tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55110862806544736732024-03-14T09:02:26.010+13:00Tiny Kiwi CardsEmily Campbell - Independent Stampin' Up!® DemonstratorEmily Campbell - Independent Stampin' Up!® Demonstratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17475243094855593603noreply@blogger.comBlogger109125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5511086280654473673.post-4359657610364704632018-08-20T18:58:00.000+12:002018-08-20T19:08:37.987+12:00Colour Your Season exlusive bundle and Holiday sneak peek<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Today I wanted to showcase some projects using the Colour Your Season exclusive bundle that is only available to buy this month. I absolutely love it, and have used it in a few different ways in my projects today.</div>
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First up is a beautiful vibrant card, where I've used my Cherry Cobbler, Flirty Flamingo and Mint Macaron blends to colour the stunning floral image from the Blended Seasons stampset. I embossed the Pineapple Punch layer with the Subtle embossing folder from the Annual Catalogue, and it adds the perfect pop of texture and colour.</div>
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I feel like I'm a bit late to the party with the beautiful Petal Promenade DSP, but I have it now and I luuurve it! The floral centrepiece of this card is cut and embossed with the Stitched Seasons label die. The card base is Grapefruit Grove, and the mat layer is Petal Pink, and I have coloured my ribbon with the Petal Pink blends to co-ordinate with the colours and added a few self-adhesive sequins for dimension, and some gold twine and metallic pearls on the stitched label, creating a very elegant Congratulations card.</div>
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Continuing with the Petal Promenade DSP, I just knew that it would be perfect for scrapbooking. The photo on this page holds a very special place for me, as I lost my grandma a few weeks ago, so I wanted to make a really special scrapbook page showcasing this picture of her with my sister and I at a family wedding a few months ago. <br />
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Next up is some more of our beautiful DSP, this is my favourite piece from this Share What You Love pack. I wanted the paper to stand out on its own, so I chose a pretty white photo frame to put it in, and added some simple embellishments to the bottom, and this now sits on the shelf of in my Craftroom and makes me happy every time I see it.</div>
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It seems to early to talk about Christmas, since its still only August, but we are fortunate as demonstrators to have early access to some Christmas products. I have used the Stitched Seasons dies to make an ornament with the Merry Christmas to All suite that you will find in the Holiday Catalogue that starts on September 5th.</div>
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This last suite is called Santas Workshop, and I have enjoyed colouring this with Blends in some new colours, including Real Red, Basic Black and Mango Melody. On the inside I have an elf coloured in Shaded Spruce.</div>
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I hope you have enjoyed these projects today - don't forget that the Colour Your Season bundle is only available this month, but it is an invaluable set for your collection! And you'll earn a Bonus Days coupon to spend in September. Contact me for more information.</div>
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Today I'm excited to be taking part in another ESAD Bloghop, this time celebrating the start of the 2018 Annual Catalogue, which has just launched a couple of days ago. </div>
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I'm featuring a card I've made for a dear friends milestone birthday. It's been a while since I've made a card-in-a-box, and I wanted to create a <strong>B-I-G</strong> impact, so I've supersized my cardbase to 6 1/2 x 8 1/2" to make the 3D floral scene pop. </div>
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The card base is Tranquil Tide, and I've used the Share What you Love Specialty Designer Series Paper and co-ordinating Love What You Do stampset, and I've coloured the flowers with my Pool Party, Bermuda Bay and Rich Razzleberry Blends. I've also added some Mint Macaron leaves from Naturally Ecletic, and for added dimension I've used the Celebrate You thinlets, and different sized hearts from Wood Crate framelits and Up & Away framelits to add to my pop-up scene, which are cut from the new Rose and Sparkle Glimmer Paper. Everything matches beautifully with the DSP.</div>
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The number 50 is also cut with Sparkle Glimmer Paper, with the sadly now-retired Large Number dies, and backed onto a pearl doily. </div>
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Did you notice the Butterfly from Springtime Impressions popped onto the back there?</div>
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Of course, the whole card folds flat to fit into an envelope, which I have made using the Punch Board, and I used a whole sheet of 12x12 Rich Razzleberry cardstock scored at 5" - my card just squeaks in with millimeters to spare!</div>
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I really hope my friend likes it!!!</div>
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Next, to showcase the new 2018-2020 In-colours, I've made a co-ordinating set of cards, in the same basic design. Mixing old and new, I've used carryover stampsets, dies and punches, from Naturally Eclectic bundle, Wood Words, Jar of Love and Pretty Little Label sets. The silver twine also carrys over into the new catalogue, but the Polka Dot Tulle Ribbon and texture stamp from Artisan Textures are new.</div>
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This is a close-up of the Blueberry Bushel card, which I've paired with Call Me Clover and Lemon Lime Twist.</div>
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Lovely Lipstick is paired with Petal Pink and Grapefruit Grove.</div>
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Grapefruit Grove is paired with Lovely Lipstick and Pineapple Punch.</div>
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Pineapple Punch is paired with Petal Pink and Grapefruit Grove.</div>
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Call Me Clover is paired with Lemon Lime Twist and Blueberry Bushel.</div>
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Emily Campbell - Independent Stampin' Up!® Demonstratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17475243094855593603noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5511086280654473673.post-23777720436820396072018-04-29T13:37:00.000+12:002018-04-29T13:52:50.229+12:002018 ESAD Retiring List Blog Hop<div style="text-align: center;">
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Today we are blog-hopping to farewell some of our favourite products from the 2017-2018 Annual Catalogue and Occasions Catalogues that have been listed on the Retirement List. You have probably just joined me from <a href="http://www.stamp-a-latte.com/esad-retirement-list-blog-hop/" target="_blank">Leonie Schroder's blog</a>. It's been the school holidays for the last 2 weeks here in New Zealand, so I've have time to create a few cards this week, using products and colours that I'll be sad to say goodbye to! Be sure to grab them while you still can.</div>
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First up is this card in the gorgeous colour combination of Elegant Eggplant and Old Olive. Elegant Eggplant is leaving us (Old Olive is staying), and we also say goodbye to the Teeny Tiny Sentiments stampset, which I'm sad about because it was the first Stampin' Up stampset I ever purchased. However, the replacement set that will be in the new catalogue looks lovely, so I'm sure my sadness won't last long! I've made a bold watercolour wash with Elegant Eggplant ink on Shimmer Paper with an aqua painter, and also used Elegant Eggplant for all my stamping. The flower, crosses and leaves are all from the Naturally Eclectic suite, which is (happily) staying in the gang for another year. The Colour Theory DSP is also going.</div>
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For my next card I've used a colour-combination of 4 outgoing colours, Sweet Sugarplum, Pink Pirouette, Island Indigo and Soft Sky. These 4 colours are so lovely together, and just happen to co-ordinate with the Colour Theory enamel dots, which is retiring along with the You've Got This stampset, which I used to create the background in stamped-off Sweet Sugarplum. For the butterflies, I've used the Watercolour Wings stampset and the two co-ordinating butterfly die sets, all of which are also leaving us. Only the metallic thread and vellum are staying on this card.</div>
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The Birthday Delivery suite is the first set that I saw from the Annual Catalogue that I SIMPLY HAD TO HAVE, and to my great shame, I've barely used it. I cut out dozens of the various animals and the girl from the DSP, and have never put them to paper! Even on this card; I stamped the baker and used the Blends to colour him in, and I also used the Blends to create the dots in the background to match the colourful strip of the Birthday Delivery DSP, placing a dab of Fine Tip Glue on top of each dot (this idea came from Lavinia Gruizinga on the Demonstrator Planning Page, thank you for giving me permission to copy it.) Note that the Blends and Fine Tip glue are not retiring products.</div>
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This little unicorn from the Myths & Magic suite was my shining star of the Occasions Catalogue this year, and I'm really surprised that this set didn't carry over because its fantastic for kids and young-at-heart adults! Look how magestic she is!!! I love how this set co-orinates so well with the Rainbow framelits for this whimsical scene, which are also retiring.</div>
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As Soft Sky is a retiring colour, I have used it as my base colour for this card, along with Soft Sky ink to make a watercolour wash on Shimmer Paper. Then with Soft Sky ink I've stamped some twinkles and the Hope your Day is Magical greeting. The cloud is made from the glimmer paper (which is being reformulated) and the epoxy raindrops and Pool Party sequins are both leaving us. I've coloured with the Blends again; the unicorns body is coloured with Pink Pirouette (retiring) and the hair is Bermuda Bay (staying). From the colours in the rainbow, we farewell Flirty Flamingo, Peekaboo Peach and Soft Sugarplum from our In-colours (although Flirty Flamingo is returning in the Brights Family) and Pink Pirouette is also leaving, but Daffodil Delight, Bermuda Bay and Pool Party are staying on.</div>
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<br />Emily Campbell - Independent Stampin' Up!® Demonstratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17475243094855593603noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5511086280654473673.post-66140634842959237382018-04-10T07:18:00.000+12:002018-04-18T21:45:07.768+12:00Display Stamper OnStage Auckland 2018 - New Catalogue sneak peeks<br /><br />
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Welcome, if you have arrived here from <a href="https://secretlyscrapbooking.com.au/onstage-april-2018/" target="_blank">Kristel Rimmer's</a> blog. I was very VERY excited to be asked to be a Display Stamper again for OnStage Auckland (I was also fortunate to do it 2 years ago). Opening the Big Brown Box filled with goodies is an exciting moment, seeing new products, speculating on new colours, and trying to work out which products go together. It was also a little different this time round, with no Carryover list provided, which made it a bit of a gamble when choosing supplementary products to use, and also no guidance on whether there would be a colour refresh. So there some challenging aspects, but overall this was a wonderful experience that I was honored to be able to participate in. <br />
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I took a photo of my completed Display Board right at the beginning of the day, you can see it here:<br />
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I received a package of Coloured Doilies to use, there were 4 colours in all, and there was only 1 colour that I could identify!! I now know that the colours are Old Olive, Coastal Cabana, Flirty Flamingo and Grapefruit Grove. However at the time of creation, I couldn't be sure whether it was Coastal Cabana or not and Emma and Donna were both keeping their lips sealed, so to be safe I created my first sample in both Old Olive and Coastal Cabana... I was SO stoked to find out I could use the Coastal Cabana card in my display after all!! Love love love that colour, and am so happy to see it back. I added this card to the board after the photo above was taken.<br />
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Here is the same doily used on another card, also with Varied Vases flowers as the focus, this time with the vases coloured with Blends to look like they are filled with water.</div>
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You may or may not know that Coastal Cabana is my favourite colour in the universe, so I used it a few times! Here it is again, this time on a textured background thanks to the embossing paste sponged in Pool Party and on a Pool Party card base. I've done some layering here, I'm sure Shelli would be proud. <br />
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Okay, lets talk about that die for a second. It comes as a 3-pack of Thinlits, featuring the large floral arrangement, a single flower, and a butterfly. It is just LOVELY. You'll want to use your Precision plate with this set. For the card above, I simply cut the individual rose from the larger arrangement. Lets take a look at it.</div>
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This is the full die, cut from the new Rose Glimmer paper. I used a Multipurpose Adhesive Sheet to stick this down, since it is so intricate. I've simply stuck the die directly onto my mat, to allow it to be the focal element. The sentiment is popped up on dimensionals and has the matching Rose Metallic Thread looped behind it.</div>
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This next card is very similar at first glance, but this one is a gate fold, created by placing my cutting plate so that it doesn't make the final cut so that the floral piece folds out to the left. I was unlucky with the Pink Pirouette base on this one!</div>
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Now lets look at the butterfly! I have actually used it as a stencil for the embossing paste on this card, and then used Wink of Stella to make it sparkle. The background is a watercolour wash with Pool Party ink on shimmer paper, on a Pool Party base, and the butterfly is on Lemon Lime Twist cartstock. The Celebrate is cut from watercolour paper that I had made a rainbow background with my aqua painter on and let it dry overnight before cutting - unfortunately I used Tempting Turquoise for the blue, but there are lots of lovely new blues we could substitue here. The butterflies body has some new Petal Pink Rhinstone Gems, and his antennae are from Rose Metallic thread.</div>
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OK, here is another butterfly card, this time I cut it with vellum and coloured on the back with Blends. I've gone all Rainbow themed again, this time its Pink Pirouette that is a retiring colour.</div>
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This is one more card using some cut-outs from the floral die, and I've done a lot of layering and textures again, staring with the Champagne Foil mat, embossed with the Tufted folder. It is GORGEOUS right!!!!</div>
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Here is another glimpse at the DSP, I've fussy cut some flowers from one of the pages in the paper stack, and then discovered at OnStage that there is actually a stampset that could create a very similar element. I have done a watercolour wash in Melon Mambo, since I didn't have any Petal Pink ink, but I think it nicely draws out the colour from the flowers anyway.</div>
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This card shows a couple of different ways to use the Around the Corner stampset. First I've used it to create a fun border on the bottom layer, and then I've done a monotone Pool Party on Pool Party layer to create a fun floral background pattern, with some stamps in full strength, and some stamped off. </div>
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This next one was fun to make! I created an Emboss Resist background using the floral pieces from Detailed with Love, stamped in Versamark on my Whisper White card, and heat embossed with White embossing powder. Then I sponged with daubers to get the rainbow effect. After all that, I decided it was a bit toooooo bright, so I used White Kraft ink to do a bokeh overlay, with a simple, solid sentiment and a double-bow to finish.</div>
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Now, I did also make some 3D items and a 12x12" scrapbook layout which I have now given to Emma to use for a display in her office! I didn't get any nice photos before I did this, so I will add what I can over the next few days. </div>
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I did keep this mini-album though, commemorating my 40th birthday celebrations. Due to the event restrictions, I have only used photos of my immediate family, but rest assured it was a great celebration with lots of friends and family to celebrate with me! The album is made from a single piece of 12x12 cardstock, and I apologise that I didn't write down the name of the person whose tutorial I followed, I will endeavour to find this information for you soon.</div>
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I hope you've enjoyed this sneak-peek; the new catalogue is just beautiful and I'm sure we all have a Wishlist a mile long already. Thanks for stopping by!</div>
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NEXT you will be enjoying <a href="https://kocreationscards.blogspot.com/2018/04/onstage-april-2018-presenter-and.html" target="_blank">Kim Olivers</a> lovely creations:</div>
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Emily Campbell - Independent Stampin' Up!® Demonstratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17475243094855593603noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5511086280654473673.post-53502025779439848172017-12-14T22:23:00.000+13:002017-12-14T22:35:14.462+13:002018 Occasions and SAB sneak peekSomehow almost a year has passed since I have posted to this blog... It has been an extremely busy, tough year, and I'm looking forward to the arrival of 2018, not only for its fresh beginnings, but of course, all of the exciting new products that we have coming up. I'm excited to share some samples with you from the upcoming 2018 Occassions and Sale-a-bration promotions. I am using some of the products I received at OnStage in Auckland last month, as well as a few items that I have pre-ordered, these will all be available to order on January 3rd 2018.<br />
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Before I get to the new products, I am sharing the teacher-gifts that my girls are giving their amazing teachers tomorrow for the last day of school for 2017. We are so lucky to have some incredible teachers at our school, so I hope our teachers enjoy these gift bags that are filled with delicious Lindt chocolates, and co-ordinating mini-pizza boxes, filled with 3x3" gift cards / tags that they can give to their loved ones this Christmas.<br />
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I love the touches of gold in these projects, especially the Season of Cheer washi tape, which I've wrapped around both the gift bag and the pizza box.</div>
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Now for the new stuff! First up is a 12x12" scrapbook page of my lovely family at my littlest darlings 7th birthday last month, using the new Picture Perfect Party suite. When I opened up the paper stack, I loved the colours and the mix of photo-realistic images and patterns, and I immediately knew I wanted to collage them as a background on a layout. I cut the squares with the largest square from the Stitched Shapes dies and laid them out as a background. The base is a Bermuda Bay piece from the Sale-a-bration DSP pack, Bubbles and Fizz. I love that these two suites overlap so beautifully. </div>
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I have then created a bulletin board as the feature, it really reminded me of my bedroom walls as a teenager. I have layered two photos, with some embossed cardstock (the new Striped TIEF, I have used the debossed side) and some faux washi tape, a bulldog clip, some Lemon-Lime ribbon, a smattering of enamel dots from the Seasonal Snapshot suite in the annual catalogue (again, with the fabulous co-ordination) and some hidden journalling.</div>
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I have also used the Picture Perfect Party suite to make one of the three cards I am going to show you today. I've gone for three completely different techniques in the creation of these cards!</div>
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Let's go in order from left to right. The first, quite frankly, I wish was a real crate of cold beer on this hot Summer evening! I've used a lot of die-cutting on ths card, to create the 3D effect of the 6-pack of beer. The crate from Wood Words was calling to me to be filled up with beersies from the Bubble Over bundle; I've just used the front panel of the crate, and portion of the sides so that it pops up from the card just a bit. </div>
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I love the detail on the caps, these are cut from silver foil, the bottles have been mounted slightly offset and packed with dimensionals to create depth.</div>
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My second card features the Bird Banter stampset, and a lot of colouring with the Blends alcohol markers. I LOVE these pens, I'm not a master colourer by any stretch, but these are so easy and fun to use. I have created the background paper by stamping onto Whisper White cardstock, and the flowers are coloured with my Pink Pirouette and Rich Razzleberry Blends. I've borrowed from two annual catalogue sets to create the tropical garden background, and fluffed up a Powder Pink ribbon into a double-bow, rivalled only by a floating balloon.</div>
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Last but not least tonight, is the Picture Perfect card. This is a very clean and simple layout, with a few sheets of layered DSP being the focal point, the vibrant and exciting colours really pop! The ribbon is just gorgeous as an accent, and I have heat embossed the greeting in silver for a bit of sparkle to match the edging on the ribbon and the silver bow from the DSP. This will be a great card to do in a class after the holidays.</div>
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I also used some of the DSP to decorate the envelope and the panel inside the card. I can tell that this suite is going to be very popular.</div>
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Occasions 2017 and Sale-a-bration have begun! As always, demonstrators were able to pre-order during December, but with Christmas and a 2-week camping holiday, I've only really had a chance to play with it this week. I'm excited to share some projects I have made with some of the new products.</div>
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My sisters birthday was a couple of days ago, so first-up is her birthday card and co-ordinating gift packaging. I used the new Cupcakes and Carousels suite, which comprises of the stampset (Carousel Birthday), designer series paper stack and embellishment kit with the tassles, bows and ombre ribbon - don't you love it!!? My absolute favourite from the new catalogue.<br />
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Here's a closer look at the bag I made with the gift bag punch board. I used So Saffron cardstock, and sponged the edges of the bag and all of the DSP layers. The accesories add some lovely texture and detail.<br />
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The higlight of the card is this gorgeous horse who has been coloured with our new watercolour pencils on regular Whisper White cardstock, and blended with a blender pen. I love how it turned out.<br />
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I've partially stamped the ferris wheel image over the edge of the envelope for a nice finishing touch as well.<br />
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Next I have made a 12x12" scrapbook page of our New Years Eve celebrations, we had a lovely night celebrating with family at our bach, with games on the beach, a divine dinner, toasted marshmallows on the fire and fireworks. All the details of our holiday are included in my album on Project Life pocket pages, but I do like to include the occasional full page layout of special photos - these family shots qualify!<br />
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I have used the Cupcakes and Carousels paper-stack again, along with two parachutes from the Lift Me Up bundle of stamps and intricate dies. I created some texture with an embossed sheet of vellum paper and a couple of clusters of enamel shapes, which all match the festive theme. I also added two glasses of champagne, even though I was drinking regular sauvignon blanc and my husband had beer and the kids only had cordial! The girls are wearing their lovely new dresses they got for Christmas.</div>
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My nephew is turning one this month, so I wanted his card to a bit special. I used the same stamp bundle and DSP, but made a card-in-a-box to create a colourful funpark. My sister always keeps my handmade cards and displays them in her lounge, so I know this will be out on show for a while. Isn't it fun!</div>
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For the next card, I wanted to experiment some more with the watercolour pencils. This time I have used 3 colours to create a waterwash background on our watercolour paper with an aqua painter. This tool is much more suitable to blend large areas of colour, than the much smaller area of the 3 rainbow coloured parachutes which I used the thin brush on the aqua painter to achieve this look. The watercolour pencils are the exact colours of our Stampin' Up! colours, so for the background I have used Pacific Point, Bermuda Bay and Daffodil Delight. I had my husband in mind when I made this, as I created a replica of our house, but I have deliberately not included a sentiment, as I don't know what occasion this card will be for yet!<br />
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Last but not least, I made a 3D treat truck for a fun school-holiday treat for my kids. I coloured two Tasty Trucks and made a joiner to secure them together and hold a few marshmallows. The kids really enjoyed this one! Look at all the yumminess!<br />
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This post doubles as an application to be a Display Stamper for OnStage Local in April, so some of the Stampin' Up!® team will be reading this - I hope that everyone enjoys what I have shared today!</div>
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I'm excited to be part of another ESAD Blog Hop, this time showing off the products in our amazing new Holiday Catalogue. You have probably come here from <a href="http://rochelleblok.blogspot.co.nz/2016/09/esad-2016-holiday-catalogue-blog-hop.html" target="_blank">Rochelle's blog</a>, are you loving everything you've seen so far?<br>
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Today I am showing the gorgeous product pairing of Cookie Cutter Christmas (which is a stampset and punch that come in a bundle to save 10%) and Candy Cane Lane DSP.<br>
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Pretty cute right! I've used these cute guys make a Christmas Banner to hang in my home for Christmas this year - its in my craftroom for now (cos yanno, September!) but come December 1st this will have pride of place in our family room.<br>
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Let's see some close-up's of those gorgeous critters:<br>
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You cant tell from the photos, but Santa has a shimmery beard and cuffs on his suit, thanks to the Clear Wink of Stella, such a great touch! Did you notice that my reindeer has a body?? I got this idea from another demonstrator who shared the idea of cutting the legs of two more sets of legs, and I added a wee tail as well.</div>
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Let's talk about the nitty gritty. First off, the colours in the Candy Cane Lane DSP suite are Real Red, Crumb Cake, Whisper White and Early Espresso, so I've stuck with those colours for the stamping and colouring of all my characters. I love our markers and inkpads for easy co-ordination. </div>
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I used the largest banner from Banners Framelits for the bases, and the second largest to showcase the Candy Cane Lane DSP. Next I used the Large Letters stampset and framelits from the Annual Catalogue to cut out the letters to spell Merry Christmas. I used foam strips to have each letter pop up - it was nice and skinny to use on my intricate letters compared to a dimensional - and adhered each letter and/or critter onto a Vellum circle that was cut out with the Layering Circles Framelits. </div>
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I had made a bunch of wee characters and had them ready to decorate my banner once I had made all the flags and laid out all the letters. Some are the star of their own flag, and some are a cheeky addition to the letters making up the greeting. A couple of those letters are even wearing Santa hats made with the new Jolly Hat builder punch - aren't they cute!</div>
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Well thats it. It might only be September, but I think I'll enjoy passing by this banner for the next few months! The rest of the wall is a little bare, but I have some ideas to add to this before Christmas is here!</div>
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Do you see the girls bodies??? Thats the Cookie Cutter punch.... gotta love that, right!? This punch will be coming out soon, with two amazing stampsets called Cookie Cutter Christmas and Cookie Cutter Halloween. This being neither occasion, I went outside the box to create the bodies for my netball players, and I'm sure there are heaps of other uses for this punch that are yet to be discovered!</div>
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I had to make 5 cards, so this was a bit of an epic task, but it was lots of fun to create.</div>
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You might be wondering what other supplies I used, and how I did it, so here goes. I started off punching out all the pieces for my 32 netball girls, and assembling them with Tombow. I wanted each card to be representative of the girls on our teams, without being character-specific (but yes, mine are the blondes, and yes they both have a readhead on their team!)</div>
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The bodies are punched with the Cookie Cutter punch, in Very Vanilla and Sahara Sand to create the different skin tones. To minimise wastage, I found it most efficient to cut my cardstock into strips 1 3/4" wide x 5" long, and cut one from each end. </div>
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The hair is made with the Fox Builder punch, the tail makes a great ponytail and the mask is a perfect fringe. Again I found a 1" stip to be most efficient, but its a great way to use up scraps. I used Early Espresso, Chocolate Chip, Sahara Sand, So Saffron, Daffodil Delight and Tangelo Twist for all my different hair colours. The happy faces were drawn on with my markers, with differnt shades of blue, green and brown for the eyes, and Flirty Flamingo for the mouthes.</div>
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The netball uniforms are two 'vests' from the Owl Punch layered together, I've used Tempting Turquoise and Bermuda Bay, and the Tempting Turquoise top has had the V-neck snipped to a round-neck using the 1 3/8" circle punch. For the bibs I used the Labeller Alphabet stampset in Bermuda Bay to make the positions for each player.</div>
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The ball is a 1" circle cut in Bermuda Bay, embossed with the retired spotty embossing folder (whose correct name fails me right now) and sponged with Bermuda Bay and popped up on a dimensional.</div>
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Then I made the card-base into a netball court. The best match to our actual court colour is Coastal Cabana, but Bermuda Bay probably would have worked too. I decided to use a Centre Circle but not the Shooting Circles, just because the dimensions weren't quite right, but at the same time I wanted it to be obvious that it was indeed a netball court. So I used Daffodil Delight cardstock to first punch a 1 3/8" circle, and then to frame it with the 1 3/4" circle punch and make sure my smaller circle was evenly spaced in the centre before I punched the bigger one around it. </div>
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The card base is a double-Z fold, with all my little girls lined up at varying heights, but in their correct positions on the court. Some are on dimensionals and some are glue-dotted. I cut my Whisper White thick cardstock to 6"x11" and scored at 2 3/4" and 5 1/2"; and burnished with my bone folder. Then I cut the 6" edge at 4 1/4" to make the card, and flipped the 1 3/4" strip around to create the double-Z. I layered each panel with the Coastal Cabana cardstock before I attached the Z-strip with Tear & Tape Adhesive. Finally I stamped the "Thanks" from Jar of Love in Bermuda Bay ink. The back of the card has a Pool Party panel for the girls in the team to all sign for their coaches and managers and give to them at their final games this week.</div>
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And in case you were wondering about a sneak peek of the punch used with the Cookie Cutter Christmas stamps..... you're in luck! My next post will have a few more Christmas projects, but I have a custom-order for some cards to work on first. Hope you've enjoyed this project!</div>
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For the month of August, Stampin' Up! have brought out an exclusive bundle called Thoughtful Branches. You've no doubt seen it by now, Pinterest and friends are full of gorgeous samples, and I posted the product imagery in my last post. Thoughtful Branches is not a cheap purchase at NZ$110, but it is worth every penny!! (The purchase also earned me a bonus $11 coupon during the July promotion, which I redeemed this month in my pre-order for the Holiday Catalogue).</div>
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Below are some of the cards I've made with this bundle, but let me repeat again first how much I love using the 'canopy/petals' die with the Precision Plate and die brush! These tools make cutting SO easy and fun!</div>
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First I've used it as a flower, with pink petals and a flower-stem. The colours are Melon Mambo, Basic Black and Mint Macaron, and the DSP and washi tape are from the Pop of Pink suite.</div>
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I love the pink watercolour wash background for depth and interest in the shading. To create this effect, I first coloured some Watercolour Paper with Melon Mambo ink picked up the from the lid of my inkpad. When it was dry (I used the heat tool to hurry things along) I stamped the petals in Melon Mambo, and then cut it out with the die in my Big Shot. I roughed up the edges of a couple of pieces of Pop of Pink DSP with the blade of my scissors and stuck them down with washi tape. Add a fussy-cut greeting from Pop of Paradise, and you're done!</div>
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Next I have made a more traditional tree, and used the trunk stamp and die. The leaves this time are simply stamped with Old Olive ink onto Old Olive cardstock, with a few loops of linen thread and a Fathers Day greeting popped over the top. The background is again layered, this time with Early Espresso carstocked embossed with the Sparkle EF, and a piece of Serene Scenery DSP, on a Tip Top Taupe base. It is a freestanding pop-up card (see my previous post for a link to the tutorial) but I am not convinced I've finished decorating the base yet.</div>
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The bundle does have a die that is the shape of the tree trunk and all the branches, but for this card I've chose to show how the stamped image from the Sheltered Tree stampset coordinates perfectly if you prefer to stamp the tree base. The colours are Sweet Sugarplum and Pool Party (the DSP is from the Foxy Friends paper stack, and the ribbon is just divine). The leaves this time are stamped with the Rich Razzleberry ombre inkpad to make the dark and light tones, stamped on Sweet Sugarplum. You can't tell from the photo, but I went over the leaves with my clear Wink of Sparkle for a bit of shimmer as well.</div>
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I don't have any current ribbon that fit this card so I used a retired one, but don't worry, I have added some Basic Black thick bakers twine onto my next order. I wanted to add a bit of interest below the "for you" badge, so I used the same 3 colours to layer up a few different leaves adhered with glue dots.</div>
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I forgot to photograph the inside, hopefully I will remember to come back and show you tomorrow, but it ties in all of the stamps and colours from the front, and uses the "I hope you feel appreciated.... because you are" stamps. The fonts they have used in this bundle are beautiful.</div>
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Last I wanted to show the versatility of this set by making some Christmas cards. The idea of using it for christmas cards, and the realisation that it would pair nicely with Foxy Friends, were the factors that tipped me over the edge to making this purchase.</div>
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In hindsight I should have used Softly Falling to emboss this cardfront after I had stamped it, but I'd already glued it to the cardbase when I thought of it, so it was too late for that, so I've just flicked some Pool Party ink at it with my aquapainter instead. </div>
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I hope you have enjoyed these cards, and that the Thoughtful Branches bundle finds it way into your craftroom soon! Emily Campbell - Independent Stampin' Up!® Demonstratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17475243094855593603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5511086280654473673.post-55297605535610649752016-08-01T11:59:00.002+12:002016-08-01T11:59:45.132+12:00Freestanding Pop-up Pokemon Card<div style="text-align: justify;">
As a follow up to my <a href="https://tinykiwicards.blogspot.co.nz/2016/07/pokemon-card-pokeball-and-punch-art.html" target="_blank">Pidgey card</a> for my oldest daughter last week, its only fitting that hubby receives an "evolved" Pidgeotto card for his birthday today, right?</div>
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He was stoked with this wee beauty I made for him over the weekend:</div>
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This is a Freestanding Pop-up card, inspired by <a href="https://mypapercraftjourney.com/2016/07/25/stamp-review-crew-thoughtful-branches/" target="_blank">Kelly Kent</a> and using instructions by <a href="https://withabowontopbylou.blogspot.co.nz/2016/06/freestanding-pop-up-jar-of-love-card.html" target="_blank">Lou Kitzleman</a> (adapted to a width of 7" to fit the wingspan of the Pidgeotto). </div>
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The Pidgeotto is copied from a picture I found by Sabine Mayer that I mentioned in my previous post, with a much tidier Pidgey face and hair than I was able to create. Unfortunatly I can't share her image as it was posted in a demonstrator-only group with no link to give credit to. </div>
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I used the retired Feathers Framelits for the wings, but there is a similar new set in the current Annual Catalogue. For the pull-up mechanism I used Window Sheet since it is transparent. </div>
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The grass is cut with the fringe scissors in Old Olive, the Pokeball uses various circles as before, and the wording is all using the Labeller Alphabet stampset. Now, I bet you're wondering about that fun tree? It is made with this months exclusive Thoughtful Branches bundle. I also used to to make my favourite detail, the thrown-up leaves that happens when a Pokemon is near. I made a rough template of the tree canopy, but slightly smaller, in plain Pear Pizzazz cardstock and we wrote our messages on that and attached it to the back of the tree.</div>
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Before I tell you more about Thoughtful Branches, here is the card folded flat for the envelope, I used a strip of DSP on the bottom, leftover from the 12x12" sheet I used to make an envelope with the punch board, since the finished size is a little over 5x7", so too big for our standard envelopes. </div>
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OK, so Thoughtful Branches is an exclusive offer for August 2016, and it is GORGEOUS. I have some other great cards to show you in my next post. There is a super-versatile stampset featuring several different trees and some gorgeous fonts, and co-ordinating Framelits for cutting out your stamped images. In particular I love the "greenery", the piece to create your tree-tops, it cuts out all the intricate pieces in-between the leaves for dimension, and it can also be used as a flower when done in colour and paired with the stem and leaves die. It is so easy to use with the Precision Base Plate and die brush.<br />
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This bundle is only available during August (while stocks last) - contact me today if you would like to place an order. And stay tuned to see some other ways I have used this wonderful bundle.Emily Campbell - Independent Stampin' Up!® Demonstratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17475243094855593603noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5511086280654473673.post-15365223685936916032016-07-27T17:31:00.000+12:002016-07-27T17:34:42.695+12:00Pokemon card - Pokeball and Punch-art PidgeyMy oldest daughter turned 9 today, where does the time go?? Today was just a 'boring' day with school and netball practice - she is having a party with some friends on Saturday - but she was excited to open her pressies and special card from me this morning. You can finally see how I used that wee Pidgey I was working on last week!<br />
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So I have nade a circular easel card for the Pokeball, and then mounted it on a 6x4" base (so it comes out of the envelope flat, and then you open up the top layer to read the message inside, and then it can stand up leaning against the rhinestones). Don't you love Labeller Alphabet for the customised words? The Happy Birthday is from Tin of Cards stampset, and I used Number of Years for the '9' (which is Wink of Stella'd for subtle sparkle) and the red-on-red Look Who's Turning.</div>
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The Pokeball is Real Red and Whisper White, I used the largest (retired) Circles Collection framelit to cut one in each colour, and then snipped the red one in half with my trimmer and mounted it on the white one. Then I cut a black strip for the centere to cover the join, and popped the button up on a dimensional (I can't remember which two circle punches I used for that - probably 1" for the white and 1 3/8" for the black).<br />
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The easel part is created by folding a whisper white piece of cardstock in half and running it through the Big Shot with the same large circle framelit, but with the folded edge set back from the edge of the framelit by a centimeter or so, and then the 'top' circle is scored hoizontally through the centre, and the Pokeball is attached to that with Tape & Tear ( Tear and Tape? I get so confused!)<br />
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* head - I used a Delightful Dijon body from the Fox punch, turned upside down, as the backing for the head. I attached this to the Owl-punch body and then savagely attacked a piece of Basic Black with my scissors to make the mask, and then popped the eyes and beak into position. Then I put the two fox-tail pieces over the eyes, and again used my snips to massacre the remainder of the fox-body piece to resemble the last top-feathers.<br />
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The real Pidgey has that piece of hair at the front, not the back, but basically this was my third attempt and I was beyond caring about a small indiscretion by this point LOL. I had also used Tombow for the first couple of goes, but found it too messy and fiddly, so this last attempt is all stuck together with glue-dots.<br />
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Anyway, all small people of the house (and their dad) were thrilled with the outcome, so overall we are calling it a win! Emily Campbell - Independent Stampin' Up!® Demonstratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17475243094855593603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5511086280654473673.post-67486086059886188572016-07-20T14:51:00.001+12:002016-07-27T16:37:30.866+12:00Bonus DaysI have had an eventful few weeks, so haven't yet had time to update you on Stampin' Up!'s amazing offer for July.<br />
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And we've hit a giant stumbling block on our garage-building progress, with the discovery that the fence does not sit on the boundary line, which means we're stuck here (ready for the foundations to be poured) waiting for surveyors, lawyers and engineers to decide if we are still allowed to build here :(</div>
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So while I was offline, I had really wanted to upload some projects for my Foxy Friends class I held on Friday night. I had 8 lovely stampers come along for the evening, half were new and half were experienced, so I split them into two groups. Everybody made the same Pop of Paradise card and then I had two options for the Foxy Friends card for them to choose from. As it was my new Catalouge reveal party as well, we started off with a fun Treasure Hunt through the Catalogue, where I pointed out some new products and bundles I wanted them to see, and the winner won a sampler of the gorgeous papers in the Serene Scenery paper stack.</div>
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Here is the Pop of Paradise card, its a nice straight-forward collage with lots of fussy-cutting (I wish I had more than 3 pairs of our paper snips in this class-sharing situation!) and it introduces a couple of our gorgeous new In-Colours, Flirty Flamingo and Emerald Envy. I also used Cucumer Crush for the lighter leaf and Crushed Curry for the pineapple. This card design is a modified version of one I had seen online, but I am sorry to say I did not note down who to give the credit to.</div>
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Next was my headliner, Mr Fox! I wanted everyone to have a good chance to play around with the components of the stamp and punch bundle. I prepared a sampler showing several of the different animals that you can make with it, and I showed them a template that I saw on <a href="http://qbeesquest.blogspot.co.nz/2016/06/foxy-friends-hersheys-kiss-tents.html" target="_blank">QBee's</a> youtube video where she shows how to use a 5 1/2" x 1 1/4" strip of whisper white cardstock to stamp the body, face and tail of your chosen animal and punch it all off the one strip with no wastage or damage to your stamped images. I wrote the instructions on the back telling them which colour ink was used, and which extra pieces they would need. </div>
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We've moved the shed and the playhouse to other ends of the section (both huge undertakings, as they are both huge and heavy, and needed 6 people to lift them); and we've had diggers to excavate backwards and sideways by several meters each. Three truckloads of clay were taken away and the rest of the clay and all of the topsoil was redistributed around our section to level it, as the incline was quite steep before. Hubby did this himself with a hired bobcat, and it was all full of bricks and broken glass and bits of landfill that we had to remove by hand. Then we had to add topsoil and plant new grass, which took about 3 months. Three truckloads of stones were brought in, and plenty of timber and scoria to build the retaining walls. We've chopped down trees, relocated a mature feijoa tree, and had stumpgrinders remove about 6 stumps and a gigantic crop of bamboo, and we've filled I think 8 skip bins full of waste. Hubby built the retaining walls himself, and we have painted the whole damn thing (those individual batons, oh my goodness). The waterblasting of the existing fence was only done last weekend, and since we are in Winter now, we will paint the fences to match when some nice weather aligns with hubbys days off. HUGE amounts of work have gone into this, I am so proud of my husband for all his hard work! And our kids have been pretty amazing too, to put up with all the noise and inconvenience, as well as their parents going missing for hours at a time to work outside!</div>
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Quietly rocking the Dapper Denim water-washed backgound!<br />
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The Pineapple background stamp, inked with new Ombre inkpads in Bermuda Bay and Calypso Coral, on Pop of Pink DSP (love) with a delicate lace doily and some gorgeous enamel dots and Pool Party ribbon, nom nom nom.<br />
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I am in love with this one, its the Jar of Love stampset gone shabby chic. Pool Party and Flirty Flamingo are a fabulous pair. The background is a 6x6" piece of Serene Scenery DSP, and like all the flowers and the doily, it is sponged in Crumb Cake. The jar is stamped on vellum and sponged on the back with Soft Sky.<br />
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Oh my god, its here!!!! So excited, my courier driver left this on the front doorstep while we were at netball practice after school today - we entered the house by the downstairs door, and it was only an hour or so later when I took some recycling outside that I noticed the boxes sitting at the other door!!! SUPER happy to get my new goodies, which I actually earned for free as a demonstrator - I love SU!! I've only had time for one quick make - meet my friend Mr Fox!!! I have planned a class using this guy on Friday 24th June. </div>
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The Fox bundle includes the punch and the stamps to build the fox and a bunch of his friends, and there is a coordinating 6x6" paper stack. I will have a proper play as time allows so I can share some more with you from this fun bundle!!! I grabbed the label die from the Cupcakes framelits to make a quick 3D banner (love this, the catalogue doesn't do it justice), and I customised my greeting and handcut the letters with the new Labeler Alphabet stampset. This is going to be a brilliant alphabet stamp, its so versatile having the two fonts. Love it. </div>
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I did place a small pre-order last month though, so combined with the freebies we received at OnStage, I have been able to make some new cards to share with you while I wait!<br />
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These two cards are variations on the same layout using the Mixed Borders stampset. I like how the leaves and the flowers are on separate photopolymer stamps, so you can easily layer them together in different colours to create a fun image. I used Emerald Envy for the leaves on both of these, and coloured the leaves in Pool Party with a marker. The pineapple card is in Crushed Curry, and the petals are coloured with So Saffron. The "Celebrate your day" sentiment is from the Designer Tin of Cards stampset, which I was lucky enough to win at Prize Patrol at OnStage, woohoo!<br />
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This second version is Basic Black and Melon Mambo, and the petals are coloured in with a Flirty Flamingo marker (which I was also fortunate to pick up the markers as a giveaway at OnStage!). I actually dropped this card into an open inkpad right at the end and got a huge smudge in the corner (after it was finished, duh!) so the watercoloured flower is a total cover-up lol. Like they always say, there's no such thing as a mistake, just an oppotunity for more embellishments! So I embossed the flower in white onto watercolour paper and used Flirty Flamingo ink from the lid of my inkpad to watercolour the petals with an aqua painter. I love how it turned out - a real happy accident!<br />
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The Sitting Here stampset was another giveaway at OnStage, and I've paired it here with Sheltering Tree to make this fun landscape. The seat was designed to be a porch swing in the original artwork, but since we don't really have porch swings (or even porches!) here in New Zealand, I cut the "rope" part of the image and used it to create legs for a park bench instead. It's Autumn here in NZ at the moment, and all our trees are gorgeous Autumn colours, so I wanted to show this on my card.</div>
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This little cutie you might recognise from Pop of Paradise, which I used for my displays for OnStage. Emma (Parkin-Wilson, our Country Manager) got to keep all my samples, so this card is the first using the flamingo that I get to give away! The colours are Basic Black, Whisper White, Sahara Sand and Melon Mambo, I just looove this Pop of Pink suite! Here I've used the washi tape to make the background, and I'm including one of these with my customer orders and catalogues that go out this month.</div>
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Here's a final card with the Pineapple background stamp, paired up with that gorgeous flamingo again, and some Melon Mambo flowers from the Botanical Builder framelits. I used some retired enamel dots, but I'm super excited that there will be some of the brand new enamel dots in my order thats on its way.</div>
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Last week I made this special card for our besties son, who is toootally into Superheros. Card-in-a-boxes are always a hit, so I was excited to put this one together. I turned to trusty old Pinterest for inspiration on these cute little guys, but unfortunately I did not note down the names of who to credit for the ideas. I hopped around a few different pins for each of the different characters. Here we have Batman, Captain America, Hulk, Spiderman, Superman and Ironman. </div>
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I took a photo from the side as well, cos I love the background I created for this card, using the houses from the recently-retired Sleigh Ride edgelits. The sky is Dapper Denim and I did 4 stacked layers of the houses in Basic Black with dimensionals to create a city skyscape. I cut the lightening bolts from silver glimmer paper, and the "kapow's" are wood embellishments I got from Typo last year. I think they were the perfect finishing touch!</div>
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This stampset from the upcoming Catalogue is called Pop of Paradise, and it is gorgeous! I think it will be very popular. It is very on-trend, with a flamingo, pineapple, some tropical leaves and 4 sentiments. The new in-colours are called Flirty Flamingo (a gorgeous pink to stamp Mr Flamingo in!), Sweet Sugarplum, Peekaboo Peach, Emerald Envy and Dapper Denim - I love them all! Much nicer than the retiring in-colours that we will be saying goodbye to, much more my style! So, you see, it was quite easy for me to design some gorgeous cards with this set!<br />
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First off I used Tip Top Taupe as a base to do a display of all 10 of our in-colours together. I made a banner using the rainbow effect, doesn't it look cool!?
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Here's a closer look at a couple of the flags, and how I decorated each one with cut-outs from my new stampset. This is Watermelon Wonder and Flirty Flamingo.</div>
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This is my third Tip Top Taupe sample, and it pairs here with Flirty Flamingo to make a cute vintage card featuring my cute wee flamingo and pineapple stamps from Pop Of Paradise. Everything is stamped off, except for the coffee stains from Timeless Textures, and the Happy Birthday greeting from Butterfly Basics was heat-embossed in gold. The Tip Top Taupe ribbon is scrunched along the side, and the edges have been purposely frayed a bit. I also sponged the ribbon with TTT ink to make it a bit less 'white' so it could tie in with my vintage card. The edges of the Very Vanilla cardstock are sponged and distressed with my scissors blade, and the bottom layer is a piece of the in-colour paper stack that I sponged the edges and then screwed the whole layer up in a tight ball and then smoothed out again to create some dimention and age. </div>
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Dapper Denim is the first of the new colours that I'll show you, it is a lovely deep blue, I used it as the mid-tone in this ombre background, along with Night of Navy, Marina Mist and Mint Macaron. Again you can see the Tip Top Taupe ribbon peeking out behind the "thinking of you" heart-shaped greeting. I hand-cut my heart shape, but there is a co-ordinating die in the new Sweet and Sassy framelits. </div>
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This is a Dapper Denim 6x6" page, punch-art styles. I stamped and cut 4 of the fruit salad leaves in Cucumber Crush, and one palm leaf in Early Espresso, and used them to make a palm tree on a tropical island. Mr Flamingo is there with his pineapple, enjoying the sun and sea. The starburst sun is from the bakers box thinlits dies, and I hand-tore the shapes of the island and the ocean. I would have loved to pop some sunglasses on him and a cocktail glass, you'll just have to imagine him there on his holiday. Now, we were mistakenly told that the Memories in the Making Project Life collection was carrying over (sob, its not - its Moments Like These that is going through) so the card and washi tape I have used here are sadly retiring. The DSP and cardstock show off Dapper Denim quite nicely on this page though I think. </div>
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Lets take a look at Flirty Flamingo next, this is a lovely soft pink that is going to be a great addition to our colour range. I was only supposed to make 2 samples using it, but it ended up being used a wee bit more than that, but thats okay cos it means there is more to love! First up is my Bakers Box, it's gold embossed with some polka dots, and then has a belly band in Flirty Flamingo from the paper stack. The pink heart is popped up on some dimensionals, and Mr Flamingo has a white bakers twine bow around his neck and a golden palm leave behind him. Not sure what it means LOL, but it sure looks cute!</div>
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Next I had a go at masking, to get my three sleepy flamingoes in a row. Don't look too closely, its not my best stamping ever, but it does look pretty cute!</div>
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I adore this next card. I did a background watercolour wash in Flirty Flamingo and stamped a bold black flamingo on top. I thought it looked pretty good, so you get to see two photos of this card!</div>
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Next up is Sweet Sugarplum, which is a beautiful soft purple. These two items are kind of a package deal, I designed the card and sour-cream pouch to go together, so they have the co-ordinating coloured flowers on them (Mint Macaron and Flirty Flamingo), and this is our first peek at the gorgeous new ruched ribbon.</div>
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The flowers are all familiar to you I'm sure, but I added a fruit-salad leaf to show how we could use it in partnership with some of our carryover floral sets. I sparkled all of these ones us with some clear Wink of Stella, and popped an embossed "thank you" banner from Pop of Paradise over the top.</div>
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The sour-cream pouch (very easy to make, I simply followed one of the many tutorials on Pinterest) uses the Sweet Sugarplum floral piece from the DSP paper stack, and looks great with the big bow in the ruched ribbon, with a little added gold sequin trim for some interest.</div>
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Peekaboo Peach was the next colour to work with, and again I have used the new ruched ribbon, doesn't it look amazing!? First I have paired Peekaboo Peach with Basic Black and gold, to create a background that is peppered with gold sequins, and then I popped up a "thinking of you" heart and let the colours and the ribbon do the talking.</div>
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Next I paired Peekaboo Peach with Watermelon Wonder and Flirty Flamingo. I sponged all three colours onto my stamps (the flamingo and the balloon) to make an ombre effect, which I then replicated with the polka dot DSP paper stack for the background. Everything is sparkled up with Wink of Stella and looks good enough to eat in real life, but its hard to show that in a photo! I loved the idea of putting the balloon string into Mr Flamingo's mouth, so that is just drawn on with a marker, and I used "Party Animal" for a fun sentiment.<br />
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Emerald Envy is the last of the new colours to recognise. I thought Emerald Envy would make a great masculine card with the elements of my Pop of Paradise stampset, which I generally struggle with keeping cards simple for guys, but I thought this turned out okay. I orignially went quite grungy, with some camoflague splotches from Gorgeous Grunge included, but in the end I thought the colours popped more without the camo effect, so I made it again without them.<br />
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I do have a secret to tell you about this second Emerald Envy card, but not just yet, lets just enjoy the card for a minute first.<br />
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How cute is that flamingo with the bow tie around his neck! The "Celebrate" and the bowtie are both from the carryover Celebrate Today bundle.</div>
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Next up is Cucumber Crush. I wanted to make a masculine version of the Peekaboo Peach card, so again I went for a background stamped page, with black sequins this time, and a strong black "Hello" greeting. This is punched with the 1 3/8" circle punch and popped offset onto a banner featuring Cucumber Crush and Basic Black.<br />
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Next I used the Mini Treat Bag dies to make a card or money holder for a fun masculine gift. I paired Cucumber Crush with Dapper Denim and gold, and used the metallic thread behind my two swooshing palm leaf / feathers.</div>
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I had the perfect stamp to showcase Delightful Dijon, so both of these cards are all about the Pineapple. First up is a monochromatic card, with a row of sparkly pineapples on an embossed large polka dot background, with a strip of striped Delightful Dijon cardstock behind it, and that cute Thank You banner again.<br />
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And then we have another punch-art type card, this time using 4 of the palm leaves in Cucumber Crush and one in Soft Suede to make our tree trunk, with two sparkly pineapples sitting at the base. My husband immediately objected that its coconuts that grow on palm trees, as pineapples grow in the ground, so the "hello" up in the tree is a nod to the coconuts that are probably growing underneath it. My favourite thing about this card was using the pineapple stamp in the background to make a tone-on-tone background paper. </div>
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Mint Macaron was fun, its my favourite of the carryover colours, so I've used it to make a tag and a 12x12" page. I'll show you the tag first, I've used Shimmery White cardstock, and sponged it to create a beachy setting. The flamingo is clear embossed (I inked my stamp up first in versamark and then immediately into Flirty Flamingo, and then stamped and put my clear embossing powder straight on) so that I could use emboss resist when I sponged around it, without compromising my flamingo stamp. I just had to be really careful on his face, because its not inked there. The water is painted on with my aqua painter, and the sand, and sea were both stamped on top with speckles from Timeless Textures for the sand, and grass blades from Sheltering Tree. Mint Macaron and Soft Sky make up the background sponging. The tag is cut with the Scalloped Tag punch, though it is wider than the 2"</div>
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Here I've scrapped a photo of my 3 daughters at the middle girls 7th birthday last month, and whilst I love the finised page, I do have to confess to a major faux pas here. I swear I didn't notice until the day AFTER the OnStage event - its so obvious looking at the photos, but in the excitement of creating and displaying the page, I didn't notice until it was too late..... but I have used a retired colour here by accident! While cleaning up my desk, I noticed that while I was putting away my "Melon Mambo" cardstock pack, that it wasn't Melon Mambo at all, it was in fact Strawberry Slush, which retired two years ago!!! It blends so perfectly with the Flirtly Flamingo striped DSP that I didn't even notice. It's only when you compare it to the stamped flamingo and pineapple (which ARE Melon Mambo) that you notice that they don't match. So folks, my sincere apologies, that was a genuine mistake!</div>
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Additionally, I've used a Project Lift card again for my journalling that didn't carryover (but we were told that it was, so not my fault this time!).</div>
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I thought I did a pretty good job of matching the colours of the girls dresses to Mint Macaron and Flirty Flamingo, but to me the whole thing is overshadowed now by the comedy of errors lol, so lets just stop and appreciate Mr Flamingo dressed up for his party, with his party hat and bow tie on, and this time his balloon is on a real string.</div>
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Last but not least is Watermelon Wonder, and I've made another 12x12" page for you (once again using a Memories in the Making PL card for my journalling - sorry!)</div>
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Again I have used some Cucumber Crush fruit salad leaves to combine with some carryover flowers, I think they look great together. The DSP in the background looks amazing, and I've used some new Watermelon Wonder ribbon on the join of my DSP and the 12x12" Whisper White base.</div>
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My last project is a card using Botanical Blooms, I'm late to the party with this set so it was actually my first time ever to use the framelits! So I used Watermelon Wonder with Flirty Flamingo, Sweet Sugarplum and Peekaboo Peach, I think they make a lovely combination. Cucumber Crush for the leaves, and again a strip of the new Watermelon Wonder to connect the cardstock base to the DSP panel down the left, and this time the Hello is cut with 1 3/8" punch and then mounted on the starburst from the bakers box dies.</div>
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I can take your order by email like usual, but there will be a delay while I gather everyone's orders, so your best option for purchasing *immediately* is to use Online shopping with hostess code <strong><span style="font-size: large;">VKYBJWHB</span></strong>. Everyone who uses this code will receive a free Catalogue in mid-May when these become available.</div>
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Well sadly Sale-a-bration is nearing an end for another year - I hope you've enjoyed your free products this year! I'm excited to share one of my creations for the ESAD Blog Hop. You might have joined me from <a href="https://stampingbarb.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Barbara Williams</a>, or you might be starting here. Either way, enjoy the Hop!<br>
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Here is the card I have made for you today, using four of my free items! </div>
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I have used the colour scheme of Watermelon Wonder, Pink Pirouette, Daffodil Delight and Tempting Turquoise, which are the colours from the Project Life Memories In The Making collection in the Occasions Catalogue. I love this collection! I've sponged and spritzed these 4 colours onto an embossed 6x4 card from the Specialty Card Collection that is in the SAB brochure, as I was originally going to match it the other cards I'm using on a layout, but this ended up being spare so I decided it would make a great background for a card.</div>
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I hope you've enjoyed this card, next on the circuit is <a href="http://www.mystampinhaven.com.au/esad-sale-a-bration-2016-last-chance-blog-hop" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Rachel Lewsley</span></strong></a>. </div>
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Emily Campbell - Independent Stampin' Up!® Demonstratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17475243094855593603noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5511086280654473673.post-87824178665641030672016-03-03T20:58:00.001+13:002016-03-04T16:03:32.451+13:00Display Stamper applicationToday I am showcasing six of my most recent projects... three cards, two 3D items and a scrapbook page to be exact. I have worked on all of these items over the last couple of weeks, and am in love with them all - you know how you make something you LOVE and you cry a little inside when you have to give it away? LOL. The cards are for several family members birthdays, and the 3D items will be for my next Stamp Club class coming up soon for Easter. The scrapbook page I get to keep for mself, woohoo, it is going into my own 2016 album, though since the subject is my gorgeous new nephew, I may end up making a duplicate page for his mum!<br />
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First up is a masuline card, we all know how tricky they can be, but here I have combined two new stampsets from the Occasions Catalogue to make a kick-ass birthday card for my Dad. The VW beetle from A Beautiful Ride has been watercoloured (love it!) and fussy cut, and popped up on dimensionals on a layer on Very Vanilla that has been stamped, stamped and stamped again with different texture stamps from the Timeless Textures stampset. I'm loving this stampset for masculine cards, but I can assure you it looks great for feminine ones too (and to prove it, I have also done this card in Watermelon Wonder and Blusing Bride with a watercoloured butterfly!)<br />
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This card is going out to my niece for her 19th birthday. I have made her a Gate Fold card in a colour combination of Bermuda Bay, Pool Party, Watermelon Wonder and Blushing Bride. </div>
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I have used the Large Numbers bundle to stamp and cut out the '19' (which I then coloured with my clear Wink of Stella for a pretty sparkle) and to make the banner around the 'Look Who's Turning' sentiment I actually used two Ovals Collection Framelits to cut the shape, with handcut tails on the ends. I did a repeating pattern with the 2-step floral stamps to make the faux-DSP panel, and there is a single floral image repeated on the inside of the card to tie it all together. Once it was all assembled, I used the two pretty little flowers from the Bloomin' HeartsThinlits to cut a little cluster of flowers, topped with pearls - so pretty!</div>
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The last card went out to my godson for his 6th birthday, he loves bright rainbow colours so I made him a rainbow made of balloons. I wanted to create a sky background but I don't have anything current, so the embossing folder I have used is retired, but I think this would also look great with the cloud stamp and punch from Sprinkles of Life. </div>
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Next up is my Easter Basket, made with the Berry Basket Bigz L die. I didn't have any current Easter stamps, so my challenge was to create a class project with products from the Annual Catalogue only. I die-cut two pieces of the Berry Basket from Tip Top Taupe cardstock and two pieces from the Cucumber Crush embossed paper from the Colour Me Irresistable Specialty DSP pack, and used the green as a liner, with contrasting scalloped edge trims. The edges and handles have all been sponged with Tip Top Taupe ink, which makes a great contrast on the embossed paper.</div>
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For the tag I have stamped the little bunny from the Made With Love stampset (masking off the "hoppy little baby" sentiment) in Tip Top Taupe on Shimmery White cardstock, and watercoloured him very lightly with an aqua painter. I think he's just gorgeous. He is cut with the Note Tag punch, and backed with a couple of matching layers from co-ordinating cardstock. Teeny Tiny Sentiments comes to the rescue for my greeting, and it is attached to the basket with some Tip Top Taupe Dotted Lace Trim ribbon. I think the kids will enjoy these for Easter!</div>
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It's wedding season, and one thing I've heard a lot is that people are asking more and more for cash for their wedding gifts. Rather than including it inside the card, I like to make a nice envelope to match the wedding card, and tuck the money in that. I've used the Bloomin' Hearts Thinlits to decorate a Mini Treat Bag, with the heart popped up on dimensionals on a belly band. The "just married" sentiment from A Beautiful Ride is embossed in white on a banner made from the Sale-a-bration vellum pack, which I've also used as the base for my treat bag. </div>
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I really love my Project Life for its simplicity, but I do enjoy mixing this up with some 12x12 traditional pages, so I jumped at the opportunity to include one in my album this week. My handsome wee nephew arrived into this world last month, so he is the focus of my scrapbook page today. He has just started smiling, so I wanted to use a nice 6x8" print of his gorgeous smile. You can't go past a lace doily and some sponging for added detail.</div>
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Emily Campbell - Independent Stampin' Up!® Demonstratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17475243094855593603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5511086280654473673.post-17441795037859642902016-03-02T15:50:00.001+13:002016-03-02T15:50:22.323+13:00Minecraft "Steve" cardWell, this poor wee blog of mine has been neglected for a while, and I'm really sorry about that. The good news is, I'm still here and I have some new projects to share this week, so look out from some more posts from me soon.<br />
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First I thought I'd start by sharing this amazing (if I do say so myself) Minecraft pop-up card that I gave my daughter for her 7th birthday yesterday. This card was a big hit with my 5 and 8 year olds as well, we are a bit of a Minecraft household at the moment!<br />
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The Pop n Cuts dies from Karen Burniston have of course retired from the Stampin' Up! line, but I have held onto mine as they are fabulous and so versatile. The base is the Pop n Cuts die, and I used the Dress Form insert for the inside. For my Steve, I found a picture on the Internet and traced him onto baking paper and a sharpie, keeping him the right size and proportions to fix on top of my dress form. Making him from punch art was going to be super fiddly, so I have just drawn him from my template onto thick Whisper White cardstock, drawn a black sharpie outline, and coloured him in with my Stampin' Write Markers, keeping with the block theme. I think he looks pretty good! <br />
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I then pondered what Steve's bedroom would look like, and used the woodgrain background stamp to turn the side and top of the 'pop-up' part into Steve's bed, complete with red blanket and white pillows. Behind his head is a window, again using that wood grain texture, and a cloudy blue sky outside.<br />
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The front of the card is a direct CASE from <a href="http://carolynbennie.com/jeepers-minecraft-creeper-birthday-card/" target="_blank">Carolyn Bennie</a>, I just loved her <a href="http://carolynbennie.com/jeepers-minecraft-creeper-birthday-card/" target="_blank">Creeper card</a> so I copied without any changes, except to the size of my card front, and I have used Mossy Meadow as my base colour. I used the brick embossing folder to make a wall for our Creeper to bash through, and all his little pieces are fussy cut and sponged. I love the 3D feel, and was really pleased with how it came together.<br />
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I'm excited to be part of another ESAD Blog Hop, this time celebrating our new Holiday Catalogue. You might be arriving from <a href="http://www.simplystampingwithnarelle.com/2015/09/holiday-catalogue-blog-hop.html">Narelle's blog</a>, or you might be starting here, either way, welcome!<br></div>
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For my projects today, I am showing some scrapbooking and Project Life memory keeping, using the Home for Christmas DSP as my main focus. <br></div><div><br></div>
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I've also purchased the Hello December 2015 Project Life bundle, which includes the card kit, accessory pack and a photopolymer stamp set. The colours all coordinate beautifully, so today my emphasis is on the accessory pack, and adding to the suite using the Designer Series Paper. </div>
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The very first thing I did with my paper pack was remove 1 sheet of each design, and use my paper trimmer to cut two 6x6" squares and two 3x4" rectangles (the size of the small pockets of our Design 1 Project Life pocket pages). This gives me a sample from each side of the paper, to use in either my traditional scrapbooking or my Project Life.</div><div><br>
For this layout, I have simply layered a few of the 6x6 pieces together to create a fun background for my Santa photo on this 12x12" page. I've used Kraft cardstock as my background, and matted the 5x7" photo with Real Red, and adhered them with a strip of Washi Tape on each corner, from the accessory pack.<br></div>
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I have a confession to make here - my 2014 album was already completed, and as Christmas 2015 hasn't happened yet, I've temporarily borrowed some photos from 2014 to use in my examples, hence this photo is only loosely stuck down with the Washi Tape. I will swap out the photo with a new one in December. This is also why I haven't added a title or any journaling yet.</div>
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I had some of my cut up paper leftover, so next I started fussy cutting some of the oh-so-gorgeous vintage reindeer and Santa images. These I popped onto some of the Hello December cards with snowflakes on them, to cover them up since we have Christmas in Summer. I added more gold string, and a few enamel dots. You can see the cute watercolour detail behind Santa still.</div>
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I haven't bought any stamp sets with Christmas greetings this year (yet) so I've used Happy Wonderful Christmas from Wonderful Wreath in the Annual Catalogue. This is gold embossed. I also decided this card looked better when the circles were matted in Kraft, cut with the ever so slightly bigger circle from the Circles Framelits. </div>
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Next I used a card from the Hello December card collection as a background for this PL card. The gold overlay originally said "Hello Winter" but as we are celebrating in Summer, I removed the Winter banner with a few quick snips with my scissors. I kept the offcut to use in Winter if I'm scrapping a trip to the snow or something. I added the Christmas Tree sticker from the sticker sheet in the accessory pack as well.</div>
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