Step Fold Card Design for Colour INKpsiration Crew #CI71

Hello and welcome to this fortnights Colour INKspiration challenge #CI71  😊

If you missed it on the FB page then here is the Challenge Palette for #CI71

It's been a while since I have actually written a blog post. I decided to take a self imposed sabbatical from blogging, as I was finding it all far to time consuming and other areas of my Stampin' Up!® business were beginning to suffer.
When I realised this I decided to concentrate mainly on my home based classes and tutorials. Now I have my monthly classes running smoothly, I am finding I have a little spare time to write about what I am creating once again. 

I do hope you enjoy reading about my creations 😊

To create my card I decided on a super simple funfold step card design.

Tropical Birthday Card

#KOCreationscards #TimelessTropicalbundle #Birthdays #StampinUp #CardMaking #RepeatStamping #Crafts #DIY

Below I have added a quick graphic with the basic folding and scoring instructions for this simple step fold design.

Front View

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• Highland Heather Stampin' Blends Combo Pack - 147276
• Pear Pizzaz Classic Stampin' Pad - 147104
• Gray Granite Classic Stampin' Pad - 147118
• Gray Granite (from Neutrals Stampin Write Markers set) - 147158

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• Whisper White A4 Thick - 140490
• Pool Party A4 - 124391

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I do hope you have enjoyed my card project created using the colours for the #CI71 challenge and that you have been inspired to try these colours out for yourself.


I can't wait to see all of your gorgeous projects being shared over at the Colour INKspirations Challenges page on FaceBook.

Colour INKspiration is a facebook group dedicated to inspiring us to create and share with colour palettes chosen by the Design Team.

If you love creating with colour then this page is for you. 

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Thank you so very much for visiting with me today.

I invite you to share your thoughts about my project in the comment section below.

Have a wonderful crafty day 😍

Crazy Crafters blog hop with special guest Linda Cullen

Hello everyone 😊

Welcome to another Crazy Crafter's blog hop.
You are currently here with Kim Oliver - KOCreations Cards

Our special guest this round is Linda Cullen of Crafty Stampin'
Linda thank you for joining us and inspiring us all with your beautiful creations.



Here is my card project for today's hop.

Be Your Wonderful Self.

#KOCreationsCards #PostcardPals #RepeatStamping #StampinUp30 #Techniques #Workshop #PaperCraft #CardMaking #RubberStamping

I chose to showcase a super cute image from the Postcard Pals stamp set along with a couple of simple techniques - Repeat Stamping and Fussy Cutting.

Quite an effect from the repeat stamping don't you agree?

I simply adore how the coloured Pelican really pops off the page and sells that sentiment
 'Be Your Wonderful self'.

Here is the basic colour scheme I chose to use for my card..

Cherry Cobbler

Daffodil Delight

Smoky Slate

Sahara Sand

Pumpkin Pie

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Ink It! Stamp It! - Technique

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Welcome to another Ink It Stamp It blog hop. You are currently here with me Kim Oliver- KOCreations Cards. I have a list of the other talented blog hop participants closer to the end of this post.


Today we are focusing our energies on techniques.

Techniques are what all paper crafters use to creat their gorgeous projects with.
My technique today is repeat stamping.
 Repeat stamping can be as simple as stamping an image in the same colour as your card stock to give a textured look or as complex as creating your own Designer Series Paper (DSP).

I have chosen to create my own DSP to aid my creating of a card and gift box set. I have a video further down on this post of the basic box directions from Pootles (Sam) This is where I got the directions from.

Wishing You A Lovely Day

Gift Set

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The next 3 photo's show the steps I used to create my own DSP for the milk carton lid.

The stamp set I used is called Lovely Wishes and is a two step stamp set.
This stamp set is retiring very soon! You can purchase your set by clicking

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The colour I used are Basic Black (retiring), Berry Burst and Garden Green

Step 1

Stamp the images in your desired pattern.
If you aren't confident doing this the Stamparatus is a wonderful tool to aid positioning of your stamps and paper.
For me I just stamped my first image one way, turned my stamp around and stamped it as close to the first image as possible then repeated.

#KOCreationsCards #3Ditems #giftbox #repeatstamping #techniques #InkItStampIt #papercraft #cardmaking #StampinUp

Step 2

This step is part two of the two step stamp being put into use. 

Using Garden green I stamped the colours in the leaves.

I deliberately made sure that the colour could be seen by stamping twice, once int he image and again periodically outside the image.

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Step 3

For the last and final step (which is stall part 2 of the two step stamp set) I added the Berry Burst colour to the flower heads.

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Milk Carton topped gift box

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Below you can find the video from Pootles (Sam)
This is what I watched to learn how to create this adorable box from.





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Crazy Crafters Team Blog Hop

Hello everyone and welcome back to my blog 😊
Today I am hopping with the amazing Crazy Crafters crew.

I chose to use the Merry Patterns stamp set for my card . This stamp set is one EVERYONE can earn FREE just for hosting a party and reaching $450.00 in sales!
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And here is my card.

'Tis The Season

#KOCreationscards #Repeatstamping #Merrypatterns #Christmascards #Deer #Stampinup #Cardmaking #Wildlife #Nature

Repeat stamping is the technique used here today with a banner accreoss the centre of te card. Using  a similar image as the reapeated image (just with a sweater) as the focal really ties all of the card together.

Materials

• 1 x  A4 Sweet Sugarplum for card base & ribbon border.
• 1 x Powder Pink backing layer + scrap for sentiment.
• 1 x A4 Whisper White card front, inside and for sentiment and deer focal image.
• Merry patterns stamp set.
• Sahara Sand ink pad.
• Sweet Sugarplum ink pad.
• Powder Pink ink pad.
• Basic Grey ink pad.
• Decorative ribbon border punch.
• watercolour pencils.
• Paper snips.
• Rhinestones.
• Mini and standard size dimensionals plus multipurpose glue.

Basic Instructions .

1. Repeat stamp the plain deer onto a card front size piece of whisper white.
2. Layer onto a trimmed down piece of Powder Pink.
3. On the scrap piece of whisper white stamp the sentiment in Basic Grey, then stamp the inside sentiment decoration in Powder pink.
4. Stamp the focal deer image onto a scrap piece in Sahara sand then colour with Powder Pink.
5. Stamp the deer wearing the sweater in Sweet Sugarplum and fussy cut the sweater only.
6. Glue over the Sahara Sand deer and then fussy cut the whole image.
7. Punch two strips of ribbon border. Adhere to back of sentiment.
8. Trim sentiment to size and adhere to card front.
9. Add dimensionals to deer and mount into position.
10. Add rhinestones
11. adhere layers to card base.
12. For the inside repeat step 1 and 2 then 11

#KOCreationscards #Repeatstamping #Merrypatterns #Christmascards #Deer #Stampinup #Cardmaking #Wildlife #Nature

I entered this card into #CI18 Colour Challenge found on FaceBook.

The colours are Powder Pink, Basic Grey, Sahara Sand and Sweet Sugarplum.

#KOCreationscards #Repeatstamping #Merrypatterns #Christmascards #Deer #Stampinup #Cardmaking #Wildlife #Nature

To continue moving through the hop please click the name directly after mine.

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Thank you so very much for visiting my blog today.

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