Stampin' Up Australia - Color Coach Card #127 - Stampin' Up! Blended Bloom

Very Vanilla #1

#ColorCoachJourney 

Hi

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

The Color Coach pairs Perfect Plum and Rose Red with the base colour of Very Vanilla....I found the only way I could make this combination work was to use watercolouring and some layering with gold. Rose Red and Perfect Plum are quite strong colours so you will notice that I used muted tones of both on my card.

I stamped Blended Bloom in Perfect Plum rather than Black Stazon to give a softness to the flower image. As I watercoloured with Rose Red, the Perfect Plum ink also moved around a little bit which blended quite beautifully. I used Perfect Plum for the stamen and centre details of the flower.

I used some vintage Perfect Plum DSP for the banner and used Gold Bakers Twine, Metallic Gold Twine and Gold Sequin Trim to add some luxe elements. The sentiment is from the Expressions Natural Elements pack. I LOVE these SO much! I'm buying two packs next order. :)

I finished the card (and to adhere to the sketch) with a punched piece of vellum using the Itty Bitty Butterfly punch. Every butterfly needs pearls. :)

Here's our sketch....

Card recipe

Stamp - Blended Bloom

Ink - Perfect Plum, Rose Red

Cardstock- Very Vanilla, Watercolor Paper, Perfect Plum DSP (vintage), Vellum

Tools - Big Shot, Boho Chic Embossing Folder, Stampin' Trimmer, Itty Bitty Butterfly Punch, 
Glue Dots, Multipurpose Liquid Glue, 
Paper Snips, Aquapainter, Dimensionals
Accessories - Pearls, Expressions Natural Elements, Gold Metallic Thread, 
Gold Sequin Trim, Gold Bakers Twine

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 #126 - No Bones About It

Crumb Cake #2

#ColorCoachJourney 

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Welcome to this week's Artful Stampers Blog Hop. 

I am still going to finish this Color Coach Journey, even if it kills me....the colours today are Crumb Cake, Cajun Craze and Garden Green. Not my favourites, but when I saw them on the colour coach card, the first thing that I thought of was the jungle! So 'No Bones About It' got to take centre stage today. :) It is one of my favourite new sets from the 2015-2016 Annual Catalogue - I'm so glad I bought it!!

Some of the great things about this stamp set, apart from all the dinosaurs and their skeleton over-stamps, are the texture stamps like the vines, leaves and footprints. I used the footprints and vines to add interest to the background pieces and to frame my main image panel. I also put some footprints dashing over my envelope. :)

Here is the sketch for the challenge...

I'm also playing along in the TGIF Challenge this week which is to use a BRAND NEW stamp set. YAY!

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Card recipe

Stamp - No Bones About It

Ink - Crumb Cake, Garden Green, Cajun Craze

Cardstock - Whisper White Thick Cardstock, Whisper White, Crumb Cake, Cajun Craze, 

Garden Green

Accessories -Regals Candy Dots

Tools - Stampin' Sponges, Stampin' Dimensionals, Fast Fuse, Stampin Trimmer

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Stampin' Up! Australia - Birthday Card - Delightful Dijon + Cucumber Crush

Hi!

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 a project from the Project Life section (pages 49 - 54) of the 2015-2016 Stampin' Up! 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 really DO Project Life....I do think it is the perfect way to scrapbook though, but I admit rather shamefully that I take more photos of my cards than I do of my children....don't judge me! :)

Here's my card...

I CASEd a PL element from page 54 of the catalogue...I liked how there was some ombre sponging happening with black text.

I used Cucumber Crush and Delightful Dijon ink to sponge colour onto my card. The greeting is from the hostess set, Happy Birthday Everyone (which I can't stop using at the moment...such beautiful font!).

Here's my inspiration:

..and since this is a birthday card, I'm linking to Seize the Birthday for their Anything Goes Challenge. :)

Click below to go to Jackie'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 2015-2016 Annual Catalogue  is 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!

Cheers

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Product List

Happy Birthday, Everyone Clear-Mount Stamp Set $14.00	Cucumber Crush Classic Stampin' Pad $11.50	Delightful Dijon Classic Stampin' Pad $11.50	Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad $10.00
Whisper White A4 Card Stock $15.00	Whisper White A4 Thick Cardstock $12.25	Basic Black A4 Card Stock $12.25	Stamping Sponges $6.00
Stampin' Trimmer ...	SNAIL Permanent Adhesive $12.00

Stampin' Up! Australia - Stampin' Up! Happy Birthday card

Hi

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

I used the sketch from Mojo Monday and made this black and white card with a splash of colour from our CCMC Design Team palette.

Here are our colours....

Here's the Mojo Monday sketch...

...and since this is a birthday card, I'm linking up to Seize the Birthday for their Anything Goes Challenge! :)

Card recipe

Stamp - Happy Birthday Everyone

Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black

Cardstock- Whisper White Thick Cardstock, Basic Black, Watermelon Wonder, In Color 2015-2017 Envelope Sheets, Everyday Chic Designer Series Paper

Tools - Stampin' Trimmer, SNAIL, Bow Builder Punch, Glue Dots
Accessories - Regals Candy Dots

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 - Weekly Deals

Hi!

Here are this week's Weekly Deals!

2" Circle Punch $31.00 $23.25	Calypso Coral Thick Baker’S Twine ... $4.69	Classy Designer Buttons ... $7.88	Everyday Chic Designer Washi Tape ... $10.50
Flower Fair Framelits Die $41.00 $28.70	Fun Flower Punch $31.00 $21.70	Handpicked Framelits Dies $41.00 $30.75	Happy Patterns Decorative Masks ... $7.00
Hello Honey 5/8" Striped Cotton Ribbon ... $9.19	Metal Rimmed Pearls ... $6.56	Sweet Li'l Things Designer Washi Tape ... $6.56

The 2015-2016 Annual Catalogue  is 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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