Hi everyone, and welcome to another Stamping
Sunday Blog Hop. For those of you who are unfamiliar to the Stamping Sunday
Blog Hop, it is a hop hosted by the extremely talented Sara Levin and features so
many amazing demonstrators from across the globe.
This time of year is my favourite for papercraft,
can you guess why? If you guessed it was because it is the Stampin’ Up! Holiday
Catalogue sales period then you would be correct. Now for most of those non-crafty
people out there, it may seem ridiculous to be thinking about Christmas craft
in September but I think the most of you guys would agree that it’s the perfect
time to make a start. To help you all with your Christmas crafting plans the
Stamping Sunday team are sharing projects featuring a new product from the Holiday
Catalogue, the Mercury Glass Acetate.
Confession time, normally as part of this
blog hop I’d be sharing three projects with you, one each for a beginner,
casual or avid crafter but when creating these I felt that there was something
about the Mercury Glass Acetate that ramped up a beginner project to a casual
level and a casual card to an avid level so I left it at two project for today
This first project was designed for a
beginner level in mind. I chose to use the Mercury Glass Acetate as a
background for this card, adhering with Tear’n’tape and being careful to place
the adhesive where it will be covered by the top layers. I took my colour cues
from the plaid patterned banner from the Wrapped in Plaid DSP and thestamped
ornaments and sentiment from the Christmas Gleaming Stamp Set in Night of Navy
and Shaded Spruce. Lastly, to tie is the Real Red in the DSP I added a length
of Real Red Cotton Ribbon.
This second project was more geared towards
the Casual-Avid crafter. I chose to stick to the same, very versatile layout as
the first card and I also stuck with the same Wrapped in Plaid DSP and
Christmas Gleaming Ornaments. However, this time I used the Mercury Glass Acetate
to create the ornaments. When stamping on any form of acetate I’ve always found
it best to use Stāzon Jet Black ink otherwise you may find yourself left with a
messy smudged image.
That’s all from me today, thank you for
joining me. Please make sure you click on all the links below to check out what
the other design team members have come up with.
-Tan xx
Stamping Sunday Blog Hop Roll
