Stampin’ Up! Australia - Stampin’ Up! Botanicals For You

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

Here are the essentials:

• I looked to the Botanical Gardens DSP paper pack for inspiration since all three colours are in that suite. I saw that the Hello Honey & Cajun Craze papers were quite gender neutral so this set the tone for my card.
• Snip! Snip! Cut up your sentiments to fit your card....I stamped the sentiment but realised that it wasn't going to fit across my card when I needed it, so I cut it up and it worked perfectly! :)
• Use up your candy dots! Rule of 3....pick a corner. Always looks good. :)    

Here are our colours for this week:

Here is the sketch from The Paper Players:

Card recipe

Stamp - Botanicals for You

Ink - Archival Black ink

Cardstock - Whisper White cardstock, Botanical Gardens DSP, Basic Black cardstock

Tools - Stampin' Trimmer, Stampin’ Dimensionals, SNAIL, 1 3/4 circle punch, Multipurpose liquid glue, paper snips
Accessories - Satin Ribbon Basic Black, Candy Dots - Neutrals

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! Kind Koala

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

Here’s my card! Isn’t that koala the cutest thing!!? As well as our colour challenge, I was also inspired by the Less is More challenge celebrating my homeland ‘Down Under’. Koalas are beautiful creatures....I have been fortunate enough to see several in the wild here.....most were asleep but I did see a large male crossing a road once....he was massive!

Here are the essentials:

• I watercoloured my little koala by stamping Black Stazon onto White Shimmer Paper and applying Crumb Cake in very light layers with an aquapainter. Blushing Bride and a tiny bit of Rose Red were applied to the ears to give shading. 
• I watercoloured the flower in Rose Red - this time adding more saturated colour. 
• I thought it would be fun to mash up the greetings on this card. I like the “thinking of you” sentiment on the Kind Koala stamp, but I often think that this sentiment is better suited to sad situations....by adding “because you’re awesome” from Botanicals For You, the overall greeting on the card becomes whimsical and fun. 
• I added a piece of Botanical Gardens Designer Series Vellum underneath the image layer. Vellum is great for adding interest to a clean & simple card without adding too much patterning or colour that competes with the eye. 
• An Itty Bitty Epoxy Accent makes the middle of the flower pop! 

Here are our colours for this week:

Card recipe

Stamp - Kind Koala

Ink - Crumb Cake, Black Stazon, Rose Red, Blushing Bride

Cardstock - White Shimmer Cardstock, Botanical Gardens Designer Series Vellum

Tools - Stampin' Trimmer, Stampin’ Dimensionals, SNAIL, Aquapainter, Paper Snips
Accessories - Itty Bitty Accent Epoxy Stickers

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! Botanicals For You

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The inspiration image at The Card Concept's challenge this week suggests hearts, colour and flowers to me!

Here’s the inspiration image.....

Here are the essentials:

• Watermelon Wonder card base was embossed with the Happy Heart Embossing Folder.
• The greeting from Botanicals  For You was heat embossed onto a piece of Botanical Gardens Designer Series Vellum.
• The vellum was adhered to the Watermelon Wonder card stock with Tear & Tape Adhesive...I was certain that it would show through but this stuff seems to be the ticket when it comes to invisible tape for vellum! YAY!
• Rolled flowers were made by punching a 1 3/4 circle from a piece of Blushing Bride cardstock. The cardstock was crumpled and mashed so that I could peel the layers apart thus giving a 'suede' type look. I then rolled the flowers and adhered them to the leaves which were die cut with the Botanical Builder Framelit Dies.   
• Flowers were painted with Wink of Stella Clear to give a glimmery finish. 
  
  

Card recipe

Stamps - Botanicals for You

Ink - Versamark, White Embossing Powder

Cardstock - Watermelon Wonder, Botanical Gardens Designer Series Vellum, Blushing Bride, Wild Wasabi, Mint Macaron 

Tools - Stampin' Trimmer, Big Shot, Happy Heart Embossing Folder, Banners Framelit Dies, Botanical Builder Framelit Dies, Paper Snips, Multipurpose Liquid Glue, 

Embossing Buddy, Heat Tool

Accessories - Pearls

I hope you like my card. Click on the links below to be taken to the recipe items in my online store.

The brand NEW Occasions catalogue and the Sale-A-Bration catalogues are out now. If you would like your own copy (Australian readers only), just send me an email. :)

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Product List

Big Shot $169.00	Clear Wink Of Stella Glitter Brush $14.00	Botanicals For You Clear-Mount Stamp Set $0.00	Watermelon Wonder A4 Cardstock $12.25
Botanical Gardens Designer Vellum Stack $0.00	Card Stock A4 Blushing Bride $12.25	Mint Macaron A4 Cardstock $12.25	Wild Wasabi A4 Card Stock $12.25
Banners Framelits Die $45.00	Botanical Builder Framelits Dies $54.00	1-3/4" Circle Punch $31.00	Embossing Buddy $10.00
Heat Tool ...	White Stampin' Emboss Powder $8.75	Tear & Tape Adhesive $12.00	Liquid Multipurpose Glue $7.00

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

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

I’m still loving this stamp set....it’s the large greeting stamp and that font! :)

I used the colour palette from ColourQ this week...Melon Mambo for the font from “Botanicals for You” and Kraft, Pool Party, Blushing Bride & Melon Mambo for the detail at the top of the card. 

These flower pieces were die cut with the new Botanical Builder Framelit Dies. The Blushing Bride flower was sponged around the outside with Blushing Bride ink and then Melon Mambo ink...just to give it an authentic look. I then painted it with the Wink of Stella pen in clear. 

I stamped underneath the flower detail with Pool Party and I did the same inside the card. 

I thought it would be fun to decorate my envelope too. :)

Here is our sketch for this week:

Here are the beautiful colours over at ColourQ this week:

Casology are keeping things SIMPLE this week so I hope this fits the bill. :)

I ended up with some extra die cut pieces so I made a second card with the same colours.

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Stamp - Botanicals For You (Sale-A-Bration 2016), Botanical Blooms

Ink - Melon Mambo, Crumb Cake, Pool Party, Blushing Bride

Cardstock - Thick Whisper White, Whisper White, Kraft, Blushing Bride, Melon Mambo

Accessories - Whisper White Envelopes, White Perfect Accents, Wink of Stella Clear

Tools - Stampin’ Trimmer, SNAIL, Glue Dots, Big Shot, Botanical Builder Framelit Dies

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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! Botanical Gardens DSP

Hi

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

I have a sneak peek here of some brand new Designer Series Paper, embellishments and Framelit Dies. They are beautiful!

The new products from the upcoming Occasions catalogue are:

• Botanical Gardens Designer Series Paper
• Botanical Gardens Jewels
• Botanical Builder Framelit Dies
• Botanical Gardens Vellum Stack (Sale-A-Bration catalogue) 

Here is our sketch for this week:

Card recipe

Stamp - none!

Ink for sponging - Crumb Cake, Hello Honey, Cajun Craze, Old Olive, 
Mint Macaron, Mossy Meadow 

Cardstock - Botanical Gardens Designer Series Paper, Kraft 12 x 12 cardstock, Whisper White, Hello Honey, Cajun Craze, Old Olive, Mint Macaron Mossy Meadow
Tools - Stampin' Trimmer, Stampin’ Dimensionals, Fine Tip Glue Pen, Big Shot, Softly Falling Embossing Folder, Glue Dots, Triple Banner Punch, Botanical Builder Framelit Dies, Circle Framelit Dies, Mini Treat Bag Thinlit Dies. 
Accessories - Rhinestone Jewels, Botanical Gardens Jewels, Linen Thread 

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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