ESAD BLOGHOP! New Blackberry bliss!

Welcome to my step on the ESAD blog hop!!!!

I  couldn't decide which stamp or product to feature so I have a collection of creations in the new in colour: Black Berry Bliss! - Enjoy.

My first project uses the Choose Happiness stampset. It's a lovely set for layering and collaging. 

This is almost a monochrome of Blackberry bliss and white.

 I just love the new ribbon and the vintage lace together. Then I've added some glimmer paper flowers. Three of them are coloured with the rich Razzleberry Blendabilities pen.

My second project is this crumb cake card with the Moonlight DSP (designer series paper) stack. Featuring blackberry bliss ribbon.

I have used the new stamp set called "Tap,Tap,Tap".

Can you see that I have coloured my image with a blender pen in Blackberry bliss ink?

The *note* stamp has a piece of patterned paper on it punched with the Banner punch.

 It needed some bling I thought, so I just sparkled a few diamantes across the page... 

Did you know you CAN use Blendabilities to colour your Rhinestones and buttons too?

Next project is stamped using a gorgeous new set called "Work of Art".

This idea is on Pinterest and You tube (stamp with jodi).

 She uses the brush stroke stamp as a petal for this flower.

I actually like the white negative effect created in the centre of the flower, around the yellow circle.

Then the second card I've just stamped more petals cause "more is more" isn't it?

On this I just love the shadow effect of the second generation, stamped off ink around the edges.

Have you guessed - my favourite Incolour this year is Black Berry Bliss? A deep amazingly beautiful purple that can give you dark to light purples all from the one pinky-purple ink pad or marker.

Look how the gradation of colour changes by the fourth generation of stamping off on the same piece of paper. This card is stamped with the wavy lines from "Chalk lines" and the bike is from Life's adventure.

That's it from me today, your next stop on the hop is... Richelle Fletcher at

http://www.stampingwithrichelle.blogspot.com.au/

What is ESAD?

ESAD stands for "Extra Special Australasian Demonstrators" and is a facebook group

just for Australian and New Zealand Independent Stampin' Up! demonstrators.

We love what we do & love to share with our customers, friends and

blog visitors. We also share what we love in our ESAD Demonstrator community, through swaps, challenges, sharing knowledge, ideas& friendship

and we're always there to help and support each other.

So if you are a Stampin' Up! demonstrator located in Australia or New Zealand then please feel free to leave me a comment with your email address then I'll contact you with information on how to join our group.”

Here's the list of blog hops from start to finish:

1.   Emily Campbell

www.tinykiwicards.blogspot.co.nz 

 

2.   Kelli Gordon

www.kelliskards.blogspot.com.au 

 

3.   Sharlene Meyer

 www.magpiecreates.com 

 

4.   Delys Cram

www.delysc.wordpress.co m

 

5.   Keryn Campbell

www.kerynscards.com 

 

6.   Monique Fielder

www.stamping-with-moni-q.blogspot.com.au 

 

7.   Kathryn Ruddick

 www.katlodesigns.com 

 

8.   Narelle Hoggard

www.handmadebynarelle.wordpress.com

 

9.   Ann Gerlach

 www.discoversu.com 

 

10.   Libby Dyson

 www.libbystampz.com 

 

11.  Kelly Kent

www.mypapercraftjourney.com 

 

12.  Amity Knight

 www.stampinamity.com.au 

 

13.  Christie Kunkel

www.christiescreativecorner.blogspot.com 

 

 

14.  Louise Layton

 www.inkyloulou.blogspot.com.au

 

15.  Andrea Buckland

www.creatingcardswithandrea.blogspot.com 

 

16.  Yvonne Walker

www.yvonnescreativecorner.blogspot.com  

 

17.  Sally Williams

 www.sallystampingdelights.blogspot.co.nz  

 

18.  Debbie Lamb

 www.debstampinstyle.blogspot.co.nz 

 

19.  Nerida Carter (your here now)!

www.stampingjoy.blogspot.com 

 

20.  Richelle Fletcher

www.stampingwithrichelle.blogspot.com  

 

21.  Norelle Targato

www.rellspaperink.wordpress.com

 

22. Rochelle Blok

www.rochelleblok.blogspot.com.au

 

23.  Clare Mcilhatton

www.crafty-cow.com

 

24.  Tracy Speight

www.handmadewarratahstree.blogspot.com.au

Life's Adventure with my new stampin' up! catalogue

 Do you have a copy of the new Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue yet?
Every day that I am home I have set myself to make atleast one card from new products from the catalogue. This card is using a very cute set from the hostess section of the catalogue called Life's Adventure. It features this funny little fox holding an umbrella and it says Everyone has a rainy day!
So true. Not everyday is sunshine and happiness. Its a lovely thought that kind of says I am thinking of you and feel what you are going through.

The Moonlight paper stack has 48 sheets of patterned paper, card front sized and I thought this one particularly suitable. The colour is Lost Lagoon (a 2014-16 in colour) and this beautiful satin ribbon goes wonderfully with it.
Mr fox is stamped with new Memento Black ink and coloured with my latest purchase Blendabilities. There are quite a few how to videos on YouTube. They are alcohol based marker pens that blend beautifully on whisper white paper. I even tried it on water colour paper and they are fabulous on it too. They come in sets of three colours together in a box for $20 in a wide range of great Stampin' Up! colours.

Want to try the blendabilities? we can have a class at your place.

Give me a call or a text on 0468 877 125 and we can organise a class at your place.

Friday's card class

Last Friday, we had a second catalogue launch.

We made three projects: a bag with gift tag, a card using Kinda Eclectic 

and a post it note holder using the gorgeous new BlackBerry Bliss In-colour 

with the Flamingo Lingo stamp set. ($3 of this stamp set go towards Ronald McDonald 

house charity -check out the last page of the catalogue).

I am loving this Flamingo Lingo in pink, in purple, or for a babycard that I made this week.

Mini Photo book

Inspiration for this project came from a gift I received a while ago from Felicity Hawkins. I enjoyed making this inspiration photo album for a friend who loves her animals, bikes, dogs and horses.

The front and back covers are made with 6"x6" cardboard and wrapped with patterned paper.

The inside pages are black cardstock decorated with quotes and scrapbooking papers with room to add your own photos.

 I have stamped images from the Horse Frontier and Feel Goods over the top of the Designer series paper and a few gorgeous grunge mud splatters too.

To hold it closed I've used some Baked Brown Sugar stretched ruffled ribbon. The flower is made with tissue paper and brown paper and smooched with gold ink.

Would you like to make a version of this as a class at your place? All products can be ordered through my online store at Stampin up! Or by emailing me Nerida_carter@hotmail.com

A Christmas star burst

I do love a non Christmas coloured card and this season stampin' up have brought out a paper stack in Bermuda bay, coastal cabana, island indigo, pool party and smoky slate.

The colours of a winter frost ...think the bottom of a deep freezer, ice crystals forming on frozen packets of ice creams.

But this is a cool Christmas card right?

So I'm thinking of a night sky and rising stars over a coastal cabana sea.

I made three cards from just a few card sized pieces of patterned paper.

A stack of 48 pages is only $11.95 and each page is sized for card fronts.

I finished my cards off with a piece of Burmuda bay taffeta ribbon and a silver glimmer paper star.

The star punch is one of a three piece punch set which is carried over from the Autumn catalogue.

Launch party projects

Here's one of the projects we made at my launch party on Friday night.

It's a cute little gift box resized to fit a t-bag and chocolate bar...

Inside we found enough room for a picnic ( or chocolate of your choice) and a t-bag or coffee sachet and slid in an after dinner mint too.

I am showing off one of the new designer series paper packs on this one - 

The epic day this and that papers. The colours are Calypso Coral, Pool party, crumb cake, gumball Green, Daffodil Delight, Basic grey, vanilla and white.

We added a clay flower to the front of our box with a few dabs of two way glue pen. And as you can see below the white clay flowers can be coloured with our classic inks. Either before you put the clay in the mould or after its dry. So your embellishments will match your in colour and cardstock every time.

I just love that! And they are great with a coat of crystal effects as well.

At launch parties it's quite a rush to get through three projects in as many hours. But when you think that these cards only take ten minutes each to make there's  a lot of talking, sharing and meeting new people going on.

We used two new stamps - Label Love (that you can get for 15% off if you buy it in a bundle with the matching punch).

Happy Day - a stampset with fabulous rosettes for backgrounds  and fit nicely in many of our punches.

 

Thanks for dropping in for a look... Give me a call and we can make some of these cute boxes at your place.

Place an order of $50 or book a party with me in July and receive a new catalogue and gift from me,

Or I can post one direct to you anywhere in Australia for $10. (includes postage).

My Convention swap cards

 

 This year I only made ten cards to swap at Convention. With 700 women who are potential friends to swap with I swapped mostly with people I know. I used a design I'd come up with using my favourite technique at the moment called thumping with markers.

 No two of my cards ever turn out the same especially with the thumping marker technique, I love how the colours flicker on the Swallowtail butterfly stamp.
Then I stepped it up by creating a 3D effect with layering a second butterfly wing on top. Time consuming but worth it! Really love these colours together: Elegant eggplant, Island Indigo and Gumball Green with a touch of Wisteria Wonder.

Here are some of the swap cards I received - I am so pleased to share these with you. I always enjoy the personal touch stampers have when they share how they made their card and what they feel about it.

 Karen Pinkerton - How gorgeous is this red glimmer paper dress contrasting with the black Stippled blossoms? And the scallopped edgelit behind is just a lovely touch.

 Michelle Walker - I love the Everything Eleanor blossoms in Soft Suede against the patterned Poetry paper. And the sentiment is also one of my favourites.

 Vanessa Webb has created a hybrid card using My digital studio - Isnt it professional and effective?

And on the other side is the handmade hand stamped tag with a bottle top embellishment.

I might prefer the handmade side, but if you were making invitations or thank you cards in large numbers the My digital studio is definitely a contender ... I am going to try these out, perhaps for business cards and Thank you cards!

Tanya Mulhall - using Secret Garden and the Curly label punches works so well with the delicate lace design at the bottom, so pretty!

 Michelle Johnstone silver heat embossed her swallowtail and used a Designer builder brad from page 12 of the Season Catalogue. (retires on 30 June!!!)

 Anne Farrar shared this great colour chart showing the different effects you can get with two step stamping the Stipple Rose.

Cheere Robinson - Take a close look the Lattice die cut in Timeless Portrait Fabric. This really looks stunnning against the Pretty in Pink Cardstock. (The fabric and Pretty in Pink are retiring at the end of June).

More to show you tomorrow!

Just thinking...

That's the name of this single A la carte stamp. "Just thinking..."
It says: Thinking of you - Friend.
Do you ever send cards to friends with a photo or letter inside?
This one fits beautifully in a circular punch or framelit.
To create the coloured words I inked up the stamp rubber with my coloured markers.
Midnight Muse, Gumball green, Raspberry Ripple, Summer Starfruit and Primrose petals.
Behind the sentiment I have cut strips of patterned paper from various papers and layered a Bitty butterfly punch with pearls on top.

A new trifold card - Artistic Etchings

At crafters anonymous class on Monday night we created with a great new card fold.
I decorated mine with Artistic Etchings stamps and Fan Fair patterned paper.
Here is the front all decorated with stamps, punched butterflies, die cut sentiment, doilies and fussy cut  Eiffel tower (with pearls).

I felt so artisitic decorating the blank canvas with my favourite stamps and patterned paper.
It is made with just one piece of double sided patterned paper. Eight inches by 12 inches and cut diagonally in half. This card will be going to a very special friend... I think.

Card Recipe:
Stampset: Artistic Etchings, Memorable Moments.
Designer series paper: Fan Fair
Paper Doilies
Cardstock: Very Vanilla.
Ink: Basic Grey, Crumb cake, Versamark.
Embossing powder: Pool Party. Heat tool, Big shot, Labels collection framelit Die,
Elegant Butterfly and Itty butterfly punches, Pearls, Stampin' Trimmer, dimensionals.

And here it is from the back, showing the very vanilla stamped panel to write your message on the back. Here I added some scallop circles and an embossed Eiffel tower (avec pearl).

Paper doilies and butterflies

 I know who would have thought Paper doilies would come back into fashion?
But the crafting world is going all vintage and there are many different ways to go vintage.
Grungy, Pretty, old world, shabby chic, monochrome... and colours too.

 On this card I have used a mix of products from the Autumn mini catalogue or Seasonal catalogue (for those northern climes who arent experiencing our beautifully warm Autumn) and some Saleabration products too.
I let the "Sycamore street" Designer series paper set the colour mood for this card.
It has lots of Pool Party ink and sponging (just love this pretty minty blue) and Island indigo to stamp the bicycle (from Feeling sentimental stampset)  and Happy birthday sentiment.
Love these little butterflies? I have punched them from the sycamore street paper (FREE during saleabration) using the Bitty Butterfly punch.
 The doily stands on its own no sponging needed, just layered on the naturals white cardstock.
Makes me think of cups of tea and butterfly cupcakes at my aunties country house in Scone...

Warning: Feeling sentimental stampset and Sycamore street papers are only available during SALE-A-BRATION which ends on 22 March and these FREE with order items won't be available again.
You can place an Order by emailing me at nerida_carter@hotmail.com.