mmm...Stampin' Time

My second shared project today is for this week’s Freshly Brewed Projects blog hop.

This week’s theme is Annual Catalogue Sneak Peek. Perfect – I have been sneak peeking the Sun Prints Suite Collection.

My card today is a version of an eclipse card.

The striped paper is from the Sun Prints 12″x 12″ Designer Series Paper.

The leaf image was stamped on the Basic White card front using my Stamparatus. Then I placed the DSP in the same position and stamped the iamge onto it. This then allowed me to die cut the DSP in just the right place to position over the card base.

The DSP had many Stampin’ Dimensionals added so that it would sit up off the base.

The sentiment was stamped, in Sweet Sorbet, and cut using one of the Natural Prints Dies.

I used the Dark Sweet Sorbet Stampin’ Blend pen to colour the Polished Dots and added them to the banner.

I am really pleased with this card.

Make sure you hop on over and see what the Freshly Brewed Crew have created.

One more project will go live at 7pm tonight AEST. It is for the Colour INKspiration Challenge CI#120.

Until then, 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.

Because some of the products I have used to make this card are not yet available to customers, I am not able to show them at this time.

Product List

Polished Dots [158134] $13.00	Basic White A4 Cardstock [159228] $17.00	Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755] $7.00	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] $6.00
Mini Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine [150673] $104.00	Paper Snips [103579] $17.00	Paper Trimmer [152392] $44.00	Basic White C6 Envelopes [159235] $13.00

My first post for today is the card I made for this week’s Global Design Project challenge.

The challenge is to CASE the project below by using anything I like from the design and make it my own. It might be the stamp set – the colors, the layout, the theme, the images – whatever has inspired me to make a card of my own. I’ve decided to CASE the layout.

I have still used the Sun Prints Suite, my featured products of the week.

The card has a Basic White base and the front is covered with one of the paper designs from the Sun Prints 12″x 12″ Designer Series Paper.

Then I added a smaller panel of Basic White cardstock using Stampn’ Dimensionals.

I took a 3″ square of Starry Sky cardstock and used the Fern 3D Embossing Folder to add this gorgeous texture. This panel was also popped up using dimensionals.

I stamped and cut the leaves and flowers. The leaves were die cut and the flowers were then fussy cut.

The sentiment was stamped with Sweet Sorbet and was then die cut. The leaves, flowers and sentiment were then positoned over the embossed panel.

Using the Dark Starry Sky Stampin’ Blends pen I coloured three Polished Gems and added them to the front of the card.

Finally, I tied a length of Starry Sky Metallic Woven Ribbon into a #tammybow.

It is always great to take part in challenges because that is just what they do – they challenge me to try new colour combinations, layouts, products and think in other creative ways.

I have a couple more projects to share with you later today.

Until then, 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.

Because some of the products I have used to make this card are not yet available to customers, I am not able to show them at this time.

Product List

Polished Dots [158134] $13.00	Basic White A4 Cardstock [159228] $17.00	Just Jade Classic Stampin' Pad [153115] $13.00	Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755] $7.00	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] $6.00
Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine [149653] $209.00	Mini Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine [150673] $104.00	Paper Snips [103579] $17.00	Paper Trimmer [152392] $44.00	Basic White C6 Envelopes [159235] $13.00

My Stamparatus is one of my favourite Stampin’ Up! ® tools. I can stamp well coloured images with precision, stamp multiple cards in exactly the same place, hinge step an image or greeting evenly down a card front and today’s technique, stamping an image in a ‘circle’ with each image evenly spaced.

I started with a 3-3/4″x 3-3/4″ piece of Basic White cardstock and placed it squarely on the Stamparatus. Using a pencil, I marked the centre of the card. This allowed me to position the flower image so that it can be stamped once on each of the four sides.

Then I rotated the card so that each of the four corners and the centre marks aligned. To make it more accurate each time I turned the card to each corner, I added some more pencil marks on the grid paper.

This technique can use even more images and will result in a wreath.

I used a Gray Granite card base for this project.

A piece of white vellum was used to emboss it with the Fern 3D Embossing Folder to create this gorgeous texture. I used Stampin’ Seal+ to adhere the vellum to the card front.

I cut a 2″ strip of one of the papers from the Sun Prints 12″x 12″ Designer Series Paper and threaded the paper through the banner die to create the shape at the bottom of the DSP strip. I discovered this idea in the new 2022 – 2023 Annual Catalogue.

The DSP strip had Stampin’ Dimensionals added to the back and then this was positioned on the card’s centre front. Then I attached two lengths of Gray Granite 1/4″ Shimmer Ribbon over the DSP.

Before adding the stamped Basic White layer, I used the Light and Dark Gray Granite Stampin’ Blends to colour the small inner flower buds.

I stamped and die cut one of the flowers and popped a dimensional under it. You can see from the slight shadow on the bottom right hand side where I placed the die cut flower.

I really like this new banner die. The shape is a great combination of curves, points and straight lines. The font combination in the sentiment is so lovely.

The final step was to colour some of the Polished Dots using the Dark Starry Sky Stampin’ Blends.

It is so much fun sharing projects featuring new products from the 2022 – 2023 Annual Catalogue. This is day 4 of a week long SNEAK PEEK at the Sun Prints Suite.

Tomorrow is the day I share projects for blog hops and challenges. I think I may have two to share with you.

Until then, 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.

Because some of the products I have used to make this card are not yet available to customers, I am not able to show them at this time.

Product List

Polished Dots [158134] $13.00	Basic White A4 Cardstock [159228] $17.00	Gray Granite A4 Cardstock [147008] $15.25	White Vellum A4 Card Stock [106584] $17.50
Gray Granite Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154886] $15.50	Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755] $7.00	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] $6.00	Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine [149653] $209.00
Paper Snips [103579] $17.00	Paper Trimmer [152392] $44.00	Basic White C6 Envelopes [159235] $13.00