TSOT #160 - Blog Hop!

Hello and welcome to our blog hop! The designers at Try Stampin' On Tuesday have created a little blog hop for you to enjoy. Also there is a prize up for grabs if you go through the hop and leave a comment on each designers blog. You would have come from Sara H and her stunning card.

Anyway, onto my card:

I decided to use the twist with this weeks card, which was to add a masculine touch - to add to my depleting stash. I did still want it to be bright, so I pulled out my colour coach and settled on old olive, night of navy and daffodil delight.

I kept it rather CAS and with little bulk, as guy's dont really seem to always appreciate huge amounts of embellishments and it's always helpful when a card can be sent as a standard letter :)

I used my six sided sampler stamp set and stamp-a-ma-jig to create the panel and my sentiment is from sweet essentials.

We would love to see you play along with us this week, you dont have to use the twist, just use the sketch as your inspiration.

Your next stop on the hop is Shell and her adorable creation.

Thanks for looking and happy hopping

Secret Santa Gift

Hi! Wow, it's been a long time since I have posted anything other that design work! I am creating, but I have been naughty and forgotten to take photos to share and being in the thick of Christmas season, time seems to get away from me :)

Anyway, I'm apart of a fabulous group of Stampin' Up! demonstrators and this is the gifts I sent to my secret santa.

This box was a bought one, which I wrapped with a belly band to hold the lid on.

The flower was made with lots of layers of two scallop circles, which I have crunched for texture and the bag has some leftover circles from the box (which were stitched together) and I finished it off with the motif from  Happy Day stamp set.

And finally my card, this was a re-create from this one I did earlier in the year. I love this simple design. My colours were cherry cobbler, old olive and whisper white and the DSP is season of style - love this stuff :)

Thanks for looking

TSOT Holiday Tag

Hi, it's time again for another installment of Try Stampin' On Tuesday and this week we have something different for you. We have all created a tag and have a short tutorial for you, to give you a few ideas with the lead up to Christmas.

Here's my tag:

And my tutorial:

1. Die cut tag in old olive cardstock.

2. Layer a cherry cobbler piece 7.5 cm x 8 cm.

3. Layer whisper white card 7.3 cm x 8 cm.

4. Adhere a strip of cherry cobbler 3 cm x 8 cm along the bottom.

5. Adhere a strip of Seasons of Style DSP 2.6 cm, x 8 cm over cherry cobbler strip.

6. Using the bird punch, punch out a pile of the leaves. How many you punch put depends on how full
    you want your Christmas tree to look.

7. Starting with 4 leaves, start glueing them onto the right hand side of the tag. I like to use liquid glue
    for this job. Build up your tree until you are happy with it. Snip a small strip of soft suede and glue
    under leaves to create trunk. Glue on silver pearls to finish tree.

 8. Stamp sentiment onto whisper white and trim. Flag cut the ends and adhere to top of your tag as
     shown.

And the finished tag. I hope you like it and find the tutorial useful.

If you need more inspiration then head to here and see the other designers creations.

Thanks for looking.

TSOT #135

Hello! It's time again for another sketch at Try Stampin' On Tuesday, with the additional theme of using circles on your card.

I wanted to make another Christmas card - my stash is no where near where it needs to be! I heat embossed my image panel and sentiment in gold. The baubles are made from the retired stamp set pendant park and punched out with different size punches, I got the idea from Mary Fish.

Now over to you - it's great seeing what you come up with.

Just also wanted to welcome the new designers that have joined our team - they are fabulous! And if you want to see the design teams creations, go here.

Thanks for looking