Handmade Baby Card – 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 7 – Azure Afternoon

Card 1

Features the Spotlight on Nature stamp set with some beautiful watercolouring.

On a Thick White card base are 2 matt layers of Peach Pie & Azure Afternoon cardstock. The Fluid 100 Watercolour paper is stamped with the floral image with Black Stazon ink .

Watercoloured card with Spotlight on Nature for Azure Afternoon Colour Creations blog hop by Kate Morgan, Stampin Up Australia 2024

I then masked around the edges with some washi tape, before applying a watercolour wash with Azure Afternoon, Granny Apple Green & Pretty Peacock inks and a Water Painter. This is carefully applied around the floral image. Once this was dry (I used my Heat Tool to quicken the process), before adding some darker splatters and drops of water to carefully lift some of the colour. I carefully removed the washi tape.

Watercoloured card with Spotlight on Nature for Azure Afternoon Colour Creations blog hop by Kate Morgan, Stampin Up Australia 2024.

The image is coloured with Peach Pie ink for the flowers, and the leaves and stems I used Granny Apple Green & Pretty Peacock by mixing them on a clear acrylic block. The sentiment is stamped and fussy cut and added on Mini Dimensionals and one of the Brushed Brass Butterflies added.

The inside of the card and the envelope were decorated the same, by adding a masked circle of Azure Afternoon ink applied with a Blending Brush and then the beautiful butterfly image was stamped.

Card 2

Features the Charming Duckpond Bundle for a sweet baby card. A piece of the Country Woods DSP was cut to the card front size and die cut with the largest die. Behind this I added 2 more patterns from the same DSP pack, but I used a Blending Brush to add Azure Afternoon ink to the bottom section to reflect water.

Baby card with Charming Duckpond for Azure Afternoon Colour Creations blog hop by Kate Morgan, Stampin Up Australia 2024

The mother duck & ducklings are stamped in Gray Granite and diecut before using my Wink of Stella to add a very light tone of Azure Afternoon ink & Peach Pie for the beak and feet. The duck in the water is just diecut and coloured. The reeds are cut from more of the same DSP and coloured the same way as the water.

Baby card with Charming Duckpond for Azure Afternoon Colour Creations blog hop by Kate Morgan, Stampin Up Australia 2024.

The sentiment is stamped using the Unbounded Love stamp set and diecut using the Spotlight on Nature dies.

Thanks for dropping by. I hope you join me next Wednesday for inspiration using Balmy Blue.

Please enjoy the wonderful inspiration of our next team member, Di Furniss.

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

Product List
Stamps: Spotlight on Nature, Unbounded Love, Charming Duckpond
Dies: Spotlight on Nature, Charming Duckpond
Card/DSP/Specialty Paper: Fluid 100 Watercolour, Thick Basic White, Basic White, Azure Afternoon, Peach Pie, Country Woods DSP, Basic White C6 Envelopes
Inks: Azure Afternoon, Peach Pie, Granny Apple Green, Black Stazon, Pretty Peacock, Gray Granite
Embellishments: Brushed Brass Butterflies
Accesories/Adhesives/Tools: Blending Brushes, Wink of Stella, Paper Snips, Bone Folder, Paper Trimmer, Multipurpose Glue, Mini Stampin’ Dimensionals, Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine, Take Your Pick Tool, Simply Shammy, Heat Tool, Water Painters, Tear & Tape
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CCBH: Night of Navy

10 January, 202410 January, 2024 craftwithkate

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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.

Week 35 – Night of Navy

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Today I feature the Little Dreamers Bundle. I started off with masking the images and adding some blending, but I changed my mind and decided to just add diecuts. The panel with the blending is Crumb Cake card, which helped make the night sky darker. I used Night of Navy at the top and Pretty Peacock below. Then I took some white ink refill and placed it onto my glass mat and using a Water Painter, added some water and tapped it across the card. Some of the larger splats I needed to dab dry with a tissue.

Little Dreamers Baby Card for Night of Navy Colour Creations Blog Hop by Kate Morgan, Stampin Up Australia 2024

I just love this little calf sitting on some clouds under a night sky. I added this panel to a Basic White card matt then onto a Night of Navy card base. The moon and stars are diecut using the Silver & Gold Adhesive-backed Glimmer paper.

On the inside, I added some ink around the edges with what was left on my Blending Brushes. A simple sentiment and shooting star were stamped in Night of Navy ink.

Little Dreamers Baby Card for Night of Navy Colour Creations Blog Hop by Kate Morgan, Stampin Up Australia 2024 inside

My second card is a fancy fold design. I’m not sure what it is called, maybe a Gatefold Pop Out card? I am using the Countryside Inn Designer Series Paper and the Countryside Corners dies.

Country Inn Fancy Fold Card for Night of Navy Colour Creations Blog Hop by Kate Morgan, Stampin Up Australia 2024

To open the card, you simply push both sides of the card backwards and they will then pop out from behind the centre diecut feature. To close the card, fold each of the sides in behind the diecut feature. I just love the patterned papers in this pack and I love how this showcases them perfectly. The embossed white panels use the coordinating Countryside Blossoms Textured Impressions Embossing Folder.

Country Inn Fancy Fold Card for Night of Navy Colour Creations Blog Hop by Kate Morgan, Stampin Up Australia 2024 open

The sentiment is from the Throughout the Year stamp set and the foliage diecuts are from the Grove dies. Some Boho Blue 2023-2025 In Color Dots were added around the sentiment. The sentiment diecut panel is added on Dimensionals to the centre panel of the card. I adore this design and can see myself making loads of these with different DSPs.

Thanks for dropping by. I hope you join me next Wednesday for inspiration using Old Olive.

Please hop across to our next participant and enjoy the wonderful inspiration of Rosa Leyden.

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Product List
Stamps: Little Dreamers, Throughout the Year
Dies: Little Dreamers, Countryside Corners, Grove dies
Paper: Basic White, Crumb Cake, Night of Navy, Silver & Gold Adhesive-backed Glimmer, Countryside Inn DSP
Inks: Crumb Cake, Night of Navy, Pretty Peacock, White Craft Ink Refill
Other: 2023-2025 In Color Dots, Foam Adhesive Sheets, Countryside Blossoms TIEF, Water Painters, Clear Block D, Paper Snips, Multipurpose Glue, Stampin’ Dimensionals, Stampin’ Cut & Emboss Machine, Paper Trimmer, Simply Shammy, Bone Folder
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CCBH Coastal Cabana – All For Baby card with Decorative Mask background

18 August, 202117 August, 2021 craftwithkate

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

Week 12 – Coastal Cabana

Tonight’s card is using the All for Baby Bundle, which is a recent addition to my supplies. I don’t actually have a lot of baby style stamp sets, but this one is rather cute with the distinctive stamps that create the shading/tone when you stamp the image – how clever is that?!!

All For Baby CCS Coastal Cabana Stampin Up 2021 by Kate Morgan, Australia

The Coastal Cabana card base is covered with the Plenty of Patterns Decorative Masks, new in the Annual Catalogue. They are a great way to add patterns with the Blending Brushes and inkpads without using DSP. I also used the same technique on the Basic White card cut with the Stitched So Sweetly die. Although, this time, I left the card in the die and placed the Mask over the top so that it left the gorgeous, crisp, white scallop border. I wrapped around some White 3/8″ (1cm) Glittered Organdy Ribbon and tied it in a bow, before adding the centre panel on dimensionals. The images are stamped in Fresh Fressia and Soft Suede inks, die cut and added on dimensionals. The pegs are die cut from the new Silver Foil 12×12 Specialty Pack and also added on some cut-down dimensionals.

All For Baby CCS Coastal Cabana Stampin Up 2021 by Kate Morgan, Australia closeup

On the inside, I stamped another bodysuit and die cut the little pocket in Coastal Cabana card and added it to the corner with a lovely stamped sentiment.

All For Baby CCS Coastal Cabana Stampin Up 2021 by Kate Morgan, Australia inside

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Sneak Peek of Buffalo Check with Baby Bear & Copper accents

28 August, 201830 August, 2018 craftwithkate

Welcome to another Art With Heart Team Colour Creations weekly Blog Hop. Today we are featuring Crumb Cake!!!

I am using the Baby Bear stamp set with the new Buffalo Check background stamp (available 5 September in the Holiday catalogue). I have only used two colours; Crumb Cake and Copper… can you believe that?!!!

Baby Bear is a photopolymer 3-step stamp and I used it with the Stamparatus to get the darkest colour I could for the 3rd image. The 2nd image is inked a couple of times and the 1st image only once, to get the colour variation. The Buffalo Check background stamp I also did with the Stamparatus to get a nice dark colour, reinking about 7 or 8 times!

Baby Bear & Buffalo Check with Copper for Colour Creations Crumb Cake Challenge by Kae Morgan, Stampin Up Australia.JPG

I used the Versamark inkpad and wiped it along the edges of the checked layer and dipped it in copper embossing powder and heat set. I love how it gives a jagged look and not the perfect layer. I added a copper foil layer using the Layering Squares Scallop framelit before adding the baby bear layer with dimensionals. I love the copper trim bow too. Those metallic brass brads you’ll find on page 198 of the Annual catalogue!

Baby Bear & Buffalo Check with Copper for Colour Creations Crumb Cake Challenge by Kae Morgan, Stampin Up Australia 2018

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Product List

2018-2019 Annual Catalogue – Single Copy

$7.00

Baby Bear Photopolymer Stamp Set

$45.00

Stamparatus

$85.00

Simply Shammy

$14.00

Big Shot

$159.00

Big Shot Magnetic Platform

$70.00

Layering Squares Framelits Dies

$58.00

Copper Foil Sheets

$7.00

Petals & More Thinlits Dies

$59.00

Stampin’ Dimensionals

$6.00

Heat Tool

$50.00

Copper Stampin’ Emboss Powder

$8.75

Versamark Pad

$15.00

Crumb Cake A4 Card Stock

$14.75

Crumb Cake Classic Stampin’ Pad

$13.00

1/4″ Copper Trim

$10.00

Paper Snips Scissors

$17.00

Metallic Brads

$7.75

1/8″ Circle Handheld Punch

$16.00

Liquid Multipurpose Glue

$7.00

Simply Scored

$50.00

Stampin’ Trimmer

$50.00

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Blog Hop: Casing the 2018-2019 Annual Catalogue with Animal Outings

28 June, 201828 June, 2018 craftwithkate

Dear Crafters,

Tonight the Art with Heart team are sharing creative projects CASED from the annual catalogue. If you would like a copy of the 2018 – 2019 annual catalogue, contact any of the girls on the blog hop and we will get in touch with you.

If you’re already hopping, then you just came to me from the lovely, Kathryn Ruddick. If you’re just joining, great! Use the “next” button at the end of my post to hop all the way around. Blog Hops are full circles, so you can start hopping here and then at the end of each post there is a link to the next one. There is also a list of participants at the end in case of any broken links.

Now let’s get started!

At OnStage in April, we got the Animal Outings stamp set in our bags when we arrived and I couldn’t have been more pleased. I think everyone who attended the event were super excited that we had some Aussie animal friend images.

The other great news once we got our hands on the catalogue, was that there are coordinating framelits so we don’t have to fussy cut each of the images, super exciting! So when 1st June came around, those framelits were first on my order.

I have cased my cards from page 26 of the catalogue.

The base card is the new Granny Apple Green with the leaves die cut in Shaded Spruce. The banners are from the Nature’s Poem DSP and that small scallop edge is Blackberry Bliss (a returning colour) cut with the Decorative Ribbon Border punch. I coloured the kangaroo & koala with Stampin’ Blends and popped it up on dimensionals.

See that little Blackberry Bliss heart? It was actually an extra piece left over when the rhino was die cut and I trimmed it slightly. The sentiment was stamped in Soft Suede ink.

My next card uses the cute giraffe, again coloured with Stampin’ Blends. I’ve used So Saffron as my card base so the giraffe would stand out more. I’ve also used Crumb Cake and Soft Sea Foam. I love this die cut background.

The sentiment was stamped on Whisper White and cut out with the Tailored Tag punch. The branches were coloured with a Blender Pen and inkpads and added with Tombo multipurpose glue.

This last card is cased from page 48 of the catalogue (below) and it is my favourite.

I wanted to make it sweet and feminine, so I have used some of the Petal Promenade DSP and a Pearlised Doilie to soften the tone along with lots of different embellishments.

I stamped the rhino image repeatedly across the background of the new colour, Gray Granite, card base in the coordinating ink pad. A banner of the Petal Promenade DSP was glued down over the doilie, then a thin banner of Silver Glimmer paper. The rhino is added with dimensionals.

The Share What You Love Artisan Pearls, White Dotted Tulle and a White Baker’s Twine bow finish it off nicely.

Thanks for visiting today.

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Thoughtful Branches, Hedgehog

26 September, 201619 September, 2016 craftwithkate

Dear Crafters,

Today I have another card I saw on Pinterest but I’ve changed it up to use products that I have. It’s using the Thoughtful Branches dies along with a few others that you will be able to identify!

So here is my cute little hedgehog!

thoughtful-branches-hedgehog-cable-knit-dynamic-tief-diy-stampinup-cardsbykatemorgan

Oh my, have you seen this stunning Cable Knit Dynamic Embossing Folder? You have to get it! This is the first time I’ve used it and WOW, doesn’t it give a great effect!!!!

Can you tell that the spikes are created from the tree (less the trunk!) die?

thoughtful-branches-hedgehog-cable-knit-dynamic-tief-diy-stampinup-cardsbykatemorgan

I have used Early Espresso, Crumb Cake and Black card, along with Soft Sky.

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I was super happy with the look of this one!

What do you think of this card?

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Baby Bear double Z fold

29 July, 201624 July, 2016 craftwithkate

Dear Crafters,

Today’s card is a double Z fold card which you will find all over the internet, on Pinterest, YouTube, everywhere!!!

Baby Bear, Double Z fold Card #stampinup Cards by Kate @cardsbykate @cardsbykatemorgan DIY Baby Bear Double Z fold Card, #stampinup, Cards by Kate @cardsbykate @cardsbykatemorgan DIY

They are really quite simple to create once you know how. It’s just a matter of having a card measuring 4-1/8″ x 11-5/8″, scored on the long edge at 2-3/4″ & 5-1/2″.

Baby Bear Double Z fold Card, #stampinup, Cards by Kate, @cardsbykate @cardsbykatemorgan DIY

Then I took a 1″ x 11-5/8″ piece of card and scored it at 2-3/4″ & 5-1/2″ then added a piece of DSP the same length, but 3/4″ wide. Glue this strip onto the card.

Baby Bear Double Z fold Card, #stampinup, Cards by Kate, @cardsbykate @cardsbykatemorgan, DIY

The bear is stamped and fussy cut and added to the 1″ strip with tombo glue. Check out his cute little glimmer bow!

I haven’t added any sentiments to this card as yet, as I don’t have anyone to give it to, but I was thinking of maybe adding a brand new babies name to the front panel. I think that would look very cute!

Baby Bear Double Z fold Card #stampinup Cards by Kate @cardsbykate @cardsbykatemorgan DIY

Don’t forget to decorate your envelope to coordinate with your card!

Products

Stamps: Baby Bear
Inks: Flirty Flamingo, Pink Pirouette, Watermelon Wonder
Card/Paper: Flirty Flamingo, Whisper White, White Glimmer, In Color DSP Stack
Accessories: Wonderful Wreath Framelits, Big Shot, Stampin’ Trimmer, Tombo Multipurpose Glue, Stampin’ Scrub, Paper Snips, Simply Scored.

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Cute pink ducks

9 December, 20159 December, 2015 craftwithkate

Love Blossoms DSP Something for Baby #stampinup

Dear Crafters,

I adore this Love Blossoms DSP stack and today is a baby card using this paper.

Once again I have used blushing bride & rose red with Whisper White.

Love Blossoms DSP Something for Baby #stampinup

How cute are these little ducks from the Something For Baby stamp set?

Love Blossoms DSP Something for Baby #stampinup

I just love how this card came together!

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Elephant Cuteness overload

25 September, 201512 September, 2015 craftwithkate

Dear Crafters,

Today I share a card using the stamp set, Zoo Babies (pg 32 AC) and the Go Wild DSP (pg 144 AC)!

My base is Tip Top Taupe card stock with a layer of Pink Pirouette card and a layer of the Go Wild DSP.

I cut all the pieces of card to size, then punched a 2-1/2″ circle out of the Designer Paper. I tied a knot in some Pink Pirouette Seam Binding Ribbon and tied it around the DSP as shown.

I stamped the elephant image onto some Whisper White card using Tip Top Taupe ink before punching it out with a 2″circle punch. I used the Confetti Hearts Border Punch to get the tiny hearts!

The sentiment, Congratulations is from the same stamp set, inked in Pink Pirouette and cut with the Word Window punch.

Please leave a comment below if you like my card today.

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Sweet little deer

14 September, 201512 September, 2015 craftwithkate

Dear Crafters,

Made With Love Baby Girl Card #stmpinup

Today I enter a challenge at Just Add Ink. The challenge this week is a Sketch Challenge JAI#279.

I am loving using the Go Wild Designer Series Paper at the moment and thought it was perfect to use for this baby girl card using the stamp set, Made With Love.

Made With Love Baby Girl Card #stmpinup

I began with the colour scheme of Tip Top Taupe, Pink Pirouette and Whisper White. A variety of circle punches in coordinating colours, helps create the focal point.

I water coloured the image to give it the softness required. Paper Piercing has also added a lovely border around the pink card for added interest.

Please leave a comment below, if you think my card met this sketch challenge.

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