Oh what am I working on.....

Hello and welcome to my blog, 

I just wanted to show you what I am working on at the moment, with so much new craft products about due to Stampin’ Up! having two current catalogues it made my decision quite hard.  However, it didn’t take me too long for me to make my mind up as I have wanted to play with this suite for quite a while – Stampin’ Up!’s Forever Greenery.  

Every month I offer a scrapbooking kit (£15 collected, £20 posted) to my regular customers and these are my two pages using items from the kit, plus I have added the stamp set and dies into my work.

Before I started creating I decided that I would like to stamp and die-cut loads of different elements using the stamps and dies so I had them all ready to play with.

Here you will see a mixture of Forever Gold Laser-cut Speciality Paper which I literally just popped out to add with all of the stamped and die-cut images which I created stamping onto Whisper White card and by using Just Jade, Shaded Spruce, Garden Green, Pear Pizzazz, Pretty Peacock and Soft Sea Foam ink colours.

 

I truly loved using the Forever Greenery Designer Series Paper as they went so well with the photographs that I wanted to scrap, a recent family day out in Stamford, Norfolk.  I had so many photos to use and it was my intention to get as many on as I could.

      

These pictures are close-ups of two sections of the page so you get a better chance to see the detail.  I was really happy with how these pages turned out and it is my intention to carry on crafting with this suite.  I plan to make a mini album with more photographs in of this memorable day out with my daughters and granddaughters.

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Guilded Autumn Crafty Blog Hop

   

Wow these blog hops come around really quick, welcome back and thank you for taking the time to visit me as I Crafty Blog hop using Stampin’ Up!’s Gilded Autumn suite.

I fell in love with this suite when I saw it in the August to December Mini Catalogue and although it was not until later that I bought the Beautiful Autumn bundle I knew I had to have to other bits instantly.  I fell in love with the colours and the foil on the papers.

              

As soon as I saw these papers I knew instantly which photographs I was going to use, rewind to 21^st September 2016 when my eldest daughter Roni called me to suggest we go for a walk around Sandringham Woods (nope never bumped into any royalty) as she was making the most of the nice weather before Isla Rose (my second granddaughter) arrived for Halloween (nope she came 14^th October).  I must confess I have zero idea what she was doing nor what we were laughing about, other than we realised I wretch when I see fungi (very strange fact about me!)

Since I started scrapbooking in 2007, I find I take photographs with scrapbooking layouts or products in mind, I knew I wanted the six photographs to tell a story and when I saw Gilded Autumn speciality designer series paper exactly which sheets I was going to use and even what stamp set I wanted for these pages.

 

For the Beautiful Autumn Bundle I stamped the leaves in either Early Espresso or Soft Suede ink, I then used the Wet Wipe Technique (lay a wet wipe onto a plastic surface and drop various ink refill colours – I used Pumpkin Pie, Real Red and Crushed Curry then use as an ink pad) to colour the leaves in.  Once they dried, I punched them out with the co-ordinating dies.  I chose to use two sets of dies for the title and sub heading, this is the beauty of scrapbooking there are no rules and you can use whatever you like. 

   

Please see below the supply list of the products used in these projects:

Well thank you very much for popping by and I hope that you enjoy visiting the other Demonstrators around the world as you hop about.  

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Happy Crafting!

 

Email - theinkycrafter@hotmail.com

  

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    Why not join become part of my Stampin' Up! team and earn a discount on every purchase?

            For only £99 you can choose £130 worth of products from any current catalogue

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Back to School with Stampin' Up! Crafty Blog Hop

Welcome to my blog and thank you for stopping by as you either start your Blog Hop journey with me or you hopped on over from another blog.

For this month’s Blog Hop for the Crafty Blog Hop, the theme we were given was Back to School.  Sadly both of my girls have all grown up as they are now aged twenty-two and almost twenty nine years of age, however I have been bless with three gorgeous granddaughters aged nearly one, nearly four and nearly eleven.

For this Crafty Blog Hop, when the topic was released, I knew instantly which photographs I wanted to use, I decided to use my eldest Granddaughter Alexa (a.k.a. Lexi-Lu) photo from when her school celebrated World Book Day back in February and she decided to dress up as Hermione from Harry Potter, I was so happy as we are both very big Harry Potter fans and I knew I would look forward to scrapping those photos.

I instantly found the base sheet that I wanted to use in the Gilded Autumn Speciality Designer Series Paper pack, it was the reverse side of an embossed sheet but it was perfect for what I needed.  It matched the colour theme really well.

     

Having cut the swirl out from Stampin' Up! Stitched Shapes Dies I applied the colour to the swirl with sponge daubers and both Cherry Cobbler and Bumblebee inks to add colour.  I also cut out an additional swirl and used it to create a stencil so I could also dauber directly onto the patterned paper.

For the title I really wanted to mix it up so by using the Playful Alphabet dies it allowed me to do this with ease.  At some point I had the epiphany about how to create the ‘Hogwarts’ word of the title, I cut a strip of Cherry Cobbler card and then a thinner strip of Bumblebee card on top ready to die-cut the letters in the Gryffindor house colours.

     

I truly enjoyed crafting this scrapbook page and I am pleased as a result of me joining Blog Hops that it is really helping me to find my mojo and craft for a purpose.

Please see below the supply list of the products used in these projects:

Thank you for stopping by and enjoy your Blog Hop journey and I look forward to seeing you again soon.

If you would like more information about classes, workshops and Stampin’ Up! products, please do not hesitate to contact me.  Why not follow my blog to be kept up-to-date with my posts?

Email - theinkycrafter@hotmail.com

  

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Why not join become part of my Stampin' Up! team and earn a discount on every purchase?

For only £99 you can choose £130 worth of products from any current catalogue

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Ink.Stamp.Share. August Blog Hop - Mini Catalogue

Hello and welcome to my Blog!

You may have started your blog hop journey here or have arrived from Cindy's Blog, however I know you will enjoy hopping from post to post as you get to see what other Stampin' Up! demonstrators have been creating using the new Stampin' Up! August to December mini catalogue for the Ink.Stamp.Share. August Blog Hop.

This week I had a rather large amount of photo’s arrive from Freeprints and it made me realise I had better start scrapbooking or I will never catch up if I keep ordering them and doing nothing with them. 

So, for this blog hop the theme was products from the new mini catalogue so I decided to use the gorgeous Gleaming Brightly Speciality Designer Series Paper.

When this paper was launched last year, I fell in love with it and I will confess that I stashed a few packets away, so you can imagine my joy when it returned this year!

Here is my is my scrapbook page that I created using Brightly Gleaming Speciality Designer Series Paper from the mini catalogue, I had forgotten that not all pages are Christmas related, so was happy, happy, happy to use this to scrapbook my eldest Granddaughter’s 7^th birthday photo’s that were taken in 2016.

Alexa's 7th Birthday photo's with her favourite Auntie!

Once I chose the paper, I decided  to use Stampin' Up! Poppy Moments Dies for some lovely 3D flowers.  I could have spent ages amking loads of these flowers as it was truly addictive and a great way to use up scraps of card and paper.

The flowers were quite a bold statement on the page! I loved them...

Spot the mistake! Yep, she was seven years old in this photo and I added NINE candles and the number nine! I knew she wasn’t nine four years ago as she will be eleven next month!  

Silly Nana ha ha!

Now I have made this page, I feel I need to start scrapbooking more pages so I can make a dent in the photographs that I keep getting printed and get my scrap on!

Here is the supply list of the products that I used in this scrapbook page:

Thank you for visiting my blog today, now it is time for you to hop on over to Tracie St-Louis to carry on your Blog Hop journey.

If you would like more information about classes, workshops and Stampin’ Up! products, please do not hesitate to contact me.  Why not follow my blog to be kept up-to-date with my posts?

Happy Crafting!

 

Email - theinkycrafter@hotmail.com

  

Stampin’ Up! online store - www.theinkycrafter.stampinup.net

 

Why not join become part of my Stampin' Up! team and earn a discount on every purchase?

For only £99 you can choose £130 worth of products from any current catalogue

https://ida.stampinup.com/en-gb/?demoid=5041737

 

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www.facebook.com/TheInkyCrafter

 

Classes & workshops - The Crafty Corner Shop

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