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Fancy Friday - New Catalogue Favourites

Fancy Friday - New Catalogue Favourites

Welcome back to the Fancy Friday Blog Hop! We are a group of Stampin' Up! demonstrators that have been or are currently on the Stampin' Up! Artisan Design Team. We love sharing our passion for creating with all of you and hope to inspire along the way. 

This month's hop is all about our new Annual Catalogue favorites! And yes that is plural as I could not choose just one, so I combined a few of my new must have items. I was on a budget for my first order from the new catalogue, so I had to think long and hard about what the items were that I just HAD to have. 

My top 5: To a Wild Rose Stamp Set and Wild Rose Dies,  2019/20 In Colour Ink Pads, Woven Tread Designer Series Paper and Nobel Peacock Rhinestones 

Of course I have ordered more since;)

This card uses all 5 of my top picks. I am a complete sucker for florals and as soon as I saw the To a Wild Rose set I knew it would be my first pick. I love how multi step stamp images create such beautiful richness and depth. This set also has DistINKtive stamps, these are stamps that give beautiful photo realistive details. 

TIP: To give the gorgeous rose image even more impact I layered several of the images and then cut out the center of a separately stamped rose and popped it up with Dimensionals. I wanted to add a little more interest to the leaves other than the typical green colour, so I stamped off Pretty Peacock then stamped it on top of the Old Olive leaves. 

There are several great sentiments to choose from in this set. I decided to create a layered sentiment on the die cut label. I also embossed the label with the Subtle Embossing folder to add some texture and it ties in perfectly the understated DSP pattern.   

Now make sure you check out the awesomely talented Jeanna Bohanon, she is the next blog on the hop!

Thank you for visiting my blog and as always if you have any questions please feel free to contact me.

Artisan Design Team June Blog Hop - Come Sail Away

 

Hello everyone and welcome back to another Stampin' Up! Artisan Design Team Blog Hop! We are a group of 16 Stampin' Up! Demonstrators from around the world, that were chosen to represent Stampin' Up! over the course of the 2019 year, through blog hops, Facebook posts and corporate blog posts. Each month we will be be focusing on a particular set of products to bring you inspiration from around the globe Stampin' Up! style. 

This month we get to work with new and exciting products from the 2019/20 Annual Stampin' Up! Catalogue. Our focus is on the fabulous Come Sail Away Suite of products that have a fun nautical theme to them, but as you will see these products are very versatile as well.

For my projects I created a traditional 12x12 scrapbook page and card with matching envelope. Stampin' Up! makes it so easy to create different types of projects by using a coordinating suite. 

I love traditional scrapbooking, I began scrapping shortly after I found Stampin' Up! and card making. This page started with a 12x12 piece of Whisper White card stock and some of the Come Sail Away Designer Series Paper. One of the great things about this suite is that there is also a coordinating Memories and More Card Pack that is perfect for pocket scrapping but they can be used on tradition pages as well. TIP: Use Memories and More Cards on traditional layouts for easy journaling and quick and easy pages. The sticker embellishments work great for filling out a layout and creating a title. As you can see this page has nothing to do with nautical but I was able to make this suite work perfectly for these fun photos of my kids (including "fur kids")

For this card again I took advantage of the versatility of the Memories and More Card Pack. They are not just for scrapbooking, in fact Stampin' Up! created the Assorted Memories and More Card Bases And Envelopes to coordinate perfectly with both the 4x6 and 3x4 sized cards. All you have to do is attach it to the card base and go from there! I layered an amazing laser cut 4x6 card on top of a piece of DSP and then adhered it to the card base.

I braided the Sahara Sand and Night of Navy Baker's Twine to create a rope like appearance in keeping with the nautical theme. The Sail boat imagine was stamped and die cut then covered with a little Wink of Stella for some subtle sparkle. TIP: To create an easy watercolour look, ink up the stamp then lightly mist it with water using a Stampin' Spritzer, then stamp on watercolour paper. I also added some ink splatters by tapping an Aqua Painter that had been dipped in Classic Ink.

Now next up on the Hop is the insanely talented Kaylee van Es, I just know you will love what she has to share!

Now remember, there are 16 of us sharing inspiration today, be sure to check out all of the fabulous projects!

As always please feel free to contact me with any questions regarding today's projects and all supplies used are listed below.