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Seaside theme for a Stamp-a-Stack

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Thank you to the lovely ladies who joined me for my summer themed Stamp-a-Stack event this weekend. We had such a good time and made so many lovely cards.

All the projects for the day were seaside themed to get us into the mood for the fore-casted high temperatures later this week. On arrival each lady was given a clear wallet containing a pack of By the Shore dsp, 20 card bases in a variety of co-ordinating colours, a pack of Metallic Enamel Shapes, 20 Very Vanilla Envelopes and packets of pre-cut card stock layers to make each card. Mind you we all had a good laugh when we realised that I had only put 10 card bases in each pack………definitely a muppet moment. Luckily I only live 3 minutes away and was able to nip home and grab more cardstock to cut and score the missing bases.

www.crafty-rootes.com – Seaside themed Stamp-a-Stack cards

As always the day whizzed by so quickly. Here is a picture of some of the ladies hard at work and of some of the projects they made.

www.crafty-rootes.com – Seaside themed Stamp-a-Stack in action

Thanks for stopping by my blog today, if you don’t have a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator I would love to be yours!  If you don’t have a catalogue and you would like one, please let me know and I will send one to you.  To order any supplies click on the “shop online” button at the top of the page. Alternatively, contact me and I would be happy to place an order for you.

Details of the products I used for this project can be found below. Please visit my blog again soon.

Mo x

Supplies used:
Stamp sets
High Tide, Balloon Adventure, Balloon Celebration, Badges & Banners, Day At The Beach, Designer Tee (retired), Seaside Shore, Custom Tee & Teeny Tiny Sentiments
Dies
Layering Circles framelits, Stitched Shapes framelits  & T-Shirt Builder framelits
Punches
Balloon Builder Punch, Badge Punch, Scallop Tag Topper & Project Life Corner Rounder
Embossing Folder
Seaside embossing folder
Cardstock
Very Vanilla, Tip Top Taupe, Mint Macaron, Calypso Coral, Dapper Denim, Water Melon Wonder & Soft Sky
DSP
By The Shore dsp
Ink Pads and/or Marker
Tip Top Taupe, Dapper Denim, Crushed Curry, Basic Grey, Watermelon Wonder, Night of Nay, Mint Macaron & Versamark
Tools
Big Shots, Multipurpose Platform + 2 cutting pads, Standard Platform + 2 cutting pads, Heat Guns, Paper Trimmers, Stampin Scrubs and Stampin Mist, Bone folders and Scissors
Acrylic Block – multiples
A, B, C, D, E, G & H
Adhesives
Tombow Liquid Adhesive & Stampin’ Dimensionals
Accessories
Water Color Pencils, Blender Pens, Sponge Daubers, Grid Paper, Embossing Buddy, Silver Embossing Powder, Natural Silver Ribbon, Metallic Enamel Shapes & Very Vanilla Envelopes

Seaside Shore Table gifts for my Stamp-a-Stack

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Another sneak peek today but this time I am sharing the treat boxes I have made for my Stamp-a-Stack event on the 6th May at Manor Farm, Bourn. I decided on a summer/seaside theme for the projects that the ladies will be making and wanted a little sweet treat to help them get into the mood.

I cut a piece of Very Vanilla cardstock into a 5½” by 7¾”. Using the Simply Scored Scoring Tool I scored on the long side at ½”, 1”, 6¾” & 7¼”. I then rotated the cardstock 90⁰ and scored at ½”, 2½”, 3” & 5” on the short side. I  folded and burnished all the score lines using my Bone Folder before cutting and forming the tabs and box closures at either end using scissors – see picture.

www.crafty-rootes.com – Seaside Shore by Stampin’ Up!

Before putting the box together I stamped an aquarium scene working from the bottom up to the top. I used Dapper Denim, Calypso Coral, Blushing Bride, Soft Sky and Mint Macaron inks to do this. I like to do my stamping after the box is scored and ready for assembling as I can see exactly where to put all the images to create my scene. After the stamping was complete I added Fast Fuse Adhesive to the side tabs and closed the box. The base and top openings then just tuck in.

www.crafty-rootes.com – Seaside Shore by Stampin’ Up!

I added some Dapper Denim Ruched Ribbon to the top of the box along with a sentiment from the Designer Tee stamp set which was die cut using the Big Shot and a tag from the Curvy Keepsake Thinlit Dies and tied on using Night of Navy Baker’s Twine. Inside is a gorgeous Guylian Seashell bar of chocolate……..yum……

Thanks for stopping by my blog today, if you don’t have a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator I would love to be yours!  If you don’t have a catalogue and you would like one, please let me know and I will send one to you.  To order any supplies click on the “shop online” button at the top of the page. Alternatively, contact me and I would be happy to place an order for you.

Details of the products I used for this project can be found below. Please visit my blog again soon.

Mo x

Supplies used:
Stamp sets
Seaside Shore & Designer Tee (retired)
Cardstock
Very Vanilla
Ink Pads
Dapper Denim, Calypso Coral, Blushing Bride, Soft Sky & Mint Macaron
Tools
Paper Trimmer, Simply Scored Scoring Tool, Stampin Scrub and Stampin Mist, Big Shot, multipurpose platform and cutting plates, Bone folder and Scissors
Dies
Curvy Keepsake dies
Acrylic Block
A, A, B, B, C, D & D
Adhesives
Fast Fuse
Accessories
Dapper Denim Ruched Ribbon

Custom Tee and T-Shirt Builder go military

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Yesterday was my son’s birthday and as he is an Officer Cadet at Sandhurst Military Academy I wanted to make him a card with a military theme. After scratching my head and trying out a few ideas, this is what I have come up with.

www.crafty-rootes.com – Custom Tee by Stampin’ Up!

I decided on the T-Shirt Builder Framelits dies as main element of the card. The regulation issue T-Shirts are a dark brown so I stamped the large T-Shirt from the Custom Tee stamp set in Chocolate Chip ink onto Chocolate Chip cardstock and die cut using the co-ordinating T-Shirts Builder Framelit dies.  Although this looked OK I really wanted to add a camouflage element to the card. So, I got out the ‘splodgy’ stamp from the Perpetual Birthday Calendar stamp set and set to with Chocolate Chip, Crumb Cake, Sahara Sand, Always Artichoke and Wild Wasabi ink and a piece of Very Vanilla cardstock. I also used the oval stamp from the Beetles & Bugs stamp set to add a different texture to the camo. I die cut a T-Shirt using the same die from the stamped panel.

www.crafty-rootes.com – Custom Tee by Stampin’ Up!

I stamped the sentiment from the Designer Tee stamp set in Chocolate Chip ink onto a panel of Very Vanilla cardstock. Both T-Shirts were then mounted onto the Very Vanilla panel, the camouflage one glued on with Tombow Liquid Adhesive and the Chocolate Chip one added over the top with Stampin Dimensionals. A layer of Wild Wasabi was added behind. This whole piece was then layered onto a Crumb Cake card base.

www.crafty-rootes.com – Custom Tee by Stampin’ Up!

I am pleased with how the card turned out and really hope my son liked it.

To purchase any of the items click on the ‘shop online’ button at the top of the page.

Mo x

Supplies used:
Stamp sets
Custom Tee, Designer Tee and Perpetual Birthday Calendar
Dies
T-Shirt Builder Framelit dies
Cardstock
Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla and Wild Wasabi
Ink Pads
Chocolate Chip, Crumb Cake, Sahara Sand, Always Artichoke and Wild Wasabi
Tools
Paper Trimmer, Stampin Scrub and Stampin Mist, Big Shot + Magnetic Platform,  Bone folder and scissors
Acrylic Blocks
A, B C and D
Adhesives
Tombow Mono Multi Liquid, Stampin’ Dimensionals
Sundries
Very Vanilla Envelope

Custom Tee – makes great masculine cards

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I have been making a very simple masculine birthday card today using the Custom Tee stamp set by Stampin’ Up! – this set is available in the Spring/Summer 2017 catalogue. I have also used the Designer Tee stamp set which co-ordinates with the Custom Tee set and is one of the options in the Sale-A- Bration brochure – you can choose one free item from this brochure for every £45 you spend until the end of March 2017.

www.crafty-rootes.com – Stampin Up – Custom Tee stamp set

I stamped the larger T-shirt image from the Custom Tee stamp set using Pacific Point ink onto Whisper White cardstock. The sentiment from the Designer Tee stamp set was stamped using the same ink and the T-shirt was then die cut using the co-ordinating T-shirt Builder framelit dies.

I added the die cut piece to a panel of Whisper White cardstock using dimensionals and stamped the Happy Birthday (I love the font) from the Designer Tee stamp set beneath. I add a strip of Silver Foil Paper to either side of the Whisper White panel before layering it to the front of a Pacific Point card base.

www.crafty-rootes.com – Stampin’ Up! – Custom Tee stamp set

I decorated the envelope and the inside of the card using a smiley face stamp from the Hello stamp set, now retired – it was one of last year’s Sale-A-Bration choices.

I really like the uncluttered look of this card and I love the Pacific Point which is a colour I don’t often use.

Thanks for visiting my blog today, come again soon

Mo x

Supplies
Custom Tee stamp set
Designer Tee stamp set
Hello stamp set – retired
T-shirt Builder Framelit dies
Pacific Point cardstock
Whisper White cardstock
Silver Foil Paper
Pacific Point ink pad
Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Adhesive
Dimensionals
Stampin Scrub and Stampin mist
Stampin Trimmer
Acrylic blocks A, C, and D
Scissors
Bone Folder
Envelope

Avant Garden for a birthday

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I needed to make a birthday card today for a friend. She loves her garden and delicate flowers in particular so I found myself reaching for the Sale-A-Bration stamp set, Avant Garden as one of the images in the set is a really pretty sprig of flowers which she will love, 

www.crafty-rootes.com – Avant Garden – Stampin’ Up!

I stamped the image twice onto a piece of Whisper White cardstock using Momento Tuxedo Black ink and coloured them in with the Melon Mambo, Old Olive and Early Espresso Watercolor Pencils and a Blender Pen. I love these pencils so much and am definitely reaching for them more and more often.  

www.crafty-rootes.com – Avant Garden- Stampin’ Up!

I stamped the Happy Birthday sentiment from the Designer Tee stamp set, which is also a Sale-A-Bration choice using Melon Mambo ink. I used the Project Life Corner Rounder Punch to round the top right and bottom left corners of the stamped piece. I wrapped a length of the Solid Whisper White Baker’s Twine  3 times around the bottom of the panel and tied in a bow. I added the whole piece using Tombow Liquid Adhesive to a panel of Melon Mambo cardstock with similarly rounded corners. The whole topper was then added to a Thick Whisper White card base using Dimensionals. To finish the card off I added some Wink of Stella to the flowers……….love a bit of sparkle. 

www.crafty-rootes.com – Avant Garden – Stampin’ Up!

I really hope my friend likes her card. Thank you for visiting my blog today and I hope you will come again soon.

 If you don’t know about Sale-A-Bration…………where have you been!!!! Basically until the 31st March 2017 you can choose 1 item from the brochure for every £45 order, so for a £90 order you can choose 2 items from the 10 on offer and rumour has it more items will be added in mid Feb.

For more information click on the Shop Online Button at the top of this page. If you would like a Spring/Summer catalogue and Sale-A-Bration brochure leave a comment or email me – mo@crafty-rootes.co.uk.

 Mo x

Supplies used
Avant Garden stamp set
Designer Tee stamp set
Thick Whisper White cardstock
Whisper White cardstock
Melon Mambo cardstock
Momento Tuxedo Black ink pad
Melon Mambo ink pad
Stampin Up Watercolor Pencils – Melon Mambo, Old Olive and Early Espresso
Blender Pen
Solid Whisper White Baker’s twine
Stampin Scrub and Stampin mist
Stampin Trimmer
Acrylic blocks D and E
Project Life Corner Rounder
Scissors
Bone Folder
Dimensionals
Tombow Liquid Adhesive
Envelope