Returning Favourite | Let's Get Hopping #42

Hello and welcome to another Let's Get Hopping Blog Hop. With a new Stampin' Up! catalogue starting earlier this month we are all having fun playing with all the new products that are available to us but, there are also many favourites that have been carried over from the previous catalogue and in this hop the Let's Get Hopping team are showcasing our returning favourites.

When creating this card I've teamed flowers from the Jar of Flowers stamp set with a sentiment from Happiest Birthday Wishes and I've given both a fresh new look with the new 2021-2023 In Colors. 

Next up in the hop is Nina McMillan, I can wait to see what returning favourite Nina is showcasing. 

-Tan xx 

 

Flowers | Be Inspired Design Team Blog Hop

Hi everyone and welcome back. Today I'm participating in the Be Inspired Team Blog Hop and this month's theme is "Flowers". I love this theme and when it comes to flowers and Stampin' Up! we are spoilt for choice and with the new Annual Catalogue just around the corner I thought I'd share a project created with a new flower stamp set, Pansy Patch.

I really enjoyed inking up this stamp set for the first time and think you'll be seeing a lot more created with these images as well as the coordinating Pansy Dies. Next up in the hop is my talented friend Janneke Ditjkstra-de Jong, I can't wait to see what floral creation she has created for us.

 Be Inspired Design Team Blog Roll

 

Tanya Rees (You are here)

Janneke Dijkstra de Jong

Cathy Caines

Carolynn Sander

Brian King

Emma Goddard

Stesha Bloodhart

Jennifer Picard

Angela Meiritz-Reid

Fabulous Florals | Lets Get Hopping #40

Hello everyone and welcome to another Let's Get Hopping Blog Hop and this month's theme is Fabulous Florals. There are so much floral options available in the range of Stampin' Up! stamp sets, finding something to work with for this theme was not going to be a challenge but, it was a piece of Designer Series Paper leftover from another project that ended up becoming the feature for this project.

Inspired by my fellow Let's Get Hopping friend, Mikaela Titheridge, I've coloured these flowers from the True Love Designer Series Paper with Stampin' Blends in So Saffron, Mango Melody, Petal Pink and Calypso Coral and the leaves are in Granny Apple Green. The gold embossed sentiment is from the Forever & Always stamp set and die cut with the coordinating Always Dies.

 

While the theme for this hop was to feature florals, I wanted to create this background that has been bouncing around in my mind since I first saw the Floral Heart Dies in the Stampin' Up! January - June Mini Catalogue. Now it did take quite a bit of die cutting and my desk was covered in teeny tiny hearts afterwards but I really love how it has turned out, so it was totally worth it. What do you think? I have plans to create another rainbow version when time permits so keep an eye out in the next week or two.

Next up in the hop is Shelly Wadge. If you have a scroll through Shelly's Instagram feed you'll see lots of floral inspiration and I'm certain she will have created another stunner for us today.

- Tan xx

 

CASE Yourself | Be Inspired Blog Hop

Hello everyone and welcome to my last blog post for 2020 and this month's Be Inspired Design Team Blog Hop. Today's blog hop theme is CASE Yourself and for this time of year, when everyone is getting over the busyness of Christmas, it's the perfect theme. For anyone who is new here CASE stands for Copy And Selectively Edit and it refers to when you take a  project previous created by yourself or another designer and create a your own different version of it. For me CASEing is a great creative go-to when my mojo is lacking or when I'm playing with new products, which is the case with this project.

As a Stampin' Up! demonstrator I am able to preorder products from upcoming catalogues and at the beginning of December I ordered a selection of products from the new January - June Mini Catalogue. However due to delivery delays and pre Christmas preparations the box has sat virtually untouched so of course I had to unbox a few of my new goodies for today's project. But before I share the details of this card here is the project I chose to CASE.

As you can see I have chosen to CASE the layout and elements of this card using a different colour palette, different Designer Series Paper and some floral images in place of the boats. A funny thing to note is that this card that I created a couple of years ago was actually a CASE of a project in the Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue. 

Getting back to the project I created for today's blog hop, I've used a few new products from the Jan - June Mini Catalogue starting with the Pretty Perennials stamp set and coordinating Perennial Petals Dies to create this arrangement of flowers. The DSP banner is one of the gorgeous patterns from the Flower & Field Designer Series Paper pack which is one of the exclusive free product available in the Sale-A-Bration promotion and the sweet "a little note..." sentiment is from the Enjoy The Moment stamp set.

Now that my creative juices have starting flowing again and I have a box of new goodies screaming out to be played with I'm going to sign off, but don't go anywhere as the rest of the Be Inspired Design Team have also been busy CASEing themselves so make sure you check them out, starting with my lovely friend, Janneke Dijkstra de-Jong.

Be Inspired Design Team

Tanya Rees

Janneke Dijkstra de-Jong

Carolynn Sander

Brian King

Emma Goddard

Stesha Bloodhart

Angela Meiritz-Reid

Beautiful Thank you | TGIF Challenge #291

Whoop whoop it's Friday!! Wow the weeks are flying by! It feels like I was only just posting my last TGIF post a few days ago. This week is an inspiration challenge and my project has been inspired by a couple of elements of the challenge graphic

Firstly the theme of the challenge is being "Thankful" and since my stash of Thank you cards could do with a top up I thought I'd create a simple Thank you sentiment from the So Sentimental stamp set.

Secondly I was drawn the the arrangement of flowers in the graphic and the stunning bright colour combo. I absolutely adore the sunflowers in the image so initially I had my Celebrate Sunflowers set on my desk, but as I started pulling out the bright summery colours of Melon Mambo, Bumblebee and Granny Apple Green, I changed my mind and went with these gorgeous florals from the Beautiful Friendship stamp set. It's been a little while since I played with this set and I really love how it looks in a bright colour combo instead of the softer subtles I've used in the past. 

If you've not checked out how the rest of the TGIF crew have been inspired by this challenge be sure to pop over to the TGIF Challenge blog and if this challenge has inspired you to create something please share it with us.

-Tan xx

Punch It Out | Be Inspired Blog Hop

Hi everyone and welcome. Here we are again, getting towards the end of another month and time for the Be Inspired Design Team Blog Hop. Is it just me, or is this year just flying along? This month the Be Inspired team are playing with punches and when it comes to punches my absolute favourite go-to is without a doubt the Medium Daisy punch.

Given the focus of this card was to use punches I wanted the daisies to be the focal point and kept the rest of the card fairly simple. The sentiment panel is actually a card from the Flowers for Every Season Memories & More card pack. The teeny tiny daisies tie in with the larger flowers and I love the bright pop of Magenta Madness in the sentiment. I added some texture to the Misty Moonlight background by embossing it with the Pinewood Planks 3D Embossing Folder.

One of the things I love about the Medium Daisy punch is that the daisies can easily be punch out of plain cardstock and still look great, however to add a little extra detail I chose to stamp and heat emboss the daisies in white with the Daisy Lane stamp set. I also added some Just Jade leaves from the Sunflower Dies.

Thanks for joining me today Next up in the hop is my lovely friend Janneke Dijkstra de Jong. I can wait to see what she has "punched out" for us. 

Be Inspired Design Team Blog Roll

 

Tanya Rees (You are here)

Janneke Dijkstra de Jong

Cathy Caines

Manuela Geiswinkler

Brian King

Emma Goddard

Angela Meiritz-Reid

 

Step It Up or Scale It Back | Let's Get Hopping #34

Welcome everyone. It's time for another Let's Get Hopping blog hop and I have really been looking forward to this one. This month's challenge encouraged us to think about the type of crafter we were, an avid crafter who loves to add lots of layers, textures and embellishments or someone who prefers to keep it simple. Whatever our style, the challenge was to create a card and then create a second card that was either a "Stepped Up" or "Scaled Back" of the original. I'm sure it's no surprise to you all that I am more of an avid crafter, in fact creating a scaled back version of my card was a challenge, however it was a challenge I enjoyed. So here are my cards.

When creating my original project I was inspired by an incredibly talented friend, Cindy Schuster. Cindy is part of The Crafty Carrot Collective and during this month's program Cindy shared two stunning cards with the Beautiful World Stamp Set, her tutorial project was the inspiration for the layout of my card while the colour scheme was drawn from the sneak peek Cindy shared in the lead up to this month. (You can see both projects here).

Rather than using the Beautiful World stamp set I chose to go with the Tasteful Touches stamp set and In Good Taste DSP and I have used a number of different techniques to create the card. The flowers have been stamped and coloured with blends, the branches of leaves have been heat embossed in copper on vellum and both images have been fussy cut. I've also added some detail in the background by adding strips of the DSP rather than one full panel.

For my "Scaled Back" version I opted for a simple panel of DSP for the background and rather than stamping on and fussy cutting vellum, I stamped and embossed the branches of leaves directly on the DSP. The flowers have still be fussy cut by have been stamped in Petal Pink and Bumble Bee rather than coloured. Lastly I kept the sentiment panel as a simple rectangle of Very Vanilla.

Next up in the hop is my talented friend Shelly Wadge. I can't wait to see how she has tackled this challenge

 

Sunflowers | #TGIFC 275 Inspiration Challenge

Yay!! It's Friday, and time for another TGIF Challenge and this week is an Inspiration Challenge.

So I'm sure it's no surprise that I inked up my Celebrate Sunflowers stamp set again for this challenge. Why not, since it's my focus set for July. However instead of going with a green plaid pattern for the background I chose to go with some Mossy Meadow watercolour stripes and a bolder pop of yellow for the sentiment.

Since I've been playing with this big sunflower a bit lately I thought I'd try something a little different to add colour to the flower. A couple of months ago I was watching a tutorial by the fabulously talented Jennifer Frost, where she used a dot colouring technique to colour some poppies and I thought is would be a fun technique to use here. Using the pen tip of my Stampin' Blends pen I added lots of little dots of colour, layering darker colours over the top of the lighter tones in places where I'd normally blend a darker shade. 

Thank you for joining me today. Make sure you head over to the TGIF Challenge page to see how the other designers have been inspired by this challenge and if you feel inspired to play along with the challenge we'd love to see what you create.

2019 - 2021 In Colors | Be Inspired Blog Hop

Hello everyone and welcome to another Be Inspired blog hop. This month the team is sharing projects showcasing the gorgeous 2019 - 2021 In Colors, Rococo Rose, Terracotta Tile, Pretty Peacock, Seaside Spray and Purple Posy.

Don't these colours look so beautiful together? All of these colours are stunning on their own and combine so well with the core Stampin' Up! colours but today I wanted to feature a card that showcases how well they work together.

I have been looking for an excuse to use the Beautiful Friendship Stamp Set and I am so glad I chose to use it for this project. Unfortunately, Stampin' Up! have not yet been able to come up with a suitable solution to solve the issues with the Purple Posy ink pads, however I do have my 2019-2021 In Color Stampin' Write Markers so I used the marker to stamp method to ink up the flower image that I wanted to feature in Purple Posy. 

Thank you for stopping by today. Make sure you click on the Next button to see Janneke's gorgeous project

Be Inspired Design Team Blog Roll

Louise Sharp

Tanya Rees (You are here)

Janneke Dijkstra de Jong

Jackie Aitken

Cathy Caines

Carolynn Sander

Brian King

Emma Goddard

Stesha Bloodhart