Stampin’ Up! Australia - Stampin’ Up! Typeset Specialty Designer Series Paper

Hi

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

So I don’t usually do ‘shabby chic’ but I stepped outside my comfort zone thanks to the Fusion Card Challenge inspiration image. These flowers took forever!!! I experimented for a while with different layers and combinations. :)

Here are the essentials:

• The background is tone-on-tone stamping with the Hardwood stamp using Crumb Cake ink on Crumb Cake card stock. I sponged around the edges with Crumb Cake ink and even did direct ink pad to paper to get a stronger depth of colour on the corners. 
• The DSP is from the Typeset Specialty Designer Series Paper pack. This paper is thinner than most card stock and is very pliable for 3D features like flowers etc. There’s some lovely patterns - newsprint, diagonal strips, number typography and a gorgeous flourish print. 
• Die Cuts! I trotted out the sadly now forgotten Flower Fair Framelit Dies - yes, they are still current and still fabulous! 
• The sentiment is a lovely wooden element from the Expressions Natural Elements pack. It complements the Hardwood background and neutral tones. 
• It is difficult to see in the image but I went to town with my clear Wink of Stella pen. I painted the wooden sentiment so it is lovely and shimmery. I also ran it around the edge of the Crumb Cake base so there is a gorgeous glint of shimmer under that Hardwood layer. I dabbed it onto the largest flower too onto the black petals and the newsprint. 
• Embellish! Embellish! The centre of my flowers looked a bit bare, so I got a black sequin from the Metallics Sequins Assortment and adhered them to the centres with the Fine Tip Glue Pen. To finish off I added the tiniest Pearl to the middle of the sequins. I wrapped some Linen Thread around the layer three times before tying off.
• No shabby chic card is complete without the Gorgeous Grunge stamp set. I stamped the ‘splatters’ onto the base after I stamped with Hardwood to give a slightly weathered look. I also used the same stamp inked in Crumb Cake and then Basic Black onto the Very Vanilla layer of the smaller flower (punched with the Pansy Punch).  

Here is the sketch for this week:

Here’s the inspiration image from Fusion:

Card recipe

Stamp - Hardwood, Gorgeous Grunge

Ink - Crumb Cake, Basic Black

Cardstock - Crumb Cake, Basic Black, Very Vanilla, Typeset Specialty Designer Series Paper

Tools - Stampin' Trimmer, Stampin’ Dimensionals, SNAIL, Pansy Punch, Big Shot, 
Flower Fair Framelit Dies, Fine Tip Glue Pen
Accessories - Pearls, Wink of Stella Clear, Metallic Sequin Assortment, Expressions Natural Elements

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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Stampin' Up! Australia - Amazing Birthday - Color Coach Card #107

Basic Gray #1

#ColorCoachJourney 

Hi

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

This week the Blog Hop challenge is all about CASE-ing from the Memory Keeping pages of the Occasions 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.

Now you only have to look around my blog to see that I don't do very much of the scrapbooking/memory keeping side of paper craft, but that's cool...the Project Life stuff can be used on cards too. I made a card inspired by the Project Life page on pg 46. Here's my card..

Here's the original inspiration:

I used Color Coach Colors of Basic Gray, Melon Mambo and Old Olive. The colours work together well to produce a card fitting for a tween or teen I think.

My Basic Gray ink pad was not very inky and I need to purchase an ink refill so I decided to stamp my sentiment from Amazing Birthday with Memento Tuxedo Black ink. The splotches are all from Gorgeous Grunge.

That's pretty much all there is to the card.

I finished off with some Itty Bitty Accents Epoxy Stickers and some Basic Gray Candy Dots. 

Click below to go to the Jackie Noble'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 Occasions Catalogue is still current so if you would like to go on my mailing list and receive your free copy, just send me an email. :)

Alternatively, you may download the catalogue here!

Cheers

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Whisper White A4 Card Stock $14.95	Basic Gray A4 Card Stock $11.95	Amazing Birthday Clear-Mount Stamp Set $25.95	Gorgeous Grunge Clear Stamp Set $33.95
Basic Gray Classic Stampin' Pad $9.95	Old Olive Classic Stampin' Pad $9.95	Melon Mambo Classic Stampin' Pad $9.95	Itty Bitty Accents Epoxy Stickers $6.95
Neutrals Candy Dots $9.95	Stampin' Dimensionals $6.95	SNAIL Permanent Adhesive $11.95	Stampin' Trimmer ...
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Stampin' Up! Australia - Create With Connie and Mary #346 - Stampin' Up! Label Love

Hi

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

This week's challenge is a colour challenge.

Here's my card:

Here are our colours:

I was inspired to do a masculine card or a teenage card - the colours conveyed a modern grungey tone to me so I went with that. 

I used Celebrate Today and Gorgeous Grunge for some of the feature elements and the sentiment is from Label Love. I stamped the little star burst stamp from Celebrate today onto a wooden element just for something different. 

I also used the sketch from Mojo Monday to kick start my card. 

I hope you like my card. The recipe is below. :)

Stamps - Label Love, Celebrate Today, Gorgeous Grunge

Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black, Wild Wasabi, Sahara Sand

Cardstock - Basic Black, Whisper White, Basic Black DSP

Accessories - Essentials Wooden Elements

Tools - Artisan Label Punch, 2 1/2 inch Circle Punch, SNAIL, Multipurpose Liquid 

Glue, Stampin' Dimensionals. 

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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Stampin' Up! Australia - Stampin' Up! Gorgeous Grunge

Hi

My card today were inspired by these cards by Catherine Pooler. I loved her background stamping and the use of the die cut monogram. 

I am a bit behind on my thank you cards for my boys for their Christmas presents. They were very lucky this year and our relatives and friends were so generous with gifts for them. I like to send thank you cards out as I think it is important for the next generation to develop the art of gratitude and that to say 'thank you' means to honour the person who thought to do something caring towards you. My eldest son (5 yrs old) loves to write his name in the cards and we discuss our favourite things about the gift etc...

So.....why N2? My sons both have names that start with the letter 'N' and my husband and I often refer to them collectively as 'N-squared'....hence N2.

....my 'N' is die cut from a sheet of glossy black card stock that I found in my miscellaneous stash...it was from a backing board from a bound document book. May I make a bit of a trend prediction that glossy coloured card stock will be the next big thing!! When you see this in real life, the N looks so cool and edgy and glossy....you just want to touch it! The '2' is cut from Stampin' Up! Silver Foil....also very tactile and glossy. I just love them together!!! :)

I loved the layout so much that I made another variation on it....this birthday card using Label Love and the wonderful, awesome Essentials Wooden Elements from the up and coming Occasions catalogue. I decorated them with Candy Dots which just makes them MORE cool!

I really love these cards!

Don't forget to browse my online store and place an order if anything here catches your eye. :) The Essentials Wooden Elements will be available on 28th January...email me if you would like your free Occasions catalogue mailed to you. 

Cheers

Alison xx

Materials used:

Stamp - Gorgeous Grunge, Label Love

Ink - Coastal Cabana, Bermuda Bay, Old Olive

Cardstock - Whisper White, Coastal Cabana, Bermuda Bay

Accessories - Essentials Wooden Elements, Brights Candy Dots

Tools - Stampin' Trimmer, 2 1/2 inch circle punch, Artisan Label Punch, Glue Dots, Stampin' Dimensionals, Big Shot, Typeset Alphabet Bigz Die.

Stampin' Up! Australia - Dynamic Duos - Best of Shelli - Gorgeous Grunge

Dear Stampin' friends,

Just a short blog post as I don't have much time today.....here's my card for Dynamic Duos this week. It's a very simple one. :)

 

Be sure to visit the Dynamic Duos Design Team for colour inspiration.....

Alison Barclay

Anne Marie Hile

Debbie Henderson

Hayley Kew

Janet Bagnall

Janet Zeppa

Lori Turner

Michelle Folland

Susie Wittwer

Tara Bourgoin

Tracey McNeely

 

 

Remember you may order all your Stampin' Up! supplies through me at my my online store  - pop on over and have a browse! :)

Cheers

Alison xx

Materials used:
Stamps - Best of Shelli, Gorgeous Grunge
Ink - So Saffron, Pistachio Pudding, Baked Brown Sugar
Cardstock - Whisper White, Baked Brown Sugar
Accessories - Season of Style Washi tape (crumb cake)
Tools - Stampin' Trimmer, SNAIL 

Stampin' Up! Australia - CAS(E) this Sketch! - Masculine card with Label Love

Dear Stampin' friends,

I recently got the new 'Label Love' stamp and punch bundle from Stampin' Up! It is very cool and the "Happy Birthday" stamp is great for masculine cards.

Also, do you have 1cm strips of cardstock in every colour imaginable laying around your craft desk!??? Well snip them up and use them on a card like this.....

I was inspired by the card sketch from CAS(E) this Sketch this week. Very cool and unfussy - perfect for a card for a guy!
 

 

 

 

This card was made for my lovely husband for his birthday. He really liked it! YAY!

 

Cheers
Alison xx

Materials used:
Stamps - Label Love, Gorgeous Grunge
Ink - Island Indigo, Basic Gray
Cardstock - Smoky Slate, Basic Gray, Pistachio Pudding, Island Indigo, Whisper White
Accessories - Regals & Neutrals Candy Dots
Tools - Artisan Label Punch, Stampin' Trimmer, SNAIL, Stampin' Dimensionals

 

Stampin' Up! Convention - Brisbane 2013 .....sneak peek of new product!

Hi Stampin' friends

At the end of May, I attended the Stampin' Up! Convention here in Brisbane with about 700 demonstrators from Australia & New Zealand. It is an amazing convention and one that I would encourage everyone to attend.....demonstrators and their non-demo guests are welcome!

Here's why I think Stampin' Up! Convention is so cool.....
1. I got to hear Shelli Gardner, the Co-Founder and CEO of Stampin' Up! present and create beautiful projects onstage. She is warm & funny.....and so inspirational!!

2. I got to hear other inspirational and creative people from Stampin' Up! head office talk about the exciting things coming our way......and I got a copy of the BRAND NEW CATALOGUE!! Eeeekkkkk  

3. I got to watch some talented demonstrators present on stage and share what they love about Stampin' Up!

4. I got to catch up with some beautiful fellow demonstrators who I am blessed to call friends.

5. I got to create some cards using NEW colours and NEW stamp sets during the Make & Take sessions

6. I got heaps of FREE stuff!! (not the most important thing as Stampin' Up! President Rich Jutkins most eloquently explained to us....but free product IS exciting to receive :)

Speaking of free stuff.....here's a sneak peek using two of the many stamp sets I received at Convention. I was inspired by this week's Dynamic Duos combo of Pear Pizzazz and Black. Yay for Pear Pizzazz returning as a core Stampin' Up! colour. :)

For my card, I used the "Bouncing Brayer" technique which was shown to us by Paula Dobson. I used Pear Pizzazz for my brayered background and used a new stamp set for all the background splotches and "tracks". My sentiment is also from a brand new stamp set!! Aren't they both cool!!?

If you would like to know how to make this card, email me - I'd love to demonstrate for you at a workshop!

Don't forget to visit the rest of the Design Team to see their wonderful creations....

The Dynamic Duos Challenge Blog

Alison Barclay

Anne Marie Hile

Debbie Henderson

Hayley Kew

Janet Bagnall

Janet Zeppa

Lori Turner

Michelle Folland

Susie Wittwer

Tara Bourgoin

Tracey McNeely

Cheers

Alison xxx