
• Use up your DSP! I used a sheet of the Bermuda Bay stripey DSP from the Shine On Specialty DSP pack.  

Here are our colours for this week:

Card recipe

Stamp - none!

Ink - none!

Cardstock - Melon Mambo, Bermuda Bay, Shine On DSP

Tools - Stampin' Trimmer, Stampin’ Dimensionals, SNAIL, Bold Butterfly Framelit Die, Big Shot, Fine Tip Glue Pen.
Accessories - Natural Expressions Element

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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