Creation Station May Blog Hop: Dots & Spots

 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 Sara Langland 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 to hop around....

The design team at Creation Station are presenting their projects with the theme "Dots & Spots" this was a fun challenge to do. I had the opportunity to create two projects with this theme using different Stampin' Up! products which in some form have either dots or spots.

I'll add the list of products used with today's projects and they are available in my online store.

Happy Birthday Card

For my first card I was inspired by Madeleine Mrotzek I saw her card on her Instagram account @stempelschick and I just had to try this fun layering effect using the paper garland from the Beautiful Balloons Dies. 

To create this rainbow ruffled layered effect, I combined strips 4cm x 9.9cm using the polka dots from the Subtles 6" x 6" Designer Series Paper and Vellum Basics 12" x 12" Specialty Designer Series Paper just add a little of Multipurpose Glue at the top of each layer. The softness of the Vellum Basics polka dots paper makes the Subtles Designer Series Paper even better and softer looking when you combine the two together. The colours from the top are Bubble Bath, Fresh Freesia, Balmy Blue, Pool Party, Soft Seafoam, Lemon Lolly and Petal Pink.

When I'm creating my projects sometimes, I like to use my sewing machine and do some stitching. Here I just did some stitching along at the top of the ruffled layered panel this will hide any adhesive if needed. 

I've used the variety of different sized balloon tools from the Beautiful Balloons Dies and die-cut out using the same Subtles 6" x 6" Designer Series Paper in Fresh Freesia, Soft Seafoam, Lemon Lolly and Bubble Bath. The fifth balloon is stamped in Fresh Freesia ink onto Fresh Freesia Cardstock and the sentiment is stamped in Highland Heather. 

To finish off the card I used the Dots & Spots Die and die-cut in the following colours Bubble Bath, Lemon Lolly and Balmy Blue.

 

Celebration Card

As I was creating my first card, I started to create this second card, using similar colours and products. To create the background panel, I used Bubble Bath Cardstock, layered a strip of Basic White Cardstock cut at 4.2cm x 14.4cm, die-cut out using the Dots & Spots Die and on the other side a strip of polka dots in Vellum Basics 12" x 12" Specialty Designer Series Paper cut at 5.8cm x 14.4cm. To hide the two pieces of paper I added Bubble Bath Sheer Ribbon to the panel.

I've used the Beautiful Balloons Dies again, die-cut out three balloons in Fresh Freesia, Lemon Lolly and Bubble Bath to form my card. As I had so many tiny white dots left over from the Dots & Spots Die I added them to create cute polka dot balloons. I also added more coloured dots to the card in the same colours as the balloons.

To finish off the card I layered the sentiment over the Bubble Bath balloon, tied a bow using Silver Elegant Trim and added some loose Bubble Bath Sheer Ribbon thread left over from another project.

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 Martin Stone for lots of inspiration using dots & spots in his project.

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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.

Here are the products you will need;

Beautiful Balloons Bundle (161457) which includes the stamp set and dies, Dots & Spots Dies (159164), Fresh Freesia Cardstock (155614), Bubble Bath Cardstock (161727), Lemon Lolly Cardstock (161729), Basic White Cardstock (159228), Fresh Freesia Classic Stampin' Pad (155611), Highland Heather Classic Stampin' Pad (147103), Vellum Basics 12" x 12" Specialty Designer Series Paper (160839), Subtles 6" x 6" Designer Series Paper (161644), Sheer Ribbon Combo Pack (161635) in Bubble Bath, Simply Elegant Trim (155766) and Baker's Twine Essentials Pack (155475). 

Please email me if you would like a copy of the 2023-2024 Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue send an email to me here. 

Stampin' Up! May 2023 to April 2024 Annual Catalogue

Happy Stamping

Vicki Boucher