Stampin’ Up! Australia - Stampin’ Up! Botanicals For You - Sale-A-Bration

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

This week the gang are inspired by the new goodies from the Sale-A-Bration catalogue.

I loved this stamp set because I knew I would be able to make a heap of clean & simple designs with it. It is called “Botanicals For You” and will be available tomorrow! :)

You can’t see it in the image very well but the flowers are embossed with gold and silver. Looks beautiful in real life!

As usual I took inspiration from some challenge blogs. CASE This Sketch have a fun layout this week...

TGIF Challenges have a cool colour challenge....hence my embossed flowers! :)

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Stamp - Botanicals For You (Sale-A-Bration 2016)

Ink - Tuxedo Black Memento Ink, Versarmark

Cardstock - Thick Whisper White, Whisper White

Tools - Heat Tool, Gold Emboss Powder, Silver Emboss Powder, Embossing Buddy

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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 - Color Coach Card #127 - Stampin' Up! Blended Bloom

Very Vanilla #1

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

The Color Coach pairs Perfect Plum and Rose Red with the base colour of Very Vanilla....I found the only way I could make this combination work was to use watercolouring and some layering with gold. Rose Red and Perfect Plum are quite strong colours so you will notice that I used muted tones of both on my card.

I stamped Blended Bloom in Perfect Plum rather than Black Stazon to give a softness to the flower image. As I watercoloured with Rose Red, the Perfect Plum ink also moved around a little bit which blended quite beautifully. I used Perfect Plum for the stamen and centre details of the flower.

I used some vintage Perfect Plum DSP for the banner and used Gold Bakers Twine, Metallic Gold Twine and Gold Sequin Trim to add some luxe elements. The sentiment is from the Expressions Natural Elements pack. I LOVE these SO much! I'm buying two packs next order. :)

I finished the card (and to adhere to the sketch) with a punched piece of vellum using the Itty Bitty Butterfly punch. Every butterfly needs pearls. :)

Here's our sketch....

Card recipe

Stamp - Blended Bloom

Ink - Perfect Plum, Rose Red

Cardstock- Very Vanilla, Watercolor Paper, Perfect Plum DSP (vintage), Vellum

Tools - Big Shot, Boho Chic Embossing Folder, Stampin' Trimmer, Itty Bitty Butterfly Punch, 
Glue Dots, Multipurpose Liquid Glue, 
Paper Snips, Aquapainter, Dimensionals
Accessories - Pearls, Expressions Natural Elements, Gold Metallic Thread, 
Gold Sequin Trim, Gold Bakers Twine

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! Timeless Elegance Designer Series Paper

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

This week the Blog Hop challenge is all about CASE-ing a project from the Love and Sympathy section of the 2015-2016 Stampin' Up! 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.

Here's my card...

I used the Timeless Elegance Designer Series paper and, differing from the inspiration photo, I kept the colour palette as Very Vanilla, Basic Black and Tip Top Taupe which are the colours in the DSP. 

I layered the DSP against a Basic Black layer and then onto a vanilla card base. My sentiment is from Butterfly Basics and I added a flourish from Flowering Flourishes onto my sentiment panel in Tip Top Taupe. The sentiment is die cut with the Chalk Talk Framelits. 

Here's my inspiration:

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

I hope you like my card. 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  is 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

Butterfly Basics Photopolymer Stamp Set $42.00	Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad $10.00	Timeless Elegance Designer Series Paper ...	Very Vanilla A4 Card Stock $15.00
Basic Black A4 Card Stock $12.25	Metallics Sequin Assortment ...	Gold Baker's Twine $6.25	Big Shot $169.00
Chalk Talk Framelits Die $41.00	Stampin' Trimmer ...	Stampin' Dimensionals $7.00	Paper Snips Scissors $17.00
Liquid Multipurpose Glue $7.00

Stampin' Up! Australia - Stampin' Up! Expressions Natural Elements

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I was messing around with some scraps from my stash and saw this discarded piece of emboss resist paper that I had been practising on when I made this card.

I saw the challenge over at Retro Rubber Challenge which is to use twine on your card so I threw some bakers twine on it and added some more scrap pieces to make this lovely wedding card.

I stamped one of the medallions from Daydream Medallions and white embossed the image then I sponged some Coastal Cabana ink over the top. :) The only new thing on this card is that fun wooden sentiment from the Expressions Natural Elements kit.

To play along with Retro Rubber, the stamps have to be at least one year old so I had to look up Daydream Medallions as I thought it was a year old, but it came out in 2012!! Time flies! 

I Love Lace came out in June 2014 but has since retired. 

I hope you like my card. 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  is 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

Expressions Natural Elements ...	Whisper White A4 Card Stock $15.00	Pearl Basic Jewels Embellishments $8.75	Floral Frames Framelits Die $45.00
Big Shot $169.00	Glue Dots $9.00	Stampin' Dimensionals $7.00	White Stampin' Emboss Powder $8.75
Versamark Pad $13.00	Embossing Buddy $10.00	Heat Tool ...	Stamping Sponges $6.00
Daydream Medallions Clear Stamp Set $50.95	I Love Lace Clear-Mount Stamp Set $24.95	Coastal Cabana Classic Stampin' Pad $9.95	Strawberry Slush Classic Stampin' Pad $9.95
Crisp Cantaloupe Classic Stampin' Pad $9.95	In Color Boutique Details $15.95	Pretties Kit ...