Kintsugi Inspirations is the name of the patterned paper I have used for my card today.
Kintsugi Inspirations is on Page 59 of the Stampin’ Up! Annual catalogue. I love all the gorgeous blues and pretty florals. I have adhered the background layer onto a card base of Misty Moonlight cardstock, and the retired Scallop Contours Dies have been used to cut a layer using Cloud Cover cardstock – one of this year’s In Colors. The vase on my card has been fussy cut from the paper.
Hi there! Well, it has certainly been a long time between posts. I am still here and still crafting, and feeling like I am starting again from scratch with cardmaking and blog posts. But sometimes, that’s how life goes. While I have been doing a fair bit of crafting, I haven’t been doing any cardmaking, there’s been a lot of crochet, journal making and pyrography, and I might start sharing some of those here as well as my papercrafting.
Despite all of the challenges I have been facing over the last few months, I am still a member of the lovely Design Team for Craftin’ Round The World Challenges. And today’s card is using the Sunrise Sailing stamp set and coordinating embossing folder, along with some of the Peaceful Garden Designer Series Paper which will be available in the upcoming mini catalogue, available on the 3rd September, and which also contains a lot of gorgeous Christmas goodies!
That’s it for today, thanks for reading along. Happy stamping, Chris
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For this fortnight’s challenge we are choosing a sketch from the Archives, and there are heaps of great sketches there to choose from. The challenge this time is to use a sketch from 2014, which I have.
Here is the sketch I have chosen, only I have turned it on it’s side.
I have chosen to use some of the Winter Meadow Designer Series Paper as a focus for my card today, with distressed edges and heaps of sponging.
This DSP definitely has a winter feel to it, unlike out weather here in Australia, it has been so hot, and only just the start of summer. I think it’s going to be a long, hot summer, but that means lots of time at the beach!
You can find the rest of the Design Team’s ideas for this challenge on the Sketch Saturday blog. Why not join us and share your projects inspired by our sketch? We love to see what you have been creating.
Hope you have a crafty weekend. Happy stamping, Chris
Here is the new sketch for your inspiration, and this fortnight we are adding the additional challenge of putting some distressing on to your project. I generally love adding distressed edges to my projects however I felt that the pretty papers that I featured look better with clean edges.
For my card I have used some of the patterned papers from the Secret Garden Scrapbooking kit, which is available to purchase. The kit contains heaps of gorgeous items including stamps, dies, stickers and of course, these gorgeous papers.
The flowers are all cut from the patterned papers. So pretty!
You can find the rest of the Design Team’s ideas for this challenge on the Sketch Saturday blog. Why not join us and share your projects inspired by our sketch? We love to see what you have been creating.
Hope you have a crafty weekend. Happy stamping, Chris
I’ve been missing in action for the last couple of sketch challenges as both my son and I were down with a very nasty flu which has been going around here. It certainly was nasty and laid us both low for a few weeks. But we are both well again and enjoying the beautiful spring weather.
Here is the new sketch for your inspiration, and this fortnight we are adding the additional challenge of making a sympathy card, however I have chosen to make a Christmas card.
I have combined some of the Country Woods Designer Series Paper with the beautiful Sentimental Christmas Designer Series Paper for my card today.
You can find the rest of the Design Team’s ideas for this challenge on the Sketch Saturday blog. Why not join us and share your projects inspired by our sketch? We love to see what you have been creating.
Hope you have a crafty weekend. Happy stamping, Chris
Welcome back to another Sketch Saturday challenge. Here is the new sketch for your inspiration, and this fortnight we are adding the additional challenge of making a masculine card.
I have combined some of the Country Woods Designer Series Paper with the Trucking Along stamp set for my card today.
You can find the rest of the Design Team’s ideas for this challenge on the Sketch Saturday blog. Why not join us and share your projects inspired by our sketch? We love to see what you have been creating.
Hope you have a crafty weekend. Happy stamping, Chris
Hi and welcome. Today is the first time this year that I am taking part in the Heart of Christmas Blog Hop. Each week some of the members of the Art with Heart Team share their talent and ideas with some wonderful Christmas inspiration.
If the next button link is not working or you’d like to see the entire list of participants in our Blog Hop today, you can head over to Sharon Davern’s blog.
Thanks for stopping by and I hope you enjoy hopping along through all the Christmas inspiration. Happy stamping, Chris
Hi and welcome to the final sketch of the 22 Sketches on page 22 of the Annual Catalogue. Here is the sketch.
My card today features the lovely Poised Peony stamp set. I loved this set as soon as I saw it and it’s gorgeous for colouring.
The card base, from Basic Beige Cardstock, is my usual size – 21cm x 14.5cm, which is then scored at 10.5cm on the long side and folded, so when it’s folded, your card front will be 10.5cm x 14.5cm. I think Basic Beige is one of my new favourite colours, it goes so well with all the other colours. Next I have a layer of Cherry Cobbler cardstock, measuring 9.5cm x 14.5cm. This is not exactly the same as the sketch, I have just extended these layers to the top and bottom. The next layer is 9cm x 14.5cm in Very Vanilla cardstock which I have stamped in Basic Beige ink with the larger Peony, randomly over the cardstock. The two squares are cut out using one of the squares from the Stylish Shapes Dies, from Fluid 100 watercolour paper, then stamped with Black Stazon ink. The peonies were coloured using a Water Painter with Old Olive ink and Cherry Cobbler ink. These squares were then layered onto some Cherry Cobbler Cardstock cut to a couple of millimetres larger than the die cut squares, they ended up being 5.2 x 5.2cm. The sentiment is stamped using Cherry Cobbler ink onto a random scrap of Very Vanilla Cardstock, and I have cut the flags with scissors.
I hope you have enjoyed this series of posts with cards inspired by the sketches in the catalogue. It has been a good challenge for me, to use different layouts and ideas for my cards. I would love to hear your thoughts. Do you get stuck in a rut when it comes to card layouts? And is there something you would like to see me share here to inspire you?
Hoping you have a crafty week. Chris
PS Don’t forget the sale on Designer Series Papers, only a few days left to make the most of it! If you are in Australia and would like to grab some while they are cheap, you can click here.
Only one more of our sketch inspirational posts to go, I do hope you have all enjoyed seeing what I have done with each of the sketches. Please let me know your thoughts, I always enjoy receiving comments from you.
And don’t forget the Country Woods Designer Series Paper is on sale until the end of August, as well as some of the other papers in the Annual catalogue. Happy stamping, Chris
Hi and welcome back, here is the sketch for today, sketch number 20 of 22.
This is a great sketch that opens up all sorts of possibilities. I am in a pink mood at present, and have another pink card for you today, using the colours Pretty in Pink, Petunia Pop and Granny Apple Green.
Because most of my stamping ended up being on the left hand side, I decided to move the flag over to the right. My cardbase is Thick Basic White cardstock, and the focal image is also done on Thick Basic White, which is over a layer of Petunia Pop cardstock. I have gone back to one of my all time favourite stamp sets, the Stippled Roses stamp set, which I have stamped onto the cardbase in Petunia Pop ink, after stamping it off once onto scrap paper. The focal image is heat embossed with white embossing powder. I’ve then used a Water Painter and ink to put down a light wash of colour. The reason I have used the Thick Basic White is that it does absorb some water and so it is possible to do some very light watercolouring onto it, as long as you don’t add too much water, and don’t work it too much. Using Watercolour Paper is better of course, because it absorbs as much water as you want to use and you can work as many layers into as you need to. However it is more of an off-white colour and I preferred the Basic White colour for this card. I put down a light layer of Pretty in Pink ink on the flowers, and then added some Petunia Pop ink to the centre of the flowers to give them some depth. The leaves use only Granny Apple Green ink.
That’s all from me for today. Happy stamping, Chris
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