Stampin' Up! Australia - Color Coach Card #112 - Postage Due

Soft Suede #3

#ColorCoachJourney 

Hi

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

This sketch really had me scratching my head and for some reason my mojo lead me down the vintage sepia path thanks to the Color Coach combo of Soft Suede and Early Espresso and the stamp sets Postage Due and Butterfly Basics. 

The 'postage stamps' and postmark gave me my four squares down the side and the large image from Postage Due did the rest. I did use the netting stamp from Butterfly Basics to add some texture stamping onto the image too. 

Here is the sketch for this week's challenge:

Card recipe

Stamp - Postage Due, Butterfly Basics

Ink - Soft Suede, Early Espresso

Cardstock- Very Vanilla, Early Espresso, Soft Suede, Typeset Specialty Designer Series Paper

Tools - Stampin' Trimmer, Stampin' Dimensionals, Glue Dots, SNAIL, Postage stamp punch, 1 inch square punch, 3/4 circle punch, Decorative Label Punch
Accessories - Something Borrowed Embellishments, Burlap 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! :)

Cheers

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Stampin' Up! Australia - Stampin' Up Perfect Pennants - CASE-ing the Catty #2

Hi

Welcome to Week 2 at CASE-ing the Catty. I hope you will find time to join us this week as we explore the Memory Keeping section of the catalogue. 

CASE - The acronym stands for COPY AND SHARE EVERYTHING. The latest Stampin' Up! ® Catalogue certainly encourages crafters to do just that as it is jam packed with amazing, inspirational projects.

The idea is to feature a section of the Stampin' Up! ® catalogue each week using the projects in the catty as inspiration.

You can directly CASE (Copy and Share Everything) or use a sketch/layout, colour combo, embellishment, just to name a few examples, as a springboard for your own creations.


Here's a Badge to paste to your blog:

Guidelines

•   Create a new project for the current challenge (no back linking)

• Mention CTC Challenges in your blog post and link back to the challenge blog so others can join in on the fun.

• Let us know what project you CASED and make reference to the page of your country's catalogue where you got your inspiration. 

• SUO products (retired or current) may be used in your projects for CTC Challenges. 

So let's go!

My project was CASE-d from page 39 of the catalogue which features a gorgeous kraft page decorated with the Postage Due stamp set, some washi tape and paper doilies. 

Here's the original:

Here's my CASE:

I used Crumb Cake card stock for my base card and stamped layer. I stamped the Postage Due stamp using the new In Color of Mossy Meadow ink which is lovely rich deep green, I copied the original by using my Small Scallop Stampin' Trimmer Rotary Blade to create a scalloped edge down the left hand side. I added a strip of Epic Day Washi Tape. My sentiment is from Perfect Pennants, stamped on Very Vanilla in Mossy Meadow and die cut with the matching Banners Framelits. I decorated this with a peek of a Tea Lace Paper Doiley, a banner of Pear Pizzazz DSP and an Ampersand clip from the Essentials Hardware Clips pack.

I stamped my envelope too just to bring it all together nicely. :)

I hope you like my card and are inspired to play along with us....be sure to visit my online store to browse all these items and more! 

Cheers

Alison xx

Materials used:

Stamp: Postage Due, Perfect Pennants

Ink - Mossy Meadow

Cardstock - Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, Pear Pizzazz DSP

Accessories - Tea Lace Paper Doiley, Essentials Hardware Clips

Tools - Big Shot, Banners Framelits, Small Scallop Stampin' Trimmer Rotary Blade, Stampin' Dimensionals, Multipurpose Liquid Glue. 

Stampin' Up! Postage Due - Artful Stampers Blog Hop!

Hello friends!
It’s Stampin’ Up’s! New Annual Catalogue Time!!!  To celebrate, some of our team – The Artful Stampers – are sharing fabulous projects showcasing a selection of the gorgeous new products available in the 2012-2013 Catalogue!!
You may have hopped here from Anna Foster’s blog...I’m stop number 7 on the hop and I’m so glad you “hopped” in to see me!
Today I wanted to showcase the beautiful new stamp set "Postage Due" and the Designer Series Paper that matches the set called "Fan Fair". Both offer a lovely vintage feel to your projects.

I've teamed them with a couple of new embellishments....the Vintage Faceted Designer Buttons and Naturals Designer Buttons. I've also used a new "In Color"...Midnight Muse....it is glorious!!   I stamped the image directly on to the DSP....something I don't often do, but this paper really lends itself to being a fabulous background feature.  


  

Next stop on the blog hop is Michelle Bartholomaeus I am sure you will find lots of wonderful ideas on her amazing blog to inspire you.
Thank you for visiting and if you'd like to leave a comment I'd be very pleased to hear what you think of the new catalogue and products :-)