Stampin’ Up! Australia - Stampin’ Up! Day of Gratitude - Thanksgiving card

Hi!

So we don’t celebrate Thanksgiving here in Australia but I have a couple of American friends to whom I always send a Thanksgiving card. They are very special people and I appreciate their friendship so what better way to appreciate that than a handmade card! :)

The inspiration image at The Card Concept this week is a lovely Autumnal/Thanksgiving image.

Here’s my very clean & simple card..

I used a retired Stampin’ Up! stamp called “Day of Gratitude”. It has the most gorgeous medallion flower image and I love the greeting....and look at the script on the ‘G’!! *sigh*

I’m a typography nerd I know. :)

I hope you like my card! :)

I have closed my online store but I am still an active demonstrator so if you would like to place an order feel free to email me. :)

Cheers

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Stampin' Up! Australia - Stampin' Up! French Foliage

Hi!

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

This week the Blog Hop challenge is all about CASE-ing a project inspired by the Into the Woods projects from 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 anything from this product suite, so I thought I would pull out some vintage autumnal sets and make a Thanksgiving card. 

You can see the stamped envelope in this Instagram.

Here's my inspiration image:

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

Stamp - Day of Gratitude (vintage), French Foliage (vintage) 

Ink - Early Espresso, Cajun Craze, Crushed Curry, Crumb Cake

Cardstock - Very Vanilla, Cajun Craze DSP, Crumb Cake, White Filter Paper

Tools  - Paper Snips, Dimensionals, Stampin' Sponges, Double-sided Tape

Accessories - Classy Designer Buttons, Linen Thread, Burlap 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 - Color Coach Card #23 - Less is More - Baby Wipe Technique

Rich Razzleberry Card #2

Hi

I've neglected my Color Coach Challenge Journey somewhat, but I'm back on the wagon with this card. I wanted to play along with the One Layer Challenge at Less is More this week AND when I looked at the Color Coach colours of Rich Razzleberry, Old Olive and Pumpkin Pie....it said "Thanksgiving" to me.

Now....if you read my blog carefully you will figure out that I am in Australia where we do not celebrate 'Thanksgiving'....so why would I make a Thanksgiving card you may ask?.....well, I have a couple of very lovely and totally fantastic friends from the US....one of which lives in Brisbane and the other returned to Ohio a few months back, so I'm going to send them this card. I think 'Thanksgiving' is a wonderful tradition.....I wish that Australia had something similar....preferably in our Autumn! :)

Here's my One Layer Card....yes, it is definitely one layer...there's a couple of techniques going on here...Baby Wipe & Masking. 

Baby Wipe Technique:

I dropped ink from my reinkers onto a baby wipe that I just folded onto a saucer. I took my 'Four Seasons' stamp and used the baby wipe like an ink pad. It gives a lovely marbled effect and looks so much better in real life. :) I don't know why it took me so long to give this technique a try!

Masking:

Now I confess that the border was a 'mistake cover-up'! *GASP* 

Originally this was a plain white card and I felt that the border needed something so I drew some lines freehand around the border with my Rich Razzleberry and Old Olive markers. I wanted it to look like a beautiful doodled masterpiece but it just looked wrong. So I got a couple of post-it notes and stuck them down about 5mm from the border and sponged quite heavily around the edges with Rich Razzleberry. I drew a few more lines and lo and behold it looked like a wooden frame. Don't you love it when a mistake gives birth to a card that you didn't even imagine!?

Anyway....I hope my friends like their card....and Happy Thanksgiving to all my US blog followers and all my US Pinterest followers! :)

Cheers

Alison xx

Materials used:

Stamps - Four Seasons (retired), Day of Gratitude (retired)

Ink - Rich Razzleberry (inkpad, marker, reinker), Old Olive (inkpad, marker, reinker), Pumpkin Pie (reinker). 

Cardstock - Whisper White

Accessories - none!

Tools - Stampin' Trimmer, Baby Wipe, Stampin' Sponges. 

Dynamic Duos #23 - Stampin' Up! Day of Gratitude

Hello!

This is my first card as this month's Guest Designer for Dynamic Duos. The challenge is to use Tangerine Tango and Old Olive. Since these are lovely autumnal colours, I thought I would use the main stamp from Day of Gratitude.

I heat embossed some watercolour paper with Early Espresso embossing powder and then watercoloured the leaf image with Tangerine Tango on the outer leaves and Old Olive on the inner part. The colours blend quite beautifully and create a gold-ish tinge on the watercolour paper. I used an Antique Brad to finish off the middle and some Early Espresso Baker's Twine to wrap around the image panel. I mounted the whole thing onto a Very Vanilla Textured Cardstock base.

Hope you like my card and please come and play along at Dynamic Duos this week! I'd love to see what you create.

The Dynamic Duos Challenge Blog

Aimee Cretsinger 

Allisa Chilton

Alison Barclay

Anne Marie Hile

Anika Lerche

Kim Singdahlsen

Lesley Croghan

Lisa Elton

Melissa Chipperfield

Paige Grabau

Paula Sievers

Sue Joyce

Cheers
Alison  xxx

Materials used:
Stamp - Day of Gratitude
Ink - Tangerine Tango, Old Olive, Early Espresso, Versamark
Cardstock - Very Vanilla, Early Espresso, Watercolour paper
Accessories - Antique Brad, Early Espresso Bakers Twine
Tools - Paper Cutter, SNAIL, Aquapainter, Embossing Buddy, Early Espresso Embossing Powder, Heat Tool   

Stampin' Up - Day of Gratitude

Hello!

Now here in Australia, we don't celebrate 'Thanksgiving' but I know a couple of Americans through work and they have mentioned that they were interested in making some Thanksgiving cards with me, so I got 'Day of Gratitude' for that very purpose and I can really see it lending itself to some beautiful autumnal cards as well as 'Thanksgiving' ones.

This week's challenge at Dynamic Duos is to use Cajun Craze and Always Artichoke....pretty scary colours if you ask me!!!...but then again I don't do much in the 'Regals' palette. :)

There's also a fairly new product in this card......the scallop rectangle Clearlit - page 191 ($12.95)....very cool! :)

Materials used:
Stamp - Day of Gratitude
Ink - Always Artichoke, Cajun Craze
Cardstock - Very Vanilla, Cajun Craze
Accessories - Pearls, Victoria Crochet Trim, Regals Flower Brads (retired)
Tools - Big Shot, Scallop Rectangle Clearlit