Regal Flora et al for The Paper Players 719

I can't believe that this is the last challenge of 2024 at The Paper Players! It feels as though it was only last month that it was Christmas! I hope that all of you have a happy and safe Christmas and get to enjoy lots of time with your family and friends. 

We'll be re-starting challenges on January 12.

This challenge, from Ann, is so pretty! Black and White are free colours. You must use all three colours of the challenge and you can add another neutral of your choice. I've used a touch of Crumb Cake.

I love these colours but it was hard to see past Christmas with them. I think that this will be my LAST Christmas card of the year. 😀

I feel as though it's a Regal Flora card - maybe because of the Regal Winter DSP I've used. Really, this card uses an eclectic mix of things including: Regal Flora dies for the label, Regal Winter DSP (very Christmassy, for a non-Christmas collection), Distressed Tile 3D embossing folder (my favourite), Reindeer Fun dies for the holly leaves and berries, Lifetime of Love dies for the Crumb Cake foliage and Greetings of the Season for the sentiment.

The thing I like the best is the holly leaves. I cut them from Fluid 100 Watercolour Paper then water-coloured them with Pretty Peacock ink and a Water Painter. When they were dry, I painted over them using some of the gold Pearlised Enamel Effects Metallics. I like that golden glow that resulted. 

The embellishments are lovely: Pretty Peacock Adhesive Foiled Gems.

We'd all love to see what you do with these colours. 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

Ann Schach

Jan Clothier - You are here

Stef Perry

Eliz Stewart

Jolanda Johnstone

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.

Regal Flora for Paper Players 714

Elizabeth has set the challenge this week at The Paper Players and I'm sure it will be a popular one, especially in North America. But no matter where you live, there's always time to be thankful to people.  

I've always been taken with one of the sentiments from the Something Fancy set, so this was the perfect time to get it out. 'Grateful for the everyday magic of you.' Isn't that great?

Something Fancy is a sentiment only set, so I've paired it up with one of the loveliest suites in the Mini Catalogue: Regal Winter. The Regal Winter DSP is so lush and opulent while the Regal Flora bundle has lots to offer as well.

I started with a rectangle of the DSP that's predominantly Night of Navy and a strip of the reverse.

Possibly my favourite thing from the whole bundle is that wonderful label with the  two rounded corners and long-stitch details. Just the thing for the sentiment plus a gold foil companion to act as a shadow.

I used the baby wipe technique with Gorgeous Grape and Pretty Peacock re-inkers to stamp some leaves, then used direct to rubber colouring to stamp the small flowers. Once they were die cut, I sponged the edges lightly with Night of Navy ink and a blending brush. That took the starkness from them (a nervous moment for me as I like stark!) and also made them blend in more with the look of the flowers in the DSP. 

To help create the bouquet, I die cut some gold foil foliage using one of the Lifetime of Love dies. The bow is the new gold cord from the new on-line exclusives.

I felt the card front needed some texture - and seriously, when doesn't a card need some texture?! So I used the cross hatch pattern from the Basics 3D Embossing set. 

The finishing touch was the addition of three of the pretty gold-flecked Night of Navy Regal Foil Gems. 

The team would all love to see what you do with the "Give Thanks" theme.  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

Ann Schach

Jan Clothier - You are here

Stef Perry

Eliz Stewart

Jolanda Johnstone

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.

Regal Flora for Around the World on Wednesday

 

Welcome to the latest hop at Around the World on Wednesday!

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. 😀

Our inspiration this month is this lovely sketch. I love a sketch challenge. I find them really great for getting my mojo moving again. So if you're in a bit of a creative slump, why not use this one as your inspiration?

Another source of inspiration for this card is the very lush floral papers in the Regal Winter collection. The colours are rich and gorgeous but for this card, I went with those in shades of Navy and Blackberry.

One of my favourite things in the Regal Flora bundle is that label shape with pie crust detailing and two rounded corners. It's great as a label for greeting but so very useful as a base for building up a cluster too. 

For the embossed card front, I used a favourite folder of mine - Distressed Tile.  I stamped and die cut some flowers and foliage, picking out colours from the DSP. I've used Night of Navy, Berry Burst, Blackberry Bliss and Pretty Peacock. To get variations of colour, I added some of the inks with a sponge dauber. For instance, I inked the trio of flowers with Berry Burst, then used a sponge dauber to add Blackberry Bliss to the centres.

The sentiment is stamped in Night of Navy to match the card base, then cut with the smallest banner from Stylish Shapes. Possibly my favourite thing is the embellishments. These beautiful gold foiled gems are from the Regal Foiled Adhesive Backed Dots: a name that doesn't do justice to the rich colours and flashes of gold!

Next up you can visit with the fabulous Leonie Stuart to see what clever things she's done with the sketch.

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 on the hop or want to revisit someone, here's a list of participants.

Jan Clothier - NZ - You are here

Leonie Stuart - AU

Rochelle Laird-Smith - AU

Cheryll Miller - AU

Danielle Kassing - NL

Aurélie Fabre - FR

Mikaela Titheridge - UK

Annette Ball - CA

Angie McKenzie - US

Kelly Taranto - US

Chris Smith - US

Tricia Butts - US

Theresa McEntee - US

Bree Renwick - US

Lori Willcox - CA

Cheryl Hamilton - US

Regal Flora for Freshly Made Sketches 649

 This afternoon, I carried on my slow unboxing of the pre-order for the September-December Mini Catalogue.  After trying out all the stamps and the dies, then oohing and aahing over the gorgeous DSP, I was ready to start crafting. For inspiration, I turned to the latest challenge at Freshly Made Sketches.

I rotated the sketch to a landscape orientation, and away I went, trying out the stamps, dies and DSP and actually making something....

If I was going to make this again, I think I'd leave the label without the background dotty splats but other than that, I'm pretty happy with it as a first play-around. 😀

I really like the Distinktive look to the stamps and the way they so readily take a touch of sponging to add in other colours. Although I used the Adhesive Backed Sequins Trio as embellishment, I'll remember to use the ever-so-pretty Regal Foiled Adhesive Backed Dots for my next project!

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.