Crazy Crafters Blog Hop with Stesha Bloodhart

Today we get to share our cards CASE'd from the amazingly talented Stesha Bloodhart.  Please click on the links below to jump through and have a look at all the talented Crazy Crafters I'm hopping with today.  When I saw the card of Steshas card that I chose to CASE I knew immediately it was "the one". I have a good friend that I worked with for over 25 years as a Paramedic, he retired from the job a couple of years ago, but friencships forged under those circumstances are for a lifetime.  He is as much my husbands friend now as he is mine, and I may one day even forgive him for reitroducing my husband to Motorbikes (don't get me started on that one!) I thought this was the perfect card to send to a male friend to let him know I value our friencship, as I know he struggles from time to time with PTSD.  So thankyou Stesha for inspiring me to make and send this card to a dear friend.

This is Steshas amazing card.

I love the elegance of the Gold Acetate with the Black Cardstock and the Black & Gold accents.

This is My Card.

I have used a Sticker from the Eastern Gold Vinyl pack to outline the sentiment circle and used the Stitched Shapes framelit circle to give it a little texture around the edge, it fits perfectly with the image! The sentiment is from the Beautiful Bouquet Stamp Set.  

Stampin Up have such a wonderful array of Gold accents at the moment.  It makes it very easy to add some Bling!

Please click on the list below to progress through the Hop.  I'm sure you will find mountains of inspiration from the talented Crazy Crafters.

Here is a list of the products used in making this Card:

Basic Black Cardstock
Whisper White Cardstock
Gold Foil Sheets
Fabulous Foil Desogner Acetate
Eastern Gold Vinyl Stickers
Layering Circles Thinlits
Stitched Shapes Circle Thinlits
Gold Embossing Powder
Metallic Sequins
Mini Tassels
Gold Mini Sequin Trim
Beautiful Bouquet Stamp Set

In need of a Sympathy Card.

Yesterday I found myself in need of a Sympathy card to give to my Cousins family. She died suddenly from complications of the Flu at only 47 years old.  My stash of cards did not contain a single Sympathy card.  I guess making cards makes me happy, so I haven't previously felt the need to make a sad card for the sake of crafting.  Yesterday however, I felt the need to personally make a card for my Uncle to pass on my condolences for the loss of his daughter.  Although I haven't seen my cousin since we were little kids due to her parents marriage breakup, her dad (my dads brother) has continued to be a part of our lives and is being a great support to my Dad who is battling cancer.  My Uncle, and every other non-crafter out there, probably has no idea about how much time, effort and thought goes into the crafting of a card, but I felt better giving a card that had "me" in it rather than one purchased from a shop.  I can now find motivation and satisfaction in creating Sympathy cards.

I did have to search the Holy Grail of Ideas AKA Pinterest as I had no idea where to start with a
Sympathy Card.  I found a beautiful card that I really liked which was made by Kay Miller of My Joyful Moments. If you get a chance check out her blog.  She is not a SU demonstrator but I have used her card for inspiration and adapted it to use SU product.  Thankyou Kay for sharing your work.

I also put together a "Hello" card at the same time.  I used a mishmash of stamp and dies sets for these cards.  I loved the simplicity of the original card and tried to maintain this on my version.  I really like the mix of grey and white with just a pop of colour.  

Thankyou for viewing my card.  I have listed all the products below that I used to create these cards.

Happy Crafting!!

PRODUCTS

Whisper White Thick Cardstock
Smoky Slate Cardstock
Simply Scored
Striched Shapes Framelits
Bouquet Bunch Framelits
Lots of Love Stamp Set
Beautiful Bouquet Stamp Set
Better together Stamp Set
Timeless Textiures Stamp Set
Flirty Flamingo Ink Pad
Smoky Slate Inkpad
Glitter Enamel Dots

Wood Texture DSP

Wood Textures DSP

I purchased the Wood Textures Designer Series Papers months ago as I was so happy Stampin' Up had released a design so perfect for those difficult to make male cards.  It is my Darling Husbands birthday tomorrow so it was the perfect time to break out this new set and have a play.  I must say that it certainly looks Male!  I managed to stop myself adding a hint of colour somewhere as I think the appeal of this type of card is the monochrome look.  

 I have used some older SU Sentiment stamps as I am eagerly awaiting the release of the next Ocassions Catalogue before purchasing some more current Sentiment Sets to round out my collection

These cards were inspired by one I saw on Pinterest and I would like to acknowledge the original artist Sylvaqueen who posted her original on Splitcoaststampers.

  

Products used on these cards:

Wood Textures DSP
Basic Black Cardstock
Vellum
Versamark Ink
Embossing Powder
Black Rhinestone Jewels
Striped ribbon
Oh Hello Stamp Set (retired)
Happy Birthday Everyone Stamp Set (retired)

Crazy Crafters Blog Hop with Jay Soriano!

Well, it is that time again, the challenge is on to CASE another amazing crafter.  Todays blog-hop is featuring the amazingly talented Jay Soriano of Mitosustampin.  I had a hard time choosing between 2 of Jays cards, so I kind of melded the two together to make a Frankenstein card.

These are the two cards that inspired Frankenstein.

I loved the stamped panel in the first card and thought that it would make a great card turned portrait and full size.  The stamping effect Jay achieved on the second card is just so beautiful that I just couldn't help trying something similar.

And this is Frankenstein

Sorry about the photo quality, I haven't been home in daylight for several days, and it doesn't do justice to the lovely flower images that are all shiny and pretty from being clear heat embossed after stamping.
This project was made much easier by using my MISTI but it could have been done without it.

The flowers are stamped with Real Red on Colour Theory DSP.
The gumnuts are stamped with Smoky Slate.
The leaves are stamped with Lemon Lime Twist and the White flowers were created by mixing white and clear embossing powders to create a crackle like finish to soften them a little.

The flowers are mixed from the Happy Birthday Gorgeous and Beautiful Bouquet Stamp sets and the sentiment is from Flourishing Phrases.

I had a lot of fun playing Mad Scientist and CASEing Jays gorgeous cards.  Click on the Blog links below to view some of my fellow Crazy Crafters versions of Jays art.

This weeks Crazy Crafters blog Hop Special Guest is the amazingly talented Jeanette Egemann.  The brief is to CASE - Copy And Selectively Edit one of her creations.  The card below was the one that inspired me.  I loved the use of the Lemon Lime Twist with the Black, White and a touch of the Berry Burst. I used this colour combination as inspiration to create my card.

I used the colours in a slightly less bold way but still love the way they work together.
I cut down the gold stickers to allow them to fit into the partially die cut  flower centres. 
I used some paper from the Pick a Pattern DSP instead of Black CS to keep the softer look.

The Products used to complete this card are all available from the new 2017-2018 Catalogue and are listed below.  Please feel free to contact me if you would like to order any of these items.

Whisper White Cardstock
Lemon Lime Twist Cardstock
Pick a Pattern Designer Series Paper
Eastern Medallions Thinlits Dies
Stitched Circles Framelits
Eastern Gold Vinyl Stickers
Eastern Beauty PP Stamp Set
Lemon Lime Twist Finely Woven Ribbon
Glitter Enamel Dots.

For some wonderful inspiration please visit the Blogs of my fellow Crazy Crafters.  Just click on the links below to visit and enjoy!

Today we get to case the amazing work of Holly Stene. I thoroughly enjoyed checking out Holly's Blog and Pinterest Board to find a card to CASE for this Crazy Crafters Blog Hop.

I loved the use of the words stamped as a background and I also really liked the grouping of the elements and I have tried to incorporate these into my card.

This is Holly's card:

This is my CASE

The products used to create this card are:

Wood Textures DSP
Delightful Daisy DSP
Old Olive CS
Flourishing Phrases Stamp Set
Crumbcake Classic Stamp Pad
Mini Chevron Ribbon - Old Olive
Stitched Shapes Framelits
Layering Circles Framelits.

Please click on the links below to view the wonderful art of my fellow Crazy Crafters as they too CASE Holly's amazing works.

Crazy Crafters Blog Hop with Nadine Koller

Hello fellow crafters.  Todays Blog hop brief is to CASE the amazingly talented Nadine Koller.
If you get a chance it is really worthwhile having a look at her blog and Pinterest page as they are full of amazing creations.  Despite a plethora of wonderful cards to CASE, I chose to turn this beautiful package into a card and include some of the new In Colour cardstock.  I just adore the Black, White and Gold theme of this package and think it is just perfect as it is, alas I am required to Selectively Edit this project.

This is Nadine's amazing creation:

This is my test card.  I have been asked to make a 21st birthday card "in girly colors that can have money inside for a gift"

I used this card as a bit of a practice run at making an insert pocked on the inside to contain the money.  There actual birthday card will be taller and not square so as to allow extra length for the money, and probably much closer in style to Nadines - because I love it just the way it is.

This is the inside of the card showing the sleeve for inserting the gift money and a couple of photos showing how it was assembled from 2 pieces of cardstock, Whisper White and Powder Pink, and stuck together

The Floral embellishment was make by die cutting 3 colours of cardstock with the Flourish Thinlits in Gold, Powder Pink and Lemon Lime Twist from the new In Colours.  The offcuts from the coloured cardstock were placed back into the gold diecut to fill the empty spaces.

I used the Delicate Details Stamp Set to create the patterned paper and stamped the sentiments with the new Daisy Delight Stamp Set. I used one of the new Gold Faceted Gems for the flower centre and some Whisper White ribbon for the tag.

I hope you enjoyed my card.  Thankyou Nadine for the inspiration.

Please click on the names below to check out the amazing work of my fellow Crazy Crafters as they CASE Nadines wonderful creations.

Crazy Crafters Blog Hop with Lea Denton

I have taken up the challenge to enter a Blog Hop for the first time and chose the Crazy Crafters Blog Hop CASEing Lea Denton.
The hardest part of the challenge was choosing only one of her beautiful cards to CASE.
In the end I went for one of her simple ones.  I don't own the stamp set she used so substituted with the Penned and Painted set,  I blinged it up a little with some gold ribbon and white heat embossed a flower on gold paper to create the accent.  I kept the colours similar as I loved how Lea's popped on the Crumbcake Cardstock.

This was the card I chose to CASE

And this is my CASE

Thankyou for visiting by blog.  Feel free to leave any comments you like. Be sure to visit the next awesome Crazy Crafter's blog by clicking on the person below me.

2 for 1 Card

Hello to all my crafty friends.  Today I made a couple of cards that I have been itching to get to for a while now.  These cards are CASE'd from the amazingly talented Jennifer McGuire. Unfortunately she is not a Stampin Up Demonstrator, so I had to try and find a stamp set that would do the job.  I settled on the Penned and Painted set as I needed outline flowers to complete the project.

These are the cards I made.  

These cards require heat embossing, lots of stamping, and some watercolouring.  
2 card fronts are created using the exact same stamped image twice.  One is stamped in black ink and watercoloured, and the other is stamped with Versamark and clear heat embossed.

I used Watermelon Wonder and Whisper White Cardstock and watercoloured the images with a paintbrush and Inks.  I used Flirty Flamingo, Peakaboo Peach, Pear Pizzaz and Crumbcake.  That was the quick part!

The clear embossed Watermelon Wonder card front was a little more time intensive, but a lot of fun to create.  Each flower and leaf had to be individually stamped and heat embossed separately.  I used my MISTI  to recreate the same pattern as the watercoloured page.

Then I chopped them up!

I cut about 2.5cm off the bottom of each piece. I took a further centimeter off the bottom of the larger piece to allow the sentiment strip to go between the two pieces and not distort the picture.

I then heat embossed a sentiment from the Falling in Love stamp set using White embossing powder on Black cardstock.

Then stick it all together.......

Ta Da!  2 cards from one watercoloured image. I'm thinking some watercolour pencils might need to make it onto my next order.