Crush On Colour: home decor

July 14, 2017

Seaside Summer Party - Message In A Bottle

This post originally appeared on the Scrapbooking & Cards Today blog. All content herein is my own creation.

Hello friends - thank you so much for joining me today! I’m so excited to share one of my favourite new stamp sets - Message In A Bottle - and some beautiful new Designer Series Paper, called Naturally Eclectic.

My son was recently invited to an end-of-school pool party, and it’s been all he could talk about for a week - when I sat down to create this project, that pool party was on my mind and this sweet stamp set was a perfect fit. How cute and easy would it be to use Message In A Bottle to create an invitation and some party decor for a summer party?

We needed an invitation to start, of course. I cut up a piece of the gorgeous Naturally Eclectic DSP for this beautiful faux-watercolour background. It reminds me of the sea, so a frosted glass bottle and some whales came along for the ride.

Party favours are fun - these adorable Clear Mini Treat Boxes from Stampin’ Up! are quickly and easily embellished to fit the theme using DSP, ribbon, and stamped images - don’t you love that little octopus?

And you know what they say - a party without cake is just a meeting! Cupcakes are extra special with a mermaid topper. I love that I can create mermaids of different hair and skin tones using my Stampin’ Up! Classic Stampin’ Pads and a Blender Pen. Wouldn’t it be adorable to match the mermaids to the birthday girl, or create one to look like each of her friends?

Thank you so much for stopping by today - I hope this gives you some easy ideas for a beautiful summer get-together! You can hop over to my Online Canadian Stampin' Up! Store to shop 24/7 and get these fabulous goodies for yourself.

Cheers,
Shannon

Shopping in Canada? Use the links below to purchase the products used in this post!

Message In A Bottle Photopolymer Stamp Set

Naturally Eclectic Designer Series Paper

Clear Tiny Treat Boxes

Crumb Cake 3/8" Classic Weave Ribbon

Dapper Denim Baker's Twine

Blender Pens

Layering Circle Framelits Dies

Big Shot

Stampin' Dimensionals

Table by StampinBuddy. Try it FREE.

April 23, 2017

Display Stamper Blog Hop - Day TEN!

Hello again, and welcome to the very last day of our ten-day Display Stamper Blog Hop! I'm so glad you're joining us - if it's your first time, you may want to go back and see what you've missed. And if you've been with us from the beginning, thanks for sticking with it - I hope you've been delighted with the sneak peek of new products to come from Stampin' Up!

I decided to save the best for last: today's project was my all-time favourite from my display board.

The idea for this banner came to me while lying in bed late one night. I made sure to jot it down - I didn't want to forget! - but I had one major problem: I don't own the Large Letters Framelits! I tried the first panel with an alphabet stamp set, but the letters were too small and too child-like to work. I couldn't just give up, though - I was bound and determined to make this happen!

I posted on our Stampin' Up! team page and asked if any of my local teammates had some dies I could borrow, and in return, I'd whip them up a dozen cupcakes of their choice from scratch. I love to bake and I make dang good cupcakes, if I do say so myself... and soon, I had a deal. Big, huge, mega-thanks to my teammate Krista for helping make my vision a reality - especially when I couldn't tell her what I was up to! Being a display stamper is top-secret business!

This banner showcases the Wood Texture DSP so wonderfully; I think it has almost every single print on here somewhere! Seeing it all together like this gives you a wonderful impression of the versatility of this stack, but also the cohesion; each of the prints is very different, and they work wonderfully on their own or together as a group. It also uses a ton of new ribbon... I spy Classic Woven Ribbon in Crumb Cake, Finely Woven Ribbon in Powder Pink, Mini Sequin Trim in Gold, and Baker's Twine in Flirty Flamingo, along with some returning favourites, like 1/8" Metallic Ribbon in Gold, Burlap Ribbon, Very Vanilla Lace Trim, and Natural Trim in Gold.

And the embellishments? Well... what's new here? So much! We have stamps from Wood Words, dies from the Wood Crate Framelits, and Corrugated Elements aplenty. You're going to love these new additions!

I hope you enjoy this project as much as I enjoyed making it - it was a labour of love but I'm so happy with how it turned out!

Let's hop over to Tanya for the very last time...

Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for following along with our Display Stamper Blog Hop. It was a huge honour to create these samples for Stampin' Up! and On Stage Local in Calgary, Alberta, and it was a delight to share them with you!

A note about my product list below: as the brand new items are currently unreleased, I'm unable to link to them in my online store. I recommend jotting down the names of your favourite items so you can check back when the 2017-2018 Stampin' Up! Catalogue goes live on June 1st! Others - like the Banners Framelits and Confetti Hearts Border Punch - are retiring and only available while supplies last. Hurry! You don't want to miss out!

Cheers,

Shannon

The Display Stamper Blog Hop includes: