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Stampin’ Fancy Friday – My Kind of Christmas Challenge

October 23, 2020 by Mikaela Titheridge Leave a Comment

This month the Stampin’ Fancy Friday Team are sharing their kind of Christmas Challenge.

We all have our traditions at Christmas and this month’s Fancy Friday Challenge is all about this. The challenge is to incorporate our type of Christmas in our project and for me, it’s Poinsettias.

The Poinsettia always brought about a family giggle. Ironically it was a flower that no female through our family liked. Year upon year they somehow turned up in the house. A big family celebration in a hotel one year started with the absence of the tree that the hotel quickly rectified. A small fake tree was put up, that was loaned from the staff quarters. Awaiting decoration, they went about the hotel pulling all of the Poinsettia heads from the plants and pushing them into the tree to dress it. This caused much hilarity amongst the family which has brought about a love-hate relationship with them now.

This month’s Christmas Challenge had to include the Poinsettia for me.

Sponging up the Pretty Peacock matting layer to darken the sides and add focus to the centre, I splattered it with Wink of Stella and Frost White Shimmer Paint.

Whilst allowing this to dry, I die cut this fabulous Poinsettia from Real Red cardstock and the flourishes from Mossy Meadow. The Beautiful Boughs Dies coordinate perfectly. Adding an additional hint of shimmer, I die cut the little berries from Silver Foil cardstock.

Adhesive Foam Sheets help add lift to die cut words. Being quite deep with embellishment, this card is best hand-delivered or used as a gift tag. I just know that for all the wrong (and right) reasons, this card would raise a smile for my Mum.

Check out more of the Stampin’ Fancy Friday inspiration over on Instagram. There’s a new post each day.

Happy Crafting and enjoy taking part in the challenge.

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Mugs, Candy Canes and Warm Hugs from Stampin’ Up!

October 20, 2020 by Mikaela Titheridge Leave a Comment

Upon the launch of the current Mini Catalogue, I created these two cards for my online Launch Party. Warm Hugs from Stampin’ Up! offers such cute little images to scatter over your projects that I couldn’t wait to get using them.

The Bundle offering for this stamp set comes with dies that wrap around little coffee cups but it was more the stamp set that I was interested in. I still tend to buy the bundle so wanted to make good use of the dies.

There is a scallop trim to the Dies that I decided to use down the edge of this first card. It may well be curved but used with some strategic placement of the sentiment panel and you wouldn’t notice. The holly comes from the Sweetest Borders Dies.

I just love how the Wrapped in Texture Embossing Folder dots reflect the same as the Heartwarming Hugs Designer Series Paper. It’s all just so pretty. These papers are currently on offer with a 15% discount during the month of October 2020.

I stamped a whole line of little Mugs, Candy Cane and Trees, using one for my first card and many others for my second.

Yes, it was a lot of die-cutting but a great way to use up whisper white offcut strips. By only inking up the end of a sentiment, I was able to repeatedly stamp with the word Cocoa around the oval aperture.

The Snowflake adhesive-backed Embellishments added that final scattering of bling.

I can’t believe it’s taken me so long to share these cards with you but I do hope you like my offering today and that perhaps you’ll consider this Bundle.

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Let’s Get Hopping #36 – One for the Boys

October 19, 2020 by Mikaela Titheridge 14 Comments

The Let’s Get Hopping Team are bringing you One for the Boys and a selection of masculine inspiration.

Thank you for joining us today and. If you’ve hopped over from the lovely Shelly Wadge, then welcome and if not, be sure to hop around and see what all the others have to share.

Masculine themes can often be found quite difficult. for me, I set myself a challenge to make use of the Plaid Tidings papers from the Mini Catalogue. Some colourful plaids but one, in particular, had me think of Scotland, somewhere that my husband loves. He often tells me of the scenery, the hills, the trees and generally the amazing views. I felt I needed to try and recreate this.

The Stitched Nested Label Dies have that angular shape perfect for a masculine card. The Plaid had me thinking of an old fashioned smoking jacket that I somehow think of when I think of Scotland. Smoking jackets often have rope edge trim, which I brought into my project by using the die from the Smooth Sailing Dies.

Natural woodgrain seemed only perfect and fitting to team with the focal scene. This paper came from the In Good Taste Suite. Waterfront is the perfect stamp set to use for that mountainous setting and In the Pines for those trees and the finishing sentiment.

I stamped the mountains first with Smoky Slate, then Shaded Spruce and softened them using a Water Painter. It’s very hard to see in these photos, the Seaside Spray sky that I created as a backdrop. I added a little Soft Suede to the ground to muddy up the grass a little. All colours blended well with the papers used and the ribbon flash that sat behind the sentiment. Some wood elements helped to finish off the natural feel of this project.

I hope you like my offering and the story behind my thinking of this one.

Do remember to hop on over to see what Tracy Bish has in store for us.

Enjoy the rest of the hop and thanks for stopping by.

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Press on to the Sweetest Time of Cookies and Candy Canes

October 16, 2020 by Mikaela Titheridge Leave a Comment

This week’s Facebook Live saw me Press on to the Sweetest Time with Cookies and Candy Canes. I showed how to reverse a mug image from the Stamp Set Press on. I then showed how you can throw pretty much every stamp set at it to create a fun festive collage. Why use one stamp set when you can use several?

My first card made use of the Mug from the set that I showed how to reverse stamp it to get the handle on the other side. A useful technique to know. I sponged up the background cardstock to create an unusual grey blue colour that worked so well with Real Red.

Reverse Stamping

Stamp your image using Black Memento Ink onto a silicone sheet and then press this onto your cardstock. If you were to use the Stamparatus, you could repeat to get a darker image.

Stamping the water from the Waterfront stamp set, heat embossing white and trimming, creates the best froth for the tops of drinks.

The background was splattered with Wink of Stella to give a slightly sparkly look.

When you can decide on the base colour … do all three.

This next card grew and grew. Such a fun card to create and a fun card to look at, I absolutely loved this one.

The background matting layer was again sponged with Pretty Peacock and Night of Navy on Basic Grey cardstock and splattered with Wink of Stella. The centre had a swirl of white ink to help focus the eye to the middle of the card.

A scattering of Snowflakes gave that frosty feel and the need for a hot drink or two. Candy Canes and Cookies accompanied these two hot drinks. The Take out cup was so fun to create using paper piecing but the hardest part of this card design was the colour for the base.

With much debate and the suggestion by one viewer for an Old Olive base, it was decided I needed to make a set of three. I have to say, I love all three. I so enjoyed creating these cards and will find it hard to part with these.

If you missed my Live of me creating these, you can still catch the replay over on my Business Facebook Page. Click HERE to find it.

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Well, I hope you have enjoyed my share for today. I most certainly enjoyed creating them.

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Celebrate Sunflowers Facebook Live Heat Emboss Tip

October 12, 2020 by Mikaela Titheridge 1 Comment

Last week’s Facebook Live had me Celebrate Sunflowers to brighten a dreary rainy day here in Cambridgeshire.

The weather really had dampened more than just the garden soil, it was so dreary that I couldn’t help but pull something cheerful off of the shelves. I started by talking through how I had recently created a card using the Stamparatus for some Customer Thank you Cards.

This was a card I had shared a week or so back and thoroughly enjoyed making. Autumnal colours with a sunny vibrant sunflower backed with Designer Series Paper, it was quite quick and simple to make and I showed just how.

My second card saw me using versamark on Sahara Sand cardstock and colouring in with a White Watercolour Pencil. Using an Embossing Buddy to neutralise where Embossing Powder would take, gave a hit and miss effect to the card.

The splatters were achieved by splatting water and embossing powder.

We made two versions of this card, one with the sentiment up high and another down low. I liked both for different reasons and loved the overall effect of this technique.

Using Watercolour paper and Bumblebee Ink, I gave a wash to the cardstock of this final card before drying and neutralising with an Embossing Buddy. Splattering again with water allowed the Gold Embossing Powder to catch that I then heated to melt. This tied in nicely with the leaf sprigs I added over the top of the Sunflower.

A simple thread bow and a sentiment and the card were complete.

I felt these looked elegantly calm and quite understated. If you missed my Facebook Live and you’d like to go back and take a look, you can do so by clicking HERE.

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Trimming the Town Facebook Live Bauble and Snow Globe Cards

October 8, 2020 by Mikaela Titheridge Leave a Comment

Last week’s Facebook Live had me being creative with the Trimming the Town Designer Series Paper. With plenty of leftovers from a recent event I held, I decided to create a Snow Globe and Bauble Card Live. I had so much fun.

This first card was using up scraps I had leftover. I wanted to show how you could layer up your card to disguise areas where you’d cut pieces out. This enabled me to create a whole new card suitable to give to your neighbours this Christmas.

My second card used a sentiment from Itty Bitty Christmas heat embossed with Gold Embossing powder. A simple sponged night sky backdrop allowed the cheerful bauble to sing. Each of the little houses were fussy cut from the Trimming the Town Designer Series Paper, which fitted perfectly within a basic shape circle die.

Bauble Top Tip

To complete the top of the bauble, I used Gold Foil cardstock with the Banner Pick a Punch. Once I had my scallop ended strip, I then used a scalloped circle die to add the detail to the bottom of the Bauble topper. Tiny detail but it really helped finish the bauble.

Very subtle and not easily seen here, I flicked Wink of Stella all over the Night of Navy background cardstock before adhering to a Poppy Parade card base. I rather liked the red trim around the edge.

My final card was a shaker card using the Snow Globe Domes and the Stamp Set Zoo Globe. Oh, how I had fun with this card. Stamping and heat embossing clear on silver foil cardstock gave an etched feel to the base of the snow globe. A series of houses and trees were adhered within the globe, before some snowflake sequins added. Again the sentiment was taken from the Itty Bitty Christmas Stamp Set and the globe trimmed with Real Red Thread.

I thoroughly enjoyed creating these cards live with those who had joined me. My Facebook Lives are held every Thursday at 8.30pm BST and I have a different theme or stamp set each week.

If you missed my Facebook Live last week, you can catch me on replay or follow me through my Youtube Channel.

Hoping you’ll join me for my next Live.

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Creation Station – Press on with a Ginger Spice Latte

October 4, 2020 by Mikaela Titheridge 6 Comments

Welcome to the Creation Station Blog Hop where this month we’re spicing things up a little. This month’s theme was to choose a Spice Girl and create with them in mind. When I think of a Ginger Spice Latte, I thought of our stamp set, Press On.

I can’t wait to see which Spice Girl the lovely Sara Nell Langland has used for her inspiration. If you’ve hopped over from Sara’s blog, then you’ll have already seen.

Be that Autumn has arrived, I can’t help but think of Pumpkins and my love for Spiced Pumpkin Muffins with a Frosted Cream Cheese topping. In my flying days to America, I’d always source out my nearest Starbucks for these muffins. Now I don’t usually mess with my coffee but I do know that it’s about now that they start to advertise their Spiced Ginger Latte’s.

Step into my Coffee shop and “Tell me what you want, what you really, really want”

In preparation for your order, I stamped a couple of mugs using the Press On Stamp set, one in reverse to the other and added a patterned cuff.

Creating a Reversed Image

To create a reversed mug, I first stamped the image onto my silicone sheet before pressing this down onto the whisper white cardstock. I did the same onto the Plaid Tidings Designer Series Paper before fussy cutting the cuff.

Spiced Ginger Latte you say? …

Frothing up your Milk

A nice chilled temperament is needed for this bit and the stamp set, Waterfront. Taking a scrap of Vellum, I was able to stamp the mountains using Versamark and heat emboss White before fussy cutting. This created the perfect amount of foam for my Latte.

To assemble my card and pull it all together, I chose the Cinnamon Cider card base from the Flowers for Every Season suite and added a matting layer of Watercolour paper. This had received a wash of Bumblebee Ink and randomly stamped Cinnamon Cider Coffee Beans. The tinniest trim of Pretty Peacock ribbon edged the base to pull together all the colours from the patterned paper.

Sour Cream Container

Again, a Sour Cream Container only seemed right as a little treat holder for today’s project.

Yet more Spicey colours, Cinnamon Cider and a Ginger Spice Latte mug to embellish and my order were complete.

One Ginger Spiced Latte, complete with Sour Cream Treat holder and all in the Autumnal Gingery, Spiced colours we love. Mmmm now to get baking those a good Spiced Ginger cake on this dreary raining day here in Cambridgeshire, UK.

With your coffee in a take out cup, do hop on over to see what the lovely Jeanna Kay has to offer and which Spice Girl she’s used. Enjoy!

Thanks for hopping by today.

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You Can Create it with a Tasteful Poinsettia and Envelopes

October 2, 2020 by Mikaela Titheridge Leave a Comment

You Can Create it this month with some In Good Taste Designer Series Paper and a Poinsettia.

It’s time to create with limited supplies again and I love the challenge that the You Can Create It kit brings. This month we had a piece of Cardstock and two pieces of patterned paper from the In Good Taste suite. I still had many supplies left over from my incidental pack, like cardstock and envelopes.

For me, I decided to use the patterned paper, with a sheet of cardstock and the envelopes to create my project. I’d been playing with the Poinsettia Petals Bundle this week, which I carried over into this project.

Adhering four envelopes together to create a concertina wallet, allowed me the chance to make a mini planner for Christmas. Somewhere that I could keep ideas for gifts, meal planning, shopping lists and such like for the busy festive period.

Opening like a wallet, I embellished the opening flap with mini die cut poinsettias of the same colour cardstock. This gives a faux embossed look and gave enough detail to not clash with the main focal Poinsettia.

I gave a wash of Ink colour over the Shimmery White Cardstock piece using both Merry Merlot and Shaded Spruce. I then stamped and die cut to create the Poinsettia. The gradient in colour that this effect gives, was what I wanted and the gentle shimmer, just elegant.

The In Good Taste Designer Series Paper panel helped to complete the front with a Beaded Pearl embellishment and ribbon pull topping it off. Opening by the ribbon reveals the four concertina compartments each with their own notecard.

All of these supplies came from the Monthly kit and/or Quarterly incidental pack with the exception of Ribbon and Pearl embellishment. It always amazes me what can be created from so little.

The full A4 sheet made the wallet base, with the extra cut off, to embellish the flap. No wastage this month.

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Take a look below to see what the other Designers have to share. The inspiration is here to help you see what you can create. Enjoy!

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Anja Luft

Heike Fallwickl

Danielle Kassing

Fanny Minne

Karina Chin

Simone Bartrum

Ann-Marie Breurkes-Rood

Linda Stevens Cullen

Enjoy your day and keep crafting.

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All Star Tutorial Hop – Celebrate Sunflowers

October 1, 2020 by Mikaela Titheridge 8 Comments

The All Star Tutorial Design Team are playing with the Flowers for Every Season Suite. I chose to Celebrate with Sunflowers for my creation. An Autumnal card where I team up with a large Buffalo check.

Welcome to this month’s blog hop from the All Start Tutorial Design Team. We have an abundance of inspiration for you this month to give you a taster of what our Tutorial Bundle might offer for you.

I wanted a bold background so swung towards using the Buffalo Check Stamp. I felt that Cajun Craze worked so well with the pretty patterned paper I used for the base of the Sunflower. These colours reminded me of a dress from my childhood.

The Early Espresso card base teamed with the centre of the flower and the sentiment. It only seemed right to therefore add a coordinating woodgrain piece of paper. It’s that delicate floral paper behind the flower that I love the most. It comes from the Flowers for Every Season Paper stack, it’s gorgeous.

It didn’t need much embellishment and certainly didn’t warrant rhinestones or shimmer. Some Wood Elements and a Linen Thread Bow and the card was complete.

Just so that the inside coordinated with the outside, I added a strip of buffalo check to the opening edge. I really like this Buffalo check. Why I’ve not used it much before is beyond me.

I hope you like my share with you here and I hope you’ll enjoy the creation I have designed for this month’s Tutorial Bundle. Twelve amazing Video Tutorials each and every month offering amazing inspiration with Stampin’ Up! Products, Bundles, Suites and Product Medleys.

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Stamp@Home for Christmas – Online Event

September 28, 2020 by Mikaela Titheridge Leave a Comment

I am excited to offer you my first ever Online Stamp-a-Stack through my Stamp@Home for Christmas event.

Ever wanted to join in a Stamp-a-Stack but been unable to, well this is an event for you. This online class will run on 17th October and includes a full kit that you can upgrade if you wish. Each kit will have enough to create no less than 24 cards and be mailed directly for you to Stamp@Home. You’ll have the option to join in with a Live Crafting session via Zoom or simply follow some video tutorials.

Two craft sessions make up the day, a morning and an afternoon with a break for lunch. Unable to dedicate the whole day? You will receive access to a series of video tutorials, supported by PDF tutorials, that can be followed at your leisure.

Follow the link below to read more information and to book your space.

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