Sunday, 6 August 2017

CASEing the Catty #140 For Babies & Kids

Sunday 6 August 2017 Welcome to this week's CASEing the Catty Blog Hop. Today's card is from the For Babies & Kids section (pages 102-111) of the Annual Catalogue. My girls are teenagers so my cards for their friends have to be a bit more sophisticated now otherwise they won't use them! So I love every opportunity I have to make cards for babies and kids. This week's I've chosen to CASE the tepee card at the bottom right hand corner. I love this cute tepee in the "Little One" stamp set. I kept the layout of my card close to the one in the Annual Catalogue, just changing the position a little bit and the colours! I used the new Basics Pack 3 Washi Tape for the strips down the side of my card and then co-ordinated the colours of the tepee and sentiment with the Dapper Denim, Island Indigo and Bermuda Bay from the washi tape. The sentiment has been embossed in white on a piec...

Saturday, 5 August 2017

Global Design Project 098 | Sketch Challenge

Saturday 5 August 2017 Hello and welcome to my blog - thanks so much for stopping by! My card today is for the latest challenge over at the Global Design Project. I love their challenges and haven't missed a single challenge yet - 98 and counting! This week it is a sketch challenge. I decided to use the Wood Textures Designer Series Paper Stack to create a male card. This DSP makes great male cards, actually it's great for any kind of card and I've just about used up my stack! I've teamed it up with Basic Black Cardstock and Solid Baker's Twine. The cardstock has been embossed using the Sparkle Embossing Folder and the Happy Birthday is from the Number of Years stamp set. The black embellishments are Basic Rhinestones coloured black using a Sharpie. I've used a strip of the DSP and a piece of twine to finish off the inside! Pop over to the Global Design Project Blog to get lots of ...

Thursday, 3 August 2017

Dragonfly Dreams Card: Tutorial Bundle Design Team Blog Hop

Tuesday 2 August 2017 Welcome to our Tutorial Bundle Design Team Blog Hop for August. I am thrilled to be part of this fabulous group of 12 demonstrators from around the world who have created an amazing bundle of tutorials using products from the 2017-18 Annual Stampin' Up!® catalogue. Each month I will be hopping with these talented Stampin' Up!® designers and we will be showcasing a project using the same bundle as in our tutorial. The tutorials are based on current products available in the Stampin' Up! catalogues and have both metric and imperial measurements so wherever you are in the world you can purchase and create these exclusive projects. Each Tutorial Bundle is $20NZ or place an order over $50NZ this month with me to receive this month's tutorial for free. In my card today I've used the same Dragonfly Dreams Bundle that I used in the tutorial. Please remember that it isn't the same project. The project...

Monday, 31 July 2017

Global Design Project 097 | Colour Challenge

Monday 31 July 2017 Welcome to my blog today! My card is for this week's Global Design Project Colour Challenge and yes I'm just scraping in! Colour Challenge time means that one lucky person gets to be a Guest Designer for the next colour challenge. How much fun would that be? My inspiration came from page 97 of the Annual Catalogue for this card. I'd been looking through it for ideas and this box caught my eye. I stamped the hearts from the "Weather Together" stamp set in Crumb Cake onto the Crumb Cake card base. "Thanks for being a great friend" from the "Window Shopping" stamp set is stamped in Wild Wasabi and layered with Wild Wasabi cardstock and vellum. The Berry Burst hearts have been cut using the Mini Treat Bag Thinlits and once glued on I covered them with Fine-Tip Glue to give them lots of shine and dimension. A piece of Berry Burst ribbon folded in h...

Sunday, 30 July 2017

CASEing the Catty #139 Everyday Occasions

Sunday 30 July 2017 Welcome to this week's CASEing the Catty Blog Hop. Today's cards are from the Everday Occasions section (pages 18-67) of the Annual Catalogue. I love the three cards on the right hand side and started just CASEing the top one but it was so quick and simple I was worried it wasn't enough! So I ended up making all three and came to the conclusion that sometimes quick and simple are just what you need! All these cards have two things in common - they all use some of the Coffee Break Designer Series Paper and the base cardstock is Soft Sky. This card's sentiment is from the set that comes in the "Oh Happy Day Card Kit". I stamped it in Pear Pizzazz and Early Espresso to co-ordinate with the DSP. A sprinkle of Garden Green Enamel shapes and a bow in Whisper White Baker's Twine finishes it off. This card has the Coffee Break DSP down each side and the Naturally Eclectic DSP in t...

Thursday, 27 July 2017

Ink & Inspiration Blog Hop

Thursday 27 July 2017 Welcome to the third Ink & Inspiration Blog Hop. You are currently visiting Angela Meiritz-Reid from Christchurch, New Zealand. The theme this month is Water Colour. I've water coloured and cut these feathers out from the Just Add Color Specialty Designer Series Paper. I also used my White Stampin' Chalk Marker to add a little lightness to some of the areas. The feathers have been coloured to co-ordinate with the Dapper Denim Color Theory DSP and a piece of DSP from the Wood Textures DSP Stack co-ordinates nicely with that. The Just Add Color Specialty DSP is great to water colour. I went over and over it with the ink and water and was really pleased that the DSP didn't rub up, become soaked or bleed - it performed perfectly! I wrapped the ends of the feathers with Linen Thread, stamped Happy Birthday from the Confetti Celebration stamp set in Dapper Denim, punched it out with the ...

Sunday, 23 July 2017

CASEing the Catty #138 - Holidays

Sunday 23 July 2017 Yay it's Sunday again and time for another CASEing the Catty Blog Hop. This week we are CASEing the Holidays section - pages 112-125. You may have arrived here from my new and talented friend Fi - welcome! I know you are probably thinking but it's only July I've got plenty of time! That time will roll around very quickly so why not get started now? I love wreaths so I chose the card on the right hand side with the lovely wreath made using the Holly Berry Happiness stamp set. As I don't have this stamp set I improvised with my Daisy Delight stamp set. I stamped the leaf in Pear Pizzazz to match the striped DSP from the Coffee Break Designer Series Paper and the little berries have been cut out in Cherry Cobbler cardstock from the Mini Treat Bag Thinlits. The Merry Christmas stamp comes from the Teeny Tiny Sentiments set which is an absolute must have set - it h...

Friday, 21 July 2017

Global Design Project 096 | Case the Designer

Friday 21 July 2017 Welcome to my blog! Today I'm sharing the card I made for this week's Global Design Project 096 | Case the Designer. The designer being CASED this week is the talented and lovely Tanja Kolar. I just love her style! "CASE = C opy A nd S electively E dit - which means you can take what you like from the design and make it your own. It might be the stamp set - the colours, the layout, the elements, whatever you like that has inspired you to make a card of your own." My inspiration came from the layout although I also have the colour blue in my card too! And isn't she adorable? This little girl is from the Birthday Memories Designer Series Paper and reminds me of the vintage scraps my mother collected as a child and has in a scrapbook. I used the two largest squares in the Stitched Shaped Framelits to cut the squares from the Color Theory DSP stack in Berrry Bu...

Thursday, 20 July 2017

Stampin' Dreams Blog Hop

Thursday 20 July 2017 Welcome to the third Stampin' Dreams Blog Hop. You are currently visiting Angela Meiritz-Reid from Christchurch, New Zealand. I hope you enjoy my card which has been CASED page 71 of the 2017-18 Annual Catalogue. I used the same stamp set "Happiest of Days" (my new favourite) and kept the layout, I just changed the colours and added some different elements. The gold foil on the card base is from the Fabulous Foil Designer Acetate sheets. This product is in the Paper Basics Section of the Catalogue, it has 6 acetate sheets with gold foil on one side, looks silver on the other and comes in 3 designs. I gold embossed the presents and sentiment to co-ordinate with the Gold Acetate Sheet, added the Calypso Coral Ombre Ribbon and coloured in using Pool Party, Calypso Coral and Peekaboo Peach. The Stampin' Up!® catalogues are full of project ideas, tips and techniques to inspire creativity. I'm always seeing something new or...

Sunday, 16 July 2017

CASEing the Catty #137 - Artistic Expression

Sunday 16 July 2017 Welcome to this week's CASEing the Catty Blog Hop. Today's card is from the Artistic Expression section (pages 132-181) of Stampin' Up's! Annual Catalogue. The Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue is not just a catalogue of products but it is also full of many project ideas, tips and techniques to inspire creativity. I often browse through it and see ideas I hadn't seen before? The inspiration for my project came from the feather card on the left hand side. I don't have the Feather Together stamp set so instead I coloured and cut out feathers from a sheet of the Just Add Color Specialty Designer Series Paper. I chose feathers of approximately the same size and water-coloured them using my Aqua Painter and Powder Pink, Pool Party and Night of Navy Ink, then fussy cut them out! Have you tried the Embossing Paste? It is so easy and fun to use (and doesn't make a mess)! I coloured a small amount of paste us...