Ros Davidson, Independent Stampin' Up!® demonstrator, Melbourne, Australia

Colour Creations #17 - Garden Green

Our seventeenth colour we are focusing on for the colour collections blog hop is "garden green" from the regals collection. I have chosen garden green, melon mambo and coastal cabana from the colour coach to work with today for my creation. 
Here is my garden green card from 2018. 

I am calling my card today my not so garden green card as it started out greener in my head! I started with a misty moonlight sponged background that I added water droplets to (some a little larger than I intended and not exactly where I wanted!) and some Wink of Stella droplets (again larger and not where I wanted but moving on...)
I used 3 of the 4 houses from Coming Home stamp set, stacked to look like one house and I coloured main portion of the house with the melon mambo stampin' blend. I added a coastal cabana door using the woodgrain paper from the brights designer series paper stack and coloured the windows in with pool party stampin' blend. I finished the house with colouring the roof in with a smoky slate stampin' blends.
The trees are garden green sponged cardstock fussy cut with the trunks coloured with soft suede stampin' write marker and finished on whisper white die cut cardstock.
I hand cut a path from smoky slate cardstock and finished the card front off with a Merry Christmas embossed sentiment from Christmas Gleaming stamp set and some of my homemade faux resin dots in garden green. 


Close up view


Inside card - I used the 4th house from the Coming Home stamp set to decorate the inside of the card and the sentiment is from the Tree Angle stamp set


Catherine is hosting the colour creations blog hop each week and she has links for all the other ladies participating. 

Live in Australia? Click on the products below to purchase them today!  

Coming Home Bundle [155144] $81.00	Tree Angle Photopolymer Stamp Set [153442] $30.00	Christmas Gleaming Cling Stamp Set (En) [150464] $37.00	Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708] $10.00
Card Stock A4 Smoky Slate [131291] $15.25	Smoky Slate Classic Stampin' Pad [147113] $13.00	Smoky Slate Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154904] $15.50	Garden Green A4 Card Stock [108605] $15.25
Garden Green Classic Stampin' Pad [147089] $13.00	Misty Moonlight Classic Stampin' Pad [153118] $13.00	Pool Party Stampin' Blends Markers Combo Pack [144605] $15.50	Melon Mambo A4 Card Stock [119980] $15.25
Melon Mambo Classic Stampin' Pad [147051] $13.00	Melon Mambo Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [153112] $15.50	Whisper White A4 Card Stock [106549] $17.00	Brights 6" X 6" (15.2 X 15.2 Cm) Designer Series Paper [152487] $20.00
Neutrals Stampin' Write Markers [147158] $52.50	Regals Stampin' Write Markers [147155] $52.50	Versamark Pad [102283] $16.50	Heat Tool [129056] $50.00
Silver Stampin' Emboss Powder [109131] $10.50	Clear Wink Of Stella Glitter Brush [141897] $11.50	Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine [149653] $209.00

Stampin' Up! 24 hour sale, today only 15% select stamp sets

For today only (Wednesday, September 23rd) until 11.59pm, you can purchase select cling and photopolymer stamp sets at a 15% discount. 

Shop now here and grab 1 or more than 1 of the 59 stamp sets on sale! 

Stampin' Up! 24hr Stamp Set Sale, September 23rd

The Hottest Stamp Sale of the Year!

Stock up on stamp sets at a stellar price! For one day only, you can purchase select cling and photopolymer stamp sets at a 15% discount. This short, stamp-tacular sale only happens once a year. You won’t want to miss out on these super savings! 


Download the stamps on sale flyer

Some of my favourite stamps on sale are:

To a wild rose
A grand kid
Massive thanks
Dry brush
Zany zebras

There’s HEAPS on the list, 59 to be exact! On Wednesday, September 23rd there will be a specific place in the online store you’ll be able to shop directly from.

Mark your calendars! You won’t want to miss this 15% sale!

Custom Envelope for a Slimline Card

Do you remember when I shared this Daffodil Delight card? Well it was my attempt at a slimline card (my version was 17.5cm x 10cm) and I didn't have an envelope for it. Since I made the card, it has been sitting on the side of my desk waiting for an envelope. I finally got around to making one and used some old DSP as it matched the card perfectly.


I have included a diagram of my envelope sketch. As you can see, I begun with a piece of 23cm x 23.5cm DSP and scored it at 5.5cm and 16.5cm and rotated it 90 degrees and scored it at 2.5cm and 21cm. I then did angle cuts (as shown in red) and cut away the pink areas.


I am happy I now have an envelope for my emoji birthday card and a sketch for reference for when I make another card/envelope this size again. Hopefully, this helps you if you make a card this size as well. 

Colour Creations #16 - Flirty Flamingo

Our sixteenth colour we are focusing on for the colour collections blog hop is "flirty flamingo" from the brights collection. I have chosen flirty flamingo, gorgeous grape and night of navy from the colour coach to work with today for my creation. 
Here is my flirty flamingo card from 2018. 

For my card today I have tried a new take on the scrappy strip technique, (it's really a step up from that) called the mosaic technique. You cut angled strips of cardstock and adhere them across your cardstock horizontally and then cut your cardstock in thin strips. I'd love to make you a video of the technique but you will have to make do with my terrible description as I currently have no voice. Here's a scrappy strip card I have made previously if you need a visual of the technique. 
I added in some gold foil cardstock as I wanted a lighter colour to go with my trio colour palette and I liked the pop the gold foil gave. I heat embossed my sentiment in gold stampin' emboss powder to tie it back into the card and filled in some blank space with my faux resin dots.


Close up


Inside card - I used sponge daubers and inkpads to give the multi coloured birthday sentiment  


Catherine is hosting the colour creations blog hop each week and she has links for all the other ladies participating. 

Live in Australia? Click on the products below to purchase them today! 

Best Year Cling Stamp Set (English) [152568] $35.00	Happiest Of Birthdays Cling Stamp Set (English) [152539] $33.00	Basic Black A4 Card Stock [121688] $15.25	Night Of Navy A4 Card Stock [106577] $15.25
Night Of Navy Classic Stampin' Pad [147110] $13.00	Gorgeous Grape A4 Cardstock [147011] $15.25	Gorgeous Grape Classic Stampin' Pad [147099] $13.00	Flirty Flamingo A4 Cardstock [141421] $15.25
Flirty Flamingo Classic Stampin' Pad [147052] $13.00	Whisper White A4 Card Stock [106549] $17.00	Versamark Pad [102283] $16.50	Gold Foil Sheets [132622] $8.75
Heat Tool [129056] $50.00	Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder [109129] $10.50	Fine-Tip Glue Pen [138309] $12.00