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Artisan Design Team Blog Hop – Laser cut Specialty Paper

August 15, 2019 by Mikaela Titheridge 16 Comments

Welcome to the August Artisan Design Team Blog Hop, where we are showcasing the Shimmer Detailed Laser Cut Designer Series Paper.

Manuela is bound to have already inspired you with her creations and I hope to continue to do more of the same.

These stunning detailed sheets are so delicate – one side its white and the other a beautiful shimmery vanilla. I decided that I wanted to change it up a little and add colour.

I took my colour inspiration from the night sky over our house only last week. We noticed this amazing pink hue and had to go out and investigate. It was stunning and I think I’ve managed to recreate it in my projects here today.

Firstly I took the delicate sheets and cut out this stunning pattern with intwining circles. A Sponge Brayer is perfect for adding colour to these sheets, although you need to be gentle to avoid tearing. I layered four beautiful colours together to create this effect – Flirty Flamingo, Melon Mambo, Gorgeous Grape and Rich Razzleberry. I just loved how it looked over the black and with the pop of Crushed Curry Ribbon.

These Baker’s Boxes are perfect for edible treats of cookies or chocolates. I wanted to jazz up the top but still wanted to be able to see through the laser cut paper.

This final DL Card was created with a layer of Shimmery White Cardstock. I first created the ombré effect over the entire panel using the Sponge Brayers. To create the silhouette, I inked up the laser cut image with Black Memento Ink, before adhering in place.

I love these cute little Library Clips and their addition to these projects. The Nobel Peacock Rhinestones offer two of the colours that I used in my Ombré effect – Melon Mambo and Gorgeous Grape. I love the depth of colour in these projects, It’s something quite different for me.

Now you’ll want to hop on over to see what Narelle has in store for us this month.

Have a great day and enjoy the rest of the hop.

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Stamping Sunday are All Tied Up

August 11, 2019 by Mikaela Titheridge 8 Comments

We’re getting all Tied Up today here at Stamping Sunday as we share proejcts with Ribbon included.

Tiying the knot is what my card is actually all about, as I create an Engagement card for a friend. A new home and a new relationship, this card signifies the start of forever.

The new In Color, Purple Posy, has been a colour that I’ve used very little of, but teams so beautifully with Crumb Cake. Rustic with a clean and fresh colour, I felt these were the perfect marriage for these projects.

Un-tie the bow and slide up the Box lid to reveal the Crumb Cake Box base that peeps through the heart aperture. The little flowers in the heart, were stamped with White Ink and are surrounded by a stitched Purple Posy boarder. I then turned to the stamp set Bloom & Grow for the single flower and sentiments.

The flowers within this stamp set are just beautiful and perfect for colouring in with the Blends. I used Purple Posy and Soft Sea Foam for a delicate touch and fussy cut the sentiment.

I used the edge of the same Purple Posy and Crumb Cake Ribbon, to edge the bottom of this coordinating card. Embellished in the same way as the Gift Box, the sentiment says it all … Forever does indeed Start Today and I wish the very best to this special couple.

I hope you have enjoyed my offering with you today and that you’ll hop on over to see what the others within the Team have to offer. I’m sure there will be an abundance of inspiration shared.

Enjoy the rest of the weekend and be sure to get all tied up in all that you do .

Thanks for stopping by.

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You Can Create it Kit

August 6, 2019 by Mikaela Titheridge Leave a Comment

I’m super excited to have recently been invited to join the ‘You Can Create It’ Team. It’s a fabulous Team of talented ladies lead by Anja Luft and Heike Fallwickl from Germany, that now spreads globally.

Founded in the spring of 2014, Anja and Heike had the idea to offer a taster of materials with the concept to “Make something out of it”. The entire team publish ideas of how you could use the kit, along with others who have purchased it. We have global Teams from the Netherlands and Austria, to the USA, Canada, Australia and the UK.

The Team design from a pre selected Quarterly Kit chosen by the Team and comprises of a mini kit for each month within that quarter, plus some additional items. Then each month you can check back here for inspiration for each kit. You’ll get ideas not only from the Team but you can also submit ideas to me, made from your kit, to have posted to my blog post. It’s the perfect, ‘try before you buy’ way to have a taster of each collection of the products.

What does it cost?

For just £15.00 you will receive a Quarterly kit consisting of 3 different kits plus some additional items that includes P&P to UK addresses.
Inspiration can be obtained each month from myself and the You Can Create it Team. You can also submit photographs of your creations using that month’s kit, to have posted to my blog, to share even more inspiration.

Quarterly Kit

July’s Kit

July’s Kit contains two 6″x6″ sheets of Bird Ballad Paper and two Bird Ballad Embellishments. The additional items within the Quarterly kit also include a sheet of Watercolour Paper, some Basic Pearls and a Copper Dotted Treat Bag.

I took two sheets of cardstock (Black and Grey Granite), a length of ribbon and some twine and pulled upon the Watercolour Paper, Treat Bag and Pearls from the kit to create my share. The fun comes in that July’s kit offers two random sheets of the Bird Ballad, so what I may have chosen to use, others may have chosen differently. It’s a fun way to see how to use the entire pack of paper.

A wash of Daffodil Delight to the middle of the Watercolour paper and a splattering from the tip of my marker pen created the background. Some fussy cutting of these delightful feathers teamed with a simple sentiment and some pearls and this card was complete.

With the remaining Watercolour paper, this second card and gift tag was created A wash of Daffodil Delight set the scene, before some fussy cut birds were set out over the top. A simple sentiment was added with a trinket. A dark cardbase helps add drama to the otherwise soft look of these cards.

Simple gift packaging can be jazzed up with a beautiful tag. Sometimes less is more.

Below you’ll find some more ideas using July’s kit from the rest of the Design Team, so take a look.

Message me If you’d like to purchase a kit and/or submit a photo to be published. Let’s see what you can create with it and share in the fun!

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Anja Luft

Heike Fallwickl

Hélène Den Breejen

Fanny Minne

Linda Stevens Cullen

Karina Chin

Simone Bartrum

Ann-Marie Breurkes

I hope you have enjoyed the inspiration that we have all shared with you this month and that you’ll head back here at the beginning of September to see what we create using this month’s kit.

Until then, I’ll thank the girls for asking me to join them and hope that you too will enjoy this journey with me.

Supplies used to recreate my samples

Stampers Showcase Blog Hop – Masculine

July 29, 2019 by Mikaela Titheridge 26 Comments

Welcome to this month’s Stampers Showcase Blog Hop where this month we’re sharing Masculine projects. Be it that I was about to head off on a Cruise it had me thinking. Many men work overseas, in the forces or at sea, so a Miss You card seemed fitting.

I set to creating this sponged background from Pool Party, Coastal Cabana, Bermuda Bay and Night of Navy on Shimmery White cardstock. A little Soft Suede was added for the sea bed and some Silver Heat Embossed lines from the Artisan Textures Stamp Set. It was so hard to capture the shimmer that this cardstock creates.

The Anchor was stamped in versamark and heat embossed with Silver Embossing Powder on Smoky Slate cardstock. I really couldn’t decide if the anchor should be brown/bronzes or silver, but I loved the finished look.

The Well Written Dies, cut out of Silver Foil to blend with the embossing is a great compliment.

I debated about the addition of the sequins, but just three to allow the sea to shimmer, I felt enough and perfectly fitting. A simple little card with lots of texture that I hope you’ve liked.

Hop on over to see what Rebecca-Jo has to share with us today.

Enjoy the rest of your day and the rest of the hop.

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Stampin’ Creative Blog Hop – Animal Antics

July 25, 2019 by Mikaela Titheridge 10 Comments

The Stampin’ Creatives are sharing some Animal Antics in this month’s Blog Hop.

I took a look through my shelves to see what Animal sets I could turn my hand to. I’ve a fair few that I went through, before choosing Over the Moon. I love this fun set. You really can get up to some animal antics with this set.

I really liked the idea of a daytime card and a nighttime card, so took these little 3″ x 3″ Frames from the Shimmer Detailed Laser Cut Specialty Paper pack and coloured them using our Blends. One was coloured simply using the Dark Black and the other using Granny Apple Green in both shades, to add a mottled effect.

Dreaming Big is all the animal antics that this cow is up to. With the sun going down and the moon shining, it was clearly time to Dream Big. A touch of the Subtles Embossing Folder and this simple little card was good to go.

Day Dreaming is what this card is all about. Another simple little card with a sunny, blue sky background that’s framed with green foliage.

Two very simple little cards that make heavy use of a variety of Blends.

Well, it will be great to see what other Animal Antics the Team are getting up to this month. Check out the rest of the hop for some inspirational creations. Enjoy!

The Stampin’ Creative Line up

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Stampin’ Up! Incentive Trip Swaps

July 21, 2019 by Mikaela Titheridge Leave a Comment

I’m fresh home from the Stampin’ Up! Incentive Trip and what a trip it was. I’ll prepare another post to give you more inside information, but for now, I’m sharing my Incentive Trip Swaps with you.

Like all Stampin’ Up! events, we have the opportunity to take part in Swaps, which is a great chance to share inspiration with others. Sadly before we set off for the Greek Isles, I had need to create a Sympathy card for a dear friend. Sympathy cards can be so difficult to create, so not to make something too depressing. I wanted to create something that was calming and pleasant to look at … cheerful in a respectful way.

The new stamp set, Beautiful Friendship offers the most gorgeous flowers for stamping. They are perfect for teaming with the Masking Technique, which I decided to use for this card. I also choce a colour palette that was fresh and calming … you could say, serene.

I stamped this beautiful sentiment, from the stamp set, Woven Heirlooms, using the new In Colour, Pretty Peacock. Masking up this sentiment, I randomly stamping the various flowers and leaves around the edge before matting and layering. I added a flash of Silver Foil for that element of lift and a few randomly placed pearls for that finishing touch.

A simple little card that I hope would bring calmness to anyone in their time of pain and sorrow.

I hope all that received my swap on the cruise will find inspiration from this card. It was a true pleasure sharing the trip with you all. I’ve some fond memories that I’ll be sharing in another post … but until then …

Happy Stamping

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Artisan Design Team Blog Hop – Perennial Essence

July 18, 2019 by Mikaela Titheridge 10 Comments

Welcome to the Artisan Design Team Blog Hop for July, where this month we are showcasing the Perennial Essence Suite. We were all given these products to inspire you with a variety of creations and inspire we will.

I’m sure the lovely Manuela has already inspired you this month with her beautiful creations. She makes some beautiful things and I love her style.

For me, the Perennial Essence Designer Series Papers are a stand-alone piece that just sing to me. Appearing like a painting by Monet, these papers are so very beautiful that they really need to be the focus. Being Summer and often the season for Weddings, I wanted to focus on gift giving and special occasions.

I used to love our Kraft paper, so was delighted to see a come back in these NoteCards and Envelopes. I also loved to see the addition of the little Stampin’ Up! Kraft packing boxes. A little small, I decided to join two together and disguise the join with this stunning Designer Series Paper. It worked beautifully and looked even more stunning with the addition of the Band Together Dies. Oh my word, the detail of these dies is just stunning.

I threaded the beautiful Organdy Striped Ribbon through the tabs at each side and tied in a bow to the left. I teamed this Petal Pink bow with the Vellum Stamped and Punched flower. The little Floral Centres are a bright yellow colour, but I took a Dark Rich Razzleberry Blends Pen to them to darken them up.

I wanted to create a second little box that used a Kraft Card as the base and the beautiful Designer Series Papers as the top. Being smaller, I didn’t feel this box needed a flower. I did add some punched leaves using the Leaf Punch that’s carried over from the previous catalogue. This punch also coordinates with the leaf found in the Floral Essence Stamp Set in this suite.

Finally a card and a chance to showcase this beautiful paper backed by the Kraft Card base. A very simple card with coordinating lined envelope, it didn’t need any more.

I was so unsure about these papers and yes they are bold, but they are utterly gorgeous too.

Now you’ll want to hop on over to see what Narelle has in store for us this month.

Have a great day and enjoy the rest of the hop.