Vicki Boucher Stampin' Up! Demonstrator Australia: Stamping Sunday February Blog Hop

14 February 2021

Stamping Sunday February Blog Hop - My Mini Catalogue Favourite

Hello and welcome, it's the latest Stamping Sunday blog hop and we are sharing our favourite products from the Stampin' Up! January to June 2021 Mini Catalogue. The list of designers are at the end of my blog, so make sure you click on their names and see there creations.

Stampin' Up! have so many amazing products in the Mini Catalogue and it was hard to chose which one was my favourite. On my wish list was the stunning 'Pretty Perennials Bundle' item 156234 and the 'Blending Brushes' item 153611.

The Pretty Perennials Stamp Set (154435) is inspired by Million Sales Achiever Dena Rekow, I love the watercolor look of the stamps and the greetings are fun and happy! The Perennial Petals Dies (154321) have flowers, leaves and so much more to create beautiful cards, scrapbooking and 3D gifts etc....

The Blending Brushes item 153611 come in a pack of 3 for $21. The bristles are like soft velvet and work really well when using on large or small scale of paper. Adding and blending colour just got easy when creating your projects, they will be done in no time.

Today I've created a handmade card and 3D Mini Pizza Box for my projects.

Starting with the card I've used the following colours Poppy Parade, Balmy Blue, Bumblebee and Old Olive. I've added Balmy Blue Ink with the Blending Brush to the Whisper White panel and stamped the small flower image directly onto the panel. Before adding the panel to the Poppy Parade card base I used the Paper Snips and ruffed up the edges of the Cardstock.

Using both the stamped images of the flowers and combined them with the die cuts you can pretty much make any type of combination for your flowers. I did use ink to paper with the Blending Brushes to give more depth and shades of colour for the die cuts. Such as the Old Olive for the leaves, Poppy Parade and Bumblebee for the flower dies.

The Balmy Blue DSP strips have been ripped on either side to show off the white in the paper. I added the script and the wood print DSP to the card.

To finish off the card I add a few different Embellishments starting with the Gold Hoop, In Good Taste Elements and the Artistry Blooms Sequins.

The Gold Mini Pizza Box matches the card as a lovely gift. Using different types of ribbon in colours of yellow and gold to match the box. I've wrapped together the Bumblebee Gingham Ribbon with the Gold Fine Art Ribbon around the box and adding the Gold Forever Greenery Trim and tied it in a knot.

Added Whisper White panel is the same as the card, plus the flowers and leaves. I've stamped off the flower image in Poppy Parade which gives the flower a much lighter colour. The sentiment is stamped in Poppy Parade.