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But of course you all knew that already …… okay well maybe not me but my wonderful Stampin’ Up! friend Leonie Schroder thinks my blog is and that is good enough for me. I was hard at work today creating some fantastic new projects and designing Emma and Aaron’s wedding ceremony and reception items so it was a lovely surprise to come back to my email late this afternoon with a lovely email from Onie!
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Subscribe to the comments for this postEaster Basket Surprise Box
With Valentines Day done this now means we are heading for Easter so thought I would share my latest creation with you. After many many many prototypes I have finally finished my Easter Basket Surprise Box and I am just so happy with the end result. So what makes this a surprise box?
This cute little Easter garden that springs open when you lift the lid does! As you can tell it is based on the same principle as an explosion box but I have modified the design to look like a basket and still spring open when you lift off the lid.
There are springy butterflies as well as springy flower and of course a chocolate bunny! I do have a tutorial available on my ‘Tutorials‘ page which not only has step by step photo instructions but also a link to a private YouTube video covering the finer details of creating the box.
Stamp Club Creations
I can hardly believe it is week two of stamp club for this year and I haven’t yet shared any of the creations that we have been busy making. I am not going to show you what we made in week one, well not just yet … there is a reason but I can’t tell you ! Ooooh the mystery! No nothing too exciting, but it will be here in a little while. So instead this is the card and project that we made for week to. The stamp set this month is one of my old favourites from Stampin’ Up!, it is the Morning Cup set and I really love to colour so this stamp set is perfect for that.
The Designer Series Paper we used was Timeless Portrait which I didn’t really think I liked but I have changed my mind since using it! The teacup stack on the card is ‘filled in’ using a number of different tools including blender pens, marker pens and designer series paper.
The little Ferrero Roche chocolate holder is a snap to make and the little teacup is filled with more designer series paper.
Want to join in on the fun? Email me about coming along to stamp club tanya@stampingt.com.au
Many Thanks
I thought I would just quickly share what I have been working on this weekend. I have been asked to design a ‘Thank You’ card for a local business woman who wants a simple but elegant card to give to her clients as a way of thanking them for their business. The brief I had was to use the colours of black, white and red and to feature the word ‘thank you’ on the front. Stampin’ Up! has just sooooo many choices that fit into this brief (gotta love that) so I had a hard time deciding on a final four to show her, but this is what I decided on.
Although a little hard to see, this first card is embossed on the lower section with the Houndstooth embossing folder (it is also embossed on the envelope flap). The Perfectly Penned “Thank You” is just so elegant that it had to feature on one of the samples.
The second sample also features embossing but this time with the Striped embossing folder. The Pocket Silhouette stamp set adds a little bit a softness and teams perfectly with the Curly Cute “thank you”. Not sure about the amount of red on this card but I have to always remember to show a variety of styles for my custom design work, not just what I like.
I love the Elizabeth stamp set (mainly because I enjoy a good colour) so it had to go on one of the cards. This is the only card in the sample selection that strayed a little from the brief by adding some Old Olive for the foliage colouring. The Short and Sweet stamp set has that nice ‘handwritten’ style to it that was also worthy of including in a sample.
The last sample I choose features the En Francais background stamp and this fits in with my customers business as she prepares Resumes for her clients. I masked out the centre of the card front with a scrap of paper punched with the small oval punch. This then gave me the perfect space to place the “thanks” from the Fabulous Phrases stamp set.
See what I mean Stampin’ Up! just has so many choices and I still had at least another 3 or 4 ‘thank you’ stamp sets and designs I could have shown but decided to send these first four and get a feel for what she likes. Which one is your favourite? I have my pick but am happy for the client to pick something that best reflects her style.
Happy 1st Birthday!
Try Stampin’ On Tuesday is one year old now and so this week’s sketch is all about celebrating that milestone. So I thought that was reason enough to get out my stamps and create a card for the challenge. Of course the card had to be ‘girlie’ and so that means my old favourite Melon Mambo had to feature. I decided to team it with some Wisteria Wonder and Whisper White. The Topsy-Turvey Celebration stamp set which is in the Stampin’ Up! Summer Mini was just a perfect set to use for this birthday card. I also used some of the Cheerful Treats Designer Series Paper to keep with my ‘dotty’ theme.
Hope you can join in with the challenge this week and HAPPY BIRTHDAY girls.
Just some scraps of DSP
Look at what I made with literally some scraps of Designer Series Paper! I have seen this technique around for a while and of course it has been in that never-ending pile of ideas/techniques I need to try. So armed with this week’s colour challenge from Hand Stamped Sentiments and the sketch from Craft Project Central I was ready to finally try my hand at this technique.
The flower cut into the centre of the Crumb Cake card stock is from the Blossom Party Die and the DSP I used to fill in the flower were scraps from from a number of different packs of paper (inc. Beau Chateau, Paisley Petals). Each scrap was sponged with a little Crumb Cake ink to help tie them all together. I finished the flower off with an Antique Brad (love these!) and then used the border and flower stamp from the Fresh Vintage stamp set, which is one of the free Sale-A-Bration sets, to add some extra details.
I love the little flower in the Fresh Vintage set so just had to add extras to the envelope and inside the card …
Stamp Club Kicks off for 2012
I am so glad that Stamp Club has kicked off for 2012. We have had a little break over the Christmas / New Year period but it is great to be back. I will share our first project later this week but thought I would share the little ‘Welcome to Stamp Club’ gifts that the girls got on their first night. I used the Sale-A-Bration stamp set Elementary Elegance to make the little note cards. I embossed the frame image in all different coloured embossing powders. Some of the girls picked this stamp set as their free item for signing up to Stamp Club so it is really great to be able to show them some ideas on how to use it. The little boxes that hold the chocolate are made from the Scallop Circle Die and take seconds to put together.
I personalised everyone’s card and then it also acted like a place setting on the night so everyone knew where to sit.
A little Inkspiration …
I decided to have a go at the Inkspiration Challenge this week which was to use: Soft Suede, Calypso Coral and Poppy Parade together. I know, I almost had a little panic attack as not only are these not my most used colours but putting them together was a super challenge for me. I however decided to give it a go and am really glad that I did. The ‘Dauber Spotlight’ technique is something we did for this week’s technique in Stamp Club and so thought I would use it in the challenge too.
Mud Cake for Sandy
My good friend Sandy is celebrating a ‘significant’ birthday this year (Hint: it has an “0″ on the end…) and so I thought I would make her a ‘Mud Cake’ to celebrate. But as anyone who knows me knows cooking is not my strong point ….. so a paper crafted Stampin’ Up! birthday cake it had to be.
The sides of the cake are embossed with the Final Press embossing folder and I totally love the way it turned out. I made it to fit into my ‘Cake in A Box’ shell that usually holds a 3 tiered cake. I slightly modified the tier heights but essentially it is the same as in the tutorial I have for sale on my ‘Tutorials‘ page.
Paper roses add the perfect finishing touches to this one.
Cake in A Box
Told you I would be back with more of these … I just can’t seem to stop making them! This one is for a friend of my daughter for her birthday this weekend. She likes purple … can you tell. I have added some butterfly ‘springs’ for a little bit more ‘WOW’ when you open the box. Do you want to make one? They are really so easy! Check out my ‘Tutorials‘ page and get a step by step pdf instruction sheet which includes a link to a private Youtube video tutorial on how to put this together.
UPDATE: Thanks to my friend Robbie, I decided to also enter this creation in this week’s Hand Stamped Sentiments challenge, ‘Anything but a Card’. Some awesome ideas over there, you need to pop over and take a look.
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