Let's Craft Together - Masculine Birthday

Welcome to the monthly Blog Hop by Let’s Craft Together and thank you for joining us. We are a group of multi-cultural Stampin’ Up!® demonstrators in Australia who have developed a strong friendship though our love of stamping and our admiration of each other’s style of crafting.

The challenge this month is to create a masculine birthday card. I have a lot of birthdays in the family that are celebrated in the last half of the year so this was a perfect theme for me.

I have been wanting to use the Beautiful Gallery 6" x 6" DSP pack more and this seemed like the perfect opportunity.  I wanted to make a book fold card, and cut my DSP pieces with this in mind, then sadly couldn't find my A4 Secret Sea cardstock so did a little pivot and created a similar layout on a top opening card. I cut the front panel at 4cm up to the centre fold and then adhered that piece to the base.

The remaining 10.5cm x 10.5cm panel is left as the opening of the card as you can see in this picture. I had wanted to run some linen thread around the card under the sentiment, but unfortunately my linen thread has run off with my Secret Sea cardstock and both are AWOL.

Time to keep hopping around to see what other masculine birthday themed cards the team have come up with this month.

Happy Stamping

Monique

CTC #527 - CASE A Project Featuring DSP

Welcome to another week at CASEing the Catty Sunday Blog Hop, where utilise the projects within the current Stampin' Up! catalogue to inspire our own projects each week. We also invite you to join with us in the challenge each week by using this inspiration in your own creations and uploading a photo to our Facebook page.

This week we are taking inspiration from projects featuring DSP from the Annual Catalogue, and boy do we have some beautiful DSP in this catty!

I was inspired by this card from page 58 of the Annual Catalogue, part of the Kintsugi Inspirations Suite. I loved the simplicity of this layout and almost chose it for the Kintsugi Inspirations CASE challenge!

I used the Floral Impressions DSP as the basis for this card, as it has such pretty papers, and the best part is the "b" side of each sheet has a small colour on colour print that coordinates beautifully with the "a" side. So it was easy to choose patterns for this card.  Then it was easy to stamp flowers in coordinating colours using Impressions in Bloom stamp set.  In a nod to the original card I cut the sentiment using the Kintsugi Inspiration label. I finished off with 2025-2027 In-Colour Flat Pearls and a couple of thin strips of Gold Foil Sheets. 

  

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use projects featuring DSP to inspire your creativity, then post a picture of your project to the CTC Facebook page.

 

   

Time to hop on over and see what the talented Peta has created this week.

Happy Stamping
Monique

Let's Craft Together Blog Hop - Rustic Style

Welcome to the monthly Blog Hop by Let’s Craft Together and thank you for joining us. We are a group of multi-cultural Stampin’ Up!® demonstrators in Australia who have developed a strong friendship though our love of stamping and our admiration of each other’s style of crafting.

The challenge this month is to make a card in the Rustic style, which tends to be characterised by natural, organic, distressed or aged elements. I always reach for earthy tones for rustic cards and often distress the edges or crumple elements on the card. 

For this challenge I thought the Country Woods DSP pack would be great to have as my starting point. I decided to create a frame by using my trimmer to cut a rectangle from the centre and raising it on Dimensionals.  The flower images are stamped in Saddle Brown StazOn ink and coloured with my Blender Pen picking up small amounts of Pecan Pie for the petals, and Crumb Cake for the leaves. I purposefully kept the embellishments to a minimum, only using two of the Loose Frosted Dots coloured with Dark Crumb Cake Blends. 

Time to hop onto the next blog in the list below and see what the rest of the team have created for this Rustic Style Challenge. 

Happy Stamping 

Monique

CTC #525 - CASE Kintsugi Inspirations

Welcome to another week at CASEing the Catty Sunday Blog Hop, where utilise the projects within the current Stampin' Up! catalogue to inspire our own projects each week. We also invite you to join with us in the challenge each week by using this inspiration in your own creations and uploading a photo to our Facebook page.

This week we are taking inspiration from the Kintsugi Inspirations Suite on pages 58 to 60 of the Annual Catalogue.  I loved this suite based on the Japanese tradition of repairing broken pots with gold, part of a philosophy that views breaking and repair as part of one's history, celebrating imperfections and recognising resilience. I have loved this concept since I first learned of it many years ago, so was thrilled to see this suite in the catalogue. 

I chose this card from page 60, I love the simplicity but also the way it allows showcasing of different DSP panels. 

This morning I had a chat with a fellow demonstrator this morning, the lovely Jo Weedon, and we discussed that sometimes we get caught up thinking that products should only be used with the other products they coordinate with in the catalogue, and that in doing so our creativity can be impeded. So my additional challenge for this card was to create one in which I purposefully used products from very different suites. I used the dies, sentiment and design from Kintsugi Inspirations, but the DSP and floral stamped images from a new suite that is coming out as an online exclusive next month, the Floral Charm Suite.  I love how it turned out, thanks Jo!

  

I hope you are inspired to join in the challenge this week, just use the projects on pages 58-60 of the Annual Catalogue to inspire your creativity, then post a picture of your project to the CTC Facebook page.

  

Time to hop on over and see what Peta has created this week.

Happy Stamping
Monique