Week 4 Heart of Christmas Blog Hop

  Hello and welcome

I'll be sharing with you a sneak peek of new products from the Stampin' Up! Mini August - December 2021 Catalogue. 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 Tina Gillespie 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.

Stampin' Up! have the new August - December 2021 Stampin' Up Mini Catalogue which is coming out very soon for our customers. As demonstrators we are lucky receive the catalogue and also pre-purchase products from the Mini Catalogue and there's more exciting news! Stampin' Up! have Sale-A-Bration from 3 August - 30 September 2021 or unless sold out earlier. Choose a FREE Sale-A-Bration product with every $90 AUD or $180 AUD you spend (before shipping and handling). I always love free Stampin' Up! products. It's also a good time to stock up on your crafting supplies.

The Christmas card I've created for tonight's blog hop is using the Merriest Moments Bundle and Hybrid Embossing Folder. Last week I created a landscape orientation card using this bundle, so for this week I wanted to show it in a portrait style card. Portrait cards are my usual style when it comes to card making.

I've used my Blending Brushes to create a softer pink by adding Polished Pink Ink directly onto the image of the stamp with the brush and then stamp the image onto the cardstock. 

Using Basic White Cardstock for the large detail die from the Merriest Frames Dies and this gives you more detail when embossed using the Hybrid Embossing Folder. I've added Mint Macaron Ink for a softer green and it goes nicely with Polished Pink.

The greeting is from the Merriest Moments Stamp Set, stamped in Polished Pink onto Basic White Cardstock which was lightly sponged with Polished Pink Ink. 

The card base is Mossy Meadow Cardstock layered with a panel of Polished Pink Cardstock and on top of that is a panel of Whimsy & Wonder Designer Series Paper. I've used the pretty Mossy Meadow and Polished Pink holly leaf and berries DSP. I really love this combination of green and pink together.

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 Diane Furniss 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, TinaGillespie, 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

Week 3 Heart of Christmas Blog Hop

 Hello and welcome

I'll be sharing with you a sneak peek of new products from the Stampin' Up! Mini August - December 2021 and Saleabration Catalogue. I'm so in love with both catalogues and there is a variety of products to suit everyone.

Tonight's Art With Heart blog hop is hosted by Sharon Davern, 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.

Stampin' Up! have the new August - December 2021 Stampin' Up Mini Catalogue which is coming out very soon for our customers. As demonstrators we are lucky receive the catalogue and also pre-purchase products from the Mini Catalogue and there's more exciting news! Stampin' Up! have Sale-A-Bration from 3 August - 30 September 2021 or unless sold out earlier. Choose a FREE Sale-A-Bration product with every $90 AUD or $180 AUD you spend (before shipping and handling). I always love free Stampin' Up! products. It's also a good time to stock up on your crafting supplies.

The Christmas card I've created tonight is a mixture of bundles, special papers and Saleabration. Again I've used Fresh Freesia as my main colour for the project, I just love this colour and it's a little bit different to the traditional Christmas colours.

I started with the FREE Saleabration Penguin Playmates 12" x 12" Designer Series Paper (this paper is so cute) for my project and decided on the Fresh Freesia snowflake DSP as my base panel. Layered on top of Fresh Freesia Cardstock as the card base.

I wanted to try out the Snowy White 12" x 12" Velvet Sheets which is flocked velvet and die-cut/dry emboss with the Merriest Frames Hybrid Embossing Folder. I was going to go with white but I changed my mind and coloured it with Fresh Freesia Ink and with the Blending Brush. 

The greeting is from the Merriest Moments Stamp Set, stamped in Memento Black Ink onto Basic White Cardstock and die-cut out with the stitched die.

The cute penguin is from the Penguin Place Bundle which comes with the Penguin Builder Punch. The punch also coordinates with the FREE Penguin Playmates 12 x 12 DSP which makes creating cards so much easier. 

I've stamped the penguin in Memento Black Ink onto Basic White Cardstock, for the beak Fresh Freesia Ink and for the flippers Fresh Freesia Cardstock. There are lots of other images from the stamp set, I've stamped the gift packages in Fresh Freesia and fussy cut them out.

To finish off the card I've used the mirrored Silver Foil 12" x 12" and Basic White Cardstock for the snowflakes from the So Many Snow Flakes Dies. I added a little of Clear Wink of Stella to the card, but just a word of warning the glitter doesn't dry on the Snowy Velvet Sheets straight away!

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 Michele Taylor just click on the next button below.

If at anytime you find a broken link please head to the blog of this week’s host of The Heart Of Christmas Blog Hop, Sharon Davern, and she will have the list of all those 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

Colour INKspiration Challenge #103

 

 Hello and welcome,

It's the latest Colour INKspiration Challenge #CI103 and this beautiful photo was chosen by Cheryll Miller one of the Design Crew Members. This colour combo has a tropical feel to this beautiful colour palette and there's a few of the new In Colors in this latest challenge!

The colour combination for #CI103 is Bumblebee, Pale Papaya, Soft Succulent and Evening Evergreen. As well as the chosen colours you may also add Basic White, Basic Black, Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake, Sahara Sand and metallics to your project. We also allow 'Ivory' and 'Bronze' in the Stampin' Blends. If you don't have all the colour palette, feel free to use the closest SU substitute (ie: Crushed Curry instead of Bumblebee .... you get the drift). 

The challenge will run for almost 2 weeks until 7pm (AEST) on Monday 26th July 2021 details to follow at the end of my blog.

I've created a Christmas card using the new Stampin' Up! Merriest Moments Bundle which includes Merriest Frames Hybrid Embossing Folder which is my favourite product from the Mini Catalogue for August - December 2021.

Starting with the card base in Evening Evergreen Cardstock, adding an embossed panel in Evening Evergreen and layered with an embossed panel in Soft Succulent Cardstock using the Hybrid Embossing Folder as per photo below.

I've applied Whisper White Ink with a Sponge Dauber to the foliage for a frosted look.

There are a number of Photopolymer stamp images in the stamp set which have coordinating dies from the Merriest Frames Dies. I've stamped the images in Evening Evergreen, Soft Succulent and Bumblebee these colours remind me of an Australian Christmas colours when combined together.

The greeting is stamped in Evening Evergreen onto Basic White Cardstock and die-cut out using the stitched die. I've added a few of the Pale Papaya Jews from the In Color Jewels 2021 - 2023. 

I hope you can participate in this latest round and as we so look forward to seeing a variety of projects using the challenge colours. Please ensure that your project is new and made specially for this challenge.

Colour INKspiration Challenge #CI103 will run until 7pm (ADET) on Monday 26th July 2021.

Please click on the link here to join the challenge.

Just a reminder to upload your challenge pics straight to the discussion wall and not in an album.

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 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