Art With Heart December Blog Hop Add A Little Sparkle

The Art With Heart Team are back with our last Blog Hop for 2019. Getting in the spirit of Christmas and New Year celebrations, this month our theme is ‘Add A Little Sparkle’. We have a huge range of sparkly  projects to share with you featuring products such as Glimmer paper, Rhinestones, Delicata Ink, Shimmery White cardstock and much more. All of these products are available from Stampin’ Up! and any of these lovely ladies would be happy to assist you.

I was so excited to hear about this theme for our latest blog hop, anything that is made out of glitter is my kind of thing and I’m so happy to be sharing with you my latest Christmas Card using Stampin’ Up! products. Plus I’m using a brand new product that is available for customers in January 2020.

Glitter is so much fun to play with when it comes to using it in your papercraft, cards or scrapbooking. The colour choice for my card I've chosen is Whisper White, Silver (all different types of mediums) and Blushing Bride (a beautiful shade of pink).

I started off with a piece of Silver Foil, run it through with the Corrugated 3D Embossing Folder and the Die Cutting Machine. Then I die cut the embossed Silver Foil paper with the medium size Stitched Rectangle Dies to give the card a nice finished look. I wanted to give the Silver Foil some sparkle so I ran my Versamark Ink Pad along the raised bumps, added Stampin’ Glitter and heat set with the Heat Tool.

I’ve used the Beautiful Boughs Dies for the labels and the Perfectly Plaid Stamp Set for the greetings. Using Silver Stampin’ Emboss Powder to coordinate the colours throughout the card.



The gorgeous snowflakes and leaf foliage are from the Christmas Layers Dies. I’ve die cut them out using Blushing Bride Cardstock and Silver Glimmer paper which is just stunning to use.

The Blushing Bride leaf foliage needed some added sparkle so I used the Shimmery Crystal Effects and sprinkled Stampin’ Glitter on top, wait for it to dry before adding to your papercraft. The snow flakes add a nice touch to the card too.



The card base is Thick Whisper White Cardstock and I’ve randomly stamped the words in Blushing Bride Ink, but I like to stamp off before stamping onto the card. I’ve added Silver Metallic Thread under the top label.

Now for the new product which is available in January 2020 in the Mini Catalogue they are pretty embellishments called From My Heart Faceted Gems. They add some pretty pink sparkle to the card. What do you think?


The next demonstrator to share their sparkly projects with you is the delightful….. Rebecca Jacovou

If you have a broken link or have come to this blog hop midway, you can view all the participants below:



Tina Gillespie

Rachel Woollard

Catherine Proctor

Vicki Boucher

Rebecca Jacovou

Andrea Sargent

Kathryn Ruddick

Caroline Manwaring

To purchase any of these products I’ve used today you can click on my direct links above or visit my Online Store here.

If you would like a catalogue from me please send me a message here.



Thanks for stopping by today!



Happy Crafting 


Vicki Boucher



Product List



Stamps: Perfectly Plaid

Dies: Stitched Rectangle Dies, Christmas Layers Dies and Beautiful Boughs Dies

Ink: Blushing Bride

Cardstock/Paper: Whisper White, Blushing Bride, Silver Glimmer Foil and Silver Foil

Embossing Folders: Corrugated 3D

Colouring Tools: Versamark, Stampin’ Glitter, Embossing Buddy, Sliver Stampin’ Emboss Powder and Heat Tool

Other Stampin’ Up! Products: Silver Metallic Thread, Shimmery Crystal Effects and From My Heart Faceted Gems



   

Creation Station Blog Hop "Put A Ring On It"

Hello and welcome,

I am so excited to be part of this amazing group of Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators who all blog hop at the Creation Station Design Team. The hop is always the first Sunday of every month we have a different theme to create something special. If you’ve started here with me make sure you hop all the through to see Dena Rekow’s amazing creation.

Today’s theme we are going all out “Put a Ring on It” which means creating a Belly Band for cards, boxes, or anything you can think of. I’ve chosen to do a Mini Fold Out Christmas Gift with slide out Gift Tag and Bookmark, plus an area to write a special message.

Have you seen the gorgeous Feels Like Frost DSP? It’s in the current 2019 Holiday Catalogue and it’s just so stunning. There is photographic imagery on one side, hand drawn designs with silver foil on the other side. I just love the colours in the DSP which I’ve used Night of Navy, Seaside Spray, Silver and Whisper White.

The Belly Band has so many layers starting with the strip of Night of Navy Cardstock, I’ve spritzed it with Frost White Shimmer Paint and Rubbing Alcohol combined together in a Stampin’ Spritzer. I’ve used   Feels Like Frost DSP in the band to coordinate with the Mini Fold Out Gift holder.

I’ve added three different types of Ribbon together, Seaside Spray Metallic Ribbon, Whisper White Polka Dot, Silver Metallic Edge Ribbon and wrapping them around the Belly Band. This gives an added soft texture to the Belly Band and I'm happy how I’ve tied the ribbon in a knot.  

The layer of Night of Navy Corrugated Embossed Cardstock has so many elements to it. I’ve used Silver Emboss Powder by lightly placing Versamark Ink Pad in random places on the Embossed Cardstock and sprinkling the Silver Emboss Powder. If I find there’s too much powder, I lightly brush it off before heat setting with the Heat Tool. I wanted to add some more sparkle and go all out with the Shimmery Crystal Effects and Ice Stampin’ Glitter. 

My next layer I’ve used the Beautiful Boughs Dies using the medium size branch die with Whisper White Cardstock and adding Shimmery Crystal Effects with Stampin’ Glitter.

To finish off the Belly Band I’ve placed the Silver Foil die cut image of the deer from the Detailed Deer Dies and Silver Foil Snow Flakes from the Christmas Layers Dies. In each center of the Snow Flakes I’ve added a Clear Epoxy Droplets. The greeting is from the Itty Bitty Christmas Stamp Set using White Stampin’ Emboss Powder, heat set on Night of Navy Cardstock and fussy cut out.

The Belly Band fits nicely over the Mini Fold Out Christmas Gift I found it easier to wrap the band around before sealing it with Tear and Tape. I think this gift would be lovely idea as a teacher’s Thank You gift for my daughter’s teacher. What do you think?

All of the Stampin’ Up! products I’ve used will be at the bottom of this blog and are available at my online store. 

Now it's time to head over to Kathy Brown Kartak on the Design Team and to see her creation.

Be sure to visit everyone’s blog and I’m sure you’ll be inspired to create a Belly Band for someone special too!

Thank you for stopping by!

Happy Crafting


Vicki Boucher

To purchase any of these products I’ve used today you can click on my direct links above or visit my Online Store here.

Product List
Paper/Cardstock: Night of Navy, Whisper White, Silver Foil and Feels Like Frost 6” x 6” DSP
Ink: Night of Navy and Seaside Spray
Stamps: Still Scenes, So Many Stars and Itty Bitty Christmas
Dies: Snow Globe Scenes, Beautiful Boughs, Christmas Layers and Detailed Deer
Punches: Delightful Tag Topper
Embossing Folder: Corrugated 3D
Embellishments: Clear Epoxy Droplets
Ribbon: Seaside Spray ¼” Metallic Ribbon, Whisper White 5/8” Polka Dot Tulle Ribbon and Silver 3/8” Metallic Edge Ribbon
Colouring Tools: Stampin’ Spritzers, Frost White Shimmer Paint, Versamark, Heat Tool, Stampin’ Glitter, Embossing Buddy, Silver Stampin’ Emboss Powder, White Stampin’ Emboss Powder, Ice Stampin’ Glitter and Shimmery Crystal Effects

#TGIFC236 Color Challenge

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Today I will be sharing a card that I’ve created for the TGIF Challenges and it’s a color challenge. I just love to do a challenge when I can.

The latest challenge is #TGIFC236 using the following colors Pear Pizzazz, Early Espresso and Calypso Coral. These colors remind me of the Autumn season but they also can be masculine colors too. That’s why I’ve created this card for my Father In-law, his birthday is coming up later in November and I just love the combination of this color palette.

If you’ve been following my creations for a while you may of seen my hubby’s birthday card that I created back in May for his birthday. Well I just love the layout so much that I wanted to create a similar card for his Father. The Rooted In Nature Stamp Set and coordinating Nature’s Roots Dies from the Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue are just perfect for a masculine card.

I started off with the card base in Early Espresso, added a layer of Calypso Coral and Early Espresso for the card front. Before layering the two pieces of Cardstock, I ran my Paper Snips along the edge and curled the corners with my Bone Folder to give the card an old look. I also stamped the leaf image onto the Early Espresso Cardstock.

I used a piece of Calypso Coral Cardstock and ran it through the Die Cutting Machine with the Corrugated Embossing Folder. To give the corrugated some depth, I lightly ran the Calypso Coral Ink pad over the Cardstock. What do you think of this technique? 

The leaves have been stamped in Pear Pizzazz Ink onto Pear Pizzaz Cardstock and I also repeated this with the Calypso Coral leaves. Once the leaves have been die cut out, I then used a Sponge Dauber in the same coordinating color and sponged ink around the edge of the leaves. 


To give the card some shine I’ve used the gorgeous Celestial Copper Ink, stamped the smaller leaf image onto Early Espresso Cardstock and die cut the images out.

I stamped the greeting in Early Espresso Ink onto a piece of Crumb Cake Cardstock, die cut out with the Stitched Nested Labels one of the smaller dies. Sponged Early Espresso Ink with the Sponge Dauber and lightly sponged around the edge of the Cardstock.


To finish off the card I tied a small double bow using Line Thread which coordinates well with these colors.


Thank you for visiting my blog today. To see the other amazing creations from the TGIF Challenge team pleaseclick on the link here.

Happy Crafting

Vicki Boucher  

Stampin' Up! Rooted In Nature Birthday Card

Hello and welcome,

Today I wanted to share with you a card that I created for my hubby’s birthday. Blue is a colour that he likes and I wanted to use one of the New In-Colors for 2019-2021 called Seaside Spray which is available next month.

The card was cased from Connie Collins who was an Artisan in 2018 and she created a similar card using the colour Soft Suede. I’ve seen it pop up on Pinterest many times.

I used Night of Navy Cardstock and ran a piece through the Big Shot with the Corrugated Embossing Folder. I wanted to highlight the corrugated look with some Copper Embossing Powder, so I lightly sprinkled it on and heat embossed.

The larger leaves were stamped in Seaside Spray and Night of Navy. I then used a Sponge Dauber in theses colours for different shades on the leaves. 

The greeting I’ve used is one of the sentiments from the stamp set Picture Perfect Birthday. I stamped the image with VersaMark Ink and used Copper Embossing Powder. I’ve used a new Die which is available next month called Stitched Nested Labels and I’ve sponged the edges in Seaside Spray with a Sponge Dauber.

To finish off the card I used the Copper Trim which can be stretched to make the trim wide. I love this effect. The fine Copper Metallic Thread was wrapped around my hand and placed down before adding the greeting.

Hope you liked my card and thank you for visiting my blog.

Product List

Stamps: Rooted In Nature and Picture Perfect Birthday

Dies: Stitched Nested Labels

Cardstock: Night Of Navy and Seaside Spray

Ink: Night Of Navy, Seaside Spray, Versamark Ink

Tools and Accessories: Big Shot, Sponge Daubers, Corrugated Embossing Folder, Copper Trim, Metallic Thread in Copper, Stitched Nested Labels Dies, Nature’s Roots Dies