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Papercrafting Class with Peaceful Poppies

February 20, 2020 by Mikaela Titheridge 2 Comments

With Poppies being the focal point for the mini catalogue, I just had to offer a Papercrafting Class using them.

Held at both Spaldwick Village and Huntingdon’s Dunelm Mill, we made two cards and a little 3D item.

Simple Stamping showcases the Painted Poppies Stamp Set beautifully. The large flower image created a background to this first card, with no need for Designer Series Paper. Gray Granite helped to tone down what could have become an otherwise vibrant colour palette and allow the poppies to sing. I’ve used a stitched rectangle to die cut the matting layer, but you need not if you didn’t have the stitched dies.

Stepping things up a little and we used the dies to really highlight the star of the show. These dies are just stunning and those poppies just gorgeous! The back layer of each flower was die cut from the Designer Series Paper that offers a watercolour like wash. We left this card without a sentiment, but I gave the ladies a choice of sentiment to add if they wished.

This box was inspired by a fellow Demonstrator, Katja who lives near Leipzig in Europe. We just had to create a 3D flower to add to our box. The dimension helps bring this flower to life.

An elegant set of things to make, we had a lot of fun creating these … even as card toppers or gift tags.

I hope you’ve liked my share and I hope to welcome you to one of my classes in the future. Two and a half hours, day or evening or an All Day Event, I offer plenty of choices. Just click on my Events tab to see my offering and get yourself booked in.

Hoping you’re enjoying a peaceful day.

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Sorry for Everything Morning Magnolia

February 19, 2020 by Mikaela Titheridge Leave a Comment

Yesterday saw one final goodbye for my Auntie who recently passed away. The only sibling to my late Dad, this lady outlived many with her strength. She stood clear and proud, just like this single flower from Good Morning Magnolia. Sorry for Everything is by far my ‘go to’ stamp set for any Sympathy card. Teamed together like this, they worked so well.

I wanted a simple contemporary card to send to my cousin that looked respectfully peaceful and elegant at the same time.

Calming colours of Blackberry Bliss and Sahara Sand … a pairing I loved to set to work with.

This Magnolia flower is a large flower that stamped entirely on its own, offers a great focal point. The flower was stamped with Sahara Sand Ink onto the same colour Cardstock. I felt the urge to add corrugation for texture and loved the simplicity of interest that it created. This flower didn’t need colouring in, it looked beautiful just as it was. A simple sentiment that said it all and this card was complete.

This large bold sentiment was achieved by heat embossing the sentiment white on black and fussy cutting. The stitched rectangle could have whatever extension you needed for your card, but for me, this worked perfectly. As sympathy cards go, I really liked what I’d achieved.

My farewell sadly had to be given from afar, for the other family issues I was dealing with this week. I’m gutted to not have been present but pleased to hear that she received a good send-off.

I hope the simplicity of my card will inspire you to create the perfect sympathy card in your sad hour of need.

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Let’s Get Hopping #28 – Shaker Cards

February 17, 2020 by Mikaela Titheridge 4 Comments

Shakey Shakey …. Today we are becoming active here, as we spice thing up with Shaker Cards. You’ve got to love an interactive card and a shaker is one of the most simpler of them.

Whether you’ve hopped on over from the lovely Tracy Bish or you’re starting the hop here, you’re in for a treat. I’m sure Tracy has already spoilt us to some fabulous inspiration, well I hope to inspire you further.

Inking up a new stamp set to me, I pull upon this fun Hostess Stamp Set. Hostess sets are exclusive sets that only a Hostess or Demonstrator can buy with Stampin’ Rewards. Place an order of £150, or more, and you’ll earn Stampin’ Rewards. These can be used against any products, including the Hostess Sets, which can ONLY be purchased with Stampin’ Rewards.

Make a Splash appealed to me for its fun element. A cute 4″ x 4″ card, it’s the perfect size to take this fishbowl. I stamped the fishbowl using Black Memento before using the Still Scenes Globe Dies from Christmas to die cut the shaker opening. The sand was stamped on both the front image and on a back panel.

Baby Wipe Technique

To create a mottled appearance to the plants and the fish, I used the Baby Wipe Technique. You can create your own temporary ink pad by dripping Ink onto several layers of baby wipes. Creating two, one with greens and another with oranges I stamped the plants and then the fish. An Aqua Painter is great to help smooth out any harsh lines and gives the appearance of watercolouring. Paper Snips are the best for fussy cutting these images out, which I did. One fish was stuck to the back inside of the fishbowl and the other to the window sheet that’s stuck to the reverse of the top layer. The plants were attached to the foreground.

A Blends pen in Dark Seaside Spray was perfect for colouring the reverse of the window sheet to create the water. Add the sequins before adhering the top layer with strips of foam pad. These allow there to be a void for the sequins to move.

The tassel and sentiment were added afterwards and left quite simple to allow the focal point to sing.

A fun card that I really enjoyed creating and that I hope you like. Now to see what the fabulous Tanya Rees has to offer. She’s a very talented lady and one I shared my Artisan year with. Hop on over to see what she has in store and enjoy the rest of the hop.

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Birthday Bonanza Buddies

February 16, 2020 by Mikaela Titheridge Leave a Comment

Blowing out candles is what comes to mind when thinking of kids birthdays, so why not turn to Bonanza Buddies?

I was recently in my craft room designing something entirely different. I often like to have a craft video playing at the same time as I craft for company. Thinking I’d clicked on a recent video, I realised it was an old video from the Crafty Carrot Collective. The talented Susan Wong shared a fabulous card with us using an old set called Picture Perfect.

Despite this not being even close to the theme of the card I set out to create, I knew I immediately had to recreate this with a current stamp set, Bonanza Buddies. A beautiful card I wanted to crank up the colour for a few kids Birthday cards.

Pineapple Punch couldn’t be any more punchy in colour. Fresh, Zesty and super colourful. Tonally, I stamped Pineapple Punch on Pineapple Punch to create a subtle background.

Taking a stitched basic shape square of white cardstock, I randomly stamped the longest, largest parcel to appear as candles across the bottom. Coastal Cabana, Pineapple Punch and Grapefruit Grove offered this fresh palette. The flame is the pom pom from the party hat.

A strip of Gold Glimmer Cardstock, a heat embossed sentiment and a simple bow and the front was complete.

Using the same colours, I stamped Happy Birthday inside and dressed it up with a bow and party hat. What a fun vibrant card and everything I’d not set out to make.

I can’t thank Susan enough for sharing her creativity with me and crafting in my craft room with me that day. I’ve since made this card in two other colourways and love each one just as much.

I hope you like what I’ve shared with you today and my twist on Susan’s card. If you’d like to see more from Susan, her Instagram feed is @stampinsusanwong. She’s a very talented former Artisan whose work I just love and find very inspirational.

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Crafty Carrot Collective Guest with Painted Poppies

February 13, 2020 by Mikaela Titheridge 1 Comment

March brings about excitement for me, as I appear as Guest Designer for the Crafty Carrot Collective. Today I share a project using the Painted Poppies Bundle as a taster of my inspiration.

These former Artisan Design Team Members have each inspired me over the years. Stretching my creative flair and coaxing out whatever is inside me. Each one inspires me and I couldn’t believe it when they invited ME to be a Guest Designer with them. Super excited to have been invited, I’m looking forward to sharing my creativity with you. Seriously, this is a great honour and I’m still pinching myself.

The Crafty Carrot Collective Programme for March, is based on the Painted Poppies Bundle from the new Mini Catalogue. Each of these ladies will share their creative inspiration as part of this programme and I get to join them. The Programme offers a Guest hosted Facebook Live using the same suite of products, which I’m super excited for.

Today’s inspiration is a taster using these products that had me walk away from the colours of poppies. I wanted a soft spring image that was delicate and with not an ounce of red in sight.

Using Shimmery White cardstock, I heat embossed some leaves to the matting layer before adding a watercolour wash over. This offered a great frame for the focal point of this card.

Quite a whimsical appearance, this had me thinking clean fresh air and carefree days. I used watercolour pencils to add colour to the flower heads and Glimmer Paper, to add a scalloped sparkle trim beneath the sentiment.

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Stampin’ Sunday – Match Making – Broadway Birthday Bonanza

February 9, 2020 by Mikaela Titheridge 7 Comments

It’s the month for match making so today we are doing a spot of our own. I’m teaming up Broadway Birthday from the Annual Catalogue with Birthday Buddies from the Birthday Bonanza Bundle.

Today’s theme was for us to choose something from the Annual Catalogue to match make with something from the new Mini Catalogue. These two stamp sets seemed a match made in heaven.

Three Cards, Two Stamp Sets, one Koala.

I absolutely love the Golden Honey Specialty Designer Series Paper from the Sale-a-Bration offering. A simple Black and white stripe can help pull many a project together.

I wanted this first card to be a peeled back Stamps, Ink and Paper card. A simple sentiment teamed with a couple of images and quite quickly I had a card before me. All of the sentiments for these cards came from the Broadway Birthday set.

This second card steps up a little as I include the use of an embossing folder and a die to cut the Koala. I had to laugh when making this card. I asked hubby’s opinion about stamping the word never on a scrap of colour. He told me to literally leave the word out. Shock, horror!! I couldn’t make a card with that sentiment. I mean, who would I send it to? He’s so cheeky!

I went all out on this final card. Making use of the Stamparatus with hinge step stamping, Heat Embossing, Die cutting, Punching, I thew everything at it. It’s a busy card, but a super fun one

These two stamp sets really work so very well together.

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All Star Tutorial Bundle – Peaceful Poppies Hop

February 6, 2020 by Mikaela Titheridge 4 Comments

Welcome to this month’s All Star Tutorial Bundle Blog Hop, where we’re sharing inspiration using the Peaceful Poppies Suite.

With Designers from around the globe, there’s sure to be plenty of inspiration here to tempt you. Today’s offering is a sneak peek of what you might expect from this month’s Tutorial Bundle. We are being creative with the Peaceful Poppies Suite and for me, I wanted to show you something that moved away from the suites natural colours. Gone have the red and greens for shades of blue and turquoise.

Cutting a piece of Whisper White cardstock as a matting layer, I took to sponging up the entire surface using shades of blue. This wonderful ombre effect was blended together using a mix of sponges and sponge daubers. A full list of the colours used can be found below. If you flick water at your sponged surface, it leaves this great Bokeh effect. I wanted to mix stamped white imagery with die-cut shapes, so took to stamping with Versamark and Heat Embossing first. This simple die-cutting gave a great focal point upon the dark and moody backdrop.

A really simple card finished with scattered sequins, I loved the contrast of crisp white with the bold colour.

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Each Tutorial Bundle contains 12 tutorials compiled into a fabulous PDF which is filled with some amazing projects. Based on current Stampin’ Up! products, the All Star Tutorial Bundle offers both metric and imperial measurements. The projects designed are exclusive and not shared on our blogs or social media. Each month we will be focusing on a suite of products to bring you a fabulous bundle of tutorials and a whole heap of inspiration.

FEBRUARY – Painted Poppies Suite
MARCH – Parisian Blossoms Suite
APRIL – Botanical Prints Product Medley

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MAY – Best Dressed Suite
JUNE – Suite from the new Catalogue

Here is February’s sneak peek for you to feast your eyes on, using the Painted Poppies Suite. I love this suite.

All Star Tutorial Bundle Sneak Peek for February 2020 Peaceful Poppies by Mikaela Titheridge, UK Independent Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator, The Crafty oINK Pen. Supplies available through my online store 24/7

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You Can Create it – Heartfelt Papercraft Kit

February 2, 2020 by Mikaela Titheridge 2 Comments

Today the You Can Create it Team are sharing Heartfelt inspiration so that you can create it! Yes, it’s the month of heartfelt love with Valentines just around the corner.

This month’s Papercraft Kit pack from the You Can Create It Team offers elements from the Heartfelt Suite. I made use of a few generic items from the additions pack for my inspirational share. You can see the next two months kit packs below.

Having warmed to the Neutrals Designer Series Paper pack, I set to use as many of the patterns as possible. I stamped the stitched heart and punched it out with the coordinating punches and layered the hearts horizontally over a Scripty embossed layer. This style of card showcases the papers beautifully. I love each one of these patterns and feel there’s a real contemporary feel about them.

Smoky Slate and Whisper White cardstock look clean and simple and teamed with a pop of Real Red, offer a young vibe.

An ideal card for Male or females. I stamped cupids arrow with real red and pieced a white heat embossed sentiment over the top. This font offers a real playful style that I love.

To pull together the inside of the card with the outside, I again stamped the stitched looking hearts, randomly to the inside edge of the card.

Cute little treats warrant cute little boxes. This little box would easily take a few chocolates and embellished with another stitched heart, it coordinates beautifully with the card.

Well, I hope you like my share with you today and I hope you’ll choose to get creative with your kit pack … but if you don’t have one and you’d like to receive it, then be sure to get in contact. It’s just £15 including postage, which is just £5 a month for a taster of a few suites.

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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!

Heartfelt Inspiration

Anja Luft

Heike Fallwickl

Hélène Den Breejen

Fanny Minne

Karina Chin

Simone Bartrum

Ann-Marie Breurkes-Rood

Linda Stevens Cullen

Michelle Zanavich

Louise Sims

Jolan Meurs

Aude Barbara

I will have information on our next Quarterly pack for you very shortly.

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Stampin’ Fancy Friday – Shaking it Challenge

January 31, 2020 by Mikaela Titheridge 6 Comments

Today I am SUPER excited to be shaking things up with a ‘Shaking it Challenge’ of the most incredible team of crafters. Made up of past and some current Artisan’s the Stampin’ Fancy Friday Team offers a wealth of talent. Stampin’ Up! select each year a new team of Artisans to showcase Stampin’ Up! products through their inspirational creativity. The greatest honour was to be a part of the 2019 Design Team and now I share this hop with the talented Artisans that went before me. I’m beside myself with excitement.

I am delighted to be following our very own Jennifer Frost, who inspired me with her wonderful creative flair to apply for Artisan myself. Jennifer’s work is so beautifully tasteful and elegant and you’re just going to love it. If you’ve not hopped on over from her but started the hop here Welcome. Be sure to hop right round to Jennifer’s blog post, she was an Artisan in 2015-16 and again in 2018.

Shaking it up Challenge

Today we are shaking things up with everything that shakes. Yes, Shaker cards and tassels. Wouldn’t it be great if the Tag was the box? Even better if it has a shaker element to it.

This little gift box was made using the unicorn from Leave a Little Sparkle stamp set and surrounded by the frame from Bonanza Dies. I love the stitched die products that we sell and this tag is of no exception. To tie in with the mane of the unicorn, I create the box lid with Flirty Flamingo. I mean, it just had to be pink.

With a flowing mane, I added two tassels, one in Pretty Peacock and the other I died Flirty Flamingo to match. An Ombre effect was created by dipping the tassel into Rubbing Alcohol with a few drips of Flirty Flamingo Ink. By allowing it to dry and re-dipping into neat Ink, it gives darker ends.

The side of the box lid was gently stamped with Versamark ink to give some subtle star detail. The Woven Threads Sequins were perfect for this Shaker Box and with some Dazzling Diamonds in there too, it really added some sparkle.

Our Alcohol-Based Blends pens are perfect for colouring our Glimmer paper. Pretty Peacock pulled together the sentiment with the tassel and even had its own ombre effect going on. A perfect little box for a Unicorn loving little girl. I hope you like it …. why not make a Shaker Box Lid the next time you consider making a card.

The Artisan Team of 2019 has captured a piece of my heart and I shared that year with the beautiful Angela Meritiz-Reid. Hop on over to see what fabulous inspiration she has to share.

I hope you’ve enjoyed this fabulous hop and be sure to look up the Stampin’ Fancy Friday Instagram Feed, as in future, we’ll be sharing our inspiration there.

Enjoy and see you next month.

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Stampin’ Creative – Hearts of Friendship

January 30, 2020 by Mikaela Titheridge 9 Comments

The Stampin’ Creative are today celebrating friendships with our Hearts of Friendship theme.

Oh, boy, did I love creating this card for you. I really enjoyed coming up with something other than Valentines with the Heartfelft Stamp Set and Punches. I always like to create something quite different that’s perhaps colours you wouldn’t have necessarily first thought of.

One of the first things I loved about Stampin’ Up! was the coordination of Stamp Sets with Punches. I love that you can stamp and punch the shape out so quickly and easily. Changing the colours I used and Heat Embossing the sentiment took the longest on this card, otherwise, it was so quick and simple.

Just look at these pretty rainbow colours! This just makes me smile.

You need to repeatedly stamp the image, cleaning in between, before you punch it out. Overlapping each heart, I adhered them together. I really liked the lattice effect of this image and was pleased that the sentiment would sit right across the middle, smaller heart. This created a great backdrop for it.

I heat embossed the sentiment white on black and fussy cut around it to create some interest and additional shape.

By punching out a notch using the edge of the Tailored Tag Punch, there was a nice little area to stop the twine from shifting. Again, adding interest.

I hope you like my colourful share with you today in this Hearts of Friendship hop. I think we’re in for a treat with inspiration for this one, so enjoy!

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