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BACK AGAIN

Hello and thanks for popping by. I hope that you’ve had a more creative week than me – the last few days have been focused on my knee exercises and rehab.

Thank goodness for the new Global Design Project #293 challenge for getting me back in my craft space. This week is another Color Challenge!

The GDP#292 color combination is Pale Papaya, Soft Succulent and Evening Evergreen. How fun is this color combination?

These are three of the new 2021-2023 In Colour Colours. I decided to team them with the Perfect Plants Bundle.

PLENTIFUL PLANTS BUNDLE (ENGLISH)

My idea was to hang three pots from a brick wall. What do you think?

I cut a 5-5/8″x 4″ piece of Shimmery White cardstock to emboss it with the Bricks & Mortar 3D folder. Before I ran it through the Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine, I used the Pale Papaya Classic Stampin’ Pad to transfer ink inside the folder. After the card was embossed it was cut down to a 5-5/8″x 1″ strip for the card insert and a 4-3/4″x 3″ panel for the split front card. This panel was used to hold the two 2″ card front pieces together and 1-3/4″ apart.

The hanging pot plants were stamped and die cut before being layered up, using Stampin’ Dimensionals, on the brick wall. The Evening Evergreen, Soft Succulent and Basic Black work well together. The images and sentiments in the Plentiful Plants Stamp Set are going to be fun to create with. When the card stands opened, it is easy to see thecolumn of bricks inside.

These are some of the new products used to make this card. I used one of the Stitched Rectangle Dies to cut out the Thank You for this card. To finish the project, I stamped one of the pots onto the front of the envelope.

While I am so happy with the hanging pot plants, I think I am most pleased with the way the inked and embossed bricks cardstock turned out. What do you think?

Happy stamping.

If you live in Australia, you can order any of the products I used to make this card by going to my online store. Just click on any of the images below.

Product List
Paper Snips
[103579]
$17.00
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POST KNEE – PROJECT THREE

Hello and thank you for popping by. I may have been M.I.A. for a week but I am so excited to share another project with you – I hope that you like it!

For today’s card, I decided to use the Elegantly Said Bundle – a stamp set and punch bundle. I also used the Designer Series Paper from the Suite.

ELEGANTLY SAID BUNDLE (ENGLISH)

Here is the card that I made.

For this project, I started by cutting 1-3/4″ strips of Basic Black cardstock. I trimmed short, narrow wedges from each end of the cardstock so that I could easily slide the narrow end into the punch to cut just this shape. Then I used my Paper Trimmer to cut three of the pieces at 3″. I kept the fourth piece to use later for the sentiment.

I used Versamark, White Embossing Powder and my Heat Tool to stamp the floral image on each Basic Black piece. Once done, I used Stampin’ Blends to colour each floral image – Daffodil Delight, Fresh Freesia, Polished Pink and Soft Succulent. The Polished Pink was much brighter than the other two colours, so I used the Colour Lifter to tone back the pink a little.

Before I attached these elements, to the layer of Simply Elegant Designer Series Paper, I wrapped a length of Soft Succulent Open Weave Ribbon around the DSP. There are tiny slivers of the ribbon peeking from between the stamped elements. The sentiment was also stamped and heat embossed before being trimmed back to a much smaller size and attached to the card front. I tied a small bow using a length of Soft Succulent Open Weave Ribbon and attached it, as you can see, using a Mini Glue Dot. The final touch was to add three areas of 2021-2023 In Colour Jewels.

These are some of the products I used to make this card. What do you think?

If you live in Australia, you can order any of the products I used to make this card by going to my online store. Just click on any of the images below.

Product List
Heat Tool
[129056]
$50.00
Paper Snips
[103579]
$17.00
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COLOUR INKSPIRATION #99

Hello and thank you so much for popping by. I added a new post yesterday after a two week absence – but, I have a new knee and have been doing all my physiotherapy exercises.

Yesterday’s post was for the Global Design Project #GDP292. I made the card for the GDP challenge after I made my project for #CI99 – I thought it would be easier to use the same colours for both challenges.

May be an image of 1 person and text that says '#99 COLOUR NSPIRATION CHALLENGES Mint Macaron Just JusJade Jade Smoky Slate Soft Suede'

For this card i chose the Colour & Contour Stamp Set and Scalloped Contours Dies.

It was loads of fun using these, very unfloral, colours for the penned flower images. I stamped the images, using Jet Black StazOn, and then used the challenge colours to watercolour the flowers. The images were then die cut.

The coordinating dies have two dies for the floral images, a scalloped edge die and five scalloped rectangles. I used the second largest of these to cut out a ‘window’, in Soft Suede, for the sentiment and gems. The sentiment was stamped, using Just Jade, onto a piece of Shimmery White cardstock and positioned on the Soft Suede card front. The window layer was lifted up on Stampin’ Dimensionals. Then I positioned the flowers and floral stem onto the card front. They were adhered using both Mulitpurpose Glue and Stampin’ Dimensionals. The final touch was to add some of the Genial Gems.

SCALLOPED CONTOURS DIES

These are some of the new products I used for this project.

The fonts used in the sentiments of this stamp set are really lovely.

It has been very nice to make two projects, two weeks after my surgery. Getting back to ‘normal’ is a treat.

Happy stamping.

If you live in Australia, you can order any of the products I used to make this card by going to my online store. Just click on any of the images below.

Product List
Genial Gems
[155500]
$14.00
Paper Snips
[103579]
$17.00