#CTC177 - Favourite Retiring Project

What's yours??

A hard one to pick but I've gone with page 162

Rose Wonder and the co-ordinating Rose Garden Thinlits are a multi occasion item in my stash, so I'll definitely miss them and more!  In fact today's project uses four retiring items.

I've used thick Whisper White with the fold at the top of the card for this set. I've chosen the ombre pattern papers from the (retiring) Color Theory DSP. The largest die was used to cut out  the silver Although this glimmer paper is going, there will be a new thinner model in the next catalogue to replace it. As you can see these cards can be whipped up pretty quickly. The strip of sparkle under the greeting is the (retiring) Myths and Magic Specialty washi tape the greeting itself is from (also retiring) Teeny Tiny Sentiments, with silvery heat embossing. Silver seqins from the Metallic assortment.

Feel the urge to play along? Please do! Create your card and use the link over on the right...  Now time to pop over and visit the talented Liz Gross with her stunning card using the same greeting set as I did.

Sunburst Birthday Cards

These cards met the brief for two challenges this week, and suited for two birthdays I had cards to make for.  I hate waste and often make two card bases (or more) when I break out the Sunburst thinlit.

The colours may not be to everyone's taste, but you could use the idea and try it with your favourites. The chosen array for Colour INKspiration #CI04 were Delightful Dijon, Elegant Eggplant, Whisper White and Crushed Curry, while the Global Design Project #GDP075 topic was "Winged Creatures". 

Base card is Delightful Dijon, and I cut each out of Elegant Eggplant and Crushed Curry with the Sunburst Thinlit. As I still had some retired sticky sheets, I utilised those to piece the opposites together - voila two backgrounds, trimmed and matted with Whisper White.  I used a Layering Circles scallop with a Stitched Shapes Framelit circle for the Butterfly card, and a Swirly Bird shape for the Dragonfly Card. An Elegant Eggplant frame die cut with matching Rose Garden thinlit and Rose Wonder greeting stamped in Crushed Curry.  The winged creatures were raised with Stampin' Dimensionals.  If you want to know how I made the pattern on the butterfly, I used the Timeless Texture background stamped onto a scrap of Whisper White before die-cutting. The dragonfly was stamped after die cutting with the same image and I sponged around it with the Crushed Curry.

Hope you are feeling inspired, and thanks for stopping by.

International Project Highlights Kicks Off

Welcome to our International Project Highlights Visual Blog Hop using current Stampin' Up!® Products. What a great selection of projects for you to be inspired by!  Hop around and visit all of our blogs to see a close up of our projects. Check out the gallery below, this will be on every blog that you click on so you will never be lost.

What a busy month October has been.  Following on from World Cardmaking Day, I was again inspired by Kylie Bertucci, who has created the first of what will hopefully be a monthly Visual Blog Hop.

My card today had me reach for the Remarkable You stamp set and Copper embossing powder.  I used Very Vanilla cardstock, but have mounted it all onto an Early Espresso base to give it a bit more strength.  The centre panel has been matted onto Copper Foil and raised using Stampin' Dimensionals. Images were watercoloured using Sweet Sugarplum, Rich Razzleberry and Garden Green. I have combined Copper metallic thread with Linen thread to wrap and tie a bow, and the greeting is from Rose Wonder.

Please excuse the quality of the next photo, but I wanted to show how the copper and the embossing jump out of the card which the above image doesn't capture.

Thanks for visiting my blog today, there are so many amazing ideas along the way. We know that you will love our gallery of projects made from Stampin' Up!® Demonstrators around the world!

A Learning Curve

Today is the first official post from my new blog!  Fingers crossed it all works.  I have copied over all my posts from my Demonstrator Web blog so you should be able to see all my posts on either site now. 

Recently NZ Demonstrators were invited to submit content to decorate the walls of the Auckland Stampin' Up office.  I opted for one of my go-to projects for a little bit of Wow, and incorporated the Canterbury colours of Red and Black (my go-to being a Tri-Shutter card). I have also used a technique called Inlaid Embossing, where you adhere your layers together and then emboss.  I used the Rose Garden Thinlits to cut some flowers and stems from Whisper White, and glued these to Real Red, then ran them through my Big Shot with the Petal Burst folder. I also cut a Real Red Rose image for the front of the card and added it to the oval cut using the Layering Ovals framelits.  Another oval to compliment it had the greeting from Rose Wonder - "For some things there are no words".  The bird in Basic Black is from Birds & Blooms Thinlits and I added a little Real Red behind it.

Rose Garden Time

Another popular set from the new catalogue is the Rose Garden Thinlits Dies which bundle with the Rose Wonder Stamp set and I have seen some amazing products created with them both.  Today I am sharing one which evolved from a little blip with my glue.  I used one of the DSP pages from It's My Party as the background and adhered a Basic Black rose, then I cut another in Whisper White and used the 'discard' pieces to fill in my black rose.  So after the blip, I decided to add glue to different sections of the flower and leaves and use my Gold Stampin' Glitter...  The greeting is from Sky is the Limit and stamped directly onto the DSP so it didn't overtake from the rose itself.