Heart of Christmas Blog Hop - Week 6

                             

 

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 6.

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 hop, I've used the Reindeer Fun Bundle (164044) which is located on page 27 of the Stampin' Up! Mini Catalogue and it's part of the Reindeer Days Suite Collection. I went in another direction with this bundle and went with Nordic style using white and neutral colours. I just love the paper from the Country Woods Designer Series Paper (163393) and the Oxidized Copper Specialty Designer Series Paper (162190) for some of the elements.

Using a panel of wood paper selected from the Country Woods DSP I like to tear the paper by using my fingers and to create an organic look. I like how it exposes some of the white part from the printed paper. The sentiment is from the Reindeer Fun Stamp Set, stamped in VersaMark ink adding white powder and heat embossed the sentiment using the heat tool.

The deer is stamped in Early Espresso and coloured in using Stampin' Blends in the following colours SU500, SU800, light & dark Pecan Pie and Color Lifter. I like to leave some white space around the face, throat, tail and just near their feet (hooves). I used the coordinating Reindeer Fun Dies to die-cut out the deer. 

To make the presents I used the two present dies from the Reindeer Fun Dies, die-cut two in Basic White Cardstock and one in Oxidized Copper Specialty DSP. I also used the cute bow die for the top of the presents. I used thin strips of white cardstock and copper paper to match the bows for the presents. Tip; use Adhesive Sheets (152334) and attach to the backing of cardstock or DSP to make your own stickers this makes it easier to apply to your card making.

To make the Christmas lights I used the detailed lights die and die-cut out two in Basic White and two in Oxidized Copper. Next, using paper snips scissors I snipped off the light bulb in copper and added them to the white Christmas lights. I also used adhesive sheets for the backing of the Christmas lights.

The stamped images on the white background panel are stamped in Crumb Cake ink and then I added the peekaboo window using the circular open tree die using Basic White Cardstock and layered it over the stamped panel.

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 Rosa Leyden'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

Creation Station Blog Hop - Stampin' Blends

 

 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 Yvonne'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 Stampin' Blends. Stampin' Up! have a huge range of alcohol coloured markers and they are perfect for adding colour to line art images of people, nature and more. Plus there's a range of natural colours as well as Bronze and Ivory. Blending light and dark to give you depth and you can also remove colour by using the Colour Lifter.

Today's project I've made a Christmas card using the Reindeer Fun bundle (164044) which is located on page 27 of the Stampin' Up! 2024 Sept - Dec Mini Catalogue. I know I'm going to love this bundle. I've only used some of the images from the stamp set and the two reindeers together are so adorable. There's a variety of different dies from the Reindeer Fun Dies to use to decorate your Christmas cards, paper crafts and even scrapbooking. 

For the images of the reindeer, I used Basic Gray ink and stamped onto Basic White Cardstock, Basic Gray is a lot softer than Black ink and it blends in well with Smokey Slate Stampin' Blends. A helpful tip when colouring in the deer is to leave some white space such as the face and use the Colour Lifter to remove some of the gray, especially near the face and ears.

I coloured in the background panel under the white frame die-cut using Pool Party Stampin' Blends both light and dark. Then I added white snowflakes by stamping the images a number of times using Versamark ink, adding White Stampin' Emboss Powder and heat set with the Heat Tool. 

The torn strips of Basic White Cardstock are layered over one another and I added Stampin' Blend Pool Party to create a shadow to the snow.

I die-cut out the holly using Basic White cardstock and then coloured the holly using Pool Party and Petal Pink Stampin' Blends.

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 Barb Pfeffer'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 Creations Blog Hop - Coastal Cabana

 

Hello and welcome my friends,

My name is Vicki Boucher and I'm from Melbourne, Australia. Today, I'll be sharing with you another colour for Colour Creations blog hop and we are now at week 18 with the Art With Heart Team in Australia. 

The next colour is Coastal Cabana, which is part of the Brights Collection and I've made two Father's Day cards using this colour. Coastal Cabana comes in Cardstock, Classic Ink Pad, Ink Refill, Embellishments, Designer Series Paper and other Stampin' Up! products.

I made two cards for Father's Day which just happens to be this coming Sunday in Australia, one of them for my father and the other I made for the kids to give to their dad. Today's cards are simple and quick. I've used the Online Exclusive Changing Leaves Stamp Set and besides Coastal Cabana I also added Summer Splash for my colours.

First Card

For my first card I used Basic White Cardstock, stamped the larger leaf image from the stamp set using Coastal Cabana and randomly stamping the leaves a number of times. Then I created an ombre effect with the two colours and used the Blending Brush to add the ink onto the panel.

I used the Alphabet A La Mode Dies for the ombre DAD and used Foam Adhesive Sheets for some height. To finish off the card I used the Beside Me Stamp Set for the greeting and stamped directly onto the white panel. The card base is Basic White Cardstock.

Second Card

For my second card I created a water colour wash using Fluid 100 Watercolour paper, heat embossed the same large leaves image again, but this time only stamped the image twice and then adding White Embossing Powder. Then heat set with the Heat Tool.

Once I let the embossing cool down, I then added water with the large flat tip paint brush, next I used Coastal Cabana and Summer Splash ink for a soft look. I used an old Coastal Cabana Marker pen and splattered ink over the leaves. 

I used the same sentiment from the Beside Me Stamp Set for the greeting and die-cut it out using one of the labels dies from the Unbounded Love Dies. The card base is Coastal Cabana Cardstock.

 

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

Now for the next blog please visit the very talented Theresa Gerrard click on the link below.

If the next button link is not working or you'd like to see the entire list of participants go to Catherine Proctor's blog.

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

Colour INKspiration Challenge #CI172

 

 Hello and welcome, 

My name is Vicki Boucher, and I am from Melbourne, Australia. Tonight, is the latest Colour INKspiration Challenge #CI172 this photo was chosen by Colour INKspiration Crew Member, Monica Formosa.

The chosen colour combination for #CI172 is Peach Pie, Garden Green and Pebbled Path. 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: Basice Gray instead of Pebbled Path .... for example).

The challenge will run for almost 2 weeks until 7pm (AEST) on Monday 9th September 2024 details to follow at the end of my blog.

Today I decided to CASE myself using a card that I made a few years ago for a Colour INKspiration Challenge using similar colours and a white background. I used the Cheerful Daisies bundle which I just love so much!  

I stamped the large daisy in Pebbled Path ink onto Basic White Cardstock and coloured it in using Peach Pie Stampin' Blends. I used the other two daisies from the Cheerful Daisies Dies, die-cut out Basic White Cardstock and added Peach Pie ink with the Mini Blending Brush. I did the same with the detailed leaf die and added Garden Green ink. 

I just had to combine the daisies with the Changing Leaves Dies and use the detailed leaves die for some added interest I applied Garden Green ink to the leaf to create an ombre effect.

Some of the elements I've used are retired from a long time ago which I just found recently when going through my crafty stash. It's a good idea to use your stash!

To finish off the card I added Peach Pie Bordered Ribbon and Peach Pie Resin Dots to the card.

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 #CI172 will run until 7pm (ADET) on Monday 9th September 2024.

To get your creative ideas flowing, make sure you check out the Crew's Project in the CI172 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 4

 

Hello and welcome my friends,

My name is Vicki Boucher and I'm from Melbourne, Australia. Today, I'll be sharing with you my first Christmas card for the year with the team from Art With Heart in Australia and we are now onto week 4.

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

Here's my card for tonight's hop, I've used the new Painted Trees 3D Embossing Folder (164026) which is located on page 25 of the Stampin' Up! Mini Catalogue, I've combined it with the new Peaceful Season Bundle (164021) and Gold Textured Adhesive Backed Dots (164027). All of these Stampin' Up! products are part of the Season of Elegance Suite Collection and will be available early September 2024.

I created a fun technique that I discovered from Maheswari Rajaguru on the Stampin' Up! Facebook page last week I just had to try it out and it's called Double Embossing Technique. 

Start with a panel of Basic White Cardstock and emboss it with the Snowflake Sky 3D Embossing Folder (162026). A great tip when embossing is to have the Stampin' Up! logo facing up to you when you emboss.

Next, use the Painted Trees 3D Embossing Folder to emboss the same piece of cardstock, giving you a clear raised image. This will give you the base for the wintery Christmas scene with lots of texture.

To create an ombre effect start with Boho Blue ink applied with the Blending Brush to the snowflake sky, next I added Misty Moonlight to the trees and followed by Night of Navy to finish off the ombre effect.

The sentiment is from Peaceful Season stamp set, heat embossed using Gold Embossing Powder and die-cut out using the Peaceful Season label die. The word Christmas is die-cut out using Gold Foil (I'm so glad it came back!) and layered over Basic White Cardstock.

I really like blue and gold together, so I had to use the Night of Navy Glittered Ribbon and place it under the word Christmas. I added a few of the Gold Textured Adhesive Backed Dots to finish off the card.

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 Andrea Sargent'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 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.

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

Happy Stamping

Vicki Boucher

  

Colour Creations Blog Hop - Cherry Cobbler

 

Hello and welcome my friends,

My name is Vicki Boucher and I'm from Melbourne, Australia. Today, I'll be sharing with you another colour for Colour Creations blog hop and we are now at week 17 with the Art With Heart Team in Australia. 

The next colour is Cherry Cobbler, which is part of the Regals Collection and to me it says Christmas but I went in another direction using this colour. Cherry Cobbler comes in Cardstock, Classic Ink Pad, Ink Refill, Embellishments, Designer Series Paper and other Stampin' Up! products.

For my card I decided to use the online exclusive Changing Leaves Bundle (164139) which includes the Changing Leaves Hybrid Embossing Folder and I made a birthday card. The colours I've used say Christmas and this card could easily be a Christmas card, all you would need to do is change the sentiment. 

I used the largest leaf stamp from the Changing Leaves Stamp Set, stamped it onto Crumb Cake Cardstock using Cherry Cobbler ink and the second image was stamped in Shaded Spruce. Then I used the coordinating Changing Leaves die and die-cut out the two large leaves.

There are also two different detailed leaves dies which I just love and they add another dimension to your paper craft. I used Crumb Cake Cardstock to die-cut the leaves out and then I added Cherry Cobbler ink using a Blending Brush. I also did the same using Shaded Spruce ink and Crumb Cake Cardstock.

I layered the leaves onto the Crumb Cake die-cut circle element using the Spotlight on Nature Dies, I added Crumb Cake ink around the edges to give it a vintage look and splattered Cherry Cobbler ink using an old Stampin' Write Marker.

Before layering all of the leaves and elements together. I used the Changing Leaves Hybrid Embossing Folder to dry emboss Cherry Cobbler Cardstock and then rough up the edges using the Paper Snips Scissors blade. 

I do love some gingham when comes to these colours, so I used the Large Check Ribbon and layered the sentiment over it with Stampin' Dimensionals. I also used Linen Thread and tied it into a bow. To finishes off the card I added Cherry Cobbler Gems they are from the Rustic Christmas Countdown Kit (163114) and they are so beautiful!

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

Now for the next blog please visit the very talented Catherine Proctor click on the link below.

If the next button link is not working or you'd like to see the entire list of participants go to Catherine Proctor's blog.

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

Colour INKspiration Challenge #CI171

 Hello and welcome, 

My name is Vicki Boucher, and I am from Melbourne, Australia. Tonight, is the latest Colour INKspiration Challenge #CI171 this photo was chosen by Colour INKspiration Crew Member, Vicki that's me!

The chosen colour combination for #CI171 is Pretty In Pink, Berry Burst, Blackberry Bliss and Summer Splash. 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: Bubble Bath instead of Pretty In Pink.... for example).

The challenge will run for almost 2 weeks until 7pm (AEST) on Monday 26th August 2024 details to follow at the end of my blog.

The challenge colours are so pretty together and I just love the photo it's very vintage. For my card I used the online exclusive Changing Leaves Bundle which includes the stamp set, dies and also the Changing Leaves Hybrid Embossing Folder which I just love!

I went for a subtle look with the challenge colours starting with a panel of Basic White Cardstock and embossed it using the Changing Leaves embossing folder. Next, I added colour to the embossed panel using Pretty In Pink, Berry Burst and Blackberry Bliss inks and applied them using the Blending Brush.

The Changing Leaves Stamp Set has a variety of different leaves images, I used the two smaller images and heat embossed them onto Basic White Cardstock. Then I used the emboss resist technique by adding colour with the Blending Brush to the stamped images. I wipe away the excess ink with a tissue. Next, I used the Changing Leaves Dies and the Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine to die-cut the images.

There are also detailed leaves dies which I've used for my card. I used the challenge colours by applying ink with the Blending Brush to Basic White Cardstock and leaving some white space for an ombre look.

The sentiment is from the Changing Leaves Stamp Set, stamped in Blackberry Bliss onto Basic White Cardstock and then die-cut out using the label die from the Changing Leaves Dies. 

I had some leftover Pretty In Pink ribbon which was from a previous card, so I used it to make a bow and I added a few Pretty In Pink Resin Dots to finish off the card.

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 #CI171 will run until 7pm (ADET) on Monday 26th August 2024.

To get your creative ideas flowing, make sure you check out the Crew's Project in the CI171 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

Colour Creations Blog Hop - Bubble Bath

Hello and welcome my friends,

My name is Vicki Boucher and I'm from Melbourne, Australia, I'm still on holidays and we are now on the Gold Coast, QLD for our family holiday reunion. Today, I'll be sharing with you another colour for Colour Creations blog hop and we are now at week 14 with the Art With Heart Team in Australia. 

The next colour is Bubble Bath, which is part of the Subtles Collection and I just had to create a card using this colour before I left Melbourne. Bubble Bath comes in Cardstock, Classic Ink Pad, Ink Refill, Embellishments, Designer Series Paper and other Stampin' Up! products.

I went with a subtle look for Bubble Bath and created a shabby chic style card for this week's project. It's a pretty pink, I've paired it with Moody Mauve by stamping the roses from the Layers of Beauty Stamp Set and then die-cutting it out using the Layers of Beauty Dies. 

I used this fun technique that I learnt from Cindy Schuster over on Stamping Through the Catalog on Instagram, she made a beautiful card using Stampin' Blends as a paint brush to colour in the roses and only using minimal colour. It's very effective technique by using coloured shading where needed. I also used Crumb Cake Stampin' Blends for the leaves and a tiny bit of Moody Mauve for the center of the roses. 

The choice of Stampin' Up! designer series paper was a mix of Nature's Sweetness DSP; Country Woods DSP and Perennial Lavender DSP I just couldn't resist Crumb Cake gingham paper. I also stamped the roses onto the gingham paper in Crumb Cake. I like to rough up the paper by using the blade from the Paper Snips Scissors and run it along the edges of the paper. Another way to add interest is to tear up strips of paper and layer them over one another.

Before I added the subtle roses onto the paper, I used the Spotlight on Nature Dies and die-cut out a paper ring using Basic White Cardstock. To finish off the card I used the Country Birdhouse Stamp Set for the sentiment, stamped it in Moody Mauve and fussy cut out the greeting. I also added a few of the Brushed Brass Butterflies to the card. 

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

Now for the next blog please visit the very talented Andrea Sargent click on the link below.

If the next button link is not working or you'd like to see the entire list of participants go to Catherine Proctor's blog.

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