Creation Station Blog Hop - Tweets & Treats

  Hello and welcome

My name is Vicki Boucher, and I am from Melbourne, Australia. This is the latest hop with the design team at Creation Station, if you have come from Martin Stone or you may have started with me. Please make sure you hop around and see everyone's amazing projects. I'll pop a link at the end of my blog to hop around....

The design team at Creation Station are presenting their projects with the theme "Tweets or Treats" anything 3D.

Today's project I've created two Christmas gift packages using the Peekaboo Treat Bags (159252) and other Stampin' Up! products which are located in either the Annual Stampin' Up 2022 - 2023 Catalogue and the Mini July - Dec 2022 Catalogue. I love the treat bags they come in Kraft and White and they are food safe. I've placed a couple of gingerbread biscuits inside them for show. 

Noel Kraft Peekaboo Treat Bag

For my first treat bag I've used the natural Kraft package, using the cluster of stars stamp which is from Spruced Up Stamp Set and stamped it in Crumb Cake ink. I added different types of ribbon and baker's twine for a natural look. 

My go to at the moment is the Celebration Tag Dies which I just love so much! The cute gift tag is die-cut out in Kraft Paper, then I added Soft Suede ink with a Blending Brush and I used the Celebrate with Tags Stamp Set for the To: and From: in Soft Suede ink. The stitched heart & snowflake are die-cut out using Very Vanilla Cardstock and sponged using Crumb Cake ink.

The cute natural wood elements are from the Santa Express Memories & More card pack (159595) there are a variety of different words for Christmas and other occasions, plus stars as well. I use the Fine Tip Glue Pen for these elements.

Made with Love White Peekaboo Treat Bag

Next is a traditional red and white treat bag, this could be for Christmas or any occasion. I love the sentiment from the Celebrate with Tags Stamp Set, I've heat embossed it by stamping the image in Versamark onto Real Red Cardstock, add White Stampin' Emboss Powder and heat set with the Heat Tool. There is a label die to die-cut out the sentiment and I just used the paper snips scissors to cut out the word "with".

I used the same tag die from the Celebrations Tag Dies, die-cut out three tags one in Real Red Cardstock, Snowflake Specialty Vellum and layered over in Basic White Cardstock. The snow flake is die-cut out the same sheet of  Snowflake Specialty Vellum. The cute winter gloves are stamped in Real Red ink onto Basic White Cardstock and die-cut out. To finish off the tag I added White Glittered Organdy Ribbon and White Baker's Twine.

To add some love to the white treat bag, I used the cluster of hearts stamp and stamped the image in Real Red ink. Plus two stitched Real Red hearts.

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 to Julie Mercer Beltramo for lots of inspiration using Tweets or Treats.

Please email me if you would like a copy of the 2022-2023 Annual Catalogue and the July-Dec 2022 Mini 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

Heart of Christmas Blog Hop - Week 6

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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 so looking forward to seeing their beautiful projects using Stampin' Up! products.

Have you had a chance to see the new Stampin' Up! Mini August - December 2021 Catalogue and Saleabration Catalogue? It's almost been a week now and I had to place an order or two! I always love to create cards and paper craft for Christmas. I'm so in love with the catalogues. Stampin' Up! sure know how to give us a variety of products to suit everyone.

Tonight's project for me is all about sweet treats and I've used the Sweets & Treats Stamp Set and created a slimline card. This stamp set is in the Stampin' Up! Mini Catalogue on page 11. I almost didn't see it until I saw an amazing card by Mikaela from The Crafty oInk Pen and it went straight to the top of my wish list!

This stamp set is perfect for not only Christmas but also thanks, love and birthday's as well. I love the open-art images which makes colouring in with your favourite colouring tools fun! It sure is money well spent.

The card base is Cinnamon Cider Cardstock cut at 21cm x 20cm and scored at 10.5cm. I've used the Gingerbread & Peppermint 6"x 6" DSP a panel in Gingerbread with white icing. As it's only measured at 6"s long, I've cut an extra piece and you can hardly tell the difference of the two pieces joining up.

The panel of Basic White Cardstock is light sponged with Misty Moonlight Ink with the Blending Brush. The pale blue brings out the colours of the sweets.

The stamped images are in Black Memento Ink and coloured in with the Stampin' Blends - Real Red, Cinnamon Cider, Old Olive, Smoky Slate, Crumb Cake and Ivory. I wanted the cakes to look like it's in a sweets shop so I've use the cake stand to create shelves. There was lots of fussy cutting involved, but it was so much fun to create. The greeting is from another stamp set as I needed something to fit inside the pudding, so I've used the Penguin Place 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 Theresa Gerrard 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