A little sparkle for Christmas

Well it seems I'm on a roll this week with playing along with challenges. This inspiration for this card has come from Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge #292.

As I am madly creating for Christmas, with plans of actually sending them out this year, I thought I would use this challenge today as an opportunity to create another one.

I love Bermuda Bay and I think it shows as I use it so often. The DSP for this card is from "Cherry on top "paper stack. It goes to show that you don't need to stick to DSP that is sold for Christmas. Often you will also find that many of your Christmas DSP can be used for other times of the year as well. I love it when things are versatile.

Please note: Unfortunately I am unable to load a copy of the sketch on to my blog as it is telling me that it is not in the correct format. I will attempt again at a later date as I like to have a picture of the challenge with the project. Until then, please follow the link to Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge and take a look at the wonderful creations that this sketch has inspired.



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Crazy Crafters September Blog Hop - Theme: Holiday Catalogue

Welcome to the latest Crazy Crafters Blog Hop. This time our theme is holiday catalogue. So this means if you follow the hop, you will find a range of ideas for products from the Stampin' up! Holiday Catalogue which was released on 1st September. We hope you find great inspiration from the projects. 

You may just be starting the blog hop here at my blog - Rosalie Desmond or may have come from the person previous to me in the list. If you get off track at any time, the full lineup below will help you move along from blog to blog so you see all the projects. As I mentioned at the moment you are visiting Rosalie Desmond.

I'm sure that this is not the first time I have said this, but I LOVE this catalogue. If you haven't had a chance to look at it yet, I suggest that you do. I have a link to an online version of the catalogue in my sidebar. The hard part for me was working out just which of the amazing products I wanted to high light today.

I decided that I would give you all another example of a card that uses the Reason for the Season stamp set and the matching Festive Flower punch.

This time I moved away from the traditional colours and used wisteria wonder card stock, elegant eggplant ink and some daffodil delight thrown in.

The main feature of this card is the flower, which is created by using the stamp set for the lines in the flower, and then punching them out using the festive flower punch.

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Another Cute Christmas

I think I may of said this before, but I will say it again anyway, I love this cute little stamp set.

This time I have used the little angel image.

I have hand coloured this in using Stampin' Write markers. I need some practice still with the markers, but colouring sure is fun!

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Thinking of Christmas

Keeping with the pastel theme of late, I decided that I would stick away from the traditional colours, but yet have a traditional image.

 

 

 

 

Of course as it was Christmas I just had to add a little bling.

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Christmas with Flowers



There are so many images from my childhood that mean Christmas - a Poinsettia is one of them. I remember more than one Christmas when my Mum would purchase one.

 

So in the spirit of the Christmas Flower, I created this card using the Reason for the Season stamp set which was recently released in the 2015 Stampin' Up! Holiday Catalogue. I loved this simple use of the stamp set to create my background. 



 

 

The flowers have been heat embossed in clear, which brings out the colour of the card stock and gives it a shine and a little pop. The sentiment "A very Merry Christmas to You" is also from the Reason for the Season stamp set. All I have added is a simple piece of white ribbon. Sometimes simple is the way to go.

 

Now while I, and many others refer to them as flowers, they are not in fact flowers at all.

 

 The red colouring does not come from the flowers; the flowers are the white insignificant clusters in the centre. These coloured bracts are actually modified leaves (Information directly from Gardening Australia ABC).

 

 

 

 

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I hope you enjoy this card as much as I enjoyed making it.

 





Festive Flower Punch

I don't think I have blogged many products that use punches, but I do love them. They are so easy to use and so effective.

The Stampin' Up! 2015 Holiday Catalogue has a couple of new punches in it, but the one that caught my eye is the Festive Flower Punch. I can see this being used on cards, on boxes, on tags and even to dress up the Christmas table.

You can either buy the punch on its own or as a bundle with a matching Reason for the Season stamp set, saving yourself 15%. The stamp set is really cute both with and without the punch.




Now lets see what it looks like in a different colour for non-Christmas events. Now to decide what I am going to do with this one...a project for another day I'd say.

As you can see, there are a few layers involved with creating this flower. Stampin' Up! have released a video to help you learn how to put this together.

I can't wait to see what everyone else does with this punch.

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And we are live!

To be totally honest I have never been so excited about a catalogue before!

I love this one to pieces. In fact I found it extremely difficult not to go totally over board and buy way more than my poor little (well it is actually taking over a room), can handle.

I have added a link to the catalogue on the left hand side for your perusal, or you can click here: 2015 Stampin' Up! Holiday Catalogue. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.


Here are a few ideas from Stampin' Up! I will be back tomorrow with some of my mine.

Christmas cards, tags, bags- You name it, you can create it!

Framelits for creating a scene

Project Life

Combine embossing with stamping and add a few embellishments

Crafting your table for any occassion

Dress up a gift




Love these framlits!



Shaker Card kit





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Cute for Christmas - A sneak peek

Today I took the opportunity to give you a sneak peek at a new stamp set which will be available from the 1st of September in the new holiday catalogue. The image I choose is from a  Christmas themed set, with a number of cute images called "Christmas Cuties". The name says it all.

You will have to wait until the 1st to see the stamp set in full, but until then I hope you like this little guy.

He was coloured in using stampin' write markers and then I added a few spots of gold glitz dazzling details to give my card a little sparkle.

I just love the hint of gold using the Stampin' up! metallic thread up the top. It completes the touch of gold theme I have on this card.

My inspiration today comes from a sketch which is the latest challenge from Just Add Ink #275

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Rosalie