December Stampers Anonymous Blog Hop #49

Posted on December 14, 2022 by sharon

Welcome to our December Stampers Anonymous Blog Hop #49. You may have joined me from Nikki’s Blog or you may be starting right here. Either way, welcome to our blog hop for this month. I hope this hop inspires you to get into your craft room and get creating.

This months Blog Hop is a Colour Challenge. I found this colour combination fairly quick and easy to use. With Christmas around the corner I knew I needed to create some quick and simple gift card holders and I wanted the card to be fairly simple. I saw one card I had made recently and decided to use the same stamps and layout.

Cottage Wreaths & Framed & Festive Stamp Sets to Create a Gift Card Holder

I created a video while I made the card as well so you can see exactly what I did.

December Stampers Anonymous Blog Hop #49

Nikki
Sharon
Kylie
Marelle
Meighan

Product List

August Stampers Anonymous Blog Hop #45

Posted on August 14, 2022 by sharon

Welcome to our August Stampers Anonymous Blog Hop #45. You may have joined me from Meighans’ Blog or you may be starting right here. Either way, welcome to our blog hop.

This months Blog Hop is a Colour Challenge. The Colours we’re using this month is Real Red, Tahitian Tide and Crushed Curry. When I first saw these colours I was thinking, sure this will be easy. Then when I started playing I had a couple of second thoughts but when I got into the swing of creating 4 cards came out in very quick succession.

I chose to use the Kindest Gnomes Stamp set and this made my creating quite simple. I went to one of my favourite techniques, Masking and decided to use Stampin’ Up!’s masking paper. This stuff is brilliant! Using blending brushes I created 2 cards with the masking technique and then another card with just the brushes onto Basic White card. My last card I chose to use strips of each colour as a background and added in some Basic Gray as my neutral. I did cheat a little and added in Smoky Slate as a second neutral.

My Cards – August Stampers Anonymous Blog Hop #45

The masking technique using Stampin' Up's Masking paper and Real Red, Tahitian Tide and Crushed Curry

The Stampin' Upcolour Real Red, Tahitian Tide and Crushed Curry to create these cute gnome cards.

Keep hopping along in our Blog Hop and head on over to Amanda’s Blog to see her amazing creativity by clicking on the “Next Blog” Button or clicking on her name.

Product List

159616 $42.00	159615 $21.00	159625 $54.00	152813 $14.00
104430 $7.50	141337 $7.00	103287 $7.00	106578 $16.25
147084 $14.00	154899 $15.75	159262 $16.25	159210 $14.00
159221 $15.75	159211 $7.00	131158 $7.00	131288 $16.25
147087 $14.00	153611 $21.75	155480 $12.25	159183 $53.00
154904 $15.75	158146 $12.25	149165 $14.00	121689 $16.25
159230 $15.25	159228 $18.00

May Stampers Anonymous Blog Hop #42

Posted on May 14, 2022 by sharon

Welcome to our May Stampers Anonymous Blog Hop #42. You may have joined me from Marelle’s Blog or are you starting right here? Either way, welcome. There are 7 of us hopping along this month so you’re in for a great hop.

This months Blog Hop is a colour challenge and this challenge really got me. The new In Colors are absolutely stunning and I love love love them. However, mixing one of the colours with Petal Pink & Soft Sea Foam really was a challenge for me. I chose to use the Bottled Happiness stamp set for my card, and I love this stamp set and has a lot of versatility.

Using the Tea Boutique cards and envelopes as my card base has helped to make my creativity easier on this challenge. Adding in some Gray Granite card as a frame under the stamped image to lift the layer. I used the two greens as the bottle and really happy with how it turned out adding the parakeet party as the shading on the bottle.

My Card

Will you try your hand at our May Stampers Anonymous Blog Hop #42 challenge and see how you go? If you do, I’d love to see your project.

You can continue to hop along with us at the links below or by clicking on the “Next” link to go to Elizabeth’s page. If you get lost you can come back here and click on the next link to keep you going.

Nikki
Kylie
Melissa
Marelle
Sharon – You are here
Elizabeth
Meighan

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159208 $14.00	147108 $14.00	147102 $14.00	158684 $41.00
159270 $17.50	159228 $18.00	147008 $16.25	158130 $13.00
104430 $7.50	152813 $14.00	118485 $15.75	118486 $13.25
152392 $44.00

April Stampers Anonymous Blog Hop #41

Posted on April 14, 2022 by sharon

Welcome to our April Stampers Anonymous Blog Hop #41. You may have joined me from Marelle’s Blog or are you starting right here? Either way, welcome. There are 9 of us hopping along this month so you’re in for a great hop.

This months Blog Hop is a layout challenge and these challenges can be fairly quick to whip up as you just have to decide what stamp set and colours to choose. The retiring list is out and so I have chosen to use the Smooth Sailing dies which is discounted to $33.60 and coordinating stamp set Sailing Home which is now no longer available to purchase. I also used the New Horizons 6×6 paper stack from the January-June Mini Catalogue.

I gave some texture to the “Rope” by adding some crumb cake ink, and I also did the same to the sentiment. The seaweed I used some Mossy Meadow ink to add some texture. Don’t forget to keep hopping along on the other blogs by clicking the Next blog below or any of the links.

My Card

Product List

149457 $42.00	149576 $56.00	106577 $15.25	133683 $15.25
121685 $15.25	121695 $15.25	157768 $20.00	159230 $14.25
153611 $21.00	147111 $13.00	147110 $13.00	147116 $13.00
132708 $10.00	103579 $17.00

March Stampers Anonymous Blog Hop #40

Posted on March 14, 2022 by sharon

Welcome to our March Stampers Anonymous Blog Hop #40. You may have joined me from Melissa’s Blog or are you starting right here? Either way, welcome. There are 8 of us hopping along this month so you’re in for a real treat.

This months Blog Hop is a colour challenge and we are using some In Colors that will be retiring very very soon. I love the colours for this challenge but struggled to work out what I wanted to do so I went with a stamp set that I have been creating with lately, the Artfully Layered Stamp Set.

The Artfully Layered stamp set is from the January to June Mini Catalogue. I chose to do a slim line card this month. Can you believe that this is only the 2nd slimline card that I have created? What do you think of my card?

You can continue along the Blog Hop by clicking on the “Next Blog” button or by clicking on any of the names below.

Product List

159230 $14.25	159228 $17.00	132708 $10.00	152392 $44.00
104430 $6.00	152813 $14.00	157752 $42.00	121688 $15.25
153082 $15.25	153116 $13.00	153117 $13.00	153118 $13.00

February Stampers Anonymous Blog Hop #39

Posted on February 14, 2022 by sharon

Welcome to our February Stampers Anonymous Blog Hop #39. Have you joined me from Niki’s blog or are you starting right here? Either way, welcome. There are 9 of us hopping along this month so you’re in for a real treat.

This months Blog Hop is a layout challenge. This challenge was a lovely one to participate in. I was able to create two cards this month and I rotated one of the cards.

I chose to use the tulip paper and coordinating stamp set from the January to June Mini Catalogue. The cards aren’t square but I hope that I have fulfilled the challenge. Layering the DSP onto a colour other that white really brings out the colours in the Designer Series Paper. Isn’t the Flowering Fields Designer Series Paper just beautiful? Leaving the DSP to shine was a great choice with just a small amount of stamping.

My Cards – February Stampers Anonymous Blog Hop #39

Continue on our blog hop by clicking any of the names below or go to the next blog by clicking on the “Next Blog”

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157672 $41.00	157678 $91.75	157670 $20.00	151770 $58.00
155575 $15.25	159230 $14.25	159228 $17.00	147005 $15.25
147050 $13.00	147095 $13.00	147052 $13.00	147103 $13.00
155778 $13.00	158130 $13.00	144220 $8.75	152392 $44.00
132708 $10.00	104430 $6.00	152813 $14.00

January Stampers Anonymous Blog Hop #38

Posted on January 14, 2022 by sharon

Welcome to our January Stampers Anonymous Blog Hop #38. Have you joined me from Elizabeth’s Blog or are you starting right here? Either way, welcome.

This months Blog Hop is an “Anything Goes” challenge. Which, in and of itself, is fairly easy until you look at ALL the products we have and I need to narrow them all down and choose only a few products.

I decided to go with some more product from the January to June Mini Catalogue that has only been out for a bit over a week The “In the Moment” set is absolutely gorgeous and I was so happy to see it in my goodie bag for our Demonstrator OnStage event in November last year. Can you believe that this is the first time I’m inking it up? Neither can I but here you go. In the end I created a couple of frames on each of the cards. I didn’t like the layering effect with the image sitting on top of mat so I created the frame effect instead and cut out a window on the vanilla layer, then a smaller window on the pool party layer and then glued the image underneath. Creating the mat for the frame felt like it lifted the images more.

My Cards

Here are both cards using the In The Moment Stamp Set.

I’ve created a quick little video showing how I coloured in the images. I don’t show the full creative process as it changed from what I had intended to what you see above. Do you find that you change up your designs mid way through?

The next blog is Meighan’s. You can click on the “Next Blog” Image to take you there.

You can continue on our January Stampers Anonymous Blog Hop #38 by clicking on the “Next Blog” button or by clicking on any of the names listed. Each name will take you to their blog.

Product List

In The Moment Cling Stamp Set (English) [157987] $42.00	Very Vanilla A4 Card Stock [106550] $17.00	Pool Party A4 Card Stock [124391] $15.25	Very Vanilla A4 Thick Cardstock [144238] $14.25
Pool Party Classic Stampin' Pad [147107] $13.00	Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708] $10.00	Layering Circles Dies [151770] $58.00	Hippo & Friends Dies [153585] $63.00
Daffodil Delight Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154883] $15.50	Crumb Cake Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154882] $15.50	Pool Party Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154894] $15.50	Balmy Blue Stampin’ Blends Combo Pack [148544] $15.50
Shaded Spruce Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154903] $15.50	Smoky Slate Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154904] $15.50	Bermuda Bay Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154878] $15.50	Cherry Cobbler Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154880] $15.50
Soft Suede Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154906] $15.50	Night Of Navy Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154891] $15.50	Paper Trimmer [152392] $44.00	Stampin' Seal [152813] $14.00