Stampin' Up! Australia: Claire Daly Independent Demonstrator Melbourne

Stampin' Up! 2023 Beautiful Balloons Birthday Shaker Card

May 29, 2023

Hello friends, today I have a bright and happy birthday shaker card for you using the Beautiful Balloons bundle from the 2023 Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue.

I started with a piece of white cardstock (slightly smaller on all sides than the base card) blended with Azure Afternoon, Fresh Freesia and Lemon Lime Twist. I then cut the combined balloons shape from this and traced that shape onto the base card too.

Next I adhered foam strips around the outside of the shape and added some sequins (mine are some retired ones I had in my stash).

For the piece that gets adhered over the top, I:

Embossed some tassles and streamers and random dots onto the sponged cardstock using white embossing powder;
Added a piece of window sheet attached on reverse (tip: if you wipe the sequin side of this with your embossing buddy, it helps the sequins to not stick to the window sheet).
Die cut a large balloon in Fresh Freesia with the small star embedded in the balloon (make sure the star is low enough to emboss Happy Birthday onto the balloon too.

Pin this Stampin Up card idea for later.

All of the products I have used today can be purchased either in my online store, or by email or phone. If you are in Australia, I welcome you to shop with me for awesome customer service. Place a $75+ order and receive a brand NEW 2023-25 Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue.

Use this code if you shop with me online and your order is less than $250 (if it's over $250 you are better off claiming your own Stampin' Rewards at the time of ordering. You will then qualify for a small gift the month after you order.

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Claire

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Posted at 04:49 PM in 2023-24 Stampin Up Annual Catalogue, Birthday Cards, Shaker Cards | Permalink | Comments (0)

Stampin Up Fresh as a Daisy Quick and Easy Cards InColor Cards

May 28, 2023

Did you know the Stampin' Up! Fresh as a Daisy DSP coordinates with all five of the new InColors? I made these 5 quick and easy hand made cards to show the coordination. From left to right I have used the following new InColors for the base card and the mat on the sentiment label: Pebbled Path, Boho Blue, Wild Wheat, Copper Clay and Moody Mauve.

For each card I used a contrasting colour as a mat to the patterned paper and followed that colour through on the paper strip under the label and the ink colour for the sentiment. In this example below I have used Copper Clay. I coordinated the jute bows with the base cardstock colour. For the Jute bow I have used just one of the strands of the twine (there are 3 strands so I just twisted and divided them).

The InColor jute twine is fabulous value actually. You get 4.6m of each colour in the one pack, and if you divide the strands it will go even further. Here's just one of the five colours you get in the pack (Boho Blue) so you can see what it looks like before it's unravelled to one thread.

For these two examples I have used Copper Clay with Pretty Peacock for the left hand side card, and Moody Mauve with Wild Wheat for the one on the right.

For the sentiments, I used the Something Fancy stamp set with the coordinating dies. The dies have these two graduating sized labels which I have stacked on top of each other using Dimensionals. Here's a look at the Something Fancy Stamp Set and the coordinating Something Fancy Dies.

I hope this has given you an idea for making a quick and easy set of coordinating cards.

All of the products I have used today can be purchased either in my online store, or by email or phone. If you are in Australia, I welcome you to shop with me for awesome customer service. Place a $75+ order and receive a brand NEW 2023-25 Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue.

Use this code if you shop with me online and your order is less than $250 (if it's over $250 you are better off claiming your own Stampin' Rewards at the time of ordering. You will then qualify for a small gift the month after you order.

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Thanks for checking in today. I hope your day is going great.

Claire

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Posted at 08:40 PM in 2023-24 Stampin Up Annual Catalogue, InColours, Quick and easy cards | Permalink | Comments (0)

How to Organise and Easily Find your Stampin' Up! Reinkers

May 28, 2023

If you have your Stampin' Up! re-inkers (ink refills) stored together in a container like me, sometimes it can take a while to find the one you are looking. I end up picking up each one and checking the colour on the label, and with over 50 colours it can take a while to find the one you are looking for.

This super quick and cheap organisation hack has solved that problem for me and saved me lots of time.

Just use a 1/4" circle punch and punch out a circle of the corresponding colour cardstock and attach to the top of the reinker with a Stampin' Up! mini glue dot which are super adhesive so it will stay in place. Now you can quickly and easily find the reinker you need. Pin it for later!

See you back here again soon,

Claire

Posted at 12:01 PM in Craft room storage / organisation | Permalink | Comments (0)