Monday, August 30, 2021

Whimsy & Wonder Suite for Freshly Made Sketches' 500th Challenge

 

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Wow! 500 challenges! That is impressive commitment! And it deserves a huge congratulations to the crew at Freshly Made Sketches. Well done everyone! I know from running my own challenge blog that it takes a lot of work and dedication to keep that up.

I really wanted to honor their 500th challenge by entering. Here is the sketch:

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I'm in the process of creating samples for my catalogue launch in a week and I still hadn't come up with anything for the Whimsy & Wonder Suite, so I decided to use it for this challenge. Whimsy & Wonder is all about non-traditional colours and leans heavily into Polished Pink and Blushing Bride, so my Christmas card creation is a testament to pink:

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  • On the Polished Pink card base and the Basic White layer, I've added a background from the Whimsy & Wonder Specialty Designer Series Paper in Blushing Bride with silver foil snowflake accents.
  • I used the Ornate Layers Dies to die cut then modify a panel for the left hand side in Basic White. One of the Wonderful Snowflake iridescent foil embellishments was added before I started adding the Christmas trees.
  • The tree in the back was die cut both from Polished Pink and Blushing Bride, then I used the Polished Pink 'skeleton' and added the Blushing Bride inserts, gluing them in. I die cut some baubles and stars from mirrored silver foil finish from the Silver Foil Specialty Pack. I added baubles and a star to this tree.
  • The second tree was heat embossed with silver embossing powder on Blushing Bride cardstock and die cut using the Christmas Tree dies. One of the silver foil stars was added to the top. This image is from the Whimsical Trees stamp set.
  • The third tree was heat embossed with silver embossing powder on Polished Pink cardstock and die cut with the Christmas Tree dies. The image is also from the Whimsical Trees stamp set. One of the silver foil stars was added to the top of this one as well, using a glue dot. The last two trees were adhered using Stampin' Dimensionals.
  • The sentiment is embossed in silver on Basic White cardstock and die cut with a label die from the Seasonal Label dies.

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Monday, August 16, 2021

I Need to Make Some Changes

 

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I've been at a crossroads for many months now, probably more like a couple of years. I've been needing to make some decisions that are not easy to make and I've been waffling, putting them off; making them then changing my mind; emotions all over the place.

This week I kind of hit a wall due to many different factors and I finally realized that I had no choice any more. It was time to make those hard choices that I've been putting off. 

So I wanted to let you know that you will be seeing less of me here on my blog because, as much as I love blogging, it is an unforgiving taskmaster and I need to loosen the chains!

I will be posting at least once every two weeks for sure, and then, when the spirit moves me after that. I'm hoping to recapture the joy of stamping I started with!

I want to thank all of you for your support over the years I've been doing this! Thanks for your loyal readership. Please keep checking on me every two weeks and a comment or two would be so appreciated. There may come a day when I pick this up again more regularly. I hope so. But for now, a break is what is needed. 

Thank you again for your understanding. 

By the way, I will still be operating as a Stampin' Up! demonstrator, so if you need anything, feel free to contact me.

Friday, August 13, 2021

Blackberry Beauty Ephemera Pack

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 Growing tired of waiting for my Blackberry Beauty Specialty Designer Series Paper to arrive, I wanted to show you an idea of how rich and beautiful it is by using elements of the Blackberry Beauty Ephemera Pack to create a semblance of the paper in a card featuring the Nature's Harvest stamp set.

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  • On the Blackberry Bliss card base I added a Cinnamon Cider & Gold frame from the Emphemera Pack. 
  • Before adding it however, I stamped the wildflower image from Nature's Harvest in Memento Tuxedo Black ink on Basic White cardstock and coloured it in with Blackberry Bliss and Cinnamon Cider Stampin' Blends Combos. I glued the frame over the image and cut out around the edge of the frame. I added adhesive to the back before gluing it to the card base.
  • Within the Cinnamon Cider frame in the Ephemera Pack there is a Blackberry Bliss frame and a flag. I punched both of these out as well. I added adhesive to the back of the frame and glued it to the card base overlapping the Cinnamon Cider frame as shown above. 
  • I added Stampin' Dimensionals to flag and placed it on the card base in the position shown.
  • The sentiment, from Nature's Harvest, was stamped on a label from the Ephemera Pack in Blackberry Bliss ink. Two Stampin' Dimensionals were added to the back and it was adhered to the card front as shown.
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