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TODAY IS TUESDAY AND IT’S TIME FOR SOME TIPS & TECHNIQUES

As the title says, today I have a TIP to share with you.

For my card today I wanted to cut a Garden Green leafy frame and fill it with a cut piece of Designer Series Paper.

My first tip is to use ADHESIVE SHEETS because it makes it so much easier, and less sticky, than using Multipurpose Glue.

The first time I made this card I placed the leafy frame on the Lemon Lolly cardbase. BIG MISTAKE! When I tried to position the DSP piece inside the frame it would not ‘fit’ because the frame had shifted slightly.

Time to start again!

TIP: Place the die cut Designer Series Paper on the card front first. Then position the frame around it.

And, of course, using the Adhesive Sheets makes this so much easier.

I stamped the sentiment, from the Citrus Blooms stamp set, using Garden Green and then stamped the small diamonds image twice.

The greeting was then cut using one of the banner dies from the Stylish Shapes Dies. I trimmed the left hand end of the banner.

After adding a folded length of white Diagonal Trim, I placed Stampin’ Dimensionals behind the banner and added it to the card front.

I used the same DSP to finish the card insert and envelope. Then I coloured some Adhesive-backed Sequins, from the Trio pack, and finished the card.

I hope today’s tip helps with your future projects.

Drop back tomorrow for a new project.

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.

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IT’S MONDAY AND THAT MEANS IT IS TIME TO HIGHLIGHT SOME NEW STAMPIN’ UP! PRODUCTS

This week I have made new projects to share with you, using the MEDITTERANEAN BLOOMS SUITE COLLECTION.

My thoughts about this suite went to Italy! I remember when I was in Sorrento seeing the beautiful blues of the Meditteranean Sea, groves of citrus, aged olive trees and local Lemoncello brewers.

One of the amazing things about travelling is storing these memories and remembering them when we see, hear or smell something that triggers them. Sometimes those memories are recorded.

Today’s project is a memory keeping project.

When Rob and I travelled earlier this year, I took more than my usual share of photos. These scrapbooking pages feature some of the flowers I saw.

One day soon I hope that I learn how to take a straight photo of a scrapbook page.

For both of the scrap pages I used a 12″x 12″ Night of Navy card and added one of the designs from the Meditteranean Blloms Designer Series Paper. The paper was trimmed down to 11″x 11″.

The DSP design features small flowers which is perfect for these pages.

Each of the photos was cut using the Citrus Blooms Dies. For the centre photo, I cut the Basic White leafy frame and placed it over the photo using Adhesive Sheet.

The Mini Alphabet Dies were used to cut the title letters. I used adhesive sheets to secure the title.

Each of the photos have a small journalling tab attached, I used the Keeping Tabs punch and cut each in half and stapled them in place (yes, I still have my retired Stampin’ Up! stapler)

The final elements for each page were white flowers from the Petal Park Builder Punch.

The photos were all glued into place with the PHOTO SAFE Tombow Multipurpose Glue.

Tomorrow I have a simple technique 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.

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THIS SUNDAY BRINGS MY COUNTRY WOODS SUITE COLLECTION PROJECT SHARES TO A CLOSE

For almost the last two weeks I have been sharing the Country Woods Suite Collection projects, that I created for a recent Paper Angels Team Day, with you.

They have ranged from easier cards for newer crafters to more elaborate projects for the more expereinced and well equipped crafter. I have showcased this product collection and used other products to maximise creative opportunities to show what you can use this new collection with. There have been a variety of tips, techniques and fun folds on offer as well. I hope that you have enjoyed what I have shared and are now inspired to move on to your own creations.

Today I have a 12″x 12″ scrapbook page to share with you.

It incorporates four photographs – two from our recent visit to the US and two from the UK.

For this page I used multiple layers of card – a 12″x 12″ Basic White base and then receding layers of coloured card – Azure Afternoon, Smoky Slate, Azure Afternoon and Smoky Slate. Finally, I added a piece of paper from the Country Lace DSP collection.

This piece of DSP was a perfect match for the US beach scentes and the UK concrete in the photos.

I cut four 3 3/4″ panels in Basic White and Azure Afternoon and used the So Swirly 3D Embossing Folder to give them texture.

These embossed panels were adhered evenly on the page before the photos were added.

I used the Keeping Tabs Die/Punch to create each journalling tab to then add to each photograph.

I used the Beach Day Dies to cut the three surfboards I added to the page.

How much do you think this beach hut would cost to buy?

I printed the central sentiment using a typewriter style font and trimme dit down to add to my page.

This was such an awesome memory page to make because of the wonderful experiences we had.

Tomorrow, being Monday means, I will introduce a new collection of products to share with you.

Until then, happy stamping and scrapbooking.

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.

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