Stampin' Up! Australia - Stampin' Up! Painted Petals

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

I used the Painted Petals set to create my image using Blackberry Bliss, Smoky Slate and Soft Sky. The white jute ribbon and the embossed layer of Whisper White gave a neutral background to my card. 

I deliberately left off the sentiment since this could be a wedding card or a birthday card....I will wait and see! :)

Here are the colours for this week's challenge:

Here is the sketch from CASE This Sketch that inspired the layout of my card:

Card recipe

Stamp - Painted Petals

Ink - Blackberry Bliss, Soft Sky, Smoky Slate

Cardstock- Whisper White, Blackberry Bliss

Tools - Stampin' Trimmer, Stampin' Dimensionals, Fast Fuse, Big Shot, Labels Framelits, Deco Labels Framelits
Accessories - Jute Ribbon

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! Mother's Day Gift Box

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

This week the Blog Hop challenge is all about CASE-ing from the Mother's Day 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.

As this blog post goes live, I will be on the Gold Coast at the 2015 Stampin' Up! Convention. I made this little gift box with some goodies in it for my downline who will be attending her first so I thought it would be a lovely little treat for her.

Here's the original inspiration:

I used a Tag A Bag Gift Box and I stamped some Kraft card stock in the petals stamp from Painted Petals and then heat embossed the whole piece in gold. I scored it so that it fit over the box as a lid and then I put the plastic case over the top. The topper piece is a tea lace doily, some gold vellum (the one with the hearts) and a banner gold embossed with the pansy stamp from Flower Shop. The sentiment tag is Chalk Talk stamped in Metallic Gold Encore and then clear embossed to seal it and give it shine. I tied it up with some Wild Wasabi Cotton Twine and Seam Binding ribbon. A metallic clothespin keeps it all together. :)

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I hope you like my project. 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	Kraft 12" X 12" Card Stock $9.95	Tag A Bag Gift Boxes $11.95	Gold Fancy Designer Vellum Foil $18.95
Chalk Talk Clear-Mount Bundle $66.95	Flower Shop Clear Stamp Set $33.95	Painted Petals Photopolymer Stamp Set $41.95	Tea Lace Paper Doilies $4.95
Banners Framelits Die $45.95	Versamark Pad $12.95	Embossing Buddy $9.95	Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder $8.50
Heat Tool $49.95	Metallic Gold Encore Pad $16.95	Clear Stampin' Emboss Powder $8.50	Mini Metallic Clothespins $6.95
Painted Blooms Cotton Twine $11.95	Wild Wasabi 1/2" Seam Binding Ribbon $11.95	1-3/8" Circle Punch $27.95	SNAIL Permanent Adhesive $11.95
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Stampin' Up! Australia - Create with Connie and Mary #352

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

My poor Four Feathers stamp set had been neglected for some time, so I thought that these challenge colours would look good as feathers or leaves. 

Here are the colours for this week's challenge:

I also used the inspiration from CASE This Sketch and ShowCASe Your Style this week. This card is definitely my 'default' style. I like all the white space and even though I thought it would look great with some sponging, or a scatter of sequins or rhinestones....I just couldn't do it!! :) I often have to force myself to embellish. Part of me even thinks the Basic Gray sentiment panel is a bit too bold. ha!

CAS(E) this Sketch

**showCASe your style**

Card recipe

Stamp - Four Feathers, Painted Petals

Ink - Basic Gray, Wild Wasabi, Soft Sky, Versamark

Cardstock - Whisper White, Basic Gray, Wild Wasabi

Tools - Stampin' Trimmer, Multipurpose Glue, Heat Tool, Embossing Buddy, White Emboss Powder, Feathers Framelits, Circle Card Thinlits Die, Big Shot.

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 #92 - Stampin' Up! Painted Petals

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#ColorCoachJourney 

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Welcome to this week's Artful Stampers Blog Hop!

I got out of my comfort zone with this card. The layered sketches always push me to use patterned paper and more than white on white. This is a Color Coach card using Always Artichoke, Crumb Cake and Wisteria Wonder.

I embossed the entire Very Vanilla base of my card with the Spring Flowers Embossing Folder. On top of this I layered a piece of Always Artichoke retired DSP (the one with the Shakespeare prose on it) and stamped it with the Hardwood stamp - tone on tone. I did the same with a plain piece of Crumb Cake card stock. 

I had a tag that I had clear embossed/Gold Encore inked with I Love Lace sitting in my scraps drawer so I layered this between the the layers - its a cool feature peeking out. 

My main image uses Painted Petals. The leaves are stamped with Always Artichoke and the flowers are Wisteria Wonder. To create some faux layers, I stamped off some flowers with Crumb Cake and stamped off some stalks with Always Artichoke around the edges. 

I embellished with some Linen Thread and some little pearls that were coloured with Wisteria Wonder Blendabilities. 

Here is our sketch:

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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 and the Sale-A-Bration catalogue are OUT NOW 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 catalogues here (Occasions) and here (Sale-A-Bration) 

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Very Vanilla A4 Card Stock $14.95	Hardwood Clear-Mount Stamp Set $24.95	Painted Petals Clear Stamp Set $42.95	Always Artichoke Classic Stampin' Pad $9.95	Wisteria Wonder Classic Stampin' Pad $9.95
Crumb Cake Classic Stampin' Pad $9.95	Spring Flowers Textured Impressions Embossing Folder $13.95	Big Shot $149.95	Regals Backgrounds Designer Series Paper Stack $37.95	Crumb Cake A4 Card Stock $11.95
Linen Thread $7.95	Pearl Basic Jewels Embellishments $8.95	Stampin' Blendabilities™ Markers Wisteria Wonder Assortment ...	Tag Topper Scalloped Punch $39.95	Metallic Gold Encore Pad $16.95
Clear Stampin' Emboss Powder $8.50	Embossing Buddy $9.95	I Love Lace Clear-Mount Stamp Set $24.95	Heat Tool $49.95