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WITH THANKS

Hello to each of you who pop by to see what I have been creating. I appreciate each of you and your interest.

It’s time for this month’s blog hop!

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Thank you for joining us for our Stampin’ Up!® Demonstrator Training Program Monthly Blog Hop! We are so happy that you could join us today for this blog hop for ideas and creative inspiration. We are a group of Stampin’ Up!® Demonstrators from around the world that are taking part in training that is helping us to build a successful Stampin’ Up!® business and reach some goals we have set. We really appreciate your support.

Each month I look forward to creating thank you cards to send to my customers who have placed an order with me during that month. Some of these cards will also have a gift from me as well, if the order was at least $50 and the HOST CODE was used.

The ‘thank you’ cards I have made for March have six different designs. I decided to use a few of the FREE Sale-a-bration products. I hope that you all placed your orders in time to earn these these amazing products – PAPER BLOOMS DSP and the A TOUCH OF INK STAMP SET.

I really went outside my usual ‘style’ but wanted to see how they could be teamed together.

The colour palette from the Designer Series Paper, I think, made it quite easy – Night of Navy, Old Olive, Petal Pink, Rococo Rose, Seaside Spray and Soft Sea Foam.

I think my favourite sheet of DSP is the one with the individual water colour circles.

It was loads of fun using the STITCHED SHAPES DIES circles to cut all the colours from the DSP for some of these cards.

For each of the butterflies I stamped the outlinebefore stamping off the in fill colour. I love the way the in fill colour is that it is not confined to wings. It looks like it is a messy watercolour (my favourite kind of water colouring).

The 12 different designs in the PAPER BLOOMS DSP pack have so many ways they can be used and combined.

And, now it’s time to move onto the hummingbird!

I hope that my wonderful customers enjoy their March THANK YOU card – in the mail in the first week of April.

Let’s take a closer look.

I added some ribbon from the BOHO INDIGO PRODUCT MEDLEY to wrap around the card front. I used my Rococo Rose Stampin’ Blends to colour some OPAL ROUNDS to add to the card front.

A ‘very’ thankful card! I used the OPAL ROUNDS again, as well as some of the ROCOCO ROSE SCALLOPED LINEN RIBBON. The butterful was coloured using Blends and Wink of Stella before fussy cutting it.

It is easy to underestimate the versatility of the STITCHED SHAPES DIES.

It’s so interesting how using different DSP can create such a different look for a similar layout.

I liked that this DSP could be used to feature the hummingbird.

There is no butterfly or hummingbird for this card – it just features the leaves and flowers.

While I have created six different THANK YOU card designs, I look forward to sending them to my customers.

I hope that you let me know what you think. Which card would you like to receive?

There will lots of other thank you cards, made by demonstrators around the world. Check them out and get some great ideas for your own cards. I hope you enjoy hopping.

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
Opal Rounds
[154289]
$13.00
Paper Snips
[103579]
$17.00
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Hello! I enjoy sharing my projects with each of you. Thanks for popping by.

I have made a few cards using the CIRCLE CELEBRATIONS STAMP SET and I shared one yesterday. Today I have another for you.

I used three of the stamps to create the patterns for this card. Two of them were stamped dirrectly onto a Basic White mat. I used the third one to stamp and then cut out the circles before gluing them onto coloured circle bases.

The rainbow of colours are Daffodil Delight, Gorgeous Grape, Granny Apple Gree, Highland Heather, Pacific Point and Poppy Parade.

Once the colour circles were glued onto the mat piece, I used the OLD WORLD PAPER 3D EMBOSSING FOLDER to create the texture.

I used STAMPIN’ WRITE MARKERS™ to colour each word separately. The stamp was on my Stamparatus and I used a post it note to cover the other word. Once the word was inked up, I removed the post it note and stamped the word. Then I cleaned the stamp and repeated this, colouring the other word.

I used STAMPIN’ BLENDS to colour some RHINESTONE BASIC JEWELS to coordinate.

I love the explosion of colour on this card. Who would you send this birthday card to?

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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GLOBAL DESIGN CHALLENGE

Hello and welcome back. Thank you for popping by to see my latest project.

Many of you already know that one of my goals, in 2021, is to participate in blog hops and challenges. So, today I am joining in with another very popular challenge – the GLOBAL DESIGN CHALLENGE. It is a weekly challenge, so that will keep me on my toes.

Today is #GDP282 and it is a sketch challenge. Make sure you click on the GDP icon to go to see all the entries for #GDP282.

I decided to use the CIRCLE CELEBRATION STAMP SET for the first time and just a couple of colours – Pacific Point and Poppy Parade, teamed with Basic White.

The coordinating floral circles were a little tricky to align but worth the patience. Then I used the LAYERING CIRCLES DIES to cut five of the flowers. Three of them were adhered directly onto the Basic White strip and two were popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals.

I used one of those stamps to create the blue on blue card front.

I dusted off my ORNATE LAYERS DIES to cut the red strip popping out from behind the Basic White strip.

THIS IS THE DIE I USED

The sentiment is from the YOU ARE AMAZING STAMP SET. I used the same die forthe sentiment as well. Ireally like the way I can reduce the size of the die by carefully interlocking the holes and/or stitched elements. It makes these types of dies so versatile.

A few RED RHINESTONE BASIC JEWELS finished the card ever so nicely.

I hope that you take the time to look at all the other #GDP282 participants.

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