Be Inspired Blog Hop - Perennial Essence

Good Day Crafty Friends

Welcome to the Be Inspired Design Team Blog Hop for May. I am so excited to be hopping with the crew this month as we have a few new Design Team members who I know are going to blow your socks off with their creations.

You are currently visiting Jackie Aitken in Western Australia. If you are following the hop, you may have arrived here having just visited Monica Gale. If you are just joining us, grab a comfy seat and be sure to hop all the way through for amazing idea's and inspiring projects shared by the Be Inspired Design Team using this month's theme ANYTHING GOES.

I was so excited to have the opportunity to create with some new item while being able to mix them with a some of my favourite retiring products. The Floral Essence stamp set (item #149450)  and Perennial Essence Designer Series Paper (item #149100) will be available from the new 2019-2020 Annual Catalogue from June 4th.

I have added a few vellum die cuts using my favourite foliage dies from Floral Frames and the copper foil die cut labels that the sentiments have been stamped onto are from the Everything is Rosy Product Medley.  Everything else that I have used to create this collection is available in the new Catalogue.

The Perennial Essence DSP is seriously gorgeous and will make stunning gift bags and decor pieces, but I found it extremely hard to cut up and then create something with it. I decided to make some frames for the two cards using the Rectangle Stitched Framelits.

The floral images from Floral Essence have been stamped in Pineapple Punch with Grapefruit Grove applied to the centre with a sponge dauber.

The leaf stamp was borrowed from the Rooted in Nature Stamp set. All images were fussy cut and applied to the card with dimensionals.

The pillow boxes (item #147018) are perfect for those little gifts that can be awkward to wrap, plus I love decorating the pillow boxes, so any excuse lol. The fern leaf tucked behind the flower is from the Daisy Lane Stamp Set (item #149325) has been stamped in Granny Apple Green and fussy cut. The sentiment has been stamped in Sahara Sand ink onto a whisper white die cut created with the Stitched Labels Framelits.

That's it from me, crafty friends. Thanks so much for stopping by today. The Be Inspired Design Team appreciate the time you have invested to visit our blogs today, Thank You. Up next in this months Be Inspired Blog Hop is super talented Cathy Caines.

Participant Blog List

Nadine Hößrich

Tanya Rees

Janneke de Jong

Monica Gale

Jackie Aitken - that's Me

Cathy Caines

Manuela Geiswinkler

Carolynn Sander

Brian King

Emma Goddard

Stesha Bloodhart

Until next time, stay awesome and stay crafty

You can find all the products used to create the projects in today's post in the product list below. Simply click on the images to be taken to my Online Store. Happy Shopping x

Product List

Floral Essence Photopolymer Stamp Set [149450] $30.00	Perennial Essence Designer Series Paper [149100] $20.00
Perennial Essence 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Vellum Cardstock [149101] $19.25	Rectangle Stitched Framelits Dies [148551] $61.00
Stitched Labels Framelits Dies [146828] $57.00	Foliage Frame Framelits Dies [146353] $47.00
Everything Is Rosy Product Medley [150059] $139.00	Petal Pink 5/8" (1.6 Cm) Organdy Striped Ribbon [149441] $14.00
Pineapple Punch Classic Stampin' Pad [147141] $13.00	Grapefruit Grove Classic Stampin' Pad [147142] $13.00
Granny Apple Green Stampin' Pad [147095] $13.00	Whisper White A4 Card Stock [106549] $17.00
Sahara Sand A4 Card Stock [121695] $14.75	Sahara Sand Classic Stampin' Pad [147117] $13.00
Iridescent Sequin Assortment [144212] $8.75	Twine Baker's Whisper White [124262] $5.25

Just Add Ink #416 - Sketch - Floral Frames

Good Day Crafty Friends,

Hope you have had a great week. Its challenge time over at Just Add Ink and this week we have a fun sketch for you to play along with.

It maybe hard to spot the sketch in my card at first glance but if you follow the Lemon Lime Twist elements you will see the basic sketch elements are there.

I absolutely LOVE my stitched detailed dies and the Stitched Shapes Framelits have to be my favies and most frequently used. I have loads of squares die cut in many colours as when I am constructing my cards I always remove a die cut from the layer that will not be seen.

I love layered cards but it seems so wasteful to not utilise all of the card stock, especially those parts that are covered with other layers. 

Utilising some of the stitched square die cuts in Lemon Lime Twist and Coastal Cabana, I have added a Black panel over the Tropical Escape DSP and then a thin strip of Lemon Lime Twist. The gold heat embossed die cut was created using the Floral Frames Bundle and was adhered using Tombow. A few stamped images from Tropical Chic and Cake Soiree stamp sets and die cuts made in Coastal Cabana and Gold Foil card were added, before completing the card with a little swing tag hanging from gold metallic thread. 

The Just Add Ink Design Team have created some amazing cards using this weeks sketch, be sure to check them all out, they are all so inspiring and creative. 

Why not join us and play along. You can add your creation to the Just Add Ink Gallery HERE. 

Until next time, enjoy your weekend and stay crafty

One Stamp At A Time Blog Hop - Lay it Out

Good Day Crafty Friends,

Welcome to the One Stamp At A Time Blog Hop for June 2018. I am so super excited to be joining this team of talented Demonstrators as we share our creativity with monthly themed blog hops using Stampin' Up! products.

This month’s theme is "Lay it Out". Yay!! Something a little different and fun. I totally enjoyed this challenge as I don't often create Page Layouts, and ended up going a little overboard with two colour themed projects. While I had everything out it was easier to create two sets, also just incase I boo booed one,  there was a back up project lol.

There are literally so many stunning suites in the new Annual Catalogue, I have to admit I felt spoilt for choice when choosing what items to use for this challenge. As mentioned earlier, I have made a few sets - A Page Layout with matching card.

The first Page and Card use the bright and fun, Pineapple Punch teamed with Black & White. I have used a variety of stamps along with Archival Black & Pineapple Punch inks. A portion of both the Page and Card have also been lightly sponged.

Its a very eclectic design created using a mix of stamps inked in Black Archival ink: Tabs for Everything, Artisan Textures, Timeless Textures, Rooted in Nature, Pick a Pennant and Stitched All Around.

And a mix of die cuts created using: Stitched Labels Framelits, Petal Palette Thinlits, Stitched Shapes Framelits.

The second set also includes a layout and matching card. This time swapping out the Pineapple Punch for Lemon Lime Twist - even though the photo's really do not do the LLT any justice.

I have used almost the same stamp sets from the first project, swapping out a few from Timeless Textures and adding extra images from the Accented Blooms.  The first layout has been stamped in a "t" pattern, the second in a "c" shape starting and ending on the right hand side. Don't be afraid to stamp over previously stamped images for added depth. The wavey image stamp from Artisan Textures was great for this technique and used heavily on this set.

No DSP was harmed in the making of these projects lol. For those that follow my work/blog, will know I am not a big user of DSP and will always try to find a way to complete challenges with just stamps, ink and matching card. However, I did just order three packs of stunning DSP from the new catalogue, so time will tell if I can use it or will struggle like usual and start a DSP collection in a dedicated corner of my crafty space.

Be sure to hop all the way through for some amazing inspiration. If you get lost anywhere along the way, just click on the participant list provided at the bottom of each blog, to get you back on track. Enjoy the inspiration and creativity xx

Thanks for stopping by today. Until next time, stay crafty

Colour INKspiration #35

Good Day Crafty Friends

Welcome to Colour INKspiration #35. Stampin' Up! ® has just had a major colour revamp so to start off the new catalogue year at Colour INKspiration we've decided to feature a Colour Collection for the first challenge each month (2nd Wednesday) until we have showcased them all! The second challenge in the month (4th Wednesday) will be a Pinterest inspired pic as per usual just to mix it up a bit. 

This month we are starting off with the NEUTRALS COLLECTION and you can choose any 3 colours from that range for your challenge project. We are also changing the rules about what else you can add to the mix; essentially just the Basics - Whisper White, Very Vanilla and Basic Black as well as metallics.

For my card I have used Night of Navy, Whisper White, Sahara Sand and Early Espresso. I adore trees in real life, they are so majestic and like flowers there are so many varieties. When I saw the Rooted in Nature Bundle at Onstage I knew it was going to be a must have. I was so stoked it made the pre-order list.

The main tree image has been White Heat Embossed on Vellum, die cut and adhered to a large Sahara Sand Circle. The large frame from the Stitched Labels Framelits has been die cut in Whisper White and then some Linen Twine added to both ends of the die cut.

The card background has been created by embossing the leaves onto Early Espresso card. The Whisper White layer has been die cut in exactly the same position as the embossed leaves so they are exposed when layered.

A panel of Wood Textures DSP with a layer of Early Espresso underneath was adhered to the top of the Whisper White. The sentiment from Floral Phrases has been Gold Heat Embossed onto Night of Navy card, trimmed on the ends and adhered over the vellum tree with mini dimensionals. A few Basic Adhesive Backed Sequins in Sahara Sand were adhered to finish off the card.

INKspired to join the challenge? It's so easy. Firstly, get some INKspiration by hopping around to see what all of the Colour INKspiration Crew have to show you. Then you have 12 days from today to make and upload your creation to the Facebook Colour INKspiration Group. You don't have to have a blog to participate but if you do you can link back to your post. Make sure you use all of the challenge colours. You can also use neutrals such as white, black, Sahara Sand, Crumb Cake and Metallics. Not a member of the Facebook group yet? Just click here and ask to join Colour INKspiration, add the group to your favourites and share it with your crafty friends so they can join in the fun too. We can't wait to see what you create with these gorgeous colours.

Up next in the Blog Hop is the talented Kim Oliver, over in Tasmania. I'm sure you are in for a treat. Enjoy xx

Thanks for stopping by today, until next time, stay awesome