What I Love ft. Brushstrokes and Work of Art - Thank You

Hello!

Oh, how I love Autumn in Western Australia! The weather is perfect most days (not too hot) and just sometimes you get darker days with a few raindrops coming down...those are my favourites! Today is one of those days!

Well lets get right to it! The theme for this week's Global Design Project  challenge is a "Thank You" card. Further more the the GDP (#GDP027)designers have decided to send their Thank You cards to some of the frequent participants of the Global Design Project challenges and guess what I will be one of the lucky receivers! I was chosen by the very talented  Jessica Williams from The Papercaper to receive her beautiful card in the mail! How awesome is that! My card will be going to the Hostess of a workshop I'm running tomorrow!

Sunshine and blue skies...

I love the It's My Party Enamel Dots, perfect for accents and flower centres!

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Hints & Things

• My best hint for stamping with big background stamps is bringing the paper to the stamp and then rubbing over the paper with the palm of your hand. In this case I was careful to leave certain areas to get a faded look.
• I stamped off my "sky" (a stamp from the Work of Art set) first on scrap before stamping on my cardstock. As far as I am concerned the Lost Lagoon Classic Stampin' pad makes for the perfect sky this way!
• Now my aim is always to use current stamp sets, but I totally fell in love with the Hello stamp set from the Sale-a-Bration flyer, the set was only available for a limited time. The sun stamp from this set is my absolute favorite! I figured that it would be easy enough to replicate a sun or you might even have something similar in your stack? The lovely What I Love stamp set however, you can still earn FREE with a qualifying workshop! Hurry up though  - Sale-a-Bration end 31st March '16!
• I added Crystal Effects to my tiny flower's petals for a little dimension and shine.
• I kept it simple this time... let me know if it was too simple!

For my next few posts I will be focusing on Easter (in between two workshops)! Wish me luck!

Take care!

Mel xx

Cozy Christmas - Christmas Wishes

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I am officially in panic mode! The work of a card maker never ends! Not long before it is time to hand out Christmas cards at school and send cards in the mail to loved ones! AND I still have to do my SWAPS for Stampin' Up!s upcoming OnStage event! Upcoming as in the 14th of November 2015!!

If I managed to put you in a state of panic... hop on over and have a look at this week's Weekly Deals! Nothing like a bit of shopping to get you over your panic! LOL!

This week's Global Design Project Challenge is a colour challenge! Fun!

This is my Christmas card! A bit unconventional!

I love all these colours, but most probably would not have chosen to use them together! It turns out they are perfect for each other!

I used the last few left over sequins from my Watercolor Wishes Card Kit to add some sparkle to my card!

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Hints & Things

• I loved creating my own background with the circle stamp from the Work of Art stamp set! This was my way of using the colours in this week's challenge.
• Wooden embellishments are also amazing! I always put a layer of Whisper White Craft ink down before I come in with whatever colour I want to change them! This is also a great idea for Kraft or Crumb Cake cardstock (or any darker cardstock for that matter)!
• My Christmas greeting was heat embossed with Iridescent Ice Stampin' Emboss Powder - this adds a little bit more interest to my card and also work very nicely with the sequins.

As always thank you for taking the time to look at my post! I am off to work on something else unconventional...

Take care!

Mel xx

Beautiful Bunch - Thank You

Hello!

This is my take on this week's Global Design Project challenge... 

Any idea what this week's challenge is?

 Red Gingham and a Sunflower? 

I do not own any stamp sets of farm animals or scenes at the moment (the Barnyard Babies stamp set is on my Wishlist), so I had to make a plan... Red Gingham and Sunflowers always make me think of life on a farm (the romanticized version that is!).

I used the middle of one of the flowers in the Beautiful Bunch stamp set to build my little Sunflower!

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Hints & Things

• Look at your Designer Series Paper differently - see if you can use it for different occasions - I used paper from  the Season of Cheer Designer Series Paper to set my "farm scene".
• I also used Washi tape from the Season of Cheer pack for my little clothes peg.
• For my Real Red Gingham pattern I used the Brush line from the Work of Art stamp set. 
• To give my little Sunflower  dimension I layered 3 punched flowers, but also cut into the little petals to make it easier to shape them.
• By changing the Designer Series Paper and stamp set this can be turned into a Beautiful Christmas treat bag! Look out for my next post!

Don't forget to make some time to craft! 

Mel xx