Impressions Abloom for The Paper Players 755

 Hello everyone! Welcome to a new week at The Paper Players. Thank you for the lovely entries in Ann's Food and Drink themed challenge. Our hostess this week is LeAnne and she has a colour challenge for us.

I decided to break out the Impressions Abloom bundle for this one as I had in mind a softly coloured floral card and the die cuts in this bundle are gorgeous. I cut a white flower in each of the three sizes, some Lemon Lolly centres, some Soft Sea Foam leaves and some tiny Lemon Lolly flowers.

On the Basic White card front, I sponged some Soft Sea Foam with a blending brush. Then I did some fine splatters of diluted Lost Lagoon ink before embossing the front with the Exposed Brick 3D embossing folder. I curled one corner and added in some Lemon Lolly behind it.

The sentiment is stamped in Lost Lagoon and cut with a banner die from Stylish Shapes. I added some Iridescent Pearls to the centres of the tiny Lemon Lolly flowers, plus a couple more.

It mightn't have turned out quite as I'd imagined but pretty close. 😀

What will you do with LeAnne's colours? 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

Christy Stanford

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Trusty Tools for Around the World on Wednesday September

 

Welcome to Around the World on Wednesday's September hop.

On the second Wednesday of each month, the team put together a thematic hop to give you some inspiration for your own crafting. We love it when you try out something new or CAS(E) one of our projects. The team is truly international, with members from each time zone of the world that Stampin' Up! operates. You're with me, in New Zealand - the first place in the Stampin' Up! world to change the date. 😀

This month, we're doing something a little different. It's five years since Around the World on Wednesday started up, so we're doing some close-up looks at the team. This month, we're going to CASE team member Bree Renwick but also using the theme of remember when...

So I've gone back to Bree's first project for Around the World on Wednesday and CASED that. 

I've retained the wide border with tone-on-tone stamping. Since I couldn't decide whether to  use Lemon-Lime Twist or Azure Afternoon, I made one of each!

I also kept the layered centre panel with the sentiment going off to the right and with a die cut over the left hand end of the sentiment from Bree's card.

I've used Trusty Tools stamps and dies and The Right Words for the sentiment. 

Keep on hopping to see how the rest of the team have CASEd Aurelie.  Next up is the wonderful Leonie Stuart from Australia. I'm sure she has a treat to share with us!

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 shop with me from anywhere in New Zealand here.

If you get lost around the hop, or want to revisit, here's a blog roll for you.

Jan Clothier - NZ - You are hare
Leonie Stuart - AU
Rochelle Laird-Smith - AU
Cheryll Miller - AU
Danielle Kassing - NL
Marga Bultena - NL
Kelly Taranto - US
Chris Smith - US
Bree Renwick - US
Teri West - US
Cheryl Hamilton - US

Branching Out for Colour INKspiration 195

 

Welcome to the 195th challenge at Colour INKspiration. This challenge runs for nearly two weeks and will finish on Monday September 22, 7pm AEST.

This colour palette was chosen for us by Crew Member, Monica Formosa. 

If you haven't played with us before, we are a group of Stampin' Up Demonstrators from the South Pacific. Challenges are shown and entered via our Facebook Group page. If you don't belong, and would like to, click here. Don't forget to answer the three easy questions you'll be asked when you ask to join the group.

Each challenge, Top Picks and a winner are chosen by the crew and the winner offered a chance to Guest Design with us for a future challenge. We welcome Petra Noeth as our Guest Designer for this challenge.

If you don't have an exact challenge colour, feel free to replace it with whatever you have that's closest, for example Gray Granite for Smoky Slate. Black, White, Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake, Basic Beige and metallics are free colours, as are flesh-toned Stampin' Blends.

I used these colours to play with a new bundle from the September-December Mini Catalogue, which is now available. Branching Out is an interesting bundle. There's all kinds of branches and cones and berries to let you build your own tree as well as a good mix of sentiments, yet it can also easily be a Christmas set too.

After creating the trees and berries scene, and sponging the corner with some Crushed Curry ink, I cut the label using the stitched edge dies that are part of the set. I cut a larger one in Smoky Slate to layer with. 

I added the birthday sentiment - also from the set - and added three gold Flower Accents as embellishment. The Basic Black card front was embossed with the Joined Together embossing folder. 

You can see what the rest of the Design Team have done with these colours in the Crew Inspiration Album on the Colour INKspiration Challenge Facebook 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 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

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.

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.

 

Thankful Garden for Paper Players 753

Thank you everyone who contributed to the wonderful gallery last week for Jay Dee's sketch. Beautiful work! This week at The Paper Players, Joanne has a Tic-Tac-Toe challenge for us. This one's a lot of fun.  Just choose a line: a column, a row or a diagonal and let it guide your creation. Once you finish, you'll probably discover that you've fulfilled more than one!

I've chosen the top row: celebration, flowers and stencil.

One of my favourite florals at the moment is Thankful Garden. I like it because it offers two kinds of flowers and has nice sentiments. However, I really like that it has a set of stencils to colour the images with along with dies to make the cutting easy. 

My card base is Secret Sea, a colour I've come to love. I stamped the large flower image twice with Secret Sea then coloured them using the layering stencils.  I daubed the flower centres with Darling Duckling. The flowers were coloured with a base of Pretty in Pink and additional layers in Strawberry Slush. The foliage is done in Shy Shamrock.

I set one of the coloured and stamped images aside. I used masking paper to create a mask for the large floral image, covered it over then stamped the same image in Pretty in Pink randomly over the paper. After removing the mask, I cut out the flower with one of the Everyday Arches dies. I cut the next size up in Secret Sea and layered them together. 

From the second coloured flower image I fussy cut the flowers. The topmost flower I mounted on dimensionals directly over its own image in the arch. The smaller flower I added, also on dimensionals, to create a three-flower cluster. 

I embossed the white card front with my favourite Exposed Brick 3D embossing folder before adhering it to the card front, then added the archway of flowers. 

The sentiment could have been anything but I do like the 'celebrate' from Beautiful Motifs. I stamped that in Secret Sea and die cut it with a banner shape from Stylish Shapes - my most used die set. I cut a smaller banner shape and added it underneath the main banner to add some colour details. When adding the banner (also on dimensionals) I made sure to tuck it under the third flower of the cluster.

Finally, I added some Flat Pearls in Secret Sea to finish off. 

What will you do with Joanne's Tic Tac Toe? 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

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.

Joyful Tidings for Colour INKspiration194

Welcome to the 194th challenge at Colour INKspiration. This challenge runs for nearly two weeks and will finish on Monday September 8, 7pm AEST.

This colour palette was chosen for us by Crew Member, Rose Packer. 

If you haven't played with us before, we are a group of Stampin' Up Demonstrators from the South Pacific. Challenges are shown and entered via our Facebook Group page. If you don't belong, and would like to, click here. Don't forget to answer the three easy questions you'll be asked when you ask to join the group.

Each challenge, Top Picks and a winner are chosen by the crew and the winner offered a chance to Guest Design with us for a future challenge. We welcome Marga Bultena as our Guest Designer for this challenge.

If you don't have an exact challenge colour, feel free to replace it with whatever you have that's closest, for example Night of Navy for Secret Sea. Black, White, Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake, Basic Beige and metallics are free colours, as are flesh-toned Stampin' Blends.

Although this colour palette seemed quite vintage to me, I really wanted to try out Joyful Tidings, one of my preorder sets from the soon-to-be-released September-December Mini Catalogue.

So I've tried out a non-traditional Christmas card with it. 

The card base is Secret Sea with a Calypso Coral mat. The wreath image is stamped in Secret Sea and coloured with Stampin' Blends in Soft Sea Foam, Fresh Freesia and Calypso Coral. 

 I added in some Purple Fine Shimmer Gems in Fresh Freesia to add a touch of bling. 

This set will be available from 3 September. 

This was a quick and easy card to make, and if you prefer traditional Christmas colours, it would work well if you were looking to create multiples. I think next I'll try it out with some gold embossing. 

You can see what the rest of the Design Team have done with these colours in the Crew Inspiration Album on the Colour INKspiration Challenge Facebook 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.