2016 Stampin’ Up! Occasions Catalogue

I have had this card sitting here for a while now waiting patiently in line to share with you. I started this card LAST NOVEMBER at Onstage! I just needed to finish it off but I didn’t know what to do with it. It was quite a few months later that I thought I would tackle it. So here is the finished card.

I was pleased with the end result. I have used the Botanical Gardens Designer Series Paper and the Botanical Blooms stamp set. I don’t have either of these but these little bits were from Onstage.

I stamped the lined pattern onto a piece of Whisper White and adhered this straight on to the Designer Series Paper. I matted this piece on to Hello Honey card. Did you notice the piece of Designer Series Paper? Some of the leaf prints from the Botanical Blooms stamp set were stamped on to the paper.

The greeting is from Celebrate Today set and I pierced some holes either side of the greeting and then wrapped around some white Baker’s Twine around the card before it was all adhered to the Mossy Meadow base. A flower was cut from the Designer Series Paper using the Botanical Builder Framelits.

Have you got the Botanical Builders Framelits yet? I have seen so many gorgeous creations with these dies. You can put so many different flowers together and I really love the leaf edge die.

Buy them all together in the bundle and save money BEFORE THE END OF THE MONTH! Bundle price is $87.75. (AUS).

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Thank you for visiting. I hope your day is super wonderful.

Jenny 🙂

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WORLD TRAVELER IN BERMUDA BAY!

January 22, 2016January 22, 2016 Jenny Hayward

When I was creating the other day I thought I would CASE a few cards from the catalogue for my upcoming Launch next week. This card started out as a CASE of a card on page 39 of the Occasions catalogue. It took a life of it’s own very quickly though.

This is the original card if you haven’t got your catalogue handy and then I will show you my card – and the thought process that went behind the making of it. 🙂

When I started to emboss with the World Traveler Embossing Folder I realised that the orientation of the World map on the folder was different to the card, and I didn’t want to double emboss the map to cover the card front. That’s what I would have to do to cover my size card front. I just couldn’t get my head around doing that. To me that is not how the world map is depicted. Petty I know but …. ??

So I thought I would change the orientation of my card but that’s when the whole card changed. I didn’t have the ‘Going Global’ stamp set but I could use ‘Guy Greetings’. That’s all good. But now that it was landscape what was I going to put on the front? It needed more than just a greeting. I stamped the anchor in Bermuda Bay but I couldn’t have it just floating there. I punched a tag with the Note Tag punch in Delightful Dijon. That colour was chosen after looking at the colours in the ‘Bohemian’ DSP. I looped up some Linen Thread and tied it in a bow and adhered that on.

The greeting is from ‘Guy Greetings’ and I stamped that on a piece of Whisper White and flagged the ends. But still it needed something more! I added a strip of the black arrow paper from the ‘It’s My Party’ DSP stack. It still needed more! I added just a strip of the silver Foil under the greeting. I just finished it off by sponging some Bermuda Bay ink over the embossed edges. OK, I think it was done now. I was going to brush over some Wink Of Stella in the Clear but decided to leave it.

See how you can take a card and use it as a springboard to create a completely different card. Sometimes you just need a little inspiration to get it going.

I hope I didn’t bore you with the whole creating process of this card. It just shows you what goes into creating at times. Maybe that will help you when you are in a rut.

Thanks for visiting today,

Jenny