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AMAZING

Hello to each of you amazing crafters who pop by to see what I have been up to.

I hope that you will leave a comment to let me know where you are from and what you think of each project.

Today’s project is an ‘amazing’ black and white card.

I discovered a wonderful ‘little’ die in the Cloche Dies bundle and knew immediately what I wanted to use it for. The Black Glitter Paper was perfect for this card. After I attached a piece of Adhesive Sheet to the back of some glitter paper, I cut several of the pieces – as you can see. I marked some centre lines, lightly in pencil, to guide where to place the pieces evenly from the centre outward. This has achieved an amazing sense of curved movement across the front of the card.

I attached these pieces to Shimmery White cardstock to ensure a continuity of ‘bling’. The centre front panel was adhered to a panel of Black Glitter Paper and then onto the card base.

The sentiment, from the Create with Friends Stamp Set, was stamped in Versamark with Black Embossong Powder sprinkled over it. After heating the embossing powder, I fussy cut the sentiment. A few cut down Stampin’ Dimensionals ensured it could be popped up for some added height.

I decided not to add anything else to this card – I think this enough. Your thoughts?

The card insert and envelope also have the die cut piece attached.

Less is more, is often a wise approach. This card is rich without being too complex.

I would love you to share your thoughts. Who would you send this 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.

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. As soon as product images go live, I will create this section.

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Heat Tool
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$50.00
Paper Snips
[103579]
$17.00
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COLOUR INKSPIRATION #102

Hello and welcome. Thanks for popping by to see my latest project.

Today, I’m sharing a project I made for the latest Colour INKspiration Challenge. This is such a great photo of the galahs.

May be an image of bird and text that says '#102 / SPIRATION CHALLENGES Polished Pink Smokey Slate Basic Gray'

The card I made features the Henna Hearts Stamp Set along with the 2021-2023 In Colour Shimmer Vellum.

I started by stamping the heart image using my Stamparatus to space and position them evenly. The panel was trimmed down to fit the card front. The Basic Gray paenl was embossed with the Tasteful Textile 3D Embossing Folder. Then I used the Painted Texure 3D Embossing Folder to add texture to the Smoky Slate cardstock and Polished Pink Shimmer Vellum. I used the Triple Banner Punch to notch one end of the strip of embossed Gray Granite. These panels were then layered onto the embossed Basic Gray layer.

After the layers were secured, I wrapped and secured some Smoky Slate Textured Ribbon around this piece. Then I adhered this piece to the cardbase. I attached the hearts panel using Stampin’ Dimensionals. The sentiments are from the Create with Friends Stamp Set. The ‘love’ was fussy cut and the other two words were trimmed. They were each placed on the card front with dimensionals to pop them up.

I’m getting a little better at fussy cutting around words! I like the way all these textured elements look together. Even the heart image appears to have texture.

I was surprised to realise that I haven’t used my Triple Banner Punch in quite a while! It is ever so easy to overlook some of my crafting supplies but always wonderful to ‘rediscover’ them. Do you find you do the same thing?

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
[103579]
$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.

Product List
Paper Snips
[103579]
$17.00