Thinking of You with Social Stamping

Hello and Welcome to another amazing blog hop presented by the equally amazing Kelly Kent.  This hop allows up to keep socially connected through our love of stamping, and sharing our love with you. 

If you need to see the whole list of everyone in the blog hop, or if you get lost on the way, just click on the image above to head to the blog host!!  Welcome if you have just arrived from the lovely Michelle.

This week, the theme of the hop is 'Thinking of You' - and what a wonderful theme that is!!  

I've used the amazingly versatile Many Mates stamp set for my greeting, and I've paired it with the fun and equally versatile Jar of  Flowers stamp set.  I've also used the lovely Old World Paper embossing folder for extra interest.

The flowers were coloured using Stampin' Blends, and then fussy cut out.  I actually coloured an extra layer of flowers to pop over the top to give extra dimension to these lovely blooms.  I've also shimmered the flowers with some glorious Wink of Stella.  

The inside of the card features another of the wonderful Many Mates greetings and some more coloured flowers.  

Up next on our very thoughtful hop is the lovely Siobhan.

The complete list of the blog hop can be found by clicking on the image above.  

Please head over to my online store if you wish to see these products in more detail - and you can place your order anytime (if you're in Australia) while you're there (even if you're in your pyjamas!!) 

 And, if you can see yourself creating cards and sharing your love of papercrafts while inspiring others, perhaps you might be interested in the Stampin' Up! Business opportunity - contact me to find out how.

Brand NEW Scrapbooking Blog Hop

Hello and Welcome to our fabulous monthly blog hop with Scrapbooking Global.  If you have just arrived from the amazing Libby, then you are very welcome.  

This is a group of scrappers world wide who love to use Stampin' Up! products for their pages.

The theme this time was presented by the seriously talented Sharon Dalton, and it is Brand New which is just PERFECT right now because we have a new Stampin' Up! catalogue with lots of Brand New products and ideas!!

My starting point actually came from our Brand New Catalogue - and it was this project on page 154 of the catalogue featuring the gorgeous Flowers for Every Season Memories and More card pack.  

Annual Catalogue 2020-2021 page 154  all images © Stampin' Up! ®

The Flowers for Every Season suite is full of the perfect colours to work with my daughter's shirt which are the photos I've used for my page.  

Those who know me will be BLOWN away with how much PINK and BRIGHT colours there are on this page!  This is a BRAND NEW thing for me!!  I'm very definitely all about the cool blues, greens and neutrals and I always find it difficult to work with bright colours and especially the bright pinks!!  This is why I've really loved the inspiration for the layout with these colours from the catalogue.  

Another BRAND NEW element to my page is the splattering technique!!  I looked up the Stampin' Up! list of supplies for every project and the extra hints and tips for this page included the colours that are splattered on it!  As my new Incolour Inks haven't arrived yet, I've improvised with the colours I already have and I figured with the splattering it wouldn't be too obvious that they are not precisely the same!

The little extra stickers and embellishments in the Memories and More pack really made it easy to add extra details and bits and pieces to the page.  

And a ready made title is perfect with the awesome words in the pack too!!

All of those floral clusters were heat embossed with gold, and that is another BRAND NEW part of my page - a new technique for the background effect with lots of extra detail!!  Usually the backgrounds of my pages are quite plain and simple!!

Make sure you keep hopping around the whole blog to see lots of amazingness with everybody using the theme of Brand New.  Up next is the lovely Cheryl.  Enjoy.

 Here is the list of everyone on the blog hop in case you get lost on the way!!

Please head over to my online store if you wish to see these products in more detail - and you can place your order anytime (if you're in Australia) while you're there (even if you're in your pyjamas!!)

 And, if you can see yourself creating cards and sharing your love of papercrafts while inspiring others, perhaps you might be interested in the Stampin' Up! Business opportunity - contact me to find out how.

Scrapbooking Challenge using a page map

Hello and Welcome to my fun page I've entered into the challenge with the Facebook Scrapbooking Global Group.  This is a great group that uses Stampin' Up! products in our scrapping - which is totally my jam!!

The challenge this time was to use this page map to create a page.  

I loved this map, and I really loved using my new Tasteful Touches Suite and the coordinating In Good Taste papers for my beach walk photos.  

The colours on my page are Seaside Spray and the new Misty Moonlight which I think work wonderfully together.  I love this combination!!  

The feathers were first stamped using the Seaside Spray, and then I sponged some Balmy Blue and Night of Navy ink on them to create the variegated colouring.  They have been fussy cut.  

The title panel was embossed using the Old World Paper embossing folder after I had heat embossed the title with white embossing powder - double embossed!!  

My final touches were the gorgeous Misty Moonlight bakers twine from the Flowers for Every Season ribbon combo pack and some of the gorgeous new Incolour enamel dots.  

Hopefully I have inspired you to join in the fun with the Scrapbooking Global Facebook group - you can add your project using this page map onto the challenge page too!!  I find joining in the challenges REALLY helps me to get lots of scrapping done that I keep putting off until another time!!  

 

Please head over to my online store if you wish to see these products in more detail - and you can place your order anytime (if you're in Australia) while you're there (even if you're in your pyjamas!!) 

 And, if you can see yourself creating cards and sharing your love of papercrafts while inspiring others, perhaps you might be interested in the Stampin' Up! Business opportunity - contact me to find out how.

CASEING the flowers for CTC272

Hello and Welcome to another fabulous blog hop and challenge CASEING the CATTY.

To CASE is to Copy And Share Everything or to Copy And Selectively Edit, and we love to CASE from the amazing array featured in our Stampin' Up! catalogues.  If you have just arrived from the very talented Rebecca then you are very welcome.  Make sure you keep hopping all the way around!

This week, we are CASING the Flowers of our New Catalogues.  Easy peasy right?  Well, when you flick through the catalogue it is CHOCK FULL of flowers!!!  

Annual Catalogue 2020-2021 page 48 all images © Stampin' Up! ®

  

Finally I focused on these beauties on page 48 of the catalogue.  I've used the colours, layout and techniques as my starting point for creating.  These cards all feature in my class next week where we will explore colouring using Blends, Watercolour Pencils and Inks

This card is coloured using Stampin' Blends and features Merry Merlot, Petal Pink and Soft Suede for the stamping. It is a reverse easel card.  

This fun gatefold card features colouring with Watercolour Pencils and uses Rich Razzleberry, Bermuda Bay and Bumblebee cardstock

And my final card is coloured using a Water Painter and inks on Shimmery White cardstock.  

All of the cards are using the Jar of Flowers stamp set combined with the Many Mates stamp set for all of the greetings.  I hope you can see where the inspiration comes from, and that you'll get creative using the flowers of our catalogue as your starting point!!  

Up next on our fabulous hop is the amazing Peta and her flowery inspiration.  

When you have finished the hop, get creating for your flowery contribution to our challenge on our Facebook challenge page here!! 

  

Please head over to my online store if you wish to see these products in more detail - and you can place your order anytime (if you're in Australia) while you're there (even if you're in your pyjamas!!)

 And, if you can see yourself creating cards and sharing your love of papercrafts while inspiring others, perhaps you might be interested in the Stampin' Up! Business opportunity - contact me to find out how.