Birthday Blossoms #GDP008

Birthday Blossoms

This week I have entered into the Global Design Group Challenge -GDP008 which calls for us to CASE a beautiful card designed by Kylie Bertucci.

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I also entered the card into the Just Keep On Creating link up for November - anything goes

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 This is the card that I have made using the Birthday Blossoms stamp set.  The colours are So Saffron and Chocolate Chip with Whisper White

Birthday Blossoms for my entry to GDP008

 I stamped the background layer with the small flowers using So Saffron ink, stamped off first.  The flowers are stamped with Chocolate Chip onto So Saffron and watercoloured a little with Chocolate Chip.  The large flowers are punched out with the matching Pansy Punch.  The circular label is stamped with Chocolate Chip and sponged with So Saffron and Chocolate Chip.

I enjoyed making it so much that I decided to make some similar ones!

Until next time.

Masculine version using Guy Greetings Stamp Set

This one is Basic Grey & Soft Sky

Elegant Eggplant and Pink Pirouette

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Crazy Crafters Blog Hop October 2015 - Fun Fold

Welcome to the Crazy Crafters Blog Hop for October. This month we are excited to show off some amazing fun folds. We hope you find great inspiration from the projects.

You may just be starting the blog hop here at my blog - Stephanie Fischer, The Crafty Thinker - or you may have come from the person before me in the list. If you get off track at any time, the full lineup below will help you to move along from blog to blog so that you see all of the projects. At the moment you are visiting Stephanie Fischer, The Crafty Thinker.

I'm a bit in love with easel cards at the moment!  They're so easy but effective and they make a nice display for the lucky recipient of the card.  There are many good tutorials available for easel cards and I don't really know to whom I should give credit for this great fun fold but, whoever you are, thank you!

The colours in this easel card are Smoky Slate, Elegant Eggplant and Wisteria Wonder.   
 

Flurry of Wishes Easel Card

 For the snowflakes I used the Flurry of Wishes stamp set (from the Holiday Catalogue), stamping with Versamark onto Silver Foil and heat embossing with Silver Embossing Powder before punching out with the matching Snow Flurry Punch.  I then used Dimensionals to adhere them to the card and placed a Rhinestone Jewel in the centre of each one.

Closed position

The greeting is from the Lots of Joy stamp set (in the Annual Catalogue), which I stamped onto Smoky Slate card and cut out with the Tags & Labels Framelits.  I added a layer of Elegant Eggplant cut with a larger Tags & Labels framelit and placed it onto the card front with dimensionals.

To create the Elegant Eggplant label that supports the easel, I cut a rectangle and then made decorative ends using the Tags & Labels framelits and the method I described in this blog post.   

Symmetrical label from Tags & Labels framelits

I'd like to thank Sheri Pearson at Inkspirations for the inspiration and technique tutorial for the pillow top panel.  Click here to see her tutorial.   

Pillow top background inspired by Sheri at Inkspirations

Following Sheri's tutorial, I scored the pattern onto the Wisteria Wonder cardstock.  Then I folded each score line and inked both sides of the fold with Wisteria Wonder ink.

I layered this decorative panel on to Elegant Eggplant before adding it to my Smoky Slate Easel front.  Once all my elements were in place, I added a dab of Dazzling Details to each intersection of the lines.  I was rushing a bit and didn't do a very neat job but it doesn't seem to matter as much as I feared it would.  I'll do better next time!

I hope you've enjoyed this card and welcome your comments.

Thanks for taking part in our blog hop. Remember that currently you are at my blog - Stephanie Fischer - so check the blog hop line up list to see who is next in the list and click on their name as you don't want to miss out on seeing any of the blogs and the amazing inspiration they contain.

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