Papercraft by Jennifer Frost: BY STAMP: Geometric

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There is lots of Father's Day inspiration in the current Australian Cardmaking, Stamping & Papercraft mag - including this design created by yours truly. Read more about how this design came together in the mag's 'Inspiration Board' on page 39.

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August 12, 2015

We celebrated Father's Day here in Australia this past weekend. It therefore seemed appropriate to full out some papers that would work well in masculine designs for our last challenge. These great papers are from the retired Wonderfully Worn designer series pack.

I feel like I've cheated a bit with my sample. I've built my design around the striped patterned paper from the kit for this masculine thank you card, but couldn't comfortably include any of the other elements of the kit in the design.

This circle 'thanks' sentiment from the A Happy Hooray set and imagery is from the Geometrical and Gorgeous Grunge sets. I've swapped my button over for a smaller wooden button to fit a little better in the mix of elements I've featured.

The card base is a retired colour, River Rock. It worked in well with the tones in the paper.

I've just loaded all the competition entries into an album on my facebook page. Please pop over and let me know which design is your favourite with a "vote"! Voting closes Sunday September 14, 8pm (Australian Eastern Standard time).

Wonderfully Worn Card Kit Challenge

September 9, 2014

Confetti, it's all the rage! It's also the theme for this round of the Creation Station blog hop. I based this design around a piece of the Lullaby Designer Series papers that I thought had a confetti feel to it. I've added a vellum pocket filled with actual confetti I've created using small circles punched from matching coloured cardstock and gold sequins.

On the front of this pocket I've added a cute rhino from the Zoo Babies stamp set. He is wearing a party hat stamped from the Sketched Birthday set. I trimmed the hat a little so it was just the right size for him.

The sentiment comes from the Geometrical stamp set. I initially stamped it in black and then changed my mind and decided to go with Soft Suede instead - this meant handcutting each letter out and sticking it over the top but I actually like the effect. I've added a little exclamation mark to centre the sentiment better below the banner.

For this second design, I've featured some of our brand new in-colours - Lost Lagoon, Blackberry Bliss and Hello Honey. The faux watercolour look comes courtesy from the Work of Art stamp set. I've double stamped each colour here to create a slightly layered look. Then I embossed the cake from the Sketched Birthday set alongside this cute sentiment from Yippee-Skippee!

In keeping with the confetti theme, I've added a spray of punch cut circles - and a few love hearts too - from matching cardstock, made using the Owl punch. There are a few sequins thrown into the mix for good measure!

I hope that you have enjoyed these designs. Don't be shy, be kind and comment if so! I love hearing from you. Now be sure to hop over to see what the rest of the Creation Station team have created!

Confetti - Creation Station Blog Hop #5

July 6, 2014

This card was inspired by a design I recently created and shared in the first Creation Station Blog Hop (see below). The colour scheme of the initial design was quite feminine, however I thought the imagery would work for a masculine card as well. So I've taken the basic concept and changed the colours to Island Indigo and added a little red, orange and yellow from the brights collection. Instead of sequins I added an extra stamped image of the cake and moved my triangle elements around a little to accommodate this.

This card came together really quickly and I'm quite proud of the result. I hope I've inspired you with this trendy triangle happy birthday card!

More trendy triangles... One for the guys this time

June 5, 2014

I love a creative challenge! So when fellow SU demonstrator Jen Arkfeld invited me to join the Creation Station design team I was happy to accept.

What is the Creation Station? It's a chance for a diverse group of us SU Demonstrators to tempt you with beautiful Stampin' Up! goodies by showing you just how versatile they are through a blog hop. If you are not familiar with them, on a blog hop the end of every post has a "next" button that will take you to the next blog until you end up back where you started.

For this first Creation Station challenge, we were given three product options to choose from to feature. I've chosen to showcase designs using the Geometric Stamp set from the current occasions catalogue.

Triangles are really on trend at the moment in paper-crafting circles. In the above design I've made them a feature, whereas in this second design I've used them more subtly to add some interest to the background of the card.

I used a Stamp-a-ma-jig to help me position the triangles and then layered over a piece of vellum to soften the look to tie in with the baby theme.

Ok, so I know that I could have easily stopped there with these two designs but I was surprised by how many ideas this set inspired and I couldn't help but create this third project to share as well.

I am known to be a bit of a photography enthusiast. When I saw the little circle in the Geometrics stamp set I thought it would be fun to attempt a 'bokeh' type patterned background. In photography, the term 'bokeh' refers to an effect produced by light and colour in out-of-focus areas - think fairy lights in a blurred background.

I've chosen fun, bright colours to tie in with the 'hooray for today' sentiment. Since bokeh is really a photographic effect, I couldn't resist adding a little film frame from the On Film Framelits Dies collection.

I hope that you have enjoyed these projects. Now be sure to hop on over to see what the rest of the design team have created!

If you happen to get lost along your way, click upon design member’s link below to get back on track! Don't forget to leave them a comment to let them know you stopped by :)

Creation Station Design Team:

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