Stampin' Up! Artisan Design Team Blog Hop - Toile Tidings

Hello everyone and welcome to another Stampin' Up! Artisan Design Team Blog Hop. Well there's no denying that Christmas is fast approaching and this month we are showering you in red and green with the Toile Tidings Suite from the 2019 Holiday Catalogue.

The traditional vintage feel of this suite is very different to what I'm normally drawn to for Christmas craft but once I got my hands on the products in the suite it didn't take me long to be flooded with inspiration. For these particular projects I really wanted to find a way to showcase the beautiful Toile Tidings Designer Series Paper, however I changed the monochrome feel of the paper by colouring a sheet of the leaves and berries patterned paper with Stampin' Blends. Isn't it amazing how you can achieve a completely different look simply by adding a little colouring.

For this card I used my custom DSP as a background for a couple of die cut wreaths in Granny Apple Green and Garden Green and a contrasting black banner with a white embossed sentiment. The addition of some Gold Glimmer paper, Gold foil "swishes", Real Red Ruched Ribbon and some rhinestone "berries" take the card up a notch to something extra special.

Once I had finished my card and saw how well my custom DSP went with gold the next obvious step was to decorate a Gold Mini Pizza box to be used a gift packaging. Since I wanted to use the beautifully wide Real Red Ruched Ribbon to tie a bow around the box I needed to keep the other elements to a minimum so I simply added a couple of gold glimmer leaves, the white embossed sentiment on a Stitched Shape circle and a fun gold Jingle Bell tied on with some Linen Thread

For me gift tags are an essential part of Christmas preparations so of course I had to create a few coordinating gift tags to use with the Toile Tiding Gift Wrap. What do you think? Doesn't this gift look just too pretty to unwrap? 

Next up in the hop is my beautiful Kiwi friend Angela Meiritz-Reid, who has some gorgeous gift packaging to share with you all. 

Thank you for stopping by. 

- Tan xx

Supplies used

Stamps: Toile Christmas
Card: Garden Green, Granny Apple Green, Basic Black, Very Vanilla Gold Glimmer Paper, Gold Foil Paper, Vellum, Toile Tidings DSP, Toile Tidings Gift Wrap

Ink: Versamark,
Accessories & Tools: All-Around Wreath Dies, Christmas Cardinal Dies, Stitched Shapes Dies, White Stampin' Emboss Powder, Light Granny Apple Green Blend, Dark Real Red Blend, Dark Crumb Cake Blend, Holiday Rhinestone Basic Jewels, Real Red Ruched Ribbon, Jingle Bells, Gold Mini Pizza Boxes, Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder, Gold Glitter Enamel Dots, Gold ¼” Glimmer Ribbon, Linen Thread

OnStage Treat boxes

Hi. Welcome back to my blog. 

This weekend I attended my very first Stampin' Up! OnStage event in Melbourne. I had such a wonderful time meeting other demonstrators from all over Australia as well as getting a look at the amazing new products in the upcoming 2018 Occasions and Sale-a-bration catalogues.  But not only did I get my hands on a copy of each of the new catalogues, I also got the opportunity to play with a few new stamp sets AND even scored a couple of freebies to bring home with me. Believe me, the perks of being a demonstrator are the best!!

Sadly, I'm not allowed to share any details of the new catalogues with you yet, so today I thought I'd share with you some treat boxes I created to give to the demonstrators I was sharing my table with at OnStage.

I wanted these treat boxes to be pretty and bright, so the Naturally Eclectic DSP and the Eclectic Layers framelits were the perfect choice. And you just can't go past some mini sequin trim to add a little bling. 

When I handed these out I had lots of people ask me how I made the box so I also wanted to share the link to an amazing little calculator I stumbled across earlier this year. 

The Box Buster calculator by Joanne at The Crafty Owl, is so great, you just put in the measurements for the size box you want and it gives you the cardstock size and the punch measurement you need to create a box. Head over to Joanne's blog to see her video tutorial on how to use her Box Buster calculator and your Envelope Punch Board

Thanks for stopping by 

- Tan xx