Deb Schultz: August 2023

Sunday, August 20, 2023

Shapes - Stamping with Friends Blog Hop

This hop with the Stamping with Friends group was a little bit left field for me. 😁

Our theme is "Shapes". Where do you start? Firstly to choose a shape - do I want to use squares or circles, stars, triangles...... hmmmmm.

I had used these cute turtles from the Sea Turtle stamp set for another project so thought that would be a good place to start. They are almost circles - so lets go with circles.

I kept this card quite simple and love the end result, so I'm now in the process of creating lots more to gift and to sell in my reception/office. Why not? Everyone who comes to stay for a holiday at our resort love our turtles - I'm hoping enough to take a card or two home with them 🐢🐢🐢

It all started with a circle cut from basic White Cardstock using the 2 3/8 circle punch. To add a little life to it, I just drew some dots and dashes with the Basic Black Stampin' Write Marker.

Pretty simple huh.

Make sure when you are using the stamps, you have the right sized block to work with 😂😂 I did only stamp the smaller turtle with this one and swapped to a larger one for the big turtle - but he was much bigger than I expected, so I will keep him for another card.

Now to stamp these little guys,you can use an ink pad or, like these ones, use the black stampin' write marker to colour the stamp, give it a little "huff and puff" and then stamp away. I've used the pool party stamp pad for the block turtle to add some colour.

Use your snips to fussy cut around the turtles and they are ready to go.

So I've stamped the sentiment in on the white circle in Crumb Cake ink and then used Crumb Cake, Copper Clay and Pool Party to stamp various sizes of circles on a piece of white cardstock cut to 14 x 10.5 cm. I also added a couple of star fish and another turtle to give it more of a beachy feel. Stamp off first so the colours are more muted and softer.

I wrapped the Natural Wavy Trim around the card front and attached it with the Stampin Seal (doesn't it look like a bit of rope - fits perfectly with the theme). I've attached the white card front to a piece of Pool Party Cardstock cut at 21 x 14.9 cm and scored at 10.5cm.

Use dimentionals to pop up the sentiment and I have glued the turtles to the front of the sentiment with Multipurpose glue and added a dimensional under the shell to add height as well. I added a couple of Iridescent Adhesive Backed Discs (coming soon) to complete the card.

I hope you like this very simple card. Make sure you pop over to my FB page and share your creations if you give it a go. I'd love to see them.

Hop on over to the nxt bolg now and see what other "shape" cards the talented group have created.

These are the supplies I have used to create this card. You can select any or all of them to add to your shopping cart if you would like to shop with me.

Product List

Pool Party A4 Card Stock

[124391]

$17.50

Basic White A4 Cardstock

[159228]

$18.50

Crumb Cake Classic Stampin' Pad

[147116]

$15.75

Pool Party Classic Stampin' Pad

[147107]

$15.75

Copper Clay Classic Stampin' Pad

[161647]

$15.75

Basic Black Stampin' Write Marker

[162481]

$6.25

Color & Contour Photopolymer Stamp Set

[154994]

$37.00

Cheerful Daisies Photopolymer Stamp Set (English)

[161290]

$44.00

Sea Turtle Photopolymer Stamp Set

[160500]

$37.00

2 3/8" (6 Cm) Circle Punch

[161354]

$39.00

Natural 1/4" (6.4 Mm) Wavy Trim

[161517]

$12.25

Paper Snips

[103579]

$19.25

Stampin' Seal

[152813]

$14.00

Stampin' Dimensionals

[104430]

$7.50

Multipurpose Liquid Glue

[110755]

$9.75

Add All to Cart

If you live in Australia and do not have a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator, please contact me at
creativejunction@bigpond.com
I would love to help you with your creative discoveries.

Reach out if you would like a copy of our new catalogue - products go on sale very soon.

Cheers
Deb

Saturday, August 19, 2023

Summer - Ink Stamp Share

Its that time again, another hop with the Ink Stamp Share group and the theme this month is "Summer".

I know we are in the middle of winter here in Australia, but it doesn't matter what time of the year it is, there is always time for the beach.

For us here in Australia, summer means sand and surf and if you live where I do, the sea turtles are either coming in late to lay eggs, or the babies are hatching and we can watch them make their way back out to the big wide ocean. So of course, thats where this theme has led me.

This card looks super complicated, but it really doesn't get much easier. I have used one sheet of Basic White cardstock. Half of it for the card base (and you can do this either horizontal or vertical) - cut the cardstock in half then score half way along the longest side. I have gone with 21 x 14.9 cm scored at 10.5 cm. From the remaining piece of white, I have cut a remaining piece of white as a panel measuring 14 x 10.5 and then used the last section for my turtles and sentiment.

The Happy Birthday sentiment is from the Artistically Inked Stamp Set and the turtles are from the Sea Turtle Stamp Set.

To create the dots I have used the Colour and Contour Stamp Set and the crumb cake ink, stamping randomly until it appears to be sand and pebbles on the beach (on white and crumb cake cardstock).

Using the same stamp, I stamped with versamark randomly and used white and then clear embossing powder on the white, crumb cake and vellum. The vellum and crumb cake have been torn to resemble waves and water.

I chose a piece of blue paper from the Masterfully Made Desinger Series Paper. Again, I have torn the edges so I could layer them up a little to give the illusion of waves rolling in on the beach. I layered the bottom pieces using the Stampin' Seal and then a few extra layers with dimensionals.

From a different angle to show you the layers.

I stamped off the turtles in Pool Party Ink and fussy cut them with a pair of Paper Snips and tucked them under the edge of "water" to look like they were coming out on the sand. A couple of the Faceted Gems (soon to be released) to finish the card.

I hope you enjoyed this simple yet fun card. Give it a go - you will love it.

Now hope along to the next card and enjoy learning some great ideas.

Product List

Basic White A4 Thick Cardstock

[159230]

$15.75

Crumb Cake A4 Card Stock

[121685]

$17.50

White Vellum A4 Card Stock

[106584]

$17.50

Masterfully Made 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper

[161192]

$21.75

Artistically Inked Cling Stamp Set

[154542]

$42.00

Color & Contour Photopolymer Stamp Set

[154994]

$37.00

Sea Turtle Photopolymer Stamp Set

[160500]

$37.00

Pool Party Classic Stampin' Pad

[147107]

$15.75

Versamark Pad

[102283]

$16.75

Basics Embossing Powders

[155554]

$32.00

Heat Tool

[129056]

$54.00

Paper Snips

[103579]

$19.25

Stampin' Seal

[152813]

$14.00

Stampin' Dimensionals

[104430]

$7.50

Add All to Cart

Cheers
Deb

Sunday, August 13, 2023

Colour Combo Blog Hop August 2023

Hi everyone, this time round I am hopping with the Colour Combo Group and you will see some truely stunning cards using the chosen colours - Blueberry Bushell, Calypso Coral and Lemon Lime Twist. I have to admit, when I first saw the combination I did screw my nose up a little - "what are they thinking?" - lol. But with a little bit of thought and playing with addition colours, I actually love where this choice has taken me. They are not colours I would normally consider working with on one project.

And here's a little sneak peak of my finished project. They actually all work really well together.

So I started with the 3 basics, and added 3 more - the Basic white, Granny Apple Green and Petal Pink. The extra colours just helped to bring it all together. The Blueberry Bushell is the base for my card so I cut it to 21 x 15 cm and scored on the long side at 10.5 cm. The white is cut to 14.1x 9.7 cm.

I started with the Bough Punch and cut a couple of stems in both the Lemon Lime Twist and the Granny Apple Green.

I cut a circle from the top centre of the Basic White Cardstock using the 2 3/8 circle punch.

I have used the Multipurpose Glue to adhere the white panel to the card base, then used the happy birthday sentiment from the So Refreshing Stamp Set using Versamark Ink, White Embossing Powder and my trusty Heat Tool. I love the effect embossing gives, so I use it a lot.

From there I wasn't really sure where to go with this card so I hauled out my Cut and Emboss Machine and cut a whole pile of flowers from the Paper florist Dies in both Petal Pink and Calypso Coral.

I used lots of the smaller dies from the same set to cut the centres for the flowers in white and Lemon Lime Twist. Normally I would have used yellow, but have you ever sat and really studied the centres of flowers? Some of them are actually green, so I thought I'd give it a try.

I started to gently bend and shape the flowers and laid them all out to see how the colours would work together, and once I was satisfied, I started to stick them altogether. I like to use the Multipurpose glue for this so I can move the pieces around a bit to make sure they are perfectly centred.

I've added a few little butterflies and this is the end result - I love it. If I were to do it again, the only thing I would change would be to use an embossing folder on the white to add a little more texture to the card.

Product List

Here is a list of all the products I have used. If you are in Australia and would like to create the same project, please feel free to shop with me by adding your selected items to your shopping cart.