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Around the World on Wednesday – Changing Seasons

September 8, 2021 by Mikaela Titheridge 14 Comments

The Around the World on Wednesday Team have been creating for the Changing Seasons.

A warm welcome to all and if you’ve hopped on over from my dear friend Aurélie I just know you’ll have been wowed.

This month’s theme for our Around the World on Wednesday Blog Hop is Changing Seasons. I love living in the UK where we have four Seasons of weather. Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter, I adore how the leaves on the trees change colour and our view with it.

With this in mind, I pulled out a Bundle that I’ve had for a little while from our Annual Catalogue called Love of Leaves. It offers a watercolour image with Stitched leaf dies, which is a winning combination in my eyes.

Stampin’ Up!’s Stampin’ Write Markers were perfect for this project. For some leaves I inked up using an ink pad and the rock and roll technique and for others, the thumping technique. By spritzing water over the surface of the image, I was then able to transfer to watercolour paper giving a beautiful finish. Once dried, I die cut using the coordinating stitched leaf die.

Picking a larger focal leaf helped give balance to this collage which I anchored onto a woodgrain banner.

With a coordinating Stitched Greenery Die, I was able to carry the theme over to the background panel of Early Espresso.

I love this sentiment and teamed with leaves, seemed so fitting.

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I hope you have enjoyed my share today and enjoy the changing of the seasons. Don’t forget to hop around the world now to see what season my fellow designers are currently in.

Let us now hop on over to see what the lovely Annette Ball has to share today. She too makes some beautiful creations, so enjoy!

Thank you for hopping by today …. Enjoy the rest of the hop and all of the inspiration.

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Creation Station – Artfully Stepped Up

September 5, 2021 by Mikaela Titheridge 5 Comments

Welcome to the Creation Station Blog Hop where this month we’re sharing things that are Artfully Stepped Up.

Welcome to this month’s blog hop, where we are sharing our Artfully Stepped Up projects to inspire you. A series of stepped up cards can be a fun way of advancing and using your products. Being a lover of texture, layers and detail, I often find peeling things back a little difficult. I often start with the stepped up version and peel things backwards, rather than Step it up.

I hope you’ve seen what inspiration Yvonne Spikmans – Van Bruggen has shared with us today before joining me and if not, that you’ll hop round to see all of the inspiration.

My peeled back card consisted of a white card base and a simple Gray Granite layer. Stamping the floral image from the Hand-Penned Bundle in Whisper White Craft Ink, I added a simple sentiment.

The Lovely Labels Pick a Punch is perfect for adding detail to a sentiment panel. Mounting this over a pretty Blushing Bride ribbon, I added a scattering of Elegant Faceted Gems.

Artfully Stepped Up

This next card steps things up a little, as I add more texture, layers and detail.

Stamping the same image over the same colour matting layer, I coloured the flower heads with a Chalk marker. Using a chalk marker on a darker cardbase, allows you to add colour easily. Very subtly, I added Calypso Coral from a Watercolour Pencil before Embossing the entire panel with the Timeworn Type 3D Embossing Folder. This gives great texture and interest.

Stepping things up, I die cut from Basic White cardstock, a skeleton flourish of flowers to sit beneath my ribbon layer. This time I Die cut a label form the Meadow Dies set, which also has this cute little tag.

Detail like the Elegant Faceted Gems and a Gray Granite Twine Bow, help to finish this card beautifully.

I was pleased with the finish of these two cards and I hope I have inspired you.

Now be sure to hop on over to see what Jeanna Kay has in store for us. I’m excited to see what the Team have created today.

Thanks for hopping by, enjoy the rest of the hop.

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A Social Butterfly Brilliance

September 5, 2021 by Mikaela Titheridge Leave a Comment

The Butterfly Brilliance Bundle by Stampin’ Up! was the perfect bundle to demonstrate a fun technique.

Emboss Resist is a great technique that allows you to heat emboss an image and rub ink over the top to reveal this image. During last week’s Facebook Live, I demonstrated this fun and beautifully effective technique.

Inking up my image on the Stamparatus with Versamark Ink, I stamped and heat embossed with White Embossing Powder. Watching embossing powder melt, as heat is applied, revealing the glossy image is quite magical.

Applying the ink with Blending Brushes allowed for a smooth and even application. Starting at the bottom and working upwards, I first applied Crushed Curry to a Daffodil Delight layer. Following tis with Mango Melody and then Cajun Craze helped to create a rich ombre effect. The white heat embossed images need buffing with a tissue to reveal them a little crisper, which is where this technique gains it’s name.

The dramatic feel came from teaming this up with Basic Black cardstock, which I used for the card base and the sentiment panel. A simple Black & White Gingham ribbon flash and some self adhesive sequins and this card was complete.

This second card started with me stamping small flowers from the Hand-Penned Stamp set using Daffodil Delight. This panel was then embossed using the Timeworn 3D Embossing Folder to add texture and interest.

By heat embossing the butterfly Black on Watercolour Paper, allowed me to add ink to create a life like finish. A cluster of texture, colour and images helps to add interest. A vellum panel backed this cluster with a Be Dazzling circle sitting beneath the butterfly.

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The Be Dazzling Cardstock is a free pack of papers available through our Sale-a-Bration promotion. Spend £45 and you can choose this as a free option. Using the side of the brush end of a Cajun Craze Blends Pen, allowed me to coordinate this cardstock with my project.

Cajun Craze isn’t a colour that I often use but teamed with the rich yellows helped create a real Autumn feel.

I really hope you have enjoyed my share today. If you missed my Facebook Live and wanted to see how these cards were created, you can watch my Live on Replay HERE.

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You Can Create it with Bloom Where You’re Planted

September 2, 2021 by Mikaela Titheridge Leave a Comment

You Can Create it this month with our Quarterly Papercraft kit using Stampin’ Up!’s Bloom Where You’re Planted.

This month’s kit comprised of papers and coordinating cardstock from the Bloom Where You’re Planted Suite. We have an incidental kit of basics to pull from, shown here.

I love how these Paper Lattice pieces appear like trellis for plants to grow up. Teamed with our Brick & Mortar 3D Embossing Folder, it acts as a great backdrop.

Cutting a strip of Gray Granite cardstock and embossing that also, allowed me to have both a brick wall and floor. I chose to fussy cut the plant images from the piece of Designer Series Paper that I had. Thank you Cards are always needed in our house, so a simple heat embossed Thank you sentiment and my card was complete.

My second card was made on a similar theme but I used the Paper Lattice as decoration to a faux mirror. I die cut the macramé plant hanger and snipped out the top second to use to hang my mirror.

This time I wanted the plants to appear sat on a clothed table, so drew stripes onto the self adhesive Linen. This gave great texture and a different feel. I used Blends Alcohol Pens to colour plain white cardstock to whatever colour I needed for my mirror edge, plant and pot.

Three very simple cards that demonstrate how very quickly you can create some Thank you cards using very little supplies.

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In each Quarterly pack you receive a variety of papers, cardstock, embellishments and other bits to get you creating and sampling our products. It’s just £15 including postage, which works out at just £5 a month for a taster of a few new suites and products. Allow us to share lots of inspiration on how you could use your kit and join in the challenge if you wish.

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!

Inspiration from the Team

Anja Luft

Heike Fallwickl

Danielle Kassing

Fanny Minne

Karina Chin

Aude Barbara

Linda Stevens Cullen

Simone Bartrum

Rose Packer

Karen Hadler

Alanna Klemick Wharf

Do share your creations with us, we’d love to see what you come up with using these supplies. Enjoy your day and keep crafting.

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Stampin’ Creative – Friendships

August 26, 2021 by Mikaela Titheridge 6 Comments

Today, the Stampin’ Creative Team are sharing Friendships with you.

Welcome to this month’s Stampin’ Creative Blog Hop where we are reaching out to our friends. For me, the whole experience of Stampin’ Up! encompasses Friendships. This group, my customers and of course my Team. I forged no end of friendships along the way and in my 9 happy years, they stretch far and wide.

I am never far away from another happy crafter who understands my love of papercrafts. For it’s only another crafter who’ll understand the excitement of a new paper pack, some sparkly embellishments, a new stamp set or the moment you first learn to Heat Emboss.

With this in mind, I wanted to make a card to welcome a returning friend to Stampin’ Up! and to my Team. She inspires me in so many ways and for that, I’m forever grateful.

How I created this card

A cheery card for a friend needed to be bright and happy, so a card base of Mango Melody seemed appropriate. Using Versamark ink, I was able to stamp over the cardbase, a background of leaves. I then stamped the outline image of the largest Dahlia to a piece of Watercolour Paper. The Delicate Dahlia’s Stamp Set can be earned for FREE with a qualifying order of £90 here in the UK.

Once heat embossed white, I prepped the paper with water from a Water Painter and slowly added some Daffodil Delight ink. Working from the inside out, I added more and introduced Cajun Craze until I had reached my desired look. Taking the lightest Cinnamon Cider Blend, I flicked some ink across this panel that I mounted over a scalloped edge of Kraft Cardstock. This pretty scalloped edge die comes from our Penned Flowers Dies.

This sentiment seemed perfectly fitting and comes from the stamp set, ‘Create with Friends’. This is indeed what I love most about Stampin’ Up! is creating with friends. Sharing a love of papercrafts that’s so mentally relaxing and allows for that much needed ME time. Heat Embossing wowed me in the early days and still is my favourite today, that had to be included.

Stampin’ Up! Friendships

During Sale-a-Bration, we often have a fabulous joining offer and this current Sale-a-Bration is of no exception. Right now you can join Stampin’ Up! and forge some fabulous friendships for just £99. In return, you’ll have the opportunity to choose £130 worth of products PLUS an extra Bundle for FREE. This will all arrive at your doorstep, postage free and will open the door to so many opportunities. You’ll be invited into our Team Facebook Group, official Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator groups and be given the chance to attend Stampin’ Up! Events. We craft together, we laugh together, we share and inspire. Stampin’ Up! isn’t just about Stamps, Ink and Paper, it is indeed about Friendships and here today, I’m surrounded by many of those.

The person who this card is intended for, was only ever her ‘own best customer’. She took advantage of a Joining Offer, signed up and enjoyed all the benefits of Stampin’ Up! whilst she could. With no forfeits, she took a short time out but re-joined at the start of August and this two month Sale-a-Bration offering.

I hope you have enjoyed my creative share with you today and I hope that you’ll consider joining our crafting community. You can join for the discount and be your own best customer, take the kit or make a business from it. The choices are endless and the friendships priceless. Do get in contact if you’d like to speak about this or click to Join below.

Now let’s see what the rest of this fabulous design team have made. The list of those taking part this month can be found blow.

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A Christmas to Remember of Snow capped Pinecones

August 19, 2021 by Mikaela Titheridge 6 Comments

I’ve been having fun playing with a lot of new products from the New August – December 2021 Mini Catalogue. The Christmas to Remember Bundle with Pinecones Dies had my mind creatively racing to produce this.

The moment I saw the Pinecones Dies, I knew that I wanted to create a scene turning them into trees. I wanted to show how versatile the image was and how you could create something entirely different to festive foliage.

Masking up a piece of Basic White cardstock, I used our Blending Brushes to ink up a wintery sky. I used a series of Balmy Blue, Misty Moonlight and Night of Navy. For the snow banks, I added a touch of Smoky Slate with Balmy Blue. Cutting the Pinecones from two colours, Evening Evergreen and Old Olive, I was able to create depth.

Layering the pinecones as intended and sitting them upside down, I was able to trick the eye into believing they were trees.

A wintry snow capped mountain wouldn’t be complete without the snow. Diluting some White Classic Ink with water and flicking with an old paint brush, I was able to splatter the sky and trees with snow.

This sentiment seemed the most fitting to add to this card. A sentiment that comes from the Christmas to Remember. I was so pleased with how this simple card worked out. A great card for using up scraps of green cardstock and turning pinecones into something entirely different.

I hope you like my share with you today and it’s allowed you to think outside the box with this bundle.

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Delivering Cheer in many ways

August 17, 2021 by Mikaela Titheridge 2 Comments

Our NEW Mini Catalogue has launched and you can certainly say it’s Delivering Cheer. I have fallen in love with this new Stamp Set.

There’s so much versatility with this set that could at first be seen as a ‘one trick pony’.

The FREE Sale-a-Bration Papers, Peaceful Prints and Be Dazzling were used as a backdrop to this vibrant red skirt. Teamed up with a label panel from Seasonal Labels and decorated with pine from the Christmas Pinecones Dies it allowed the vibrant colour to pop.

Colouring with our Blends Pens gave this beautiful vibrant colour.

who says that this set has to include the legs? By selecting just the parcels, the wellingtons and the Christmas Tree I was able to create a Thank you card.

I love the elegance of this image and the retro feel that it brings.

I hope you have enjoyed my share with you today as I’ve been Delivering Cheer for you.

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Let’s Get Hopping #45 Case the Mini

August 16, 2021 by Mikaela Titheridge 12 Comments

The Let’s Get Hopping Team are bringing you inspiration as we Case the Mini Catalogue.

Welcome to the Hop and an abundance of inspiration from the Let’s Get Hopping Design Team. If you’ve hopped over from Rachel then you’ll have already seen her CASE of the Mini Catalogue. This month we are each Casing the new Mini Catalogue as we share our interpretation of them. To CASE is to ‘Copy and Selectively Edit’ and of course, give credit.

I looked through the catalogue and came across these cards using the Harvest Meadow Suite.

I particularly liked the layout of this bottom card and wanted to recreate it with a different Stamp Set and sentiment.

My CASE

Sticking with the Harvest Meadow Designer Series Paper, I selected this beautiful tree scene as a background.

I stamped the legs of one lady from the Delivering Cheer Stamp Set with the clothes of the other. It was good to change things up a little for a whole different feel. A pile of presents coloured using a series of Blends Pens were elevated on Dimensionals on a Die cut circle.

Screaming femininity I decided to add a large loopy white and Linen Thread Bow behind a long narrow sentiment. It was the long narrow sentiment of the original card that I particularly liked teamed with the large circle. This sentiment came from the Beauty of Tomorrow Stamp set.

The colours of my card appealed to me as a calming palette, I particularly liked the lift of Cajun Craze. This is a colour I seldom use.

I hope you think to look through the catalogue for a layout, colour theme or fold to CASE and get your inspiration flowing.

Be sure to head over to see what my dear friend Tanya has in store for us today. I can’t wait to see what she has created.

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

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Around the World on Wednesday – Shaking things up

August 11, 2021 by Mikaela Titheridge 24 Comments

The Around the World on Wednesday Team have been Shaking things up. I’m shaking things up with a Pop-up Slider Card … a Fun Fold that I’ve never made before.

A warm welcome to all and if you’ve hopped on over from my dear friend Aurélie, then you’ll have been spoilt by her talent.

I’ve been looking forward to the theme for this hop, as we shake things up a little. This can mean a shaker card or it can simply be trying something new for a change. I decided to create a fun fold that I’ve been meaning to create for a long while … a Pop Up Slider card.

Be that this fold is such a fun fold, these fun characters, from the FREE Playful Penguin Designer Series Paper, were perfectly fitting. I sat and fussy cut one of each character, mixing up the colours of their scarves and hats to help add variation.

Unusually for me, I turned to Fresh Freesia for my card base colour. These tones aren’t usually my preference but somehow I was drawn to this for this card. From the side of this card, you can see the cut of the mechanism and how the characters are adhered to an elevated panel that lifts and you pull the ribbon tab.

The Mechanism

Using our Stitched Rectangle Dies, you want to do a partial cut, by not covering one short end with the cutting plate. Once cut, you need to fold the flap in half. I then cut another partial rectangle to mount my trees and characters on.

You can see in the background I used the Tree Punch and the patterned papers to add depth to my focal point.

The sentiments for this card came from the Christmas to Remember Stamp set.

Shaking things up in my craft room making this to share has been a joy. I so enjoyed creating this fun fold that makes me smile every time I see it. I hope that applies to you too.

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Let us now hop on over to see what the lovely Annette Ball has in store for us. She makes some beautiful things, so I’m sure we’re in for a treat.

Thank you for hopping by today …. Enjoy the rest of the hop and all of the inspiration.

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Jan Clothier – NZ

Leonie Stuart – AU

Rochelle Laird-Smith – AU

Cheryll Miller – AU

Danielle Kassing – NL

Aurélie Fabre – FR

Mikaela Titheridge – UK – ** YOU ARE HERE **

Elaine de Montmorency – CA

Sharon Hashimoto Burkert – US

Teri West – US

Cheryl Hamilton – US

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Stampin’ Fancy Friday – Fancy Floral Challenge

August 9, 2021 by Mikaela Titheridge 2 Comments

The Stampin’ Fancy Friday Challenge this month had us creating for a Fancy Floral Challenge.

Yes, this month we’re going all Floral … Fancy Floral, so I decided to pull from a fabulous new set from Sale-a-Bration. Delicate Dahlias is a beautiful FREE set that you can earn with a qualifying order of £90. The big bountiful plume works as a stand alone image or as a cluster, as I’ve used here.

The Pool Party matting layer was embossed using the Bloom Hybrid Embossing folder. Adding texture to the base layer added further interest to what is actually a very simple card.

Using Versamark Ink I was able to Heat Emboss white three sets of flowers and leaves on three different colours. I chose Mango Melody, Daffodil Delight and Flirty Flamingo for some vibrant colours. The leaves were in Granny Apple Green.

Such a simple card layout that sure packs a punch with colour. I really enjoyed playing with this FREE Stamp Set and can see so much more using this.

I hope I have inspired you to get creative and join in the Fancy Friday Fancy Florals Challenge this month.

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