Sunday 25 February 2018

Crazy Crafters Blog Hop with Wendy Lee


Hi!

Welcome to our Crazy Crafters Blog Hop with special guest Wendy Lee!

Wendy is a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator from North Carolina and is very talented. I love her creations and I'm feeling very lucky to be hopping along with her today.

For todays blog hop, I decided to case this card that Wendy made recently.  I love how crisp and clean this card looks, with the white space and image stamped to the side. 


I decided to follow suit with my card but rather than use a patterned paper for the background, I dry embossed my cardstock using the Layered Leaves Embossing Folder.

For my stamped image, I used the large flower image from the Petal Palette stamp set and coloured it in using the Old Olive, Calypso Coral, Pumpkin Pie and Daffodil Delight Stampin' Blends.  As I wanted to keep this as the focal point of the card, I only added a little bit of colour behind the image, layering it onto a piece of Pumpkin Pie cardstock.


I chose a greeting from the Birthday Blooms stamp set to finish off the card.

I enjoyed making this card so much, that I made a few more, using different colour combinations and changing the layout slightly on some of them.


That's it for me today.  Thanks for stopping by.  I'd love to hear from you so please feel free to leave a comment!

The rest of the lineup is listed below, so don't forget to check out the other amazing creations the Crazy Crafters have put together to share with you!

Sarah

Sunday 11 February 2018

Crazy Crafters Blog Hop with Allison Okamitsu


Hi!

Welcome to another Crazy Crafters Blog Hop.  Today we're joined by special guest Allison Okamitsu who is all the way over in Canada.  I've been following Allison for a while as I love her card designs and style so I'm pretty excited that she's joining us today!

While I was browsing through Allison's blog, looking for a card to CASE (Copy and Selectively Edit), I came across this card.  I've seen a few cards lately where die cuts have been used to create the background and I really like the effect so I knew straight away that this was the card I was going to CASE.


To create the background for my card, I used Pink Pirouette cardstock and die cut a number of different size circles using the Layering Circles Framelits Dies and the 1-3/4" Circle Punch.  After working out their placement, I then adhered them onto another piece of Pink Pirouette cardstock and trimmed the cardstock down to size.


I then stamped the unicorn from the Magical Day Stamp Set and coloured it in using Stampin' Blends (Smoky Slate, Pool Party, Daffodil Delight and Pink Pirouette) before cutting it out using the Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies.

The 'happy birthday' greeting is from the Teeny Tiny Sentiments Stamp Set and I created a little banner for the greeting using the Classic Label Punch



Thanks for stopping by and taking a look at my creation. I would love to hear from you so please feel free to leave a comment!

Make sure you check out the rest of the blog hop as there's plenty more to see and lots of amazing creations to inspire you.  

Sarah