Crazy Crafters Blog Hop with Tanya Boser

Welcome back to my blog everyone 😊

I apologise for being absent for much of this last week.
I have been flat out creating wedding invitations, I will share them a bit later on after receiving permisson from the bride and groom.

So, I have finally dinished those invites and now I am playing catch up and will be for a couple of weeks atleast hahaha.

Any who, moving right along!

Today I am hopping with the fabulous Crazy Crafters group and our special guest Tanya Boser
Tanya is currently part of the Artisan Design Team for Stampin' Up!

We are all CASEing a project of Tanya's

What is CASEing? 'Copy And Selective Edit' is one version and another is 'Copy And Share Everything'.

When I CASE for hops like this I feel it is important to share a photo with a link back to the original post, so that everyone knows where the inspiration came from.

Sometimes the end result is nothing like the original other times it can be alot like the project chosen.

You are currently here with me, Kim Oliver.
I have a list of all other participants towards the end of this post, just click the name after mine to cintinue through the hop.

Here is what I have chosen to CASE from Tanya's work for this hop.

 

As you can see Tanya loves to sew around her work I don't havce a sewing machine for paper projects so that is something that I won't be doing.

I chose to use the layout from Tanya's cards as I loved the simplicity of it..

Here is my card

Happy Birthday Boquet

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                                                    My card base is Thick Whipser White.

              I chose to create a water wash background on watercolor card stock using Daffodil                                                        Delight, Pumkpin Pie and Cajun Craze. 

When this was dry, I then stamped the leaves and gum nuts using the 'Happy Birthday Gorgeous' stamp set in Pumpkin Pie, the flower was stamped using Daffodil Delight and Cajun Craze. I also stamped the little party streamer in Cajun Craze alternately between the other images.

I stamped Happy Birthday also in Cajun Craze onto thick whisper white and cut it using the 3rd largest stitched circle. I placed this ontop of the vellum which was cut using sunflower shaped thinlit from the 'Eastern Medallion' thinlits set.

Adding 'To You' in the bottom right corner finished the card front nicely. 

Don't you agree?

Angeled and Inside View

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This card for me is like a ray of dried flowers laid out among the sunshine.
The colours I have chosen are warm and happy and it makes me smile just looking at it. 

I am going to pop this card into my personal B'day card stash, ready for those friends or families members who has a  b'day coming around soon 😉

To continue on through this fabulous hop please click the name after mine.

If you are looking to purchase any of the items I used for this project then please use the carousel below. It has all of the items and is linked directly to my store for your convenience.

Thank you so much for stopping by.
I do hope you enjoyed my project today.
If you have any questions, please ask them in comments below.
I always reply 😊

Flourishing Fairy Celebrations

Welcome back to my blog crafters

Today I am sharing a card made for a sweet little girl who is turning 7 on Thursday.

I created this card using the 'Fairy Celebration' stamp set mixed with 'Falling Flowers' stamp set and the matching May Flowers dies

Happy Birthday

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For the original card I chose to use the same colour as a layer as the colour I used for the flowers and spots.

I adored how this turned out. By adding a small flourish and flower to the top left corner inside the card  I carried the theme through nicely.

I loved it so much that when I had completed it I decided to make 3 more to put with and order for my outlet. I had been asked for a certain few cards and birthday cards for younger girls was one request.  These are perfect!

I also make cards for friends, family and of course my customers, just to say thank you 😍. 

Then there is the Random Act of Kindness cards too... A wonderful group I am part of that exists soley to bring a smile to others. We share ideas using current Stampin' Up! product and it is so much nicer to find a card in your ail box than a bill!. 

You join, add your name to the files and monthly event and then randomly select  a few names of a list of particpating people. Then send them out the cards, it's that simple! Oh the theme is ecouragement...not birthdays, christmas etc.. Only as some people don't celebrate these times and occasions.

Below you can see some of the steps that are taken to create these cards. I wrote a description for the steps under the picture.

Creating Steps

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1. Trim all cards stock to size and then stamp and die cut flowers.
2. Stamp images, then mask and daub colour inside masked area. I used Wild Wasabi for this.
3. Colour images...I coloured with a single colour at a time....moving through the images.  Once completed I added Clear Wink of Stella over the top of the flowers and Fairy wings. The cards are very sparkly IRL...I tried to capture it, but failed ...sorry.
4. Die cut the are previously masked. Then die cut out a scalloped oval in matching coloured card stock to flowers and spots. Also cut an oval in the diamond glitter paper.
5. Assemble layers.
6.  NOT PICTURED. I covered the fairy wings and spots with Fine-Tip glue.

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And here are all 4 cards together. 

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I hope you enjoyed these cards. 

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I have added then here for your convenience.

Three ink pad colours that I used are now retired, so if not available any more in store, they can be substituted with a similar shade. (retired colours were Cucumber Crush, Delightful Dijon and Watermelon Wonder)

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Thank you so much for stopping by today and I hope you found some inspiration.

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