Karen Farquhar: April 2020

Inspire.Create Stamping Challenges #068

Hello and welcome I am Karen Farquhar from Australia and I thank you for joining me today for Inspire.Create Stamping Challenge #068. I was really itching to to start playing with the new Ornate Garden Suite. The Ornate Garden Suite is featured in the new 2020-2021 Annual Catalogue but Stampin' Up! have provided it to us for pre-release. So we are able to purchase it now. Just a little tease of what's to come.

The Ornate Suite features detailed floral images, gold foil, gems, ribbons and elegant borders with beautiful coordinating dies. These dies are a must have. Also there is sweet little embossing folder Ornate Floral 3D.

I have mainly played with the dies for my cards but the Designer Series Paper will be a firm favourite as well.

Thank you for visiting me. I hope you have been inspired by the project I have presented today. Please, you are more than welcome to enter your projects for the Inspire.Create Stamping Challenges here. We really would love to see your creations. Note we need your projects submitted by 10am. (UK time) Sunday.

Also pop over for a visit to see the projects of other talented stampers.

To purchase products I have used today and all other Stampin' Up! products just click on the product thumbnail below to take you directly to my Online Store.
Do what you must to please stay safe.

Product List

Ornate Garden Suite Collection (English)

[154153]

Stitched So Sweetly Dies

[151690]

Whisper White A4 Card Stock

[106549]

Soft Sea Foam A4 Cardstock

[147012]

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad

[132708]

Inspire.Create Stamping Challenge #067

Hello and welcome I am Karen Farquhar from Australia and I thank you for joining me today for Inspire.Create Stamping Challenge #067. Today we have a colour challenge for you.

Blackberry Bliss, Poppy Parade,

Pool Party and Old Olive. Such vibrant pretty colours.

One thing I guess about having to stay home during the Corona Virus pandemic is you get to finish some unfinished projects.

I came up with this idea for my mini-album after the last Stampin' Up! Onstage event I attended. Stampin' Up give you such beautiful flyers for the events that I cannot bear to throw them away. So I decided to use the flyers to create a mini album as a keepsake of the day.

The size of the album is 14cm x 9.5cm. The size was governed by the most economical way I could fit the printed flyer to the cover.

The album was bound together using a concertina method of scoring and folding a 30cm x10cm strip of Designer Series Paper at intervals of 2.5cm. The landscape sides of the DSP are scored and folded at 2.5cm & 7.5cm. I centred and adhered the inside pages to the mountain fold of the concertina 2.5cm from each edge.

Peaks are then folded along the landscape sides at 5cm intervals or at every second score line. These peaks are then folded inwards to the inside pages and adhered.

Front and back covers were cut from scrap cardboard, covered, then adhered to the first and last fold.

I have also created a box to hold my mini-album.

And of course you can't make a Stampin' Up! album without a little stamping.

The inside pages are folded in half to create little pockets so some stamped tabbed inserts complete the album all ready to add my photos and memorabilia.

Also pop over for a visit to see the projects of other talented stampers.

To purchase products I have used today and all other Stampin' Up! products just click on the product thumbnail below to take you directly to my Online Store.
Do what you must to stay safe I intend to keep my spirits up by putting ink to paper.

Global Design Project #275

Hello and welcome. You are currently visiting Karen Farquhar from Australia. I am playing along with the Global Design Project team this week and the theme 'Spring/Easter'.

I decided to use my Stamparatus tool to create this little card and use a non-Easter stamp set Cuckoo to You. Although I would much rather be receiving chocolate than carrots I thought they were still a bit cute.

Lining up these little marching rabbits without the use of my Stamparatus would have been so tiresome but the hinged removable plates on the Stamparatus allow you to move the plate from one hinge to the next and to stamp across the page without having to reposition your stamp on the plate.

I have also added the little rabbit to a gift tag to coordinate with my card.

I would like to say thank you to those visiting me today. I hope you find inspiration from my projects. All of the products I have used today are available in our 2019-2020 Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue. Just click on the thumbnails below to take you straight to my online store. Happy shopping.

For even more inspiration pop on over to the Global Design Project page here.

Product List

Whisper White A4 Card Stock [106549]	Pumpkin Pie A4 Card Stock [108601]	Cuckoo For You Photopolymer Stamp Set [149349]	Buffalo Check Cling-Mount Stamp Set [151372]	Welcome Easter Cling Stamp Set (English) [151559]
Itty Bitty Greetings Clear-Mount Stamp Set [146667]	Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708]	Old Olive Stampin' Blends Markers Combo Pack [144597]	Smoky Slate Stampin' Blends Markers Combo Pack [145058]	Pumpkin Pie Stampin' Blends Markers Combo Pack [144599]
Flirty Flamingo Stampin' Blends Markers Combo Pack [147278]	Wiggly Bugs Dies [149637]	Old Olive Classic Stampin' Pad [147090]	Sponge Daubers [133773]

Inspire.Create Stamping Challenges Theme: Easter

Hello and welcome I am Karen Farquhar from Australia and I thank you for joining me today for Inspire.Create Stamping Challenge #066.

Well, what an unprecedented time we are all facing. At the moment life is a bit insane and like me, I'm sure you have been feeling the stress of all the announcements and changes we are navigating our way through. I am thankful I have a craft room for somewhere to retreat to and hibernate.

With the uncertainty of the coming weeks and with social distancing becoming best practice even though I am missing my family and friends I am welcoming the time to stay home, slow down and maybe clean my craft room. Maybe?

My heart and prayers go out to my overseas friends who have suffered loss of loved ones and hardship from this terrible virus.

The theme for Inspire.Create Stamping Challenge #066 is Easter.

For my Easter cards I have tried to give them a soft effect with some sponging and watercoloring.

I have used images from 'Non- Easter' stamp sets.

And added some sentiments and floral die-cuts to complete the cards.
See the thumbnails below for products I have used.

Thank you for visiting me. I hope you have been inspired by the cards I have presented today. Please, you are more than welcome to enter your projects for the Inspire.Create Stamping Challenges here. We really would love to see your creations. Note we need your projects submitted by 10am. (UK time) Sunday.

Also pop over for a visit to see the projects of other talented stampers.

Product List

Whisper White A4 Card Stock [106549]	Balmy Blue Classic Stampin' Pad [147105]	Rococo Rose Classic Stampin’ Pad [150080]	Wildly Happy Cling Stamp Set [149408]	Nature's Beauty Cling Stamp Set [150528]
Itty Bitty Greetings Clear-Mount Stamp Set [146667]	Winds Of Change Cling Stamp Set [149357]	Watercolor Pencils [141709]	Watercolor Pencils Assortment 2 [149014]	Aqua Painters [103954]
Layering Ovals Dies [141706]	Layering Circles Dies [141705]	Stitched So Sweetly Dies [151690]	Word Wishes Dies [149629]	Well Written Dies [148534]
Sweet Silhouettes Dies [149541]	Bouquet Bunch Dies [143659]	Frosted Bouquet Dies [147895]	Scripty 3D Embossing Folder [149634]	Sponge Daubers [133773]