Your Creative Connection Halloween #YCC116

Hello and welcome

Today's project with the Your Creative Connection is all about Halloween or Autumn and I have chosen Halloween for my 3D creation. I always love this time of year and Halloween is getting bigger in Australia. My kids love to dress up and going Trick or Treating! Giving out gifts and treats is always a fun tradition. 

For my project I've used the Mini Pizza Box, lots of Dies and the very cute Have a Hoot Bundle. The owl is so cute peeking over his cape looking at the bat and the Silver Foil Spider Web. I've used different textures and many layers with different Stampin' Up! products from the August - December 2020 Mini Catalogue and the 2020/21 Annual Catalogue.

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 To start with the Mini Pizza Box, inking up the box with Memento Ink and a Stamping Sponge until the box is completely covered. To achieve the black shimmer fill a Stampin' Spritzer with Rubbing Alcohol, a couple of drops of Frost White Shimmer Paint and spritz all over the box. I like to spritz my projects in a cardboard box and outside too. 

I've created a belly band for my 3D project, using the gorgeous Magic in this Night DSP measurements are 12"x 3" and secured with Tear and Tape. I just love the Silver Metallic Mesh Ribbon against the DSP and it's perfect against the black paper.

I love to use glitter in my projects, I've used the largest die from the Forever Flourish Dies in Black Glitter Paper and you'll find this specialty paper in the Stampin' Up! Mini Catalogue on page 53. 

Adding a balance of Silver Foil by using the Sunflower Dies for the sprigs, the Peek A Hoot Dies for the spider web and the moon. 

The black tag is one of three from the Peek A Hoot Dies, I've used the largest one in Basic Black Cardstock, spritzed it with my mix of Frost White Shimmer Paint and Rubbing Alcohol in the Stampin' Spritzer. I've added the combination of the Metallic Mesh Ribbon and Gray Granite Shimmer Ribbon to the tag.

The cute owl is stamped in Memento Ink and coloured in with the Stampin' Blends in the following colours - Smoky Slate, Highland Heather, Blackberry Bliss, Daffodil Delight and Pumpkin Pie. The tag is layered over the die cut pieces using Stampin' Dimenisonals. I've decided to not use a sentiment as the gift box speaks for it self.

Now it's time to visit the lovely Dawn Olchefske in Minneapolis, USA and see her beautiful project.

Here's the list of participants from around the world

Barbara Meyer - Austria

Kristine McNickle - New Zealand

Jenn Tinline - Canada

Janneke Dijkstra - de Jong - Netherlands

Vicki Boucher - Australia

Dawn Olchefske - USA

Thank you for visiting my blog today. Need a Mini 2020 Catalogue or any of these products? You can visit my online store here.

Happy Stamping

Vicki Boucher

 

Week 1 AWH Colour Creations weekly showcase Balmy Blue

Hello and welcome to Week 1 with the Art With Heart Colour Creations weekly showcase which the lovely Catherine Proctor will be running a weekly blog and other members from the Art With Heart Team. This week we start off with Balmy Blue and I hope we will inspire you with our variations of this beautiful colour.

Balmy Blue is from the Subtles Collection, it’s available in Ink, Cardstock, DSP, Blends and more. I’ve created a card using some of these products, I’ve match Balmy Blue with Night of Navy and Highland Heather.

I started off with the card base using Balmy Blue Cardstock, stamped the splatted stamp in Balmy Blue Ink on the Cardstock. The stamp is from the Painted Poppies Stamp Set and is caring over into the new Stampin’ Up! 2020 – 2021 Annual Catalogue. I’m so happy to see this beautiful Stamp Set and coordinating Dies in the Annual Catalogue.

I’ve stamped both of the Poppy Stamps in Night of Navy Ink onto Whisper White Cardstock and coloured them in with the Stampin’ Blends using the light & dark Balmy Blue, light Night of Navy and light Highland Heather. The leaves are in Balmy Blue Stampin’ Blends.

To create the striped DSP, I’ve used a panel of Whisper White Cardstock by mixing Balmy Blue Ink and Frost White Shimmer Paint onto an acrylic block, this gives the ink a pearl shine to it. Refer to the photo below.

Using the Paper Trimmer as a guidance, place the Cardstock under the ruler and use an Aqua Painter (which is now retired, but we have a new product called Water Painters) to create the stripes onto the Cardstock. See the photo below.

The sentiment is from the Rooted in Nature Stamp Set and is stamped in Night of Navy Ink onto Whisper White Cardstock.

Please visit Catherine’s blog to see her creation and the links to all of the other participants who have taken part in this week’s showcase.

Thank you for visiting my blog today, I hope you’ve enjoyed how I’ve used Balmy Blue. Make sure you come back next week to see Basic Grey in our projects.

If you would like the new Stampin’ Up! 2020 – 2021 Annual Catalogue, I would be happy to send you a copy out to you. Please contact me here.

Happy Stamping

 

Vicki Boucher

 

Product List

Ink: Balmy Blue and Night of Navy

Cardstock: Balmy Blue and Whisper White

Stamps: Painted Poppies and Rooted In Nature

Dies: Painted Labels

Colouring Tools: Aqua Painter (retired) and Frost White Shimmer Paint

Stampin’ Blends: Balmy Blue, Night of Navy and Highland Heather

Colour Creations ~ Week 40 ~ Powder Pink ~ Art With Heart

Hello and welcome to my blog with the lovely ladies from Art With Heart Colour Creations Blog Hop.

Today is week 40 and we are playing along with Powder Pink one of the In Colors for 2017-2019.

Powder Pink is a favourite colour of mine and it will be retiring soon as of the 31st of May 2019. I decided to use this colour with Basic Black and Whisper White. Using lots of different layers and mediums with Stampin' Up! products.

I decided I just had to use the Sale-A-bration free item Country Floral Dynamic Textured Embossing Folder. It's so beautiful with the raised textures of flowers and foliage on the Cardstock, I think it's a must have for any crafter. The best thing is it's free with any purchase of $90 until the 31st of March 2019. 

I used the largest Rectangle Stitched Framelit to die cut the Cardstock and I sponged with a Dauber using the Frost White Shimmer Paint to highlight the flowers and foliage. 

The Stitched Labels Framelits from the Annual Catalogue was used in Powder Pink, Black Foil Sheets and Whisper White. I embossed the greeting in Black Stampin' Eboss Powder. The greeting is from the beautiful stamp set Ribbon Of Courage.

To finish off the card I wanted to use the Mini Ruffled Ribbon in Powder Pink this is so pretty, plus I used the Mini Sequin Trim in Black and Polka Dot Tulle Ribbon in Whisper White. I tied the three of them around the card together.

Thank you for visiting my blog and now it's time to visit Catherine Proctor's blog  and the other Art With Heart Team's creations.

Supplies Used

Stamps: Ribbon Of Courage
Papers: Powder Pink, Whisper White and Black Foil Sheet
Ink: Versamark
Tools & Accessories: Country Floral Dynamic TIEF, Rectangle Stitched Framelits Dies, Stitched Labels Framelits, Black Stampin' Emboss Powder, Embossing Buddy, Sponge Dauber, Shimmer Paint Frost White and Metallics Sequin Assortment.
Ribbon & Trim: Powder Pink Mini Ruffled Ribbon, Black Mini Sequin Trim and Whisper White Polka Dot Tulle Ribbon