#30DAYCARDMAKINGCHALLENGE

DAY 11 – 15

Hello and welcome.  How are you? I hope you are all staying safe.  When I was first furloughed I thought great, lots of craft time, but it just did not happen.  I had lost my crafting mojo!  After days of wanting to craft, but no having any thought on what to do, I saw that @Martin’s Mayhem had put together #30DAYCARDMAKINGCHALLENGE.  I made the commitment to participate and this got me crafting and it has definitely brought my mojo back.

Today I will be sharing my cards from day six to ten.  I will be continuing to post the following days on a Tuesday and Saturday, so I do hope you will pop back.  I hope you find some inspiration and enjoy.  A list of products and techniques will be below each card.

DAY 11 – Autumn

Stamp, heat emboss and die cut your leaves.  Add extra texture to your skeleton leaves using a dauber or sponge.  Brayer a background, stamp and die cut your sentiment and add an embellishment to finish.

Colorful Seasons Photopolymer Stamp Set (£33.00)

Seasonal Layers Dies (£40.00)

Stitched Shapes Dies (£36.00)

Pumpkin Pie Classic Stampin’ Pad (£9.00)

Crushed Curry Classic Stampin’ Pad (£9.00)

Day 12 – Winter

Brayer a background and spritz with water to add texture.  Heat emboss your tree image, tear a piece of white card and heat emboss for added texture, wrap with tulle ribbon and knot.  White heat emboss your sentiment and add basic pearls to finish.

Winter Woods Cling-Mount Stamp Set (£28.00)

Label Me Bold Cling Stamp Set (English) (£21.00)

Blueberry Bushel Classic Stampin’ Pad (£9.00)

Sponge Brayers (£9.50)

White Stampin’ Emboss Powder (£7.25)

Day 13 – Pack A Punch

Add a little pigment sprinkles to your watercolour card and spritz with water, repeat until you are happy.  Stamp and punch out your butterflies, white heat emboss your sentiment and finish with glitter enamel dots.

Butterfly Gala Photopolymer Stamp Set (£25.00)

Butterfly Duet Punch (£22.00)

Pigment Sprinkles (£21.00)

Stampin’ Spritzer (£3.50)

White Stampin’ Emboss Powder (£7.25)

Day 14 – Colour Combo – Whisper White and Very Vanilla

Die cut a stem and several clusters of flowers, adhere using a mix of wet glue and dimensionals for texture.  Stamp and die cut your sentiment, add ribbon and a bow.  Finish with basic pearls.

Beautiful Bouquet Photopolymer Stamp Set (£33.00)

Bouquet Bunch Dies (£14.40)

Whisper White 5/8″ (1.6 Cm) Flax Ribbon (£6.80)

Whisper White 1/4″ (6.4 Mm) Crinkled Seam Binding Ribbon (£9.00)

Pearl Basic Jewels (£6.00)

Day 15 – Very Much Vintage

Emboss your background, layer and wrap with ribbon.  First stamp your swoosh image, using second generation stamping, followed with your flower image in first generation stamping.  On a scrap of card stamp your flower image again, adding second and third generation stamping with the splodge image.  Fussy cut and dimensional onto first flower image.  Stamp and fussy cut your sentiment and finish with basic pearls.

Love What You Do Photopolymer Stamp Set (£25.00)

Ornate Floral 3D Embossing Folder (£11.00)

Pretty Peacock 1/2″ (1.3 Cm) Scalloped Linen Ribbon (£9.75)

Pretty Peacock Classic Stampin’ Pad (£9.00)

Pearl Basic Jewels (£6.00)

I hope you liked my cards, please leave a comment below and remember to pop back Saturday for days 16-20.

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Happy Crafting

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Stampin’ Up! Pre-order

Welcome to our May Blog Hop.  This month our theme is Stampin’ Up! Pre-Order.  As an Independent Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator, we get to order certain items from the upcoming new annual catalogue, before it is released, this is Stampin’ Up! Pre-Order.   If you have hopped over from Carrie at The Inky Nook, then you may already have gained lots of inspiration, I hope to offer you more.

I have chosen the ‘Share What You Love’ suite.  this is an amazing suite that uses flowers and fresh spring/summer colours, that coordinate in that wonderful Stampin’ Up! way.  I adore the delicate flowers in the Designer series Paper, (DSP), they remind me of wild flowers growing in a meadow.  I can picture it now, lying in the tall grass with the hills behind.  Bees humming and birds singing, on a warm spring day, with the sun high in the sky.  Oh someone take me there  now!

The suite has two stamp sets, ‘Love What You Do’ and ‘Make A Difference’.  ‘Love What You Do’ has a  wonderful watercolour image, four beautiful sentiments and several delicate flowers.  These make gorgeous focal points as well as marvellous backgrounds.  ‘Make A Difference’ has three full alphabets, in upper and lower case, and all the punctuation you could wish for.  Plus # tags galore!  Just perfect for adding that personal touch.

To complement these stamp sets perfectly, there is also an embossing folder, artisan pearls, velvet ribbon, pearlized dollies, an embellishment kit and the DSP.  Everything you could want to make wonderful cards and gifts.  I have made many projects with this suite and I have chosen three to share with you today.  These would make a beautiful gift for anyone.

For the card use an A6 ‘Grapefruit Grove’ card base, stamp small flowers along top and bottom in ‘Grapefruit Grove’ ink.  I love tone on tone.  Cut a layer of ‘Mint Macaron’ card stock and a slightly smaller piece of DSP, adhere together and wrap bakers twine (from the embellishment kit) around twice.  Adhere to your card base, in the middle.  Punch out a ‘Whisper White’ circle and a slightly larger ‘Grapefruit Grove’ circle.  Stamp your chosen sentiment and small flower image onto ‘Whisper White’ circle and adhere to ‘Grapefruit Grove’ circle.  Using ‘Dimensionals’ place in the centre of your card.  Finish with a pearl, placed in centre of flower.

I made a ‘milk carton’ gift box and decorated a note book to complete my set, using matching DSP.  I think this set looks fantastic and I’m sure whoever receives it will be very happy!

This suite is available to you on early release, until the 31st May.  There are three bundles available; ‘Just Getting Started’, ‘A Little Bit More’ and ‘Gotta Have It All’.  Something for everyone and every budget.  Each bundle comes with  at least one FREE item.

Click on my shop for more information

I hope you found some inspiration and look forward to next time!

Blog hop list:

Caro at Craft with Caro

Gina at Emerald Kreations

Ginny at Celebrate the Journey

Cheryl at Stampin’ n Crafting with Cheryl Diana

Deborah at DJC Creativity

Sandra at Sandra’s Stamp & Craft Studio

Carrie at The Inky Nook

Leighsa at Leighsa’s Loft

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