Inspire.Create. Stamping Challenges #204|Christmas


Hello and welcome to another Inspire.Create Stamping Challenge. I am Karen Farquhar from Australia. This week we have a theme challenge for you simply 'Christmas'. Christmas my favourite time of the year and it is just about upon us.



For my submission this week I have used the beautiful Designer Series Papers from the Traditions of Christmas Suite Collection. This suite comes with two coordinating die sets  and two coordinating stamp sets.




 I love to buy Stampin' Up's kits but I hate to throw away the sturdy brown boxes the kits come in. I have a huge collection so I set about designing a kit to fit the boxes, incorporating cards made with the Traditions of Christmas DSP. This was a project for the ladies who attended my Stamp Club this month. A lovely gift for someone special.



To make the boxes I turned the boxes inside out then decorated them to cover the labelling on the boxes.



I then measured the inside of the box and made dividers for the inside with Crumb Cake Cardstock, so the cards wouldn't move around in the box.
Following are some of the cards I included in the class.







 






Where there weren't matching dies I fussy cut the images.

I hope you like my projects today and I have inspired you to enter the challenge. You can see more inspiration from our talented team over on the Inspire.Create. Stamping Challenges blog site. 
 Please we really would love to see your creations. We need your projects submitted here by 10am. Sunday (UK time).

Below are the products I have used for today's projects. 
 If you are an Australian resident and wish to purchase the products just click on the product thumbnail to take you to my Online Store.


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Inspire.Create. Stamping Challenges Challenge#203 Christmas Decoration

 Hello and welcome to the Inspire.Create Stamping Challenge. I am Karen Farquhar from Australia. Today we have been set a theme challenge. The theme being Christmas Decorations.


So for my submission I have created a few Christmas tree hanging ornaments.
For my first group I have used Basic white card stock and teamed it with Gold Foil. Die cutting the doves from the Stampin' Up!'s Peace on Earth Dies. 



 


To construct the shaker ornaments you will need 6 Basic White Cardstock Rings and 1 Gold Foil ring die-cut from the 2 largest circle dies in the Stylish Shapes Dies (love these dies).
I held the two die-cutting circles together, smaller inside the larger with wash tape whilst cutting the rings.
1 large die-cut circle of Window Sheet.
2 large Basic White die-cut circles for the back of the ornament.
One of which for a sentiment for the back of the ornament.
Adhere the 6 Basic White rings together in a stack, adhere the die-cut l Window Sheet circle on top & then glue the gold foil ring onto the outside of the Window Sheet circle.  
Flip the ornament over, sprinkle the inside with Stampin' Up's Gold Shaker Stars. Decorate one large die-cut circle with die-cut doves or any other type of embellishment you like and then adhere your embellished  circle to the back of the ornament face down. You can then apply a second circle to the back if you wish to stamp a sentiment for gift giving. 





I have constructed my blue ornaments in the same way using Night of Navy Cardstock substituting one of the Basic White circles for the beautiful Peaceful Garden Designer Series Paper as background.









For my next set of ornaments I have fussy cut images from the Modern Christmas Designer Series Paper using the same Designer Series Paper
as a background and Gold Foil again for the rings







I hope you like my projects today and I have inspired you to enter the challenge. You can see more inspiration from our talented team over on the Inspire.Create. Stamping Challenges blog site. 
 Please we really would love to see your creations. We need your projects submitted here by 10am. Sunday (UK time).

Below are the products I have used for today's projects. 
 If you are an Australian resident and wish to purchase the products just click on the product thumbnail to take you to my Online Store.

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Inspire.Create. Stamping Challenges Autumn/Fall Challenge #202


 Hello and welcome to the Inspire.Create Stamping Challenge. I am Karen Farquhar from Australia. Today we have been set a theme challenge. The theme being Autumn/Fall.


This challenge was a little hard for me to get my head around as in Australia we are experiencing beautiful Spring weather after a very cold Winter by Australian standards.
However I grabbed an assortment of  stamps and dies and set to it.

 


Creating the background involved cutting some masks from card stock using a variety of dies then some colour blending the negative images with my blending brushes. Then I over-stamped the background with stamps from the Heirloom Arrangement Kit.
I die cut some copper foil, gold foil & Early Espresso card stock leaves with the Beautiful Motifs and Inspiring Imperfections dies to build a leaf bouquet.  The tag is from the Notes and Totes die set.
Quiet a few dies involved but I pulled out anything with leaves I had on hand. 

I hope you like my project today and I have inspired you to enter the challenge. You can see more inspiration from our talented team over on the Inspire.Create. Stamping Challenges blog site. 
 Please we really would love to see your creations. We need your projects submitted here by 10am. Sunday (UK time).

Below are the products I have used for today's projects. 
 If you are an Australian resident and wish to purchase the products just click on the product thumbnail to take you to my Online Store.

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