Hello friends, Welcome to the New at SU blog hop for September. Today the projects we are sharing will be using bundles from the Stampin’ Up! September – December Mini Catalogue. I have used the Sentimental Wishes Bundle to feature on my card.
This bundle is part of the Sentimental Christmas suite which also includes Designer Series Paper, Ribbon and embellishments.
On the background, I stamped the leaves from the stamp set in Balmy Blue and embossed the Cardstock panel with the Dashing Designs Embossing Folder.
I chose this beautiful image of the stocking, reminiscent of a storybook image and coloured it with Stampin’ Blends. Around it I added some leaves die cut from Basic White Cardstock using the Winterly Tree Tops dies. These were blended in Soft Sea Foam ink for a subtle addition to the foliage in the stocking.
The base layer of White Cardstock was embossed with the Painted Trees embossing folder. I ran the Cardstock through 4 times too ensure all the edges of the Cardstock had the lovely detail of the folder. Then I distressed the edges with Paper Snips.
The sentiment label was blended with Pretty in Pink and Soft Sea Foam ink to coordinate with the rest of my card, A single snowflake and some Drusy Embellishments add the finishing touches to this vintage card.
Thank you for taking the time to stop by and I hope you have been inspired by my project. Make sure to browse through all our other blog hop participants for heaps of inspiration.
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On page 16-17 of the Stampin’ Up! Mini Catalogue, you will find a display of our Mix & Match products. I just love the projects on these pages and the Ephemera Packs that are offered in this catalogue are beautiful. For today’s CASEing the Catty Challenge CTC487 we are CASEing a project from these pages.
I CASEd the card bases which are shown on these pages. The Gold Dipped Mix & Match Cards & Envelopes are perfectly coordinated for our range of ephemera and will create quick cards. However, I set about creating my own card bases using inks and embossing powder.
To create this effect you need 2 ink colours from the same colour range – blues, reds, pinks etc. I started with a piece of Basic White Cardstock.
Blend Blueberry Bushel ink lightly with a Blending Brush about halfway across the Cardstock
Swip the Blueberry Bushel ink pad lightly down the Cardstock (use the edge of the ink pad without a lip)
Turn the Cardstock around and repeat the swiping so the ink is applied well on the opposite end too.
Next, swipe the Night of Navy ink pad top to bottom and repeat from bottom to top. This section will be larger than the Blueberry Bushel area.
Dry completely or use heat gun to speed up the drying process
Swipe the Versamark ink pad along the edge of Cardstock to create an uneven border.
Heat emboss in Gold. I repeated this process a couple more times to get a thicker edge.
For this card I also added a little bit of Balmy Blue fading out towards the left edge.
I used the edge of the largest frame from the Radiating Stitches dies to create a border from Night of Navy Cardstock. This was adhered to a strip of Designer Series Paper from the A Little Bit Festive pack of specialty paper. This pack contains 3 sheets of double sided paper and 3 sheets of die cuts, some of which I used on this card.
One of the die cut wreaths was cut in half and added under my border strips. I just love the little drums from these die cuts which are super cute. The white layer was adhered to a Blueberry Bushel matte layer which I blended Blueberry Bushel ink around to create a contrast from the card base.
A Gold ribbon and some peppermint embellishments complete this fun card. I love how the stripes on the peppermints worked in with the stripes on my paper.
Thank you for stopping by and I hope you try this fun technique and see what fun colour palettes you create. Next on our hop is Michelle Strazds.
To CASE is to Copy and Selectively Edit and when you CASE you can be copy the project directly or be inspired by elements of it to make it your own.
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Happy Saturday friends, Welcome to this week’s Crafty Collaboration Monochromatic challenge. With Real Red as our colour of the week, I couldn’t resist creating a Christmas card. How early is too early to get a start on those Christmas cards?
I used the So Very Merry stamp set and heat embossed the image in gold. This was coloured with Real Red and Crumb Cake Stampin’ Blends. I fussy cut around the Santa and added him to a tag which had been die cut from the Merriest Trees dies.
The tag was stamped with the Drizzling Droplets background stamp and I added a layer of Real Red Cardstock which had been embossed with the Snowflake Sky folder.
The pine leaves are from the Winterly Tree Tops bundle which will be available in our September – December Mini Catalogue. I added some gold ribbon, a heat embossed sentiment and embellishments to bring in an extra festive look to this card.
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Thank you for stopping by and I hope you are inspired by what I have shared. Maybe you will start on some of your Christmas projects!
Enjoy your weekend and I hope to see you back here very soon.
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Merry Christmas! As we remember the birth of Jesus, may you enjoy the blessings of the season.
I’ve finally arrived at Day 30 of the #30DayChristmasCardmakingChallenge . Our theme today is Little Christmas and I’ve gone with smaller images and elements to create my card.
The small die cut squares were stamped with the stocking image from the Sending Cheer stamp set which had the small star images. This was repeated in a simple design.
The colours for my card have been inspired by the theme at Global Design Project #gdp426.
For the background I added Textured Paste through the Foursquare Mask for a delicate pattern. Small layered holly leaves in black and Pool Party add a finishing touch to this sweet and simple card.
It’s double the fun with a combination of challenges today. I’ve used the sketch from the #30DayChristmasCardmakingChallenge and combined it with Colour Palette #32 .
I’ve added masking with Crumb Cake ink using the houndstooth background and then layered with a Timber embossed Crumb Cake piece of Cardstock. Layering tone on tone provides dimension.
I then added some fussy cut flowers and die cut leaves. For the sprigs with berries I die cut them from White Cardstock and used Stampin’ Blends to colour them in. The Ringed with Nature stamp set has been getting lots of use in my craft room as has the hybrid embossing folder and dies. There are so many elements which can be used in a variety of ways and I’ve even added a tree ring at the base of my floral arrangement on this card.
I hope you have fun this Christmas Eve as you prepare for Christmas day.
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