Birthday Blossoms Birthday Card in Flirty Flamingo & Sweet Sugarplum Sneak Peak Stampin Up! UK

Today I have another old Catalogue/New Catalogue Combo Card for you.

I have used the Birthday Blossoms Stamp Set in wood mount with a combination of Flirty Flamingo and Sweet Sugarplum Inks to create the background and the Pansy Petals. There is also a sneak Peak of one of the new Designer Series Papers (DSP) that will be in the new catalogue in June. I have used Mint Macaron Cardstock from the Rolling Over In Colour Collection, and demonstrates how carefully Stampin Up co-ordinates it's entire range, so that colour Collections not only contrast with one another, but how they compliment too ... and this follows over into all the accessories.

It makes card making & Scrapbooking so much easier!

The fill tutorial and video can be found further down today's blog post

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TUTORIAL

1. CARD BASE Trim a piece of Mint Macaron Cardstock to 30 x 10.5 cms; Score at 14.8 cms; fold & Burnish
2. Trim a piece of Shimmery White Cardstock to 14 x 9.7 cms; Randomly stamp the blossom stamp using a combination of Flirty Flamingo & Sweet Sugarplum Ink Pads to create the background. 
3. Mat the stamped panel onto a piece of Affectionately Yours Designer Series Paper (I have substituted this with the Shine On DSP Pack that is in the retiring Bin on my website) Measuring 14.4 x 10.1 cms & mount onto the card base using Stampin Dimensionals
4. Onto scraps of Shimmery White Cardstock, stamp x3 Pansy Flowers  in a combination of Flirty Flamingo & Sweet Sugarplum ink pads. Punch out the flowers using the Pansy Punch
5. Stamp 3 leaves using Emerald Envy Ink Pad, and Fussy Cut them out using Paper Snips.
6. Trim a strip of Shimmery White Cardstock to 3 x 10.5 cms & another of the same size using contrasting DSP.
7. Stamp the Shimmery White Panel with the birthday sentiment/banner using Archival Black ink Pad. Mat these onto the card front at opposing angles and snip off any excess cardstock
8. Mount the flowers onto the card front using Stampin Dimensionals, and add a couple of Ices Rhinestones to finish.

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Stampin Up! Mini Treat Bags Holly Jolly Christmas Greetings & Gift Tag

Today I am giving you a taster of what is to come next week

Christmas is coming upon us fast. My hubby got all the decorations & Tree up yesterday, and is busy ordering out cheeky Christmas jumpers as we speak (we get a new one each year)

Anyhow, from next week, it is all going to be about Gift Packaging, Box Making and Gift Tags

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Today though, I have a Mini Treat Bag for you, using the Holidays Fancy Foil Designer Vellum

Plus a Punched and die cut Gift Tag, held together with a wooden Clothespin.

 Below you will find the product icons for the items I used to create today's Festive Treat Bag

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1. Chose the Foiled Vellum you would like to use from the Holidays Fancy Foil Designer Vellum Pack and trim roughly to the size f the Treat Bag Thinlits Dies (you will need one wide and one narrow for the standard sized bags)
2. Run through your Big Shot, ensuring your have the right sides of the vellum, face down onto your vellum before running though your Big Shot ... use the Magnetic Platform for best results
3. Fold and burnish all crease line using a bone folder
4. Run a strip of Tape & Tear Adhesive down the tab on each piece & adhere the 2 pieces together
5. fold up the bottom Flap and adhere with Tape & Tear 
6. Now for the Tag - Stamp the large snowflake from the Holly Jolly Greetings Stamp Set onto a piece of Real Red Cardstock, using Cherry Cobbler classic Ink Pad
7. Punch out the snowflake using the 21/2" Circle Punch. 
8. punch a hole in the top of the tag using the 1/16" handheld punch
9. Die cut your sentiment from the Christmas Greetings Thinlits Dies and Whisper White Cardstock; mount onto your tag using the Fine Tip Glue Pen
10. Stamp your Christmas Sentiment from the Holly Jolly Greetings Stamp Set & cut out using your Paper Snips, creating banner ends. use cut down Stampin Dimensionals to the back and adhere to the tag.
11. Thread through some Silver Cording Trim and attach to the treat bag using a Clothespin or paper clip

Kim Tolton, Independent Stampin Up Demonstrator.

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Stamp Set Showcase Week 20 (5) Lovely As A Tree

Today I have a fab technique for you. I know I have used it a couple of times before, but it is such a fab technique and leaves the room smelling glorious, so I decided to have a go as a Christmas Card.

My colleague, Pippa Jones (Paper Piskies blogspot) first taught this technique and it involves

the cheapest of cheap SHAVING FOAM ... yes, you heard me right ... shaving foam.

so here is todays LOVELY AS A TREE Card and I hope you are ready for a bit of Messy Foam?

You are going to need 6" square (15cms) Whisper White Card Blank

Begin by trimming a piece of Black Cardstock to 14.5 cms x 14.5 cms

Create an Aperture in the centre of the Black cardstock using one of the Window Framelits

Select the next  two largest Window Framelits and place the two framelits onto the magnetic platform (with the usual sandwich of cutting plates or Tab 1 of your Big Shot, placing the smaller framelit inside the other, and die cut using Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer Paper to create a sparkling frame for the aperture.

No2 trim two pieces of glossy photo paper to 12cms x 12 cms.

Place one piece of glossy paper face up on a piece of Grid Paper of a few sheets of Kitchen Towel.

Spray a large blob of the cheapest of  cheap Shaving foam onto the glossy card.

Place 3 drops of the following Re-Inkers onto the top of the shaving foam 

Night of Navy

Bermuda Bay

Pool Party

Using a wooden skewer or similar, swirl the shaving foam, but don't over do it.

Next place the other piece of glossy paper, glossy side down, on top of the shaving foam

And here is the messy bot. Press the top piece of glossy paper onto the bottom piece, you will get lots of foam leaking out the sides, but do not worry.

Lift off the top piece of glossy paper and discard the rest . Wipe the excess foam off the top piece of glossy paper. Once dry, stamp the 4 trees in Black Memento ink  onto the now, ink marked piece of glossy paper, Apply Stampin Dimensionals to the four corners of the glossy paper and adhere to the back of the aperture on the black layer of cardstock.Apply Stampin Dimensionals to the reverse of the Black Layer of cardstock and attach to the card blank.

Make a layered label by stamping your sentiment onto a scrap piece of Whisper White cardstock and punch out using the Word Window. Layer this onto a punched Modern Label using Dazzling Diamonds glimmer paper. Layer up the labels using Stampin Dimensionals and attach to card front.

To Finish, use a few Basic Rhinestones, and a few Frosted Sequins and the card is made ready for someone special this Christmas.

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Stampin' Trimmer	Paper Snips	Tombow Multi-Purpose Adhesive	Stampin' Dimensionals	Big Shot Die-Cut Machine
Big Shot Magnetic Platform	Whisper White A4 Card Stock	Lovely As A Tree Clear-Mount Stamp Set	And Many More Clear-Mount Stamp Set	Window Frames Collection Framelits Dies
Modern Label Punch	Word Window Punch	Basic Rhinestones Jewel Accents	Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer Paper	Basic Gray A4 Card Stock
Shimmery White A4 Card Stock	Night Of Navy Classic Ink Refill	Pool Party Classic Stampin Ink Refill	Bermuda Bay Classic Stampin' Ink Refill	Frosted Sequins

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