Thinking Stamping: Round we Go

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Thursday, 21 November 2024

Creativity Abounds November

This month the international team at Creativity Abounds has a great theme for our bundle and hop: Holiday Packaging and Decorations. This hop - and the associated tutorial bundle - will give you a lot of examples for Holiday decorations and packaging.

Even if you don't have the exact sets, you'll find inspiration in the gift packaging ideas. If you get the tutorial bundle, you'll have step-by-step instructions for thirteen projects, all of which you'll see as you go around the hop.

You can earn the Tutorial Bundle as a free gift from me with a purchase of $100 or more (excluding P&P) or by being a member of my team. You can shop with me, and join my team, from anywhere in New Zealand.

There are two parts to this post: a decoration idea and a sneak peek at my tutorial project.

A Christmas Decoration Idea

I'm a big fan of the Round We Go bundle and it's just tailor-made for making Christmas tree (or any occasion) decorations. I like that you can choose to make either round scallop-edge rosettes or pointy ended one.

While you can make these out of any DSP, I've used the Season of Green & Gold (an online exclusive), Gold Foil and Festive Glimmer Paper. The hanger is made with Gold Twisted Thread (another online exclusive).

There's nothing tricky about these. Just use the dies as intended and away you go! I did think about adding a large gem in the centre but decided there was enough bling-iness going on already.

PS A hot glue gun is handy, but not essential, in putting these together. 😀

Tutorial Bundle Peek

My bundle project is a cute little mini shopping bag, which I adapted from one shown to me by my up-line many years ago. They make great table favours for any occasion but made from Christmas papers they work well to add a festive element to the table if you don't want crackers. They're also perfect for packaging small gifts or for little thank-you favours. It's just the right size for some wrapped lollies or some tea bags and chocolate squares. 😀

Here's a sneak peek at the rest of the tutorial bundle.

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 by clicking here.

If you don't live in New Zealand, you can get it from any of my team mates in your country. Here they all are. We welcome Lisa and Ingrid to the team!

Save the Date Stamp Camp 2025

Wednesday, 9 October 2024

Round We Go for Colour INKspiration 175

Welcome to the 175th challenge at Colour INKspiration. Today's colour palette was chosen for us by Crew Member Monica Formosa. Isn't the stairway a bit of fun?

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.

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

This challenge is open for two weeks and closes Monday October 21, 7pm AEST.

Well, to me those bright yellows meant a party, so I turned to the Round We Go bundle - it's got everything from flowers to fireworks plus some great greetings.

So much going on in this card! I started by stamping different starburst stamps in Crushed Curry onto either White or Lemon Lolly and die cutting them out. The larger rounded edge one, I ran through the machine again to cut out the decorative holes so that an underlayer of Gold Foil could peep through.

I die cut a Lemon Lolly starburst with pointed edges and mounted it over the Crushed Curry matching starburst. I cut small round-edged starbursts in Lemon Lolly and Gold Foil and layered them together. I cut some gold discs to act as centres and some Crushed Curry and Crumb Cake discs to add to the collage. As you can tell, by this point I was having a heap of fun cutting, layering and arranging!

For the background, I randomly stamped the star stamp in Lemon Lolly over the centre part of the card base, then lightly sponged some Lemon Lolly over with a blending brush. Then I used the decorative circle perforation dies to cut some circles so that the Crushed Curry mat layer could peek through.

The enjoyment factor in making this card was now off the scale. 😀

To finish up, I added the sentiment, stamped in Crumb Cake and cut using a banner from Stylish Shapes. Then I added in some Glossy Dots in Crushed Curry.

I'm very happy with my party on a page card!

We'd love to see what you do with the challenge colours. You can join the group in the following link, if you aren't already a member. Don't forget to answer the questions when you ask to join. 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.

You can shop with me from anywhere in New Zealand by clicking here.

Time is running out but you can still join in with the Creativity Abounds Reindeer Fun Virtual Stamp Camp if you act quickly. You can find the details here.

Sunday, 1 September 2024

Round We Go for The Paper Players 705

This week at The Paper Players, Joanne has given us a fun theme challenge: Spots or Stripes?

This was quite a quandary for me, since I like both of them! However, I have been starting to play with the Round We Go bundle which, in addition to the lovely rosette stamps, has a couple of spotty, dotty stamps and dies too.

I'd seen a gorgeous design with this set created by my Colour INKspiration and Stampin' Fancy Friday team mate, the wonderful Vicki Boucher. You can see it here. I'd been keen to CASE it and this challenge was my chance!

Vicki's card was slimline and done in various blues but I went for pinks and a standard size. Although I've done things differently, you can see the influence here. And it was SOOOO much fun to make. I've enjoyed everything I've made with this bundle.

As you see in the detail photo, this card is made up of many layers of dots on top of spots on top of dots. I've used Melon Mambo, Flirty Flamingo and Pretty in Pink along with some Pretty in Pink Glimmer paper. Some of the spots are stamped, some are die cut.

Even the embellishments are spots - some Pretty in Pink Resin Dots.

The sentiment is cut using one of the banners from Stylish Shapes.

I love the way the various spots and dots explode to create the feeling of fireworks and celebration.

We look forward to seeing what you do with this sketch. 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:

Create a new paper-craft project specifically for this challenge.
Upload your creation to your blog with a link back to us.
Please provide a direct link to the post featuring your challenge entry.
Please link your card to no more than four challenges, TOTAL, including ours
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.

Jan Clothier - You are here