This month the Around the World on Wednesday Blog Hop team are CASEing a team member. What does it mean to CASE? There are a couple of variations that are around in the cardmaking world. Copy and Share Everything or Copy and Selectively Edit. CASEing can be a direct copy of a project or you can take the idea and change it up to your style. It provides inspiration and ideas and can be handy if you’re really stuck in a rut with creativity.
For me, this is a favourite challenge we do each year with our AWOW team. Our team is made up of such talented members and I love that there is so much inspiration we can gain and much to be learned from each other. It was very exciting watching Angie Mckenzie,who is our leader, do her Facebook Live. There’s always much anticipation each year as to what twist and spin Angie has up her sleeve and of course, who she is going to pair you up with. There’s a lot of planning and thoughtfulness which goes into this.
What I love about our AWOW CASE a team member hops is that Angie encourages us to get to know each other. This is not just another ‘hop’. We form friendships and bonds and care for each other beyond the Stampin’ Up! world because we are able to take time to find out more about the person behind the stamping.
I was paired up with Sharon Burkert from As the Ink Dries. Through the magic of Zoom, Sharon and I were able to find a decent time that worked between Chicago and Melbourne and catch up. We chatted for an hour, learning about each other and it was so good to actually see each other LIVE! This was so exciting for me and I loved this experience. So after chatting about craft rooms, stamping, family and other things we set on the task at hand.
THE BRIEF
CASE a team member – We could pick any team member but we couldn’t let the rest of the team know. Top secret!
TAG – It’s a collaboration tag team. Our projects had to coordinate with each other in some way
MUST HAVE – We had to have ONE colour in common
So how did we go? Sharon suggested we CASE Angie McKenzie from Nature’s Inkspirations and of course I thought this was such a brilliant idea. Angie is the brains behind this blog hop and puts in so much effort each month to ensure all the admin side is organised. It’s hard work keeping a bunch of women under control! She comes up with these amazing themes to keep us inspired and creating and she does all this with grace and kindness. To top it all off she is such a beautiful lady and a special friend.
So, for the Tag part we used a layout from one of Angie’s gorgeous cards. Click here to see how Angie created her card.
Sharon and I both love Lemon Lolly and chose that as our common colour to feature. I can’t wait to see what Sharon has created with this layout.
I flipped Angie’s layout to work with a landscape card as I really wanted to use the Rays of Light stamp set. That’s the beauty of CASEing. You can take inspiration and make it your own. I cut down this panel to fit the die cut Radiating Stitches Rectangle which I blended with Lemon Lolly ink. I trimmed the card base on the 14.8 cm side about 1 cm to have an even edge around the frame.
On the circle I heat embossed a white sentiment which was the focal point of the card. I added a cloud border to depict Angie’s notebook edge and replaced the linen thread with gold trim.
As much as I love the Gorgeously Made bundle which Angie has used on her card I tried to be different and chose the Cheerful Daisies bundle as I know Angie loves her some daisies (check out our blog hop header). These were heat embossed in white on Basic White Cardstock then coloured with Bubble Bath and Moody Mauve Stampin’ Blends.
Next on our hop is the talented Cheryll Miller who will have something amazing to share with you. I hope you will be inspired as you hop through with us and take a look at everyone’s creations. Please leave a comment as you go through as we love hearing from you and perhaps you will CASE one of our designs.. I’m excited to find out who everyone is CASEing!
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Happy Saturday friends. It’s a bit of of blustery day here in Melbourne but the sun is shining which makes it so much nicer.
Today, I’m featuring the Irresistible Blooms suite which is part of our Online Exclusives range. This suite includes a stamp and die bundle as well as some beautiful Designer Series Paper.
For the background, the Pretty Peacock on the Masterfully Made Designer Series Paper coordinated well with the Hello, Irresistible Designer Seriees Paper. The flower was cut out from the paper itself (no colouring required!).
I added some sparkly detail with the Dry Brushed Metallic Paper. Die cutting this with the lined detail die provided a pretty accent against the flower.
Have you checked out the latest additions to our Online Exclusives range? There are some gorgeous products. If you love any products that you see, make sure you order them as there is no guarantee that products will be re-stocked. Orders can be made in my Online Store or just contact me to place the order for you.
Enjoy your weekend.
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Designer Series Paper is one of my favourite products. It’s so easy to create a quick and beautiful card when I have pretty paper doing the hard work for me.
I’ve used the Delightfully Eclectic Designed Series Paper to create this card. Even the flower was cut out of a sheet of DSP and blended with Fresh Freesia ink for a coordinated look and used to embellish the typewriter.
I have a fondness for those individual stamp sets in the catalogue that are just a little bit different. The Just my Type stamp set is one of those cute sets with sweet images. I love how these can be paired together or used individually for different looks.
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Have you been playing along with my colour palettes each week? I LOVE these autumn colours of Colour Palette #7 and created a card using the beautiful Nature’s Harvest stamp set and Harvest dies which are retiring. These dies have some beautiful pieces to embellish your projects and I love the wheat and branches which provide texture and interest.
Cherry Cobbler isn’t a colour I tend to use a lot of except at Christmas. For this card I blended some Cherry Cobbler as a background for the flowers which were coloured in Crushed Curry and Cherry Cobbler Watercolour Pencils.
The branch was die cut from Basic White Cardstock. Using a Blending Brush I added Crushed Curry and Early Espresso ink onto it. The blotchy stamp (this stamp set is worth it just for that blotchy stamp!) was stamped in Sahara Sand. This coordinated with the DSP in the background. Sahara Sand wasn’t in the actual colour palette but generally in colour challenges, any neutrals, Black, White, Very Vanilla and metallics can be added so I went with it. With Sahara Sand retiring it was nice to say a farewell to it in this card.
I addded a piece of White cardstock embossed with the Hive embossing folder and blended with Old Olive inbetween the layers. The Hive 3D embossing folder is on sale for $9.45 in our Last Chance Sale. The smaller pattern on this folder adds some lovely texture to cards.
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If you are in Melbourne you may be one of the fortunate ones enjoying a long weekend. I certainly am grateful for it. I’ve created a card using inspired by the Global Design Project challenge and Just Add Ink Just Choose Two challlenge.
My project composition began with a colour palette inspired by Kim Fee’s design. I then chose a stamp set which I hadn’t used in a while and depicted a similar layout to Kim’s. For my Just Two elements I’ve chosen Blending (of course!) and White.
I started off by stamping the tea cup in Pale Papaya on Basic White Cardstock and blending Pale Papaya ink over it. Then I added some additional shading and blending with Calypso Coral Stampin’ Blends along the right side of the cup. The leaves were stamped in Old Olive and then I blended Soft Sea Foam and Old Olive over it. With this, my focal element was decided now it was time to add all the other bits and pieces.
I blended the centre oval with Parakeet Party and Old Olive. The Old Olive checks added through a mask depicted the checks on the DSP of the inspiration design, with the black and white leaves inspired by the heat embossed sentiment from the original project.
I couldn’t go past a cute little gingham bow to bring all those elements together with a finishing touch of a few Opal Rounds.
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I had some fun with the ink smooshing technique to create this Thank You card along with the Thanks a Bunch stamp set which is a Sale-A-Bration offering. You can earn this stamp set when you spend $90 during Sale-A-Bration.
There are various ways to do the Ink Smooshing technique. I used a Silicone Craft Mat to lay down some ink, spritzed it and then added my cardstock to it. I love the different backgrounds this creates.
These carrots in different colours look lovely on the Rich Razzleberry card base. A few scattered Champagne Rhinestones and bow from Linen Thread finish off this card.
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