Dandy Designs DSP – Independent Stampin Up!® Demonstrator, Victoria, Australia

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I’m thrilled you are here to join us each Wednesday evening for the AWHT Colour Creations Blog Hop showcasing the full range of 50+ gorgeous Stampin’ Up! colours.

Week 18 – Coastal Cabana

Today I feature the Dandy Designs DSP. This 12″ x 12″ paper pack has 48 sheets and is in the Clearance Rack. It is less than $1 per sheet, so run, don’t walk, to get this bargain!!!

This fancy fold design is called a Floating Panel Tent Easel card. My inspiration began with the patterned papers and evolved from there. These colours, although more on the subtles side, gave me the feels of spring! Once I had all the decorated card panels in place, I had to choose a stamp set.

Colour Combination - Coastal Cabana

I haven’t used the Cheerful Daisies products for a while, and I had fun playing with them again. They would brighten anyones day, wouldn’t they, especially in these beautiful colours?! I diecut the largest die in Basic White card and glued it to the card, then I stamped and die cut the flowers and leaves and added these on top with dimensionals. It gives a lovely 3D effect!

Cheerful Daisies Fancy Fold Card for Coastal Cabana Colour Creations Blog Hop by Kate Morgan Stampin Up Australia 2024

The card opens up and the right panel folds forward to sit against the sentiment label. The sentiments are one of the stamps from the Heartfelt Hexagon stamp set. I inked the top half of the sentiment and stamped it on the front of the card and then inked the lower half and stamped it on the white diecut label. I love that this could be sent as a birthday card, thinking of you or special occasion card.

Cheerful Daisies Fancy Fold Card for Coastal Cabana Colour Creations Blog Hop by Kate Morgan Stampin Up Australia 2024 open

Here’s a view from the side

Cheerful Daisies Fancy Fold Card for Coastal Cabana Colour Creations Blog Hop by Kate Morgan Stampin Up Australia 2024 side

I really like how this one turned out!

Thanks for dropping by. I hope you join me next Wednesday for inspiration using Copper Clay.

Please enjoy the wonderful inspiration of our next team member, Christine Blain.

The full list of participants for this week can be viewed on Catherine Proctor’s blog.

DSP Sale August 2024

Product List
Stamps: Cheerful Daisies, Heartfelt Hexagon
Dies: Cheerful Daisies
Card/DSP/Specialty Paper: Basic White, Balmy Blue, Coastal Cabana, Dainty Designs DSP, Basic White C6 Envelopes
Inks: Balmy Blue, Bubble Bath, Coastal Cabana
Stampin’ Blends Combo Markers: Summer Splash (L)
Embellishments: Adhesive-backed Sparkle Gems
Accesories/Adhesives/Tools: Wink of Stella, Bubble Bath Stampin’ Write Marker, Paper Snips, Bone Folder, Paper Trimmer, Multipurpose Glue, Stampin’ Dimensionals, Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine, Take Your Pick Tool, Simply Shammy, Heat Tool
* can be purchased together as a bundle to save 10%

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80th Birthday card with 80 candles!

27 March, 202326 February, 2023 craftwithkate

Today I’ve created this special milestone birthday card for my father-in-law who celebrated his 80th birthday on the weekend!

Patty Bennett (US demonstrator) recently showed a card similar to this for a 75th birthday and it was perfect for this special occasion.

80th Birthday card with 80 candles using Stampin Up SAB Dandy Designs DSP by Kate Morgan, Stampin Up Australia 2023

I used the following inks (Granny Apple Green, Calypso Coral, Crushed Curry & Balmy Blue) to stamp the front of the card using the Biggest Wish stamp set. The hearts are from the Share a Milkshake stamp set. The white Scallop Contours layer is added with Multipurpose glue.

As you open the card, you will see all the candles, one for each year. I thought this was safer than having 80 candles on his cake!!!!

You can see by this video it was going to be far to hard to photograph this card fully open, hehe

Basically, this is 5 cards joined together with a DSP hinge (7cm x 10.4cm, scored in half at 3.5cm). You’ll need 4 of them.

80th Birthday card with 80 candles using Stampin Up SAB Dandy Designs DSP by Kate Morgan, Stampin Up Australia 2023 hinge

I was able to get 8 candles (1.5cm x 7.5cm) on each side of the card. I also placed a 2cm strip of DSP along the bottom of each opening to ground the candles.

80th Birthday card with 80 candles using Stampin Up SAB Dandy Designs DSP by Kate Morgan, Stampin Up Australia 2023 top

I used the Dandy Designs DSP which was one of the recent Saleabration items (retired), as I loved all the bright colours. The flame for each candle is stamped in Crushed Curry ink. Are you wondering where this stamp is from? Well, I couldn’t find anything to use, and I’d already stuck all those candles onto the card, so I grabbed a piece of the cling rubber that surrounds your stamps when you buy them and cut my own flame shape!!!!

80th Birthday card with 80 candles using Stampin Up SAB Dandy Designs DSP by Kate Morgan, Stampin Up Australia 2023 open

Are you tempted to give this a try for your next milestone birthday?

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Adorable Owls and Dainty Delight

1 February, 202331 January, 2023 craftwithkate

Each week some of the Art With Heart team are joining the Colour Creations Blog Hop to bring you creative inspiration showcasing our range of 50+ gorgeous Stampin’ Up! colours in alphabetical order.

Week 38 – Polished Pink

Today’s cards use two Sale•a•bration rewards; the beautiful pack of 12″x12″ patterned papers, Dandy Designs and the Adorable Owls stamp set.

Dandy Designs DSP

Just look at the fun patterns on those papers and you get 48 sheets which is double the amount of most packs!

Adorable Owls stamp set

My first card today is a Polished Pink card base with three strips of the Dandy Designs papers. The middle piece is the reverse pattern of the other two!

Adorable Owls & Dandy Designs DSP SAB 2023 by Kate Morgan, Stampin Up Australia

The Adorable Owl is stamped in Black Memento ink and coloured with alcohol Blends Combo Markers; Pale Papaya, Pool Party, Medium Combo, Medium Deep, Polished Pink & Fresh Freesia. It is die cut with the Layering Circles Framelits dies and the edge sponged with Fresh Freesia ink using a dauber. A Polished Pink banner from the Stylish Shapes dies is glued to the card. Some Metallic Woven Ribbon (Sweet Sorbet) was added then the circle added with Dimensionals.

Adorable Owls & Dandy Designs DSP SAB 2023 by Kate Morgan, Stampin Up Australia.

Some Wink of Stella is added to the party hat and eyes of the owl. Polished Pink In Color Jewels were added for more sparkle. The Basic White insert is stamped with Polished Pink ink and a narrow strip of DSP added across the bottom.

My next card also uses the Adorable Owls along with the Dainty Delight Bundle. The Basic Border Dies were used the cut the edge of the front of the card, before dry embossing it with the Pretty Flowers Embossing folder.

Adorable Owls & Dainty Delight Feminine card by Kate Morgan, Stampin Up Australia SAB 2023

I die cut the Polished Pink flowers and the Gold Foil centres and the leaves. Two of these were cut and joined together to create the wreath effect. The flowers are popped up on Mini Dimensionals. The sentiment is stamped in Versamark ink, White Emboss Powder added and melted using the Heat Tool. Then it was die cut using the banner die from the Stylish Shapes dies. This was also added on Dimensionals. The owl is stamped and fussy cut using Paper Snips and coloured using Stampin’ Blends Markers; Pool Party (Dark), Pale Papaya (Dark), SU500, SU600 & SU700. Some of the Fine Tip Glue was added to the eyes for extra shine!

On the inside I placed some Designer Paper down the side and another little die cut flower with the gold foil centre. The envelope also has the same flower in the bottom left corner!

Adorable Owls & Dainty Delight Feminine card by Kate Morgan, Stampin Up Australia SAB 2023 inside