Artisan Design Team - Decorated with Happiness

 Hello and welcome,

My name is Vicki Boucher and I'm from Melbourne, Australia. Today I'll be sharing three projects using the Decorated with Happiness Bundle, turning them into two Christmas cards and Christmas treat box.

The Artisan Design Team are featuring the Decorated with Happiness Bundle on Stampin' Up! Facebook and Instagram page where you'll sure to be inspired by everyone's creations, I'll add the link at the end of my blog. 

Decorated with Happiness Bundle (159711)

The Decorated with Happiness Bundle (159711) 10% Bundle Savings is located on page 27 of the Stampin' Up! July - Dec 2022 Mini Catalogue. The bundle includes Decorated with Happiness Stamp Set (159704) and coordinates Decorated Pine Dies (159710). I just love the modern style with scripted fonts and hand-drawn images. The Decorated Pine Dies has 21 dies and jam packed with pine boughs, baubles, bows, bells and more....

Christmas Greetings Slimline Card

I always love creating a slimline card for my projects, here I used Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper as the starting point for my card. The colours I've used are Starry Sky, Pacific Point and Polished Pink for the colour palette. I love these colours together. 

I applied water onto the watercolor paper first using the large flat brush next I added Pacific Point and Polished Pink ink to the paper. I like to have a tissue or kitchen paper handy to help dry off any excess ink that may run or you can use the Heat Tool to help speed up the drying of the ink.

Using the small pine boughs image, I stamped a number of times in Starry Sky and Pacific Point ink. I also heat embossed the pine branch and baubles in Versamark, White Stampin' Emboss Powder and heat set with the Heat Tool.

My tip for when it comes to watercolouring stamped images and using the emboss resist technique, I like to colour outside of the lines. This works well with White Emboss Powder, Water Painters and with any Stampin' Up! colors. 

I've die-cut out a couple of the pine boughs from the Decorated Pine Dies in Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper and applied Polished Pink ink with the Water Painter, let it dry then adhered to the panel with Multipurpose Liquid Glue. 

The sentiment is heat embossed using White Stampin' Powder onto Starry Sky Cardstock and then die-cut out using the large label from the Stylish Shapes Dies. To make a straight edge for your label, die-cut the cardstock across using the stitched die to create a cute, stitched look.

To finish off the card I always like to add some bling, especially for Christmas. Here I've used Sparkle and Shine Sequins with tiny drops of liquid glue.

Boughs of Holly Christmas Card

To create my second Christmas card using the same colours as the slimline card and watercolour background panel using Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper. I also the snow stamp image onto the watercolor paper and heat embossed the images using White Stampin' Emboss Powder.

I added the additional pine boughs both using the stamp image and die-cut in Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper. The stamped image is heat embossed with White Stampin' Emboss Powder and embossed resist using Pacific Point and Starry Sky. The pine boughs die-cut pieces are a watercolor wash using the same colours. 

The pink ornaments are heat embossed using White Stampin' Emboss Powder, watercoloured using Polished Pink and watercolour paper. Then die-cut out using the coordinating dies.

To create the sentiment, I stamped the greeting in Versamark ink onto Polished Pink Cardstock, added White Stampin' Emboss Powder and heat set with the Heat Tool. I used the smallest stitched circle from the Stylish Shapes Dies and die-cut out creating a cute, stitched ornament to hang on the branch.

To finish off the card, I layered the watercolour panel over Poplished Pink Cardstock and Starry Sky Cardstock for the card base. I added the Iridescent Pearls Basic Jewels.

Christmas Treat Box

This cute little Christmas treat box was a last-minute addition to match with the cards. As I already had a few left-over pine boughs and an ornament, I decided to use a white Envelope Treat Box which you can find on page 83 of the Mini Catalogue.

There are 10 boxes with 20 gold foil stickers to use and food safe. They are easy to fold with the Bone Folder, but before I fold the box, I added Starry Sky and Pacific Point ink to the outside of the box with the Blending Brush.

Adding glitter to the box I wrapped around the Glittered Organdy Ribbon and tied into a bow. Plus, I splattered Clear Wink of Stella for more sparkle and used the Iridescent Pearls Basic Jewels.

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 onto Stampin' Up! Facebook page for lots of inspiration using the Decorated with Happiness Bundle.

If you would like a copy of the Stampin' Up! July - December 2022 Mini or the Annual Catalogue 2022 - 2023 please contact 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 online store here.

Happy Stamping

Vicki Boucher