Stampin’ Up! Australia - Stampin’ Up! Golden Embellished Ornaments

Hi

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

You will see from my previous blog post that I CASE’d a fellow CTC Design Team member and this next card is actually inspired by one of the layouts of her cards as well...as I trawled through her blog for ideas, I was very much inspired! You can see it here.

So much gold....I narrowly scraped in with the black element....a touch of black glimmer paper on the top of the ornament on the left. :)

Here are our colours this week:

Card recipe

Stamp - Embellished Ornaments

Ink - Versamark, Gold Emboss Powder

Cardstock - Whisper White Thick Cardstock, Gold Foil, Gold Glimmer Paper, Winter Wonderland Vellum Stack

Tools - Stampin' Trimmer, Stampin’ Dimensionals, Fine Tip Glue Pen, Gold Ribbon, Big Shot, Elegant Dots Embossing Folder, Glue Dots, Bow Builder Punch.  

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! :)

Cheers

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Festive Friday Challenge #19 - Stampin' Up! Medallion Christmas Card

Hi everyone
Today's challenge over at the Festive Friday Challenge is to use Glimmer & Glitter!!! Perfect for a Christmas Card don't you think?!

I decided to use the Stampin' Up! Medallion stamp with the scallop sentiment from Perfect Punches layered on a glimmery scallop circle. I coloured the silver glimmer paper with Bravo Burgundy using a sponge dauber. It seems that when you colour the silver glimmer paper, it really brings out the sparkle....as if it could GET any sparklier. The two best things about Stampin' Up! Glimmer Paper:

a) there are no bits of glitter debris on your work space...none! It's fantastic stuff.
b) it has been carried over from the Summer Mini so you can still order it!!! :)

For my 'glitter' element, I applied some of the Champagne Glitter from the "Fine Galaxy" (page 145 of the catalogue). Using the 2-Way Glue Pen, I dabbed some glue on the circles of the medallion image and sprinkled the Champagne Glitter over the top.  

For my final festive touch, I sprayed the card with some champagne shimmer spray, made by combining some Stampin' Up! Champagne Mist Shimmer Paint (pg 147) with some Isocol in a spray bottle. It is beautiful!! :)

   
I love how this card sparkles & shimmers. Hope you can all play along with your glimmer & glitter this week!! :) 

Bye!

Materials used:
Stamps: Medallion, Perfect Punches
Ink: Bravo Burgundy, Old Olive
Cardstock: Old Olive, Bravo Burgundy, Naturals Ivory, Silver Glimmer paper
Accessories: Bravo Burgundy 5/8" grosgrain ribbon (retired), Champagne Glitter (from Fine Galaxy)
Tools: Paper Cutter, SNAIL, Sticky Strip, Dimensionals, 1 3/4 Scallop Circle Punch, 2 3/4 Scallop Circle Punch, 2-way Glue Pen, Sponge Daubers, Champagne Mist Shimmer Paint (mixed with Isocol), Embossing Buddy.

Birthday Bakery Watercolouring

Dear Everyone

I was inspired to do some watercolouring for some Birthday cards that I was making for some fellow Stampin' Up! demonstrators. I know "Birthday Bakery" is a retired set but it is so much fun to play with.

I got inspiration for the layout of the card from the Utah Divas International Sketch Challenge #179 and the colours from Colour Q Challenge #127 . The colours are Certainly Celery, Calyspso Coral, Blushing Bride & Chocolate Chip. When I read those colours on the challenge blog....I immediately saw cake! :)

I enjoyed making the first card so much, I made a few of them, and then I made a variation on it and did a card for a colleague at work who wanted a card for her sister-in-law. She mentioned 'purples'....so I did Birthday Bakery in Wisteria Wonder, Perfect Plum, Concord Crush, Bravo Burgundy and Crumb Cake! I coloured the glimmer paper in Wisteria Wonder just to tie it all in.
Hope you enjoy the cards....watercolouring really is AWESOME! If you would like to order any of the supplies I used to make these cards, just give me a call or email me. Remember there are still a couple of weeks left of Sale-A-Bration so if your order is $100 or more, you will earn free stamps! :)

Materials used:
Card 1...
Stamps: Birthday Bakery (retired)
Ink: Chocolate Chip, Certainly Celery, Calypso Coral, Blushing Bride, Stazon
Cardstock: SU Watercolour paper, Calypso Coral DSP from Everyday Enchantment DSP pack, Blushing Bride DSP, non-SU 'celery' cardstock.
Accessories: Calypso Coral ribbon from Sale-A-Bration catalogue 2012, misc pink button, Dazzling Diamonds.
Tools: Paper Cutter, SNAIL, Stazon cleaner, Aquapainter, Modern Label punch, 2-way glue pen.

Card 2...
Stamps: Birthday Bakery (retired)
Ink: Wisteria Wonder, Concord Crush, Perfect Plum, Bravo Burgundy, Crumb Cake, Stazon
Cardstock: SU Watercolour paper, Concord Crush DSP, Very Vanilla, Silver Glimmer Paper
Accessories: Dazzling Diamonds.
Tools: Scallop Trim Border Punch, Modern Label Punch, Sponge Daubers, 2-way glue pen, Paper Cutter, SNAIL, Stazon cleaner, Aquapainter.

Triple Treat Flower & Spice Cake DSP

Dear Everyone

Long time - no blog! I've been a little busy with my little ones and I haven't had much time to devote to craft recently.
However - I do have some cards to blog for you! :).....AND I bought a light box for my card photography so hopefully they will be a little better lit and more consistent in quality.
This card uses the Stampin' Up! set Triple Treat Flower and the Spice Cake Designer Series Paper. I LOVE THIS SET & PAPER - so gorgeous! Reminds me of bohemian 1970s wallpaper. :)

I also coloured the silver glimmer paper using a sponge dauber and Pool Party ink from the inkpad. I like the little feature of it peeping through the darker Spice Cake colours. :)

Materials used:
Stamp - Triple Treat Flower
Ink - Pear Pizzazz inkpad & marker, Pumpkin Pie marker, Pool Party inkpad & marker, Soft Suede inkpad
Cardstock - Very Vanilla, Basic Black, River Rock (textured), Spice Cake DSP, Silver Glimmer Paper
Accessories - Everyday Enchantment Brad (from Sale-A-Bration catalogue)
Tools - Fancy Flower Punch, 5-Petal Punch, 1/2 inch circle Punch, Paper Cutter, Mat Pack, SNAIL.