Sketch Challenge using Stampin' Up! products.

Hi all

It's time to show my entry for this week's challenge from CAS Colours & Sketches

It's a sketch challenge and it had me a little afraid! I really wasn't sure what I was going to make but it's amazing how the ideas start flowing once you start pulling out some individual elements.

I cut and scored an A4 piece of Real Red card stock to make a 5x5"card base using my Stampin' Trimmer.

The Mossy Meadow was cut at 4" and Very Vanilla at 3 3/4".

The gold cording actually stays quite 'coiled' when you cut it so it was relatively easy to create that element of the sketch, I just held it in place with a couple of glue dots then the patterned tag was adhered to it with dimensionals.

Below is everything else I used to create this card and please do ask if there's anything I can help with.

Esther xx

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Stampin' Up! Tiny treat box sneak peek!

Hi all

The launch of the BRAND NEW Stampin' Up! catalogue is now tantalisingly close! One of the perks of being a demo means I've had my hands on some of the products for a couple of weeks now and I've had a lot of fun playing!

I took one of the Tiny Treat boxes which are fantastic value for money. You get 25 for  £6.25 and they are very sturdy as well as super cute.

In the words of my 8 year old I 'transformed' it using some of the new catalogue items.

I used some NEW Cherry on Top Washi tape to wrap around the box. The flower on top was punched out of NEW Cotton Paper Assortment and I used a bone folder to curl up the petals of the Pansy flower punch, the cotton paper holds it's shape beautifully. The flower is then topped off with NEW Blossom Accents which I've popped a Rhinestone Basic Jewel into for extra bling.

The cute dangling tag is made from Chalk talk framelits, The 'Enjoy' sentiment is from Mini Treat Bag thinlets and tied with Whisper White Baker's Twine.

So not many more sleeps to wait, 2 June to be exact. You can shop online in my store at any time and access the brand new catalogue as soon as it goes live. 

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Esther xx

Coffee to go

Not only is the Stampin' Up! catalogue full of gorgeous products to drool over it's also a great resource when your 'creative' juices aren't flowing. Stampin' Up! even provide a list of products that are used to create the projects in the catalogue. You can find it right here

So today's project is my take on the Coffee Bag project on page 36 of the catalogue. I didn't copy it exactly but sometimes an idea is just a spring board to your own creation. I didn't have any coffee beans to hand so that meant a change of design right away!

For this project I used the following Stampin' Up! Supplies.

Stamps

Gorgeous Grunge

Perfect Blend

Inks

Early Espresso

Card Stock & Paper

Whisper White

Real Red

Early Espresso 

Brown Sugar

Coastal Cabana

In Colour Designer Series Paper Stack

Other Items

Chalk Talk dies

Big Shot 

Itty Shapes Bitty Punch Pack

Corner rounder punch

Essential Hardware clips

Dimensionals

Snail adhesive

White bakers twine

I used my digital die-cutting machine to make the bag.

Mix it up a little!

I was sitting at my table and spotted 2 of my ink pads side by side and thought 'I bet they'd look nice together!'
So I set to planning how I would use them together.

This is the project:

I think I was right, and that they do go together. What do you all think?

Stamps sets used

Chalk Talk (bundle)

Happy Day

Card Stock

Whisper White

Rich Razzleberry

Crisp Cantaloupe

Inks

Rich Razzleberry

Crisp Cantaloupe

Punches

Circle 1 3/8"

Dies

Chalk Talk (bundle)

Other Items

Organza Ribbon

Snail Adhesive

Dimensionals

Stampin' Trimmer

Big Shot

Esther xx