Colour Combo - Jan 2019

Welcome to Colour Combo January 2019 Blog Hop
I can't quite believe that it is already 2019, hope this year doesn't go as quick as 2018.
We are off to wonderful start to the year here in Queensland Australia,
lots of BEAUTIFUL rain.

Speaking of Beautiful, the colours for this hop go so well together.
We have Cajun Craze, Coastal Cabana and Gorgeous Grape.
I cannot wait to see what all the other participants create.
You may be starting with me or have hopped from Cheryl

Following on from a theme that Stampin' Up! released at Nov OnStage 2018
Simple Stamping, I have decided to make 3 cards...

Simple Stamping is simply that Stamps, Ink and Cardstock.
I actually found it harder than I thought as I LOVE to layer and add dimensions.
You can STEP it up with Embellishments and Layering.

So I chose the FREE stamp set Sprinkled With Love which is a photo polymer,
which makes it very easy to line up to create the design.

Isn't it a beautiful stamp set
FREE you ask, if you purchase $90 AUD Stampin' Up! products
during Sale-A-Bration promotion you get to choose a FREE product.
More about that later.

My Simple Stamping Card is as follows
I chose to use Very Vanilla Cardstock as my base of my initial stamping.
This piece of card is cut at 5" x 3 1/2"

I stamped the cupcake base in Cajun Craze ink
Then I used Coastal Cabana ink for the icing layer between cupcake and frosting
Then used Gorgeous Grape ink for the frosting on the cake..

Then I added the sentiment Sprinkled with Love above the cupcake,
in Coastal Cabana Ink.

I added a layer of Coastal Cabana behind my Very Vanilla
This piece of card is cut at 5 1/4" x 3 3/4"

Then for the Casual Stamping Card is almost exactly the same as the Simple Card
But this time I added another colour - Mango Melody ink to add the sprinkles.
AND a couple of Glitter Enamer Dot embellishments, in Gorgeous Grape colour.
I also added a bit of Wink of Stella to the Frosting.

My Avid Stamping Card (Stepped up version)
has all the things I LOVE to include on my cards - Layering.
 I stamped the same cupcake again exactly the same as before.
BUT this time I Stamped it again and cut it out to layer it up with dimenstionals.

I also stamped off/2nd generation stamping of the Frosting
to make a lighter coloured frosting on top of the Gorgeous Grape.
I fussy cut this one out as well and then added some Wink of Stella to give it shimmer.

I then stamped the sentiment on a piece of Very Vanilla and then cut it
with the Triple Banner Punch to create a peak.
Then I cut up a scrap piece of Gorgeous Grape slightly larger than the very vanilla banner
and added it as a layer behind the sentiment.

This time I ran all of my coloured cardstock mats and cupcake and sentiment
through the Bigshot in the Subtle Embossing Folder
to add some texture and layering to my Avid card.
 Very Vanilla Cardstock  5" x 3 1/2"
Coastal Cabana Cardstock  5 1/4" x 3 3/4"
Gorgeous Grape Cardstock 5 1/2" x 3 15/16" (almost 4")
Card Base is Cajun Craze 5 7/8" x 4 1/4" 


 

I always try to remember to stamp on the inside, not just the sentiment.
And I create a matching envelope too.
I do hope that you LOVE my Beginner, Casual and Avid Stamping.
Here are some close up photos of the cards.

Up next is Jo Blackman with her gorgeous creations.

Looking forward to hopping around and checking out everyone's creations,
Pleas click on the NEXT button to follow the hop with me.
Please leave everyone some LOVE in the comment box below.
AND I will return you the compliment as well.
Thanks for hopping with me
Cheers Shaz

1. Elisabeth Pirolt (AT) – Little Lizzy’s Crafts – du bist hier
2. Pia Gerhardt – Scraproomboom (DE)
3. Tanja Klingler-Selinger (AT)
4. Sandra Herzog
5. Sue McDonald (UK)
6. Rene Guenther (DE)
7. Renée Eckhardt (AT)
8. Carmen Groinig (AT)
9. Silke Trapani (DE)
10. Tracy Marie Lewis – Stuff N Thingz (US)
11. Janey Backer (US)
12. Tricia Butts (U.S.)
13. Laura Mackie UK
14. Rebecca-Jo Unwin- Australia
15. Dorothee Felicitas Buhn
16. Cheryl Taylor – UK
17. Sharon Dalton – Australia
18. Jo Blackman
19. Astrid Hofmann (AT)
20. Kimberley Morris (US)
21. Tatiana Grübler (DE)
22. Anastasia Radloff (US)
23. Angélique Nederpel (NL)
24. Katie Johnson (US)

Open Call Guest Designer at Scrapbooking Global - Stampin' Up!

WE want YOU (Yes, YOU) to be part of our Guest Design Team.
Join Scrapbooking Global - Stampin' Up! here

EDITED 1.00pm AEST
Calling for 'Guest Designers' for our Scrapbooking Global - Stampin' Up! Creative Design Team.  11 Guest Designers in total - Feb 19 to Dec19 - One Month position.
All Guest Designers must have a Blog to join the Monthly Blog Hop.
 
Email 3 Design pieces to showcase your Stampin' Up! Scrapbooking/Memory Keeping style - NEW DESIGNS would be AMAZING something we haven't already seen <3
FULL SIZED FILES JPG please
PLUS a CURRENT Photo of yourself.

Open Call to EVERYONE from Beginners to Advanced Scrapbookers, Simple to Avid Styles will all be considered.
STAMPIN' UP! PRODUCTS ONLY - 2018-2019 CATALOGUE PRODUCTS, this includes the current Occasions and Sale-A-Bration products.

Email to shazcreativeme68@gmail.com
Applications open 8th Jan - 22nd Jan
Creative Designer Team will decide on Guest Designers 22nd -29th.
All successful applicants will be PM'd Jan 31st
GUEST DESIGN TEAM ANNOUNCEMENT  Feb 1st 2pm Aust (AEST)

Please send us your applications and become part of our Creative Design Team
as a Guest Designer for our Monthly Blog Hops and all the other challenges.

Join Scrapbooking Global - Stampin' Up! here

Scrapbooking Global - Stampin' Up! is a Facebook Group
where members and Creative Design Team Members showcase their
Scrapbooking/Memory Keeping using Stampin' Up! products.
We also WELCOME our members to add Memories&More/Project Life Pocket pages.
Mini Albums/Samplers/Canvases can be uploaded to the page.

Join Us for all the FUN and become a FAN too.

January's Blog Hop is a Sketch 

LIVE - Jan 17th at 2pm AEST - Australian Eastern Standard Time

 
Each month 3rd Thursday of the month we have a Blog Hop with a theme to follow. 
There is an event on the Scrapbooking Global - Stampin' Up! page
for you to add your permalink too so that you can be part of the hop.
January's Blog Hop is already FULL of participants, which is very exciting.

If you don't have a blog to hop along with us.
We invite you to add your creation/designs to an Album created with each month
where you can add your creations in there.  Not before the Hop goes LIVE though.

We welcome anyone from anywhere in the world to join us.
Our group is for Scrapbookers who use STAMPIN UP PRODUCTS.
This group is OPEN to anyone...DEMONSTRATOR or NOT.
Please add your friends to our Scrapbooking Global - Stampin' Up! group.

We also have Monthly Challenges on our group too... Join in the FUN!!!
January Colour Challenge - Cajun Craze, Early Espresso, Old Olive and Whisper White
Look forward to seeing your designs in our album and on our wall!!!

Join Scrapbooking Global - Stampin' Up! here
Here is a selection of previously uploaded Blog Hop Layouts that I have created,
Click on the photo and it will take you to all Blog Hop participants.

If you click on the link above the photos it will take you to the album,
where you can see all the creations from the Design Team Members and public.
If you are not a member please join so that you can see all the creations.

December - Holiday Happenings

November - Winter Textures

October - Celebrate

 

Looking forward to seeing all the applications HIT my email.
Applications open 8th Jan -  close 22nd Jan



Look forward to seeing all of you join us over at Scrapbooking Global - Stampin' Up!
We have an exciting ANNOUNCEMENT today at 10am.
Pop in and see what is being announced!!!
Cheers Shaz

ESAD 2019 Occasions and Sale-a-bration Blog Hop

Welcome to the 1st ESAD Blog Hop of 2019....
So excited to be here, along with 22 other talented Australian and New Zealand Demos.


We are all designing projects with products from the brand new
Occasions and Sale-A-Bration catalogues which went LIVE on Jan 3.
I created a Scrapbooking layout as my project...
The products that I am using are from the Occasions catalogue.
Perfect for my photos that you can see in the sneak peak.
You may have just hopped from Libby's Blog or just starting with me.
Hoping you are enjoying the creations on each of the blogs.

Firstly I cut up 5 double sided All My Love designer series paper into 2" strips.
Using the 1 5/8" Stitched Square Framelit I cut 5 from each piece
Found this graphic on Pinterest of all the sizes.
The link takes you to Sarah Wills blog


Then I printed my photographs and cut into 3 1/2" squares
Laid them out on my Whisper White 12 x 12 Cardstock...
I angled them on the page then I stuck them down with tear and tape
Aren't they cuties...



Next I laid down some of my stitched square frames until I was happy.
Me being me I had to rule lines and make sure it was STRAIGHT...
If you close one eye it will look straight LOL

I mounted the one with LOTS of hearts DSP Stitched Square Framelits Dies
with Stampin' Up Dimensionals to make it POP!!!
Then I used Meant To Be CLING Stamp Set to add random hearts
between the All My Love DSP Stitched Squares.
Using Lovely Lipstick, Flirty Flamingo Ink Pads



Then I used Be Mine Stitched Framelits Dies to cut out the heart with small floral image.
The heart wit the floral image was stamped in Crumb Cake that has been stamped off.
I  then coloured with Lovely Lipstick, Balmy Blue and Soft Sea Foam Ink
with a Aqua Painter, gives it a soft watercolour look.



This is how I layered my hearts together, as 1st heart is cut with the filigree look
and the 2nd and 3rd hearts are cut at the same time, stitching and cutting.
I cut a Lovely Lipstick layer as well as the Whisper White layer

I always like to add some colour to the edge of my cardstock,
Daubers are too big for some small sentiments.
So you have probably seen me show you my tip before.
I use a cotton tip with a small amount of ink on it and run this around the edge
to give it a bit of dimension against the background.

 

I think I should show you now, OK I am ready to share the finished layout.
(even though you probably scrolled past my ramblings)



I will be giving this layout away as a gift to the parents of these two girls.
Do you think the black frame is too BOLD for this layout. Should it be a white frame?

Up next is Rose Packer from Creative Roses here in Australia.
I am sure that she will have a beautiful creation.
If some how the NEXT link below doesn't work you can always yse the list below
to follow along the hop and see all the AMAZING projects.
Thank you for Hopping along with me.

Blog Hop Participant List:

1. Lou Kitzelman

2. Leonie Schroder

3. Shannon Kissane

4. Nicole Wilson

5. Narelle Fasulo

6. Rachael Lewsley

7. Angela Harders

8. Kelly Kent

9. Cheryl Algie

10. Jenna Watkins

11. Libby Dyson

12. Sharon Dalton

13. Rose Packer

14. Sharni Haines

15. Denise Buetler

16. Peta Stephen

17. Kim Oliver

18. Monique Fielder

19. Lauren Meiklejohn

20. Siobhan Fitzsimmons

21. Katrina Duffell

22. Cathy Pinchbeck

 Please leave me some LOVE in the comments box below,
as please do the same for the other Blog Hop participants.
Cheers Shaz

If you buy the bundle you will also be able to pick a FREE Sale-A-Bration product.
For every $90 purchase you receive a Free product.

This Suite can be purchased separately or in a Bundle SAVING you 10%
Meant To Be CLING Stamp Set $41
Be Mine Stitched Framelit Dies $62
Or
Bundle Price is $92.50
I will put up a full list of products used in this layout with their product numbers later.

We Create The Blues Blog Hop

Welcome to We Create Blog Hop with all the lovely Demonstrators
around the globe that are hopping today with this common theme. 
The Blues: Use any shades of blue and please keep it as monochromatic as possible.
Blue should be the main color with minimal accents of other colors.

Every month when we sign up to participate we actually choose a set we want to use.
With the Occasions catalogue going LIVE on the 3rd Jan, I chose a set that
I knew that I would LOVE from the moment I saw it in the catalogue.
Beauty Abounds (New Cling Mount) on Pg 13, it also has matching Thinlits.
If you buy the Bundle you save 10% immediately, so that is what I did!

You may have just joined me from Kimberley's Blog Or started with me. 
I cannot wait to show you the Decor piece that I created with this suite.
So very Thankful that Stampin' Up! have Multipurpose Adhesive Sheets 144106.
These sheets are double sided adhesive so that you can stick them to the cardstock
and then cut out your die and then peel away the backing sheet and stick it straight down.

They made my job so much easier than having to glue all the lil pieces by hand.
I actually created a frame for inside a shadow box frame,
it took me all day to create the border and it was very messy....
I didn't even use Beauty Abounds stamp set until today.

Here is almost the finished product....
I made a couple of adjustment before I was happy with the border of the matted frame.
I used a generic set of Stitched Rectangles to create my matted frames..
AS SOON AS I CAN I WILL BE BUYING Stampin' Up!'s
Check them out on pg 28 of the Occasions catalogue.

Now to the insert...Which only took about 2 Hrs.
I stamped the Bubbles with Night of Navy, Blueberry Bushel and Balmy Blue Inks
on Balmy Blue Cardstock, which was matted with the other 2 colours.
Then I ran this through the Big Shot with both the Butterfly Dies and Embossing Mats
You can see in the second image how the dies only embossed not cut...
This makes our dies so versatile, with multiple uses

I added the Large Butterfly as it was too plain without it, don't you agree...

Here is the finished Shadow Box Frame Decor piece for my Studio.
Tomorrow I will try to get a better colour photo of it as this looks too bright!!

 

Hope you liked my project, I sure enjoyed creating this frame.
Up next is Tricia Butts, I am sure she will have something pretty special too.

Thank you for hopping along with us, please remember to leave us some love.
We all love to know what you think of our projects.
I will be back tomorrow with a comprehensive list of products that I used.
Cheers Shaz

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