Share What You Love - Love what you do

Stampin' Up! 2018 Incentive Trip to Alaska Blog Hop

Share What You Love Stampin' Up! Stamp Set is so pretty

Welcome to this monthly blog hop where we are sharing inspiration for the early release Stampin' Up! Share What You Love Suite.  It's a suite of products that are just gorgeous and so feminine.  You'll want to use them on lots of projects.

My cards today feature the Love What You Do stamp set and the new in colour Grapefruit Grove and the returning colour Mint Macaron.  Although this stamp set includes a stamp that could act as a water  colour wash image I've used an aqua painter on shimmery white card to create my own wash picking up ink from inside the lid of the ink pad.  Our new ink pads are not so easy to 'squeeze' to get onto the lid inside, but I've found that if place the closed pad face down on a firm surface and firmly push it to the table it works better than just squeezing in your hands.

I've also used the little floral shower stamp to add some tone on tone background stamping.  I've added gold thread wrapped around the stamped layer along with lace and some random mini gold sequins.  I very narrow matt layer of Grapefruit Grove sets the art work off, on the very vanilla card base which is approx 4.5inches square.

I used a staple to ensure the lace stayed in place as it's not easy to glue without making a mess or having sticky coming through but I wanted to cover the staples on each card so having fussy cut my gold embossed flowers I stuck them on with Stampin' dimensionals and added some baker's twine.  This started life as white but using a coffee stick I pulled the thread across the ink pad allowing the pressure of the stick on it to push the white twine into the ink and colour it.  You need to make sure you let it dry then before tying bows.

Using the same techniques I created the cards below, but brought in some Mint Macaron card for a slightly different look.  I also added sequin trim to these.

All these products are available this month as bundles put together by Stampin' Up! and each bundle has a bonus free gift included.  You can learn a little more about the products in the Stampin' Up! video below. 

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Enjoy the hop and thanks for stopping by here with me Stampin' Up! UK Independent Demonstrator Zoe Tant.

Hugs  Zoe x

Milk Carton Tutorial for Thinking Outside the Box Demo Blog Hop

It is time for the Thinking Outside of the Box blog hop team to share another tutorial with you. If you've not come across us before we are a group of global Stampin' Up! demonstrators who organise a monthly blog hop to share a personal version of a gift box or bag tutorial with you to give you lots of ideas and also in various languages so hopefully you'll find one that is good for you.  

If you're already on the hop you will have arrived from Yoshiko's fabulous example. Hasn't she done a great project.  If you've landed here first you'll be able to click through the next and previous buttons to continue with the hop. Thanks for joining us we hope our hop inspires you to create.  

Our theme this month is to share how to make our version of a milk carton holder including the cartons inside. I've made my really simply by adding 2, 4, 6, 8 boxes.  When I started crafting everyone talked about these boxes and I didn't understand what they meant and thought they must be something amazing and eventually i discovered that it's just a set of measurements for a very very simple box, so I hope you'll like this tutorial as one thing it is, is simple.

I've used some new sneak peek Stampin Up papers from the new Share What You Love Suite that will be released early next month to customers.  They are stunning with a shimmer that subtly catches the light on many designs in the pack. They are in the new annual catalogue, but the suite is being released early next month as a treat for us all.  The eagle eyed will also see the returning Stampin Up in colour Mint Macaron which was a favourite for lots of us and also Mossy Meadow another returner to the new Stampin Up colour offering out in June.  I'm putting a list together of all my customers who have shopped with me in the last 6 months ready to send out a copy of the new catalogue. Please contact me if you'd like one too.

I've made a tag using the Stitched Shape framelits and also the Layered Circle framelits.  I gently added Mint Macaron to a white stitched circle and then stamped images from the Love What You Do Stampin Up stamp set.  You'll see in the video and my pictures that I did the mini cartons in two colour ways and I'd love to know which you think suits the project best ie Mossy Meadow ink or Black ink with either white ribbon on the library clips or faceted gems (jelly tots as I call them).

Here's a closer look at the cartons. They are very simple and of course you can change the size for other projects and decorate in different ways.
Here are the templates I created to link with the video.

Milk Carton Base Template 

Milk Carton Handle Template

Milk Carton Support Bar Template

Now you're off to see Annette's tutorial and she is a whizz with colour and mixed media.

The hop list is also below to make it easy to follow.  

Thanks for visiting me today.  Let me know how you get on with the tutorial and share any extra tips you have for it for other crafters.  

More soon. 

Zoe x

1. Shannean Moncrieff (Australia) 2. Tanja Kolar (Germany) 3. Yoshiko Endo (Japan) 4. Zoe Tant ( United Kingdom) 5. Annette Elias (Netherland) 6. Sharlene Meyer (New Zealand) 7. Beate Wacker (Austria) 8. Aude Barbara (France) 9. Barb Stewart (Canada)