Spring has sprung…although you wouldn’t know it with the weather we are experiencing here in Sydney. Although the weather doesn’t really excite me, luckily these Stampin’ Up! specials and new products certainly do!
September Weekly Deals
Every week in the month of September Stampin’ Up! are offering a selection of discounted products for that week only.
There are 12 items on special this week – you can take a look at them here in my online store.
There will be three more rounds of weekly specials that begin on 8, 15, and 22 September, so don’t forget to check the Stampin’ Up! website each week to see what’s on offer.
Perfect Partners Promotion
Stampin’ Up! have created six new dies that coordinate with stamp sets in the 2022–2023 Annual Catalogue and the July–December 2022 Mini Catalogue.
These coordinating dies will only be available during September and are available separately or as a bundle, saving 10% off the retail price. You can see all of the new dies in my online store.
This is a card I’ve created using the new Tree Trimmings dies that coordinate with the Trimming the Tree Stamp Set from the annual catalogue. I love all of the detail these dies add.
If you have any questions about these special offers, please don’t hesitate to get in touch!
I’ll be back tonight with some more Christmas inspiration.
Welcome to Bronwyn’s sixth Birthday Blog hop! You might have come to my blog from Vicki Arrowsmith.
We’re a group of stamping friends who are celebrating Bron’s 60th Birthday in 2022 with six blog hops, over six months, with six fun themes! Tonight is our final blog hop and it’s also Bronwyn’s actual birthday. The theme for our cards is “Tropical Holiday” because Bronwyn is relaxing right now on a tropical holiday in the location of our header image below – Port Douglas!
I intended to create a lush card full of greens and vibrant pinks but ended up with a totally different colour scheme. Hopefully it still conveys the relaxing feel of a tropical holiday even though there is not a single green leaf on the card!
For the vibrant tropical sky I’ve used the amazing “Rays of Light” background stamp – I love this stamp and I seem to be reaching for it all the time at the moment. The image of the woman with the sun hat and glass of wine is from the “In The Moment” stamp set. I’ve also used the Paradise Palms stamp set.
To layer the woman with the sun hat and glass of wine over the top, I stamped in Stazon onto a window sheet. You could just as easily stamp directly onto the stamped background as well. I was going to colour in the stamped image of the woman, but in the end I decided to go with a monochrome colour scheme instead.
The palm trees and grass are die cut using the Palms dies and the clouds are die cut using the Give it a Whirl dies. I love combining different Stampin’ Up! products to create scenes.
The sentiments on the front and the inside of the card and the palm trees on the inside are from Paradise Palms Stamp Set that coordinates with the Palms Dies.
Next up on Bronwyn’s Birthday Blog hop is Jan McQueen. I can’t wait to see what Jan has created today!
Here’s the full list of participants in the Blog Hop – hop along to be inspired by what everyone has created.
I’ll be back tomorrow night with a Christmas project and again on Wednesday with the AWH Colour Creations blog hop where we will be showcasing Evening Evergreen.
Until then, wherever you are in the world, stay safe, stay calm … and keep on crafting xxx
Today I attended the combined christening and first birthday party for my great niece, Tilly Anne, the first child in the generation under my children.
My boys have 15 cousins in total and Tilly is the daughter of their oldest cousin – it feels so bizzare to have a one-year-old great niece when my two youngest nieces are only 6 and 3!
I don’t have any stamps or sentiments that are specifically for christening or baptism so I decided to use masking paper to make a cross that I could stamp around.
Mark the centre of the card front and adhere a 1 inch strip of masking paper down the middle.
Cur another strip of masking paper across the middle line.
I used the Lovely You stamp set to stamp around my cross, using mainly soft colours: So Saffron, Petal Pink, Soft Sea Foam, Sahara Sand, Balmy Blue and Soft Succulent.
After I gently removed the masking paper to reveal the cross, I mounted the image onto a layer of gold foil and heat embossed the “Congratulations” sentiment from the Peaceful Moments stamp set.
Adhesive-Backed Seasonal Sequins add a touch of dimension and sparkle.
I’ll be back tomorrow night with the Heart of Christmas blog hop and then on Wednesday night with AWH Colour Creations team where we will be showcasing Crushed Curry.
In the meantime, wherever you are in the world, stay safe, stay calm…and keep on crafting xxx
Welcome to Bronwyn’s fifth Birthday Blog hop! You might have come to my blog from Nikki Spencer.
We’re a group of stamping friends who are celebrating Bron’s 60th Birthday in 2022 with six blog hops, over six months, with six fun themes! Tonight we are sharing fancy folds, a style of cardamking which Bronwyn specialises in!
My card tonight is a very simple fancy fold, but it was just perfect for the stamp set I am using – the “Vintage Tools” stamp set. I made this card for my father’s birthday last month.
My dad is an incredible woodworker and craftsman and when my parents downsized homes I was lucky enough to inherit some of his vintage tools – many of these tools originally belonged to my grandfather.
So you can see why I decided to make a pop-up tool bench.
I got the idea for the paper shavings on the front of the card from an overseas Stampin ‘Up Demonstrator called Robin Broome, whose husband is a professional woodworker.
These paper curls are so cool and I love how they make the front of the card 3D too!
The textured wood on the front of the card is created by wiping the top inside section of the Timber Embossing Folder with Early Espresso ink before using it to emboss Crumb Cake cardstock. Once the cardstock is embossed, run the embossing folder under water to clean.
The pegboard is created using the Dots & Spots Die, aged with some Soft Suede ink blended onto the Basic White card stock with a blending brush.
All of the tools, both inside and out, have been coloured using Soft Suede Stampin’ Blends and then fussy cut with paper snips.
To reinforce the legs of the tool bench I added an extra strip of cardstock under the legs.
The tool bench drawer is die cut with the Stitched Rectangle die and the handles are Matte Black dots.
Here’s what it looks like from above when popped up!
I love creating very personalised cards for my family and friends.
Next up on Bronwyn’s Birthday Blog hop is my friend Andrea Sargent. I can’t wait to see what Andrea has created today! If you get lost or a link is broken, the birthday girl, Bronwyn, has a list of all the participants on her blog.
Welcome to Bronwyn’s fourth Birthday Blog hop! You should have come to me from Chantell Randall.
We’re a group of stamping friends who are celebrating Bron’s 60th Birthday in 2022 with six blog hops, over six months, with six fun themes! Tonight we are CASEing the Catty from a page in the sixties (i.e. any card from pages 60-69 in the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalogue 2022-23). I’ve decided to CASE the hedgehog card on page 61 – top right in the photo below.
I loved the way this card combined the Happy Forest Friends DSP with the gorgeous Happy Hedgehogs stamp set. The tree DSP works really well with the hedgehogs and makes them look like they are in the woods.
I’ve made my card 3D by making a fancy fold that I found on YouTube created by an overseas Stampin’ Up! demonstrator, but I’m not sure what this fancy fold is called? It was really fun to make and I altered the measurements to fit our Australian A4 cardstock.
Here’s what it looks like laying flat.
A lot of the elements on this card are images fussy cut from various DSP designs in the Happy Forest Friends DSP. The colour scheme of Calypso Coral and Soft Suede that I used to stamp and colour the hedgehogs and the large mushroom are inspired by the DSP.
My youngest niece just turned 4 last week so I made this card for her birthday, using the Alphabest stamp set and more fussy cut images to personalise the inside of the card.
The Best Label punch (part of the Alphabest bundle) was the perfect size to punch out the “Happy Birthday” sentiment on the front of the card from the Penguin Place stamp set.
Next up on Bronwyn’s Birthday Blog hop is Vicki Arrowsmith. I can’t wait to see what Vicki has created today!
I’ll be back tomorrow with the Heart of Christmas blog hop and then again on Wednesday with the AWH Colour Creations blog hop, where we will be showcasing Blushing Bride.
Until then, wherever you are in the world, stay safe, stay calm … and keep on crafting xxx
Today I’m joining in the #CTC371 challenge, which is to CASE (Copy And Share Everything) the colours of the He’s the Man DSP – Basic Black, Cajun Craze, Crushed Curry, Early Espresso, Sahara Sand and Soft Succulent from the 2022-2023 Annual Catalogue.
These are the colours from the He’s the Man DSP – I used four of these colours on my card today.
These colours remind me of autumn, so I decided to use the acrylic block stamping technique to create an autumn scene.
You can use Basic White cardstock for this technique, but I wanted the texture that watercolour paper gives to the image. I inked up an acrylic block (I used size E) by tapping my Crushed Curry stamp pad directly onto it, spritzed it with water using a Stampin’ Spritzer and then I stamped the acrylic block directly onto the watercolour paper.
The tree stamp from the Beauty in Friendship stamp set is stamped in Early Espresso ink, with the leaf stamp in Cajun Craze, and then I roughed up the edges of the watercolour paper using my paper snips.
Since I had my sewing machine out, I decided to sew the watercolour paper to a mat of Basic Black cardstock. I love sewing on paper, it gives a really cool texture to cards.
The “Thank You” sentiment is also from the Beauty of Friendship set, heat embossed in white onto Basic Black cardstock.
To purchase any of the products featured in today’s post, click on the links below or go to my Stampin’ Up! Online Store
If you’d like me to post you your very own copy of the 2022 Sale-a-bration Catalogue, the July-December 2022 Mini Catalogue, the 22-23 Stampin Up! Annual Catalogue or to simply find out about more about Stampin’ Up! contact me.
I’ll be back on Wednesday night with the AWH Colour Creations team and we will be showcasing Balmy Blue.
In the meantime, wherever you are in the world, stay safe, stay calm…and keep on crafting xxx
We’re a group of stamping friends who are celebrating Bron’s 60th Birthday in 2022 with six blog hops, over six months, with six fun themes! This is our inspiration pic for tonight’s hop – the current Stampin’ Up! range of blues.
I love all these blues and wanted to use as many of them as possible on my card so I decided to make a paper quilt card using some of the paper patterns from Stampin’ Up!’s Butterfly Kisses, Lovely Linen, Tea Boutique, Sun Prints and 2022-24 In Colour Designer Series Papers.
Creating a paper quilt card is very easy and – you just need a paper trimmer to cut your DSP into precise squares. I cut one and a half inch squares and then arranged the DSP at an angle onto half a sheet of A4 cardstock (A5)– this size makes two paper card quilts.
Once I’d adhered the squares using multipurpose glue, I turned it over and trimmed the overhang DSP back to the A5 cardstock base.
I then cut my patchwork layer in half, trimmed it and layered it to onto my card base using the following measurements.
Card base – Basic White cardstock 14.9 x 10.5cm (half a sheet of A4, folded in half)
Basic Back layer – 14.4 x 10 cm
Quilted paper layer – 13.9 x 9.5cm
I then used a stamp from the the Stitchery Stamp Set to add “stitches” to my quilt in Memento Tuxedo black ink.
The final touch was embossing with the stitched greenery die – it really makes the patchwork card look like it is quilted!
The “Thank you” sentiment and matching die is from the new Charming Sentiments Bundle, which includes the Charming Sentiments Stamp Set and the Sentiment Silhouettes Dies.
I stamped the “Thank You” stamp in Versamark ink onto Basic Black cardstock and heat embossed it using white embossing powder.
Next up on Bronwyn’s Birthday Blog hop is the birthday girl herself, Bronwyn Easterly. I can’t wait to see what Bronwyn has created today!
If you live in Australia, you can find and purchase these products in my Stampin’ Up! Online Store or by clicking on the images below.
We’re a group of stamping friends who are celebrating Bron’s 60th Birthday in 2022 with six blog hops, over six months, with six fun themes! This is our inspiration pic for tonight’s hop.
My card tonight is inspired by an amazing Irish designer called Orla Kiely and her iconic Stem print. Although she is a modern designer, her prints are inspired by the colours and the patterns of the 1960s.
To create my version of the stem pattern I used the Ladybird builder punch and the following Stampin’ Up! coloured cardstock: Old Olive, Balmy Blue, Early Espresso, Pear Pizzazz, Petal Pink, Calypso Coral and Smoky Slate.
I used the wing section of the punch to make my leaves – after punching, cut them in half down the middle and then mix up the colours.
The middle stems are 5mm thick strips of Early Espresso cardstock.The sentiment is from a new stamp bundle called Sending Smiles – you can purchase this stamp and die bundle from today. I love this long narrow sentiment and matching die! To say I’m a fan of Orla Kiely’s design is an understatement – I even have a cake tin in the Stem pattern!
Next up on Bronwyn’s Birthday Blog hop is my friend Andrea Sargent– I can’t wait to see what Andrea has created!
I’ll be back tomorrow night with the AWH Colour Creations team, where we will be starting our new 2022-23 Colour Creations blog hop.
In the meantime, wherever you are in the world, stay safe, stay calm…and keep on crafting xxx
We’re a group of stamping friends who are celebrating Bron’s 60th Birthday in 2022 with six blog hops, over six months, with six fun themes! This is our inspiration pic for tonight’s hop. Isn’t it a beauty!
The mix of soft neutrals with a touch of pink and the amazing texture on the basket in this inspiration photo inspired me to use the realistically textured “In Good Taste” DSP to create a home decor scene on my card.
Yes, it’s quite a “busy” card front, but as far as I’m concerned with house plants, more is definitely more! Do you agree?
My basket is die cut from In Good Taste DSP, using the bowl die from the Cookin’ dies with the leather handles made from the hinges in the Window flower box dies.
To create the gorgeous two-toned leaves for my Lady Valentine houseplant I stamped the large leaf stamps from the Plentiful Plants bundles in Soft Suede (stamped off) then coloured them in with Old Olive and Flirty Flamingo light Stampin’ Blends before die cutting.
The In Good Taste DSP is retiring soon and 50% off – I’ve just ordered another pack of this incredibly versatile DSP. A strip of the textured pink DSP creates a pink sisal carpet, and the darker wood tone DSP is die cut using long die from the Garden dies to add extra texture to the wood planks in my plant stand.
The background wood plank DSP is from the Heart & Home DSP (I thought this best matched the wood planks in the inspo photo) with the items on the plant stand stamped and die cut using the following products:
Stack of books – Make It Happen stamp set
Jug and floral pots – Welcoming Window stamp set & Window flower box dies
White pot and plant – Perfect Plants dies
The “Happy Birthday” sign is die cut using the stitched rectangle dies and hung on a Brushed Metallic Adhesive-Backed Dot.
Although this is a busy home decor scene, all the plants and the natural textures make me feel calm and happy. I hope my card puts a smile on your face too!
Next up on Bronwyn’s Birthday Blog hop is Sharon Dalton – I can’t wait to see what Sharon has created.
I’ll be back on Wednesday night with the AWH Colour Creations team, where we will be showcasing Smoky Slate.
In the meantime, wherever you are in the world, stay safe, stay calm…and keep on crafting xxx
Love is in the air this week with Valentine’s Day today, but more importantly in my household, it’s my wedding anniversary on Thursday!
This month, our AWH Creative Wow Tutorial group decided to create projects that celebrate love in all its variations. I decided to create a mini album using the gorgeous Sweet Talk Designer Series paper.
If you’ve never made a mini album before, give this one a try. It’s quick and easy to make and very addictive! Although the Sweet Talk DSP is a 12” x 12” DSP, because of the way the DSP is cut, you can also use a 6×6 DSP to make this album.
This is what the hinge mechanism looks like from the outside edge of the album.
Once you’ve made this album and understand how the hinging system works, it’s easy to change the size of the album and of course you can make this with any DSP and decorate it any way you like.
I’ve fussy cut some hearts from another pattern in the Sweet Talk DSP and stamped the “Love You” sentiment from the Plentiful Plants stamp set onto a heart I die cut with the Bouquet of Love Hybrid Embossing Folder.
I will scrapbook the inside pages of my mini album later – you might prefer to decorate the inside pages before you insert them into the hinges. This photo gives you a better idea of what the hinges look like.
The album is wrapped with a ribbon and closed with a bow – you can use any ribbon to match the Designer Series Paper you are using.
The February AWH Creative Wow Tutorial bundle has the detailed instructions to make this album, as well as five other projects and is available on my tutorial page. You can purchase all of the products you need to make this project in my Stampin’ Up! Online Store.
If you’d like me to post you your very own copy of the 2022 Sale-a-bration Catalogue, the January – June 2022 Mini Catalogue, the 2021-22 Stampin Up! Annual Catalogue or to simply find out about more about Stampin’ Up! contact me.
I’ll be back on Wednesday night with the AWH Colour Creations team and we will be showcasing Pool Party.
In the meantime, wherever you are in the world, stay safe, stay calm…and keep on crafting xxx
