Stamping with Colleen

10/20/2019

Creative Inking Blog Hop-Octoberfest

Octoberfest-I was drawing a blank as to what I should post for Octoberfest. I decided to post what I had been working on this October, that was not Christmas related-since these days I have been busy creating for all my upcoming Christmas classes. This might be a stretch for the Octoberfest theme-but its a cardfest of my October creations!

I have been playing with the Magnolia Lane Designer Series Paper. Amazing how one sheet of paper can look so different.

First I used it just as it comes, for this thinking of you card.

It's a fun fold card too-check out this side view.

Next with the addition of some shading with the Gorgeous Grape Watercolour Pencil and a softening of colours with a vellum overlay, this paper lends itself to a sympathy card.

Now coloured with Cherry Cobbler Blends the paper becomes Christmasy-and our Gold Foil Edged cards are perfect as the backdrop.

Now there are other sheets of paper in this paper pack-here I used one for a wedding card. This card is for my sister-her wedding was at Thanksgiving. Come back later this month to see the gift card holder inside of the card and special envelope I made-after I have a chance to give it to her.

I hope you enjoyed the cardfest of my October projects! Now hop on over to see what Lori has to show you

Or if you are hopping the other way check out BJ's blog.

Posted at 06:55 PM in Canadian Stampin' Up! Demonstrator, Christmas cards, Hand Made Cards, Mail a Card Monday | Permalink | Comments (0)

10/14/2019

Kylie's Demonstrator Training Bog Hop-October 2019

Welcome to our blog hop today! Be sure to grab your favourite beverage and then sit back and enjoy all the fabulous creations from all over the world on our blog hop. I am a Stampin' Up! demonstrator in Canada in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan-thanks so much for stopping by. Happy Thanksgiving to all my fellow Canadians!

You can order from the Stampin' Up! Holiday Catalogue now. If you live in Canada and don't have a demonstrator, I would love to send you a catalogue.

Once the holiday catalogue comes out the Christmas Countdown for crafters begins-so just in case you are wondering-there are 77 sleeps until Christmas. Time to get your craft on. Today, I am featuring one of the projects we made at my 6th annual all day Christmas crafting event-I am Ready for ... Christmas.

I love this project-we always make one item suitable for framing in an 8" x 8" frame. The minute I spied the Snow Globe Shaker Domes in the Stampin' Up! Holiday catalogue I knew we would use them for the 2019 framed art piece.

Isn't that Feels Like Frost Designer Series Paper beautiful-and the tree branch help provide grounding for our snow globe. I like this framed piece-not just for Christmas but I will be able to keep it up for our entire winter season. The silver foil trees are embossed with white embossing powder-and the dome is filled with Snowflake Sequins and Ice Stampin' Glitter. The base of the snow globe is die cut from Silver Foil as well and the Seaside Spray Metallic Ribbon is the finishing touch to the globe.

Vellum was cut out with the Frosted Frames Dies. Ice Stampin' Glitter was used in a different way on the vellum-adhered with the Fine -Tip Glue Pin to add glitz to the project.

Have fun checking out all the other creations on our blog hop today!

Take care,

Colleen

Posted at 02:55 PM in Canadian Stampin' Up! Demonstrator, Christmas cards, Hand Made Cards | Permalink | Comments (2)

09/20/2019

Creative Inking Blog Hop-Autumn Vibes

Autumn Vibes-I love two seasons-spring and autumn. I live in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada where we definitely experience all four seasons. What do I love about fall-the beautiful changing colours of the leaves. I look forward to less responsibility with yard work-truth be told, I have a countdown on my phone to the first day of fall-that means that day I quit worrying about anything yard related. I have a love/hate relationship with later sunrises and earlier sunsets. Days I don't have to get up and go to work in the dark-love those late sunrises. Days I don't work I love the early sunsets. Cooking, baking, crafting, puttering around the house seem easier when it is dark outside. Anyone else feel the same? What is your favourite season and why?

So as autumn comes, I think of warmer clothes-and plaid is definitely part of that mix. I think of evergreen trees-I had no idea just how many pinecones fall daily from those trees-until it became my responsibility to pick them up. So hopefully I have now set the stage for my card-it's clearly a Christmas card but it has fall vibes don't you think?

Instructions for this card

Card base is Shaded Spruce
Using the Stamparatus stamp the greeting from the Perfectly Plaid stamp set with Shaded Spruce ink on a 5 1/4" x 4" Whisper White card front
Attach a 3/4" x 5 1/4" strip of Wrapped in Plaid Specialty Designer Series Paper to the Whisper White card front
Tie a knot in a 6" piece of Shaded Spruce/Gold 3/8" Striped Ribbon and attach to card front with Mini Glue Dots
Attach card front to Shaded Spruce Card base with SNAIL adhesive
Using the Pine Tree punch, punch out a tree from the printed sheet in the Wrapped in Plaid Specialty Designer Series Paper
Pop the tree up with mini dimensionals
Adhere 3 gold Metallic Pearls

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09/09/2019

Kylie's Demonstrator Training Blog Hop-September 2019

You can order from the Stampin' Up! Holiday Catalogue now. If you live in Canada and don't have a demonstrator, I would love to send you a catalogue.

Once the holiday catalogue comes out the Christmas Countdown for crafters begins-so just in case you are wondering-there are 107 days until Christmas. Time to get your craft on. I am busy designing classes/ projects for my upcoming 6th annual all day event-I am Ready for ... Christmas.

Recently I was in a swap with Canadian Demonstrators-projects featuring products from the Stampin' Up! Holiday Catalogue. This was one of my swap cards

Card base is Coastal Cabana Cardstock- cut at 5 1/2 x 8 1/2" and scored at 4 1/4"
Adhere a 5 1/4" x 4" Whisper White piece to the card front
Using the Frosted Frames Dies cut the largest die out with Vellum Cardstock and adhere to card front
On scrap of Whisper White that is 3" x 3 1/2" stamp the snowman image from Snowman Season stamp set with Memento Black Ink
Colour the image with Dark Pool Party Stampin' Blend and Light Pumpkin Pie Stampin' Blend
Cut out with die from Frosted Frames Die
TIP Using a clothespin attach the stamped image to a piece of chipboard-this is crucial-trust me-otherwise your image will move and the puff paint will spread and splatter everywhere! Ask me how I know.
TIP Shake the Snowfall Accents Puff Paint well (really well) and put droplets off the paint over the stamped snowball images
Using your Heat Tool-TIP apply from straight above the painted areas-you don't want to blow from the side or the paint will spread everywhere. Watch the magic snowballs appear!
Attach the stamped image to the card front
Stamp the greeting from the Christmas Gleaming Stamp Set with Coastal Cabana Ink
TIP-Punch the greeting out with the Classic Label Punch-and trim off the two pointed edges-adhere to the card front with mini Stampin' Dimensionals

I was stamping with a friend this weekend and I tried a different colour combination-which is your favourite?

Snowman Season is a great stamp set-it will work for the winter season as well. Great for thank you cards after Christmas and in the winter months. It would be perfect to use if you are making a scrapbook about a holiday to the mountains too!

Now be sure to check out all the fabulous creations below.

Take care,

Colleen

Posted at 02:55 PM in Canadian Stampin' Up! Demonstrator, Christmas cards, Hand Made Cards, Stamping Tips | Permalink | Comments (1)

08/20/2019

Creative Inking Blog Hop-Holiday Catalogue Sneak Peek

Welcome to our blog hop today-we are all featuring sneak peeks from the Stampin' Up! Holiday catalogue. If you live in Canada and don't have a Stampin' Up! demonstrator, I would be happy to send you a holiday catalogue. I also have a paper share and a ribbon share from the Holiday catalogue-a great way to get a little bit of everything to see what you love-again if you are in Canada, I'd love to have you join one or both of my shares.

Today's card uses one of my go to layouts. I am still looking for my MOJO so copying myself is a strategy I use when this happens. What do you do when you feel like you are blocked creatively?

This card's sneak peek includes

Brightly Gleaming Speciality Designer Series Paper-copper foil accents on one side of the paper-stunning in person
Star Designer Elements-pretty copper stars that are adhesive backed!
Greeting is from Itty Bitty Christmas stamp set

Annual catalogue items for the card

Thick Very Vanilla Cardstock
Stitched Nested Labels dies
Denim Ribbon-it is soooo soft!
Night of Navy Inkpad

Be sure to check out all the other blogs on our hop! We love to hear from you, so please leave us some comments.

Take care,

Colleen

Posted at 07:00 PM in Canadian Stampin' Up! Demonstrator, Christmas cards, Hand Made Cards, The Big Shot | Permalink | Comments (4)

08/12/2019

Kylie's Demonstrator Training Blog Hop-August 2019

Do you ever find yourself feeling like your MOJO has gone on vacation-you sit and look at your crafting goodies....and nothing! One of my strategies is to CASE (copy and selectively edit) from the Stampin' Up! Catalogue. I love the Beautiful Friendship stamp set so was looking at samples in the catalogue. I loved the card on page 17 of the Stampin' Up! annual catalogue. What did I edit from the concept artists creation? I left off the doilies. Since I spritzed the Shimmery White Cardstock with water before stamping my images, the paper was a bit warped. What to do...run it through a cutting and embossing machine with the Subtles Textured Impressions Embossing Folder and voila...perfectly flat-doesn't it look like I stamped on linen?Seaside Spray ink sponged on the stamp after inking it with Highland Heather-doesn't it look like a real hydrangea? I also used the Well Said dies-I didn't have the ones used on the sample.

What card will you copy from the Annual Catalogue? See how many samples you can find for your favourite stamp set! Then start creating.

Now be sure to check out all the fabulous creations below.

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07/20/2019

Creative Inking Blog Hop-Love It, Chop It-Designer Series Paper Love

Are you a paper hoarder-when you buy designer paper series what do you do with it-use it or collect it? Kylie Bertucci, an Australian Stampin' Up! demonstrator says this about designer series paper-love it/chop it! In other words-cut that paper up and use it! I have a few go to layouts for using designer series paper on cards and I am sharing two of those today.

I have to be honest-the Dinoroar Designer Series Paper was not on my shopping list when the new catalogue came out. I had paper shares for my customers and team and I joined one of them too! So I have 6" x 6" sheets of this pack of papers. Stampin' Up! paper is double sided-so if I don't like one side I find that I usually like the other side of the paper. That was definitely the case here-I don't have much use for papers with dinosaurs, but I sure do like the side of the paper that I am featuring here!

The first card features a 4" x 4" square of designer series paper.

Tip: Stampin' Up! is known for colour coordinating products. The back of each package of Designer Series Paper indicates all the colours that match. From this information, and the sheet of paper I chose, I knew the colours that would coordinate were Pretty Peacock, Pool Party, Old Olive and Mango Melody. It was easy to then find products that would then coordinate with this paper.

Pretty Peacock Cardstock
Pool Party Cardstock
3/8" Old Olive/Pretty Peacock 3/8" Reversible Ribbon
2019-2012 In Colour Faceted Dots (and they are adhesive backed too)

White Embossing Powder and the greeting from Daisy Delight completed this card.

My second card features a 4' x 5 1/4" piece of the designer series paper.

Tip: Do you ever find designer series paper too bright, or just too much- a 3 3/4" x 5" piece of vellum tones the paper down.

Tip: To attach the vellum to the paper-use a light application of Multipurpose Liquid Glue applied with a sponge brayer to the vellum and attach to the paper. You will not see the adhesive-I promise!

Tip: The yellow in the Happiness Blooms Enamel Dots are Pineapple Punch-not the yellow I wanted since Mango Melody is the yellow/orange colour featured in the paper. Colour the dots with the Dark Mango Melody Blends and you have just the right colour of enamel dots.

I did use Crushed Curry Crinkled Seam Binding Ribbon on the card-it is close enough in tone to go with the Mango Melody colour.

The greeting is from the Friendship Blooms Stamp set-my July favourite!

If you live in Canada and do not have a demonstrator, I would love to be yours!

Now continue hopping with us, to see some more designer series paper ideas on Lori's blog!

Take care,

Colleen

Posted at 07:00 PM in #imbringingbackbirthdays, Birthday Cards, Canadian Stampin' Up! Demonstrator, Hand Made Cards, Mail a Card Monday, Stamping Tips | Permalink | Comments (2)

07/08/2019

Kylie's Demonstrator Training Blog Hop-July 2019

I cannot stop creating with the Daisy Lane bundle. I love daisies. I had some in my garden-notice the past tense-no green thumb here! Thank goodness I can create them with paper, stamps and ink!

This is one of my go to card sketches-I use it ALL the time! I tucked these in some orders this month-you could just change the greeting.

Card base is thick Whisper White cardstock- cut at 5 1/2" and scored at 4 1/4"
Cut a 3/4" strip of Old Olive DSP-these 6 x 6 colour family paper stacks are an essential crafting item. Attach to left hand side of card with SNAIL adhesive
Using Old Olive ink-and the fern stamp-stamp off and stamp the fern-repeat
Stamp a greeting with Early Espresso Ink-I used the Stamparatus for perfect placement
Stamp 2 daisies on a scrap piece of Whisper White cardstock-fussy cut the daisies-the secret is to turn the paper, not the scissors-I leave a little white edge
SNAIL one of the daisies, adhere the other with dimensionals-all cards should have something attached with dimensionals-it's a hallmark of a handmade card
Using the Take a Pick tool, attach three gold metallic pearls
Wrap linen thread around the card and tie in a bow.

Be sure to check out all the links below.

Take care,

Colleen

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06/20/2019

Creative Inking Blog Hop-Favourite New Catalogue Product Suite

This month's blog hop features our favourite new catalogue product suite-I messed up and chose my favourite bundle-and since I am writing this blog post 30 minutes before the blog hop goes live...I'll just carry on!

My favourite bundle is the Daisy Lane Bundle-stamp set and medium daisy punch. It also coordinates with the large daisy punch that is carrying over and is a nice addition to last year's Daisy Delight stamp set that has also carried over.

I needed thank you cards to send to everyone who joined my ribbon and paper shares. These were quick and easy to make but very pretty!

Products used

Daisy Lane stamp set
Medium Daisy Punch
Perennial Essence Floral Centers
Mossy Meadow Inkpad
Crushed Curry Inkpad
Early Espresso Inkpad
Sponge Dauber
Whisper White Notecards
Whisper White Cardstock

Directions

Using Early Espresso Ink and the Stamparatus stamp the greeting
Using Mossy Meadow Ink stamp the stem and leaves
On a scrap piece of Whisper White Cardstock and using Crushed Curry Ink stamp two daisies
Punch two daises and adhere together with multipurpose liquid glue
Using Crushed Curry Ink sponge the center of the daisy
Adhere the daisy to the card with a dimensional
Adhere the Perennial Essence Floral Center to the daisy-they are adhesive backed!

Hop on over to the next blog.

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06/10/2019

Kylie's Demonstrator Training Blog Hop-June 2019

My card today features the Mosaic Mood Designer Series Paper-and in all honesty, I probably would have overlooked this paper in the catalogue. But I attended Stampin' Up! Onstage in Vancouver and we were gifted this paper. You need this paper-fabulous colours and patterns-there are raised areas and shiny embossed areas on this paper-it is stunning in person.

I made this card for a swap I was in.