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

Stampin' Up! occasions catalogue card swap featuring Geared Up Garage bundle

To mark the beginning of the new occasions catalogue I joined with 8 fellow Stampin' Up! demonstrators and we each made 9 cards and traded designed for our displays to share with customers and our teams. Here's my card:

 
I used one of my favourite techniques for the background which is similar to faux silk. I used the brown paper that comes with our Stampin' Up! orders and a glue stick and made a textured background. Isn't the texture it creates amazing? You can create a similar texture by using a brown paper lunch bag. Just make sure you scrunch it up into a ball first and flatten it out before adhering it to cardstock.


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Art With Heart Colour Creations Blog Hop - #21 Granny Apple Green

Our twenty first colour we are focusing on for the colour collections blog hop is granny apple green from the brights collection. I have chosen granny apple green and highland heather from the color coach to work with today. I couldn't make balmy blue work with the other colours I have chosen so I left it out.


I used serene garden stamp set mixed with stampin' blends and the happy birthday thinlets for my card, keeping it very simple and finishing it off with basic rhinestone jewels. A touch of wink of stella on the butterfly adds a tiny bit of bling. 


I have been quite busy of late and it was late at night when I finished this creation (not long before this blog hop) and I sadly didn't make the time to decorate the inside. Now that I have packed up the supplies, I have to go back and finish the inside of the card. Lesson learned, decorate the inside no matter how busy you or (or how late at night it is!)

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

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Clear Wink Of Stella Glitter Brush [141897] $11.50

Stampin' Up! Heart of Christmas #9 2018

For today's Heart of Christmas creation, I have a shaker card to share.
I have used the Christmas staircase thinlets die to cut the shape of the tree and be shaker panel. I filled it with sequins and seed beads. Basic colouring with Stampin' Blends helped complete the card front quickly. 


Another view to see all the shaker pieces


Inside card


Claire is hosting the Heart of Christmas blog hop each week and she has links for all the other ladies participating. 

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Creating with Stampin' Up! World Card Making Day Products

Today is World Card Making Day and I took the opportunity to create today for me. Not for a class, a blog hop, an upcoming birthday or any other reason and it was just what the doctor ordered. It has been a while since I have had "me" time in my craft room and I'll be honest, I have missed it.

I made two cards today and I am calling them two for one. I used a die cut from the soft sayings card kit and sponge daubers and created a die cut frame and background image. Hence the two for one tag line I am using.


As I backed the die cut frame on black cardstock it has helped the colours of the frame "pop" a lot more and the white lines on the background image make the colours I used appear more subtle and subdued, compared to the die cut frame (despite them being the exact same colours). It is interesting how the additional elements you add to a card affects the overall look and colour of it. 

These are the colours I used to sponge dauber onto the die cut and to create the background panel.
To finished off the die cut frame card kept it as simple as I could so the focus was on the die cut image. I used die cut accents from the soft sayings kit and an additional stamp set (jar of love).


Close up


I turned the background image into a shaker card. Basic pearl jewels (coloured with Stampin' Blends marker) were placed in the centre of the flowers and dazzling diamonds in floats in the shaker portion of the card. I stamped on the window sheet with staz on (and detailed with love stamp set) and finished off the card from with some fussy cut stamp images (from Soft Sayings Card Kit).


Close up


Did you know you can get the Soft Sayings Card Kit 10% off till October 7th at 11.59pm (along with a bunch of other basic card making supplies)? See all the products Stampin' Up! have on special for World Card Making Day here. 

Which card is your favourite and did you create on anything on World Card Making Day?


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Dazzling Diamonds Stampin' Glitter [133751] $8.75	Pearl Basic Jewels [144219] $8.75	Foam Adhesive Strips [141825] $14.00

Stampin' Up! Shattered Glass Techniques Class

Readers of my newsletter will know I am bringing back some old techniques classes I've taught to my newer class attendees. Shattered glass technique is one of those techniques I have revisited recently. As with all my techniques classes, all attendees made 2 cards and a sample piece which is stored in a Memories & More album.


Card 1


Card 2



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Stampin' Up! Holiday Catalogue Blog Hop

Tonight the Art with Heart team are sharing creative projects featuring the Holiday Catalogue. We hope our blog hop inspires you to get creative and make some fabulous Christmas creations. If you would like a copy of the Holiday Catalogue, contact any of the girls on the blog hop and we will get in touch with you.

While we are sharing creations from the holiday catalogue,


I'd like to remind you that if you received a bonus days code last month, don't forgot to redeem your coupon code this month when purchasing Stampin' Up! product. Perfect for spending on new holiday catalogue product *wink!*

You may have come to my blog from Tina Gillespie. Blog hops are full circles, so start blog hopping here and and the end of my post (and everyone else's) there is a link to the next post.

Tonight I am sharing a fancy fold card. I have used the stunning large bauble from beautiful baubles as my main focal image coloured with Stampin' blends and made a pop down card. I finished the card off on the inside using the smaller baubles image again from beautiful baubles. 


Close up


Side view of opening/folding


Inside card


Now it’s time to hop on over to our next participant, the very talented Sue Madex. 


If you find a broken link or have come to this blog hop from a different entry point, you can view the participants below:

Caroline Manwaring
Sharon Davern
Tina Gillespie
Ros Davidson
Sue Madex
Claire Daly
Rebecca Jacovou
Catherine Proctor
Rachel Woollard
Alisha Watson
June Kempster
Kate Morgan
Rachel Palmieri
Monika O’Neill 

Stampin' Up! materials used:
Stamps: Beautiful baubles
Cardstock: Real red, whisper white
Inkpads: Memento, sahara sand, real red, flirty flamingo 
Accessories: Big shot, layering circle framelits, pearl basic jewels, tropical escape designer series paper stack, brayer 
Stampin’ blends: Bermuda bay light, mint macaron, cherry cobbler light, poppy parade light, flirty flamingo dark 

Stampin' Up! Heart of Christmas #6 2018

This week I am using Signs of Santa mixed with under the mistletoe designer series paper for a pretty simply card that would be quite easy to mass produce. I used stampin' blends to colour in the santa but if you die cut santa from santa's workshop speciality designer series paper the card would come together even quicker!

I haven't photographed it but the pool party oval the letters J & Y and the santa sit on is die cut from the pool party matt that the designer series paper covers. It is a great way to save cardstock and no one would ever know if you didn't tell them! I made this card in a class recently and the ladies loved the tip of die cutting extras from the matt.


Close up

Inside card

Claire is hosting the Heart of Christmas blog hop each week and she has links for all the other ladies participating. 

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Stampin' Up! Heart of Christmas #5 2018

This week for my fifth Heart of Christmas creation I have used the stunning beautiful baubles stamp set which is perfect for colouring in and I've used Stampin' Blends to colour in my large bauble. Below is the colours I've used to colour in my bauble which together look to be a little interesting but with the dark and light shades available in the Stampin' Blends I think it worked well in the end.

 

Rich Razzleberry

 

Cherry Cobbler

 

Poppy Parade

 

Flirty Flamingo

Inside card


After I stamped the panel for the inside of the card, I realised it would look pretty nice as a card front with a little tweaking.... Hmmm, future card idea?

Claire is hosting the Heart of Christmas blog hop each week and she has links for all the other ladies participating. 

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Stampin' Up! Heart of Christmas #4 2018

Today for the blog hop, I have used the fun new stamp set called "Signs of Santa" from the 2018 holiday catalogue that was released today. If you don't have a copy and would like one, feel free to get in touch with me and i'll pop one in the mail for you (if you are in Australia.) 

I've stamped one of the elves with my stamparatus and have used the "wreath technique" to create my card. After colouring in very simply with stampin' blends I have a fun and vibrant card to add to my Christmas stash.

Edited: I used a 12cm template to create my wreath.


Side view

Claire is hosting the Heart of Christmas blog hop each week and she has links for all the other ladies participating. 

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Art With Heart Colour Creations Blog Hop - #13 Crumb Cake

Our thirteenth colour we are focusing on for the colour collections blog hop is crumb cake from the neutrals collection. I have chosen crumb cake, calypso coral & granny apple green from the color coach to work with today.
I kept today's card rather simple with a heat embossed sentiment and focal image (coloured in with stampin' blends) and a couple of popped up images. I made my own granny apple green ribbon despite Stampin' Up! selling one (but I don't own it). I coloured some whisper white ribbon with the light granny apple green stampin' blend marker and let it dry (it dries rather quickly but the ribbon will feel a littler stiffer than usual). 

Close up

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

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