Hand-Penned Petals - Top Ten International Highlights Winners Hop June 2021

Hello and welcome to my blog. Earlier in the month, I participated in Kylie Bertucci's International Project Highlights and after the voting had closed I was delighted to find myself in the Top Ten!

Thank you so much to everyone who visited the gallery and voted for my card. If you missed it, you can read all about it here. I am absolutely thrilled to be eligible to take part in this winner's hop.

For my card for today I have chosen to use some of the same products as I used on my earlier project. It's still a fun fold card but the orientation is different.

This is how I made it! Start with a top folding, tent fold card base. Score and fold the front of card in half and back on itself  - this makes the small front portion. In order to make the card stand up I added an additional card front sized layer at the back of the card to elongate it and now you have a double tent fold card base!

The flower sprays in the Hand-Penned Petals set are so beautiful and work wonderfully well with the set of new InColors. Summer has arrived on a card! For the backdrop to the flowers I have used a layer of Basic White card embossed with the Tasteful Textures folder and to continue the embossing theme I have used the Thanks folder from the Thanks & Hello set. This small layer fills the front portion of the card and is simply wrapped with some Soft Succulent ribbon and decorated with a tiny polished pink die cut flower - the matte black dots are perfect centres for all of the flowers. 

Click on the names below to hop around and see the other fabulous projects. Enjoy! I hope you have been inspired today - please leave a comment let me know what you think, and if you live in the UK you can purchase these products below.

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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 66XHAKPX 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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Biggest Wish for the Let Your Colours Shine Ink & Inspiration Blog Hop June 2021

Hello and welcome to my blog. Today, I am delighted to be taking part in the Ink and Inspiration blog hop for June. The theme this month is Let your colours Shine! I have chosen to feature an array of warm, pinky colours.

I love the coordination of Stampin' Up! products - inks and card stock, Designer Series Paper, ribbons and colouring tools can all be mixed and matched successfully. Colours are grouped into colour families, and currently I store my ink and card stock this way. However, I am considering rearranging my supplies so that they are in rainbow order.

In the meantime, I have selected a group of colours ranging from a neutral through pretty shades of pink to create my card with. I took 2cm strips of card and butted them together on a layer of Basic White, then I sliced up the layer to make some thin stripy strips to edge the Ornate Floral embossed panel. From bottom to top the colours are Early Espresso, Calypso Coral, Flirty Flamingo, Polished Pink, Blushing Bride, Petal Pink and Pale Papaya.

I chose two of the nesting dies from the Stitched So Sweetly set to stamp the sentiment on - the large BIRTHDAY from the Biggest Wish set fits perfectly! It's stamped in Polished Pink and topped with an Early Espresso happy. It's always fun to add a little sparkle to a card and with matching Polished Pink gems available in the InColor Jewels pack, my decision was made!

I hope that you are inspired by my card today and that you will continue along the hop to see what the others have created too - click on the names below to enjoy their  projects. We would love to hear from you and so if you have been inspired, please leave a comment.

 

Do you need any of the products used on today's card? If you live in the UK you can click on the shopping links below to add them to your collection today.

Thank you for joining us today! Looking forward to seeing you next time. 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 66XHAKPX 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

Click on the images below to purchase them in my online shop:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All Star Tutorial Bundles have 12 AMAZING video tutorials to inspire you each month.

 Click HERE for sneak peeks or to purchase.

FREE with a purchase from my online store

Customer Thank You cards June - Kylie's Demonstrator Training Program Blog Hop

Hello and welcome to Furry Cat Designs! I am Karen Henderson and I'm 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 the 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 delighted to welcome you here to my blog! 

We are sharing ideas for Thank You cards to send to our customers duing June 2021. If you place an order with me during June you will receive one of these cards as a thank you for your purchase!

Initially, I created this card to participate in a card swap with other Demonstrators - the Hand-Penned Petals Bundle is wonderful to work with and I loved making them, so I decided to make some more for my customer Thank You cards this month. It has proved to be a design that lends itself well to a production line approach. Preparation is the key and it is satisfying to see the piles of supplies growing as card bases and layers are cut, doing the stamping, die cutting and embossing and finally the assembly. Taking piles of bits and combining them into cards is so rewarding.

The Evening Evergreen card base is topped with an embossed layer of Basic White card. The Scalloped Contour die cut layer acts as a frame for the pretty spray of flowers and even though the two layers are both white they are distict because of the differing textures. The spray of flowers is stamped in Evening Evergreen and coloured using the solid stamps from the set and the other new InColors. They all work in harmony to make a beautiful floral focal point - I've popped it up on dimensionals, added a few die cut Evening Evergreen leaves, a couple of Genial Gems and a flash of ribbon to finish the card off.

Thank you so much for visiting today, I hope you have been inspired! As mentioned at the beginning, this is a blog hop so make sure you hop around to see the other amazing projects on the hop! Click on the links below to visit them.

Do you need any of the products used on today's card? Click on the shopping links below to add them to your collection now.

Blog Hop List:

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 66XHAKPX 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

Click on the images below to purchase them in my online shop:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All Star Tutorial Bundles have 12 AMAZING video tutorials to inspire you each month.

 Click HERE for sneak peeks or to purchase.

FREE with a purchase from my online store