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Gleaming Christmas

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Weeeeeeeee! Another sneak peek of product from the Mini Catalogue which launches next week! Some of you may recognise the paper I have used in this project and that’s because it carried over from last year!

I absolutely adore this paper, every single pattern in the pack is gorgeous and I bought so much of it last year and used it for practically every gift I made boxes for. This year, I decided to make a box and mix it up with some other sets available. This box was made for my work colleagues last year, it housed trophies for award winners who had gone that extra mile for our customers.

The box is made up of two sections, the copper foil inner section and a wrap on the outer made from the Brightly Gleaming Speciality Designer Series Paper (DSP). I decorated the box with a copper foil tree using the Pine Tree punch and finished with touches of Night of Navy in the sentiment and ribbon.

It makes a gorgeous box and an item I would love to receive if made by someone else.

Best Wishes,
Suzanne

Colours Used:

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Measurements:

  • Designer Series Paper (DSP) = 111/2 x 21/4 inches
  • Copper Foil = 61/2 x 91/2 inches

Scoring:

  • Long Side (91/2): 21/4, 41/2, 63/4, 9 inches
  • Short Side (61/2): 21/4, 31/4 inches

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Way to Go!

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Some evenings, my children and I like to stamp images which can be coloured in with Stampin’ Up! blends and just spend some time colouring together. This card uses the ‘Moving Along’ stamp set and a set of images based on vehicles. We spent some time colouring them and adding bits of details such as tracks, roads and stars (which double up as steam from the train – because why not?!).

We cut the vehicles out separately and mounted them onto a base of Whisper White, but felt this would be too plain so introduced an additional layer of Bermuda Bay. Our card base is Real Red, which I think contrasts beautifully with the Bermuda Bay.

To finish the card off and give it a bit of dimension, we stamped onto Basic Black and heat embossed it in white. My boys went on to drop little stick men parachuting from their helicopter – which is so cute!

Are you a colouring person?

Best Wishes,
Suzanne

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Triangular Birthday

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I absolute LOVE basic shape punches and dies – even more so if the dies have a stitched edge. In the New Annual Catalogue, Stampin’ Up! introduced the Stitched Triangle dies and I absolutely adore them! Recently, a friend of mine decorated her daughter’s bedroom by masking triangles across a feature wall and using shades of pink and grey. It looks amazing and gave me inspiration for this card.

To make this, I cut out a lot of varying sizes of triangles in three colours – Petal Pink, Blushing Bridge & Smoky Slate, then brought them together like a jigsaw. The aim of the jigsaw was to avoid having two of the same colour next to one another.

I then added this jigsaw onto a Smoky Slate matt and then onto a Whisper White card base. For a bit of contrast, I added a ‘Happy Birthday’ sentiment heat embossed in white on Basic Black, offset to the right.

It’s amazing where inspiration can come from!

Best Wishes,
Suzanne

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Cylindrical Treat Box

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It’s not often that you see a Cylindrial box, in the almost 5 years that I have been a demonstrator with Stampin’ Up! I have seen plenty of cuboid, cubes, slopey lids, hexagons, octagons etc but very rarely have I seen a cylinder.

I like to challenge myself every now and again, so decided it was time to see if I could bring one together that could be replicated dozens of times. I’m happy to say that I think I’ve achieved this and not only is today’s project a cylindrical box, it is a flush lidded cylinder box.

The treat box uses one of the larger circles from the Layering Circles dies to help form the base and the lid, with a technique shown in my video to help curve the card and stop it from kinking. The box in the video is a Halloween version, but I just love the Christmas one in the photo above too.

The below tutorial was filmed during my TFI Crafty Friday Facebook Live, in which some of the measurements I listed were for a different size box.  To make a box the same as the image above you will need to follow the measurements lower down on this post.

Please have a go at making your own and if you have instagram, please tag them with #yourfavouriteyorkshiredemo or #hullahbaloo so that I can come see them!

Enjoy!

Best Wishes,
Suzanne

Measurements:

  • Cardstock:
    • 1 piece = 85/8 x 21/2 inches
    • 1 piece = 85/8 x 13/4 inches
    • 1 piece = 811/16 x 11/4 inches
  • Designer Series Paper:
    • 1 piece = ½ x 811/16 inches
    • 1 piece = 1½ x 811/16 inches
  • Die Cuts:
    • 4 circles = 23/4 inches
    • 1 DSP circle = 21/2 inches

Scoring:

  • Score both the 85/8 x 13/4 and 811/16 x 11/4 inches at ½ inch on the short sides.
  • Then every ½ inch on the long side with the ½ inch section at the top.

 

Patterns of Happiness

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Sometimes I have to remind myself of the acronym K.I.S.S (Keep it Simple, Stupid). When I sit crafting multiple cards in one session, I steadily get more and more complicated throwing every available product at the card base. I then have to remind myself to scale things back and keep it simple.

Today’s card is a great example of keeping it simple with just two colours making up the card theme – Night of Navy & Whisper White. Using the Playing with Patterns Designer Series Paper (DSP), I layered up two die cuts from the Hippo & Friends dies to make the sentiment the focal piece of the card.

I absolutely love the font used on the sentiment and so didn’t want to distract away from the message it gives. To finish off the card, I used the Night of Navy ribbon from the Playing with Patterns combo pack & some basic pearl embellishments.

Sometimes, it’s nice to keep it simple..

Best Wishes,
Suzanne

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