Stampin' Up! Bundles, Delightful Daisy - SBTD April Blog Hop

Welcome to the SBTD Blog Hop for April - Its all about the bundles today and I have chosen Daisy Delight- a great stamp set with a coordinating punch. In the current catalogue its a bundle - bundles are great they save you 10% when purchasing the items together within the bundle code.
I picked these beauties because they will live on in the next catalogue but not as a bundle - so do yourself a favour and get them ASAP by clicking the bundle picture at the bottom of the post!

Eye spy with my little eye - more new Designer Series Paper! This is from the Share What You Love DSP and it works perfectly with the Daisy! Oh and another great thing that I am super happy about the Linen Thread is carrying over - have I told you lately how much I love this stuff?

I found a stash of Mossy Meadow cardstock (a returning colour with the new revamp that's coming with the new catalogue) so that's my card base. the little white flowers and the sentiment are all embossed using white embossing powder.

Now onto this card - same stamp set but the sentiments are from the New Love What You Do set that will be available to customers in May 18 as part of the Share What You Love Suite Promotion then from June 18 in the Annual Catalogue (p 177 code 148042).
I have just used the stamps from the bundle to make this quick easy and pretty card. Look there's that Linen Thread again and some Rhinestone bling - yes they are staying as well - yay!

Thanks for joining me - lets pop on over now and see what Tashana has made using the Petal Palette bundle today.

Hop Roll Call

Karie Beglau
JudiAnderson   
Susan Simpson   
Tricia Butts   
Lyndsay LaRae Carara  
Courtenay Heuston  You are here!   
Tashana Lundy
CarlyMiddleton
Sharleen Luciano
Vicky Thompson
Anastasia Radloff
Deb Naylor


 My supply stash to make both these cards and many more --------->

Daisy Delight Photopolymer Bundle

[145361]

Share What You Love Specialty Designer Series Paper

[146926]

Whisper White A4 Card Stock

[106549]

Whisper White A4 Thick Cardstock

[140490]

Old Olive A4 Card Stock

[106576]

Mossy Meadow A4 Cardstock

[133683]

Garden Green Classic Stampin' Pad

[126973]

Old Olive Classic Stampin' Pad

[126953]

Pumpkin Pie Classic Stampin' Pad

[126945]

Daffodil Delight Classic Stampin' Pad

[126944]

Linen Thread

[104199]

Rhinestone Basic Jewels

[144220]

White Stampin' Emboss Powder

[109132]

Versamark Pad

[102283]

Whisper White C6 Envelopes

[106588]

Stampin' Dimensionals

[104430]

Stampin' Trimmer

[129722]

SNAIL Permanent Adhesive

[104332]

Heat Tool

[129056]

Courtenay
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Daisy Delight - a Bundle that is just Delightful!

The name of this bundle says it all - Daisy Delight - it belongs to the Delightful Daisy Suite. The Suite has coordinating Designer Series Paper, Card Stock, Faceted Gems, Double Stitched Ribbon in Daffodil Delight (even the colours sound like they fit right in), a Daisy punch and the beautiful Daisy Delight stamp set.

This Suite featured heavily at my launch last weekend and was very popular. Here are some of the items on display.

 

A bucket full of flowers just like the real ones. The little buckets can be purchased from Kmart in Australia - gold or black.

A close up of the flowers - the shape to the petals was from the bone folder. Oh and yes I am still engraving the Bone folders here in Australia you just need to pop me a message via my Facebook page HERE. Not on Facebook? I can be contaced through the 'Contact Me' button on my Stampin' Up! site.

My mum is one of my greatest cheer leaders and its not uncommon to be asked for a card for a friend - usually with a 'Oh I need to leave in 10 - can you do it?' So the bucket of loveabove went to our friend Joyce for her 80th birthday - I popped a 80 cake topper in there to add to the flowers. Below is the matching card with the sentiment from the 'Happy Birthday Gorgeous' stamp set.
Joyce and all the extended family mum was with loved it!

This card was one for my display with the sentiment from 'Just Add Text'.

So now about my Daisys - I am guessing you would like to know how I made them.

I purchased florists wire 28 and 18 gauge (because that's all they had) a small bucket and some fake greenery to pop in it, the other thing that's important is a ring of foam - I painted mine black to match the bucket.

 

Using the Daisy Delight Bundle and a few extra goodies the flower bucket is not difficult.

 

 

I punched 2 Whisper White flowers, a 1" circle that then has a small 1/16" hole punched in it, a Elegant Eggplant spot that's stamped (using the Daisy Delight Stamp set Daisy center) tone on tone then punched using the 1/2" circle. A piece of wire and a small pair of long nose pliers. I used Multi Purpose Glue and Glue dots.
Using the dauber I coloured the centers of the White flowers just a little.

The wire gets bent twice first to form a small hook then a second to lay that hook flat over the 1" circle.

If you look closely you can see where the Glue dots have landed. If you prefer you can use Multi Purpose Glue for added strength - I do on the 1" circle, the glue dots hold long enough for the glue to dry and between the 2 adhesives they haven't failed me yet.

So add the 3 layers of flower together - now you can add a little colour to the petal tips and shape your petals with your bone folder. You will note mine are not perfect or symmetrical.

 

I found turning the flower upside down on the work surface makes it easier to attach the 1" circle to the flower back.

The wire and foam makes positioning the flowers in the arrangement easy.

This photo below is where my inspiration comes from - I took a photo of some real Daisy's in my Physios garden  one day that were just so pretty.

 

 

So I couldn't help myself it was Daisy's everywhere - here is a coloured bucket. These ones were all stamped with the daisy stamp before punching them out as well. The centers in these ones have a dimensional under them - I am loving the small dimensionals for this small pop. The Pumpkin Pie flowers actually have 3 layers for a fuller flower.

 

 

 

To make the 3D Inspired Daisy's you will need these goodies - the Elegant Eggplant Cardstock you only need a scrap of though! In Australia you can click the pictures to be taken to the online store.

Daisy Delight Photopolymer Bundle

[145361]

Whisper White A4 Card Stock

[106549]

Elegant Eggplant A4 Card Stock

[108614]

Elegant Eggplant Classic Stampin' Pad

[126969]

Sponge Daubers

[133773]

Glue Dots

[103683]

1" Circle Punch

[119868]

1/2" Circle Punch

[119869]

1/16" Circle Handheld Punch

[134363]

Liquid Multipurpose Glue

[110755]

I hope you like my flowers - Till next time -

 

Courtenay
Do you live in Australia and would you like to become a Demonstrator, earn discounts, great rewards and get to craft with Stampin' Up! products before their release? If so click here to join my team - more information here.