Showing posts with label Arts& Crafts dies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Arts& Crafts dies. Show all posts

Thursday, 24 October 2019

AWH Blog Hop featuring Embossing Folders


Welcome to another Art With Heart Blog Hop. This month we are featuring Stampin' Up's! versatile range of Embossing Folders. There are new Embossing Folders available in every Stampin' Up! catalogue and they are an inexpensive way of adding WOW! to your projects. Currently there are 24 different Embossing Folders in the range. Tonight we plan on showing you lots of ideas on how to use these folders.


Embossing Folders add interest and texture to your projects in a way you might not believe. You will see many different tips and tricks on this blog hop I'm sure, and hopefully some of these will fuel your inspiration too. Fable Friends was the first stamp I picked up, a very cute stamp which hints of Beatrix Potter characters.


For the background I used Button, Button Embossing Folder, which is part of the Follow Your Art Suite. The card was Whisper White and the EF was smeared with Flirty Flamingo ink for the extra interest and colour. The little lacy pieces are dies included in Arts & Crafts dies, but look a lot like a broderie anglaise lace edging.



Another strip of the inked, embossed paper on the inside, so soft and pretty, along with a gaggle of little geese.


  The Hammered Metal Embossing Folder in the Holiday catalogue looks a lot like scaly dinosaur skin to me, so I used it behind the mini jigsaw and dinosaur cut from DSP. Both sides of the folder are useable too, this one actually is more than likely the "wrong" side.



Stampin' Up! often include a paper amongst a pack of DSP that will match with the dies for a particular suite. Dinoroar Suite is one from the current Annual Catalogue.The paper with Pool Party as the background was the first card I made using the mini jigsaw die from Puzzle Pieces, and although this card is great with the pterodactyl and brachiosaurus die cut from paper, it is difficult to spot the jigsaw cut.



That was solved on the next version by 'lifting' a couple of pieces onto dimensionals. With kids birthday cards but it doesn't matter if they are similar, they most likely will be heading to different families and different papers for the 'puzzle' plus a different dino does ring the changes. 



 Please check in on my friend Andrea Sargent in sunny South Australia





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Sunday, 9 June 2019

Sparkle On Your Birthday CTC#232


Welcome back to another week of CASE-ing The Catty. The crew is made up of Stampin' Up! demonstrators from all parts of Australia and New Zealand.You are at the blog of Rachel Palmieri, Independent Stampin' Up!® demonstrator. I run classes at my home studio in South Morang, Victoria, share Stampin' Up!® products and tools at parties for my customers, coach my lovely team and create cards and the occasional 3D project. This week we are CASEing Artistic Expressions, pages 106- 159 of the new catalogue.





My CASE was selected from page 110 and used It Starts With Heart bundle, including the stamp, dies and embossing folder.



 I really like the texture provided by embossing folders, but frequently forget to use them, so this time I doubled up and used two, -  Corrugated on the Lovely Lipstick, Button, Button on Whisper White.



The colours are bright and bold on this card, the contrasts add a lot of fun! These images are a pleasure to colour and the dies help to make them stand right out.



Happy Birthday is a sentiment from Itty Bitty Birthdays, You make everything sparkle is included in It Starts With Art. The Happy Birthday stamp was positioned first on the Stamparatus and step-stamping was used to stamp it at regular intervals down the side of the card.



I thought I could stamp both together, but the 'sparkle' stamp didn't butt up close enough to be even. By positioning it later on the Stamparatus plate, it was a perfect fit to also step-stamp down the side of the card.

You may have come from Siobhan before this, but if you have started with me, just click on 'next' and continue around the blog hop to Kelly Kent, who is bound to have something fabulous to share.

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