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

 

Punch It | Let's Get Hopping #39

Hello again, two blog posts in a week!! Today's post is for the first Let's Get Hopping blog hop for 2021 and this month we are all showcasing punches. While there are so many different tools out there I think punches are one of the best beginner tools out there and the Ice Cream builder punch from Stampin' Up! is one of my current favs.

When creating this card I used my Ice Cream builder punch to cut out these delicious ice creams from the Ice Cream Corner Designer Series Paper. The water colour splotches are perfect for the scoops of ice cream and the Cinnamon Cider crisscross pattern is the obvious choice for a waffle cone.

That's all from me for today but please make sure you continue hopping through to see what the other designers have punched out, starting with the lovely and talented Alicia Yap

- Tan

 

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