Watercooler Wednesday Challenge - WWC130 - Gail's Feminine 'Anything Goes ' Challenge

Another Wednesday comes round quick and our challenge this week is Gail's Feminine Anything Goes Challenge.  It has been a while since I've stamped with the Beautiful You set so I thought it deserved another outing.

I've paired it here with some of the new Color Theory Designer Series Paper in Berry Burst.  The image of the girl is actually on the inside of the card as I've shown below.  I've cut out the oval on the front of the card using the Stitched Framelits and when closed the image pops through.

 

 I used the new In-Colours for the background of Berry Burst, Fresh Fig and Powder Pink and then stamped the woman on top in Basic Black.

A touch of our new gorgeous Shimmery Powder Pink Ribbon finishes off the card.

I look forward to seeing all your examples - do pop along to the rest of the Design Team and leave them a comment - we love to hear from you.

 HAPPY CRAFTING

 

WATERCOOLER WEDNESDAY CHALLENGE - #126 - FIONA'S FEMININE 'ANYTHING GOES'

 It's Wednesday again and that means Wednesday Watercooler challenge.  Have you noticed our new banner?  How cool is that?  This week is another challenge which I am hosting - Fiona's Feminine Challenge.

I've used the gorgeous Floral Statements stamp set for my card - I hope you agree it is very feminine.  I adore this set - it is only two stamps but they are so beautiful in either Hellor or Thanks. I've used Pink Powder and Berry Burst Inks for the flowers and Pear Pizazz and a touch of Old Olive for the leaves.  The background paper is from our new DSP Color Theory which I adore.  A touch of our new Powder Pink shimmer ribbon and some Glitter Enamel Dots adds a bit of bling.  The friend sentiment comes from Jar of Love and I've used the Stitched Framelits to layer it.

I hope you'll come and join in with our challenge this week - I'm looking forward to seeing all your lovely feminine cards.  Just click on the banner above to be taken to the challenge blog.

Happy Crafting

 

WATERCOOLER WEDNESDAY CHALLENGE #121 - "ANYTHING GOES" CHALLENGE

 It's a free for all Challenge over at Watercooler Wednesday this week - anything you like - we'd love to see it!  

I've chosen to use the lovely Pretty Kitty set - this is such a lovely set for colouring and although it's not new to the catalogue its new to me so I'm still in that Honeymoon stage with this set.  I used some now sadly retiring DSP as the background and Island Indigo as the cardstock.  Stitched Framelits also got a look in here.  The Watercolour Pencils are great at colouring in these little kitties.

 This is a great single Fun Fold card and always gives a bit of that Wow factor.

 Come along and join us and let us see your creations.  Pop over to the rest of the Design Team and see what they have for you.

HAPPY CRAFTING

 

BOXES IN A BOX

I thought I'd have a play with some boxes this week and did a You Tube tutorial to show how they were made.  Really quite simple but very effective - and a nice suprise when the box is opened to see four more little boxes inside.  I used Birthday Blooms for the front and some of our retiring DSP.

 The sizes are as follows:

4 pieces of cardstock measuring 9 cm x 9 cm score at 2 cm (3.5", score at .5")

2 Pieces of cardstock measuring 12.2 cm x 12.2 cm score at 1 cm (4 3.4" score at 3/4")

1 piece of cardstock measuring 10 cm x 2 cm fold and score in the middle (4" x 1/2")
DSP - 9.5 cm x 9.5 cm (3 3/4" x 3 3/4")




 

SIMPLY SKETCHED SATURDAY CHALLENGE - BOOKCASE BUILDER

 

Thank you for joining us for another Simply Sketched Saturday Challenge! We’re so excited to be sharing this hop with you. The products used are all available in the current Annual, or seasonal, Stampin’ Up!® Catalogues*. Simply use the buttons at the bottom of the post to keep hopping!

The lovely Heidi Smith designed our sketch this month and here it is:


 


I chose to use Bookcase Builder - I love this set and it hasn't got used a lot.  I was pleased to see it was going to continue in the new catalogue because I think it has lots of potential.  

I used some of the retiring Falling In Love Designer Series Paper - once I'd got over the fact that I couldn't cut this paper its been lovely to use.  The hearts at the top were cut out with the Everyday Jar Framelits and a backing of Whisper White added.  I used the Stitched Framelits - my favourites.

 I don't usually do baby cards as I have no-one to send them to so maybe this one will sit and wait in my box just in case.....



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Thank you for joining our blog hop and have fun - we hope we have inspired you.

HAPPY CRAFTING

 

SIMPLY SKETCHED SATURDAY CHALLENGE - AVANT-GARDEN, DELICATE DETAILS

 Welcome to another Simply Sketched Saturday Challenge.  Here is our Sketch this week which was put forward by Samantha Charlton.

I loved working with this set and wanted to have another play with the Avant-Garden Sale-A-Bration set.  Such a versatile little set.  I've also used the Delicate Details stamp set which is also part of Sale-A-Bration.  That means you could get both stamp sets for FREE.

I used embossing powder for the Delicate Details and some of our clear embossing powder.  This enables you to have embossed colour for any of our inks.  Just stamp in Versamark first, then the ink of your choice then add the clear embossing colour.  I have used Mint Macaron here to go against the Mint Macaron card stock.  This has been one of my favourite colours and I will be sorry to see it leave us in May.

I've used the Stitched Framelits for the circles.  The inks used for the flowers are Melon Mambo and Rich Razzleberry.  White Embossing Powder was used for the sentiment.

I used the Botanical Builder Framelits for the flower using the same colours.

As usual all products can be purchased direct from my store - don't miss out on the fabulous Sale-A-Bration offers.  

To join in our Blog Hop please click on the button below to be taken to Sally's Blog

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I'm going to enter this into the SUO Challenges blog which is looking for projects made with Sale-A-Bration items

 HAPPY CRAFTING

 

TOTALLY TREES - DELICATE DETAILS - SALE-A-BRATION - WATERCOOLER WEDNESDAY

This week's challenge at Watercooler Wednesday is a sketch challenge - I love these - really makes you think outside of your usual box. This is the sketch for us to work with.

 

 I turned to Totally Trees for my card.  I've done a purple card for a change - its not my normal choice of colours but my daughter has Epilepsy and purple is the colour for the charity.  This month they are holding Purple Days to raise money and awareness for this condition so I will be making a lot of purple cards for her.

I used Rich Razzleberry on the tree here and then embossed over it with our Copper Embossing powder - this is so lovely!

The edging was done with one of our Sale-A-Bration FREE sets - did I mention it is FREE if you spend £45 on one order.  This set is called Delicate Details and has some gorgeous lacey images which look so lovely when embossed - embossed here once again in the Copper Embossing Powder.

The little bird is from the Best Birds Framelits. I used a white gel pen to go over him and give him some stitching marks to match the Stitching Framelits.

SUPPLIES USED:

Cardstock - Wisteria Wonder - Blushing Bride
Inks - Perfect Plum Elegant Eggplant, Crushed Curry, Rich Razzleberry
Stamp Sets - Totally Trees, Delicate Details, Jar of Love (For You sentiment)
Framelits - Stitched Framelits, Birds and Blooms,  Bunch of Banner Framelits
Accessories - Copper Embossing Powder, Enamel Shapes, Sequins Trim, Very Vanilla Lace Trim, Wink of Stella (on bird) 

Thank you for stopping by and leaving a comment - its great to hear from you

HAPPY CRAFTING 


 

MEDITERRANEAN MOMENTS - INKSPIRATIONAL CHALLENGE 127

I'm a cat lady!  There!  It's official I'e said it.  Although I have two dogs which I also love dearly I have two cats also and have cats since I was 9 years old.  I can always see me having a cat - not necessarily always having dogs as I get older!

So I was so happy to see a cat on one of the stamps from this lovely set Mediterranean Moments.  This cat actually looks a little like one of my old cats I lost last year  her name was Megan and she was 16 when we lost her.

I've given my cat on this card her colouring slightly.

The challenge over at Inkspirational Challenge 127 is polkadots and I had already made this card using some of the DSP Stacks.  I love these papers, they are so versatile.  I've used the same paper with the Itty Bitty punch to punch out the butterfly.

Stitched framelits were used and I used our Watercolour Pencils for the colouring in.  A touch of linen thread finishes off the card.






 

TOTALLY TREES, LOVELY STITCHING, DANEBURY IRON AGE HILL FORT

HA! I bet that heading made you look twice - not often you see an Iron Age hill fort on a crafting blog.  But I thought I would share some pictures with you.

I'm lucky enough to live near one of the most important Iron Age Hill Forts in my area in Hampshire, UK, called Danebury.  Its a lovely place to walk my dogs and the views are wonderful.  You can see why they built their fort though thousands of years ago.  Its also a very peaceful place.

I love trees, especially Yew trees and there are some magnificent samples at Danebury. Here are my dogs around one particularly wonderful Yew Tree.














There are even wild ponies on the fort.














The Inner Ring of the Hillfort

 
  













It got me thinking of making a tree card when I got back home so I turned to Totally Trees for some inspiration.
 

I've used Island Indigo cardstock and ink and a gatefold card (I think that's what it's called) which I had left over from making some of the mice cards at Christmas.  I've added some Blooms and Bliss Designer Series Paper which looks a bit like leaves I think.

The image was stamped with Island Indigo Ink and then double stamped with the detailed image in Versamark and embossed with our goreous Copper Embossing Powder.  I've also added some of our Copper Metalic Thread around the cardstock.

If you can see I've used the square Stitched Framelit but turned it into a rectangle thanks to Dawn Griffith's instructions.

I used the Lovely Stitching for the sentiments and also embossed them in the Copper Embossing Powder.  I've used one of the Banner Framelits to cut out the smaller sentiment.  Popped onto dimensionals just left of the tree it helps to keep the card closed.

I love the look of this copper on the Island Indigo - I can see I'm going to be doing this a lot!

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 HAPPY CRAFTING

 

JANUARY BLUES? - AVANT-GARDEN

Good Morning Bloggers, is it just me with the January blues?  I'm guessing it isn't - I have to admit January is my least favourite month of the year.  My kids know this also so my Christmas present from my daughter was a spa day last Monday and a joint present for my husband from our son is a weekend away in a few weeks time.  They know me so well.

These "blues" seem to be coming across in my crafting - I'm not normally a blues colour sort of girl.  Reds and greens are my colours which is why Christmas suits me so well.

I must say though I've absolutely loved playing with these three blues I picked at random and they go so well together.

I'm playing with one of the Sale-A-Bration FREE sets - Avant-Garden.  Can I let you into a little secret - its my favourite out of the whole Sale-A-Bration catalogue.  I wonder what your's is?  Sometimes it takes other people to show us what a stamp set can do which is why we Demos are here after all!

Anyway - I'm blathering on - here's my card!  I don't know whether its the dull weather we are having here in the UK - promise of snow perhaps here in the south but its very dull and that's reflecting on the colours of this card.  Honest, in real life its much more vibrant and the Wink of Stella just glistens - like snow!

Hmm - not liking this picture at all - I will have to try some more shots and re-do it if I can.  I think its time to invest in a white box maybe?

I've put a list of the supplies below for what I used.  Sorry to say I have used something that is no longer available in those Antique Brads.  I love brads - its a shame they seem to be out of favour at the moment but these are just too lovely to sit in a box and I'm sure some of you will have them anyway.  Its not all about using what's current - shh don't tell anyone I said that! lol!

SUPPLIES

Cardstock - Island Indigo - Very Vanilla

Stamp Set - Avant-Garden

Inks - Island Indigo, Mint Macaron, Pool Party

Accessories - Linen Thread, Stitched Framelits, Antique Brads, Wink of Stella

As usual all supplies can be purchased from my website - click on the logo below.

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In the meantime,

HAPPY CRAFTING

 

TUESDAY'S CHALLENGE - BEAUTIFUL YOU, PAINTER'S PALETTE

Every Tuesday we have a live video call with our Team Leader to discuss goals, topics, Toot Toots (what we've all done well in for the week) and other general SU stuff. 

This week though we were set a challenge to pull out two random colours from our inks, without looking, and make a card.  The colours I pulled out were Pear Pizzazz and Pumpkin Pie.  Funny that they should both have been 'P's because I am a slightly disorganised crafter and they are not in any way ordered alphabetically or in colour sections.

I went with the Beautiful You and Painter's Palette combination of stamps cause I'm loving playing with this set.  I also used the DSP stack papers too.  The banner came from the Banner Framelits and a touch of watercolouring and the use of the Stitched Framelits and this was a really quick card to do.

I actually loved this combination of colours.

I challenge you to do the same and do pop by and let me know what colours you got and a link so I can come and see.




 

BEAUTIFUL YOU, PAINTER'S PALETTE

As soon as I saw the Beautiful You stamp set I had the idea of putting it together with the Painter's Palette - one of my favourite sets of the current annual catalogue.

I love how this one has turned out and I can see I'm going to be making a few similar ones with slight variations with this stamp set.

 This one is nice and vibrant in Melon Mambo - just what you need on a dull dreary January afternoon here in the UK.

It is on a cardstock base of Early Espresso, with some DSP from the Designer Series Pack - I love these papers - they are so versatile and can be used time and again.  I've coloured her in using the new watercolour pencils and her hat is in Early Espresso with a touch of Melon Mambo dots on it to give it that polka dot look.  

Once again the Stitched Framelits have made an appearance.  The square ones work so well with the easel from Painter's Palette.  Popped up on dimensionals it really looks as though she is in a painting.

A Wink of Stella on her dress and some Enamel Shapes and Stitched Ribbon in Melon Mambo finish the card off.

As usual all supplies can be purchased from my website - click below or follow the links on the side of this post.

 HAPPY CRAFTING