Crazy Crafters Blog Hop February 2016 - Inspired by Patty

Welcome to the Crazy Crafters Blog Hop for February - we're all finding inspiration in the beautiful creations of Patty Bennett and CASE-ing (Copy And Selectively Edit) one of her projects AND, even more exciting, she's joining us on this blog hop!  Thank you, Patty!

You may just be starting the blog hop here at my blog - Stephanie Fischer, The Crafty Thinker - or you may have come from the person before me in the list. If you get off track at any time, the full lineup below will help you to move along from blog to blog so that you see all of the projects.

Patty's beautiful card was my inspiration

I really love this cute card of Patty's! 

My fun fold card inspired by Patty

She has very generously provided tutorials and videos on how to do this fold here.  I did change the dimensions just a little to suit the A4 cardstock.

This is my version.  I used Bermuda Bay and Black cardstock to make the fun fold card and decorated it with a selection of papers from the Bohemian Designer Series Paper.  I cut circles from Rich Razzleberry and Blackberry Bliss cardstock and topped them with a Blackberry Bliss, Bermuda Bay and Delightful Dijon flower. The flowers were all cut with the gorgeous Botanical Builder Framelit dies.

I stamped a greeting from the Birthday Blooms stamp set and cut it out with one of the Project Life Cards & Labels Framelits.

I removed a few sequins from the Bermuda Bay Sequin Trim and used them to highlight the large flower and the greeting.

Then I added a few Rhinestone Jewels for a bit of sparkle. 

The inside of the card hides a little surprise.  There's another flower made with the Botanical Builder dies and some matching flowers stamped with the Botanical Blooms Stamp set.  

The greeting is from Happy Birthday, Everyone.

More flowers hidden inside the card!

This is how the card opens

I hope you've enjoyed this card and I welcome your comments. 


Thanks for taking part in our blog hop. Remember that currently you are at my blog - Stephanie Fischer - so click on the next name in the list to ensure that you don't miss out of seeing any of the blogs and the amazing inspiration they contain.



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Product List

Botanical Blooms Photopolymer Bundle

[140819]

Happy Birthday, Everyone Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[139958]

Birthday Blooms Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[140658]

Project Life Cards & Labels Framelits

[135707]

Bohemian Designer Series Paper

[138446]

Basic Black A4 Card Stock

[121688]

Basic Black Archival Stampin’ Pad

[140931]

Card Stock A4 Bermuda Bay

[131286]

Bermuda Bay Sequin Trim

[137910]

Delightful Dijon Classic Stampin' Pad

[138327]

Delightful Dijon A4 Cardstock

[138345]

Blackberry Bliss A4 Cardstock

[133682]

Rich Razzleberry A4 Card Stock

[119981]

Circles Collection Framelits Die

[130911]

Sunburst Thinlit Die with Pink flowers

Appealingly simple!

I had allowed myself to be a bit intimidated by this Sunburst Thinlit Die so the other day I made myself use it on every card I made!  As it turns out, I made quite a few cards because they come together very quickly with this die!

I cut Basic Gray and Basic Black cardstock with the die, offset them a little and layered this over a layer I had cut from the Neutrals Designer Series Paper Stack.  Then I trimmed around the edges and layered it onto a piece of Basic Black cardstock before adhering to the front of my Rose Red card.

I cut flowers in Rose Red and Basic Black with the Botanical Builder dies and, wanting a modern, clean look, kept them very simple, not a lot of layering and no sponging or watercolouring (I had to exercise a lot of self-control!)

I had plenty of time left to stamp a couple of flowers and a greeting inside the card

A few Rhinestone Jewels completed the card in record time!  So easy!

Waste not, want not - so over the next few days, I'll show you what I did with the leftover grey and black card (the negative shapes) - so come back for another visit!

'Til next time

Stephanie

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Bloomin' Heart Side Step Valentine Card

This side step card is the sample I have made for one of the classes in the 9-week course I'll be teaching in February/March.

Side step card featuring the Blooming' Heart thinlits dies (Occasions Catalogue)

In addition to the side step fold, there is a little bit of paper piecing and a whole lot of embellishing!

I'm so sad that I didn't have any Blushing Bride ribbon to go with the glimmer paper, so I had to make the most of what was in my stash - ah well - I know what my next purchase will be!

I have lots of  retired black glimmer paper left, so I decided to use some of it, otherwise I would have used Basic Black cardstock (which I think I would prefer in fact!).

If you're interested in attending my classes - click here for details.

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'Til next time
Stephanie

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Botanical Blooms Bundle

Woohoo - today's the day that everyone can get their favourite products from the new Occasions Catalogue AND get a FREE Sale-A-Bration product with every $90 spend!

If you haven't yet seen all the mouth-droolingly gorgeous new products, click here to see the PDF version of the Occasions Catalogue and here to see the fantastic selection of FREE Sale-A-Bration products that can be earned.

Today I've had tremendous fun with the Botanical Blooms Bundle!

The label and greeting are from the Rose Wonder Bundle

I was inspired by the Global Design Project challenge set by Brian King to use these three colours. 

Just click on the image to join in the challenge or see the other great entries

I'll confess that at first glance I wasn't very inspired by the colour choice! But after a bit of thought I realised that green and pink are perfect for flowers and crumb cake could become a garden wall.  Thanks Brian - it really was a great challenge.

I've really fallen hard for the Botanicals Blooms bundle because they all work perfectly with each other and they're so versatile!  I can see a lot of mixing and matching going on with this set!  The best bit for me, though, is that it's so easy to make a pretty design with them - it almost "builds" itself!

The inside of the card.

I stamped some flowers from the Botanical Blooms set inside the card and the greeting is from a free Sale-A-Bration set called Perfect Pairings (141261 for the clear stamps), which I love for it's bold but elegant sentiments.

I hope you enjoyed this card.

'Til next time

Stephanie

Built for Free Using: My Stampin Blog