The Crafty Thinker: Stephanie Fischer - Independent Stampin' Up Demonstrator: Merry Mice

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Sunday, 20 November 2016

Stitched Up Christmas Mouse

I have entered this card into the Case This Card Challenge #CTC015. Do pop by and take a look at the great cards or think about entering one of the challenges yourself! They're great fun!

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I used Versamark and gold embossing powder to stamp the bauble images

As you can see, the Stitched Shapes framelits combine well with the Layering Ovals, Squares and Circles die sets. Unfortunately, due to the huge demand, these framelits are temporarily unavailable. I will post up the information when they are available again.

Dimensionals help to layer the images and add depth

For this card I used a mouse image from the Merry Mice stamp set, some baubles from the Forever Evergreen stamp set and the banner from Seasonal Bells which is cut with the matching dies from the Bunch of Banners Framelits. I used Stampin Dimensionals to add depth to the card.

The images are coloured with Many Marvelous Markers and I used gold embossing powder for the bauble images.

The finished card is 6" x 5.25" in Real Red cardstock, layered with This Christmas Specialty DSP.

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

'Til next time.
Stephanie

PS Check here to see the stamp sets that are currently on sale (25% off!) until 30th November.

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Merry Mice Clear-Mount Stamp Set

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Forever Evergreen Photopolymer Stamp Set

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Seasonal Bells Clear-Mount Stamp Set

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Bunch Of Banners Framelits Dies

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Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies

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Whisper White A4 Card Stock

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Real Red 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Cardstock

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This Christmas Designer Series Specialty Paper

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Emerald Envy A4 Cardstock

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Basic Black Archival Stampin’ Pad

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Versamark Pad

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Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder

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Gold Wink Of Stella Glitter Brush

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Many Marvelous Markers

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2015-2017 In Color Stampin' Write Markers

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2016-2018 In Color Stampin' Write Markers

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3/8" (1 Cm) Ribbon Silky Taffeta Combo Pack

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Monday, 24 October 2016

Magic Merry Mice

I value my son's opinion and artistic eye so, when I make a card, I usually ask his opinion.

When I made this card for yesterday's blog hop, he told me that he liked it but why not make it into a slider so that the mice travel from window to window. What a great idea!

So I stepped it up a bit and made this magic card! My son really likes it!

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"At rest", the card looks very much like its predecessor

But pull the tag and things start to look a bit different!

Magic mice!

The locking mechanism prevents the removal of the entire magic strip

It seems the mice are leaving the card to go to their Christmas party!

Thank you for visiting.
'Til next time!
Stephanie

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Sunday, 23 October 2016

Crazy Crafters Blog Hop - 23 October 2016 with Guest Bibi Cameron

Welcome to the Crazy Crafters Blog Hop with our Special Guest stamper, Bibi Cameron - we are thrilled to have Bibi join us this month and so excited to CASE (Copy And Selectively Edit) any project that has been created by her . We hope you find great inspiration from the projects.

Whether you are starting the blog hop here at my blog, Stephanie Fischer - The Crafty Thinker, or have come from the person before me, be sure to click on the person listed under me further down the page to continue your journey on this blog hop.

This is the card by Bibi that I have chosen to CASE.

http://www.bibicameron.co.uk/2016/09/make-baby-cards-with-cookie-cutter.html

Click on image to link to Bibi's post

I decided to use a similar layout to create a Christmas card with the Merry Mouse stamp set.


Traditional colours & cute mice make for a cheery Christmas Card

The base card is an A5 piece of Thick White Cardstock folded in half. I cut a layer of Real Red cardstock and added a slightly smaller layer of Candy Cane Lane Designer Series Paper. I then used the layering circles framelits to cut the circular holes in the layer, laid the piece on top of the card base and lightly marked the positioning of the holes with a pencil.

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I used a Basic Black Stampin' Write marker to ink up one image at a time on the stamp and placed the images within the pencil drawn circles using my faithful Stamp-A-Ma-Jig to help with positioning.

Inking the stamp with a Stampin' Write Marker

Lightly drawing around the inside of the cutouts helps with correctly positioning the images

I then used Stampin' Write Markes in Real Red, Emerald Envy, Sahara Sand, Crumb Cake and Pink Pirouette to colour the images along with a few touches of gold and clear Wink of Stella.

I adhered the top layer over the stamped card front with Stampin' Dimensionals and then added circular frames cut from Emerald Envy cardstock.

The greeting is stamped in Basic Black ink onto Emerald Envy cardstock. I used the banner die from to cut it out and then cut another with Real Red cardstock. I wanted to pop the banner up on dimensionals, so I glued the pieces to some Think Whisper White cardstock and trimmed around the edges.

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

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Thanks for visiting
'Til next time
Stephanie

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