The Paper Players 379 - Design Team Card

I loved Nance's sketch from last week and from the calibre of the entries we got at The Paper Players, you did too! I hope you enjoy this week's theme challenge from Claire just as much.

Valentine's Day isn't such a big thing in New Zealand, although more of a thing that when I was a teenager. I feel like I'm making New Zealand sound like some sort of joyless society, since I've previously said we'd don't do Halloween either. Rest assured, that's not true - we celebrate a lot of things with a lot of pleasure! Love is one of them so although my card could be for Valentine's Day, it would work for any romantic occasion.

Pink and gold seem very romantic to me and it's hard to go past the glorious floral design in Fresh Florals for a bit more of a romantic vibe. In fact, for this card I let the paper and the large letters do all the work and resisted adding anything else.

I cut three layers of Powder Pink card and stacked it to give the sentiment some depth. I had originally intended to leave the letters plain but I'd seen this picture at Inspired By... Challenge and the texture of the gold chain made me think about adding some texture to the gold letters.

So, I will link up to their challenge too.  

We'd love to have you join us at The Paper Players this week. Here's a reminder of the rules of the challenge.

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. Entries linked to more than 4 challenges, including ours, will be deleted without notification.
5. Have fun!

If you live anywhere in New Zealand and don't have a Stampin' Up demonstrator, I'd love to help you with ideas and Stampin' Up products. Sale-a-bration is on and there's a new Special Occasion Catalogue out. Please message me through my Facebook page, linked in the sidebar of this blog or leave a comment below. 

And, of course, you can shop with me from anywhere in New Zealand.

Ingredients

Card: Powder Pink, Gold Foil, Fresh Florals DSP, Whisper White.

Stamps: Sunshine Sayings

Inks: Early Espresso

Other: Large Letter framelits, Garden Trellis embossing folder, dimensionals

Freshly Made Sketches 322

Today's card is for the sketch at Freshly Made Sketches.

It uses items from Stampin' Up's Sale-a-bration promotion. The Amazing You stamp set and Celebrate You thinlits can only be earned as gifts with each qualifying purchase of $110.

The centre panel was created by using a kind of reverse resist embossing, where only the clear-embossed areas are left exposed. 

The sentiment is completed on the inside of the card.

If you live anywhere in New Zealand and don't have a Stampin' Up demonstrator, I'd love to help you with ideas and Stampin' Up products. If you would like a copy of the new Special Occasions Catalogue or the Sale-a-bration brochure and don't have a demonstrator, then contact me. You can message me through my Facebook page, linked in the sidebar of this blog or leave a comment below. 

Ingredients

Card: Whisper White, Shimmery cardstock, Old Olive

Stamps: Amazing You

Inks: Tuxedo Black. Old Olive, Daffodil Delight, Melon Mambo, versamark

Other: Celebrate You thinlits, Garden Trellis embossing folder, clear embossing powder, sponges

Paper Craft Crew 278

It's been ages since I've played with the Paper Craft Crew, even though I always look. This week however, I not only have more time, but I needed inspiration for a 21st birthday card. This week's sketch was perfect.

Thank you, Paper Craft Crew, for a great design to work with.

Ingredients - all products Stampin' Up

Card: Whisper White, Petal Passion DSP, silver glimmer paper

Stamps: Amazing You, Perennial Birthday

Inks: Powder Pink, Tuxedo Black, Stampin' Blends: Rich Razzleberry

Other: Large Number framelits, Bouquet Bunch thinlits, clear faceted gems, rhinestones, white gel pen, dimensionals

Colour Inkspiration 26

Colour Inkspiration is a Facebook challenge that gives us a lovely colour palette to play fortnightly.
Here's the current challenge.

The colours and gorgeous graphic just screamed the seaside, so I got out Seaside Shore. It's been a bit neglected of late but it is a set I love.

The masked column uses all four colours. The shells/starfish are stamped in Sahara Sand and clear embossed. The seaweed was stamped in Tranquil Tide and clear embossed then I water-coloured the interior.

The fish are gold embossed and coloured with Stampin' Write markers. One is directly embossed onto the column and the other fussy cut so it could be popped up on dimensionals to give some depth.

This inside sentiment is from Seaside  Shore.

Update: Delighted to make the Top 5 at Colour Inkspiration!

Ingredients

Card: Tranquil Tide, Shimmery cardstock

Stamps: Seaside Shore, Perennial Birthday

Inks: Sahara Sand, Bermuda Bay, Emerald Envy, Tranquil Tide, versamark.

Other: gold and clear embossing powder, dimensionals, Stampin' Write markers in the three greens, aquapainter, sponges

Retro Rubber - Design Team Card

Romance is in the air at Retro Rubber Challenge this week, or at least it was for me. It's always good to have an engagement/wedding/anniversary card in the stash. This week's challenge will let you do that AND give some love to some of your old stamps.

At Retro Rubber Challenge, the rules are simple: Use a stamp that's at least a year old, tell us the approximate age of it (or them) and don't link up to more than ten challenges in total.

Use this lovely graphic to inspire you: colours, theme, patterns, shapes.... whatever you see in it that gets you wanting to create.

This card uses two older stamps. Firstly, the Brushstrokes background stamp (2015-16 Annual Catalogue) and then the very versatile Sunshine Sayings (2016-17 Annual Catalogue). Both stamp sets, along with the gorgeous Sunshine Wishes thinlits, are still current.

I chose one of the latest in-colours, Powder Pink, along with gold for this card since the inspiration photo was so pink and gold. I chose Very Vanilla as the base.

The 'love' is stacked to give it dimension and I've sponged it at the top with Powder Pink and moved through to Flirty Flamingo at the bottom. Black was too harsh for these colours, so I've used Early Espresso for the rest of the sentiment.

You have the next fortnight to join in with us at Retro Rubber Challenge and we'd love to see what you do with this gorgeous inspiration. Pop over to the site and see what the rest of the Design Team have done with it.

I am also going to enter this card into two other challenges.

Stamp, Ink, Paper 135

You can join Stamp, Ink, Paper up until 4 February

and

SU Only Challenge 193

Hearts Aplenty

You can join this challenge up until February 10

If you live anywhere in New Zealand and don't have a Stampin' Up demonstrator, I'd love to help you with ideas and Stampin' Up products. If you would like a copy of the new Special Occasions Catalogue or the Sale-a-bration brochure and don't have a demonstrator, then contact me. You can message me through my Facebook page, linked in the sidebar of this blog or leave a comment below. 

Ingredients - all products Stampin' Up

Card: Powder Pink, Very Vanilla, Gold Foil

Stamps: Brushstrokes background stamp, Sunshine Sayings

Ink: Powder Pink, Early Espresso, Flirty Flamingo

Other: Sunshine Wishes framelits, dimensionals, sponges.

The Paper Players 378 - Design Team Card

Last week's Love Notes challenge gave us so many wonderful entries at The Paper Players and we were delighted by that. I think this week's gorgeous sketch by Nance will also be popular, since it has such scope. Pop over and see what the rest of the team did with it.

My favourite new set from the Occasions Catalogue is Petal Palette and I'm still experimenting with it. I'm equally taken by the gorgeous Petals and More framelits that go with it. They make cutting out the stamp shapes a cinch but I'm most in love with the branch of leaves and the cut work lattice.

Equally lovely are the strip embossing folders, Petal Pair. I've used one of these for the horizontal element of the sketch. I've water-coloured the spray of roses. Unusual colours but I was inspired by the irresistible colours at Just Add Ink this week.

We'd love to have you join us at The Paper Players this week. Here's a reminder of the rules of the challenge.

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. Entries linked to more than 4 challenges, including ours, will be deleted without notification.
5. Have fun!

Here are the details of the challenge at Just Add Ink and you can join up there until 10 p.m. Wednesday night (AEDT)

Update: Delighted to be an Honourable Mention at Just Add Ink this week.

Ingredients - all products from Stampin' Up

Card: Tranquil Tide, Whisper White, Crumb Cake

Stamps: Petal Palette

Inks: Tranquil Tide, Lemon-Lime Twist, Crumb Cake, Black Stazon

Other: Petals and More thinlits, Stitched Shape framelits, Petal Pair embossing folder, dimensionals, rhinestones

Freshly Made Sketches 321

A quick swim and a trip to the movies is a pretty perfect way to finish off the weekend but first, I did manage to get this card done for the challenge at Freshly Made Sketches.

Perennial Birthday is another new set that I bought from the Occasions Catalogue but I'm only just starting to play with it. This challenge seemed a good chance to give it an outing.

I've been using Stampin' Blends a lot lately so decided to use my watercolour pencils and blender pen this time. I like the soft look they give. Melon Mambo and Rich Razzleberry blended nicely in the large bloom too.

Ingredients

Card: Rich Razzleberry, Old Olive, Shimmery cardstock, Whisper White

Stamps: Perennial Birthday

Inks: Stazon, Tuxedo Black, Smoky Slate

Other: Watercolour pencils, dimensionals, rhinestones, blender pen

All products Stampin' Up