Gilded Fine Art Floral thank you - International Blog Highlights Winners Hop

Hello and welcome to my blog. Earlier this month I participated in Kylie Bertucci's International Blog Highlights and after the voting closed I was delighted to find myself in spot number 10, and hence eligible to take part in this winners blog hop.

Thank you so much to everyone who visited the gallery and voted for my card. If you missed it, you can read about it here. 

My card for today uses the same suite, Fine Art Floral, and even though I chose to use the same piece of Designer Series Paper the card has a different look. The gilded leafing embellishment is so much fun to use and it's SO pretty.

I have to be honest and say that this card was one of those happy accidents where the card you ended up with wasn't the one you intended to make! I was trying to recreate something similar to one of the cards I saw Sara Douglass create during our OnStage at Home event at the end of last year.

It's a Love It, Chop It card with the added luxury of the gilding. I enjoy making square cards, and do so quite often. That's fortunate for me because unfortunately, I chopped my DSP a little too enthusiastically and the pieces left were too small for a standard sized card, but perfect for a square card!

I cut a square of white card and added a piece of adhesive sheet on top of it so that the whole square was sticky. Then I added the angled strips of DSP leaving a small gap between them. Once all the DSP strips were adhered I could add the gilded leafing - mine are stored in a large container and I simply laid the decorated layer face down into them and pressed to ensure they stuck well. It's quite interesting to lift the piece up as an abundance of the gilding flakes stick to it! I used a soft brush to remove the excess, which can be returned to the storage box. The small, sticky gaps have been transformed into a glorious golden stripes.

To finish the card I added a Pretty Peacock layer before using dimensionals to mount it onto the square Smoky Slate base card. The sentiment is stamped in Pretty Peacock on Smoky Slate before being cropped out using a die from the suite. The little happy accident card is elegant and I am pleased with how it turned out, but I had to make the card I had intended to make aswell! This time I added a birthday sentiment and some of the gorgeous gold ribbon too.

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Quite Curvy with Flower & Field papers

Hello and welcome to my blog. Today's card is striking and quite dramatic yet it is quite simple to make! The stars of the show are the Flower & Field papers and the Quite Curvy Bundle.

During Sale-A-Bration the Flower & Field papers are free with a qualifying order, and I love using free products! Purchasing the Quite Curvy Bundle and the Subtle embossing folder would indeed allow you to choose the Flower & Field papers for free during this Sale-A-Bration promotion which runs until the end of February.

I also enjoy using card sketches that I have used in the past, and tweeking them to make a different card! By changing the colours, the stamps or the papers you can make the same card...but different! Today's card is based on this Fine Art Floral one that I shared at the beginning of the month.

Here, I have used Pool Party as the base card which is topped with some of the floral DSP and a die cut black layer, which has been embossed using the Subtle folder for a bit of added texture. The Curvy dies have a choice of curved edges and I think this one works well with the patterned paper. There is a narrow layer of Pool Party card beneath the die cut pattern which makes it much more prominent. I glued the Pool Party card behind the black card and trimmed along the curved edge using my Snips.

The sentiment is stamped using Black Memento ink and punched out using the Classic Label punch. I made these cards to send out with the new Mini and Sale-A-Bration catalogues and I used several colours, but I forgot to take a photo of the variations! They do look pretty using Flirty Flamingo or Blushing Bride as a base card too.

Thank you for visiting today. If you want to purchase the items used for this card, or any other supplies, please take a look in my online Stampin' Up! shop. You can follow the link or click on the pictures below of the products I have used today.

Stay safe and as always, happy crafting,

If you would like to order any supplies, and you live in the UK, I would love to be your demonstrator. Use the hostess code J39MYFK4 to get some free product (it will follow in the post after the end of the month). If your order is over £150 do not use the code as you become the hostess and get the rewards. To place an order please visit my online shop HERE. 

If you would like to join my team, you can choose your starter kit HERE and if you have any questions, please contact me at furrycatdesigns@gmail.com

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Fine Art Floral Thank You for Kylie's Demonstrator Training Program Blog Hop January 2021

Hello! I am participating in a blog hop organised by Kylie and Bruno Bertucci as part of their Demonstrator Training Program. We are a group of Demonstrators from around the world who are taking part in training that is helping us with our Stampin' Up!® business. So, whether you are a regular visitor or if you have hopped in from another blog, I am pleased to welcome you here for this blog hop.

We are sharing ideas for thank you cards to send to our customers that shop with us during January. I have fallen in love with the Fine Art Floral Suite so I am using it again for these thank you cards. The first time I opened this stamp set all I did was to stamp the gorgeous two step images on to a notecard. All it needed was a thank you and the Simple Stamping card was complete! 

I often use this approach to get me started with a new set because I find actually stamping the images out helps to generate ideas...the more I stamp the more possibilities I think of. What would it look like in different colours? Would it work with additional layers? Which DSP or embellishments can I add? You get the idea.

The papers feature absolutely beautiful painted backgrounds and flowers - you can actually see the brushstrokes! I white heat embossed the large solid flower and leaves on one of the background papers and I think it looks stunning. The DSP layer is mounted up onto a layer of Pool Party and then on to a notecard. The thank you, which is included in the suite, is stamped on Pool Party using Pretty Peacock ink, punched out using the Classic Label punch and popped up on dimensionals.

One of the other sheets of paper has a very dramatic look with bright, vibrant flowers on a blue background. There is a plain portion of the background just large enough to crop out to sit perfectly on top of the notecard - doesn't the white heat embossing look stunning against the darker blue? 

I set out to replicate this look without the need to cut out the same portion of paper from multiple sheets of paper! I stamped the Birch stamp on to Night of Navy card using Night of Navy ink to create a subtle, tone on tone background. Then I flipped the card through 180 degrees and stamped the Birch image again, this time using Versamark ink - I was trying to create a slightly lighter tone for the tone on tone stamping and for the gaps to be filled in. 

After leaving the background to dry I continued to stamp and heat emboss the flower and leaves. Yet, despite leaving the background to dry for a long time, and sitting on top of my Aga, there was still enough tackiness for the embossing power to stick to some of the Birch detail as well as the flower and leaves. Not quite the effect I had set out to achieve, but I have to say it grew on me! So much so that this card has become my favourite one of the bunch and the one I will send out to my customers. A happy accident as they say! I have packed away the Fine Art Floral Suite for now so that I can start to create with some of the other goodies I have lined up!

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If you want to purchase the items used for these cards, or any other supplies, please take a look in my online Stampin' Up! shop. You can follow the link or click on the pictures below of the products I have used today.

Stay safe and as always, happy crafting,

If you would like to order any supplies, and you live in the UK, I would love to be your demonstrator. Use the hostess code J39MYFK4 to get some free product (it will follow in the post after the end of the month). If your order is over £150 do not use the code as you become the hostess and get the rewards. To place an order please visit my online shop HERE. 

If you would like to join my team, you can choose your starter kit HERE and if you have any questions, please contact me at furrycatdesigns@gmail.com

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