Using the Stash for Paper Players 791

Welcome stampers to the latest challenge at The Paper Players. I'm hostess this week and I have a double challenge for you. It's both and theme and a style challenge: create something that uses the weather and is in a Clean and Simple style.

At The Paper Players, we think of CAS being uncluttered with lots of white space, with minimal embellishment.

Despite having set the challenge, I did have a few problems finding something weather related that I wanted to work with, so I actually borrowed a bundle from my daughter: the retired Rainbow of Happiness stamps and Brilliant Rainbow dies.

These dies made creating a rainbow so easy! I cut rainbows in Real Red, Daffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie and Blueberry Bushel then assembled it roughly in ROYGBIV order - allowing for missing colours. 

Then I used the cloud dies and arranged them under the rainbow. To add a bit more interest, the centre ones are popped up on dimensionals.

The sentiment is stamped in Blueberry Bushel to go with the card base. Then a trio of Basic Rhinestones finished it off. 

A bright, simple card just right for cheering up someone's day. 😀

The team and I would love to see what you do with this thematic CAS challenge. Visit The Paper Players to see what the rest of the team have done and to link up your entry. 

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

Christy Stanford

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Fern & Flora for As You See It 375

 It was Joanne's choice for colour week at As You See It and she's chosen a bright and breezy, summery colour palette that I'm sure you'll enjoy working with. 

It was kind of hard to go past florals, although I didn't come at it head on with florals - more a sideways approach using the Fern & Flora bundle.

I stamped two of the small stems of flowers in Tuxedo Black, then coloured them with Melon Mambo, Berry Burst and Lemon-Lime Twist Stampin' Blends. Then I die cut the pair of them out. 

On the card front, I stamped the small tally lines in Coastal Cabana and a fern in Lemon Lime Twist as a background. Then I arrange the two die cut stems over it, with the top one popped up on dimensionals. 

I stamped the sentiment in Tuxedo Black then die cut it with a stitched rectangle from Notes of Texture (retired)  and shadowed it with some Coastal Cabana. 

I stamped one of each of the moths in Tuxedo Black, then coloured it with a Coastal Cabana Stampin' Write marker (retired) and Berry Burst Stampin' Blends. Then I added some highlights with a white gel pen before die cutting them and adding them to the mix popped up on dimensionals.

The finishing touch was a trio of Basic Rhinestones coloured with a dark Melon Mambo Stampin' Blend. 

You can see what the rest of the Design Team have done, and link up your entry, on the As You See It page. The team and I are all keen to see how you see it!

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.

Summer Happiness for The Paper Players 790

 I do like a beach theme, so I picked up the Summer Happiness bundle from the July online exclusives pre-order. Preorder opportunity is one of the best perks of being a Demonstrator. 😀 

It seemed a perfect chance to try it out, with Christy's beautiful summer colour palette this week at The Paper Players. There were lots of super entries in Stef's Masculine theme challenge last week, so if you entered - thank you!

I started with a Coastal Cabana base. I blended Coastal Cabana ink through the new Water mask with a blending brush to create a light-on-the-water effect. 

Then I used some of the dies and stamps from the bundle to create some jandals, a camera, a pair of sunglasses and two flowers with Lemon-Lime Twist centres and clustered them over the water. I particularly liked the stamped glasses and camera, worked tone-on-tone.

The sentiments in the set lent themselves more to scrapbooking, so I used a sentiment from Rolling Waves then completed the card with a trio of Strawberry Slush flat pearls. What a marriage Summer Happiness and Rolling Waves will be!

The team and I would love to see what you do with Christy's bright colours. Visit The Paper Players to see what the rest of the team have done and to link up your entry. 

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

Christy Stanford

Fern & Flora for CAS Colours & Sketches 587

 I had a play around with the sketch at CAS Colours & Sketches today, using the Fern & Flora bundle.

I like a tag card, mainly because I really like my (sadly retired) Tailor Made Tags set. This set is, for sure, a keeper! I started by cutting out one of the largest round-cornered tags from Basic White and another from a scrap of the Moonlit Flora DSP. I added a bow of linen thread to finish the tag look. I also cut a hole reinforcer circle from  a scrap of Golden Glow and added it to the white tag. I stamped some of the tiny strokes in Old Olive, making sure to off set it rather than having side-to-side images.

I die cut different ferns in Golden Glow, Old Olive and Mossy Meadow and arranged them over the tag.

The card front was embossed with the Fern & Flora embossing folder - already a firm favourite with me!

I stamped the sentiment in Mossy Meadow and cut it down. I stamped three moths in Mossy Meadow, coloured them with Golden Glow and Old Olive Stampin' Blends and added some highlights with a white gel pen. 

The final finishing touch was a trio of Golden Glow pearls. 

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.

Fern & Flora (and friends) for The Paper Players 789

As always, Joanne's Tic Tac Toe challenge brought lots of wonderful projects to the gallery. Thank you, everyone who entered. This week, it's theme week at The Paper Players. Our hostess is Stef and the theme is:  Masculine.

Well, I had a lot of fun with this although if you don't live in New Zealand (or maybe Australia) this card might not mean as much at first sight. But believe me, here it has instant brand recognition!

New Zealand is a sports-mad country and no sport excites the population quite like rugby. It's fair to say it's our national sport - even a national obsession! And the apex team is the All Blacks, our national rugby team.

The All Black's black shirt, often with white trim, is legendary and the emblem of all New Zealand sporting representatives is the silver fern.

So an All Black shirt, complete with silver fern, is about the most masculine appropriate card you could have in this country!

I turned to my craft library and used the Handsomely Suited dies to create the collar and buttons, although the collar could easily be cut by hand and the buttons made with any small punch or die. 

I used a Basic Black card base, a mat of silver foil then another rectangle of Basic Black for the shirt. The thing that can't be replaced in the supply list is this glorious fern from Fern & Flora, since it's just perfect for a New Zealand silver fern emblem. Handsomely Suited also had the perfect sentiment and die for this card. I knew I kept that bundle in my craft library after it retired for a reason!

A simple inside completed the deal. (Although the Black Ferns are the national Women's Rugby team. 😀)

The team and I would love to see what you do with Stef's theme. Visit The Paper Players to see what the rest of the team have done and to link up your entry. 

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

Christy Stanford

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

Lily of the Valley for AYSI 374

 This week at As You See It, it's back to the start of our challenge rota and that's the Sketch Challenge. This is my sketch, so I hope you enjoy playing with it. 😀

Since it's my latest purchase, I turned to the Lily of the Valley bundle.

I seldom use much patterned paper in my cards but the Valley in Bloom DSP is so pretty that I made an exception for this one and used it as my card front. I used a large Deckled Circle die (part of my craft library) to cut a circle in Basic White, which I embossed with the Floral Spray folder.

To create the floral spray, I firstly stamped the lily-of-the-valley image in Granny Apple Green and die cut it out. Then I die cut two lily-of-the-valley stems in Basic White. I coloured the stems with a Granny Apple Green blend then sponged on some Blackberry Bliss ink to the flowers with a blending brush. The leaves are die cut from Granny Apple Green. Once I had all four items ready, I arranged them on the embossed circle, after first attaching a banner of contrast DSP.

I stamped the sentiment in Tuxedo Black, then cut it down into a banner to match the DSP strip and adhered it over the top of the floral cluster with dimensionals. 

For embellishment I used three of the white Shimmering Dots but coloured them with a Blackberry Bliss Stampin' Blend.

You can see what the rest of the Design Team have done, and link up your entry, on the As You See It page. The team and I are all keen to see how you see it!

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.

Delicate Whispers for CAS Colours & Sketches 586

It's the end of a public holiday here in New Zealand, with the first Monday in June being King's Birthday.  Instead of tidying up my craft space ready for Class Week, I ended up playing around with the Colour Challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches. 

It was quite a challenging trio of colours and I had a couple of false starts with some other sets before I got to Delicate Whispers. 

I repeat stamped the toi-toi image in Night of Navy, then added some different foliage in Balmy Blue. I coloured the leaves of those images in light Gray Granite Stampin' Blends, and the flowers in Dark Balmy Blue. Then I shaded the whole area with a light wash of Balmy Blue.

Then I got to work with a rectangular mask and blended the edge heavily with Balmy Blue, bleeding it out towards the further corners. Then I added a touch of Night of Navy to the corner. I added in the sentiment - although if I'd thought about it more, I should have stamped the sentiment first just in case there was some kind of stamping disaster with the words! 😀

I decided to mat the panel with Balmy Blue before adhering it to a Night of Navy card base. I added some tiny Basic Rhinestones to the flower centres then a couple of larger ones around the sentiment. All done!

Update: Delighted to be a Fab Fave at CAS Colours & Sketches.

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.