Thursday 28 December 2017

INK & INSPIRATION BLOG HOP

Thursday 28 December 2017     Welcome to this month's Ink & Inspiration Blog Hop and the last for 2017, we look forward to sharing lots more inspiration in 2018. Please join me in welcoming our new team members - Dena Albee, Dena Rekow, Genevieve Ko and Susanne Netz to our Blog Hops. You are currently visiting Angela Meiritz-Reid from Christchurch, New Zealand. The theme this month is Fun Folds. Please hop around the list at the bottom to check out all the inspirational projects created by the team. As this card is for an 11 year old girl I've chosen the new Myths & Magic Specialty Designer Series Paper from the 2018 Occasions Catalogue - it's so cute! The Happy Birthday stamp is from Perennial Birthday, also from the 2018 Occasions Catalogue and only 6 days till you can order from it! The type of fun fold card I've made is called a Twisted Pop-Up card. And this is where the magic happens - as you open the card up it twists and out pop th
Sunday 17 December 2017

CASEING THE CATTY #159 ANY PROJECT FROM THE HOLIDAY CATALOGUE

Sunday 17 December 2017 Hello and welcome to this week's CASEing the Catty Blog Hop. Our latest and last challenge for 2017 is to Case any Project from the Holiday Catalogue.   Once again I've picked the card from page 22. I love the layout of this little sweater card - it makes a perfect 3 x 3" card for the pizza boxes. For the base I've used a patterned piece of paper from the Petal Garden DSP stack in Pool Party and teamed it with Island Indigo and Lemon Lime Twist. The stamp set is Confetti Celebration and I've also used the Stitched Shapes Framelits and Pool Party Solid Baker's Twine. We would love you to join us with your CASE this week, using our Facebook group. Click on the image below to go there. For the first time you'll need to click on the "Join Group" button at the top. After you're added you can post your creation and you don't need to have a blog. Thanks so much for stopping by and enjoy the
Friday 15 December 2017

2018 OCCASIONS CATALOGUE SNEAK PEEK

Friday 14 December 2018    The Tutti-Frutti Suite in the 2018 Occasions Catalogue is full of "cute images and vivid colours designed for simple stamping"! I love the freshness of this suite and the fruit looks good enough to eat!     With such beautiful papers to showcase I was reluctant to cover them up as they really are the star of the show!     The Fruit Basket stamp set is available in a bundle with the Itty Bitty Fruit Punch Pack - although for these strawberries I did fussy cut them.     I'm hoping these fabulous Black Rhinestones will continue on from the Holiday Catalogue but if they don't you can colour the Basic Rhinestone Jewels with the new Stampin' Blends.     Of course there is co-ordinating ribbon - Lemon Lime Twist 3/8" (1 cm) Mini Striped Ribbon. How cute is that?     The fonts in this stamp set are sweet and simple too, and a little corny! This cute little box is perfect to hold a selection of min
Sunday 10 December 2017

CASEING THE CATTY #158 A PROJECT FROM A PAGE THAT IS YOUR AGE!

Sunday 10 December 2017 Hello and welcome to this week's CASEing the Catty Blog Hop. Our latest challenge is to Case a Project from a page that is your age! Without giving anything away ... there isn't a project on the page that is my age so instead I chose a page that is the age I liked being - "43"! My card is based on the top left card - I'm always drawn to this card. I think it looks so fresh and clean.   I've stuck to the same colours, Island Indigo, Pool Party and Lemon Lime Twist, and used the Sparkle embossing folder too. Luckily I had just enough of the Eastern Palace Speciality Designer Series paper to create my card!   And this snazzy stamp is from the new Picture Perfect Birthday stamp set available 3 January from the 2018 Occasions Catalogue. This Catalogue and the Sale•A•Bration Brochure are full of amazing new Stampin' Up!® products - email me ( angela.frank00@gmail.com ) if you'd like complimentary copies
Sunday 3 December 2017

CASEING THE CATTY #157 CASE A COLOUR COMBINATION

Sunday 3 December 2017     Hello and welcome to this week's CASEing the Catty Blog Hop. Our latest challenge is to Case a Colour Combination.     I've chosen to CASE the colour and layout of the card on the left hand side in the photograph below.   I've used the Powder Pink paper from the Fresh Florals Designer Paper Stack and teamed it up with the Powder Pink 1 cm Shimmer Ribbon.   Yes that stamp is a new one! It's called Picture Perfect Birthday and I've stamped it here in Basic Grey.   I've added a Linen Thread bow like the original although the Basic Rhinestones are my added extras. I love a little bling!   We would love you to join us with your CASE this week, using our Facebook group. Click on the image below to go there. For the first time you'll need to click on the "Join Group" button at the top. After you're added you can post your creation and you don't need to have a blog.     Th

2018 OCCASIONS CATALOGUE AND SALE•A•BRATION BROCHURE

Monday 4 December 2017     The 2018 Occasions Catalogue and Sale•a•bration Brochure will soon be here with ordering starting from 3 January 2018. It's one of the best events in the Stampin' Up!® year and you don't want to miss it - see the end of this post for my special offer! There are lots of fabulous new products in the Occasions Catalogue and, of course, there are free goodies to choose from when place a qualifying order. Here are the three different ways you can earn free product:   My SPECIAL OFFER  is to send complimentary copies of these two Stampin' Up!® catalogues directly to you. Just click on the "Sign Up Now" button and fill out the details on the form. Close off date for this special offer is Monday 18 December 2017.          OR send me an email with your name and address to angela.frank00@gmail.com .        

LEMON ZEST: TUTORIAL BUNDLE DESIGN TEAM BLOG HOP

Saturday 2 December 2017     Welcome to our Tutorial Bundle Design Team Blog Hop for December. Each month I hop along with this fabulous group of 12 demonstrators from around the world who create an amazing bundle of tutorials. This month our tutorials have been created using products from the Annual or Holiday Catalogues.     The tutorials are based on current products available in the Stampin' Up! catalogues and have both metric and imperial measurements so wherever you are in the world you can purchase and create these exclusive projects. We will be showcasing a project using the same bundle as in our tutorial. It isn't the same project, as the projects in the Tutorial Bundle are exclusive and not shown anywhere else.   The Tutorial Bundle is $20NZ or place an order over $50NZ this month with me to receive this month's tutorial for free. This month I'm using the Lemon Zest Bundle. I love lemons and am thrilled my little lemon tree is finally
Monday 27 November 2017

DISPLAY STAMPER BLOG HOP - DAY 7

Monday 27 November 2017   Hello and welcome to day seven of our week-long blog hop with Stampin' Up!® OnStage Display Stampers from around the world! We all received product from the upcoming 2018 Occasions and Sale-a-Bration Catalogues to create samples to display at our OnStage events for other demonstrators to view and now we are sharing these with you - my projects were displayed in Auckland, New Zealand.   We'll be bringing you lots of inspiration and ideas - you will not want to miss a single day! You may have arrived from Dani Dziama or if you are starting here continue around the hop using the next button at the end of this post.   Today I'm showcasing two projects using the Petal Passion Memories & More Card Pack.     The card base for this card is one of the 10.2 x 15.2 cm cards and the foliage peaking out from under the sentiment is from the accent sheets.   The silver embossed sentiment is from the Petal Palette stamp set and the
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