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Saturday, 20 May 2017

Eastern Palace Bundle and the Just Add Ink Challenge #360

My friend Kelly posted the cutest card the other day and with it came a Just Add Ink challenge JAI360.

I have had the Eastern Palace Bundle (the one I had to have) sitting here not seeing any ink so I decided that this challenge would see me change that! The bundle is amazing and I have only scratched the surface with this card - I didn't even use the pretty stickers like I wanted to.

Here is the sketch we are working from - its an inspiration so knowing how I prefer cards that are portrait orientation I tweaked it a little.

I felt a little challenged with the inside as the only stamping is on the front is the sentiment but I think I made it work well.

The large dot Embossing folder is retiring - it is one of my favourites so I had to use it just one more time - well at the moment anyway.

Love my card? Please leave a comment below.
Would you like to make this you will need these goodies in your stash.

Till next time -

Courtenay
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Friday, 19 May 2017

Beautiful Bunch of Blossoms in Blue

The Bunch of Blossoms Bundle is a great 'go to' set that is super versatile. Wilst the bundle is retiring both the stamp set and punch are carrying over so we will get to continue enjoying this set.

All the petals are stamped and punched separately, they are then shaped a little with my bone folder on the piercing mat. They are stamped in Marina Mist for the top flower and Soft Sky on the lower one - stamped off twice for the first layer (my pad is extra juicy) then again for the second, the outline stamp is solid colour. The middle petal of each flower is popped with a dimensional at the top and glue dot at the base to give dimension. The Sepal and Receptacle, (This is the thickened part at the bottom of the flower and green leaves that join the flower to the stem) are made using the small flower punch part then cut in 1/2- the glue dot at the base of this one helps hold that petal low on the bottom.

As I usually do the inside of the card has a couple of stamped petals to match the envelope - I don't always put a sentiment inside - this card is blank.

The Bundle is retiring on the 1st June 2017 but the stamp set and punch are moving forward into the new Annual Catalogue. I used the spotty Night Of Navy piece from the Regals DSP. You will need your regular tools and adhesives.

Till next time -

Monday, 15 May 2017

Mother's Day 2017 Cards to Celebrate

Happy Mother's Day to my beautiful mum who we are blessed to have live with us (well in the Granny flat but its walking distance). She has been a great help to us as we have raised our 3 young ladies.

The card for my mum - I pulled out the 'coming soon' Daisy Delight Bundle, Tranquil Tide Card and ink plus some Pumpkin Pie. This card evolved form a full panel of the patterned DSP to what you see here.

A little history - my mum is not a flowers on cards sort of person - actually she will say she hates them! I take the challenge to make flower cards that she will like frequently most of the time I win her over. She loved this one so I am happy.

My mother in law loves pink and loves flowers so she was easy to make a pretty card for. I love the Daisy Delight bundle - I will say please when making this card you need to make sure the daisy is not to far over the edge as it won't fit in the envelope. Yes I know this - this is take 2!

Some of you that have been following my blog for a while and for those that haven't, One of my many hats is that I'm a Midwife at the local hospital. We have between 3200-3500 babies a year born with us and for the last few years I have made cards for each new mum on the Maternity ward on Mother's Day. This year I decided to make it bigger and put a load of planning into it. With the DSP promotion during the end of Sale-A-Bration I collected an extra pack of the Succulent Garden DSP.

I put a notice up at work to see if anyone would like to help and between us we ate, drank tea and made 60 cards to hand out! Every lady that our whole service had contact with got a card - so those that birthed and went straight home, mums with babies in the Special Care Nursery, Mums on the Maternity ward and Mums visited by our Early home visiting program. I wasn't at work but the feedback I have received was beautiful and makes my heart sing.

They look impressive bundled up like this don't they?

To make it easy for us we used the Note card and Envelope packs and we worked like a production line. At the time this post goes live most of the elements of this card are still available in Australia. Mint Macaron Ink and Card are already sold out! Loved that colour!

Succulent card goodies still available while stocks last!

Succulent Garden Designer Series Paper

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Whisper White Note Cards & Envelopes

[131527]

Oh So Succulent Photopolymer Stamp Set

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Succulent Framelits Dies

[142757]

Till next time -

Friday, 12 May 2017

Sneak Peek Fabulous Flamingo - Coming soon 2017-18 Catalogue

Who loves pink?

Who loves Flamingo's?

I do when it's a ink or stamp set - coming soon this divine new Fabulous Flamingo Two-Step stamp. The extra steps give some great definition to this striking bird and lend it to be used for some cool effects.

I was just having a play with this set that both Tony and I got at Onstage in Sydney. Well I'm hooked and can see this very quickly becoming a well played with set.

I water coloured over the stamped water as I stamped this bird onto Shimmery cardstock (a beautiful shiny sparkly effect lost on photography).

This stamp set is available to customers from June once the new catalogue goes live at 8am 1st June in Australia. My wish list for that day is huge and I have post noted more than half the catalogue!

Monday, 8 May 2017

School Photo Scrapbooking

I am so far behind with school photo scrapping - 3 girls in yellow and green uniforms for 13 years oh my!

With last Saturday being International Scrapbooking Day what a great day to challenge myself to do 'another school photo' .

I actually love how this page came up and it was lovely looking back all those years - wow this kids in year 9 now!

So Yellow and Green - Crushed Curry and the new Tranquil Tide go beautifully together and match my uniform palette perfectly! I have used some of the Project Life cards and the All Year Long Accessory Pack to help embellish the page. The Large Letters bundle came in handy for the acronym of the schools name that I used as a feature down the side of the page.

The DSP is from the Tasty Treats DSP.

Down the other side I used Timeless Textures to give the paper some extra depth. The Crushed Curry Cardstock is stamped tone on tone with the little sun from the Project Life Accessory pack.
The Chipboard year wordlet and number 2 were from my stash but I will share that I painted it with white Gesso, once dry I used our ink and a sponge to colour it - with loads of coats to get the great colour. I then used our fine tip glue to cover the letters waiting for it to dry gives you a non tacky shiny finish.

I hope that you got to do some memory keeping last weekend. I realised I need to do more - with so many photos I need so much more time!

To Scraplift this page you will need these goodies - keep in mind some of these items are retiring at the end of May - like the Letters Bundle (just the bundle but the stamps and framelits are staying), the DSP and the Project life packs. Tranquil Tide ink is only available to customers through the Eastern Palace Bundle special until June 1st when everyone can get it.

Letters For You Photopolymer Bundle

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Tasty Treats Specialty Designer Series Paper

[142770]

Crushed Curry Classic Stampin' Pad

[131173]

Tranquil Tide Classic Stampin' Pad

[144085]

All Year Long Project Life Accessory Pack

[142690]

All Year Long Project Life Card Collection

[141670]

Till next time -

Saturday, 6 May 2017

Global Stampin Friends Blog Hop - Sorry You're Leaving

Hopping again this time with my Global friends group - you may have hopped here straight from Sarah's Blog welcome and if you have found me whilst searching the net Yay and hello. Please continue to hop around to see what we, as a group have to share. We may be saying 'Sorry Your Leaving' but I am looking forward to all that's new.

So ---- Sorry you're leaving yummy Tasty Treats DSP but I have seen what's coming so I will only shed one or 2 tears not loads! It helps me that I'm a paper hoarder and I have taken to buying - one to use and one to keep and look at - is that bad? Its a bit like fabric - I go to the fabric store to touch, feel and admire the fabric, some makes its way to my home - DSP is the same.

I love most sheets in this pack of paper but my favourite one is the Watermelon Wonder stripe - I just couldn't cut t up - actually I have a project that I'm doing and I really needed 4 sheets of it hence the 2 packs lol!

I love the feelings of summer the Tasty Treat pages give, so flitting about the net found me a plethora of inspiration and now I have these to show you.
A search on PINTEREST came up with a heap of hits.