Stamping Sunday Blog Hop - Stocking Fillers

 Hello and welcome,

My name is Vicki Boucher and I'm from Melbourne, Australia. Today is the Stamping Sunday blog hop for the month of November and for this month's theme is "Stocking Fillers". It's the 3rd Sunday of the month and can you believe it we are not too far away until the end of the year! I'm looking forward to seeing everyone's projects and you'll be able to see them by clicking on their names which will be at the end of my blog.

This was a fun challenge to think about and I went with two cute treat boxes using the Envelope Treat Boxes (159788) and they are for my two daughters; I'll be popping them into their Christmas stockings. 

I recently received a new order from Stampin' Up! and it's always exciting to receive new products which is from the new Mini Catalogue Jan-April 2024. I just love it! There are so many pretty items, and my wish list is very long! One of the items is the Mini Alphabet Dies (162934) which will be available for customers in January 2024. They are perfect for cute labels such as these treat boxes. 

For the Pool Party treat box, I used the Silver & Gold Glimmer 12" x 12" Adhesive Backed Glimmer Paper (162288) for the letters. It's just gorgeous and I love that it has adhesive on the back of the paper.

 

For the pink treat box, I used the Berry Burst Soft Shimmer Paper 12" x 12" Specialty Paper (161750) for the letters. I just love a little bit of sparkle added to my projects.

I haven't used Shimmery White Embossing Paste in a while and I recently got this amazing tip from fellow Artisan Mikaela Titheridge, she used White Embossing Paste to create snow and applied to the detailed pine die-cut pieces. I love this die and it's from the Joy of Noel Dies (161965) I also added Clear Wink of Stella and Pool Party ink with the Blending Brush applying to the white die-cut pine pieces. It adds the perfect glimmer to your projects.

The images from the Christmas Classics Dies (161976) makes the perfect focal point for this treat box, die cutting the images in Basic White Cardstock and then adding Bubble Bath and Berry Burst ink with a Blending Brush. Then I added Clear Wink of Stella to the foliage and layered over Berry Burst belly band.  

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

Please email me if you would like a copy of the new 2023-2024 Annual and Mini Jan-April 2024 Catalogue, 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. 

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Happy Stamping

Vicki Boucher

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

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

 

Stamping Sunday Blog Hop Small Gifts and Tags

Hello and welcome,

It's Stamping 2nd Sunday latest blog hop for November, hosted by Sara Levin and for this month the design team will be showcasing the theme 'Small Gifts and Tags' in our projects. The list of participants will be at the end of this blog.

Today's projects are a Mini Christmas Paper Pumpkin Box and two Christmas gift tags using the Whimsical Trees Bundle, Gingerbread Dies, Tailor Made Tags Dies, Playful Alphabet Dies and lots of other different types of Stampin' Up! products from the Mini and Annual Stampin' Up! Catalogue. 

The Mini Paper Pumpkin gift box is great for all of those yummy treats at Christmas time and it's food safe as well. I've used the emboss resist technique for the snow flakes stamps which is from the Snowflake Wishes Stamp Set in the Annual Catalogue. The colours I've used are Soft Succulent and Cinnamon Cider Ink with the Blending Brush. 

I added a gift tag to the gift box using the large die from the Tailor Made Tags Dies, adding ink in the same colours as above mentioned through out my projects. The sentiment is stamped off three times in Cinnamon Cider Ink to give it a vintage feel. 

The addition of the boarder piece die-cut from the Gingerbread Dies in Basic White Cardstock and I added a little Cinnamon Cider Ink to the piece. 

I've used the iridescent foil snowflakes which are from the Wonderful Snowflakes and layered with the trio of Christmas Trees Dies. I love the new white Classic Matte Dots which will be available in the Mini Stampin' Up! January to June 2022 Catalogue.

I've created two Christmas gift tags which complement nicely with the gift box and I've used the same colours and techniques. 

The first gift tag I've used the Timeworn Type 3D Embossing Folder and the greeting stamped in Cinnamon Cider Ink and is from the Whimsical Trees Stamp Set. I just love this so much! I've combined the Linen Thread and White Faux Linen Ribbon to the tag 

For the second tag I've used the Playful Alphabet Dies and Adhesive Sheets. I've added Cinnamon Cider Ink with a Blending Brush and applied ink to a strip of Basic White Cardstock using the Ombre technique. The greeting is layered on a smaller die-cut tag from the Tailor Made Tags Dies. I also splattered Cinnamon Cider Ink using the Stampin' Blend and flick ink against the lid to the Cardstock.

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

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

1.	Sara Levin
2.	Su Mohr
3.	Tami Hewlett
4.	Jay Soriano
5.	Vicki Boucher
6.	Cheryll Miller

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

Creation Station Blog Hop - Specialty Paper

Hello and welcome, if you have come from the talented Denita Wright-Smee who is also from Australia or you may of started with me. Please make sure you hope around and see everyone's 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 "Specialty Paper" I've used the new Ever Eden 12" x 12" Specialty Designer Series Paper and Cork 12" x 12" Specialty Paper for my creations. 

The Ever Eden Specialty DSP is part of the Eden's Garden Collection which is an exclusive early release which consists of Eden's Garden Bundle 10% off (Eden's Garden Stamp Set and Eden Dies) which is part of the Stampin' Up! Mini Jan - June 2022 Catalogue. The stunning Ever Eden 12 x 12 DSP, Ever Eden 12 x 12 Cotton Paper and Garden Gems are only available while supplies last. I was so excited when I received my order and just how stunning the Specialty Paper is. I just had to buy two! I love the different tones of Soft Succulent, Evening Evergreen and the addition of Gold Foil through out the paper.

I've also used the Cork 12" x 12" Specialty Paper which is from the Stampin' Up! Mini July - December 2021 Catalogue. I love it's nature inspired look and it also has gold flecks throughout. You receive 2 sheets and it's perfect for adding layers, scrapbooking, card making, die-cutting and more!

3D Christmas Wreath Treat Box

When I started creating my projects it was the Scalloped Kraft Treat Box that was my inspiration to begin with. Using both of the Specialty Papers they balanced well against the Kraft Box with the gold polka dots and the stunning Gold Shimmer Ribbon.

I've cut the Ever Eden DSP to cover the top of the box and wrapped the Gold Shimmer Ribbon around the box. The next layers are Tailor Made Dies, I've added Stampin' Dimensionals under the DSP, so the ribbon can be removed. 

Next I've used the wreath die which is from the Seasonal Swirl Dies in the Cork and Ever Eden DSP layered over the tags. I added a few of the Cherry Cobbler round Garden Gems to the wreath for a little sparkle.

The greeting fits perfect using the Eden Dies. The sentiment is from Sparkle of the Season Stamp Set and is heat embossed using Versmark Ink, Gold Stampin' Powder and heat set with the Heat Tool. This was the only stamping I did when creating my projects.

Christmas Wreath Card

Starting off with Evening Evergreen Cardstock for the card base, layered with a panel of the Ever Eden 12" x 12" Specialty Designer Series Paper and I added a circle die-cut from the Layering Circle Dies as my base for the wreath.

I just love a Christmas wreath and the small leaf die from the Eden Dies is perfect! Using the Ombre sheet side from the Ever Eden 12" x 12" Specialty Designer Series Paper and with lots of die-cutting, you'll be able to make a wreath too. I also added a few of the Cork 12" x 12" Specialty Paper to add some contrast. To finish off the wreath I added Soft Succulent marquise Garden Gems. 

Next I used the label die from Eden Dies in Cork Specialty Paper and for the greeting I used the Playful Alphabet Dies using the Ever Eden Specialty Paper. To give the letters some height I've used Foam Adhesive Sheets.

Christmas Gift Tag

A last minute addition to the trio of my creations. As I had a few pieces left over I wanted to create a Christmas Gift Tag using both of the Specialty Papers and Tailor Made Tags Dies.

The addition of the trio of Christmas trees which are from the Christmas Trees Dies they are so cute! The greeting is using the Ombre sheet from the Ever Eden Specialty DSP, Playful Alphabet Dies and Foam Adhesive Sheets.

The Christmas tag is finished off using the Soft Succulent Open Weave Ribbon and White Baker's Twine.

The best thing about this stunning paper from Eden's Garden Collection is you can use it for any occasion and with the festive season coming up soon it's perfect for paper crafting. All of the above products are available in my online store.

Now it's time to visit the very creative Mikaela Titheridge from the UK to see her projects and visit her blog. I'm looking forward to reading all about her creations. Just click on the next link below.

Need the supplies that I've mentioned above? You can purchase all Stampin' Up! products from my online store here or send me a message and I'll be happy to help you out with your order.

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

If you would like a copy of the new Stampin' Up! Mini August to December 2021 Catalogue and Annual Catalogue 2021 - 2022 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

Week 5 Heart of Christmas Blog Hop

 

Hello and welcome

Tomorrow is the day! The brand new Stampin' Up! Mini August - December 2021 Catalogue and Saleabration Catalogue goes live. I always love to create cards and paper craft for Christmas and I'm so in love with the new mini catalogue. Stampin' Up! sure know how to give us a variety of products to suit everyone.

Tonight's Art With Heart blog hop is hosted by Rachel Woollard with a selection of members from the Art With Heart Team who will be joining in. I'm looking forward to seeing their beautiful projects using Stampin' Up! products.

I've created a lovely bundle which all goes nicely together using the Peaceful Place 12 x 12 Designer Series Paper which comes in Smoky Slate, Basic Gray, Black and Silver. There are 12 sheets, 2 each of 6 double-sided designs. This paper is stunning! I just love the designs and there's a touch of silver throughout the DSP.

The Designer Series Paper comes in the Peaceful Place Suite which I'm yet to purchase all of the products in this suite. There's the Peaceful Cabin Stamp Set & Cabin Dies, I do have the Snowy White Velvet Sheets and that's beautiful. The Timber 3D Embossing Folder, Subtle Shimmer Sequins and the White Glittered Organdy Ribbon which I also do have. The items I don't have are sure on my wish list!

Mini Paper Pumpkin 3D Box

The white Paper Pumpkin Box can be put together quickly, needs no adhesive and is food safe. I've created a belly band using the Peaceful Place DSP. 

Using the Stitched Rectangles Dies I've die-cut out using the Silver Foil Specialty Paper and a smaller die for the Peaceful Place DSP. Then layering them on top of one another.

I finally purchased the Black Glittered Organdy Ribbon and I wish I had purchased it a long time ago. It's stunning to work with and I've created a bow for on top of the box using lots of Glue Dots.

The greeting is from Holly Jolly Wishes Stamp Set which has lots of different sentiments for Christmas. I've heat embossed the greeting using Versamark Ink onto Basic Black Cardstock, White Stampin' Emboss Powder and heat set with the Heat Tool. Then I've die-cut using the stitched die from Stitched So Sweetly Dies. I also added a few silver foil snowflakes from the So Many Snowflakes Dies.

Card 

One of  the sheets from Peaceful Place DSP comes in a 6 x 6 quadrant to be cut into 4 and used as a background for your paper crafting. 

I've layered one of the backgrounds to Basic Black card base and added the sentiment using Black Emboss Powder and heat set with the Heat Tool. A very simple but elegant card created in no time.

Gift Tags

I've created two gift tags using the Peaceful Place DSP in shades of Smoky Slate and Basic Gray. Using the Tailor Made Tags Dies and die-cut the DSP out. I've layered the DSP onto either Basic White or Basic Black Cardstock which has also been die-cut out with the Tag Dies. 

Using White Glittered Ribbon and White Baker's Twine for one of the tags and the other is White Faux Linen Ribbon with White Baker's Twine. The white heat embossed Sentiment is from Holly Jolly Wishes Stamp Set.

I hope I've inspired you to start creating your own Christmas projects using paper craft. Stampin' Up! have so many beautiful products and I just love how it all coordinates.

Well that's it for me and I'm so excited to see everyone's Christmas projects so make sure you hope around the blog hop. Next up is Christine Blain just click on the next button below.

If at any time you find a broken link please head to the blog of this week’s Host of the Heart of Christmas Blog Hop, Rachel Woollard, and she will have the list of all who are participating.

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

If you would like a copy of the new Stampin' Up! Mini August to December 2021 and Saleabration Catalogue 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