The Inkspirational Crafter: June 2023

Wednesday 21 June 2023

Suite Showcase #12 - Bright & Beautiful

Happy Summer Solstice everyone and welcome,

Today as this blog goes live (21^st June 2023) the temperature where I live is going to be sunny with highs of 25 degrees, I am fortunate that I’m only a short car journey to the start of some gorgeous beaches.

Anyway, over to the latest Suite Showcase with Joanna (PurrfectlyCreative) and I where we were crafting with the gorgeous Bright and Beautiful suite by Stampin’ Up!

For this showcase I decided to use the Memories & More cards and the matching cards and envelopes as there were some cards that I truly loved. I knew I needed to create birthday cards using these and they were ideal, I just incorporated both the Charming Sentiments and Color & Contour stamp sets and their co-ordinating die sets to add greetings and decoration.

Here are the colours that I used from the Bright & Beautiful suite:

For the first card I embossed a piece of Lost Lagoon card and die-cut the card before adding the heat embossed greeting.

I loved creating this second card and it was really easy to do, I just cut out the balloon image and attached to the card with the flowers.

The third card was my favourite one to create, the balloon background allowed for the perfect birthday card and by using the candle dies it offered the finishing touches.

In total I made five cards, here are the other two:

It was lovely playing with these cards, as you can see in each photo I have stood the card I created on the original Memories & More cards that were used on my cards and you can see what I have done with each of them. Once I had made these cards there was more than enough leftover for me to continue craft with. I plan to make more cards and even use them for scrapbooking.

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Wednesday 7 June 2023

Suite Showcase #11 - Inked Botanicals

Hello and welcome to my latest blog post,

For this Suite Showcase we have selected the Inked Botanicals Suite which is a stamp set with two punches. I loved using the punches as they are really quick and easy to use.

For the first card I was really punch happy creating the background for the card, I couldnt resist a bit of heat embossing and fussy cutting.

On this second card I used to lines stamp to create a kind of burlap background before stamping the stems and attaching the flower heads on mini dimesionals.

With the third card i used loads of strips of dsp (1.4cm x 10cm) and layer them up before puching an aperture out for the greeting. Again, I used heat embossed flowers and fussy cut them out.

This suite is so versatile and offers so many opportunities for projects as there are vaious patterns to choose from on the 6" x 6" designer series papers.