Crazy Crafter Blog Hop with our special guest Brian King

Yay Brian is joining us on a blog hop! It's like having extended family come and visit. We truly love it when Brian comes and joins the Crazy Crafters.

Time for another Crazy Crafters Blog Hop.

This month we are all excited to CASE (Copy And Selectively Edit) any project that has been created by Brian King. 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.  Be sure to click on the person listed under me further down the page to continue your journey on this blog hop.

While perusing Brian's blog looking to see which project I want to CASE, I came across this stunningly bold card.

Brian's Card




My Card

This style of card is a great way to use up scraps while creating something interesting.

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And they lived happily ever after...

When we think of marriage, we think of romance. What is more romantic, than sitting next to your love watching the sunset together. With that thought in mind, I made this card to celebrate an upcoming wedding.

I used old olive, daffodil delight and tangerine tango to create my sunset scene. I used the sentiments from Big News and the couple and love hearts from Beautiful Ride.

Today's blog post will be a featured project on Kylie Bertucci's International Stampin' Up!  Blog Highlight  from 6.30pm AEDT. If you like my project, please follow the link and vote for me. Don't forget to check out the other amazing projects from crafters all over the world.


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CASE a Crazy Crafter - Carolina Evans

So the other day I was saying that I was "creatively dead". I just had nothing in me and no project excited me, not even our trusty Pinterest. Yep, I was in that crafting rut.

Anyway the lovely Carolina Evens said "CASE one of my projects!", and this is where my idea for CASE a Crazy Crafter began. So my plan is to choose one Crazy Crafter every Monday and CASE (Copy and Selectively Edit).

This is Carolina's amazing project that inspired me today.

After looking at Carolina's card I was inspired to make a couple of cards.

The first can either be used for a birthday, wedding or even an anniversary. I tried not to make it girly or flowery so it can be given to either gender or a couple.

I used small silver brads to give it some extra sparkle without making it feminine. The sentiment is also heat embossed in black to give it a special look.

My second card, a birthday card, once more I have tried to give it a gender neutral look.

This time I heat embossed the sentiment in silver and added some silver thread (the same as Carolina used but in silver) to add a little something.

Hope you drop by next Monday to see which Crazy Crafter I will CASE. Thanks for stopping by,

Love warms my heart - #GDP019

I don't tend to make many lovey cards unless there is an occasion, but today was different. All of a sudden I started thinking about the sheltering tree stamp set. Then I thought about card that I made last year using the butterflies from the perpetual birthday calendar set, and thought - the love hearts would make a change from the leaves of the tree.

This is what I came up with.

One of the things I love about card making and paper craft is that there is no rule to say that everything must be lifelike. So shades of blue heart shaped images is fine to use in place of leaves.

And what's love without a little glitter. I used the clear Wink of Stella Brush to add a little sparkle to the heart.

 

 

So why a love theme twice in one week? Well, I was still inspired by this week's theme from Global Design Project. So this is my second entry. I hope you take the time to check out all the other lovely entries and maybe you may even join in next week.

 

 

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Love is...so sweet!

My inspiration for today's card comes from this week's challenge at Global Design Project.

Love!!!

Now thinking of my love and what he loves. Stampin' Up! are yet to do a Nutella stamp, so I went with icecream. Chocolate of course!

Now since icecream is so special, this called for special treatment. I put crystal effects on "LOVE" and the icecream, giving it that little pop I was looking for.

Please note: This card uses the Honeycomb Happiness stamp set from the 2016 Sale-a-bration catalogue. During Sale-a-bration (5 January - 31 March 2016) for every $90 AUD/$110 NZD you spend (before shipping and handling), you get a FREE Sale-A-Bration product. Remember that it is one free item for every $90 you spend, so if you spend $180 you can choose two Sale-a-Bration items free.

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Crazy Crafters Blog Hop - Theme: My Most Used Stamp Set

Welcome to the Crazy Crafters Blog Hop for November. This month we are excited to show off our "Most used stamp sets". 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 towards the bottom, will help you move along from blog to blog so you see all the projects.

This months blog hop is even extra exciting as we have a guest stamper joining us - Brain King!!!! He is a totally amazing stamper. Even before I joined Stampin' Up! I stalked his blog and learnt so much. Thank you Brian for sharing your lovely creations for all to see and take inspiration from. It is a privilege for him to be joining us today. A huge thank you goes out to Kylie Bertucci for setting this up for the Crazy Crafters.

My Most Used Stamp Set - this is actually a hard one as a number of sets get a pretty heavy workout at my place. Wetlands, Gorgeous Grunge, Flowering Flourishes and Sassy Salutations all tend to feature heavily in one form or another.



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But currently my most used stamp set is - Sheltering Tree. I love both the images and the sentiments in this stamp set. Sometimes I will make a card only using this set and other times I will combine it with other stamp sets to create my project.

This first card uses no sentiments at all, so can be used for any occasion.

 

I wanted to give the tree a little pop, so I added some leaves which I heat embossed in silver.

 

As I already had the stamp set out I decided to make a second card with a slightly different look.

The banner has been bent to give it a wave effect. I used stampin' dimensionals to support it in the raised areas.

 

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A Happy Birthday - #GDP009

It was certainly an interesting weather day in Melbourne. Rain, thunder storms and just now at 6.20pm we have sun. So I decided to make the most of it and craft.

It's been awhile since I pulled out my Butterfly Basics stamp set, so I thought I would ink it up and see what would happen.

When added a little something to my butterflies I usually use rhinestones, but this time I decided to add some pearls.

I used the colours in this week's Global Design Project for this card. I really love how these challenges force me to use colours that I normally over look.

 

 

 

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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 Blog Hop - Theme: Fun Fold

Welcome to the latest Crazy Crafters Blog Hop. This time our theme is Fun Fold. 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.

I was very excited when our theme for this month was announced- Fun Fold! So many different styles that I have never tried. The biggest decision was which one to choose. While searching through Pintrest for some inspiration, I came across a Pyramid Card made by Linda Gutierrez, complete with tutorial. I immediately thought, wow!

 The Pyramid card has three sides which you can decorate.

Side 1

Side 2

Side 3

My son thought called this card style "Christmas tree" as he thought that was what I was creating. I think this style is perfect for Christmas as I love to display the cards I receive by I hate that they full over if someone walks too fast near them. This style is much more sturdy that a normal card base.

Top View

Inside

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