Cards of All Shapes and Sizes, Let's Get Hopping Blog Hop

Today the Let's Get Hopping crew are sharing cards of all different shapes and sizes!

There are some occasions that call for an extra special project - something a bit different than our usual A6 card design.  Milestone Birthdays definitely fall in this category!  This week my beautiful Mum celebrates her 60th birthday and so I made this double z-fold card just for her.

A big thank you to Natalie from Stamp Witch Blog.  I was grateful for her template.  I adjusted the size to make my square a bit bigger than Natalie's original design, but having her template to work off made the whole process so simple!

The colour scheme was inspired by my friend Cindy Schuster.  I found a piece of gorgeous retired Watercolor Wonder designer series patterned paper in my stash.  Its soft florals are a close match to the pretty Petal Pink, which I found to be a great tone-on-tone tie in with the Cajun in this palette.

Thank you for stopping by to check out my card today!  Click the 'next' link below to see what unusual sized card my crafty friend Teresa has to share today!

Supplies Used (*denotes retired item)
Stamps: Number of Years*, Picture Perfect Birthday
Card: Whisper White, Petal Pink, So Saffron, Gray Granite
Paper: Watercolor Wonder Designer Series Paper*, Natures Poem Designer Series Paper 
Ink: VersaMark, Daffodil Delight, Gray Granite
Accessories & Tools: Stitched Labels Framelits, Heat Tool, White Emboss Powder, Stitched Shapes Framelits, White Bakers Twine
Adhesives: SNAIL or double sided tape, Fine Tip Glue Pen, Stampin' Dimensionals (Mini)


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Cards of All Shapes and Sizes, Let's Get Hopping Blog Hop

September 6, 2018

Card Kit Challenge- June 2014

I was drawn to the pretty Watercolour Wonder designer series papers the second I saw them in the current Occasions catalogue. This month's competition saw participants glam up these soft tones with gold sequin trim. Please pop over to my facebook page and let me know which design is your favourite with a "vote"! Voting closes Friday 27th at 8pm (Australian Eastern Standard time).

For me, this lovely quiet palette struck me a perfect for a baby card.  I've used a sentiment from the 'That's the Ticket' Stamp set and added a decorative ticket beneath for layering.  The sequins are given the appearance of being pegged on the page with a gold clothes pin from SU's Metallic Mini set.  The adorable little bunny is from the "Baby, We've Grown" set.

Want to join us for the next challenge?  Contact me to register your interest in participating. And please - don't forget to cast your vote.

Card Kit Challenge- June 2014

June 26, 2014

Tag a Bag Mother's Day

This stunning pattern from the Watercolour Wonder Designer Series Papers requires very little embellishment.  I featured the sentiment from the Delightful Dozen Stamp set on a banner of coordinating Smoky Slate grey card stock.  I was initially going to heat emboss the sentiment in white directly onto the grey but my children had just gone to bed and I didn't want to risk disturbing them with my heat tool, so I added a layer of vellum to the banner and stamped in StazOn Opaque White instead.  The effect is softer but works in this project.  

I then finished the card with a small embellishment - this little butterfly from the Papillion Potpourri set, stamped on the same DSP to ensure a colour match with the roses, and then punch cut and adhered over a little loop of twine to the banner.

What Mum doesn't love a homemade breakfast on Mother's Day?!  Part of my gift to my Mum was some homemade sugar-free Granola (an 'I Quit Sugar' recipe by Sarah Wilson, http://iquitsugar.com/recipe/coco-nutty-granola/).  Hidden away on page 158 of the current Stampin' Up! Catalogue are some little gift boxes. One of these made the perfect package for my little gift.  I only had a short window of time to decorate - lucky that was all that was needed!

I stamped directly onto the acetate sleeve with the "Fabulous is what you are" sentiment.  I wanted to add an embellishment to tie in with the card, so I put on same butterflies and a little vellum in the form of die cut leaves from the Secret Garden framelits collection.

Some members of the Creation Station design team showcased different uses for these Tag-a-Bag gift boxes in last week's blog hop.  To see their creations please visit here.  

Thanks for stopping by!

Tag a Bag Mother's Day

May 11, 2014

Easter Chocolate Blocks

For Easter this year we gifted our family and friends with a block of their favourite Cadbury chocolate.  Of course, I couldn't help but create a special package to pop them in!

These gift boxes featured imagery from the Eggstra Spectacular Stamp set, currently available in the Occasions Catalogue.

What made these boxes extra special was the 'slider' - the ribbon wrapped around the entire chocolate block on the inside of the box so you could smoothly slide it in and out of its pretty package.

What I found really satisfying about these creations (aside from the very impressed family members) was that I'd managed to do some up-cycling!  A friend of mine gave me a bunch of old office file folders that were otherwise destined for the bin and I've been holding on to them for a little while, waiting for the perfect project to allow me to use them.

They are very close to Stampin' Up!'s Island Indigo in colour and so I matched them up with some of the pretty patterned paper from the Watercolour Wonder DSP from the current Occasions catalogue.

When I ran out of the yellow ribbon, I pulled out the orange and changed the featured patterned paper to a pretty one from last year's Sale-a-bration set that coordinated well.

These were heaps of fun to make and received so much positive feedback I think I'd like to feature a variation in an upcoming class!

Easter Chocolate Blocks

April 21, 2014