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