Celebratory Sips for Paper Players 736

 Claire's gorgeous sketch gave us such wonderful entries last week at The Paper Players. Thank you to everyone who joined in with us. I'm interested to see what everyone makes with Joanne's theme challenge this week. 

All of us manage to find new bits and bobs for our craft room. If you're a Stampin' Up! demonstrator you might well have added some new things in the last month as it's been the pre-order period for the 2025-6 Annual Catalogue. I certainly have!

One of the great pleasures of new things, I think, is mixing and matching them with the existing things in your stash. 

I thought I'd share something easy with you this week, that mixes some fun new DSP with an old set of dies and an old sentiment set. 

I've been playing around a lot with the Celebratory Sips DSP because the suite is the featured product for the Creativity Abounds Stamp Camp. If you're interested in joining in, the details are here. 

Anyway, the playing around has lead to some strips of off-cut pieces and some scraps, so I decided to use them up with a strippy background.

I took my scraps and cut them into trapezoid shapes, then adhered them in a pleasing pattern  on to a piece of Blackberry Bliss card. After trimming off the excess, I adhered that onto a piece of Lemon-Lime Twist.

Before adhering the panel to the Blackberry Bliss card base, I added a piece of the lovely Gold Mesh ribbon that's part of the suite. 

Since the background is quite busy, I wanted to keep the sentiment simple. So I chose a sentiment from Simply Said, stamped it in Blackberry Bliss and cut it out with one of the dies from Nested Essentials.

I finished off by adding a trio of Holographic Resin Dots, another great part of the Celebratory Sips suite.

You can see what the rest of the design team have done, and link up your entry, at 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 Freshly Made Sketches 684

 I haven't been very good at keeping up my New Year Crafting Resolution to play along with more challenges just for fun. After just completing a run of customised wedding invitations, I sat at my desk and decided to play 'just for fun'. I turned to the sketch at Freshly Made Sketches for inspiration.

 I wanted to give the Beautiful Gallery suite a bit of a try out so the choice was easy about what to play with. Here's how that ended up...

I used the Gallery Blooms bundle and twice stamped one of the images, then coloured in with Stampin' Blends in Lost Lagoon, Petal Pink and Calypso Coral. I die cut some flowers and foliage in Lost Lagoon, Petal Pink and Crumb Cake.  These were arranged into a bouquet on a small circle from the Stylish Shapes dies. 

I used DSP from the Beautiful Gallery DSP 6x6 stack for the right edge panel, then used a torn edge showing the reverse as the scalloped vertical in the sketch. 

I used the Damask Designs embossing folder for the card front and some of the Pressed Flower Motif embellishments to finish off.

The sentiment is from the second stamp set in the suite, Beautiful Motifs, and is cut from using another of the dies from Stylish Shapes.

All of the elements of the Beautiful Gallery Suite will be available from 6 May. 

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. 

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Darling Dinos for AYSI 347

I'm excited for the  new challenge at As You See It - it's a recipe challenge. All you need to do is to take the five ingredients and see what you can cook up with them.

Dinosaurs are favourites of mine, as in the Darling Dino bundle. I chose two of the dinosaurs from the stamp set, inked them up with Tuxedo Black and coloured them using Stampin' Blends in Gray Granite, Old Olive, Crumb Cake and Pecan Pie.

So that's two of the recipe ingredients ticked off: animals and colouring.

I die cut out my dinosaurs and also a rectangular panel using one of the Textured Notes dies.

So that ticked off a third ingredient of the recipe: punch or die cut.

A fourth ingredient was texture or embossing. Now normally, I'm all over embossing. I use embossing far more than I use patterned paper but.... in this instance, I really wanted to use the Woven Textures DSP. So, no embossing but definitely texture. I think that the decorative edge of the rectangle counts as texture too.

So that ticked off ingredient four: texture or embossing

Twine was the final ingredient. That was easily ticked off by adding some lines of Crumb Cake twine from the Basic Essentials Baker's Twine pack along with a bow. 

Then to finish off, I added a trio of Pecan Pie dots from the Neutral Matte Dots pack.

The whole team would love to see what you can cook up with these five ingredients plus your own extras. You can see what the rest of the team have done, and link up your entry, at the As You See It Challenge page.

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.

Celebratory Sips Stamp Camp

If you're interested in joining me for an international virtual Stamp Camp featuring the Celebratory Sips Suite, all the details are here.

You'll get PDF and Video tutorials for 13 projects using the suite, plus make and take kits for them

PLUS

an additional 13 projects delivered as Facebook Lives during the Stamp Camp weekend.

A total of 26 ready-to-go projects. 

Cheers & Sips for PP735

This week at The Paper Players, it's my favourite kind of challenge: a sketch. Before I get to Claire's lovely sketch, I'd like to say what super creative entries we had for Elizabeth's CAS Bunny challenge. So many clever ideas and so many beautiful cards! I can't wait to see what you do with this sketch. 

I've started playing around with the Celebratory Sips suite, one of the new online exclusive suites that will be available from 6 May. This fun suite is the featured product in the next Creativity Abounds Stamp Camp on June 28-29. If you'd like free entry to the stamp camp, thirteen make and take kits plus tutorials and an extra thirteen project video tutorials, then look here for the details.

I've also called on some of the 2025-2027 In Colors for this one, since some of the colours are in the Celebratory Sips DSP. The base is Strawberry Slush, which some of you will remember from many moons ago. Cloud Cover is that soft blue/grey and Timid Tiger is the colour of the orange. 

Much of the hard work of this card is done by the DSP. The drinks and cocktail umbrella are fussy cut directly from the DSP.  I did run the long glass through the Stampin' Cut & Emboss machine with one of the Cheers & Sips dies to get that pretty patterning on the liquid. 

I popped the cocktail umbrella up on dimensionals to add some lift. The curved glass is also on dimensionlas. 

The white panel is embossed using one the two embossing folders that are part of this suit: the Glass & Gardens embossing folders.

The sentiment is white heat embossed on Strawberry Slush and the 'Let's Celebrate' is stamped in Strawberry Slush. 

The finishing touch is the addition of three Holographic Resin Dots.

This is a fun suite and I've got lots more ideas for it, so I'm sure you'll be seeing more of it. 

You can see what the rest of the design team have done, and link up your entry, at 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

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.

Save the date for Stamp Camp!

The next Creativity Abounds Virtual Stamp Camp is happening on June 28-29, so save the date! Even if you can't make it on the exact day, you'll still get access to the Live presentations, as well entry to the exclusive Facebook Group as well as all the tutorials and kits.

This time, the international crew have chosen as the featured products the fun new Celebratory Sips Suite. This suite is an online exclusive and will be available from 6 May.

Introducing Celebratory Sips

This fun suite includes:

• The Cheers & Sips bundle
• Glass and Gardens Embossing folders
• Celebratory Sips 12x12 DSP
• Gold Striped 1cm mesh ribbon
• Holographic Resin Dots

The retail price for this suite is $166.50 (plus postage) in New Zealand. 

(See note below about Stampin' Rewards.)

How do I get a Virtual Stamp Camp Invite?

Simply purchase the featured suite from a demonstrator in your country. In New Zealand, that's me. 

If you live somewhere else and are interested in joining in the Virtual Stamp Camp, message me and I can put you in touch with  the right person in the team to help you. 

What do I get from Stamp Camp?

Aside from the fun of joining in crafting with people from all over the world, the biggest thing you get is INSPIRATION in the form of tutorials and live presentations.

How often have you invested in a suite or bundle, made a handful of things then run out of ideas? That won't happen with Celebratory Sips because this is what Stamp Camp gets you:

1. Make and Takes

In the week before Stamp Camp, you'll receive a tutorial package that will have both PDF and Video instructions for thirteen different projects using the Featured Products.

For these projects, you'll also receive a kit for each project containing all you need for each project (excluding the products you have purchased).

Note: If you cannot pick up the kits, there may be a small charge of $11.50 for posting them out to you, with a rural delivery surcharge if applicable.

    2. Bonus Projects

During the Virtual Stamp Camp, each of our thirteen team members will present as a Facebook Live an additional project, created just for the camp. Cutting instructions will be available for you so you can create these projects if you wish. They will be saved to YouTube so the presentations will be available to you to rewatch at your leisure.

That makes a total of 26 projects for your new suite. Many of the ideas, you'll be able to apply to other things in your craft room - so really, INSPIRATION is what the camp offers you. 

    3. Interaction with people around the world

During the weekend, you'll get the chance to share what you've made to the private Stamp Camp Facebook page. There will be challenges to enter if you want, a Crafternoon Tea where you can chat with the team and lots of chances to share with other crafters.

What do I do if I want to join in?

If you live in New Zealand, simply order the suite from me as soon as it becomes available on 6 May.

Tick the option to allow contact so that I can send you information and the make and take kits before the camp begins. I will contact you to let you know I've got you on the Stamp Camp list and to confirm delivery details for the kits. If you don't hear from me, message me in case something's gone wrong. 😀

You should order it early because sometimes things sell out. You also need to make sure your order has time to arrive before Stamp Camp starts. The last day to get your invite to Stamp Camp from me is 1 June so make sure you've ordered by then.

What if I already have the suite?

If you already have the suite, make an order to the same value through me. Message or email me to let me know that is what you have done so I can add you to the Stamp Camp invite list.

What about Stampin' Up! Rewards?

Please note that while your purchase of the featured Stamp Camp products will earn you Stampin' Rewards (as long as you have opted into the programme) you cannot use already earned rewards to purchase the Celebratory Sips suite. 

Using Stampin' Rewards to purchase the Celebratory Sips suite will indicate that you do not wish to participate in Stamp Camp. Your order can include extra items which you can purchase with your rewards.

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

All for Baby for Paper Players 734

Wasn't Stef's colour challenge last week a lot of fun? Thank you for all the pretty entries. 

This week, Elizabeth has a Clean and Simple challenge for us on the theme of ... bunny!

Some challenges are more challenging than others. It turned out that I'd sold my one set with a bunny in it. After much hunting through stamps and dies and stacks of paper, I found a tiny bunny die in the retired On the Farm bundle. What could I build around that and in a Clean and Simple style?

The answer to that involved more exploration of the retired set shelf. I'd kept the retired All for Baby bundle because it's the perfect baby set.  The current Cutest Onesie bundle is like a pared down version of it.

So armed with these bundles and some DSP stacks in Neutrals and 2024-6 In Colors, I went to my desk and started my creative engine. This is where things ended up....

The bunnies and hangers are cut from Crumb Cake. The pink card is Pretty in Pink and the blue uses Misty Moonlight.

I hope you have better luck in finding a bunny on your craft shelves! Don't forget that in addition to the bunny, you need to keep your style CAS: minimal layers, lots of clean white space and few embellishments. 

The rest of the team and I look forward to seeing what you create. 😀

You can see what the rest of the design team have done, and link up your entry, at 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

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.

 

Impressions Abloom for ASYI 346

As we come to the end of the catalogue year, we've had time to look at what's retiring and feel sad for the favourites that will soon be unavailable. Of course, just because they retire from the catalogue doesn't mean they disappear from your stash shelves! We sell off some things but there are always things we just won't part with. The latest challenge at As You See It asks us to think about what some of those things are.

So, while I'm sad to some stamp sets passing, the questions today is about tools. Embossing folders are one of my favourite tools and my current favourite is the Distressed Tile 3D embossing folder. I won't be parting with mine!

One of the great pleasures of old favourites is pairing them up with new products. I've used the about-to-be-released Impressions Abloom bundle in some of the new In Colors: Strawberry Slush and Darling Duckling, with a touch of another favourite - Granny Apple Green.

I like the look of splitting the embossed panel into three: a simple thing but it gives quite a different look to a card front. The sentiment is white heat embossed and I've added some Basic Rhinestone Jewels as embellishments. 

The whole team would love to see what you do with these colours. You can see what the rest of the team have done, and link up your entry, at the As You See It Challenge page.

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.