Weather Together in Dapper Denim

Hello and welcome to another Inspire. Create. Challenge :-)

This week the theme is Retiring Colours and I was spoilt for choice! I am going to miss all of these colours.. And I've made this card just as the sun comes out in the UK, using Weather Together! Bit of a fail, right? Anyway, hopefully the card will banish some of that rain we have been having for a little while at least?!

 I kept with the monochrome look with just a Soft Sky baby wiped swipe background on shimmer white card.

 I added a few of the Epoxy Shapes for some 3d raindrops.

 Adding the brolly with dimensionals just gives this card a little lift!

 So, I do hope you'll head over to see what other projects the rest of the DT have made on the  I.C.C BLOG HERE :-) And of course enter your projects here too!
Thanks so much for looking today,
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Stampin' Hugs,

Products Used to create this project:

Umbrella Weather Framelits Dies (£22.00)

Weather Together Photopolymer Stamp Set (£19.00)

Dapper Denim Classic Stampin' Pad (£6.00)

Dapper Denim A4 Cardstock (£7.25)

Shimmery White A4 Cardstock (£7.25)

Stampin' Trimmer (Metric) (£27.00)

Multipurpose Liquid Glue (£3.75)

"In The City" Hostess stamp set

Happy Sunday to you! Although I actually started writing this post on Friday afternoon *facepalm*
Anyway, I have a sweet little card today using the Hostess only stamp set "In The City". I've really loved this set and it's going to be a keeper for me and these next few weeks are your very last chance to earn it for free!
I made this card a couple of weeks ago and it turns out there's more retiring products than those that are staying, seems I like I'm going to miss quite a lot of stuff from this catty when it retires *-* 
So, also leaving us is the Soft Sky background card, the Flirty Flamingo card is also retiring from the In Colours... but staying forever in the colour revamp, Yay! But also leaving is this lovely Brick Wall embossing folder! Which is great for teenagers graffiti wall cards, just sayin' ;-)
So, let's have a closer look at todays make...

 I also added some silver tinsel trim to the sentiment here, which was in the Autumn/Winter catalogue.

 I used the solid images to colour the outlines for this card but it looks great watercoloured too, see this card HERE that I made.

As I'm writing this I thought how cool would this be coloured with blends? I'm so going to have to give that a go....

So which stamp set or accessory are you going to miss the most? And what would you most like to see in the new catalogue? Answers in the comments ;-)
See all the retiring products HERE
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Stampin' Hugs,

Products Used to create this project:

In The City Photopolymer Stamp Set (£14.50)

Soft Sky A4 Cardstock (£7.25)

Flirty Flamingo A4 Cardstock (£7.25)

Flirty Flamingo Classic Stampin' Pad (£6.00)

Whisper White A4 Thick Cardstock (£6.50)

Whisper White A4 Cardstock (£8.25)

Multipurpose Liquid Glue (£3.75)

Using Fabulous Flamingo for Inspire. Create. Challenges

Hello!
And welcome to another fun week at Inspire. Create. Challenges! And this week it's a challenge to make a card with an animal theme. I must admit I was tempted to use the Magical Day bundle (again) but I did resist ;-)

So, it turns out I don't have very many stamp sets with animals in them! Who knew? Thankfully the other day I had a little tidy up of my craft room and also a move around so my stamp sets are now all in front of where I sit (see my Instagram HERE) and it was because of this I spotted this Fabulous Flamingo stamp set that I haven't used in ages! I really like being able to see all my sets so easily and have remembered lots that I want to play with again...
Anyway, here's my very tropical card for this challenge.....

I stamped the body of the flamingo (birds are animals, right?) in Flirty Flamingo then added the legs and detail in Versamark before heat embossing in gold.
TIP 1: Make sure the first, pink ink layer is totally dry before stamping the detail with the versamark. You can test this by sprinkling gold embossing powder on before you stamp the second layer. If it sticks a little, brush it all off and dry the first layer either with a heat tool or leave it a little longer to air dry.
TIP 2: Be sure to use your embossing buddy before stamping the second parts!

  I mentioned on Instagram that I would love some wallpaper like this stamped background. Hmm, I'm not sure the Mr would agree....

 I was really pleased with how this card turned out. Exactly as I planned, fresh and bright. Can you tell I'm ready for the rain and cold to stop? ;-)

Well, we do hope you can join in with this fortnights challenge.
For more inspiration from the rest of the DT (or just to see their wonderful makes) you can hop over to the Inspire. Create. blog HERE.
Which also happens to be where you can upload your entry too ;-)
I hope you get a chance to craft today!
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Stampin' Hugs,

Products Used to create this project:

Fabulous Flamingo Photopolymer Stamp Set	Whisper White A4 Cardstock	Flirty Flamingo A4 Cardstock	Flirty Flamingo Classic Stampin' Pad	Garden Green Classic Stampin' Pad	Embossing Buddy	Versamark Pad
Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder

Two Styles of Acetate Boxes For Christmas

Hello there,
I hope your Christmas preparations are going well? I have just a few more nights at work and a little house work to do before I can slow down a bit and enjoy the celebrations! But, the presents are wrapped and I feel like I'm getting there, slowly....
So, I think this may be my penultimate post for Christmas makes on here (unless I find something else I've forgotten about) and its a fun and easy couple of makes today making two different Acetate Boxes feel a little more festive. You could decorate these first, Tiny Treat Boxes, for the Christmas Day table as they are super quick to decorate with any festive DSP you have at home. For mine I used the cute Christmas Around the World paper...

I simply wrapped a strip of the paper around the outside of the boxes and filled them with celebrations choccies :-)

I added a layer of garden green card under a square of the paper and topped them with a mini gold glitter deer from the Card front Builder Dies.

And for the second box I used one of the Acetate Card Boxes and simply dry embossed it with the snowflake embossing folder (sadly it appears this is now sold out) but you can try this with any of your 11.4 x 15.7 cm (4-1/2" x 6-3/16" ) sized folders, extending this to something you can make all year round. 

It makes a lovely and quick way to package some cards (or chocolates or smellies etc....) as a gift :-)

Well, That's all from me for today,
I'll be back soon with those last Christmas makes!
'Till then, happy stamping :-)
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Large Letter Baby Card for Laike

Hello there!
How are your Christmas preparations going?  I have been pedal to the metal this week and finally finished the wrapping and the posting today... I hope! I don't know about you but I always have that nagging worry that I've forgotten something/someone even though I have lists for daaaays!
In other news have you seen the CLEARANCE RACK has been updated with loads of fabby products including dies, ink pads and lots of twine and ribbon (my favourite accessory), hurry and take a peek before the good stuff goes...
So, today's card is the baby card I sort of mentioned in THIS POST last week when I talked about these personalised cards being keepsakes! Baby Laikes mum told me she wants to frame this card for him. It made my day, that did :-))))
So, I went with a slightly different colour combo for this card. Rather than pastels that are usually associated with baby cards I used the Garden Green heart paper from Coffee Break DSP and teamed it with navy. I really think it turned out awesome (can I say that??) Take a look and let me know what you think...

I used stampin blends in Crumb Cake and Navy to colour these stripes on this (retired) baby vest. One of just a few stamp sets I have kept after it retired :-)

Instead of foam strips (which are fab, especially for speed) I decided to die cut the letters three extra times and layer them together for extra impact!

Psst! This yummy navy twine is in the clearance rack ;-)

All finished off with a few enamel stars.

So, what do you think? Yay or Nay? I'd love to know... You can leave me a message in the comments...
OK well that's all from me today, thanks so much for stopping by at this crazy busy time of year, I appreciate it so much xxx
I'll be back soon with more! :-)
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Stampin Hugs,

Products Used to create this project:

Large Letters Framelits Dies

Letters For You Photopolymer Stamp Set

Coffee Break Designer Series Paper

Night Of Navy Classic Stampin' Pad

Night Of Navy Stampin' Blends Markers Combo Pack

Crumb Cake Stampin' Blends Markers Combo Pack