Ribbon or Lace Challenge

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Crafty Boots Challenges is currently running a “Ribbon or Lace” challenge.
In the past, I would have loved this one and found it really easy, I used to love using ribbons, bows, lace, you name it, as long as it was girly and pretty.  I seem to have lost my Ribbon and Lace mojo!  So it really has been a challenge to make a card with ribbon, I wanted to leave it off, I had other ideas, but I put on the ribbon, and a nice big bow!

Still not entirely happy with it though, I think I will make it again without the ribbon….Lol 🙂
Below is a list of the gorgeous goodies I used to create my card.
I hope you will pop on over and check out what the rest of the Design Team have been creating, and share your own project with us too.
Happy stamping!
Chris

 

More Balloons!

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Just because I love working with the Balloon Celebration stamp set, and it fits in perfectly with the new challenge at The Male Room, a masculine project for “Young Ones” – Babies or Little Boys.

Here is my card……

I was inspired to borrow this idea from the fabulous Patty Bennett, who made some of these cards, and you can find her post with the instructions and a video here.

Here’s what the inside of the card looks like when you unfold it…..

 

We love to see all of your wonderful projects, so make sure you join in the fun with us at The Male Room.
Happy Stamping!
Chris

 

An Oldie but a Goodie

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A quick reminder today to join us in the “Something Old, Something New” challenge at Crafty Boots Challenges.
For my project today, I have made a card using a stamp set that was in the catalogue when I first joined Stampin’ Up! in 2008, Lovely As A Tree.  Definitely an oldie but a goodie 🙂

And for the “new” part, I have stamped the sentiment using the Rose Wonder stamp set, and the versatile Hearth and Home Framelits dies.
Hope you join in with our challenge at Crafty Boots, and remember, your interpretation of “Something Old, Something New” doesn’t have to be the same as mine…. 🙂
Happy stamping!
Chris

 

Pretty New Papers

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Oh yes, the new patterned papers from Stampin’ Up! are stunning, so I wanted to feature two different ones on my card today.  And I have used the sketch challenge from Mojo Monday 429 to design my card.

The only stamping on this card, is the Happy Birthday sentiment, which comes from the Balloon Celebration stamp set.
The background papers are from the Love Blossoms Designer Series Paper Stack, and the beautiful feature flower is from the Birthday Bouquet Designer Series Papers. I have used a circle die to cut it straight from the 12×12 sheet, although I really didn’t want to cut it up, it is too beautiful!!

Happy Stamping!
Chris


Anything Goes at The Male Room

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A new year sees a whole heap of great new challenges at The Male Room, with our first challenge for the year being Anything Goes – as long as it is masculine of course!

I am going to share with you the Box Card I made for my son for his recent 10th Birthday.  I haven’t tried one of these Box Cards before, so had heaps of fun trying out something new.
I wanted to combine the things that my son loves, so that would be cricket, and music, and of course I needed to add lots of balloons.  Then I needed to make sure I used his favourite colours, red and gold.  So here is the end result……

The balloons are stamped and punched out and come from the Balloon Celebration stamp set.  The number “10” was die cut from Red Foil using the Large Numbers Framelit Dies.  The cricket image is one I found online, and everything else is from my stash! 🙂
Here are some photos from different angles.

 

Please come and join in with us at The Male Room and share some of your masculine projects with us.

Happy stamping!
Chris

2016 Sale-a-Bration!

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2016 Sale-a-Bration has started!! This is such an exciting time of year for me as a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator, with soooo many gorgeous new goodies to share, and lots of free things for you to earn as well, all of them gorgeous, of course!
So, without further ado, here are the new catalogues.  Feel free to click on them to view them online, or if you would like a hard copy, just send me an email or leave a comment, and I will send one out to you (Australia only, please).

The new Occasions Catalogue has too many gorgeous goodies in it…….

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And then, when you buy just $90 from either the new Occasions, or the Annual catalogue, you get to choose free yummy stuff from the Sale-a-Bration Catalogue.

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You can choose a free item for every $90 order that you place, so trust me, with all the gorgeous stuff in the Occasions catalogue, it won’t take you long to get hold of all the Sale-a-Bration freebies.

To make the most of this years Sale-a-Bration, contact me to book a time for a free stamping get together, class, party, workshop…. whatever you would like to call it.  Or, get together some of your crafty friends, work out a group order between you and earn the benefits. Or thirdly, talk to me about joining Stampin’ Up! as a demonstrator, whether that’s as a business or hobby, you will get heaps of benefits.
And, of course, if you would like to place an order, just send me an email.
Enjoy browsing the catalogues, and happy stamping!
Chris

Something Old, Something New

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The new challenge from Crafty Boots Challenges is “Something Old, Something New”, which is just in time for the release of not just the new Stampin’ Up! Occasions catalogue, but also this years Sale-a-Bration, both of which start tomorrow (5th Jan 2016).
So for my project, you get a bit of a sneak peek of some new goodies!

My card uses some of the Perfectly Artistic Designer Series Papers as a background, from the Sale-a-bration catalogue.  Then from the new Occasions catalogue, there is some gorgeous new Baker’s Twine, and the balloons are from the Balloon Celebration stamp set and Balloon Bouquet punch.  That covers the “New” side.
And for the “Old” I have used the Hello You Thinlits dies, and Crazy About You stamp set for the sentiment.
I am loving this colour combination too, the pretty Blushing Bride pink combines beautifully with the Mint Macaron, but looks fantastic with the pop of bright colour of the Rich Razzleberry.  Yum scrum!!
Tomorrow I will pop up links to the new catalogues, and some more inspiration.
And why not join in with this challenge at Crafty Boots.

Happy stamping!
Chris

Snow and Sparkle Challenge

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A very quick reminder to join us at Crafty Boots Challenges for the Snow and Sparkle challenge.

I made this card for my son for Christmas.
Here is the inside of the card:


Hoping each and every one of you had a wonderful Christmas.  Ours was quiet, just the three of us and our fur babies at home, and playing with new toys!! 🙂
I’ll be back in the New Year for our next challenge.  In the meantime.
Happy Stamping!
Chris

Christmas Tags

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At Crafty Boots Challenges, we need to add some sparkle or snow to our projects for the next fortnight’s challenge.  I have to admit that I am not feeling all that sparkly at the moment, and since we don’t have snow at Christmas in Australia, I tend to stay away from snow scenes on my Christmas cards.  Having said that, I just couldn’t resist the Sleigh Ride Edgelits Dies, they are just too cute!!

So I made a couple of Christmas tags using them with some glittery cardstock to add just a little sparkle 🙂 and the stamped image at the top is from the Cozy Christmas stamp set.

Happy stamping!
Chris

A Crafty Boots Christmas

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Our current challenge at Crafty Boots Challenges is, of course, Christmas!
That leaves it wide open for you, you must have heaps of Crafty Christmas stuff you have done by now 🙂

My card features the cute Santa, which has been fussy cut out of a piece of the Home For Christmas Designer Series Papers.  And the lovely sentiment is from the Cozy Christmas stamp set, which I have coloured using markers.
Make sure you share your Christmas craft projects with us at Crafty Boots Challenges.
Happy Stamping!
Chris