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

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Friday, 4 August 2017

Sunset Flamingo

This card is entered into the Crazy Crafters Team Highlights this week. To view all the amazing projects and vote for your favourites, click here.

A week or so ago, I used up some stray Melon Mambo and Pacific Point ink on my craft mat by spritzing with water and smooshing some pieces of Glossy Cardstock into the resulting puddle. This is one of those pieces. It was probably my favourite one because of the pink cloud.

#crazycraftersprojecthighlights, Fabulous Flamingo, Watercolour Background, Glossy Cardstock, #thecraftythinker, Stampin' Up Australia Demonstrator, Stephanie Fischer, Sydney NSW

Watercolour background on Glossy Cardstock sets off the Fabulous Flamingo image

To finish the card, this is what I did:

Stamped the water swirl with Pacific Point ink
Using Elegant Eggplant ink and two of the three stamps for the flamingo body (I didn't use the plain one)
Masked one of the feet and stamped the legs with Elegant Eggplant (both stamps)
Watercoloured a little Whisper White Craft ink in the top part of the "water"
Stamped the tall grass with Elegant Eggplant ink
Watercoloured a little Melon Mambo ink into the Flamingo body
Sponged some Elegant Eggplant ink onto the bottom of the piece
White heat embossed the greeting from Blooms & Wishes onto Basic Gray cardstock, cut it out with one of the Leaflets framelits dies, trimmed it to fit onto the side of the card and sponged the edges with Elegant Eggplant ink
Cut some more foliage with an Eclectic Layers Thinlit die from Smoky Slate cardstock and sponged the edges with Basic Gray ink.
Adhered the leaves to the card with Mini Glue Dotes and added a Glitter Enamel Dot

Thank you for visiting.
'Til next time!
Stephanie

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Sunday, 4 June 2017

Crazy Crafters Blog Hop with Special Guest: Holly Stene

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

http://hollyshobbs.blogspot.com.au/2016/09/whisking-you-sweetest-birthday-yummy.html

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.

To research for this Blog Hop, I delved into Holly's blog posts and was enjoying the experience so much that, before I knew it, I was back to September! At that point I decided I must call a halt to looking and start creating!

Since Holly had gone to the trouble of creating two cards for her project, I decided to follow suit and made a masculine and feminine version although, it has to be said, they look quite different.

Colorful Seasons Bundle, Vintage Leaves, Masculine card, #thecraftythinker, Stampin' Up Australia Demonstrator, Stephanie Fischer, Sydney NSW

Colours and design elements make this card suitable for masculine recipients

The masculine card starts with a Cajun Craze base onto which I layered some Pick A Pattern Designer Series Paper and a strip of Wood Textures paper.

I overlapped a couple of circles cut with the largest circular Stitched Shapes framelit from Crushed Curry and Cajun Craze cardstock and added some leaves. The largest leaf was heat embossed in gold onto Basic Black cardstock with an image from the Vintage Leaves stamp set and cut out with the matching Leaflets framelit. The remainder of the leaves are stamped in versamark with the detailed image in the Colourful Seasons stamp set and heat embossed with Copper, Gold and Silver onto Silver Foil, Basic Black and Copper Foil respectively before cutting with the matching die from the Seasonal Layers Thinlits. The final addition was the little bow using stretched out Copper Trim.

TIP: Purchasing the stamp set and dies as the Colourful Seasons Bundle gives a saving of 10%

The "For You" greeting is from the Tabs For Everything stamp set. I stamped it with Basic Black onto Crushed Curry cardstock then punched it out with the 3/4" circle stamp and layered it, offset, onto Cajun Craze cut with the 1" circle punch.

The Autumnal theme continues inside the card

The greeting inside the card is from the Happy Birthday Gorgeous stamp set and the two-step leaf from the Colourful Seasons set is stamped in Crushed Curry and Cajun Craze (which I stamped off first to reduce the intensity).

Daisy Delight Bundle, Swirly Scribbles, #thecraftythinker, Stampin' Up Australia Demonstrator, Stephanie Fischer, Sydney NSW

A bright a cheery card using the Daisy Delight Suite of products and a Swirly Scribble

The feminine card starts with a Crushed Curry base (left over from my indecision as to which colour base card to use for the masculine card, if I'm honest!) to which I added two layers of Delightful Daisy Designer Series Paper and a strip of Pool party cardstock to which I added some Night of Navy lines drawn with a Stampin' Write Marker.

To echo the swirly motif of the paper, I cut some Night of Navy cardstock with a Swirly Scribbles thinlit. I also cut just the centre of the thinlit from some Pool Party cardstock.

I stamped two daisies in Old Olive onto Whisper White cardstock using the Daisy Delight stamp set and watercoloured with Daffodil Delight and (a tiny touch) of Night of Navy ink. Once cut with the matching Daisy punch, I layered them together and added a Gold Faceted Gem to the centre.

TIP: Purchasing the stamp set and punch as the Daisy Delight Bundle gives a saving of 10%

A stamped version of the daisy appears on the inside of the card

I used the same greeting inside the card, this time stamped in Night of Navy ink and reproduced the flower in the corner by stamping once with the Old Olive ink, rotating the stamp and stamping again (re-inking inbetween).

I hope you've enjoyed these cards and I welcome your comments.

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Thanks for visiting
'Til next time
Stephanie

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Daisy Delight Photopolymer Bundle

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Colorful Seasons Photopolymer Bundle

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Happy Birthday Gorgeous Photopolymer Stamp Set

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Delightful Daisy Designer Series Paper

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Monday, 27 March 2017

Vintage Leaves meet Rose Wonder

This card emerged from my continued experimentation with Emboss Resist and inky layers , however, it wasn't an easy birth! Some cards come into existence easily, gracefully and in an ordered manner - which can't be said of this one! This card emerged, kicking and screaming, in the breach position!

Vintage Leaves, Masculine card, Awesomely Artistic, Emboss Resist, #thecraftythinker, Stampin' Up Australia Demonstrator, Stephanie Fischer, Sydney NSW

Vintage Leaves, Rose Wonder and Awesomely Artistic

Not happy with the way things were going, I kept changing plans and trying different things, so it's hard now to remember exactly what I did and in which order!

I can tell you that I started with Shimmery White cardstock. I inked the top leaf with Versamark and Cajun Craze inks, stamped it and clear heat embossed it. After sponging on colour, I used the Embossing Buddy and then sponged Versamark all over the leaf. After adding the embossing powder, I cleaned away any excess from the edges of the leaf with a clean, dry paint brush then used the heat tool.

The next step was to sponge the entire card with yellow ink - it looks to me like I may have started with a lighter yellow (maybe So Saffron or Daffodil Delight?). I would have let the ink dry and then given it a very thorough wiping with the Embossing Buddy.

Using Versamark, Emerald Envy ink and a different leaf stamp, I then repeated the process I used for the for the first leaf - stamping, clear heat embossing, adding colour, wiping with the embossing buddy, adding versamark all over the leaf, adding embossing powder, removing excess with a paint brush, heating. I would have done that for each leaf.

I sponged and stamped with a variety of inks and cut around the leaves before adhering the panel to a Cajun Craze card that I made to fit the panel.

The leaves are popped up on small pieces of adhesive foam

I made a label with Crushed Curry card, Cajun Craze and Basic Black inks, the Rose Wonder stamp set and matching framelit and popped it up on Stampin' Dimensionals.

Another autumnal leaf appears inside the card

Thank you for your visit.
'Til next time!
Stephanie

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Friday, 25 November 2016

Lovely As A Copper Tree

This masculine card is for a friend of ours who loves nature and has a beautiful garden. Unfortunately, I struggled with the photography with the gorgeous copper shine and I have to say that the card is much more handsome in person!

This card is entered into this week's Crazy Crafters Project Highlights which you can visit here to see all the great projects and vote for your favourites.

Stampin Up, #thecraftythinker, Lovely As A Tree, Vintage Leaves, Masculine, Copper, Stampin Up Australia Demonstrator, Stephanie Fischer, Sydney NSW

All things copper - foil sheet, embossing powder & metallic thread

My all-time favourite stamp from Lovely As A Tree is heat embossed with the gorgeous copper embossing powder. I filled the foreground by wrapping Copper Metallic Thread around the card many times. I stamped the leaf image onto Copper Foil Sheet with Stazon ink. The banner is from the Thoughtful Banners stamp set and is stamped in Basic Black ink onto Very Vanilla cardstock (although it has come out looking a bit white in the photo).

Thank you for visiting.
'Til next time!
Stephanie

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