ESAD 2018 Annual Catalogue Launch Blog Hop | Introducing the 2018 - 2020 In Colors

Hello there stamping friends! I'm super excited to be taking part in a blog hop with my Australian and New Zealand friends from the facebook group, ESAD (Extra Special Australasian Demonstrators). Grab a cuppa or your favourite beverage, put your feet up as there is lots of new Annual Catalogue inspiration to show you today.

Our hop today is showcasing products from the ALL NEW 2018 - 2019 Annual Catalogue, which went live June 1'st!! I'm super excited that this catalogue is now officially live to purchase from as there are LOADS of amazing products in this catalogue and I for one and I'm love with this amazing catalogue!!

I'm showing you the stunning 2018 -2020 In Colors. They are fun, bright and vibrant and really on trend with the colours out there in everything from fashion to home decor. They are just fabulous!! Have you seen them yet?

The cards are all the same and using the same products, just changing up the In Colour for each different card. They are amazing colours in their own right but don't they look fabulous all together too. 

For each card I cut 1/4" strips of the in Color 6" x 6" Designer Series Paper. There are 2 double-sided designs in the 5 In Colours of this fabulous paper so if you wanted to change up this look just use a different pattern from the DSP to change it around. I then cut a strip of the In Colour card stock and added the heat embossed letters from the new alpha set - Lined Alphabet. 

The cards are then finished off with some Whisper White Polka Dot Tulle Ribbon, to continue that Polka dot theme and then a piece of the 1/8" Grosgrain Ribbon in the co-ordinating In Color.

 Lovely Lipstick

 Grapefruit Grove

 Pineapple Punch

Call Me Clover

Blueberry Bushel

Which one is your favourite new In Color? I think I'm loving Lovely Lipstick at the moment and Blueberry Bushel. Might have to try them together for a fun and bright creation. What do you think your favourite In Color Combination might be? Might have to try using them all on one creation for a fun and bright look.

Now on to the fabulous Nicole Wilson in Western Australia to be inspired by her 2018 -2019 Annual Catalogue creations.

Kelly Kent

Leonie Schroder

Joanne Stubbings

 Libby Dyson

Courtenay Heuston

 Fi Cobbin

Carolina Evans

Peta Stephen

 Sharon Dalton

Jackie Aitken

  Rochelle Blok  - You are here

Nicole Wilson
Emily Campbell
Denise Buetler
Katrina Duffell
Delys Cram
Kathryn Mangelsdorf
 Megan Lenske
 Mandy Depiazzi
 Bronwyn Eastley
 Jo Weedon
 Siobhan Fitzsimmons
 Melissa Gifford
 Cathy Pinchbeck
 Jessie Holton
Jenny Bowman
Rose Packer 
       

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Just Add Ink #411 | Sketch Challenge

Hello there stamping friends! A pinch and a punch for the first day of the month! Can't believe its the 1st June already! This year is flying! Time flies when you're having fun I suppose!

This new Friday brings a new challenge over at Just Add Ink. A sketch suggeted by fellow Design Team Member Jan McQueen. A fun sketch that can lend itself to lots of layers and lots of different elements.

Yes, I've got another creation for you today using the Share What You Love Suite. My card is actually a full sized card based on some 3" x 3" cards I made a few weeks ago here. I really loved the DSP and the embossing of the Stitched Shapes square in the smaller cards and thought they would lend themselves fabulously to today's sketch!

The 'Thank You' I stamped in a returning colour, Blackberry Bliss, and then cut it out with my ScanN Cut. That thing makes light work of fussy cutting, that's for sure!! And then around the ' Thank You' I scattered the ever beautiful and Oh so pretty Share What You Love Artisan Pearls. I need to get me some more of those pearls as I've run out already! They are just too pretty and I've put them on everything!! 

Again using my favoutire ribbon, the Whisper White Polka Dot Tulle Ribbon. It is one of those all rounder ribbons and it just goes with everything! Get yourself a roll of it today! You wont be dissapointed! And I've finished off todays card with a few elements from the Share What You Love Embellishment Kit. Fabulous kit with fabulous elements! How pretty are those Silver Die-Cast Roses? Super, Super gorgeous!

While my card is pretty simple in its execution today the Share What You Love Suite elements really don't need much else to go with them as they are a stand out on their own!! If you haven't gotten any of the products from this suite you really should. They are just stunning, stunning, stunning!!

Make sure you check out all the fabulous creations from the rest of the Just Add Ink Design Team as there is lots of inspiration for this weeks sketch challenge! While you are there check out all the details on this weeks chalenge and come and join in this weeks fun! Can't wait to see your creations!

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Global Design Project 140 | #GDP140 | Case the Designer

Hello there stamping friends! I do hope your having a fabulous week and have even managed to get some creating and crafting in. I've managed to get some 'Me' time in at my crafting desk to create to play along, this week, over at the Global Design Project 140 | #GDP140.

This week is a challenge is to CASE the designer - Brian King. Brian is fabulous at clean, layered creations and he has a fabulous eye for colour. When scrolling through Pinterest I can always spot a 'Brian' creation before I've looked properly to see who has made it just by his stunning sophisticated cards and his attention to detail.

If you're not sure what CASEing is, CASE = Copy And Selectively Edit. So use the creation as your starting point and then change it up to make it your own. I've used the layers and the florals as my starting point for my card today and then my creation grew from there.

I've used the stunning and beautiful hostess set, Very Vintage. It's an eclectic mix of vintage things like flowers, doilies, beautiful fonts and sentiments. It really is a gorgeous set.  I'm loving it lots! How gorgeous are those flowers? Super pretty right? Either hold a Stampin' Up! Party with me and have $250+ AUD in sales at your party or place a $250+AUD order with me and you can choose this set from the offerings of the Hostess only sets from the 2018 - 2019 Stampin' Up Annual Catalogue beginning June 1st.

I stamped the flowers in Jet Black Stazon ink and then used my Aqua Painter to colour the image, using the colours Old Olive, Blueberry Bushel, Mango Melody and Cherry Cobbler. Blueberry Bushel is a new In Colour from the 2018 - 2020 In Colour Collection and Mango Melody is one of the new colours from the colour revamp. They really look fabulous together here. 

For a subtle look I heat embossed the doily image on the Shimmery White cardstock using White Stampin' Emboss Powder. Just a little bit something extra to add to the card while not detracting from the bight colours in the flowers. To keep with the clean look, (well clean for me, Ha!) I added some of the Whisper White Polka Dot Tulle Ribbon, some Linen Thread, heat embossed the sentiment on Basic Black cardstock and dotted some beautiful Basic Pearls for more of that white on white look. 

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Fancy Friday Blog Hop | True Gentleman Challenge

Hello there stamping friends! It's come to the end of the month and time for the Fancy Friday Blog Hop. This hop has a very masculine feel and the theme has been INSPIRED by the True Gentleman Suite from the 2018 Occasions Catalogue for us to either use the products from the suite or the rich and gorgeous colour combo of  Crumb Cake, Tranquil Tide, Night of Navy, and Very Vanilla and team them up with another stamp set. There is just one rule for this hop and one I've found very hard - No Flowers. My MO is all things pretty and flowers and all that's so lets see if I can make a card without them!

The Fancy Friday team is a group of past and present Stampin' Up! Artisan Design Team Members. We still love blog hopping together so have a blog hop once a month with everything fun and fancy and showing what we love!

Even though these products are on the Retiring Products list and in some markets have even sold out, here are some ideas for you for those that have a full pack of the DSP and not sure how to use it yet. Or you could use some of the card layouts and other elements to make some masculine cards maybe using just the cardstock colours from this suite or changing up the colours entirely to suit what you need.

I've made two different cards today using some of the products from the True Gentleman suite while incorporating some products from the 2017 - 2018 Annual Catalogue.

While I'm not usually a fan of masculine cards, only because they don't have enough 'pretty and sparkle' for my liking, I really like how these two cards turn out with their 'stripped back' look.

The first card I made I just cut 4 x 1/4" strips of the True Gentleman DSP and arranged them on the card front. If you really wanted to you could add the 1/4" strips the whole way up the card for a different look, that way too by you'll be using up your DSP instead or hording it #loveitchopit

The second card I started with the Very Vanilla base and flicked the brush tip of the Crumb Cake Stampin' Write Marker for some fun splatter and some more added elements than just a plain card stock layer. I then arranged pieces of the True Gentleman DSP with some Wood Textures DSP for a fun layout.

How fabulous are those True Gentleman buttons??!! Don't you just love the rich texture of them. And that Corduroy Ribbon just adds to that classic and rich textured look.

This card I teamed up the Corduroy Ribbon with some of the Burlap Ribbon and the Tranquil Tide Baker's Twine comes from the Share What You Love Embellishment Kit which is so the opposite of all things masculine but goes well with the colours of today's creations!

I hope that I've given you some more inspiration of using the products from this suite. Make sure you get your DSP out that you love and use it!! A lot of the True Gentleman Suite Products are still avaliable here in Australia so click on products below to get your hands on these products before they are all gone and it's too late!!

Next on the stop is newbie to the Fancy Friday Team, Lauren Alarid, who is part of the current 2018 Stampin' Up! Artisan Design Team. If you haven't seen her work, click on the next button now to see her amazing creations! I just love Lauren's work!! 

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Just Add Ink #410 | Just Add Inspiration

Hello there stamping friends!! Another week has come and gone and it's Friday again! New challenge time over at Just Add Ink. A fun and bright inspiration picture for you all with lots going on and lots to inspire you! I love inspiration challenges. We all have the same picture yet and everyone is inspired by something different in it and we all have different creations!

Inspiration for my card came from the pillows on the bed, the spots and dots throughout the picture and all the little touches of gold. I loved the layers of the white, pink and aqua of the pillows and that's where I started with my card using layers of Whisper White, Flirty Flamingo and Coastal Cabana. I for one am super excited that Coastal Cabana is returning to the Stampin' Up! colour range and it goes perfectly with today's picture! Give me Coastal Cabana everything!!!!

I then punched out, what felt like, a million circles (Ha! Probably only 30 really) to create the spotty background. The contrast of the Basic Black on the Coastal Cabana really makes the two colours pop and stand out! 

Then for the Whisper White panel I've used the new (available to customers June 1st) Stitched Labels Framelits Dies. I love any die with that stitching element. The stitched look just gives that extra special element to any creation and you don't have to pull out the needle and thread. Winning in my book and so much quicker than hand sewing or pulling out the Singer!

Under the stitched panel I've layered some of the Graceful Glass Designer Vellum, Flirty Flamingo 3/8" Striped Grosgrain Ribbon (Still available to purchase till 31st May), Whisper White 5/8" Polka Dot Tulle Ribbon and some of the new Black 1/8" Cord. I'm really loving layering the polka dot tulle and the black cord together and that tulle ribbon is just amazing! I'm putting it on everything lately, its super pretty and it just goes with everything!!

Make sure you check out what inspired the rest of the Just Add Ink Design Team from the inspiration picture and then come and join in this weeks challenge to show us what inspired you!  Can't wait to see your creations!

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Just Add Ink #409 | Just Add Eclipse Technique

Hello there stamping friends! It's Friday, Friday,
Gotta get down on Friday
Everybody's lookin' forward to the weekend, weekend... Now you've got that crazy song in your head. You're welcome! HA!

Welcome to another and all new challenge over at Just Add Ink. Its a fun technique that is still so hot - Eclipse Technique.

I've had a play with this technique a few times and just love it! You can make it as busy or as clean as you like. I've gone for a bit of a CAS (Clean and Simple) Vintage look using a NEW stamp set, Very Vintage, that you will only be able to get with Stampin' Rewards as it is one of the new Hostess Sets.

Either hold a Stampin' Up! Party with me and have $250+ in sales at your party or place a $250+ order with me and you can choose this set from the offerings of the Hostess only sets from the 2018 - 2019 Stampin' Up Annual Catalogue beginning June 1st.

To start off the card I stamped the floral bloom in on the Shimmery White cardstock using Stazon Jet Black ink and then picked up the colour off the lid of the ink pads using and Aqua Painter to colour in the image.

I used the current Daffodil Delight for the yellow colour but the purple and blue colour are newbies - Highland Heather and Balmy Blue. And what gorgeous colours they are. They will be available to purchase June 1st. Come on June 1st! Hurry up and get here!!

I then used the Large Letters Framelits to die cut the 'Happy'. To define the letters a bit more I layered Basic Black under the Shimmery White of each letter, to define that shadow a bit more, and gave each letter a light sponge of Crumb Cake ink around the edge and this also added to that vintage feel.

The Happy Birthday sentiment also comes from the Very Vintage stamp set. I love the font of the sentiment and that its a really gorgeous size too. All finished off with some current and new Ribbon, Trim and Embellishments. 

The Just Add Ink Design Team have really knocked this technique out of the park, so go and check out all their creations and come and join in the fun with your Eclipse card. Can't wait to see your creations!

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Kelly's Stamping Friends | Birthday Blog Hop

Hey there stamping friends! Welcome to a special blog hop for my beautiful friend Kelly Kent! It's Kelly's birthday today, Happy Birthday Kelly, and she wanted to share her special day with her stamping friends by having a blog hop (actually she's got two going on at the same time. Eek!) How fun!

I'm the 14th stop of 20 on this fabulous blog hop. You may have come here via Cheryl Taylor or started the hop here with me. Either way you are in for a fun and crafty treat!

There aren't rules or themes to this hop bare one -  Just be creative! Let's hope I've filled the brief!

My cards today are combining Retiring, Returning and New Stampin' Up! products all into one.
Retiring - Birthday Blooms Stamp Set (sniff, sniff), Pink Pirouette Stampin' Blends, Colour Me Happy Stamp Set
Returning - Stitched Shapes Framelits , Daffodil Delight and Old Olive Stampin' Blends
New - Graceful Glass 6"x6" Designer Vellum, Black 1/8" Cord, 5/8" Whisper White Polka Dot Tulle Ribbon

I had the two floral images coloured a while ago. I was practicing and playing around with the Blends following some tutorials and learning more about using the Stampin' Blends Colour Lifter. But once the flowers were coloured I really didn't know what to do with them. I wasn't colouring them (initially) for a card so they just sat on my desk until this morning, actually.

For this Pink Pirouette card I actually CASed - myself, from a card using the same stamp set from 2 years ago. I find sometimes if I'm stuck for ideas I look back at some of my older creations and then use that as a base to get the creative ideas flowing! Even though I used the card from two years ago as my basis for my card today , the two cards from now and then both look totally different from each other.

The second card I didn't want the whole image of the flower on the card and then this time I stamped it up in the top section of the card and then left the rest of the card with the stark, bright white space. Because of the detailed pattern in the Designer Vellum and the Daffodil Delight flower has a lot going on my card doesn't need much else apart from the simple sentiment and a little bit of bling.

This post really is an homage to the Birthday Blooms Stamp Set giving it one last hurrah before it retires come May 31st 2018. I've loved this stamp set and have used it a lot in the past. I'm super sad to see this one go!

Now on to the Netherlands with Ine van den Eijnden and her special creations for Kelly's Stamping Friends Blog Hop.

1. Kelly Kent
2. Angela Meiritz-Reid
3. Sue Vine
4. Sharon Dalton
5. Rebecca Scurr
6. Julia Quinn
7. Danielle Bennenk
8. Cathy Pinchbeck
9. Richelle Fletcher
10. Sara Levin
11. Sandra Roberts
12. Catherine Creer
13. Cheryl Taylor
14. Rochelle Blok
15. Ine van den Eijnden
16. Rachael Lewsley
17. Jo Weedon
18. Courtenay Heuston
19. Mandy Depiazzi
20. Fi Cobbin 

Kelly has two blog hops going on to celebrate her special day so start HERE and check out all the creations from the other group participating in this fun blog hop.

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