Inspire.Create. STAMPING CHALLENGES Challenge #215|Embossing Challenge

Hello and a warm welcome to another Inspire.Create. Stamping Challenge! I’m Karen Farquhar, joining you from Australia. 
Time to make your designs pop! This week, we’re diving into an embossing challenge.
Easily one of my favourite go-to techniques!
From subtle textures to bold, glossy finishes, embossing (dry or heat) can create pure magic. Sharing embossing with new stampers is such a joy, especially when they see the stunning effects come to life!




Today I’m sharing a simple yet eye-catching card that combines both dry and heat embossing. I’m also giving you a little sneak peek of the beautiful new Fern and Flora Suite from the upcoming May–August Stampin’ Up! catalogue!

For this design, I experimented with a popular technique—cutting the embossed background into 1" and ¾" strips, then mounting them alternately on dimensionals. The result is a striking layered 3D effect that really brings the card to life.

Such a fun way to add texture and depth—definitely a technique worth trying!

I can’t wait to see what you create! 

I hope you’ve enjoyed my project today and feel inspired to join in the challenge!

You can find even more inspiration from our talented design team over on the Inspire.Create. Stamping Challenges website.

We’d absolutely love to see your creations—be sure to submit your projects here by 10am Sunday (UK time).

Below are the products I’ve used for today’s project. If you’re based in Australia and would like to purchase them, simply click on the product thumbnails to visit my online store.

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INSPIRE.CREATE.CHALLENGE #214|Water Challenge

Hello and a warm welcome to another Inspire.Create Stamping Challenge! I’m Karen Farquhar, joining you from Australia. This week we have a fun theme to spark your creativity—‘Water’! 💧


This challenge invites you to create a project inspired by water—either featuring it as a theme or using it as part of your design. I chose to work with water colouring for my submission.




As you can see, I’ve started with a simple gold-embossed image created using the 'Simply Beautiful' stamp bundle.




I’ve chosen to build my cards by gradually progressing from a simple heat-embossed image to a water coloured design.
                                


For my third design, I’ve used another image from the 'Simply Beautiful' bundle and added a frame to highlight it.


I hope you’ve enjoyed my projects today and feel inspired to join the challenge. You can find more inspiration from our talented design team over on the Inspire.Create. Stamping Challenges website.

We would really love to see your creations—please submit your projects here by 10am Sunday (UK time).

Below are the products I’ve used for today’s project. If you’re based in Australia and would like to purchase them, simply click on the product thumbnail to visit my online store.

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INSPIRE.CREATE.STAMPING CHALLENGE. #213|Spring/Easter

Hello and welcome to the Inspire.Create Stamping Challenge. I am Karen Farquhar from Australia. Today we have been set the theme challenge Easter/Spring. Here in Australia we are in Autumn so I went with the Easter theme.

Easter is one of those times of the year were I create a lot of cards and small gifts, so the Easter theme was pretty convienent for me.


Pictured above are the note cards I created for my friends and family members using March's Product of the month the sweet stamp set 'Notes of Spring. Available for $9 with an order of $125. 




I have matched the note cards with coordinating self-closing boxes  boxes containing small chocolate eggs.


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 This is the pattern I used from Nadine's website. https://nadinekreativ.de/selbstschliessende-box-schneeflockentraum/

Thank you Nadine for sharing such wonderful instructions.
The simple tag idea is from my friend Denita Wright-Smee. You will find Denita's creations here.






The cards above I created for my grandchildren. The Designer Series paper is 'Easter Joy'.







And little gift pouches containing small chocolates I gave to my nieces and nephews. The stamp set is 'Easter Basket'. I have used the 'Beautiful Bokeh' 6" x6" Designer Series Paper as I felt the patterned papers were a bit too busy.





For these projects I have used the bunny from the 'Seasonal Celebrations' stamp set. The bows for the girls and bow-ties for the boys were two stamped hearts from the set with a punched circle for the centre knots.

                     
 I do 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 web 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 project. 
 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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