Stampin Dreams blog hop - a throwback

 Welcome to the Stampin Dreams Blog hop, a This blog hop's theme was 'THROWBACK" and we were encourage to recreate or find inspiration from a previous project or an old catalogue etc.  

I chose to CASE this card which is one of the first ones I made when I got my starter kit:  

I still love this card and thought it would be the ideal one to try to recreate for this challenge. 

I took some liberty with the new version, trying to keep it reasonably monotone, creating a larger label for the sentiment and having banners in the background. 

I’ve chosen the Simply Succulent stamp and matching dies for this card and teamed it with the brick embossing folder. I love those dies from the bundle, especially the string of pearls - yes I have plenty of succulent babies at my house! 

I’ve used soft succulent, night of navy and soft suede as the main colours although mint macaron made the perfect base for the soft succulent sponging. 

I even managed to sneak in some of the brass butterflies because what’s a garden without butterflies!? 

Don't forget to jump over to the other blogs and thank you for popping by mine.  

Happy Stampin,

Rachael xxx

Stampin Dreams blog hop....

 .....and the theme is kids and babies!

Welcome to the Stampin Dreams blog hop, I'm Rachael Merrick from Queensland, Australia. 

I chose Penguin Place for this card because nothing could be cuter for a kids birthday card with balloons and a pile of presents.  

I've used dimensional dots to pop up the balloons and some of the presents which gives more life to the scene.  I also chose bright fun colours including granny apple tree, flirty flamingo, balmy blue and pumpkin pie.  

Thanks for coming along on the blog hop.  Don't forget to jump on over and follow the hop to see what all the others have done.  I'm sure there will be plenty of inspiration. 

Happy Stamping,

Rachael xx

Stampin Dreams Blog Hop - Step it up

 Welcome to another Stampin Dreams blog hop!

 I can't wait to see what the other demonstrators come up with for this one.  The theme is Step it Up. 

I began with a basic layout and stamping using the free stamp set Delicate Dahlias.  I used a basic white background cardstock and added my sentiment strip to the bottom right hand side.  

Next, I 'stepped it up' by using a coloured base card in Crumb Cake, stamped and fussy cut my floral elements and added a die cut large label.  

Lastly, for the more enthusiastic, I added in some versamark (watermarked) images of the dahlia and the leaves to the card.  The flower is popped up with dimensional dots.  I also fussy cut a second layer for the flower, just choosing the middle section to pop up on more dimensional  dots.  

Its amazing by just adding a few more elements, how much more detail a card looks.  Below is a photo of all three lined up to show the comparison.  

Thanks for popping by to my part of the hop.  Please be sure to leave a comment and jump over to the other blogs.

Happy Stamping, Rachael xx

Stampin Dreams - the new Mini Catalogue and Sale-A-Bration is coming

Welcome to the December Stampin' Dreams Blog Hop.  Our theme this month is to show off some of the new products from the upcoming Mini Catalogue and Sale-A-Bration catalogue coming next month.

Australia Post has been soooo slow the last few months and I only got delivery of my new products yesterday.  I ordered several sets from the new Mini Catalogue and was pretty overwhelmed when it arrived, not knowing which one to start with.  I chose to go with a birthday card seeing there are many coming up in January and February next year.  

I've used the Pretty Perennials Stamp and bundled Die set for this Happy Birthday card.  

I just love how the dies are so easy to use and really was drawn to the fact that these ones were able to be layered! not only the overlapping peek-a-boo dies but also the velum, the card has several 'layers' to it.  

Thanks for hopping with me and please pop over to the other blogs and leave some feedback.  

Happy stampin to everyone, Rachael xx

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Stampin Dreams Blog Hop - Christmas Theme

 Our theme for this months blog hop is 

Christmas!!

I'm a teacher and that means lots of work friends who will need a little gift before the middle of December.  I bought some beautiful tea light candles from Dusk so I could gift them with cards.  

I've planned out a few ways to package these but when the clear boxes arrived I wanted to use them for some of the candles.  They fit perfectly!

I created a garland using the Warm Hugs bundle and attached the stamped and cut images to the twine.  A simple background stamping on Real Red Cardstock and this created such a simple but pretty little project.  

Be sure to click on all the photos below to check out all the other wonderful creations that my fellow hoppers/friends are sharing today.

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