Colour INKspiration Challenge #CI175

 

Hello and welcome,

My name is Vicki Boucher, and I am from Melbourne, Australia. Tonight, is the latest Colour INKspiration Challenge #CI175 this photo was chosen by Colour INKspiration Crew Member, Monica Formosa.

The chosen colour combination for #CI175 is Lemon Lolly, Crushed Curry, Basic White and Crumb Cake. As well as the chosen colours you may also like to add Basic Black, Very Vanilla, Basic Beige and metallics to your project. We also allow 'Ivory', 'Bronze' and 'Natural Tones' in the Stampin' Blends. If you don't have all the colour palette, feel free to use the closest SU substitute (ie: Wild Wheat instead of Crushed Curry .... for example).

The challenge will run for almost 2 weeks until 7pm (AEST) on Monday 21st October 2024 details to follow at the end of my blog.

These challenge colours are something I don't normally do but I was up for the challenge and I love the inspiration photo. I used my all-time favourite Cheerful Daisies stamp set and dies, plus the Changing Leaves Dies which are now back in stock at Stampin' Up! online store in Australia. 

I stamped the larger daisy in Memento ink then coloured it in using Lemon Lolly Stampin' Blends, next I used Crushed Curry Watercolor Pencil and coloured in the flower to give it some more depth on the petals.

I also stamped the smaller daisy stamp in Crush Curry ink and stamped three images. I used the Cheerful Daisies Dies to die-cut out the images of the daisies and I also used the large trio daisies die for the Basic White daisy. 

I just love the detailed leaves images from the Changing Leaves Dies and I simply just used Basic White cardstock and die-cut out the images. They are perfect to go with the daisies.

The two background panels layered under the daisies are a water colour wash using Crumb Cake ink onto Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper and dried embossed Crumb Cake cardstock, embossed with Eyelet 3D Embossing Folder. 

I used the Large Check Ribbon, layered a strip onto the two background panels and I also made a bow by cutting the ribbon in half before tying it.

To finish off the card I used Simply Said stamp set, heat embossed the sentiment onto Basic Black cardstock and layered it over the ribbon. I added a few of the Lemon Lolly embellishments from a packet of Rainbow Adhesive-Backed Dots.

I hope I've inspired you with the latest challenge and I do hope you'll join in. We so look forward to seeing a variety of projects using the challenge colours. Please ensure that your project is new and made specifically for this challenge.

Challenge guidelines:

• Create a NEW project made specifically for this challenge.
• Use all of the challenge colours (or close substitutions) unless stated.
• Upload only ONE picture per entry straight to the discussion wall and NOT in an album.

Colour INKspiration Challenge #CI175 will run until 7pm (ADET) on Monday 21st October 2024.

To get your creative ideas flowing, make sure you check out the Crew's Project in the CI175 Album.

Please click on the link here to join the challenge.

Thank you for visiting my blog today, I would so love to hear your thoughts on my project by leaving a comment below.

Please email me if you would like a copy of the 2024-2025 Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue send an email to me here. 

If you live in Australia and don't have a demonstrator, you can purchase any of the Stampin' Up! products by shopping with me at my Stampin' Up! online store here.

Make sure you follow me on social media via Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest.

Happy Stamping

Vicki Boucher

Creation Station Blog Hop - Into The Night

 Hello and welcome,

My name is Vicki Boucher, and I am from Melbourne, Australia. This is the latest hop with the design team at Creation Station, if you have come from Mikaela's blog or you may have started with me. Please make sure you hop around and see everyone's amazing projects. I'll pop a link at the end of my blog.

The design team at Creation Station are presenting their projects with the theme "Into the Night" and for my two projects I went with an Aussie themed Christmas using Stampin' Up! products from the 2024 Mini Catalogue and an Online Exclusive. 

There's one thing I love to do at Christmas with the family and that's going out looking at Christmas lights in my neighbourhood at nighttime. In December it's usually hot so we love to buy an ice cream and wonder around looking at all of the amazing lights & Christmas displays.

So, this is how I came up with the idea for my two cards using the Snowy Wonder bundle and making it into a non-snow look scene.

I started with the background panel in Boho Blue cardstock with a Blending Brush I applied from light to dark in the following colours Misty Moonlight, Night of Navy and Black Memento ink. The black ink makes the sky look darker by blending it in at the corners at the top of each background panel.

This next step has been around for some time, and I've always wanted to try it out, thanks to Mikaela for this amazing tip that she shared recently. Next, I wanted to have tiny white stars, so I created the splattered look by using white Craft ink placed in a dish, dilute with a little water and mix using a Water Painter. Then carefully tap the brush against a pencil and splatter away. It's so much fun! Just be careful not to get it onto yourself or the surrounding area. Allow to dry before completing your card.

I placed some of the elements onto the grass and to make the green grass I used the following technique. I used a strip of Granny Apple Green cardstock and torn the cardstock using my fingers giving it an organic look. Then I added Garden Green, Shaded Spruce ink with a Blending Brush to create an ombre look to the cardstock.

Christmas is in the Air Card

I do like to mix up different Stampin' Up! products for this card I used the lights from the Reindeer Fun dies and coloured the lights using Stampin' Blends in the following colours Real Red, Granny Apple Green and Daffodil Delight.

There are so many different images in the Snowy Wonder bundle and I like the penguin he's so cute! I also used the smowman and stamped him in Night of Navy and coloured him in just lightly with the Stampin' Blends.

The house is in Real Red and to make it look like the lights are on I used Daffodil Delight Stampin' Blend. The trees are die-cut using Night of Navy and the tree die from the Snowy Wonder dies.

I used the Peaceful Season bundle for the sentiment combing Real Red and Basic White makes it really pop against the nighttime sky.

Merry Christmas Card

To create my next card, I made a moon by punching out a 1" circle punch (retired) in Basic White cardstock and then I carefully added Boho Blue & Night of Navy ink with a Sponge Dauber to the edges of the moon. 

I placed the moon behind the branches to create some depth to the card. I used the Golden Greenery Dies, die-cut out two of the smaller branch and one large branch in Granny Apple Green cardstock. Then I applied Shaded Spruce ink with the Blending Bruch to each of the branches and layered them together with adhesive. 

The Christmas tree is from Decorative Trees Dies, using the spotted tree die in Night of Navy cardstock and the open tree die in Basic White cardstock. This gives the impression that the tree has lots of lights all lit up. 

I added the snowman again with some presents around the Christmas tree and a candy cane. I used Daffodil Delight cardstock for the star and bauble balls.

The sentiment is from Reindeer Fun stamp set, stamped in Real Red onto a strip of Basic White cardstock.

Thank you for visiting my blog today, I would so love to hear your thoughts on my project by leaving a comment below. Make sure you pop over to see Rachel Traudt's blog for lots of inspiration with her projects.

Make sure you follow me on social media via Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest for more inspiration.

Please email me if you would like a copy of the new Stampin' Up! 2024-2025 Annual Catalogue or Mini Catalogue, please contact me here.

Stampin' Up! 2024 Mini Catalogue coming soon.

If you live in Australia and don't have a demonstrator, you can purchase any of the Stampin' Up! products by shopping with me at my Stampin' Up! online store here.

Happy Stamping

Vicki Boucher

Colour INKspiration Challenge #CI174

  

Hello and welcome,

My name is Vicki Boucher, and I am from Melbourne, Australia. Tonight, is the latest Colour INKspiration Challenge #CI174 this photo was chosen by Colour INKspiration Crew Member, which just happens to be me!

The chosen colour combination for #CI174 is Pool Party, Bubble Bath, Highland Heather and Gorgeous Grape. As well as the chosen colours you may also like to add Basic White, Basic Black, Very Vanilla, Basic Beige, Crumb Cake and metallics to your project. We also allow 'Ivory', 'Bronze' and 'Natural Tones' in the Stampin' Blends. If you don't have all the colour palette, feel free to use the closest SU substitute (ie: Pretty in Pink instead of Bubble Bath .... for example).

The challenge will run for almost 2 weeks until 7pm (AEST) on Monday 7th October 2024 details to follow at the end of my blog.

Today's card is a very special card because I've made this for my mum who'll be turning 80 next year and the challenge colours were perfect for her birthday card. I wanted to go all out and make something special with lots of sparkle, embellishments ribbon and lots of different elements made into a Z-Fold card. 

I love the large magnolias from the online exclusive Magnolia Mood bundle, stamped in Gorgeous Grape and coloured in with the Stampin' Blends in the following colours Highland Heather, Bubble Bath and Pool Party. I used the brush tip for most of the colouring in and I also used the Color Lifter to blend in some of the colour. 

The card base is a sheet of Gorgeous Grape cardstock cut at 27cm x 21cm, scored at 9cm and 18cm and then folded into a Z-fold. I added Basic White cardstock for each of the panels cut at 20.6cm x 8.5cm and then layered another piece of paper on top cut at 20.1cm x 8cm. I used the Perennial Lavender Designer Series Paper, Country Lace Designer Series Paper and Highland Heather cardstock. 

I used the Highland Heather glimmer paper which is from Three Color Glimmer Specialty Paper (162813) for the Alphabet A La Mode Dies and for the detailed images from the Magnolia Mood Dies. 

For the large bow at the front of the card I used the Iridescent Striped Trim Ribbon it picks up colour from the light and it's easy to tie into a bow for your projects.

The sentiment is from the Country Birdhouse stamp set, stamped in Gorgeous Grape onto Basic White cardstock and die-cut out using the long-stitched label die from the Changing Leaves Dies. 

Too add more interest, I used the two detailed leaves dies die-cut out in Basic White cardstock and added colour using Pool Party ink with the Blending Brush.

I kept the inside of the card simple with just some stamping using the magnolias stamps and paper from the Country Lace Designer Series Paper.

This is how the card looks when standing up from the inside. I have left space for me to write a message on the basic white cardstock panel. 

Other elements used on the card are Purple Fine Shimmer Gems (162611) and Spotlight on Nature Dies.

Here is how the card looks when folded up and can be placed inside a slimline envelope. 

I hope I've inspired you with the latest challenge and I do hope you'll join in. We so look forward to seeing a variety of projects using the challenge colours. Please ensure that your project is new and made specifically for this challenge.

Challenge guidelines:

• Create a NEW project made specifically for this challenge.
• Use all of the challenge colours (or close substitutions) unless stated.
• Upload only ONE picture per entry straight to the discussion wall and NOT in an album.

Colour INKspiration Challenge #CI174 will run until 7pm (ADET) on Monday 7th October 2024.

To get your creative ideas flowing, make sure you check out the Crew's Project in the CI174 Album.

Please click on the link here to join the challenge.

Thank you for visiting my blog today, I would so love to hear your thoughts on my project by leaving a comment below.

Please email me if you would like a copy of the 2024-2025 Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue send an email to me here. 

If you live in Australia and don't have a demonstrator, you can purchase any of the Stampin' Up! products by shopping with me at my Stampin' Up! online store here.

Make sure you follow me on social media via Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest.

Happy Stamping

Vicki Boucher

Heart of Christmas Blog Hop - Week 8

                               

 

Hello and welcome my friends,

My name is Vicki Boucher and I'm from Melbourne, Australia. Today, I'll be sharing with you a Christmas card I've made for the latest blog hop with the team from Art With Heart in Australia and we are now onto week 8.

The Heart of Christmas blog hop will be on Monday at 8pm each week until November 25th. I'm looking forward to seeing everyone's beautiful creations, so make sure you visit everyone's blog. The link for the next person will be at the end of my blog.

Here's my card for tonight's blog hop I used the Decorative Trees bundle (164085) which is located on page 42 of the Stampin' Up! Mini Catalogue. I created a whimsical Christmas card using soft tones from the three colours I used and made a magical watercolour wash background.

Starting with the three Christmas trees I heat embossed them using white Stampin' Emboss Powder and used the emboss resist technique. The colours I used for the trees are Summer Splash, Blueberry Bushel and Fresh Freesia all three colours are beautiful when used for a colour combination. I applied the inks using a Blending Brush for each of the colours and keeping it soft for a pretty look.

I used the same colours for the watercolour wash background using lots of water with the inks to dilute the colours when applied to the watercolour paper. Tip; I like to use the wide brush tip Water Painter and a bowl of water this gives me more control when adding water to the coloured inks. I use the Heat Tool to speed up the drying process and then add more colour to the watercolour paper. 

Afterwards I added lots of splattered ink to the background using the same Water Painter. I also mixed together white Kraft ink diluted with a little water in a bowl. Then tap the brush against a pair of scissors or a pencil to achieve the splattered look. Make sure it's dry before adding your next layer (I found out the hard way that kraft ink takes a lot longer to dry out on watercolour paper than normal cardstock).

As you can see, I used the Iridescent Striped Ribbon it is so pretty and it complements the three colours so well together. Using the ribbon, I made a faux bow to be placed under the trees. I placed Stampin' Dimensionals under the trees for some added dimension. 

The sentiment is from the Decorative Trees stamp set and is stamped in Fresh Freesia ink onto Basic White cardstock. The stitched label die from the Cheerful Daisies dies fits the greeting perfectly and finishes the card off nicely. I used white Iridescent adhesive-backed discs for a little sparkle! They blend in well with the other colours used.

Thank you for visiting my blog today, I would so love to hear your thoughts on my project by leaving a comment below.

Now it's time to visit Judy May's blog, I can't wait to see her beautiful Christmas project.

If the link is broken Sharon is our host for the Heart of Christmas blog hop with all of the list of the participants, click on Sharon Davern's name to see the list.

Please email me if you would like a copy of the 2024-2025 Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue or Mini 2024 Catalogue send an email to me here. 

Stampin' Up! 2024 Mini Catalogue

If you live in Australia and don't have a demonstrator, you can purchase any of the Stampin' Up! products by shopping with me at my Stampin' Up! online store here.

Make sure you follow me on social media via Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest.

Happy Stamping

Vicki Boucher

Stamping Sunday Blog Hop - Unfold Funfolds

Hello and welcome,

My name is Vicki Boucher and I'm from Melbourne, Australia. Today is Stamping Sunday blog hop for the month of September and for this month's theme is "Unfold Funfolds" which means anything like a Fancy Fold or Fun Fold in our projects. It's the 3rd Sunday of the month. I'm looking forward to seeing everyone's projects and you'll be able to see them by clicking on their names at the end of my blog.

I haven't made a fun fold card in a long time, so it was fun to try something different when it comes to card making. I made a Twist and Pop Card back in July 2020 and there is a You Tube video on how to make this type of card, I'll add it at the end of this post.

For today's project a made a Christmas pop & twist card using products from both the Mini and Annual Stampin' Up! Catalogues. I used the Decorative Trees Bundle (164085) which is located on page 42 of the Mini Catalogue and also the Peaceful Season Bundle (164021) which is located on page 25. 

The card looks simple from the outside, but once opened the inside pops out! There is a 4 panel, pop up element inside. You don't need an engineering degree either to make one of these. You'll just need Cardstock and strong adhesive; I've used Stampin' Seal and Multipurpose Liquid Glue which has worked for my project. I used Thick Basic White cardstock for the card base and everything else is either Basic White cardstock or specialty paper.

Let's have a look inside the card, I used the Brushed Gold Cards & Envelopes (162177) and used one of the cards for the 4 panels. This was my starting point to how I was going to make my card. 

I just love gold and white together it's so sophisticated and a classic for Christmas cards. I used different types of Christmas trees dies from the Decorative Trees Dies to form the Christmas trees.

The greeting inside the card is from the Decorative Trees stamp set and is heat embossed using Versamark ink, adding Gold Embossing Powder and heat set with the Heat Tool. 

Now for the outside of the card which I made lots of different layers starting with the three Christmas Trees; two of them are die-cut out using Basic White Cardstock and the top Christmas tree is heat embossed using Gold Embossing Powder. 

The three trees are layered over a sheet of white & gold paper from the Nature's Sweetness Specialty Paper (162616), there's an embossed panel in white cardstock using the Forever Plaid 3D Embossing Folder (164049) which is gorgeous to use and then underneath that is a panel of Gold Foil (132622) I 'am so happy it's back!

I used the Peaceful Season Dies for the sentiment, die-cut out using gold foil and basic white cardstock and heat embossed the 'Merry' with gold embossing powder. To finish off the card I added a gold foil star for the tree and gold Blooming Pearls for the embellishments. 

Here is the link for the You Tube tutorial on how to make this Twist & Pop Fancy Fold card.

Thank you for visiting my blog today, I would so love to hear your thoughts on my project by leaving a comment below.

Please email me if you would like a copy of the 2024-2025 Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue or Mini 2024 Catalogue send an email to me here. 

If you live in Australia and don't have a demonstrator, you can purchase any of the Stampin' Up! products by shopping with me at my Stampin' Up! online store here.

Make sure you follow me on social media via Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest.

Happy Stamping

Vicki Boucher

To see all of the amazing projects by the Stamping Sunday Design Team please click on their names below.