Just Add Color Speciality Paper Z-Fold Card

The 30th July is a very popular day to be born in my family and friendship group and the were 2 very special ones yesterday. This is my cousins 21st card. I can say I was totally stumped the making this card. My mum and I could not find a stamp set that jumped out to us to work on this card, but as I was cutting up some final paper shares this feather pattern in Stampin Up! NEW Just Add Color Speciality Designer Series Paper pack jumped right out to me. Who says we need to stamp on every card anyway!!!

I was always making a Z Fold card to make it extra special, I used Thick Whisper White card stock and added an extra flap to the back of the card to make it stand up perfectly. I cut a small panel of the Just Add Color Speciality paper which is perfect to colour as it card stock weight and holds up well when colouring with an Aqua Painter. I watercolour washed the Feathers using an Aqua Painter in Pool Party, Wisteria Wonder, Flirty Flamingo and Calypso Coral inks. I also hand cut a few to of the feathers out and added them with Stampin' Dimensionals.

To make the textured background I mixed some metallic silver paint with Stampin' Up! Embossing Pasta and applied it over one the Pattern Party Decorative Masks. Whilst that dried I cut the numbers out using the Large Number Framelits in the Big Shot in Calypso Coral card stock. I placed these on a silver foil 2" punched circle and a 2 1/4" punched Pool Party card stock circle.

To Finish the card I added an extra hand cut and coloured feather tucked behind the 21 and added a generous amount of Wink of Stella to all the popped up feathers.

SHOP NOW to order the products I used to make this project from the 2017-2018 Annual Catalogue, go to my Online Store or contact me to place an order.  In July for every $90 you send you will receive a $9 voucher to spend in August on top of those vouchers ALL online order placed using this month Hostess Code will receive a FREE gift FROM ME. HURRY LAST DAY ! to earn your voucher

If you would like to join my Wicked Woody's team to receive a discount on your supplies, there is fantastic joining Special in July including some sneak peek Christmas products and and Essentials Pack to valued at $121 your door step for just $169, with $235 dollars of value plus a business pack delivered to your door FREE. So don't Delay and SIGN UP TODAY LAST DAY FOR THIS OFFER

I can also show you how to make my projects at a party with you and your friends or at one of my classes. Just contact me to organise a time to enjoy the amazing benefits our hosts that you can spend on anything in the Annual Catalogue.

Ellen xx

Soft Sayings Card Kit - Just a Note

I adore all the die cut pieces you get in the Soft Sayings Card Kit from Stampin' Up!, ready to layer over the card base, add a sentiment and pre printed card base some Washi Tape and some cute leaves and you have made your quick, easy and beautiful card.

Here is what is included in the kit I just love to matching printed envelopes and that it is all there ready to make accept some Snail Adhesive.

SHOP NOW to order the KIT used to make  this project from the 2017-2018 Annual Catalogue, go to my Online Store or contact me to place an order.  In July for every $90 you send you will receive a $9 voucher to spend in August on top of those vouchers ALL online order placed using this month Hostess Code will receive a FREE gift FROM ME. HURRY LAST DAYS to earn your voucher

If you would like to join my Wicked Woody's team to receive a discount on your supplies, there is fantastic joining Special in July including some sneak peek Christmas products and and Essentials Pack to valued at $121 your door step for just $169, with $235 dollars of value plus a business pack delivered to your door FREE. So don't Delay and SIGN UP TODAY LAST DAYS FOR THIS OFFER

I can also show you how to make my projects at a party with you and your friends or at one of my classes. Just contact me to organise a time to enjoy the amazing benefits our hosts that you can spend on anything in the Annual Catalogue.

Ellen xx

Fabulous Flamingo Card

Confession time I was not a huge fan of this Fabulous Flamingo but I received it at our Stampin' Up! ON STAGE event in April and I am now a convert and loving this set.

I made this card for a recent class and I even converted a few of my class attendees as well.  I managed to use the whole stamp set on this card. I started by stamping the Flamingo stamping off Berry Burst,  Powder Pink and Early Espresso inks on Whisper White card stock. I added the water stamp in Marina Mist and Grass in stamped off Tranquil Tide ink. I added the palm fronds to the Lemon Lime Twist Twist card base once again using Tranquil Tide and Lemon Lime twist ink also stamping off some of them. I also added some fronds on the flamingo layer as well that I then layered it on a Powder Pink card stock mat. To finish the card I added a bow in the 2017-2019 Powder Pink Finely Woven Ribbon.

SHOP NOW to order items used in this project from the 2017-2018 Annual Catalogue, go to my Online Store or contact me to place an order.  LAST DAYS In July for every $90 you send you will receive a $9 voucher to spend in August. On top of those vouchers ALL online order placed using this month Hostess Code will receive a FREE gift FROM ME

If you would like to join my Wicked Woody's team to receive a discount on your supplies, there is fantastic joining Special in July including some sneak peek Christmas products and and Essentials Pack to valued at $121 your door step for just $169, with $235 dollars of value plus a business pack delivered to your door FREE. So don't Delay and SIGN UP TODAY LAST DAYS FOR THIS OFFER

I can also show you how to make my projects at a party with you and your friends or at one of my classes. Just contact me to organise a time to enjoy the amazing benefits our hosts that you can spend on anything in the Annual Catalogue.

Ellen xx

Lovely Inside & Out Card

Only as I blog this card did I realise that I made this card with the title of the stamp set Lovely Inside & Out from Stampin! Up!,  I actually used the whole Bundle which saves you 10% to created this card which I made a for class on the weekend. My class attendees loved this card and especially love the Tangerine Tango used in the card really made the whole project pop

To create the background I took the thumb print type stamp and did generation stamping in Dapper Denim, Pear Pizzaz and Tangerine Tango on a piece of Whisper White card stock. Next I die cut a window in the card using the co-ordinating Lovely Words Thinlits in the Big Shot using the Precision Plate. I backed this window with a scrap of Dapper Denim card stock from my stash of paper.  To the word Lovely I added "Inside & Out" from the Inside & Out stamp set in Dapper Denim ink onto Pear Pizazz card stock and flagged the ends using the Triple Banner Punch with the NEW Mini Dimensionals. The stamped card front was matted on a piece of Tangerine Tango card stock and then adhered to a Thick Whisper White card base. To add some sparkle and shine to the card I scattered a few Glitter Enamel Dots to the project.

SHOP NOW to order items used in this project from the 2017-2018 Annual Catalogue, go to my Online Store or contact me to place an order.  In July for every $90 you send you will receive a $9 voucher to spend in August. On top of those vouchers ALL online order placed using this month Hostess Code will receive a FREE gift FROM ME

If you would like to join my Wicked Woody's team to receive a discount on your supplies, there is fantastic joining Special in July including some sneak peek Christmas products and and Essentials Pack to valued at $121 your door step for just $169, with $235 dollars of value plus a business pack delivered to your door FREE. So don't Delay and SIGN UP TODAY

I can also show you how to make my projects at a party with you and your friends or at one of my classes. Just contact me to organise a time to enjoy the amazing benefits our hosts that you can spend on anything in the Annual Catalogue.

Ellen xx

Climbing Orchid with Oh So Eclectic Card

I have been keen to get back to the Climbing Orchid Bundle in the Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue to make even more with it. For this card I kept it simple by not adding additional layers to the flowers. I stamped each one with Fresh Fig ink on Whisper White card stock and used a barely damp Aqua Painter to fill in the flowers with a hint of colour and cut them out using the Orchid Builder Framelits in the Big Shot.

The branches from the Climbing Orchid stamp at starting at the bottom of my piece of Whisper White card stock using the orchid flowers as a guide to stamp all the branches up the card. Before adhering the flowers I stamped the sentiment in Powder Pink Ink and a few elements from the Oh So Eclectic stamp set in both the Powder Pink and Fresh Fig ink, then adhered the flowers with I had curled the edges with a Bone Folder. I layered this piece on Fresh Fig patterned paper from Eastern Palace onto a Powder Pink card base. I added some Glitter Enamel Dots to finish the card.

SHOP NOW to order items used in this project from the 2017-2018 Annual Catalogue, go to my Online Store or contact me to place an order.  In July for every $90 you send you will receive a $9 voucher to spend in August. On top of those vouchers ALL online order placed using this month Hostess Code will receive a FREE gift FROM ME

If you would like to join my Wicked Woody's team to receive a discount on your supplies, there is fantastic joining Special in July including some sneak peek Christmas products and and Essentials Pack to valued at $121 your door step for just $169, with $235 dollars of value plus a business pack delivered to your door FREE. So don't Delay and SIGN UP TODAY

I can also show you how to make my projects at a party with you and your friends or at one of my classes. Just contact me to organise a time to enjoy the amazing benefits our hosts that you can spend on anything in the Annual Catalogue.

Ellen xx

Fabulous Flamingo - SDBH Case the Catty

Today I am playing along with the Stampin Dreams Blog Hop where we are Casing the Catalogue. My inspiration came from Page 101 of the Stampin' Up! 2017-2018 Annual Catalogue where I love the perspective of the card looking into the circle with that flowers on the side. I have substituted the flower for our beautiful Fabulous Flamingo stamp set.

I started by choosing my colours and of course pinks were in order with Berry Burst and Powder Pink but I changed it up a bit with a touch is Sweet Sugarplum. I took all these colours card stock and the circles from the Stitched Shapes Framelits and cut descending circles with the Big Shot, to create the perspective of looking into the card rather than it jumping off the surface. Using the water and grass stamps also from the Fabulous Flamingo stamp set I added in them Marina Mist and Wild Wasabi. The layers were adhered together and then using Stampin' Dimensionals to attached to a Thick Whisper White card base. To stamp the flamingo I started with the most complete image in stamped off Berry Burst, the solid body in Power Pink ink and finally the body and leg outlines in Early Espresso. Then I hand cut out the image and attached it using Stampin' Dimentionals. I finished off the front of the card by stamping the sentiment in Sweet Sugarplum ink onto Whisper White card stock and flagged the ends with the Triple Banner punch. I also finished off the inside if the card with the stitched circles left over from the front of that card adding another sentiment from the same stamp set in Berry Burst ink.

Please check out all the other participants in the Blog Hop

SHOP NOW to order items used in this project from the 2017-2018 Annual Catalogue, go to my Online Store or contact me to place an order.  In July for every $90 you send you will receive a $9 voucher to spend in August. On top of those vouchers ALL online order placed using this month Hostess Code will receive a FREE gift FROM ME

If you would like to join my Wicked Woody's team to receive a discount on your supplies, there is fantastic joining Special in July including some sneak peek Christmas products and and Essentials Pack to valued at $121 your door step for just $169, with $235 dollars of value plus a business pack delivered to your door FREE. So don't Delay and SIGN UP TODAY

I can also show you how to make my projects at a party with you and your friends or at one of my classes. Just contact me to organise a time to enjoy the amazing benefits our hosts that you can spend on anything in the Annual Catalogue.

Ellen xx

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Pieces & Patterns with Pick a Pattern Paper Watercolor card

I posted THIS card the other week and while I had scraps and my supplies out on my desk I made another. I love how busy bright and different this card is.

I took some Watercolor Paper and stamped some of the elements from the Pieces & Patterns in Basic Grey Archival, Lemon Lime Twist, Peekaboo Peach and Flirty Flamingo inks. I used Stampin' Write Markers in the above colours to colour the flowers and spritzed the whole piece with water to make the ink bleed and filled in some of the blank speaks with the dot stamp with the Basic Grey Ink and matted on Peekaboo Peach cards stock. I also did some spritzing on the Sentiment I coloured with Lemon Lime Twist Stampin' Write makers and lightly spritzed the stamp before stamping in onto Watercolor Paper which I punched the end with the Triple Banner Punch. The base of the card was made with a matted of Pick a Pattern Designer Series Paper (which coordinates with the stamp set!) with Lemon Lime Twist card stock and attached to a Thick Whisper White Card base, adding the watercolour piece directly to the patterned paper and the sentiment piece on dimensionals.

SHOP NOW to order items used in this project from the 2017-2018 Annual Catalogue, go to my Online Store or contact me to place an order.  In July for every $90 you send you will receive a $9 voucher to spend in August. On top of those vouchers ALL online order placed using this month Hostess Code will receive a FREE gift FROM ME

If you would like to join my Wicked Woody's team to receive a discount on your supplies, there is fantastic joining Special in July including some sneak peek Christmas products and and Essentials Pack to valued at $121 your door step for just $169, with $235 dollars of value plus a business pack delivered to your door FREE. So don't Delay and SIGN UP TODAY

I can also show you how to make my projects at a party with you and your friends or at one of my classes. Just contact me to organise a time to enjoy the amazing benefits our hosts that you can spend on anything in the Annual Catalogue.

Ellen xx

Large Number Framelits, Shaving Cream and Embossing Paste 21st Card

I was voted to make this very special card by my family for my cousin who turned 21 yesterday. I checked the theme for the party and it was a beach a theme which was perfect as recently in a Team Meeting we did shaving foam technique with Dapper Denim and Pool Party reinkers so it went perfectly with this card for the water of the ocean.

 

I was inspired by Jennifer McGuire using the Z-Fold card design to make a portrait fold out card. I did add an extra little flap on the back so the card stands up all in Soft Sky card stock. To decorate the card I started with the background and used the NEW Embossing Paste from Stampin' Up! with the cloud mask from the Pattern Party Decorative Masks, while this was drying I did my stamping (the paste dried quicker than the time it took to prep the rest) I trimmed a piece of Vellum, the shaving cream piece and Sahara Sand card stock pieces to the width of the card and tore the tops of them to mimic the waves sea and sand. the Sahara Sand card stock piece is stamped with the dots stamp from the Timeless Texture stamp set in Sahara sand ink and the Grass stamp from the Fabulous Flamingo stamp set in Always Articoke ink and attached them to front flap of the card. The numbers were die cut in the Big Shot using the Large Number Framelits from Dapper Denim and Sahara Sand card stock layered then together and added under the sand layer. The happy birthday stamp came from the Happy Birthday Gorgeous stamp set in Dapper Denim ink and the frame also from the same stamp set in Sahara Sand ink and punched out using the coordinating Classic Label Punch. I added Wink of Stellar to the numbers to add an extra pop to finish the card.

SHOP NOW to order items used in this project from the Stampin' Up! 2017-2018 Annual Catalogue, go to my Online Store or contact me to place an order.  In July for every $90 you send you will receive a $9 voucher to spend in August. On top of those vouchers ALL online order placed using this month Hostess Code will receive a FREE gift FROM ME

If you would like to join my Wicked Woody's team to receive a discount on your supplies, there is fantastic Joining Special in July including some sneak peek Christmas products and and Essentials Pack to valued at $121 your door step for just $169, with $235 dollars of value plus a business pack delivered to your door FREE. So don't Delay and SIGN UP TODAY

I can also show you how to make my projects at a party with you and your friends or at one of my classes. Just contact me to organise a time to enjoy the amazing benefits our hosts that you can spend on anything in the Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue.

Ellen xx

Eastern Medallions with Fabulous Foil Acetate Card

I found this Amazing Card by Kristin Kortonick on Pinterest and loved it so much that I cased it. I adore how versatile the Eastern Medallion set is I have previously made THIS card where I used this flower how it is intended to be that the petals partially cut

For this card I snipped out the flower so it is a separate piece. I layered it with 1 1/4 " Circle Punched Very Vanilla card stock which I stamped using the Eastern Beauty stamp set in Fresh Fig and Lemon Lime Twist. I layered Gold Thread between these 2 layers. I placed this on a Thick Very Vanilla card base with a Very Vanilla layer with a piece of Fabulous Foil Designer Acetate wrapped in Gold Metallic Ribbon you can also use some Sequin Trim over it.

SHOP NOW to order items used in this project from the 2017-2018 Annual Catalogue, go to my Online Store or contact me to place an order.  In July for every $90 you send you will receive a $9 voucher to spend in August. On top of those vouchers ALL online order placed using this month Hostess Code will receive a FREE gift FROM ME

If you would like to join my Wicked Woody's team to receive a discount on your supplies, there is fantastic Joining Special in July including some sneak peek Christmas products and and Essentials Pack to valued at $121 your door step for just $169, with $235 dollars of value plus a business pack delivered to your door FREE. So don't Delay and SIGN UP TODAY

I can also show you how to make my projects at a party with you and your friends or at one of my classes. Just contact me to organise a time to enjoy the amazing benefits our hosts that you can spend on anything in the Annual Catalogue.

Ellen xx

Lovely Inside & Out with Christmas Pines Card - GSF Blog Hop

There is nothing more Festive in Australia than Christmas In July as it actually cold and not scorching hot, so participating in this month's Global Stamping Friends Blog Hop Christmas with a Twist was an easy one to say YES to. While we all eagerly await the Stampin' Up! 2017 Holiday catalogue we are all thinking outside the square with the current offering of products - I have used Lovely Inside & Out, Diagonal Stripe and Christmas Pines stamp sets to make this Ornament card

The base of the card from is Whisper White card stock that I stamped in Basic Grey Archival ink with the Diagonal Stripe. Next stamped the circle bursts for the Inside & Out stamp set in Fresh Fig, Always Artichoke and Cherry Cobbler on Vellum and clear heat embossed them to give some shine and punched them out using the 1 3/4" circle punch. While I was embossing I took the sentiment from the Christmas Pines stamp set and gold heat embossed it on Fresh Fig card stock and attached it to the striped piece using Stampin Dimensionals. I attached the 'baubles' using Fast Fuse. To finish the card front I added the strings that are our NEW gold Mini Sequin Trim and the bauble tops that are bundled together Gold Thread with Gold Faceted Gems. I layered the card from on a matt of Cherry Cobbler card stock on a Always Artichoke card base.

Please check out all the other amazing projects from the Blog Hop

Blog hop participants

1. Sarah McDermott 

2. Kristie Neal Walthall 

3. Rebecca Urban 

4. Courtenay Heuston

5. Lisa Ann Bernard

6. Georgia Missy Gaydos

7. Jenn Curtis Charles

8. Lou Kitzelman  

9. Sharon Dalton

10. Kimberley Anne Morris  

11. Angélique Stempelkeuken

12. Amber Thompson

13. Marieke Bart  

14. Ellen Woodbridge <----- YOU ARE HERE

SHOP NOW to order items used in this project from the 2017-2018 Annual Catalogue, go to my Online Store or contact me to place an order.  In July for every $90 you send you will receive a $9 voucher to spend in August. On top of those vouchers ALL online order placed using this month Hostess Code will receive a FREE gift FROM ME

If you would like to join my Wicked Woody's team to receive a discount on your supplies, there is fantastic Joining Special in July including some sneak peek Christmas products and and Essentials Pack to valued at $121 your door step for just $169, with $235 dollars of value plus a business pack delivered to your door FREE. So don't Delay and SIGN UP TODAY

I can also show you how to make my projects at a party with you and your friends or at one of my classes. Just contact me to organise a time to enjoy the amazing benefits our hosts that you can spend on anything in the Annual Catalogue.

Ellen xx

Happy Birthday Thinlit and Pattern Party Decorative Mask Card

I have previously played with our NEW Embossing Paste and while I was making that card I made another card base using the paste and the Pattern Party Decorative Masks

To colour the Embossing Paste base I used our Sponge Brayers along with Tranquil Tide, Pacific Point and Soft Suede inks and used the same technique I have shown in this Video

I added 2 layered Happy Birthday Thinlits that I cut in Tranquil Tide and Soft Suede in the Big Shot using the Precision Plate on top of a Vellum Stitched Shapes Framelit circle. To finish the card I layered it on Thick Whisper White card base and a few layers of Whisper White card stock.

SHOP NOW to order items used in this project from the 2017-2018 Annual Catalogue, go to my Online Store or contact me to place an order.  In July for every $90 you send you will receive a $9 voucher to spend in August. On top of those vouchers ALL online order placed using this month Hostess Code will receive a FREE gift FROM ME

If you would like to join my Wicked Woody's team to receive a discount on your supplies, there is fantastic Joining Special in July including some sneak peek Christmas products and and Essentials Pack to valued at $121 your door step for just $169, with $235 dollars of value plus a business pack delivered to your door FREE. So don't Delay and SIGN UP TODAY

I can also show you how to make my projects at a party with you and your friends or at one of my classes. Just contact me to organise a time to enjoy the amazing benefits our hosts that you can spend on anything in the Annual Catalogue.

Ellen xx