Let it Ride Stampin' Up! - Special Folds with SBTD January Blog Hop

Welcome to this months Stampers By the Dozen blog hop featuring special folds or fun folds even fancy folds, what ever you like to call them. So many choices and Pinterest was alive with suggestions, tutorials and even templates for all those folds. I have chosen the Joy Fold card for todays hop - even its name sounds nice.

I have used the let it Ride stamp set that my daughter chose from the current Occasions catalogue - I let my kids pick a set each, each catalogue this one is my 19 year olds choice. I have stamped in Early Espresso then coloured the horse with Stampin' Blends. The trees in the background were coloured with our markers in Mosey Meadow, Sahara Sand and Crumb Cake. The DSP is Wood Textures.

 

I just love how this card has the element of surprise of that piece folding in the opposite direction to what you are expecting. The 'For You' circle as 3 dimensionals over to the one side so that it acts as a clip for the front of the card.

I loved how well this turned out in landscape but have a real preference for Portrait cards so check this one out I couldn't find any measurements or tutorials to help me with the cutting for this card so made it up as I went along. To say I'm happy with the finished product is an understatement.

The Darling Label tag punch you will note has a nice frame around it - that's from the Everyday Label Punch chopped in half.

 

 

Thank you for popping in please continue to hop around and see what other great projects the team has to share with you. Next stop is Tashana from Honeybee's Stamping Hive

Stampers By The Dozen Roll Call                

1. Karie Beagle                  
2. Judi Anderson                  
3. Susan Simpson               
4. Tricia Butts                   
5. Courtenay Heuston - You are Here
6.  Tashana Lundy 
7. Carly Middleton                     
8. Sharleen Luciano             
9. Anastasia Radloff
10. Deb Naylor
11. Dena Albee
12. Laura Kate Mackie

Supplies List to recreate these cards

Let It Ride Cling Stamp Set

[148765]

$42.00

Early Espresso A4 Card Stock

[121686]

$14.75

Early Espresso Classic Stampin' Pad

[147114]

$13.00

Soft Suede A4 Card Stock

[119982]

$14.75

Wood Textures Designer Series Paper Stack

[144177]

$19.25

Neutrals Stampin' Write Markers

[147158]

$52.50

1-3/8" (3.5 Cm) Scallop Circle Punch

[146139]

$28.00

1-1/4" Circle Punch

[119861]

$28.00

Everyday Label Punch

[144668]

$31.00

Darling Label Punch Box

[146855]

$78.00

Whisper White A4 Card Stock

[106549]

$17.00

Very Vanilla A4 Card Stock

[106550]

$17.00

Very Vanilla C6 Envelopes

[106589]

$12.25

Whisper White C6 Envelopes

[106588]

$12.25

Crumb Cake Dark Stampin' Blends Marker

[144581]

$7.75

Soft Suede Stampin' Blends Markers Combo Pack

[147273]

$15.50

Ivory Stampin' Blends Marker

[144606]

$7.75

Bronze Stampin' Blends Marker

[144607]

$7.75

Stampin' Blends Color Lifter

[144608]

$7.75

Tear & Tape Adhesive

[138995]

$9.00

Stampin' Dimensionals

[104430]

$6.00

Clear Block D

[118485]

$14.00

Stampin' Trimmer

[129722]

$50.00

Courtenay

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Sketch Inspiration with Scrapbooking Global - Blog Hop January

Welcome to this months hop with the Scrapbooking Global - Stampin' Up! Group and welcome to 2019 what a great year of hop themes we have planned for you! You are welcome to join us each month, you could even share your layouts. If your not a member already please feel free to join us on our Facebook Group HERE. This months theme is a Sketch layout picked by the lovely Shaz - the sketch photo is below.

So I flipped the orientation of the sketch to suit my landscape photo and although it has the sketch elements I have 'tweaked' it a bit. The titles are cut from our chipboard that's found at the back of our glimmer paper packets. Instead of painting them I actually embossed them. They were all embossed with white then the words Reef and fun were coloured with the Night of Navy Stampin' Blends. The other thing I did with my Stampin' Blends marker is colour the silver glimmer net and silver thread.

  

  

I left the little fish silver and they show up in various places on the layout. the close up also shows how great the silver thread comes up with the Blends marker. Did you also notice the new embossing folder making an appearance - it reminds me of bubbles so I thought it was appropriate. One of the other things I often do to elevate my larger pieces is use the chipboard from the glimmer paper again so no sagging on this photo. 

So here it is again my dear middle daughter with her favourite school teacher on a Marine Studies excursion to a local rock pool area at the beach. Gosh the excursions are better these days than when I went to school!

So without further ado lets hop on over to see what Sara has done with this sketch.

 

Supplies and tools list used on this page.

2017-2019 In Color 12" X 12" Cardstock

[145453]

$21.00

Whisper White 12" X 12" Card Stock

[124302]

$13.50

Tranquil Textures Designer Series Paper

[146331]

$19.25

Night Of Navy A4 Card Stock

[106577]

$14.75

Dot To Dot Textured Impressions Embossing Folder

[148533]

$15.00

Under The Sea Framelits Dies

[146334]

$52.00

Silver Glimmer Paper

[146960]

$8.75

Rectangle Stitched Framelits Dies

[148551]

$61.00

Silver Metallic Thread

[138402]

$6.00

Night Of Navy Dark Stampin' Blends Marker

[144039]

$7.75

White Stampin' Emboss Powder

[109132]

$8.75

Neutrals Stampin' Write Markers

[147158]

$52.50

Tear & Tape Adhesive

[138995]

$9.00

Versamark Pad

[102283]

$15.75

Heat Tool

[129056]

$50.00

Stampin' Trimmer

[129722]

$50.00

Do you want to be a guest designer and work alongside our team? 

Applications are now open.

Email 3 Design pieces to showcase your Stampin’ Up! Scrapbooking/Memory Keeping style. Beginners to Advanced Scrapbookers, Simple to Avid Styles will all be considered. STAMPIN’ UP! PRODUCTS ONLY – 2018-2019 CATALOGUE PRODUCTS. Email to shazcreativeme68@gmail.com Application open 8th Jan – 22nd Jan Creative Designer Team will decide on Guest Designers 22nd -29th All successful applicants will be PM’d Jan 31st GUEST DESIGN TEAM ANNOUNCEMENT Feb 1st 2pm Aust (AEST) 

Courtenay

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Holiday Happenings - Scrapbooking Global Dec 2018 Blog Hop

I love the whole Santa's Workshop Suite so it was easy to use it with these photos of my youngest. To say she loves Candy Canes is an understatement!

Both photos started as size 6x4 but with all the bright orange price labels that Bunnings is known for I decided to trim them up a bit. The square photo is 3.5x3.5 inch and the other is 3.5 x 5.5 inch. 
I pulled out all of my stamp sets that had a small 'love' word in them (I was actually surprised how many there were) - I picked 3 to play with. The little candy canes in the Elf's trolley are fussy cut from the DSP. 

I have pulled in some of the Memories & More cards and stickers for my title and to add some layers. Miss Tara loves her page as much as she loves Candy Canes apparently!

Thank you for joining me now please hop on over to see the great 1st Christmas page my fellow Aussie Sharon has to share.

Courtenay

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Reflecting the season - it’s Baby Season! SBTD Dec Blog Hop

Welcome to this months blog hop with the Stampers By the Dozen crew.

The theme for this month is Reflection of the season - Non holiday projects. Well I'm in Australia and we are officialy in Summer. I could have easily made a great hot summer card but wanted to reflect something else about the spring summer season and that is the abundance of babies happening at the moment. I am a midwife and wow we have had a populaion explosion!

Not only have we been busy at work but a lot of our work (mine and my hubbies - Tony) work colleges are off having babies as well.

 

I had nothing in my stash for a new baby so pulled out the Animal Expedition DSP since I hadn't cracked the packet open yet. The first gift I had was this super cute Rhino and blanket. So I made the card to go with the gift - I couldn’t come at a pink Rhino though when colouring. The card base is Melon Mambo the Rhino and Bird are coloured with Stampin' Blends. 

Thank you for hopping with me now please pop on over and see what Tashana has to share.

Courtenay

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