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

Friday, 26 August 2016

Detailed Floral - Eggplant & Copper

I have entered this card into the International Blog Highlight held by Kylie Bertucci. The theme this time is Random Acts of Kindness / Encouragement. Click here to see all the amazing projects and vote for your favourites (from 6.30pm AEST).

For sheer elegance, it's hard to beat the Detailed Floral Thinlits (and matching suite of products!).

In search of a quick but elegant card, I decided to case one of my earlier cards and came up with this. I'm quite fond of the combination of purple and copper.

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The Copper Foil adds a beautiful rich sheen

To make the Very Vanilla mat for the banner, I placed the banner die on the cardstock and drew around the outside with a pencil. I then cut along the pencil line, which I erased when I had finished. I attached the banner with Dimensionals.

The little pink roses and Mint Macaron leaves, I created with the gorgeous Paisley Framelits dies - I've included a little tutorial at the end of this post.

The roses add a lot of dimension to the card

The Elegant Eggplant square card is 5.5" square. The Copper Foil layer is 5" square and the decorative panel is 4 7/8".

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Thanks for your visit - remember to take a look at all the other projects and vote!
'Til next time
Stephanie

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Wednesday, 24 August 2016

60th Birthday Tiger Moth Double Z Fold card

For this special birthday card for a very special friend - I broke one of my own rules and used some retired products. The reason? Well - this particular friend is quite passionate about aircraft and still enjoys the memory of his experience in a yellow tiger moth.

The best stamp set I know for creating a yellow tiger moth aircraft would have to be the retired (but still wonderful) set called Sky Is The Limit.

I also wanted to place his age on the "sun" but have it hidden until the card is opened. Sadly, the current set of dies - Large Numbers - is too big to accomplish that, so I resorted to using a retired set of dies - the Little Numbers Thinlits .... which I really miss because they're a very useful size!

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The landscape is courtesy of one of my all time favourite stamps from "Lovely As A Tree"

I stippled the greens into the trees using the little leaf stamp from the Totally Trees stamp set from the new Holiday Catalogue.

The sky is sponged

This fun fold is soooo easy but gives nice depth and "pop" to a card.

The greeting is from "Rose Wonder"

I used a wonderful tutorial by Dawn Griffith to create the Double Z Fold card - I simply moved the 1" strip to the top of the card to carry my aircraft.

Thanks for visiting!
'Til next time
Stephanie

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Monday, 22 August 2016

Thoughtful Branches Birthday

My team members and I had a crafting session the other day (well, OK, it also involved a lot of cake and tea!). One of them cut a tree from Watermelon Wonder cardstock with the Thoughtful Branches dies and did it so neatly that I couldn't pass up the opportunity to use that negative space.

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Such a quick and easy card with the Thoughtful Branches dies

So I cut another tree from a scrap of Early Espresso cardstock, fit it into the space and layered it onto a piece of Whisper White cardstock, adding a birthday greeting and some Flirty Flamingo Ruched Ribbon.

The card base is made from Flirty Flamingo cardstock with a layer of Flirty Flamingo patterned paper.

Exceptionally quick and easy!

If you like the Thoughtful Branches sets and don't yet have it - act quickly! It's only available during August.

Thanks for visiting!

'Til next time

Stephanie

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Sunday, 21 August 2016

Merry Mouse - Traditional - Holiday Catalogue Sneak Peek

Here's my furry little friend again ... but this time I painted him in more traditional Christmas colours.

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The Christmas greeting is from the Hostess set "Time of Year"

The gingerbread house and gingerbread man are both cut out from the Candy Can Lane DSP - I simply added som Dazzling Diamonds Glitter.

The gingerbread man is sitting on a disc of Early Espresso cardstock. To give it a glazed look, I used the fine-tip glue pen to add a layer of glue which dried quite quickly to leave a shiny appearance.

These are the Sneak Peek Products from the new Holiday Catalogue:
Merry Mice (142145)
Candy Cane Lane Designer Series Paper (141981)
Real Red 3/4" Stitched Edge Ribbon (141984)
3/8" Silky Taffeta Ribbon Combo Pack (141989)

If you don't yet have a copy of the 2016 Holiday Catalogue and meet the following criteria, contact me to request a copy. (Available to Australian Residents who are not Stampin' Up Demonstrators and do not currently have a Stampin' Up Demonstrator).

Thank you for visiting!
'Til next time
Stephanie

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