Celebratory Sips for Paper Players 754

Thanks to everyone who played along with Joanne's Tic-Tac-Toe last week. There were many fantastic entries. I'm keen to see what everyone makes of Ann's theme this week: Food or Drink.

My go-to drinks set is Cheers & Sips, along with the fabulous Celebratory Sips DSP. I started with a strip of DSP and that led to the choice of Blackberry Bliss as the base colour and for the mat at the centre.

I embossed the central white panel with the glass folder from Glass and Gardens embossing folders. I curled the top right corner to add a little extra interest.

I'm not usually a ribbon user, but I did have sitting on my desk a roll of the Mossy Meadow and Gold ribbon. With the gold thread running through it, it's so pretty and the colour worked well with the foliage of the DSP. I added a strip of ribbon and a bow to create a horizontal.

 

The two glasses were fussy cut from a piece of the DSP.  I ran the long glass through the SCEM machine to give it the impression of cut glass before mounting it onto the embossed panel. The short glass was popped up on dimensionals. 

I stamped the sentiment in Blackberry Bliss ink and cut it using Stylish Shapes. The embellishments are Strawberry Slush gems.

What kind of food or drink will you celebrate? You can see what the rest of the team have done and link up your entry on The Paper Players page. 

Here's a quick recap of our challenge rules:

1. Create a new paper-craft project specifically for this challenge.
2. Upload your creation to your blog with a link back to us.
3. Please provide a direct link to the post featuring your challenge entry.
4. Please link your card to no more than four challenges, TOTAL, including ours
5. Have fun, and thank you for playing with us!

Don't forget to check out the great inspiration from the rest of the design team.

Jaydee

LeAnne Pugliese

Claire Broadwater

Joanne James

Anne Marie Hile (on leave)

Ann Schach

Jan Clothier - You are here

Stef Perry

Eliz Stewart

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Gallery Blooms for As You See It 356

Welcome to a new challenge at As You See It. This week, we have a sketch to inspire you.

I enjoy a sketch challenge and I particularly like seeing the varied projects that arise from the same starting point. 

I had the Beautiful Gallery DSP on my desk. It's so pretty and I really haven't made enough use of it... yet. 

I started by choosing a design from the DSP stack and cutting it to a suitable width. Then I cut it into horizontally into three pieces the same width. 

I embossed the Basic White card front with the Damask Designs embossing folder, which is part of the Beautiful Gallery suite. After attaching that to the Secret Sea card base, I added the three strips of DSP, making sure to  preserve the pattern and to space them evenly while keeping them to the left, as in the sketch. 

I used the sentiment from Beautiful Motifs and cut it out using a banner from Stylish Shapes. As the colours in the DSP were Cloud Cover and Secret Sea, I cut out some small foliage using the Gallery Blooms dies and arranged them in behind the popped up sentiment banner. 

To finish, I added three large Flat Pearls in Secret Sea to the left of the DSP strips, to suit the sketch, and added two smaller ones to accent the sentiment. 

I'd love to see how you see this sketch!  Visit the As You See It page to link up your entry and to see the rest of the team's inspirations.

If you live in New Zealand and don't have a Stampin' Up Demonstrator, I'd love to be yours. I can help you with ideas, get you catalogues and provide you with Stampin' Up products. You can leave a message in the comments or contact me using any of the methods listed in the Contact Me tab at the top of the page. 

You can stamp with me, and shop with me, from anywhere in New Zealand. Click here.