Christmas Card Club Challenge - Sentiments

The weeks are ticking by and the festive season is fast approaching.  However the Christmas Card Club are getting organised with our fortnightly challenge.  This time Sylvie has asked us to create a card with the sentiment as the focal point.  I love simple and you don't get much simpler than kraft and white card stock.  I've used the Stampin Up stamp set Peace This Christmas to create a simple stamped frame for my sentiment from the same set.  Along the bottom I have gold embossed the border stamp and I've added a petite bow in the gold metallic edged ribbon which is wonderful for all sorts of cards and projects, especially Christmas.  There are the inevitable rhinestones for my bling festish too!  

I love the effect of layered stitched shapes on the layering circles dies which help to make the focal point sentiment 'pop'.  

Inks used are Stampin Up early espresso, garden green and craft whisper white pigment ink. 

Have a great Sunday and week ahead.  Mind out for the ghosts on witches on Tuesday. We've been invaded by cheeky, naughty spirits this weekend with my neice and nephews.  So much fun.  

Take care all

Zoe x

Totally Techniques Blog Hop - Embossing Paste Tutorial

Our Totally Techniques blog hop is sharing fun projects using Stampin Up embossing paste this month.  This is a card from a  recent Card Club class where we used the paste to make several fun cards and textures.  

I love the hot air balloon die from Up and Away thinlets and with the individual dies included to cut different back ground coloured pieces you can make some gorgeous balloons in any colour way you wish.  Here I've used bermuda bay, calypso coral and lemon lime twist.  

To add the paste is easy.  

1.  Put a small amount of paste onto a silicon mat using one of the set of three palette knives. 

2. Add some ink from a re inker bottle - JUST ONE DROP to start with. 

 3. Mix it in using the palette knife.

 4. Put your card stock underneath a mask and temporarily adhere the mask to your work space with painters masking tape and carefully spread the coloured paste where you want it to go, spreading it gently through the mask.

5. Once you have put all you want onto the piece carefully remove the masking tape and lift the mask.  Allow the paste to dry before carrying on with your project. 

To finish my card I added different matting layers and stamped a sentiment from the Stampin Up hostess set In the City and added some enamel stars and ribbon.

A bright, cheerful card that would suit girls and boys alike.

You can see another card we created using the paste at my card club with Stampin Up Lovely as a Tree.

Have fun on the hop and thanks for stopping by here.

1. Patrice Halliday-Larsen NZ

2. Nadine Weiner Germany

3. Shannean Moncrieff Australia

4. Zoe Tant   That's me here in the UK

5. Barbara Meyer Austria

Chocolate, Candy Dispenser - Thinking Outside of the Box - Design Team Blog Hop

Hi and welcome to the first ever blog hop from the Design Team that has it all Wrapped Up otherwise known as Thinking Outside of the Box.  We'll be sharing different boxes and wrap designs with you over the coming months.  We've had a few teething problems with our first run, but hope you'll be patient as we get into full stride. 

If you have come from Yoshiko's blog you'll have seen what a fabulous design she has shared along with the rest of the group this month we are sharing our versions of a chocolate, candy or sweetie dispenser.  Each designer has done a FREE tutorial for you to use.  I've made my box petite, just 7cm tall,  and have used one of may current favourite colour combinations of Lemon Lime Twist, Smokey Slate, Whisper White and Black.  I've used the Snowflake Sentiements stamp set from the Stampin Up Winter 2017 catalogue and my trusty Stampin' Up! paper trimmer.  

Continue the hop by clicking on the next button and go and see Annette's fabulous design.  

Thanks for joining us and do visit again. 

Thanks Zoe x

1. Shannean Moncrieff

2. Tanja Kolar

3. Yoshiko Endo

4. Zoe Tant   -   You're here

5. Annette Elias 

6. Dena Plummer Rekow

7. Sharlene Meyer

8. Beate Wacker

9. Aude Barbara

10. Barb Stewart

Christmas Card Club Challenge - Non Traditional Colours

Stampin' Up! Colourful Seasons for Christmas Craft

The lovely Carol has set our Christmas Card Club challenge this fortnight for a card that uses non traditional colours.  I've been paying with ink, water and salt on glossy card stock to create a funky background and although I've used green it isn't a traditional Christmas shade.  I absolutely love the Lemon Lime Twist from Stampin' Up! that came in in June this year.  It's so much fun to use and coordinates with so many others colours.  I shared my Craft Stamper first card last week using this colour with Berry Burst and Fresh Fig also new colours from Stampin' Up!.   

Today I've teamed the Lemon Lime Twist  with Basic Grey, Smokey Slate, white, black and hints of silver.  The snowflakes are die cut using the Seasonal Layers thin lits dies and I've used re-inkers to drop ink onto a water and salt mix painted over the glossy card stock.  

My sentiment is from an old retired set that fits just nicely onto the classic label punched shape.  A little ombre ribbon and some silver washi tape taken from the Cheers to the Years set and you're almost there.  A finishing touch of bling with traditional rhinestones and also new black rhinestones as let's face it we all know that snowflakes sparkle! 

Remember to visit Carol and the other ladies via the Christmas CC button above to see which colours they've used.  

Best wishes for a great week ahead

Zoe x

For all things Stampin' Up! including FREE papers click on SHOP

Challenges

Aud Sentiments - use and die cut and sentiment

Crafty Creations - Anything goes

Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge - ATG

Happy Little Stampers Challenge - ATG but Use a die

Autumn Creations for Moving Along with the Times

Painted Harvest from Stampin' Up! is just perfect for the theme chosen by me for Team As Moving Along with the Times challenge starting today. 

We'd love to see your designs with an autumn theme and you can see the rest of the design teams designs at MAWTT.  

These cards are all based on a simple design with slightly different 'tweaks' the ones below are smaller 9.9cm square cards that you can get 3 out of a sheet of A4 card.  

My favourite part is the copper trim bow.  The trim starts as a ribbon but once you've tied a bow you can 'tease' the threads apart to give it some body and more of a 3D appearance.  It can also be used to slide treats inside it.  

I hope you'll join us at MAWTT for this easy challenge with a wide open theme. 

Thanks for popping by.

Zoe x

Craft Stamper Magazine Designer with Stampin' Up! In Colors

Welcome to my blog, particularly if this is your first visit. I'll be sharing this and other cards over the next few days that I  designed for a very special project. If it's your first time here you'll see from the side bar and description that I'm an Independent Stampin' Up! demonstrator and the products used to create these cards can be bought in my ONLINE SHOP

Back in July whilst on the Stampin' Up! incentive trip I received an email from the editor of Craft Stamper magazine inviting me to design some cards for the November issue.  Well I did a happy dance, much to the amusement of my family.  I was so honoured to be asked and very excited at the prospect.

This is the first card I designed using the specified Stampin' Up! colours of Fresh Fig, Berry Burst and Lemon Lime Twist.  The November issue is on sale on tomorrow or if you subscribe you may have received your copy already this week,  and you can see all of my cards along with some designed by the editor.  You can also join in a giveaway if you buy the magazine, because Stampin' Up! have given ink pads to Craft Stamper for lucky people like you to try and win.

Craft Stamper is a multi-media style craft publication and so you'll see I've used different textures and techniques to create this card.

The background features the shaving foam technique and some heat embossing with copper embossing powder which really pops with this colour scheme.  I've used the Swirly Scribbles dies and Swirly Bird stamp set from Stampin' Up! to add some defined shapes and a sweet little hello from the set Tabs for Everything.  The Seaside  6 x 6 embossing folder made a perfect back drop for the card, but you'll see I used the de-bossed side of the card stock.

The copper trim and berry burst finely woven ribbon are the finishing touch.

Do come back and see more about my designs or nip to your local stockist of Craft Stamper Magazine for your own copy and the chance to enter the giveaway.  Alternatively you can go to www.craftstamper.com to buy a subscription, www.mags-uk.com for single print copies, digital copies from www.pocketmags.co.uk 


Thanks for visiting
Zoe x

Christmas Card Club - Make it Round

Here we go with our latest Christmas Card Club Challenge set by Valery.  She asked us to Make It Round, so here is my take on her theme.  I used my stampin' up! layering circle dies and the stitched shape framelits.

First I made a card base using the largest scallop circle die.  I cut and scored a card base in early espresso card. I made sure that the die was just over the fold at the top so that is didn't cut two circles, but a folded circle shaped card base.  I then added two rectangles one to the inside front and one to the outside back circle.

I added a stitched circle layer, followed by a foil snowflake and then a smaller stitched circle which I had stamped and embossed with copper powder using the fir branch stamp from Stampin Up Merry Patterns.

The sentiments are stamped in early espresso ink and a flourish from Stampin Up Snowflake Sentiments and some basic pearls as the finishing touch.

My tip for today is to invest in an embossing buddy which removes static and finger oils from your card stock before you stamp in versa mark for embossing hence avoiding unwanted specks of embossing powder on your design.  

I hope you'll visit our club members to check out their 'Make it Round' designs.  You can visit them easily by heading to the page detailed above Christmas CC.  

Best wishes for the week ahead and do pop back as I have some very exciting news to share this week.  

Hugs all  Zoe xx