Showing posts with label Love of Leaves Bundle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Love of Leaves Bundle. Show all posts

Stampin' Dreams January Blog Hop!

Thursday, January 21, 2021 United Kingdom

Welcome to the Stampin' Dreams blog hop!

Come and take a look at what myself and Stampin' Up! demonstrators from all over the world have been creating. We hope you find lots of inspiration here today for your papercraft projects


Don't forget you can view all of the projects in today's hop by clicking on each name in the roll call which you can find further down this page.

I've mixed something old with something new to create this card!

The Love of Leaves stamp set and Stitched Leaves dies were in the previous Mini Catalogue but are still available to purchase. These products were selected to carry over and I'm so pleased they are staying and I can't wait to design more cards using this set!

The DSP I have used for my card is from the Berry Delightful DSP which you can choose for free with a qualifying purchase from Stampin' Up! 

The pattern I've chosen features shades of the colour Rich Razzleberry. I've used the same colour cardstock for the leaves and ink for the sentiment - although the card stock layer is actually Blackberry Bliss! 

Followers of my blog will know that I'm a sucker for monochromatic cards!

If you are wondering how to get this patterned paper, I can tell you exactly how. You will need to spend £90 (excluding P&P) on Stampin' Up! products and then you can choose it for free.

If you choose to get this pack of Designer Series Paper you will also get the Berry Blessings stamp set - both of which coordinate with the Sweet Strawberry bundle in the current Mini Catalogue.

Now, if this paper isn't your 'cup of tea' you can check out the other products available in this years Sale-a-Bration catalogue by clicking here - most of which are available to select for every £45 you spend. 

There is something for everyone and I still haven't got a favourite.

Thank you so much for taking the time to visit my blog to see what I've created! If you live in UK, The Netherlands, France, Germany or Austria, you can purchase Stampin' Up! products from me. To place an order or ask a question, please get in touch via my contact form here.

Before you go, I'd love to hear from you! Come and say hi by leaving a comment below! Did you know that you can subscribe to receive my blog posts by email here.

Now it's time to check out the other projects! 

Roll Call

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International Blog Highlights November!

Monday, November 2, 2020 United Kingdom


Oh my goodness, I can't believe it's November. It's always great to kick of the new month with Kylie's International Blog Highlights!

The theme, as always, is thank you! 

If you like my card, please vote for me - you can find more information on how to vote further down this page.

I've used the Love of Leaves Bundle from Stampin' Up! to create my thank you card. 

The Love of Leaves stamp set is equally as great as the accompanying Stitched leaves dies. 


Can you believe, I don't actually own any ink pads of colours that I could use to stamp autumn leaves?

Shocking I know! I didn't actually think that through when I purchased the bundle - oops! I'm just not a big fan of orange colours so when I updated all of my ink pads to the new style, I decided not to get them as I knew that for the large part they would sit there unused. 


So I stamped my leaves in colours of green -using the colours Soft Sea Foam and Mossy Meadow. To get the three different tones, I also 'stamped off' with Mossy Meadow.


For the centre piece, I die cut a leaf from Mossy Meadow cardstock and then run it back through my cutting machine, using the die (bottom right in the image above) to add stitched lines to the surface of my leaf.


Underneath the leaf is a layer of Vellum cardstock, this helps it stand out more from the background but still allows the stamping to show through.

To finish my card, I die cut the sentiment from Soft Sea Foam cardstock using the Word Wishes dies and lightly painted it with Champagne Mist Shimmer Paint.


If you like my card I would really appreciate you taking the time to vote.  

To vote, please click the button above then scroll down Kylie's blog post until the gallery of cards appears. 

Make sure you have a good look at all of the cards - to get a better closer look simply click on the card and you will be taken to the creators blog. 

You can place five votes so don't forget to use them all! All you have to do is click the heart in the top right hand corner on each card that you like.

The top ten winners will participate in a Blog Hop before the end of the month.

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog today! 

If this is your first visit here and you like what you see, why not subscribe to receive an email every time I publish a blog post - I send out the occasional newsletter too. Click here to subscribe.

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The Spot - Clean & Simple Fall Challenge #132

Saturday, October 17, 2020 United Kingdom


It's been a little while since I took part in a creative challenge so I visited all of the challenge websites I follow. I saw this Clean and Simple Fall challenge #132 over at The Spot and thought this one would be fun to enter!


I purchased the Love of Leaves bundle from Stampin' Up! a little while ago so this challenge was the ideal opportunity to use this set for the first time.


I decided to use the beautiful Peony Garden DSP and chose patterns which featured the colours Petal Pink and Basic Gray, selecting cardstock to match.


You'll notice that the layers I've created are only marginally smaller than each other. 

I feel the layer of white is very much needed here, it brings everything together - the white in the DSP and the white in the heat embossed sentiment.


Before I assembled my card, I took one of the stitched dies (see bottom left, in the image below) and cut through the coloured cardstock. 

The outline dies create this beautiful stitched effect around the outside of the leaf shaped hole. 


I then used the same die to cut a leaf shape from the Peony Garden patterned paper, using the inner die (see the die in the top right corner in the image above). This created a stitched effect on the surface of the leaf.  

I applied the die cut leaf to the empty space on the cardstock and used dimensionals so it was slightly raised from the surface.


I didn't want to add much more to this card design, so continuing with the clean and simple theme, I added a short but sweet sentiment 'hello'.


Thank you to The Spot for setting this great challenge! 

I am really happy with the simplicity of my design card and I now adore the Stitched Leaves dies (I'm also hoping they will carry over).

Before I go, I have a quick shout out to Anuj, the founder of Feedspot - Feedspot is a content reader where you can read all of your favourite blogs, RSS feeds, YouTube channels and social sites accounts in one place. 

I'm thrilled my website is featured in their Top UK Craft Blogs. I'm currently ranking in at number 29! There are lots of well know brands featured in this list plus many Stampin' Up! demonstrators (and ex demos), including several bloggers that I've admired from afar from a long time.
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