Fun with Scrapbooking Tic Tac Toe - can you see the inspiration?

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Today is Scrapbooking Global day!! Each month we share some great inspiration for you1!  

This month's challenge has been set by the fabulous Sherry Roth who does extraordinary scrapbooking!

This month it is Tic Tac Toe Board, which you choose your own adventure. Diagonally, Straight through the board from left to right or right to left or choose the middle lines. So Tic Tac Toe Boards are a FUN way to incorporate a couple of different elements on your scrapbooking layout to give yourself a challenge.

Soooo, can you see where my inspiration has come from?  I've gone for the first column on the left - splatter, green (of course) and torn paper!! This is a match made in heaven for me!!  teeheee

I looooove the two tone paper - it tears beautifully AND you can flip the paper to get 2 different tones of the same colour!!  Love love love!!  And it's green - total love too!!  

And splatter is just a BRILLIANT way to add extra vintagy texture and stampingness to a page!  

I'm also featuring the gorgeous Autumn to Remember Workshop Scrapbooking kit combined with the stunning Autumn to Remember stamp set - look at those wonderful leaves!!  

I just love how this page came together!!  I love all those stickers and die cuts from the workshop kits - it makes putting together a page sooooo much quicker!!  

I really hope YOU are inspired to try this!!  

Make sure you keep hopping to see lots of AMAZING projects!!

Scrapbooking Tic Tac Toe Autumn to Remember

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Paper Crafting Monthly Blog Hop - Christmas!

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Today I'm joining the fabulous paper crafting monthly blog hop of fabulous international crafters.  Join us for a world tour of inspiration!

My project this month is a Christmas gift for some very special people.  

It features the glorious Regal Winter paper with the Regal Flora bundle.  The colours in the paper are so luxurious and deep, so I’ve paired the paper with Night of Navy and Blueberry Bushel.

Each of the gifts has a belly band with coordinating ribbon threaded through one of the fabulous Peaceful Season dies, which was then embellished with some of the lovely new gold thread included in the Online Exclusives this month.

And the Tinsel Gems, have great little embellishments that coordinate perfectly!!!

The little gift package is 12” x 7 1/2” scored at 5 1/2” on the short side, and scored at 4 1/2” and 9” on the long side.  It folds into three and then I wrapped a length of cardstock around the pouch to create the belly band.  

Inside the gift package is some fabulous Tinsel Gems which are used on the front of the project too!!  I hope you like this little gift idea!!

Make sure you keep hopping to see lots of AWESOME inspiration!!

Regal Flora Pouch Tutorial

Please head over to my online store if you wish to see these products in more detail - and you can place your order anytime (if you're in Australia) while you're there (even if you're in your pyjamas!!) 

 And, if you can see yourself creating cards and sharing your love of papercrafts while inspiring others, perhaps you might be interested in joining my Stampin' Up! family - contact me to find out how.

1 stamp set 5 ways in 5 minutes

A Wreath insipired by Stars CTC#496

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Tonight you get to enjoy our amazing CASEING the CATTY blog hop.  To CASE is to Copy And Share Everything or to Copy And Selectively Edit and we love to CASE from our amazing Stampin' Up! catalogues (catty!)

        This week, we are CASEING a punch project from either catalogue, and I was really inspired by the fabulous wreath on page 47 of the mini catalogue.  

I love the greeting being off to the side of the wreath and the repeat of the shapes all the way around.

To create the wreath, I die cut the two largest Stylish Shapes circles together from some Gold Foil.  I also die cut the same shape from Thick White cardstock to give the wreath more stability and weight.

I then wrapped some Cherry Cobbler ribbon around the foil circle before I adhered both the foil and thick white circles together.  To anchor the ribbon, I tied a gold double bow around it using the lovely gold thread available now in our ONline Exclusive collection.

The flowers and leaves are die cut from the Festive Glimmer Paper using the Country Flowers dies.  I love those dies as they cut a bunch of flowers and leaves all together at the same time which is great!  I added them all around the wreath after I’d added the greeting.  The Blooming Pearls work an absolute treat for the lovely gold highlights on the flowers.  

The greeting comes from the Peaceful Season stamp set which is sooo useful for Christmas!!  

Up next is the extraordinary Rochelle

Make sure you keep hopping for lots more great inspiration!!

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Circle Gold Wreath

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Masked Baubles for Colour INKspiration #177

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Tonight I'm joining in with the Colour INKspiration crew and our awesome colour combination!!

I have to be honest, and say these colours were a challenge for me 

(especially the Melon Mambo because it's the colours I struggle with most!!)

But I DO like the finished result for my card!!  

The first thing I did was to cut a stencil out of window sheet using one of the Stylish Shapes dies.  I then added Bluberry Bushel around the edges to create the rounded shape using a blending brush.

I then stamped all the foliage using the Pretty Peacock and Golden Greenery all over the top of the panel.  I added the little berries using the Melon Mambo along with the great greeting from Peaceful Season.

Inside the card repeats similar stamping.  I also added a little sponged Pretty Peacock using a Blending Brush too.

And the final touch is some gorgeous gold twine and gold enamel effects.

INKspired to join the challenge? It's so easy. Firstly, get some INKspiration by checking out all of the creations of the Colour INKspiration Crew in the challenge album on our Facebook page. Then you have 12 days from today to make and upload your creation to the Facebook Colour INKspiration Group. You don't have to have a blog to participate but if you do you can link back to your post. Make sure you use all of the challenge colours. You can also use neutrals such as Basic White, Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake, Basic Beige and Basic Black as well as Metallics.

Not a member of the Colour INKspiration Facebook group yet? Just click here and ask to join Colour INKspiration, add the group to your favourites and share it with your crafty friends so they can join in the fun too. We can't wait to see what you create with these gorgeous colours.

Masked Baubles 

Please head over to my online store if you wish to see these products in more detail - and you can place your order anytime (if you're in Australia) while you're there (even if you're in your pyjamas!!) 

 And, if you can see yourself creating cards and sharing your love of papercrafts while inspiring others, perhaps you might be interested in joining my Stampin' Up! family - contact me to find out how.