Wednesday 30 January 2019

Let It Ride - Galloping Horse

There are a few people in my life who love horses and so I felt compelled to purchase this stamp set when I saw it!  This card will be for one of my nieces.
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Let It Ride stamp set in the 2019 Occasions Catalogue
I coloured this piece with watercolour pencils and an Aquapainter and layered it onto my card with Tranquil Tide cardstock and Share What You Love Specialty Designer Series Paper.

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Stephanie

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Sunday 27 January 2019

Crazy Crafters Blog Hop with Special Guest: Wendy Cranford

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Welcome to the Crazy Crafters' Blog Hop with our Special Guest stamper, Wendy Cranford - we are thrilled to have Wendy join us this month and so excited to CASE (Copy And Selectively Edit) any project that has been created by her.

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 through the blog hop.

I was really spoilt for choice because I love Wendy's style and she has so many stunning cards over on her blog but I was really drawn to the simplicity and pretty colours on the card I eventually chose to CASE.
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This card features the gorgeous Butterfly Gala set in the 2019 Occasions Catalogue
I decided to try using a similar design but using the Butterfly Gala stamp set from the 2019 Occasions Catalogue.  I changed to a square card to allow for the larger butterfly image.

The butterly stamps in the set are in pairs - a larger one and a smaller one - which are perfectly positioned to work with the coordinating Butterfly Duet Punch.  TIP: In order to stamp the individual butterflies straight onto the card front, I put some washi tape over the unwanted image before tapping into the ink and then removed the washi before I stamped onto the card.

Thanks for following 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 on seeing any of the blogs and the amazing inspiration that they contain.

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'Til next time!
Stephanie


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Friday 25 January 2019

Ink it! Stamp it! International Design Team Blog Hop - Sale-A-Bration & Occasions Catalogues

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Welcome to the Ink It! Stamp It! Design Team Blog Hop - we hop every month so be sure to pop back and visit us again!  

Today we are highlighting products from the new Occasions Catalogue and the Sale-A-Bration Brochure.

You are currently at my page - Stephanie Fischer, The Crafty Thinker.  At the end of my post there is a full line up of team members, please click on the name after mine in the list to continue the hop.
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Let It Ride horse image with Frosted Bouquet die and the Outside The Box technique
to look somewhat like a horse in a horsebox or stable
As soon as I saw this gorgeous horse image I knew I wanted to use it with the Out Of The Box technique.  Having gone through most of my dies I decided this  label from the Frosted Bouquet framelits was the best fit.  And then the shape of it made me think of a horse box, especially since I was left with the spare timber look rectangle after cutting the frame.

I continued the timber theme with layers of the Wood Textures Designer Series Paper, one of which I altered with some Whisper White Craft Ink and the new Crackle Paint stamp.

The horse is coloured with Stampin' Blends Alcohol Markers.

Since the first card I made didn't utilise any of the amazing freebies from the Sale-A-Bration brochure, I made the card below with the gorgeous foil sheets as a feature. 
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Shimmer everywhere with the gorgeous (and FREE with a $90 product purchase)
Grapefruit Grove and Lovely Lipstick Foil Sheet from the Sale-A-Bration Brochure
The butterfly is a leftover from this card and is black heat embossed on the Grapefruit Grove Foil Sheet and coloured with Stampin' Blends alcohol markers.  

Onto the Thick Whisper White base card I've layered Basic Black, a piece of the Delightfully Detailed Laser Cut paper with some of the Lovely Lipstick Foil Sheet underneath it.

Thank you so much for joining us today and we hope you'll join us again next month

I'm Stephanie Fischer and to keep hopping around see the list below to see who is up next with another great project.

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'Til next time!
Stephanie


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Wednesday 23 January 2019

Butterfly Gala on Wonderful Floral Label

Share What You Love Specialty Designer Series Paper and the Butterfly Gala Bundle - a match made in heaven!  Especially with a little of the Grapefruit Grove Foil Sheet thrown into the mix: the lustrous opalescence of the paper and the gorgeous shiny iridescence of the foil!  Neither of which shows up in my photos!
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Share What You Love SDSP, Butterfly Gala Bundle and Wonderful Floral Framelits
The butterfly was gold heat embossed on the foil sheet and then coloured in places with a Bermuda Bay Stampin' Blend alcohol marker before being punched out with the coordinating punch in the bundle.

The Grapefruit Grove Foil Sheet is available FREE until the end of March with any product purchase of $90.
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The Grapefruit Grove Foil Sheet gives the butterfly a beautiful iridescent shimmer 
To obtain the two-tone label, I cut two of them, one in Petal Pink  and one in Tranquil Tide.  Keeping all of the pieces intact in the green one, I glued it to the card front.  Having removed the little edge pieces from the pink one, I glued it on top of the green one.

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Stephanie

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Sunday 20 January 2019

Humming Along

My brain wasn't really connected when I made this card - (note to self: wait until after breakfast in future!) but I think I got away with it even though it wasn't what I had in the half of my mind that was awake!
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Buy the Humming Along stamp set and coordinating Hummingbird dies as a bundle to save 10%
This is the beautiful new Humming Along bundle.

What I had in mind was a stained glass effect on a piece of vellum, artfully arranged on a card front. So I started out by gold heat embossing the images and colouring on the back with Stampin' Blends alcohol markers.

It was at this point that my brain went into hibernation!  Instead of loosely and artfully arranging my piece of vellum, I put a piece of Multipurpose Adhesive paper on the back of the vellum and stuck it to a piece of Whisper White card.  I looked at it and thought - well, that was stupid, I might just as well have worked straight onto the piece of white cardstock!

The base card is Bermuda Bay with a layer of Calypso Coral - a colour combo that I love.

The greeting is stamped with Bermuda Bay ink and I used one of the dies in the coordinating Hummingbird Framelits set (buy the bundle to save 10%) to cut it out.

The cute little cut outs at each end of the label, to me, looked custom made for ribbon so I slipped it onto a piece of Grapefruit Grove Organdy Ribbon - one of the 5 colours in the combo pack that I got FREE from the Sale-A-Bration brochure.

If you'd like to know more about how to get FREE products during Sale-A-Bration (it ends on 31 March), click hereIf you'd like some catalogues (live in Australia and don't currently have a Stampin' Up Demonstrator), contact me.

Thank you for visiting
'Til next time!
Stephanie

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Friday 18 January 2019

Butterfly Gala Love

I wasn't sure, at first, whether I liked the butterly images in the Butterfly Gala Bundle.  Now I am sure - I LOVE them!
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The photo doesn't show off the gorgeous shimmer of the butterflies.
They're heat embossed onto Grapefruit Grove Foil Sheet and coloured with some Stampin' Blends
For these beauties, I black heat embossed the images onto some of the gorgeous Grapefruit Grove Foil (that I got FREE from the Sale-A-Bration Brochure with a $90 purchase - see how to do that here).

Before punching out the butterflies (TIP: save card by stamping in a horizontal strip), I coloured them in places with Stampin' Blends alcohol markers in Dark Lovely Lipstick and Dark Bermuda Bay.
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The Butterfly Gala Bundle meets the gorgeous All My Love Designer Series Paper

The greeting is stamped with Lovely Lipstick ink and the label dies are part of the Frosted Bouquet Framelits set.  

The base card is Flirty Flamingo and the white layer is embossed with the Garden Trellis Embossing Folder.  The Lovely Lipstick oval layer and All My Love Designer Series Paper are cut with the two largest Layering Ovals Framelits.

TIP:  For extra dimension, fold up the butterfly wings and pop mini dimensionals underneath the wings and glue dot in the centre to adhere to the card.

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'Til next time!
Stephanie

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