Colour Inspiration Challenge

 

Hello,

Welcome to my latest blog post for the Crafty Collaborations Blog Hop where you will be visiting Demonstrators from around the world to see various projects that have been created using this picture for inspiration:

When I saw this picture I loved how it gave so many opportunities to use stamp sets that I have bought from the Annual Catalogue last year but not actually used as much as I would like to have.  With the new Annual Catalogue coming very soon (24th March for Demonstrators and 4th May for customers) I wanted to use the Very Versailles stamp set just in case it retires.

For this challenge I chose to create these two cards:

I wanted to add some silver embossing to the card to make the frame look more detailed and add a bit of metallic.

Well thank you for taking the time to read this post, I hope you have enjoyed looking at what I have created.  It is now time for you to carry on with your Crafty Collaborations blog hop and head on over to have a look at what everyone is working on.

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All it needed was a bit of crafty friend time...

After a much-needed crafting session with a close crafty friend I was really happy to find my mojo has slowly returned and has left me chomping at the bit!

 

When we were crafting together, I loved the One Sheet Wonder sheet (OSW) that Sarah had recently created, so we did one together using the same Stampin’ Up! products. It was nice to be in the pupil’s seat for once and not have to think too hard. 

A One Sheet Wonder is where you randomly stamp all over a sheet of card to create your own background sheet, it is really easy to do, however it takes me longer as I struggle with ‘random’ so I have to stamp in an ‘organised random’ kind of way!  The background was created by dragging a Stampin; Up! Daffodil Delight ink pad across the card and then just go for it stamp all over until you are happy with your sheet.  Remember that it will look different when you cut your card up.

        

Once you have completed stamping your sheet of card you then cut it up however you want to make card toppers ready to work on to make your completed cards. I chose to cut mine into four pieces (9.5cm x 13.85cm) ready for mounting onto C6 cards.

Now I have the bug for making more One Sheet Wonders using various Stampin’ Up! products, this one was very product heavy but they can be created just using one or maybe two stamps sets. Watch this space as I have a feeling more OSW sheets will follow.

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

I hope you enjoyed reading this post and come back to see what other projects I have created.

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 Happy Crafting!

 

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Paper Pumpkin UK Style

Welcome and thank you for stopping by to visit my Paper Pumpkin UK style blog hop, here I am again hopping with other independent Stampin' Up! Demonstrators worldwide on the Paper Pumpkin themed Crafty Blog Hop. 

In the UK we are not yet fortunate enough to have a monthly Paper Pumpkin subscription, however we do to get one-off specials, currently we have Paper Pumpkin Box of Sunshine (for more info please click here).

The theme of this blog hop is World’s Greatest Paper Pumpkin kit, and as we did not receive this box in the UK it was time to literally think 'outside the box! (Sorry, I couldn’t resist that!)

My father will be ninety years old next month and I thought he would be the perfect person for me to create for as to me he is the World’s Greatest!  He did everything possible to ensure that I never wanted for anything and has been a fantastic Grandad and Great Grandad!

I knew instantly I wanted to make my Dad’s birthday card, but then all creativity and inspiration disappeared as soon as I realised I was making a MALE card, so I just had a to make it up as I went along.  Why do I find make cards so hard? 

The bonus of using the Paper Pumpkin kit for inspiration was that the colours were all there for me.

In addition to making this card I wanted to make two other projects so I decided on a rosette badge and a bottle tag. 

For once I am organised in having the tag crafted before I have bought the bottle of brandy, so I had to use my bottle of bubbly.  I truly enjoyed making the rosette badge and it was completed in less than twenty minutes.

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Happy Crafting!

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Ink.Stamp.Share. Special Blog Hop - August

So what have I been working on lately?

First of all, thank you for visiting my blog from Cindy's blog and secondly, welcome to my first Blog Hop with Ink.Stamp.Share. I was truly excited to be taking part in this Special Blog Hop and it is here you will also see fellow Demonstrators showing what they have been working on for the past few weeks using various Stampin' Up! products.

So what have I been working on lately?  Recently I was asked by my Father to create two sympathy cards to send overseas (had to omit Dimensionals to keep down costs).

I knew instantly which Stampin’ Up! stamp set I wanted to use as I had wanted to buy this as soon as it was launched last year - Very Versailles.  I love the script and the elegance of the frame and the leaves and I knew this set would involve me using gold Stampin’ emboss powder as soon as I saw it, even after all these years I still smile when I watch it melt and see the finished item.  

The frame involved me doing some good ole’ fussy cutting (it’s like Marmite – you either love fussy cutting or you hate it) which I love doing, I find it so therapeutic.  

Due to these Sympathy cards being sent to the United States, I had to reduce the thickness of the layers, I usually get a bit Dimensionals happy but this time I only used them on the heat embossed frame  The frame involved me doing some good ole’ fussy cutting (it’s like Marmite – you either love fussy cutting or you hate it) which I love doing, I find it so therapeutic. 

To show just how versatile this stamp set is, I also created a ‘40^th Birthday’ card, a ‘Thank You’ card and a ‘Bride & Groom’ card using the same colourways as the Sympathy cards.  They needed a little something extra added to give them and extra bit of bling, so I randomly (I struggle with ‘random’ so I call it ‘organised random’) placed several Metallic Pearls on these cards.

Here are the Stampin' Up! products that I used to create these cards:

Thank you and I hope you have enjoyed visiting my blog, please hop over to Kirstie's blog to see more inspiring work. 

Happy Crafting

 

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Alison Carter - Independent Stampin' Up! Demonstrator

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