Stampin' Up! Australia: Claire Daly Independent Demonstrator Melbourne

Sponged embossing card making technique on a 2021 Mothers day card.

February 21, 2021

Hello friends. Today I have a 2021 Mothers day card for you. A little early maybe, but I wanted to play with the Meadow Moments embossing folders and use the sponged embossing papercraft and card making technique. The soft colours I wanted to use were perfect for a Mothers Day card.

Here's how my card turned out.

I started with embossing a piece of Basic White cardstock with one one of the two embossing folders in the Meadow Moments embossing folder pack. Using sponge daubers, I lightly sponged the raised bits. I used the dauber and Blushing Bride ink pad for the flowers, Mint Macaron for the butterflies and Soft Sea Foam for the stems and leaves. I also lightly sponged the white areas in between with Soft Sea Foam.

Next steps were to add a thin strip of Mint Macaron cardstock to the left side of this strip, and to adhere it to a Blushing Bride card base which had been embossed with the subtles 3D embossing folder. To finish my card off I embossed the Happy Mothers Day sentiment from the Strong Women stamp set in white embossing powder onto Mint Macaron cardstock. I cut the butterfly embellishment using the Butterfly Duo Punch, and a piece of Blushing Bride cardstock which I had also embossed with the Subtle 3D folder.

Here's another look at my colour combination for this one.

If this is a technique you think you would like to try at some stage - pin this image to your Pinterest boards to help you find the post for the future.

Where do I get the products used today?

All the products I have used today are available NOW to Australian residents in my Online Stampin Up Store. Just click on the individual produc links below to go to each product in the store. If you are in another country besides Australia, the products will be available from a local Stampin' Up! Demonstrator. When you shop online with me in Australia, and use the monthly Host Code, you also qualify for a thank you gift mid the month after your purchase. My customers love getting these little gifts in the mail. Click the button below to go to my online store (individual products are linked direct throughout the post, and in the links at the end of the post). This month's host code is also listed below. If this isn't the current month (because you are reading the post at a later date), this month's code is in the right hand column or HERE. You can read about three ways to shop with with me, and all the benefits my VIP customers get HERE.

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Claire

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Posted at 04:53 PM in 2020 Annual Catalogue, Backgrounds, Butterflies, Colour Combinations, Embossing Folders, Ink Techniques, Mother Day Cards, Sponging, Techniques | Permalink | Comments (1)

Introducing NEW Stampin' Up! Tahitian Tide with Paradise Palms stamp set

April 23, 2022

Hello friends. It' time to dee dive into another one of the 2022 new Stampin' Up! InColors. Today we are looking at Tahitian Tide. Just 10 days until Annual Catalogue launch day and the maunch of these fabulous new colours - woohoo!

Tahitian Tide is a bright turquoise blue. Here is how it looks with some of our other current Stampin' Up! colours. As you can see, Tahitian Tide has similar tones to Pacific Point.

For my card, I have used Tahitian Tide and a blending brush to create an ocean background for my beach themes card. I love this blue!

My focal image is from Paradise Palms stamp set. This debuted in the 2022 January to June Mini Catalogue, but will also be carrying over to the new 2022 Annual Catalogue (but the bundle pricing won't be available, so if you want the bundle, grab it before the end of June so you save 10%). I originally stamped the greeting directly over the palm trees, but it got kind of lost, so I cut out a separate piece. I like the way the ripped edge exposing the white cardstock looks like the wave foam. Did you notice I have also used the 'coming soon' Stylish Shapes dies for the stitched circle?

I have used the direct to rubber marker technique to colour the palm trees, with the trunks in Soft Suede and the branches in Garden Green. For the ground, I have used Soft Suede stamped off once. This year we also have bi-colour bakers twine in each of the InColours. I have combined the Tahitian Tide and White one, with Linen Thread for the embellishment on my card. Unfortunately one of my Champagne Rhinestones fell off before photographing, so you will just have to imagine there is another one there to the bottom right of the sentiment.

Here's a look at the colour combination for this card.

Here's a look at the Paradise Palms bundle. Perfect for beachy cards!

I hope you like today's beachy card! The Paradis Palms bundle is available in my online store now, and the rest of the new items will be available on May 3rd. I am happy to place orders direct if you call / text / email (o412 120 498) and you can also shop online. When you shop online with me in Australia, and use the monthly Host Code, you also qualify for a small thank you gift mid the month after your purchase. My customers love getting these little gifts in the mail. Here's the shop link (individual product links at the end of the post), and this month's host code. You can read about three ways to shop with me HERE.

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Annual Catalogue Product Share Registrations open until May 2nd

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Thanks for stopping by today and checking out what I had for you. See you again soon.

Claire

Posted at 05:37 PM in 2022-2023 Annual Catalogue, Birthday Cards, Dies, Hello Cards, InColours, Ink Blending, Ink Techniques, New Catalogues, New Product Releases, Techniques | Permalink | Comments (1)

Stampin Up Thinking of You Card: Quiet Meadow Bundle & Collage Stamping Technique

June 30, 2021

Hello friends. Today I have a 'thinking of you' card using the new Quiet Meadow bundle in the Stampin Up Australia 2021 Annual Catalogue. We will also be using a stamping technique called collage stamping.

"Collage" was originally a French word, derived from the word coller, meaning "to paste." The stamping interpretation of that is to combine a variety of themed stampings, balanced in both colour and composition. That's easy to do when you have multiple coordinating stamps in a set, like we do with the Stampin' Up! sets.

Here's a look at the complete card. The light has caught the Rose Gold Metallic Specialty Paper so it looks like two different colours, but it isn't. This paper is really pretty.

I started with a base of Crumb Cake cardstock. I have stamped one layer of the collage stamping in Crumb Cake ink. This is just basically layering the stamps to give the coverage and composition you want. I also used Early Espresso to add another layer on the collage, and carried that colour through to the stamping on the sentiment.

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Thanks for stopping by today. See you again soon.

Claire

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Posted at 07:00 PM in 2021 Annual Catalogue, Dies, Grunge, Techniques, Thinking of You Cards | Permalink | Comments (1)

Colour Creations Showcase Week 48: So Saffron

May 12, 2021

Hello friends. I'm finding myself with a little more creative time at the moment, so I am excited to be able to participate in some of the creative challenges with my Art with Heart team girls. This week's colour challenge is So Saffron, a very muted yellow and to be honest not one I have created with much in the last year.

Here is my card. I chose to use the beautiful new Hand-Penned Petals bundle. By stamping off (stamping once on scrap paper and then onto your card without reinking) the Polished Pink and Soft Succulent once each, I came up with a soft colour combination using So Saffron.

Here's the colour combination if you want to Pin It for future reference.

One of the things I LOVE about this new bundle is it's designed for the stamping to be imperfect! I love the fresh vintage look you get when you stamp the solid colours for the leaves and flowers, and they don't quite fit perfectly. This really suits my style of stamping. I stamped the flowers and the sentiment in Basic Gray to tie in with the softer colour combination.

I have used the scalloped edge die from the coordinating Penned Flower Dies to create the left side edging. The flowers are two of the largest flower bunch, placed together. Here's a look at the Hand-Penned suite. You can buy the suite together (which includes 10% discount on the bundle), the bundle with a 10% discount, or individual components of the suite. All the product links for today's project are at the end of the post.

I have used a couple of other new products on my card too. My sentiment is from a great new stamp set with 11 sentiments, called Inspired Thoughts. I really love the font in this set. I have also used a great new die set called Encirled in Beauty, and there is just a peek of one of the decorative circle shapes poppng out unter the sentiment. This is going to be one of my favourite die sets for sure.

Here's a look at these two products (links at the end of the post will take you to these products in my online store). First the Inspired Thoughts Stamp Set.

These are the new Encircled in Beauty Dies. The largest die in the set is 9.8 x 9.8cm, so they are perfectly sized for card fronts.

If you would like to see more So Saffron colour combinations, head over to Cathy's blog to see what the rest of the Art with Heart Team girls have been up to.

Thanks for stopping by today,

Claire

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Posted at 07:57 PM in 2021 Annual Catalogue, Bundles: Punches and dies with matching stamp sets., Colour Challenges, Colour Combinations, Colour Creations Blog Hop, Dies, Garden, flower and plant inspired cards., Stampin Up Colour Combinations, Sympathy Cards, Techniques, Thinking of You Cards, Two or Three Step Stamping | Permalink | Comments (8)

Stampin' Up! Pansy Patch Stamp Set with Two Step Stamping Technique

May 11, 2021

Hello friends.

Today I have a friends / thankyou card, made using the brand new Pansy Patch stamp set, and coordinating Pansy Petal Designer Series Paper.

View the products in the Pansy Petals suite HERE in my online Stampin' Up! store.

I'm totally in love with this product suite! Pansies have always been one of my favourite flowers, as they give such vibrant colour in the winter months here in Australia. With the products in this bundle, you can make stamped or die cut (or a combination of both) multi-layered pansies. Here's a look at the bundle.

The Pansy Petals 12x12" Designer Series paper has a bunch of coordinating floral patterns, and some gorgeous gingham and basic patterns on the reverse. This paper also coodinates with all 5 of the new 2021 InColors. You get 12 double sided sheets, 2 of each design.

The Pansy Dies also cut out some of the printed images in the DSP which is very cool, and really increases the versatility of the suite.

For this card I have usd just the stamp set and DSP (I fussy cut the flowers and leaves). This is a two-step (actually a three or four step) stamp set, and it's super easy to line the different layers up because the stamps are Photopolymer.

Here are the Stampin' Up! ink colours I have used on each pansy and the leaves.

Top Pansy:

Base layer of pansy: Magenta Madness
Highlight layer of pansy: Rich Razzleberry
Outer centre: left white
Inner centre: Rich Razzleberry

Bottom Pansy:

Base layer of pansy: Polished Pink stamped off once
Highlight layer of pansy: Polished Pink
Outer centre: Polished Pink
Inner centre: Rich Razzleberry
Very centre: Coloured with Dark Pale Papaya Stampin' Blends

Leaves:

Base: Soft Succulent
Highlights: Evening Evergreen

For the sentiment, I stamped in Soft Succulent and punched out with the Postage Stamp Punch.

If you love the Pansy Petals Suite as much as I do, you can grab all the products together in the one item number (it also includes the cute Bublebee trinkets). Find the Suite HERE in my online store. You can also buy all of the products individually, or the stamp set and die together as a 10% discount bundle (the suite also includes the 10% discount for the bundle).

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Thanks for stopping by today. Have an awesome day,

Claire

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Posted at 09:11 AM in 2021 Annual Catalogue, Designer Series Paper, Garden, flower and plant inspired cards., Techniques | Permalink | Comments (1)

Stampin' Up! True Love DSP and So Sentimental Bundle Sponge Brayered Thank You Card.

February 28, 2021

Hello friends.

A quick post today as I just want to show you the last card (for now) in my series of 4 cards showing different ways to colour neutral patterned paper with ink and other Stanpin' Up! supplies (using the lovely black and white floral themed True Love Designer Series Paper as our base). I will link to the other 3 cards below.

Today's card is super simple, as I have just used one colour in my colouring (Flirty Flamingo) and a sponge brayer.

Sponge brayers are a really affordable tool in your papercraft tool box. The Stampin' Up! sponge brayers are great value. For $14, you get 2 handles and 4 inter-changeable sponge roller heads (the die base inks wash out with water too). I like the soft effect you can get with them. I just start with a gradual slow build up of colour and add more as I go (I demonstrate the technique of using our Stampin' Up! sponge brayers in THIS VIDEO on my You Tube channel, if you would like to see them in action on a different card).

Here's what I have done to put my card together after I completed the sponging:

I have a Basic Black card base, which I have embossed using the gorgeous Ornate Floral embossing folder for a little more texture and interest.
My coloured DSP is on a mat of Flirty Flamingo cardstock and that's another scrap of the True Love DSP under the sentiment.
My sentiment is from the So Sentimental stamp set and the coordinating Stitched So Sweetly dies (still available as a 10% discount bundle).
Finally I have arranged some of the Artistry Blooms Sequins (LOVE these adhesive sequins) around my sentiment.

This card was easy and fun. By mixing up the colours, and using different sentiments, you could easily make up a batch of these cards in a stamping session.

So to summarise, here are the four ways of colouring the True Love patterned paper I have blogged about.

Colouring with Stampin' Blend Markers (find that post HERE)
Colouring with the new Stampin' Up! Blending Brushes including a video tutorila (find that post HERE)
Colouring with Watercolor Pancils (find that post HERE)
Colouring with sponge brayers (this post)

Where do I get the products used today?

All the products I have used today are available NOW to Australian residents in my Online Stampin Up Store. Just click on the individual product links below to go to each product in the store. If you are in another country besides Australia, the products will be available from a local Stampin' Up! Demonstrator. When you shop online with me in Australia, and use the monthly Host Code, you also qualify for a thank you gift mid the month after your purchase. My customers love getting these little gifts in the mail. Click the button below to go to my online store (individual products are linked direct throughout the post, and in the links at the end of the post). This month's host code is also listed below. If this isn't the current month (because you are reading the post at a later date), this month's code is in the right hand column or HERE. You can read about three ways to shop with with me, and all the benefits my VIP customers get HERE.

Want more Stampin Up Inspiration from me?

Australian and International Customers and Demonstrators are invited to:

Subscribe to my blog posts by email so you never miss a thing. Each blog post will be sent to you and you can choose how and when you want to receive these when you subscribe. This is the best way to follow me and get step by step projects.
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Thanks for checking in today. See you back here again soon,

Claire

Posted at 05:19 PM in Designer Series Paper, Ink Blending, Sponging, Techniques, Thankyou Cards | Permalink | Comments (0)