Thinking Stamping

Wednesday, 9 November 2022

Lights Aglow for Around the World on Wednesday

Thank you for joining in with the latest hop from the crew at Around the World on Wednesday. If you haven't hopped with us before, we're a group of Stampin' Up! Demonstrators from every time zone in the world where Stampin' Up! operates. You're here with me, in New Zealand.

Each month we present a different theme to inspire you to create.

This month, our theme is 'Festive Paperscapes'.

This time last year, I did some great things for a baby shower but when I moved house, I seem to have misplaced them all! So I started thinking about my Christmas table for this year instead!

This year, my go-to Christmas gear has been the Lights Aglow suite because the images in Christmas Lights and the sentiments from Brightest Glow are beautiful and so very compatible. Add in the gorgeous Lights Aglow DSP and you have all you could need for Christmas.

Well, when I say 'everything' the other great addition to the stash are the Cracker & Treat Box dies, but they are not just a Christmas thing.

First up, I made these table decorations using the Brightest Glow and Labels Aglow bundles. They are really very easy, as the video below shows.

The table crackers, packed with some festive treats and a punny Christmas joke, look great in the Brightest Glow Specialty DSP. The Cracker & Treat Box dies make crackers a breeze and you can vary the size of them, depending on how you put them together. I've made these bigger than the standard size and if you're unsure of how to do that, it's on the video below as well.

If you'd like to try out either of these projects, then here's a quick tutorial.

Next up on the hop is the inspirational Leonie Stuart from Australia.

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 on the SHOP NOW button in the sidebar or on any of the products below.

Here's the list of participants in the hop, if you get lost or just want to re-visit.

Jan Clothier - NZ - You are here

Leonie Stuart - AU

Rochelle Laird-Smith - AU

Cazz Boylan - AU

Aurélie Fabre - FR

Mikaela Titheridge - UK

Product List

Christmas Lights Bundle (English)

[159961]

$97.00

Brightest Glow Bundle (English)

[159552]

$110.50

Cracker & Treat Box Dies

[159182]

$76.00

Lights Aglow 6" X 6" (15.2 X 15.2 Cm) Specialty Designer Series Paper

[159535]

$32.00

Cherry Cobbler A4 Card Stock

[121681]

$19.50

Glimmer 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Specialty Paper

[159537]

$21.00

Gold & Vanilla 3/8" (1 Cm) Satin Edged Ribbon

[159555]

$17.00

Simply Elegant Trim

[155766]

$15.75

Versamark Pad

[102283]

$20.00

Metallics Embossing Powders

[155555]

$38.00

Cottage Rose for Colour INKspiration 133

Welcome to the latest challenge at Colour INKspiration. This gorgeous palette was chosen for us by Crew Member, Leonie Stuart.

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 Bev Evans 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 Bermuda Bay for Coastal Cabana. Black, White, Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake, Sahara Sand and metallics are free colours, as are flesh toned Stampin' Blends.

I don't know about you, but the combination of bright colours and greens steered me towards florals. While I usually steer away from what seems to me to be the obvious choice, this time I just went with it.... a combination of ill-health and a lovely new floral set to play with! 😀

I do not know why I resisted the Cottage Rose bundle for as long as I did. It should have been the first thing in the cart when the new catalogue came out way back in May.

I started by gold embossing the large rose image twice. I watercoloured both of them. I fussy cut both of them out because I wanted a narrow (read non-existent) edge around as much of it as I could, then sponged Coastal Cabana around the bits where I needed an edge. An easier option would have been to use the matching die and sponge all of the edges. I kept one of the images as the base and cut out the other into smaller pieces to build up the cluster.

After embossing the card front with the Hive 3D folder, I sponged Coastal Cabana over the area where I was going to build the flower cluster. I used the uncut image as the base and added in the cut down elements around it. The second large rose is popped up on dimensionals as are some of the extra foliage pieces. I did play around with adding in some of the superb die cut foliage that come in the set but, in the end, didn't use them because I wanted to stick to a more realistic look.

The sentiment is gold embossed on Coastal Cabana and cut using the Stylish Shapes dies. The Brushed Brass Butterflies were the final embellishments.

We'd love to have you join in the challenge with us. Visit the Colour INKspiration site to check out the album of Crew Cards for inspiration. You can also add your entry there. We all enjoy seeing what you do with our colour palettes, so join in!

Product List

Cottage Rose Bundle (English)

[159048]

$112.50

Card Stock A4 Coastal Cabana

[131302]

$19.50

Granny Apple Green A4 Cardstock

[147014]

$19.50

Basic White A4 Cardstock

[159228]

$21.75

Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper

[149612]

$19.00

Coastal Cabana Classic Stampin' Pad

[147097]

$17.00

Granny Apple Green Stampin' Pad

[147095]

$17.00

Mossy Meadow Classic Stampin' Pad

[147111]

$17.00

Merry Merlot Classic Stampin' Pad

[147112]

$17.00

Gorgeous Grape Classic Stampin' Pad

[147099]

$17.00

Versamark Pad

[102283]

$20.00

Metallics Embossing Powders

[155555]

$38.00

Hive 3 D Embossing Folder

[157955]

$19.00

Heat Tool

[129056]

$63.00

Blending Brushes

[153611]

$26.25

Stylish Shapes Dies

[159183]

$63.00

Brushed Brass Butterflies

[158136]

$21.00

Stampin' Dimensionals

[104430]

$9.00

Friday, 4 November 2022

Friends are Like Seashells for AYSI 287

Welcome to a new challenge at As You See It. As always, after a 'fill in the blank' challenge comes Recipe Challenge. All you have to do is to take the five ingredients and see what you can cook up that uses all five.

We've got an intriguing set of ingredients this time around: masculine, blue tones, twine, die cut and neutral tones.

The inclusion of both blues and neutrals made me think of the ocean so I turned to an old favourite: Friends are Like Seashells.

I used the Timber embossing folder on the bottom of the card front, not only for the masculine wood vibe, but because it looks a little like swirls of water too.