Stampin' Up! Jar of Love & Papillion Potpourri

Heather is a very talented at creating stunning cards using Stampin' Up! products.  Her creations often inspire me to CASE ;-) and today's post showcases a beautiful card Heather has created and our cased examples.  The Jar (from Jar of Love) releasing butterflies (from the Papillion Potpourri set, now retired) and that wonderful Bokeh Designer Series Paper from a retired DSP stack Serene Scenery, gave rise to this beautiful card... 

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Papillion Potpourri, Jar of Love x Heather Payne

Perfect Plum sponging with a little Old Olive and Marina Mist was a popular colour choice to mimic the technique and instead of butterflied, the A Crafty Cat team chose the fire flies...

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Bokeh technique with Jar of Love

The bokeh techniques was achieved by placing a mask of different sized circles over the sponged background and dabbing White Craft Ink over the circular openings of the mask...

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Bokeh technique with Jar of Love

The Jar was cut out of velum to give the appearance of a real jar...love that effect! and the fire flies were die cut using the coordinating thinlits...

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Bokeh technique with Jar of Love

I love the creations my team shares and how it inspires not only me but the rest of class participants to try something new.  I hope you have a purrrfectly crafty week.

Yours in paper craft,

Acrylic Block Stamping with Stampin' Up! Serene Silhouette

The Stampin' Up!  acrylic blocks are fantastic as a background stamp - what I hear you say! simply get a block, ink with an ink pad or Stampin' Up! Marker and use it as a stamp, but be sure to have it on a paper piercing mat or a couple of layers of paper - I like to crumple the paper for added effect!  Then simply stamp your image over the block stamped area - it is suggested that the block stamping is done in a lighter colour to complement your focus image.  Yes it is that easy!

I love this background so much I delivered a class on the technique.  How you ask? Literally ink your Stampin' Up! acrylic block and stamp the block on your card.  used textures under your card to create different effects!   This is what I created using Stampin' Up! Serene Silhouette set...

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Acrylic block background with Serene Silhouette

Mother's Day, Birthday, thank you or even a Get Well card, this is an easy technique and versatile layout that can be enhanced with layers - Beautiful Baroque was used to emboss the Crumb Cake layer which compliments the Acrylic block stamping in Wisteria Wonder.

A Crafty Cat: Acrylic Block, Stampin' Up! Serene Silhouette

From a Whisper white card base to Pink Pirouette and Crumb cake, this is a beautiful card for Mother's Day...

A Crafty Cat: Acrylic Block, Stampin' Up! Serene Silhouette

Fun, feminine, versatile and very pretty.  Just purrrfect for any occasion.  To create beautiful cards, join my A Crafty Cat team of customers/creators by checking out my class schedule above and RSVP to a date or two that suits you.

Yours in paper craft,

A Crafty Cat - Stampin' Up! Mother's Day

I offered one of three layouts for an afternoon Mother's Day class, the Friday before Mother's Day.  The card layouts featured different techniques and layouts; dry embossing, to masking and sponging to 2-step stamping.  This is just a snippet of what we created...

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Sheltering Tree

Some wrote words of Thanks...


A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Papillion Potpourri sponging over mask.

The versatility of the layout showed it could also be used as a female and masculine card...



A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Papillion Potpourri sponging over mask

The original layouts... Perfect Plum and Melon Mambo...



A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Papillion Potpourri sponging over mask

A set created by a crafty cat...




A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Embossing & Sheltering Tree

My Examples for the class...





A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Sheltering Tree

It is so easy to create simply lovely cards for Mother's Day, I hope one of these layouts appeal and encourage you to create and give a card of love to a "Mum" in your life who has nurtured you.

Yours in paper craft,

Mother's Day with Stampin' Up!

For me, Mother's Day is a day to give thanks to a special lady in your life who is caring and nurturing, usually this is your birth mum, but often it can be a carer or foster mum.  I decided to donate Mother's Day cards to the school just down the road and with that decided to ask a few Mum's to help me assemble them.  I created the cards in three layouts, one with colour and butterflies, a white card with hearts and a beautiful tree of colour - the tree being from Stampin' Up! Sheltering Tree stamp set.  These are our creations...

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Papillion Potpourri with sponging over the Hex Hive thinlit die I used as a mask for the background

The first was Papillion Potpourri and Sponging over a honey comb mask in colours of Perfect Plumb, Melon Mambo...  

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Papillion Potpourri with sponging over masked background

The layered butterfly using Stampin' Up! Bitty Butterfly and Elegant Butterfly punches...

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Papillion Potpourri with sponging over masked background

The second layout was simple and used an embossed piece on a backing of Whisper White  and a line of hearts...

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! embossing folders and small heart punch

More, more, more, together we made over 150 cards...

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! embossing folders and small heart punch

The third layout used the stamp Sheltering Tree, LOVE THIS SET, and love that we can colour the tree to anything we like...

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Sheltering Tree

 The majority of the cards were not dressed but I snuck a few with hearts and bows...

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Sheltering Tree

 From a different angle...

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! 

I thought they looked cute... the tree was double stamped in Melon Mambo and Rich Razzleberry...

A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Sheltering Tree

This was so lovely, I ran a class just before Mother's Day for my lovely A Crafty Cats.  So check out the next post to see what we made.

Yours in paper craft,

2014 Catalogue Launch - Z fold cards 3

This post features Stampin' Up! products used in projects from Kathy Free's 2014 catalogue launch at her home in Logan.  The projects featured Z Fold cards, the burger box and the use of blendabilities.


A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Z Fold card featuring Flower Shop, Petite Petals & Papillion Potpourri; and Burger box creations

This is a stunning effect; a mass of beautiful blue Butterflies stamped from Papillion Potpourri...


A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Z Fold card and Burger box creations

Pink Pirouette with Melon Mambo and Rich Razzleberry - a lovely combination...


A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Z Fold card and Burger box creations

Blendabilities are such a hit and the easiest way to demonstrate these wonderful pens is to colour the Stampin' Up! image of Blended Bloom...


A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Z Fold card and Blendability project

Another stunning Z Fold Card....


A Crafty Cat: Stampin' Up! Z Fold card

LOVE THEM all, congratulations Kathy on holding wonderful, fun and productive workshops.  The finished projects were so stunning...

I look forward to working with Kathy and her very talented customers very soon.
xxx

2014 Stampin' Up! Catalogue Launch projects

These catalogue launch projects feature Stampin'  Up! circle swing window card, the envelope punch board and Stampin' Up! Burger Box.  This is what I created as samples featuring Work of Art on the card and Stampin' Up! Burger Box and Spiral Flower die...


A Crafty Cat: 2014 Stampin' Up! Catalogue Launch projects

These are just some of the projects made by my gorgeous customers...

A Crafty Cat: 2014 Stampin' Up! projects

The ever versatile Envelope Punch Board boasted these creations...Love the DSP combinations!

A Crafty Cat: 2014 Stampin' Up! Envelope Punch Board projects

A Crafty Cat: 2014 Stampin' Up! projects

A Crafty Cat: 2014 Stampin' Up! projects

Love the colour combinations and the beautiful detail on the gift bag...

A Crafty Cat: 2014 Stampin' Up! projects x CN

Rich Razzleberry flowers with heart centres, just gorgeous... 

A Crafty Cat: 2014 Stampin' Up! projects x CN

A big thank you to the girls that attended my Catalogue launch.  I look forward to sharing a day together for Christmas...

Thanks for stopping by my blog & Happy Crafting,

2014 Catalogue Launch - Z fold cards 2

To launch the 2014 - 15 Stampin' Up! catalogue, for Kathryn Free in Logan, Qld, Australia, we featured a project utilizing the Z fold card.  This is a very simple card to cut and fold as shown HERE by Dawn Griffith.  These cards were created at Kathryn Free's Catalogue Launch...

A Crafty Cat: Z Fold Card, very stunning in Black and Real Red highlighting the Stampin' Up! sets of Papillion Potpourri and Petite Petals

 This stunning card features Stampin' Up! "Flower Shop" and "Petite Petals"...

A Crafty Cat: Z Fold Card, very stunning in Night of Navy and Cherry Cobbler highlighting the Stampin' Up! sets of Flower Shop and Petite Petals

This card features Stampin' Up! "Papillion Potpourri" in Pacific Point on a Marina Mist base...

A Crafty Cat: Z Fold Card, very stunning in Black and Real Red highlighting the Stampin' Up! sets of Papillion Potpourri

Instructions:-
I cut a piece of 12x12 card stock in half to give me a 6"x12" piece of cardstock
I then scored the 12" length at 4 and 8".  These are the fold lines to make the Z
I measured and marked 4 1/2" on the 6" length and then cut from the 6" point to the 4 1/2" point to give me the angle which is the feature of the Z fold card.

Diane Jackson always creates something beautiful, just love the colour combo of her Z fold card...

A Crafty Cat: Z Fold Card, very stunning x Diane Jackson, highlighting the Stampin' Up! sets of Flower Shop & Petite Petals

The girls enjoyed having a card base made in seconds, the challenge was then to embellish it.
For me, this took some time but for others, no problem at all. 

I just love trying out and dressing different card folds, hope this inspires you to try this very simple fold and to dress it up too!

Have a purrrfectly crafty good day,
love

Circle Swing Card Thinlit by Stampin' Up!

Stampin' Up! have a wonderful, easy to use, wafer thin die; a circle swing card thinlit.  This thinlit enables uses in conjunction with their big shot to easily create swing cards - and they are SOOO much fun.  My son and I cannot get enough of these wonderful cards - we just keep on making an playing with them...open, shut, open, shut LOL.

The card fold is great for Christmas...

A Crafty Cat - workshop attendee, Stampin' Up! Circle swing card thinlit.

 Or even as a Thank You or Birthday card with a difference...

A Crafty Cat - workshop attendee, Stampin' Up! Circle swing card thinlit.

The lovely ladies at PLR wanted to make swing cards - this is a small selection of what was made...

A Crafty Cat - PRL class attendee, Stampin' Up! Circle swing card thinlit, featuring Stampin' Up! stamp set Flower Shop

This card features a marina mist background and a scallop circle stamped with Stampin' Up! Betsy's Blossom...

A Crafty Cat - PRL class attendee, Stampin' Up! Circle swing card thinlit.

 Papillion Potpourri is always very popular with everyone...

A Crafty Cat - PRL class attendee, Stampin' Up! Circle swing card thinlit.

I love going back and looking at the creations of my customers - and these were made at the beginning of 2014.  I love looking at the colour combinations and how each customer grows in creativity.

I look forward to your company at the next post,
Love