With only two days left until SALE-a-bration ends, I couldn’t resist sharing these three cards that bring together the Stunning Queen Bee stamp set with two of the FREE Sale-a-bration items: the Thanks a Bunch Stamp set and the Hive 3D embossing folder.
Thanks a Bunch Stamp SetHive 3D Embossing folder
There’s a tiny stamp in the Thanks a Bunch stamp set that works really well on this graphic, tattoo style of card – the 5 dots in a row. I’ve used this dot stamp on all three cards below, along with other stamps from both stamp sets and freehand drawn lines using a ruler and a Black Stampin’ Write marker.
The square thanks card also uses the Hive 3D embossing folder as well as the large bee stamp, the crown stamp and the thanks sentiment from the Queen Bee stamp set.
The love you card also uses the two carrot tops from Thanks a Bunch.
The Hey, There card also uses the bee stamp and the flower stamp from the Queen Bee stamp set, as well as the Hive 3D embossing folder.
I love the freedom this style of cardmaking gives me to take stamped images and take them to the next level.
Don’t forget that SALE-a-bration ends midnight tomorrow so don’t miss out if you would like to add any of these gorgeous products to your craft collection.
I’ll be back this Wednesday March 1, with the AWH Colour Creations team to showcase Real Red. I hope you can join us then.
Welcome to week forty one of our Art With Heart 2022-23 Colour Creations blog hop.
This is a weekly blog hop where we showcase the stunning range of Stampin’ Up! colours in alphabetical order over 12 months and this week we are featuring Pumpkin Pie from the Regals family.
SALE-a-bration ends next Wednesday night so I decided to showcase the adorable SALE-a-bration Thanks a Bunch stamp set once again, this time combining it with the Easter Bunny stamp set.
My card was inspired by a gorgeous card made by a very talented German demonstrator called Mandy Pätzold, who combined these two stamp sets and popped her rabbit in a teacup – I’ve placed my rabbit in the wooden basket from the Cheerful Basket Stamp Set instead.
There are only three colours on this card: Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive and Crumb Cake. For all these colours I’ve used them at full strength as well as stamped off once for a lighter tone and I’ve used both the dark and the light Stampin’ Up! blends.
The larger carrots and carrot leaves and fernery from the Thanks A Bunch stamp set are stamped and fussy cut with paper snips. The smaller carrots and the bunny rabbit are from the Easter Bunny stamp set and the basket from the Cheerful Basket Stamp Set are stamped in Memento and coloured with Stampin’ blends.
I’m not going to lie, there is a bit of fuss cutting in this card, however I find it very relaxing. Do you enjoy fussy cutting? My top tip for curves and angles is to turn the paper, rather than your paper snips.
I’ve roughed up the side edges of the top Basic White layer using my paper snips and added a simple Pumpkin Pie bow from the Three Twine Combo Pack.
The “Hey, there” sentiment comes from the Thanks A Bunch stamp set – this is a great all purpose sentiment that allows me to use the card for a variety of reasons, depending on what I decide to stamp inside.
Now it’s time to hop on over to our next participant, the lovely Di Furniss – I can’t wait to see what Di has made this week!
If at any time you find a broken link, you can find the complete list of all participants below.
Welcome to week forty of our Art With Heart 2022-23 Colour Creations blog hop.
This is a weekly blog hop where we showcase the stunning range of Stampin’ Up! colours in alphabetical order over 12 months and this week we are featuring Poppy Parade from the Brights family.
The Fancy Flora Suite includes the Two-Tone Flora Stamp Set and the Two-Tone Flora Dies. I’ve used the Two-Tone Flora Stamp Set, which is a two step stamp set, to stamp Poppy Parade at full strength stamping for the detailed sections of the flower and and stamped off once for the solid flower image.
Because these are photopolymer stamps they are easy to line up. I always stamp the solid flower first and then stamp the detailed image. Then I die cut the flowers using the Two-Tone Flora Dies.
The white die cut pieces are cut from the large background die in the Two-Tone Flora Dies die set which is completely filled with pretty flowers. I’ve used my paper snips to cut out flowers and sprigs and create a floral arrangement with the Poppy Parade stamped and die cut flowers.
Once I’d created a floral arrangement, I adhered it to a sheet Fancy Flora DSP. This pattern in the Fancy Flora DSP has a gorgeous textured painted effect that really softens Calypso Coral – I like this softer shade of Calypso Coral and how beautifully it pairs with Poppy Parade.
I couldn’t resist using the smallest “Happy Birthday” sentiment from the Go To Greetings stamp set, white heat embossed onto Poppy Parade cardstock. It’s such a feminine script.
The final touch for the front of my birthday card? A scattering of clear Adhesive-backed Milky Dots are the perfect embellishment.
Now it’s time to hop on over to our next participant, the lovely Di Furniss – I can’t wait to see what Di has made this week!
If at any time you find a broken link, you can find the complete list of all participants below.
If you live in Australia, you can find and purchase these products in my Stampin’ Up! Online Store once they are available to purchase tomorrow morning.
We’ll be back next Wednesday, February 22, with projects showcasing Pumpkin Pie.
Welcome to week thirty nine of our Art With Heart 2022-23 Colour Creations blog hop.
This is a weekly blog hop where we showcase the stunning range of Stampin’ Up! colours in alphabetical order over 12 months and this week we are featuring Pool Party from the Subtles family.
Did you know that Stampin’ Up! has now added 10 more products to their SALE-a-bration offerings? Until 28 February you can earn these products or the original SALE-a-bration items for FREE on any order over $90.
One of these new SALE-a-bration offerings is the Into The Clouds embossing folder which to me looks like a linocut or woodcut. I’ve always loved this graphic style of printmaking, especially in illustrations for children’s books.
Steven Kean, from the North shore of Hawaii is one artist, in particular, who our entire family loves because he specialises in this style of surf prints. This is the print we bought from him in on our holiday to Hawaii several years ago.
As I wanted to make Pool Party and the Into The Clouds embossing folder the main focus of my card, I’ve kept my color scheme very monochromatic, using just three colours as well as Basic White.
The Into The Clouds embossing folder is quite a thin embossing folder so the Stampin’ Up! Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine sandwich that worked for me was:
Base Plate – bottom layer
Into The Clouds embossing folder with Pool Party cardstock inside – middle layer
Embossing Plate – top layer
Always remember to run your embossing folders through Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine with the folded spine going through the machine first and the Stampin’ Up! logo facing upwards.
To create my lighthouse scene I used a landscape die from the new Greatest Journey dies, however you could easily freehand cut a cliff if you don’t own these dies.
Don’t forget to use the stamp sets that come in kits on your other cards. This lighthouse stamp is from the You Are My Anchor Photopolymer Stamp Set, part of a kit collection called the You Are My Anchor All-Inclusive Card Kit.
This kit really is fantastic value for money!
For $33 you receive everything you need to make make 10 mini cards, 10 mini printed envelopes and 4 boxes with bands, including: * You Are My Anchor Photopolymer Stamp Set * Pre-cut card bases and die cut pieces * Pacific Point Classic Stampin’™ Spot * Rope Twine * Adhesive to complete projects * Acrylic stamp block
The lighthouse was the perfect size and very easy to fussy cut out with Paper Snips. I also stamped seagulls using the tiny seagull stamp from the same stamp set to create this lighthouse scene.
There are plenty of sentiments that would work really well with this card, however, I don’t own any of these stamp sets so I created my own using stamps I already have.
The word “sending” is from the Full of Love Stamp Set, “light” is stamped using the Alphabest stamp set and the rest of words are from the Sending Smiles stamp set.
I’ve stamped another lighthouse on the inside of my card, along with a sentiment and a heart, all stamps included in the You Are My Anchor Photopolymer Stamp Set.
Now it’s time to hop on over to our next participant, the lovely Tina Gillespie – I can’t wait to see what Tina has made this week!
If at any time you find a broken link, you can find the complete list of all participants below.
If you live in Australia, you can find and purchase these products in my Stampin’ Up! Online Store once they are available to purchase tomorrow morning.
We’ll be back next Wednesday, February 15, with projects showcasing Poppy Parade.
Welcome to week thirty eight of our Art With Heart 2022-23 Colour Creations blog hop.
This is a weekly blog hop where we showcase the stunning range of Stampin’ Up! colours in alphabetical order over 12 months and this week we are featuring Polished Pink from the 2021-23 family.
A fabulously fun colour like Polished Pink deserves to be paired with fabulously fun stamp set like Taco Fiesta!
There are plenty of taco/guacamole/chilli related food images and sayings in this stamp set, however I just couldn’t resist using this adorable pinata image, coloured in with Stampin Blends in the colours of the cardstock used for the pinata fringing.
Polished Pink is gorgeous vibrant pink, so I paired it with other vibrant In Colours as well colours from the Brights family. From top to bottom in my card I’ve used Daffodil Delight, Parakeet Party, Orchid Oasis, Polished Pink and Sweet Sorbet, with a card base of Basic Black to make these colours pop even more.
The pinata fringing on the card front is super easy to make, either with fringing scissors or using your paper snips.
Pinata Fringing Technique
My card base measures 14.8 x 10.5cm (half an A4 sheet of cardstock that has been scored and fold in half) and I wanted to use 6 colours, so I used my trimmer to cut 6 different cardstock colours, each at 3 x 10 cm – this allows the layers of fringing to overlap each other.
Use a pencil to mark 5 lines, each spaced 2.5 cm apart (this gives room for overlap of fringing) measuring up from the bottom of the card and going all the way up to the top.
Attach one strip of tear & tape along the longer 10 cm edge on one side of each colour of cardstock.
With the side that has the tear & tape facing up, use Paper Snips or fringing scissors to cut fringes at all the way along the length of the cardstock, cutting up to the bottom of the tear & tape.
Once all of your colours have all been fringed, remove the backing off the tear & tape and attach the fringing to the card front along your pencil lines, working from the bottom of the card up so you can overlap the fringing as you go.
I’ve die cut the pinata image using a layering circle die and added a scalloped Basic Black layering circle behind it. The pinata is “hanging” from the strip of Polished Pink cardstock by a string of Basic Black Bakers twine.
The “Let’s Party” sentiment is part of a longer sentiment from the Breaking News stamp set. I bought this stamp set for my son’s university graduation, however I’ve used it on so many cards since.
Inside the card I’ve used part of a sentiment from the Taco Fiesta stamp set. To use just one a part of a sentiment simply place the sticky part of a post it note over the words you want covered. Ink up the stamp and then remove the post it note BEFORE stamping the sentiment onto the cardstock.
Now it’s time to hop on over to our next participant, the lovely Andrea Sargent – I can’t wait to see what Andrea has made this week!
If at any time you find a broken link, you can find the complete list of all participants below.
If you live in Australia, you can find and purchase these products in my Stampin’ Up! Online Store once they are available to purchase tomorrow morning.
We’ll be back next Wednesday, February 8, with projects showcasing a favourite colour for many people, Pool Party.
Welcome to week thirty seven of our Art With Heart 2022-23 Colour Creations blog hop.
This is a weekly blog hop where we showcase the stunning range of Stampin’ Up! colours in alphabetical order over 12 months and this week we are featuring Petal Pink from the Subtles family.
After using so many colours last week, I’ve kept my card deliberately monochrome this week, using just Petal Pink, Basic Black and Very Vanilla, three of the colours in the Abigail Rose 12″ x 12″ (30.5 x 30.5 cm) Designer Series Paper.
I love Designer Series Papers that have coordinating dies to cut out images – it saves so much stamping time. The Cottage Flower dies not only cut out images from the Cottage Rose stamp set, they also cut out flowers and leaves from this sheet of DSP.
I’ve simply arranged the die cut images in a row over the top of where the Very Vanilla cardstock and Abigail Rose striped DSP meet on my card front.
The “Happy Birthday” sentiment is stamped onto a scrap of Very Vanilla cardstock, trimmed with my paper trimmer before adhering to the card front.
The inside of the card and the back of the envelope are decorated with leftover die cut pieces and DSP offcuts.
I was planning on colouring in the roses with my Petal Pink Stampin’ blends, but I really liked the simplicity of the card as it was, so I left the die cut pieces uncoloured.
Now it’s time to hop on over to our next participant, the lovely Rosa Leyden – I can’t wait to see what Rosa has made this week!
If at any time you find a broken link, you can find the complete list of all participants below.
If you live in Australia, you can find and purchase these products in my Stampin’ Up! Online Store once they are available to purchase tomorrow morning.
We’ll be back next Wednesday, February 1, with projects showcasing a much more vibrant pink, Polished Pink.
Welcome to week thirty six of our Art With Heart 2022-23 Colour Creations blog hop.
This is a weekly blog hop where we showcase the stunning range of Stampin’ Up! colours in alphabetical order over 12 months and this week we are featuring Pear Pizzazz from the Subtle family.
Today I’ve gone a bit rogue and created a project that uses not only Pear Pizzazz, but eight other colours too: Balmy Blue, Basic Black, Blushing Bride, Cherry Cobbler, Daffodil Delight, Garden Green, Gray Granite and Soft Suede!
So why have I used so many colours for my project this week? One of the free SALE-a-bration items you can redeem for a $90 spend until 28th February 2023 is the Day at the Farm DSP and I’ve used this DSP to create a children’s counting book.
Here’s a short one-minute video to show you what the counting book looks like.
And here’s a closer look at each page.
In addition to the Day At The Farm DSP I’ve used the On the Farm Stamp and Dies (available as the On the Farm bundle), the Alphabest stamp set and the Alphabet a la Mode dies. The On the Farm Dies die cut out many of the images in the Day At The Farm DSP.
The counting book is made using envelopes – it’s a quick and easy alternative to making a chipboard album with a paper hinge and you don’t need a scoring board.
I’ve also created this 24 minute video on my YouTube channel that shows you how I made each page of this counting book and takes you through the process of making an envelope album, step by step.
Now it’s time to hop on over to our next participant, the lovely Andrea Sargent – I can’t wait to see what Andrea has made this week!
If at any time you find a broken link, you can find the complete list of all participants below.
If you live in Australia, you can find and purchase these products in my Stampin’ Up! Online Store once they are available to purchase tomorrow morning.
We’ll be back next Wednesday January 25 with projects showcasing another one of the Subtles, Petal Pink.
Welcome to week thirty five of our Art With Heart 2022-23 Colour Creations blog hop. This is a weekly blog hop where we showcase the stunning range of Stampin’ Up! colours in alphabetical order over 12 months and this week we are featuring Pale Papaya from the 2021-23 In Colours.
The new January-April Mini Catalogue and SALE-a-bration Catalogue launched last week and one of the free SALE-a-bration items you can redeem for a $90 spend is the Thanks A Bunch stamp set.
Pale Papaya is a great colour to use for carrots and I’ve used it both at full strength and stamped off once for the front of my split front, tri-fold fold card. Other colours used include Crumb Cake, Early Espresso, Mossy Meadow and Parakeet Party.
The Hive embossing folder was used to emboss Early Espresso cardstock to create soil for the front flap. As the split front, tri-fold fold card opens the layers of carrots are revealed.
The middle flap shows carrots above and below the ground. One of the carrot shading stamps works really well to create grass once it is turned on its side.
Split front, tri-fold fold card instructions
Cut a sheet of A4 Crumb Cake cardstock at 10.5cm down the middle to divide into two long halves that each measure 21cm wide x 10.5 cm high.
Score both pieces at 14.8cm and fold in half along the score line to make two cards.
One of these cards will become the card base and the left split front panel, while the other card will be used for the right panel.
To create the left split front panel measure and cut off the top 5cm across the top of the left panel of one of the cards.
To create the right panel with the other card, measure 2 cm parallel to the middle score line and cut all the way down the card. You will now have a right panel with a 2cm wide flap which you use to adhere to the back of the right hand side of the card base.
Fold the right flap over the card base and then fold the left split front panel over the right panel – I’ve adhered the embossed Early Espresso cardstock, the “Thanks” greeting and the bunch of tied carrots to the left split front panel.
Stamp and decorate the cardstock layers for your right card flap and card base BEFORE adhering to your split front, tri-fold fold card base.
All of the sentiments in this card are from the Thanks a Bunch stamp set, stamped in Early Espresso.
Now it’s time to hop on over to our next participant, the lovely Tina Gillespie – I can’t wait to see what Tina has made this week!
If at any time you find a broken link, you can find the complete list of all participants below.
If you live in Australia, you can find and purchase these products in my Stampin’ Up! Online Store once they are available to purchase tomorrow morning.
We’ll be back next Wednesday January 18 with projects showcasing one of the Subtles, Pear Pizzazz.
Welcome to week thirty four of our Art With Heart 2022-23 Colour Creations blog hop, our first hop for 2023!
This is a weekly blog hop where we showcase the stunning range of Stampin’ Up! colours in alphabetical order over 12 months and this week we are featuring Pacific Point from the Brights family.
Tomorrow morning the new January-April Mini Catalogue and SALE-a-bration Catalogue are launched and one of the free SALE-a-bration items you can redeem for a $180 spend is the Beautifully Happy stamp set.
The Beautifully Happy stamp set is very versatile because it includes a good variety of sentiments, floral line drawings that can be coloured in, a “splatter” stamp, a tiny little bee stamp and “distinktive” stamps that allow you to stamp shaded colour inside the flowers and leaves instead of hand colouring.
To show the versatility of this stamp set I have made three different cards using three different ways of colouring the stamped images. All three cards pair Pacific Point with Tahitian Tide – don’t these two blues look amazing together!
Card One is a birthday card for my sister-in-law who turns 40 next week. The 40 has been die cut with the new Alphabet A La Mode Dies and the “Happy Birthday” sentiment is from the Something Fancy stamp set, both available in the January-April mini catalogue.
I’ve coloured the flower and leaves using Pacific Point and Old Olive Watercolour Pencils, finally blending the watercolour pencil lines with a Blender Pen to smooth the colour out.
Stitched Rectangle dies create the card layers.
The inside of the card uses two of the sentiments from the Beautifully Happy stamp set. These sentiments are designed to be used on both the front and the inside of a card however I think they also work well when stamped together.
Card two is another birthday card that uses the smaller flower image, stamped three times. To colour these flowers I used the distinktive stamps from the Beautifully Happy stamp set, stamping both the Pacific Point and the Mossy Meadow ink at full strength.
The sentiment is the same “happy birthday” stamp from the Something Fancy stamp set that I used on the front of card one. Stylish Shapes dies cut the card front layers and the sentiment.
Card three is a thank you card that is coloured with the distinktive stamps, however this time the Pacific Point and the Mossy Meadow have been stamped off once onto scrap paper before stamping onto the card front.
Once again, the Stitched Rectangle dies create the front card layers.
I know I am going to get a lot of use from the Beautifully Happy stamp set as its variety of sentiments make it ideal for so many different occasions and it can be coloured in so many different ways.
Now it’s time to hop on over to our next participant, the lovely Tina Gillespie – I can’t wait to see what Tina has made this week!
If at any time you find a broken link, you can find the complete list of all participants below.
If you live in Australia, you can find and purchase these products in my Stampin’ Up! Online Store once they are available to purchase tomorrow morning.
We’ll be back next Wednesday January 11 with projects showcasing one of the 2021-23 In Colours, Pale Papaya.
Something very special happened last Sunday. My gorgeous mum turned 80 and we went out for a special lunch to celebrate her birthday. Happy birthday Mum!!!
Mum is an amazing crafter and we love to craft together when we can, which unfortunately is not often enough as life and work keeps getting in the way! I love making special cards for Mum because she really appreciates them, so I decided to make a fancy fold card I’ve never made before – a pop-up vase card!
Here is the front of the card, featuring the stunning free SALE-a-bration Dainty Flowers DSP available from this Thursday.
The 80 has been die cut using a new set of alphabet and number dies called Alphabet A La Mode Dies and the “Happy Birthday” sentiment is from the Something Fancy stamp set, both available from this Thursday in the January mini catalogue.
A little trick to create the “th” for 80th – stamp the “happy birthday” sentiment again and cut the “th” from the word “birthday”.
Inside the card is where the magic happens. In the video below you can see how as the card opens the vase of flowers pops up!
Here is the card folded flat, ready to open…
Halfway open …
Laid flat with the vase fully popped up…
The flowers in the vase are all die cut using the Dainty Delight dies and the beautiful sentiment inside the card comes from the Something Fancy stamp set.
A special card needs a special envelope – this was made using another sheet of the SALE-a-bration Dainty Flowers DSP.
Did you notice the gorgeous Brushed Brass Butterflies that embellish the card front? They work perfectly with this DSP!
I’ll be back tomorrow, Wednesday January 4, with the AWH Colour Creations team to showcase Pacific Point and some more gorgeous SALE-a-bration products.
