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

 

Heart of Christmas Stampin' Up! - Week 4

 

Hello and welcome,

Tonight, I'll be blog hopping along with the ladies from Art With Heart Team and we are up to week 4. I've been wanting to join in the hop, but I've been busy and I also came back from holidays in New Zealand with the family. I'll try join in when I can, as I just love making Christmas cards and other projects.

The Heart of Christmas blog hop will be on Monday at 8pm each week until November 28th. I'm so excited to see everyone's beautiful creations, so make sure you hop around. I'll have the link at the end of my blog.

I've created two projects a slimline card and a gift tag using products from the Stampin' Up! July - December 2023 Mini Catalogue. I've used the Decorated with Happiness bundle (159711) 10% bundle savings is located on page 27 I love the hand drawn sketched style images and the variety of detailed die images for your projects. I've also used the Celebrations Tag Dies (159866) which is located on page 67 this die set comes with tags, banners, labels and other shapes. I'm really looking forward to creating with this set over the coming months.

Christmas Slimline Card

To create the slimline card I've used Evening Evergreen Cardstock cut at 21.5 x 18.2cm, score at 9.1cm. Crumb Cake Cardstock cut at 8.6 x 21.2cm. The Decorated with Happiness stamp set is a Two-Step stamp set, it allows you to layer two or more images. It's also a Distinktive stamp set which has special texture that gives added depth and dimension, creating photo-realistic images. 

I've used the large pine boughs image and stamped a number of times in Evening Evergreen ink which gives you depth. I also added Evening Evergreen and Crumb Cake ink with the Blending Brush to the panel.

There are so many different dies from the Decorated Pine Dies to use, so I decided to use the the large pine boughs die and die-cut in Evening Evergreen Cardstock. The baubles and bells are die-cut out in Real Red Cardstock and Red Glimmer Paper. 

To create the label, use Stylish Shapes Dies to create a smaller label for your sentiment by die-cutting the cardstock across the cardstock for a cute, stitched look.

I really love the Textural Elements with a natural wooden element to your paper craft, I added some colour for the berries using dark Cherry Cobbler Stampin' Blend. I used the fine tip end.

Christmas Gift Tag

I wanted to create a gift tag to go with the card and I haven't used the new Celebrations Tag Dies yet.

This cute die has lovely detail with some stitching and scalloped edging. Using Crumb Cake Cardstock for the gift tag and stamping the pine boughs stamp onto the tag. 

Keeping with the same colours as the card, I've added Real Red Ribbon with Linen Thread and Real Red Cardstock and Glimmer Paper for the bell. I've fussy cut out the sentiment.

Now it's time to visit Sharon Davern I can't wait to see her beautiful Christmas project.

Sharon is also the host of the hop with all of the list of the participants, click here to see the list

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 July - December 2022 Mini Catalogue, Saleabration Catalogue and 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