Stamping Sunday Blog Hop - Holiday Catalogue Favourites

Good Day Crafty Friends,

Welcome to the last Stamping Sunday Blog Hop for 2018. This month we are featuring our favourite item from the Holiday Catalogue. I have chosen the very summery and non traditional So Santa Stamp Set as these kind of images are ever so popular in the South Pacific, with Christmas falling in the middle of our Summer. 

Our local fire brigade volunteers a fire truck so Santa and his helpers visit every house on Christmas morning, with his shorts and thongs, bellowing Merry Christmas as he throws lollies to all the neighbourhood kids. Local surfers will sport a Santa Hat on Christmas Day if there are waves to ride, in fact its not unusual to see a sea of red hats down any beach in Australia on Chrissy Day. 

I decided to use that cute little surfing Santa to create a bauble for our Christmas Tree along with four cards in four different colours.

The dome has a screw bottom so all I had to do was stamp, colour and fussy cut the Santa image with a little tab on the bottom so I could adhere him to the plastic dome with a few glue dots. The Palm  tree was made with the Tropical Chic Thinlits and some Wood texture DSP.  Some beautiful white Singleton Beach sand has been added to the bottom before screwing together.

All four cards are exactly the same design, I have just changed the colours of DSP and inks used. The sponged background has been completed using Shimmery White card and then adhered to the back of a "photo frame". The Photo Frame is easy to make, just cut a square from the top portion of a rectangular die cut. 

The card front has been die cut with the "x" border from the Stitched Labels Framelits in a zig zag pattern. This was then adhered to the whisper white card base. A layer of craft foam has been added to the back of the "photo frame" as these are being posted, the craft foam prevents any squishing or dents.

The frangipani flower from Tropical Chic was stamped in Pineapple Punch for all four cards, with the leaves of each card changing to coordinate with the DSP and coloured sponging.

The four colours used for the set of cards are Flirty Flamingo, Grapefruit Grove, Blueberry Bushel and Highland Heather.

Thanks for stopping by today. The DT Team at Sunday Stamping wish you all a safe and happy Festive Season. Until next month, stay awesome and stay crafty

Just Add Ink #436 - Sketch - So Santa

Good Day Crafty Friends,

I hope you are having a great week. Mine has been a busy, jammed packed week. I feel like I haven't created anything papercrafty for months!! My craft space is slowly returning to normal, having lost 80% of my surfaces to curing soaps. The soaps have their own rack now and all my crafting surfaces are ready for my first box of Artisan goodies :)

Speaking of Stampin' Up! Artisans, I am so happy and excited to be sharing my year with two other members of the Just Add Ink team - Narelle Farrugia and Rochelle Blok - Congratulations, Ladies!!! It seems JAI is a creative hub and home for Stampin' Up! Artisans lol. Hope to see many more talented JAI Design Teams members be selected for this amazing opportunity.

This weeks Just Add Ink Challenge we have a fun sketch to inspire your creative juices. I love the simple layout and how the JAI DT members have all interpreted it differently.

My card uses a Christmas stamp set called So Santa. I just love the surfing santa and wanted to create a birthday card for a surfing friend, whose birthday is a few days after Christmas.

I started with a Whisper White card base, to which I added a layer of Granny Apple Green card before adhering the stamped Music Sheet card front. 

A few extended die cut pieces in Black and Granny Apple Green were tilted before adhering with Tombow.

The Santa image has been coloured with Stampin' Blends and fussy cut before adhering to the whisper white circle with mini dimensionals.

A few detailed die cuts made using the Petal Palette Thinlits have been added under the circle and under Santa's feet.

I also decorated one of the Bakers Boxes in the same colour combination - adding Silver Edged ribbon, silver bells and a sprig of faux pine.

The Bakers Boxes are just the sweetest and perfect for gifting small items, edibles and of course bars of soap!! I have snapped up a few packets for future use. My daughter recently made giant cookies for her University lecturers that were gifted using these boxes.

This facial soap bar has been handmade with love (by me) using the cold process method and has been curing for 4 weeks. It contains Shea Butter, White Australian Clay, Activated Charcoal and has a Coconut Cream scent. 

I am so in love with the marble effect in the facial soap bar, it would look wonderful with the Marble Background stamp - which I don't own (dang it!!!)

Be sure to stop by all the Just Add Ink Design Team members blogs for more inspiration with this weeks Just Add Texture challenge . We would love for you and your crafty friends to play along, if you have a blog you can add your card to the Just Add Ink gallery here. Don't have your own blog? No problem! Just send us an email to just-add-ink@hotmail.com with a photo attachment. We'll upload it to our challenge entry blog.

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

Santa's Workshop - Signs of Santa - Brights DSP

Good Day Crafty Friends,

Hope you are having a great week. I have a quick post to share today a couple more cards created with the Santa's Workshop stamp set, which is available now from the new HOLIDAY catalogue - Page 19 item #147690.

Both cards also use small strips of the 6"x 6" Brights DSP Pack - Annual Catalogue, Page 191 item number #146964.

To compliment the strips of Gorgeous Grape DSP, I have sponged a little ink on the centre of the whisper white card front. I have also stamped it with a couple of snowflakes in smoky slate ink.

The Santa and elves were stamped and coloured using Stampin' Blends in Highland Heather and Bermuda Bay, fussy cut and adhered with mini dimensionals. The sentiment is from the Blended Seasons Stamp set.

The second card uses strips of the dotty side of a piece of Melon Mambo DSP. It also has a whole pose of elves! The elves have been stamped, masked and coloured directly onto the whipser white card front. The Merry Christmas from Blended Seasons stamp set has been used with the smaller sentiment from the Signs of Santa stamp set.

Thanks for stopping by today. Be sure to check back regularly as I have a whole heap of cards scheduled to post this month - most are Christmas inspired but there are a few others thrown in as well. Until next time, stay awesome and stay crafty

So Santa - Surfing

Hello Crafty Friends, 

Hope you are having a great day. Mine was spent de-cluttering a wardrobe in the spare room that stores all my Christmas Decorations.....hope yours was more eventful than mine. It was productive and I did manage to dig out a few things to donate to the local charity shop.

Speaking of Christmas.....I know I know, its far too early to be thinking about Christmas, but is it really? Its my favourite time of the year so its never too early for me lol.

Stampin' Up!'s Holiday Catalogue has the coolest Stamp set, perfect for Kiwi's and Aussie's or any other family or friends who enjoy the festive season during summer months.

I just looooove the Santa image with his surfboard and pineapple cocktail. The sentiments are just so fitting for sending out those summery Christmas wishes. You can find the So Santa Stamp set in my online store here.

I kept today's card fairly simple and therefore easy to recreate. I started with a piece of shimmery white card stock and sponged it with Coastal Cabana and Pineapple Punch inks.

On whisper white card i stamped the main image and again four times concentrating on inking up just the surfboard so that i had four extra images.

The stamped images have been coloured using Stampin' Blends - Flirty Flamingo, Pumpkin Pie, Pool Party. Highland Heather and Granny Apple Green. Then the main image and extra surfboard were fussy cut and adhered with mini dimensionals.

To finish the card, I have stamped the sentiment and then adhered to a whisper white card base with Tombow.  Viola its done. 

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

So Santa - Summer Christmas

Good Day Crafty Friends,

Hope you are having a great day. I have another fun summery themed Christmas card to share with you today. I am loving this fun in the sun Santa image from the So Santa Stamp Set (Holiday Catalogue Page 23 #147821).

Santa has been coloured using Stampin' Blends and then fussy cut. Using a couple of different square shaped framelits, I created a frame from whisper white card and backed it with a piece of shimmery white card that has been sponged using Pineapple Punch & Coastal Cabana inks. The sentiment was stamped onto the frame with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink. Santa has been adhered to the frame using mini dimensionals.

The whisper white card base has been die cut with the criss cross stitched thinlit. Over this a panel of Coastal Cabana DSP from the 6"x 6" Brights DSP Pack.

To finish the card and give it a tropically summery tone, I added the flower from Tropical Chic and the little tag stamped with 'enjoy', die cut using the small framelit in the Stitched Labels Framelits.

To add a little texture to Santa's beard I have added white gel pen in hairlike strokes. The inside of the card has a line of starfish.

The So Santa stamp set is a little beauty for those of us who experience Christmas during the summer months. The sentiments alone are uber cuties!!

Thanks so much for stopping by today. Until next time, stay awesome, stay organised and stay crafty

So Santa - Surfing Santa - 2018 Holiday Catalogue

Good Day Crafty Friends,

Hope you are having a great day. Happy Spring! We have had a wonderful start to the season here in Perth, the sun is shining but not killer hot, there is little wind, no rain and therefore makes for pleasant walking the fur babies kinda days.

The start of Spring is also a time to start adding cards to my Christmas stash. Having just received the new So Santa stamp set (Page 23 of the NEW Holiday Catalogue #147821), I couldn't wait to ink it up for the first time.

Those who follow me and my style of card making know that I am not a huge fan of traditional Christmas colours and themes. The super cute scootering and surfing Santa images in this stamp set won my heart from the get go. Plus the sentiments and images are perfect for Australian/Kiwi themed Christmas cards.

Sooo stinkin' cute! For my card I chose to use the Scooter riding Santa with his sack of presents on the front of the card teamed with some Coastal Cabana DSP and card stock. The stamped image has been coloured with Stampin' Blends, fussy cut and then adhered to the card front with mini dimensionals.

The greeting was stamped directly onto the Whisper White card front with Memento Tuxedo Black ink.

The inside is a tunnel box card with Santa and his surfboard front and centre. The background has been sponged with Daffodil Delight and Melon Mambo inks and splashed with Coastal Cabana flicks.

Santa, the stacks of presents and starfish were all coloured using Stampin' Blends. The tunnel box card folds flat for posting and when opened Santa moves with the folds of the card.

Basic Tunnel Card Measurements:

Base - Two pieces measuring 5 1/2" x 8 1/2"
Score One @ 4 1/4", Score the Second @ 1/2", 4 1/4" and 4 3/4"
Insert - 5 1/2" x 4 1/4" trim a sliver off each side and the top, THEN, score 1/4" in from both sides.
Construct and decorate. 

I have already created quite a few cards with this stamp set, so be sure to check back for more projects idea's in the coming weeks. 

Until next time, stay awesome, stay organised and stay crafty