This week’s GDP #165 challenge is to make a project using the colours; Crumb Cake, Merry Merlot and Tranquil Tide. I have to say these aren’t colours I would normally gravitate towards but I really enjoyed using them. This is what I came up with.
Making the card
www.crafty-rootes.com – Half Full the Global Design Project #165 colour challenge
I chose the Half Full stamp set and stamped the bottles in the Merry Merlot and Tranquil Tide onto Very Vanilla cardstock and added a layer of Merry Merlot behind having rounded the upper right corners………love a rounded corner!
www.crafty-rootes.com – Half Full the Global Design Project #165 colour challenge
The sentiment was stamped in Versamark ink and heat embossed in White on Tranquil Tide. The whole piece was then added to a layer of Merry Merlot. I wrapped a piece of Braided Linen Twine to the stamped piece and tied a bow.
www.crafty-rootes.com – Half Full the Global Design Project #165 colour challenge
Cute card, hope you like it
If you don’t have a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator I would love to be yours! If you don’t have a catalogue and live in the UK please let me know and I will be delighted to send you one. To order any supplies click on the “shop online” button at the top of the page. Alternatively, contact me and I would be happy to place an order for you.
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I have been making a sweet Christmas card today using the lovely Winter Woods stamp set and the incredible White Frost Shimmer Paint.
Making the Winter Woods card
I took a piece of Whisper White cardstock measuring 4¼” by 3”. I inked up the row of trees image with Soft Suede ink then gently dabbed on some Frost White Shimmer Paint using a Sponge Dauber and stamped the image in the centre of the Whisper White panel.
www.crafty-rootes.com – A Shimmery Winter Woods Christmas Card
I mounted the stamped panel onto a piece of Shaded Spruce cardstock measuring 4½” by 3¼” using Multipurpose Liquid Adhesive.
www.crafty-rootes.com – A Shimmery Winter Woods Christmas Card
I added a strip of Tear and Tape diagonally across the front of a Thick Whisper White cardstock and added a 7” piece of Burlap Ribbon. The stamped panel was added over the top using Stampin’ Dimensionals.
www.crafty-rootes.com – A Shimmery Winter Woods Christmas Card
I stamped the sentiment in Shaded Spruce ink onto a ¼” strip of Whisper White cardstock and added it to the card front with Multipurpose Liquid Adhesive.
Such a simple card, hope you like it.
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Today I am CASEing a beautiful pastel card made by Louise Sharpe for the Global Design Project #164 challenge.
I loved the Buffalo Check background of Louise’s card so I kept it in my version but stamped mine in Mint Macaron, so happy to see this colour returning. I backed the checked panel with a layer of Early Espresso cardstock
www.crafty-rootes.com – Rooted in Nature for the Global Design Project #164
I stamped the gorgeous tree from the Rooted in Natures stamp set in Shaded Spruce and Early Espresso and die cut it using the Nature’s Roots Framelits. I added a rounded corner……..love a rounded corner!
www.crafty-rootes.com – Rooted in Nature for the Global Design Project #164
www.crafty-rootes.com – Rooted in Nature for the Global Design Project #164
I hope you like my interpretation of Louise’s lovely card
If you don’t have a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator and live in the UK I would love to be yours! If you don’t have a catalogue and live in the UK please let me know and I will be delighted to send you one. To order any supplies click on the “shop online” button at the top of the page. Alternatively, contact me and I would be happy to place an order for you.
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Today I am sharing the 3 projects made by the ladies during the November classes. We used the gorgeous Beautiful Baubles stamp set and coordinating Detailed Bauble dies. This month I thought I would shake things up a bit by starting with the most complicated card and ending up with the most straightforward card instead of the other way round.
Hanging Bauble card
We began by taking the Coastal Cabana card base and laying a panel of Whisper White measuring 5⅜” by 3⅜” on the front. We then placed the 2nd largest circle die from the Layering Circle Framelits onto the Whisper White panel and ran both layers through the Big Shot together to give us the window. We then ran the die cut Whisper White piece through the Big Shot with the Oh My Stars Embossing folder and set it aside..
www.crafty-rootes.com – Beautiful Baubles cards for November classes
Taking a die cut circle of Vellum and Sponge Daubers we sponged the centre with Coastal Cabana ink and added Gorgeous Grape around the edge and set the piece aside to dry. I had previously die cut 2 of the detailed baubles for each lady using the Detailed Bauble dies and Silver Foil Paper. These die cuts were placed face down onto the Silicon Craft, We squeezed a little Multipurpose Liquid Adhesive onto the sheet and picked it up with a small wedge of sponge and dabbed it all over both pieces. The coloured Vellum layer was the sandwiched between the 2 sticky layers and pressed together until the glue dried.
We threaded a small piece of ⅛” Whisper White Ribbon through the loop of the bauble and added it to the Coastal Cabana card front with Sellotape allowing the bauble to hang in the ‘window’. The embossed Whisper White layer was then added to the card front with multipurpose liquid adhesive, lining up the die cut window and hiding the ends of the ribbon. We coloured a longer piece of the same ribbon using the dark Highland Heather Blends pen and tied it in a bow before adding it to the top of the bauble with a Mini Glue Dot.
The sentiment from the Star of Light Stamp set was stamped in Gorgeous Grape onto a scrap of Whisper White. This was then added to a scrap of Gorgeous Grape cardstock and trimmed down. It was added Stampin’ Dimensionals to the card front and a scattering of Iridescent Sequins were added.
The inside Whisper White panel was added with the same adhesive after we had stamped some random stars in the upper right corner. We stamped the same stars on the front of a Whisper White Envelope.
Embossed Bauble
We began this card by swiping over a panel of Whisper White card stock measuring 5⅜” by 3⅜” using the Embossing Buddy. We then stamped the large bauble in the centre with Versamark ink. The string was added to the top of the bauble using Versark and the panel was then covered with Silver Embossing Powder. We then melted the embossing powder using the Heat Tool. Love this effect.
www.crafty-rootes.com – Beautiful Baubles cards for November classes
Taking the following Blends pens we then coloured parts of the bauble – Light & Dark Highland Heather, Light & Dark Bermuda Bay & Light & Dark Pool Party. The upper right hand panel of the layer was rounded using the Detailed Trio Punch. We also rounded the upper right corner of the card front and a Gorgeous Grape layer measuring 5½” by 3¾”. The embossed panel was glued to the Gorgeous Grape layer with Multipurpose liquid Adhesive.
A strip of Coastal Cabana cardstock, 5⅞” by 2” was added to the front of the Thick Whisper White card base and the embossed layer added with Stampin Dimensionals. The sentiment was stamped in Bermuda Bay ink onto a scrap of Whisper White which was cut down and added with Multipurpose Liquid Adhesive. The card was finished off with a scattering of Iridescent Sequins.
Row of Baubles
We stamped the tiny snowflakes randomly down the left hand edge of a Bermuda Bay card base using Bermuda Bay ink. The baubles were stamped in Basic Gray onto a panel of Whisper White measuring 4⅛” by 2½” and stamped the little snowflakes along the top of the panel.
www.crafty-rootes.com – Beautiful Baubles cards for November classe
Using a selection of Marker pens, Gorgeous Grape, Bermuda Bay, Highland Heather, Coastal Cabana and Pool Party, the ladies picked out some areas of the baubles to colour. A thin layer of Silver Foil was added to hide the top of the bauble strings and the panel was added to a layer of Gorgeous Grape cardstock 4⅛” by 2¾” and this was added to the card front on dimensionals.
The sentiment was stamped onto the card front with Gorgeous Grape ink and we tucked in strips of Highland Heather, Whisper White and Coastal Cabana cardstock under the raised panel and added the scatter of Iridescent Sequins.
www.crafty-rootes.com – Beautiful Baubles cards for November classes
If you don’t have a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator I would love to be yours! If you don’t have a catalogue and live in the UK please let me know and I will be delighted to send you one. To order any supplies click on the “shop online” button at the top of the page. Alternatively, contact me and I would be happy to place an order for you.
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Hello and welcome to November’s Stamp ‘N Hop blog hop. My name is Mo Rootes and I live near Cambridge in the UK. If you have hopped on from Karen Watts I am sure you enjoyed her project. This month we are CASEing (either copy and share everything or copy and selectively edit) the Annual Catalogue and I had such a hard job choosing a project to make. In the end I went for a sweet card using the Apron of Love stamp set on page 61 of the catalogue but changed it up a little.
Apron of Love card
www.crafty-rootes.com – Apron of Love for the November Stamp ‘n Hop Blog Hop
I started by stamping the apron image in Soft Sea Foam ink onto Soft Sea Foam cardstock and die cutting it using the Apron Builder dies. I also die cut the neck band, apron strings and pocket form the Soft Sea Foam cardstock. I adhered them together using Multipurpose Liquid Adhesive.
www.crafty-rootes.com – Apron of Love for the November Stamp ‘n Hop Blog Hop
I then stamped some of the smaller images from the set randomly across the front of a Thick Whisper White card base in Highland Heather ink, Flirty Flamingo ink and Coastal Cabana ink. I die cut the hearts in Flirty Flamingo cardstock, the scissors in Highland Heather cardstock and the sweet little bows in Coastal Cabana cardstock.
www.crafty-rootes.com – Apron of Love for the November Stamp ‘n Hop Blog Hop
I added the die cuts to the card front with Multipurpose liquid adhesive and added the apron over the top with Stampin’ Dimensionals
www.crafty-rootes.com – Apron of Love for the November Stamp ‘n Hop Blog Hop
I really like the soft colours of this card. I hope you like it. Please hop along to see what Cheryl Taylor has to share with us.
If you don’t have a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator I would love to be yours! If you don’t have a catalogue and live in the UK please let me know and I will be delighted to send you one. To order any supplies click on the “shop online” button at the top of the page. Alternatively, contact me and I would be happy to place an order for you.
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I posted a card using the amazing Beautiful Bauble stamp set back in October and decided to re-make it as a brightly coloured bauble card using non-traditional summery colours colours.
Re making the Beautiful Bauble card
I started with a panel of Watercolor Paper 4½” by 3”. I rubbed the Embossing Buddy over the paper to get rid of oils and static before stamping the large bauble randomly across the panel with Versamark ink. I then covered the panel in White Embossing Powder and heat set it using my Heat Tool.
www.crafty-rootes.com – Bright summery colours with the Beautiful Baubles stamp set
I chose to colour my baubles using Mango Melody and Melon Mango which were the colours used by Alisa Tilsner in the original blog post I saw. I added a couple of drops of each of the re-inkers to a clear block. I then added water to one bauble using an Aquapainter, picked up some of the re-inker with the Aquapainter and added it to the bauble. I love the way the ink moves in the water. I coloured each bauble one at a time.
www.crafty-rootes.com – Bright summery colours with the Beautiful Baubles stamp set
When all the baubles were coloured in I left the panel to dry before adding it with Multipurpose Liquid Adhesive to a layer of Melon Mambo cardstock measuring 4⅝” by 3⅛”. I took a Thick Whisper White card base and added a strip of Mango Melody cardstock measuring 4⅛” by 2” to the front using Multipurpose Liquid Adhesive. The embossed panel was added on Stampin’ Dimensionals.
www.crafty-rootes.com – Bright summery colours with the Beautiful Baubles stamp set
The sentiment was stamped in Versamark onto a strip of Melon Mambo cardstock and covered it with White Embossing Powder. I heat set it using my Heat tool before flagging the ends and adding it to the front of the card with Multipurpose Liquid Adhesive.
I really love this colour combo, the card looks gorgeous.
If you don’t have a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator I would love to be yours! If you don’t have a catalogue and live in the UK please let me know and I will be delighted to send you one. To order any supplies click on the “shop online” button at the top of the page. Alternatively, contact me and I would be happy to place an order for you.
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This is weekend I have been lucky enough to go to the twice yearly demonstrator only event called OnStage. It is such fun; we get to see the new Spring/Summer and Sale-a-Bration catalogues and to play with some new product. We also are treated to live demonstrations of new product and techniques and business tips. One of the best things about OnStage is the meeting up with hundreds of other demonstrators, sharing ideas and inspiration and SWAPPING. We love swapping; it is a great way to meet new people and come home with ideas and inspiration that can be shared with your team and customers.
OnStage Swaps
When we arrive at the venue we all walk around greeting old friends, saying hi to new people and swapping our makes with theirs. I chose to make card fronts as my swap this year and managed to put together 60 of them.
www.crafty-rootes.com – Lift Me Up stamp set and Up and Away dies for OnStage Swaps
I started with a strip of Whisper White cardstock 5⅜” by 3⅝”. I wanted to use bright summery colours for my swaps and chose Mango Melody and Lovely Lipstick and thought I would try a technique I had heard about. Taking a E acrylic block I pressed the Mango Melody to the bottom and Lovely Lipstick to the top and added a drop of glycerine to each colour. Using Stampin’ Sponges I added the Mango Melody to the bottom and the Lovely Lipstick to the top blending in the middle to give a richer orange. The glycerine was fantastic, the colour blended so much more smoothly and easily than usual. I added the inked panel to a layer of Mango Melody cardstock measuring 5½” by 3¾” having rounded the upper left corner.
I stamped the medium and small hot air balloon from the Lift Me Up stamp set onto Lovely Lipstick, Mango Melody, Granny Apple Green and Blueberry Bushel cardstock and die cut them using the Up & Away framelit dies. I also die cut a selection of clouds using the same die set.
I added 3 clouds to each card front with Multipurpose Liquid Adhesive. I added a small hot air balloon with Multipurpose Liquid Adhesive and a large and small hot air balloon with Stampin’ Dimensionals. I decided not to put a sentiment on the card.
www.crafty-rootes.com – Lift Me Up stamp set and Up and Away dies for OnStage Swaps
After making about 30 of these card fronts I switched up the colours to a more masculine look. I used Granny Apple Green and Blueberry Bushel to ink up the Whisper White panel and added these to a layer of either Granny Apple Green or Blueberry Bushel cardstock. The hot air balloons were stamped in the same colours.
www.crafty-rootes.com – Lift Me Up stamp set and Up and Away dies for OnStage Swaps
I am really happy with these card fronts, I hope the ladies I swapped with like them.
www.crafty-rootes.com – Lift Me Up stamp set and Up and Away dies for OnStage Swap
If you don’t have a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator I would love to be yours! If you don’t have a catalogue and live in the UK please let me know and I will be delighted to send you one. To order any supplies click on the “shop online” button at the top of the page. Alternatively, contact me and I would be happy to place an order for you.
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Yesterday was the 97th birthday of my lovely father-in-law and this is the card I made him using the half full stamp set. He loves a glass or two of red wine, preferably Shiraz but anything red will do so this stamp set was perfect.
Making the Half Full card
I started with a piece of Whisper White cardstock measuring 5⅞” by 3¼”. I stamped the wine bottle in Momento Tuxedo Black ink randomly over the cardstock and added a couple of wine glasses.
www.crafty-rootes.com – Half Full stamp set by Stampin’ Up! for a masculine card
Using the following Blends pens I coloured in all the images: Light & Dark Old Olive, Light & Dark Cherry Cobbler, Light & Dark Crumb Cake.
www.crafty-rootes.com – Half Full stamp set by Stampin’ Up! for a masculine card
Using Multipurpose Liquid Adhesive I added a ½” strip of Gold Foil Paper to the right side of the stamped piece and added it with the same glue to a Merry Merlot card base.
www.crafty-rootes.com – Half Full stamp set by Stampin’ Up! for a masculine card
I stamped the sentiment in Merry Merlot onto a scrap of Whisper White cardstock and added a strip of Gold Foil to the top and bottom with Multipurpose Liquid Adhesive. The sentiment piece was then added to the card front on Stampin’ Dimensionals.
Unfortunately he ended up in hospital last week having collapsed at home. He had a pacemaker put in earlier this week and is now getting back on his feet and doing well.
I am really happy with this card, hope you like it.
If you don’t have a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator I would love to be yours! If you don’t have a catalogue and live in the UK please let me know and I will be delighted to send you one. To order any supplies click on the “shop online” button at the top of the page. Alternatively, contact me and I would be happy to place an order for you.
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I saw a Youtube video recently by a demonstrator called Tina Zinck, she did a great watercolour technique using the Sheltering Tree stamp set and I couldn’t wait to try it.
Making the Sheltering Tree card
www.crafty-rootes.com – Sheltering Tree thank you card using Stampin’ Up! product
I began by taking a piece of Whisper White cardstock measuring 5¼” by 3½”. I took a D sized clear block and pressed the Mango Melody ink pad onto half of the block to get a good covering of ink. I did the same to the other side of the block using Lovely Lipstick ink. Using a Stampin’ Spritzer I misted the inked up block with water and placed the wet block onto the Whisper White panel and left it for a couple of minutes for the ink to transfer.
www.crafty-rootes.com – Sheltering Tree thank you card using Stampin’ Up! product
The panel needs to dry before you can do anything else. I just set it to the side and left it but you can use your heat tool to speed the drying up. When it was completely dry I inked up the bare tree image from the Sheltering Tree stamp set with Early Espresso ink and stamped it to the left of the inked square. I also added the bird image from the High Tide stamp set in the Early Espresso ink to the top of the image.
www.crafty-rootes.com – Sheltering Tree thank you card using Stampin’ Up! product
From the Layering Squares die set I chose a square die slightly smaller than the inked square and die cut it out with my Big Shot. I stamped the sentiment from the Petal Palette stamp set in Mango Melody ink.
www.crafty-rootes.com – Sheltering Tree thank you card using Stampin’ Up! product
I layered the Whisper White panel onto a piece of Lovely Lipstick cardstock measuring 5½” by 3¾” using Multipurpose Liquid Adhesive. I added the whole piece to a Mango Melody card base using the same glue. I took the die cut square and placed it in the centre of the negative space with Stampin’ Dimensionals. For the inside I took a panel of Whisper White cardstock 5⅜” by 3⅝” and stamped the tree on the bottom right corner and added it with the Multipurpose Liquid Adhesive.
www.crafty-rootes.com – Sheltering Tree thank you card using Stampin’ Up! product
This was my first attempt at this card. I didn’t get the inked block wet enough as you can see.
If you don’t have a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator I would love to be yours! If you don’t have a catalogue and live in the UK please let me know and I will be delighted to send you one. To order any supplies click on the “shop online” button at the top of the page. Alternatively, contact me and I would be happy to place an order for you.
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Details of the products I used for this project can be found below.
Today I am sharing the projects made by the ladies who came to my Christmas themed adult education all day event today. I had 5 tables set up and the ladies moved around from table to table making all 8 cards and 8 tags and the cute box to hold them all.
Table 1 – Rooted in Nature
www.crafty-rootes.com -Rooted in Nature cards for a Christmas Project class
www.crafty-rootes.com -Rooted in Nature cards for a Christmas Project class
Table 2 – Cookie Cutter Christmas
www.crafty-rootes.com -Cookie Cutter cards for a Christmas Project class
www.crafty-rootes.com -Cookie Cutter cards for a Christmas Project class
Table 3 – Seasonal Chums
www.crafty-rootes.com – Seasonal Chums cards for a Christmas Project class
www.crafty-rootes.com – Seasonal Chums cards for a Christmas Project class
Table 4 – Painted Harvest
www.crafty-rootes.com – Painted Harvest cards for a Christmas Project class
www.crafty-rootes.com – Painted Harvest tags for a Christmas Project class
Table 5 – Half Full box
www.crafty-rootes.com – Half Full box for a Christmas Project class
www.crafty-rootes.com – Half Full box for a Christmas Project class
The ladies and I really enjoyed our crafty day. I hope you like the projects.
www.crafty-rootes.com – Box of cards and tags for a Christmas Project class
If you don’t have a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator I would love to be yours! If you don’t have a catalogue and live in the UK please let me know and I will be delighted to send you one. To order any supplies click on the “shop online” button at the top of the page. Alternatively, contact me and I would be happy to place an order for you.
Thanks for visiting my blog today, I love to read what you think of my projects so please do let me know. In line with new Data Protection Legislation (GDPR), by commenting you do so in the knowledge that your name & comment are visible to all who visit this blog and you thereby consent to the use of that personal information for that specific purpose. Please stop by again soon.
Details of the products I used for this project can be found below.
Mo x
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