It is time to get my Birthday craft on!

Well this time of year is very busy for me, I have my eldest daughter’s birthday, my father’s birthday and then all three of my granddaughter’s birthdays oh and not forgetting my daughter’s partner’s birthday, so from the 14^th September to 14^th October I have seven very important people’s birthdays!!!

Previously, I created a scrapbook page of my eldest granddaughter dressed up as Hermione and as it is her birthday on the 25^th and I decided to create her a birthday card of the same theme.

 

I fell in love with how I created the scrapbook page – using a swirl from Stampin’ Up! Stitched Stars dies as a stencil with Cherry Cobbler and Bumblebee ink pads and sponge daubers to create the silhouette background on the Very Vanilla card topper.

Using a strip of Bumblebee cardstock on top of Cherry Cobbler cardstock and then used Stampin’ Up! Playful Alphabet dies to cut out the ‘Happy Birthday’ and number eleven using Stampin’ Up! Brushed Metallic cardstock.

 

I hope you have enjoyed reading this blog post and I hope to see you again very soon.

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Time to Press On - Stamp 'n' Blog Hop

Hello and welcome to my blog post for the Stamp ‘n Hop Blog Hop.  You may have joined me from Libby's blog or started your journey with me.

Here you will get to see Demonstrators from around the world showing you what they have been making using the lovely products from the Stampin’ Up! mini catalogue.

I just love cups and mugs and I am addicted to buying merchandise from Starbucks yet I am not a big fan of coffee but I can never resist buying their cups, so when I saw this stamp set in the mini catalogue I knew instantly that I would have to buy it.  I also knew that it would be the first set I used when I started crafting from that catalogue too.

For a change I knew instantly what I wanted to make with this set that was not Christmas related, but I will also be creating loads of Christmas related projects with this set as my head is over running with ideas, lets hope they stay in there when it comes to crafting time.

As part of a monthly swap group I am in, I chose to make this card as part of the swap for the group and as it was a very good friends birthday (who is also a Starbucks fan and actually likes coffee) created a coordinating gift card wallet for the gift card I had bought as part of her 40^th birthday.

Here is a close up of the card so you can see that I embossed the background after I have stamped the hearts, how I used a piece of Prized Peony designer series paper for the pattern on the mug and that I heat embossed the greeting and fussy cut it out.

Look at the difference between the Whisper White cardstock that has been stamped on, one has been embossed using the Tasteful Textiles 3D embossing folder.

When I crafted the gift card wallet, I wanted to add just a little bit of an extra colour, so I chose Real Red for the heart and the word ‘coffee’ and I love how they stand out.  If only I had bought the Starbucks gift card first as I would have matched the colours on it.

     

I hope you have enjoyed looking at these projects and if you would like any more information then my details can be found at the bottom of this post.

Here is a list of the Stampin' Up! products I used to create these projects:

Thank you so much for popping by, now it is time to hop over to the wonderful Laura’s blog and have a look at her fantastic projects.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

I hope you have enjoyed reading my post and thank you for stopping by, hope to see you again soon.  You could always follow my page to see my posts on a regular basis.  

Happy Crafting!

For more information about classes, workshops and Stampin’ Up! products, please do not hesitate to contact me.

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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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Gorgeous Posies by Stampin' Up! Crafty Blog Hop

 

Thank you so much for visiting my blog and welcome.

This is my first time participating in the Crafty Blog Hop and I eager to see what everyone else has crafted with this month’s theme - Gorgeous Posies Card Kit by Stampin’ Up! 

When I first saw this kit, I knew instantly that I just had to have it, I loved the choice of colours with Blackberry Bliss being one of my favourite colours, but I also love how well the colours all work together.

As soon as I buy a Stampin’ Up! kit I always create one of each design following the instructions, then I will change it up slightly for my version.  After that anything goes as this kit had four designs and sixteen cards in total so this left me with plenty of scope.

For today’s Crafty Blog hop I will be showing you four of my favourite cards that made using the products provided, it was great fun mixing them up. 

With each of these cards I changed how they were done from the instructions, I fussy cut, chopped the cards, raised them up using Stampin' Up! Mini Dimensionals and swapped greetings onto different die-cuts.

I was enjoying myself so much that I got carried away and made a total of twenty-four cards (I used additional Stampin’ Up! cardstock to create extra blanks) and I would have been more then happy to carry on creating as I still have elements of the kit left over.

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

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Thank you again for visiting my blog and Happy Crafting!

 

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My Sunday Rewind Revisited - Everything is Rosy Medley part one

 

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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

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Classes & workshops - The Crafty Corner Shop

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