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THURSDAY MEANS THAT IT IS TIME FOR A 3D PROJECT

My 3D project today uses the Pocket Thoughts Dies to create a simple pocket that holds two hot chocolate sachets perfectly.

I started by cutting two Early Espresso pocket pieces using the largest of the dies.

After folding along the score lines, I added Tear & Tape on one of the panels. This panel was then adhered to the second, creating a little pocket sachet.

Before adding some decorative circles to the sachet, I wrapped a length of Crumb Cake twine from the Baker’s Twine Essentials Pack and tied it in a bow.

To decorate the front of the pocket sachet, I cut two circles using the Spotlight on Nature Dies. The paper was from the Neutrals 6″x 6″ Designer Series Paper Bundle.

The striped circle was adhered directly on the front of the sachet. Then, the ‘spotted’ circle was added using Stampin’ Dimensionals to pop it up off the striped circle below.

To decorate these circles, I stampedand die cut a takeaway hot drink cup. Before positioning this on the circle, using dimensionals, I stamped and cut the marshmallows and adhered them to the top of the cup.

I added Adhesive Sheet to the back of some Crumb Cake and Early Espresso card scraps. Then I was able to die cut the ‘Hot Cocoa’ words to add to the cup.

For ‘Hot’ I cut the word in both colours and overlapped them to create a shadow effect.

To finish the sacher I added two hot chocolate sleeves and a wooden spoon.

Tomorrow is Friday and I have a Fun Fold Card 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.

Product List
Paper Snips
[103579]
$21.00
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WELL, WHAT’S HAPPENING THIS WEDNESDAY?

Well, this Wednesday I have a lot to share with you!

Many of you may be aware that former Close To My Heart Makers have been able to transition into becoming demonstrators with Stampin’ Up!. With this, many CTMH products were incorporated into the product range managed by SU. At first, these were only available to former Makers, but now these products are more widely available, while stocks last.

There is a current CTMH product offer, while stocks last.

Let me show you the product release catalogues, since May this year. Click on each image to open the catalogue PDF.

I hope that you find some great products for your future crafting projects.

In other news, I wanted to share information about Stampin’ Up!s product release calendar. This may help you with your future planning and saving to order new products. As a Demonstrator, I know that I use this information to plan my purchases.

There are several product releases each year.

There are three CATALOGUES released each year – in January there is the first Mini Catalogue that runs until the end of May; the Annual Catalogue that runs from May to April of the following year; and, the September to end of December Mini Catalogue.

In 2025, a new Annual Scrapbooking Brochure will also be released.

Then, we have ONLINE EXCLUSIVES. These products are released online quite frequently – January, March, May, July, September and November. It is really worthwhile checking out the Online Store regularly.

PHEW – that was quite a lot to process. I will try to keep you up to speed each week so that you don’t miss anything.

TODAY

I have a super, easy card to share with you.

For this card I used the gorgeous little gingerbread man image and integrated it with the HUMBLE HOME BUNDLE and the MINI ALPHABET DIES.

I started with a Crumb Cake cardbase and an Early Espresso layer.

Then I stamped, cut and coloured lots of lttle gingerbread men.

After adding some Adhesive Sheet to a piece of Crumb Cake card, I used the Mini Alphabet Dies to cut all the letters needed for this card.

Then, I stamped and punched out three gingerbread houses.

The card was assembled, as you can see in the image above.

The card insert and envelope both had some little gingerbread men added to them.

This was such a quick and easy card to make.

Tomorrow, I have a 3D project 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.

Product List
Paper Snips
[103579]
$21.00
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TODAY IS TUESDAY & IT’S TIME FOR SOME TIPS AND TECHNIQUES

I shared a couple of tips yesterday and today I will share a few more.

The card I am sharing today isone that I made for last week’s Global Design Project.

I posted it to Instagram – you may have seen it there.

The card has 53 stamped and die cut apples and 30 stamped and die cut pumpkins.

TIP: To make cutting the apples and pumpkin a little more efficient I stamp multiple images. The next step is to die cut a guide for each shape. I secure the stamped images to my Mini Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine cutting plate – then I secure the die cut guide over a stamped image to ensure an even area around the image and finally, I placed the die within the guie and cut the stamped image.

TIP: I chose a 2 3/4″ circle die, from the Spotlight on Nature Dies, to lightly pencil a circle in the centre of my Basic White panel. Then I adhered the apples around the pencil mark in three concentric circles.

TIP: To create the pumpkin wreath, I cut a Vellum base using the same circle die that I used to trace and mark the shape for the apples.

To create the wreath I started by adhering the pumpkins around the outer edge of the vellum circle. Then I worked the next two overlapping layers and attached them with Stampin’ Dimensionals.

Before placing the wreath on the panel, I used Stampin’ Seal+ to secure some of the Copper Clay and Wild Wheat Jute Trim on the vellum. The jute lengths were untwisted to create a single ‘ply’ of the twine.

I added Dimensionals to the back of the vellum wreath base and positioned it in the centre of the Basic White panel.

Three pies were stamped, coloured and die cut. I secured them around the pumpkin wreath leaving space for a greeting.

After adding Adhesive Sheet to the back of some Crushed Curry card, I used the Mini Alphabet Dies to cut the greeting.The ‘pie filling’ was painted using Clear Wink of Stella.

I used a length of jute to tie a bow and then secured it with a Mini Glue dot.

Finally, the card insert and envelope had some pumpkins added.

Tomorrow, I have a gingerbread-inspired card 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.

Product List
Bone Folder
[102300]
$14.00
Paper Snips
[103579]
$21.00