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HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Hello! Thanks for popping by today. I am so pleased that you are here.

Today I wanted to share a Birthday card that I have made. It features the Pattern Party 12″x 12″ Designer Series Paper, that is one of the Stampin’ Rewards products in the 2021-2022 Annual Catalogue.

As you can see, I am also featuring the Stitched Rectagles Dies. I carefully positiond the die so that each piece would look almost identical. Working from the centre out, each triangle was glued onto a piece of Granny Apple Green cardstock, with spaces in between. One of the striped triangles was cut in half for each end. The Granny Apple Green piece was attached to a slightly wider piece of Coastal Cabana card.

Using one of the Basic Borders Dies, I cut two lengths of Basic White cardstock and adhered them behind the Coastal Cabana. These layers were then popped up onto a Flirty Flamingo card base using lots of Stampin’ Dimensionals.

The birthday greeting is from the Artistically Inked Stamp Set and it was cut using the banner die from the Hybrid Bloom Dies. The card insert and envelope had a half triangle attached before Coastal Cabana Playing with Patterns Resin Dots were added.

I used three different sets of dies for this card. This card is all about the DSP and the shapes that have been cut. These two designs, from the huge 48 sheet bundle of DSP, are so gorgeous.

These is only one stamp used, once. My fingers didn’t get very inky with this project.

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.

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BIRTHDAY FLOWERS

Hello and welcome to my Wednesday post. Thank you for popping by – whether you’re a first time visitor or have been by before, I am so pleased that you are here.

For this project, I combined the All Squared Away Bundle with the Checks & Dots Embossing Folders, as well as some other new products.

I started by cutting three of the four floral dies in Basic White cardstock. Then I used a Blending Brush to apply some Granny Apple Green ink across each of the squares. I adhered these three squares to the left-hand side of the Basic Black card base.

The next step was to measure the remaining space on the card front. I cut a piece of Pumpkin Pie card stock to those measurements and added texture by using the Checks embossing folder. Then I used one of the Basic Border Dies to cut card, as you can see on the image. Cutting the flower shapes to position over the top of each square was my next task. My favourite flower shape is the one I cut using Real Red cardstock.

The birthday greeting, from the All Squared Away Stamp Set, was stamped in Pumpkin Pie and cut using the Stitched Rectangles Dies. I love knowing that I can create square shapes using the Stitched Rectangles Dies.

I have been using lengths of textured wallpaper for my photo backgrounds for a while now; but, I think it’s time I found some more professional backgrounds. Add that to my list of things to do. I hope to have something new soon.

This card is an interesting combination of curved, straight and angled lines; as well as vivid colours.

What do you think? I would love to hear from you.

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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Paper Snips
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$17.00
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HAPPY 100th COLOUR INKSPIRATION

Hello and thank you so much for popping by today.

Today is all about celebrating Colour INKspiration’s 100th challenge. I have only been participating in these colour challenges for a short period of time and recently enjoyed looking back over all 100 challenges. Thank you to Bronwyn Eastley and the CI team for providing all of these colour combinations to inspire our creativity, since January 11, 2017 . You can see all 100 colour combinations just by clicking on the #100 image.

This the colour combination for #CI100.

May be an image of flower and text that says '#100 kATON COLOUR SPIRATION CHALLENGES Gorgeous Grape Magenta Madness Bermuda BermudaBay Bay'

Here is the card I created.

I used the zig zag die from the new Basic Borders Dies to cut a number of coloured strips of cardstock. Once cut, I then adhered them to a piece of Basic White cardstock. This was then embossed using the new Pretty Flowers Embossing Folder. The embossed cardstock was then trimmed down to be used as a card front layer.

Using a greeting from the Create With Friends Stamp Set, the ‘celebrate’ was stamped three times – once each each in the three challenge colours. ‘Celebrate’ was the perfect greeting to choose for this 100th challenge celebration. The greetings were cut using one of the Stitched Rectangle Dies before being stacked and a small hole punched, to accommodate a brad from the Round & Square Brads. The greetings were fanned out and secured using a Mini Glue Dot on each layer. The layered greeting was then popped up onto the card front using Stampin’ Dimensionals.

A strip of the embossed coloured cardstock was added to the card insert and some die offcuts were added to the card front.

The final touch was to add some 2020-2022 In Colour Square Gems to the card front. I really like that so many of the different dies are stitched, making them so easy to coordinate.

This is such a wonderfully vibrant colour combination and a perfect way to celebrate 100 Colour INKspiration challenges.

Happy stamping … and many more challenges to keep us inspired.

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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Paper Snips
[103579]
$17.00