West Coast Creators July Blog Hop | In Color Mini Card Set

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Welcome to our West Coast Creators team blog hop! This month’s theme is the newly released set of In Colours by Stampin’ Up. These In Colours are a limited time (2 year period) set of wonderful, on-trend, colours. Matching card stock, ink, designer paper, embellishments…all coordinated for easy crafting! If you haven’t seen the catty, you can take a look here on my Catalogues page.

In today’s post, I will be sharing a mini-card set that I created, using the In Colours. These are 3 x 3 cards that all fit perfectly into Stampin’ Up’s mini pizza boxes. This cute set can be given as a gift, or used as tags too!

Each In Colour card stock is cut at 6 x 3 and scored at 3″ to create a card base. A small piece of matching In Colour DSP is attached to the bottom half.

The stamp set is from the new Celebration of Tags and matching Trio of Tags dies. A perfect size for these mini cards!

I used the Whisper White Faux Linen Ribbon (from the Flowers for Every Season Combo Pack) and Basic Rhinestones to finish off the cards.

The mini pizza box is decorated with 5 strips of DSP paper, a piece of vellum cut from the stitched shapes circle dies and the “friend” sentiment cut from the Well Written dies.

I hope you enjoyed this West Coast Creators blog hop post. To see more of my designs, please check out the Ideas section. If you’d like more information, please check out my About page or e-mail me. I would love to hear from you with any feedback.

Please also e-mail me, if you would like to purchase this card, or request a custom order at [email protected]

Until next time, create with purpose!

Check out the other blogs from our talented team, for other great ideas and inspiration! You won’t regret it!

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West Coast Creators June Blog Hop | In Good Taste Card

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Welcome to our West Coast Creators team blog hop! This month’s theme is “New Annual Catty” from Stampin’ Up’s newly released products. If you haven’t seen the catty, you can take a look here on my Catalogues page. One set that immediately caught my eye, and I absolutely needed, was the In Good Taste suite. What an amazing set of images, dies, paper and oh, the textile embossing folder! Love, love love it all!

I needed some extra inspiration so I played along with a sketch challenge from Freshly Made Sketches, which provided me with a great layout to work with. I also drew inspiration from the layering in Tammy Wilson’s Painted Poppies watercolor card. With all of this, here is my first creation of the annual catty…

The 2 large flowers, branches and sentiment are stamped and heat embossed, using the Tasteful Touches bundle. The flowers and branches are water coloured in Bermuda Bay, Granny Apple Green and Daffodil Delight and fussy cut out. Vellum leaves are die cut from the Magnolia Dies, the gold leaves using the Spring punch and white branches from the Sunflowers dies.

The 2 square mats are taken directly from the sketch challenge. The white mat is embossed using the Tasteful Textile folder and splattered with Bermuda Bay ink. The Bermuda Bay mat is embossed using the Scripty folder and sanded down, slightly for a “roughed up look”.

Finally, gold metallic trim and pearls were added from some extra bling!

Well, that was fun! I hope you enjoyed this West Coast Creators blog hop post. To see more of my designs, please check out the Ideas section. If you’d like more information, please check out my About page or e-mail me. I would love to hear from you with any feedback.

UPDATE: I’m super excited to announce that this card was chosen as one of the Challenge favourites. I’ve submitted many times so I’m so pumped to be selected this time! Thank you so much FMS! Please check out the winning announcement here.

Please also e-mail me, if you would like to purchase this card, or request a custom order at [email protected]

Until next time, create with purpose!

Check out the other blogs from our talented team, for other great ideas and inspiration! You won’t regret it!

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Want an easy way to enjoy crafting? Why not try a pre-packaged kit, with all that you need to get crafting.

To see my ready-made Items, please visit my Etsy Store or contact me at [email protected] for custom order requests.

Garden Lane Suite Handmade Card Collection

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I am thrilled to be part of our first West Coast Creators team blog hop! This month’s theme is “Last-Chance Products” or retiring products from Stampin’ Up’s Annual Catalogue. I have chosen to showcase the Garden Lane Suite. It features a beautiful stamp set and paper, that reminds me of garden weddings and summertime greens. It also co-ordinates with the beautiful Magnolia Lane set, which is carrying over to the next catalogue!

The first card uses the Garden Lane Designer Series Paper as a backdrop and features the a white 3D flower, made using the Magnolia dies and Hot Air Balloon punch. The sentiment is heat embossed in Gold for a classy touch of bling!

The 2nd card uses the same DSP collection and I’ve chosen a geometric pattern for this design. The flowers, vines and sentiments were stamped and then cut by hand. This one had a lot of fussy cutting and I soon realized that it can be quite soothing to do! Final touches include a double wrapped Mossy Meadow twine and frosted flower embellishments.

The 3rd card features a fun fold design, taught by one of our WCC team members Debbie Freeman. What a great way to use DSP and to showcase their variety! I am a sucker for fun folds and I definitely had fun making this one. The flower and sentiment is from the Magnolia Lane set. What a simple way to top of this fun card! Imagine your recipient’s delight, when opening this unique card!

The 4th card is made with a wedding in mind. Its design brings me back to memories of summer garden weddings with elegant white and gold decorations. The DSP has been cut out, using the “swirl” from the Magnolia Memories dies. Vellum is similarly cut and placed on top of the DSP, creating a softening effect. The sentiment is heat embossed in gold and the flower is cut using the Magnolia dies and gold foil, embossed with the Subtle folder. Finally, a piece of Old Olive shimmer ribbon, from the Early Release set, is used to create more interest, behind the sentiment. I know you’re not supposed to have favourites, but I had to admit, this one is very close for me!

Last but not least, this simply designed but highly layered card. Not only does it showcase the DSP again, but I stamped the vines multiple times on Whisper White, to create it’s own patterned paper too. I think the Crumb Cake card base gives this set an eco-friendly garden style!

Please also e-mail me, if you would like to purchase this card, or request a custom order at [email protected]

Until next time, create with purpose!

Check out the other blogs from our talented team, for other great ideas and inspiration! You won’t regret it!

Shop with me

Want an easy way to enjoy crafting? Why not try a pre-packaged kit, with all that you need to get crafting.

To see my ready-made Items, please visit my Etsy Store or contact me at [email protected] for custom order requests.