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The Celebrate Sunflower stamp set and Sunflower Dies by Stampin' Up! used to make an Autumn themed card for the Stamping Dreams Blog Hop

Autumn Sunflower for the Stamping With Dreams Blog Hop

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Hello and welcome to the Stamping Dreams Blog Hop where we are sharing Autumn themed projects. I have used the Celebrate Sunflowers stamp set to make my card.

Colours used in this project are:

 

To recreate the Autumn sunflower card, you will need:

Soft Succulent card base – 8¼” by 5⅞” scored and folded at 4⅛” – Rounded lower left corner
Basic Black card – 5⅜” by 3⅝” – Rounded lower left corner
Basic White card – 5¼” by 3½” – Rounded lower left corner
Basic White card – 5½” by 3¾” for the inside – Rounded lower left corner
Scrap Basic White & Basic Black card

 

I placed one of the Artistic Mix Decorative Masks onto the 5¼” by 3½” panel of Basic White card and used a Blending Brush to add So Saffron ink to the panel. Looks like I used the brush with a orange colour before as the background has a touch of peach colour! The inked panel was added to the Basic Black layer with Multipurpose Liquid Adhesive.

 

The Celebrate Sunflower stamp set and Sunflower Dies by Stampin' Up! used to make an Autumn themed card for the Stamping Dreams Blog Hop

www.crafty-rootes.co.uk – A gorgeous Autumn sunflower themed card made using the Celebrate Sunflowers stamp set and Sunflower Dies for the Stamping Dreams Blog Hop

A length of Gingham Ribbon was wrapped around the panel and secured it on the back with Sellotape. The panel was then added to the Soft Succulent card base with the same liquid glue.

 

The Celebrate Sunflower stamp set and Sunflower Dies by Stampin' Up! used to make an Autumn themed card for the Stamping Dreams Blog Hop

www.crafty-rootes.co.uk – A gorgeous Autumn sunflower themed card made using the Celebrate Sunflowers stamp set and Sunflower Dies for the Stamping Dreams Blog Hop

I stamped the large sunflower and 3 large leaves onto scrap Basic White card with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and coloured the images in with the following Blends Alcohol Pens – So Saffron, Daffodil Delight, Soft Succulent & Soft Suede.

 

The Celebrate Sunflower stamp set and Sunflower Dies by Stampin' Up! used to make an Autumn themed card for the Stamping Dreams Blog Hop

www.crafty-rootes.co.uk – A gorgeous Autumn sunflower themed card made using the Celebrate Sunflowers stamp set and Sunflower Dies for the Stamping Dreams Blog Hop

The large sunflower was then die cut using my Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine and the Sunflower Dies. The leaves were fussy cut then added behind the flower using a little Seal +. The image was then added to the card front on Dimensionals.

 

The Celebrate Sunflower stamp set and Sunflower Dies by Stampin' Up! used to make an Autumn themed card for the Stamping Dreams Blog Hop

www.crafty-rootes.co.uk – A gorgeous Autumn sunflower themed card made using the Celebrate Sunflowers stamp set and Sunflower Dies for the Stamping Dreams Blog Hop

The sentiment, from the Art Gallery stamp set was stamped onto a scrap of Basic Black card, after I had used the Embossing Buddy, in Versamark ink. I covered it with White Embossing Powder and set it using my Heat Tool. I trimmed it down and added it to the card front.

 

The Celebrate Sunflower stamp set and Sunflower Dies by Stampin' Up! used to make an Autumn themed card for the Stamping Dreams Blog Hop

www.crafty-rootes.co.uk – A gorgeous Autumn sunflower themed card made using the Celebrate Sunflowers stamp set and Sunflower Dies for the Stamping Dreams Blog Hop

A gingham bow and Black Matte Dots completed the card. I hope you like it.

Please continue around the hop as I know my crafty friends have lots of inspiration to share with you.


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Details of the products I used for this project can be found below.

Mo x

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The Plenty of Patterns Masks and Dog Punch by Stampin' Up! used to make a pretty kissing dogs congratulations card for the Share It Sunday Blog Hop

Kissing Dogs for the Share It Sunday Blog Hop

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Hello and welcome to the Share It Sunday Blog Hop where we are sharing something we have been working on. I am sharing a kissing dogs; congratulations card made using the Dog Builder Punch and the Plenty of Patterns Masks.

Colours used in this card are:

 

To recreate the kissing dogs’ card, you will need:

Poppy Parade card base – 8 ¼” by 5⅝” scored at 4⅛” – rounded left upper corner
Basic Black card – 5½” by 3¾” – rounded left upper corner
Basic White card – 5⅜” by 3⅝” – rounded left upper corner
Basic White card – 5½” by 3¾” – rounded left upper corner – for the inside
Scrap Soft Suede, Basic Black & Poppy Parade

 

I chose one of the masks from the Plenty of Patterns mask pack, placed it on top of the smaller Basic White panel and added ink using Blending Brushes. I started with Blushing Bride, then added Calypso Coral and finished with Poppy Parade. The mask was then removed.

 

The Plenty of Patterns Masks and Dog Punch by Stampin' Up! used to make a pretty kissing dogs congratulations card for the Share It Sunday Blog Hop

www.crafty-rootes.co.uk – A sweet kissing dogs card made using the Plenty of Pattern Masks and the dog punch for the Share It Sunday Blog Hop

The inked panel was then added to the Basic Black layer using Multipurpose Liquid Adhesive. I used the same adhesive to glue the panel to the Poppy Parade card base.

 

The Plenty of Patterns Masks and Dog Punch by Stampin' Up! used to make a pretty kissing dogs congratulations card for the Share It Sunday Blog Hop

www.crafty-rootes.co.uk – A sweet kissing dogs card made using the Plenty of Pattern Masks and the dog punch for the Share It Sunday Blog Hop

I punched a dog from scrap Soft Suede card and another from Basic Black card and added the collars, cut from scrap card, with the same liquid glue. The dogs were added to the card front on Dimensionals.

 

The Plenty of Patterns Masks and Dog Punch by Stampin' Up! used to make a pretty kissing dogs congratulations card for the Share It Sunday Blog Hop

www.crafty-rootes.co.uk – A sweet kissing dogs card made using the Plenty of Pattern Masks and the dog punch for the Share It Sunday Blog Hop

The sentiment was stamped in Versamark ink onto scrap Basic Black card, covered with White Embossing Powder and heat set using a Heat Tool. I flagged the ends and added it to the card front with glue.

 

The Plenty of Patterns Masks and Dog Punch by Stampin' Up! used to make a pretty kissing dogs congratulations card for the Share It Sunday Blog Hop

www.crafty-rootes.co.uk – A sweet kissing dogs card made using the Plenty of Pattern Masks and the dog punch for the Share It Sunday Blog Hop

To finish the card I punched the heart, using the Dog Punch, and added it with a Dimensional. A Red Rhinestone was added to the heart.

 

The Plenty of Patterns Masks and Dog Punch by Stampin' Up! used to make a pretty kissing dogs congratulations card for the Share It Sunday Blog Hop

www.crafty-rootes.co.uk – A sweet kissing dogs card made using the Plenty of Pattern Masks and the dog punch for the Share It Sunday Blog Hop

This card was made for some dog loving friends who have just got engaged. I hope they like it.

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Details of the products I used for this project can be found below.

Mo x

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The Basic Patterns Masks and Poinsettia Dies by Stampin' Up! used to make a pretty golden poinsettia Christmas card

Golden Poinsettia Christmas card

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I am sharing a pretty golden poinsettia Christmas card today and made using the Basic Patterns Decorative Masks and the Poinsettia Dies.

Colours used in this project are:

To recreate the golden poinsettia card, you will need:

Basic Black card base – 8¼” by 5⅞” scored at 4⅛”
Bumblebee card – 5⅜” by 3⅝”
Basic White card – 5¼” by 3½”
Basic White card – 5½” by 3¾”
Gold Shimmer paper – 8¼” by 3¼”

The Basic Patterns Masks and Poinsettia Dies by Stampin' Up! used to make a pretty golden poinsettia Christmas card

www.crafty-rootes.com – A pretty gold poinsettia themed Christmas card made using the Poinsettia Dies and the Basic Patterns Masks

For this card I used the Basic Patterns Decorative Masks to emboss the pattern onto the smaller panel of Basic White card. I used the Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine, the Base plate followed by a Clear acrylic plate. I then added my Silicon Mat, placed the Basic White card on top then the decorative mask and finally the Gray 3D Embossing Plate.

 

The Basic Patterns Masks and Poinsettia Dies by Stampin' Up! used to make a pretty golden poinsettia Christmas card

www.crafty-rootes.com – A pretty gold poinsettia themed Christmas card made using the Poinsettia Dies and the Basic Patterns Masks

The embossed panel was then added to the layer of Bumblebee cardstock with Multicoloured Liquid Adhesive. The panel was added to the Basic Black card front using the same glue.

 

The Basic Patterns Masks and Poinsettia Dies by Stampin' Up! used to make a pretty golden poinsettia Christmas card

www.crafty-rootes.com – A pretty gold poinsettia themed Christmas card made using the Poinsettia Dies and the Basic Patterns Masks

I die cut the 3 layers of poinsettia petals from the Gold Shimmer paper using the Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine and the Poinsettia Dies.

 

The Basic Patterns Masks and Poinsettia Dies by Stampin' Up! used to make a pretty golden poinsettia Christmas card

www.crafty-rootes.com – A pretty gold poinsettia themed Christmas card made using the Poinsettia Dies and the Basic Patterns Masks

The poinsettia layers were adhered together with Mini Glue Dots, each layer offset to the next. I added a trio of Black Matte Dots to the centre of the flower. The flower was then added with a Glue Dot to the card front.

 

The Basic Patterns Masks and Poinsettia Dies by Stampin' Up! used to make a pretty golden poinsettia Christmas card

www.crafty-rootes.com – A pretty gold poinsettia themed Christmas card made using the Poinsettia Dies and the Basic Patterns Masks

I stamped the greeting in Memento Tuxedo Black ink onto scrap Basic White card and trimmed it out using Scissors. It was added to the card front with liquid glue.

 

The Basic Patterns Masks and Poinsettia Dies by Stampin' Up! used to make a pretty golden poinsettia Christmas card

www.crafty-rootes.com – A pretty gold poinsettia themed Christmas card made using the Poinsettia Dies and the Basic Patterns Masks

To complete the card, I added a trio of Wonderful Gems.

Pretty card, I hope you like it.

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Details of the products I used for this project can be found below.

Mo x

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Doily Builder Swaps for OnStage

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Today I am sharing the swaps I made using the gorgeous Doily Builder dies for this weekend’s OnStage event in Telford. This is a demonstrator only event where we get to meet friends, see new product, play with new stuff and generally have a lot of fun.

Making the Doily Builder card swap

Swaps for OnStage made using the gorgeous Doily Builder dies by Stampin' Up!

www.crafty-rootes.com – A glorious Spring coloured card front using the Doily Builder dies by Stampin’ Up!

You will need;
Window Sheet 5⅜” by 3⅝”
Whisper White cardstock 5⅛” by 3½” – Rounded upper right corner
Either Coastal Cabana, Flirty Flamingo or So Saffron cardstock 5⅜” by 3⅝” – Rounded upper right corner
Scraps of Coastal Cabana, Flirty Flamingo, So Saffron cardstock, Whisper White & Gray Granite cardstock for die cutting and punching

I began by cutting the large doily into the Window sheet using my Big Shot. This gave me a sturdy stencil that could be used multiple times over.

I placed the mask onto the Whisper White panel, holding it in place with my finger. I inked up the stencil using So Saffron, Flirty Flamingo and Coastal Cabana inks in random orders. I moved the stencil and repeated again using the colours randomly.

I stamped the sentiment in Gray Granite ink onto scrap Whisper White and punched it out using the Classic Label punch. This was added to the stamped panel on Dimensionals.

You will need; Window Sheet 5⅜” by 3⅝” Whisper White cardstock 5⅛” by 3½” - Rounded upper right corner Either Coastal Cabana, Flirty Flamingo or So Saffron cardstock 5⅜” by 3⅝” - Rounded upper right corner Scraps of Coastal Cabana, Flirty Flamingo, So Saffron cardstock, Whisper White & Gray Granite cardstock for die cutting and punching

www.crafty-rootes.com – A glorious Spring coloured card front using the Doily Builder dies by Stampin’ Up!

I die cut the medium and small doilies using the same three colours and added one small and one medium doily to the stamped panel using Mini Glue Dots.

The Gray Granite butterfly was punched out using the Butterfly Duet punch and this was added to the stamped panel with a Mini Glue Dot. The panel was then added to a panel of Coastal Cabana, Flirty Flamingo or So Saffron cardstock and a trio of Iridescent Sequins added to complete the card front.

I really liked the combination of Spring like colours. Ihope 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.

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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Unused Colour Challenge

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So, yesterday I was at my upline Mikaela Titheridge’s (http://thecraftyoinkpen.blogspot.co.uk/) house with fellow team member Susan Merrey (http://craftyduckydoodah.blogspot.co.uk/) and the conversation got around to what are our least used Stampin Up! colours. It turns out we all had 3 or 4 colours that we rarely, if ever use. It is just so easy to reach for your favourite colours and colour combinations when designing a project.

The upshot of the conversation is that Mikaela has challenged the team to name our 4 least used colours and to design a project using at least 3 of them. Got to say I love a challenge…….. so, here goes….

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Stampin Up! inkpads

My least used colours are Chocolate Chip (there were cries of horror from Susan when I announced this one), Always Artichoke, Rich Razzleberry, I like the colour but can never seem to combine it successfully with anything else.  And lastly, Pumpkin Pie, I struggle with oranges in general and could just as easily have picked Tangerine Tango or Tangelo Twist, except, I don’t have either of those … says it all really.

My first thought was to use the Gorgeous Grunge stamp set, but on reflection I thought this was a bit of a cop out. I decided I would up the anti by also choosing to use Very Vanilla cardstock and the Happy Patterns stencil pack. I have used both the cardstock and the stencils twice since I bought them and I thought they might work with this colour combo. I also decided to use all 4 of the colours I had selected for the challenge.

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I got out some sponge daubers, chose the dotted line stencil pattern and set too. I decided to use a sentiment from the Perfect Pairings stamp set, one of the Sale-A-Bration options which I have not yet used and the Lots of Labels dies, again, I bought these a while ago and haven’t used them. I was so happy with the result; bizarrely the colours seemed to work well together and gave the card quite a masculine look. I added a small amount of the Metallic Gold Thread and some Candy Dots to give the card a bit of texture and called it done.

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I decided to try another stencil from the same pack, there are 4 altogether. The sentiment is from Perfect Pairings and I added a small piece of Gold Glitter Tape, another Sale-A-Bration option and used the Banner triple Punch to flag the end of the sentiment.

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I have to say, I really like both of the cards and all of the colours I used. What a revelation. I also loved the stencils which were so quick and easy to use.

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Hope you like the projects and maybe you could try the challenge for yourself. Let me know how you get on.

Don’t forget Sale-A-Bration ends on the 31St March, so if you would like the Perfect Pairings stamp set or the Glitter tape, or indeed any of the other items go to my online shop at http://www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/crafty-rootes and hit the ‘shop now’ button. You can pick one free item for every £45 you spend.

Looking forward to seeing you again.

Mo x