Friday 27 September 2019

As You See It 210 - Design Team Card

It's recipe week at As You See It: take all the ingredients and see what you can cook up with them!



So, you can make whatever you like - as long as we can see a leaf, a die cut, some twine, a tag and a get well sentiment.

I don't often do packaging but I thought that this recipe suited it. I've made a gift bag for someone who's under the weather. It could easily hold some handcream, some lip balm, maybe some tissues or some sweet treats and maybe even a scratch ticket or two for luck.

I used some paper from Magnolia Lane and although I used the now retired Gift Bag Punch Board, it could happily be made without one - although a scoring board would be useful.


There are leaves on that gorgeous Magnolia Lane DSP plus I've added some diecut leaves. As well as the die cut leaves, the flower petals and stamen are all die cut too. There's twine around the ribbon. The tag was made using the Scalloped Tag Topper punch and the corner rounder on the Detailed Trio punch. The get well sentiment is from Dandelion Wishes.


We'd love to see what you do with this challenge. Visit the As You See It Challenge blog to see what the rest of the team have done and to link up your entry.

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Wednesday 25 September 2019

Colour INKspiration 64 - Crew Card


There's another adorable, enticing challenge graphic to get our mojo moving at Colour INKspiration this week. Isn't it marvellous?


If you haven't played with us before, we're a group of Australian and New Zealand Stampin' Up Demonstrators. You can play with us by joining in our Facebook group here which will let you play along, comment and vote for your favourite from the top 5 selected by the crew.

In addition to the challenge colours, you can freely use Whisper White, Very Vanilla, Basic Black, Crumb Cake, metallics and skin-tone blends. If you don't have the exact challenge colours, you can substitute with your nearest-to colours.

Although I was very tempted by the bouquet to get out a floral set, I decided that this set of colours would work well as a gender-neutral baby card. For all things baby, my go-to is Little Elephant.

This sweet little circular easel card fits perfectly into a 12cmx12cm envelope.



I've used the largest of the Layering Circles dies to create the card. Small, but perfectly formed!


The clear epoxy hearts make the perfect embellishment for this mini-card.

Next up on the hop, with some more inspiration for you, is Lou Kitzelman


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Tuesday 24 September 2019

Retro Rubber 120 - Design Team Card

Anything Goes is always a popular challenge at Retro Rubber and I look forward to seeing what everyone gets up to this time round.



Of course, this being RETRO Rubber, although it's anything goes you still need to use at least one stamp that's a year or more old AND tell us the approximate age of it.

I like the way that using older stamps with newer products gives them a new lease on life. In this case, I paired up Love What You Do, from the 2018-19 Annual Catalogue, with the 2019-2021 In Colours to create a set of blank notecards. I like to have some no-occasion cards on hand.


I used the block stamp to colour all the flowers except Purple Posy. As the ink pad is not in production at the moment, I coloured it with the matching Stampin' Blend instead. The flower outline, the foliage, the colour 'blob' and the background blob are all part of the useful Love What You Do set.


To see what the rest of the team have done with this sketch, and to link up your entry, pop over to the Retro Rubber Challenge site.

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NOTE: At the time of writing (29 August) Purple Posy inkpads were unavailable but coming soon.  All other colours are available as individual ink pads.