The Missing Daisy

Posted by Kelly Kent

As I was running through my Daisy Delight rehearsal the day before my OnStage presentation back in April, I realised I couldn’t find one of the cards I’d made!

Not to panic, I had lots of other ideas to show everyone, but I did wonder what had happened to the card!

Well, fast forward to this week and I found the missing card (ironically while I was looking for something else I thought I’d lost… but actually hadn’t… oh dear!)

I was so excited to see it again – and it’s too cute not to share!

Here it is…

This yellow & navy combination has reminded me how beautiful & bright those colours are together!

There’s a gorgeous page in the Delight Daisy DSP full of yellow flowers on a blue background!!!

Here’s another view….

Subbing out a letter for an image is a great way to add creativity to a word.

The ‘you’ is from the Daisy Delight stamp set. Because it’s photopolymer, I have actually cut the ‘thank you’ into two parts. This means I can use them separately, or line them one of top of each other. If I want the whole word, it just pieces back together on the block!

Are you a stamp cutter??? Or does that idea just send you into a tail spin?

Cutting or no cutting, these stamps will be available on Thurs when the Annual Catalogue launches!

CASEing the Catty #125 Occasions – Favourite Big Shot Project

Posted by Kelly Kent

Thanks for joining me for a CASEing the Catty Sunday blog hop. The design team will share their projects for the week in this blog hop.

Then, we ask you to join us and share your creations. You can find all the action on our Facebook page.

The theme this for CASEing the Catty #125 is Favourite Big Shot projects from the Occasions catalogue.

As always, a hard decision! But I decided to create with the Dynamic Hexagon embossing folder – because I love it, which definitely makes it a favourite!

It’s currently part of the Urban Undergound suite in the Occasions catalogue and will appear again in the 2017-2019 Annual Catalogue!

I have cased the “Dad” card on the left, and transformed it into a baby card!

CASEing the Catty #125 Occasions Big Shot Projects | Kelly Kent mypapercraftjourney.com

This embossing folder has no limits of use and looks great on pretty much every card!

I can cause cracking on your cardstock. To prevent this, spritz your card with water before putting it in the folder. Sounds crazy – but it works!

I made the inside a little more ‘baby’ than industrial using the Moon Baby stamp set (also carrying over – yay!).

CASEing the Catty #125 Occasions Big Shot Projects | Kelly Kent mypapercraftjourney.com

Did you know that all bundled pricing finishes at the end of each catalogue cycle – even if the products carry over to another catalogue. That means that you have just over a month to get a 10% discount on the Large Letters framelits & coordinating stamp set. They are definitely a huge investment – but well worth it! And 10% helps!!!

And, while they are bundled, it’s possible to include them in your starter kit!!

Join my Paper Adventures team for the Starter Kit price of $169 and include this bundle (item number: 142348) as your kit selection (remember: it’s fully customisable). You’ll get free shipping too – saving you even more!

There’s so much choice for creating this week – please join us in using the catalogue as your inspiration for a Occasions catalogue Big Shot themed creation.

Add your creation to the CTC#125 album on our Facebook page.

Continue the hop by visiting the delightful Rebecca Scurr and seeing what she has made.

Product List

Letters For You Photopolymer Stamp Set [141968] $85.00	Large Letters Framelits Dies [141712] $172.00	Letters For You Photopolymer Bundle [142348] $231.25	Moon Baby Clear-Mount Stamp Set [143085] $35.00
Iconic Occasions Clear-Mount Stamp Set [143199] $23.50	Classic Label Punch [141491] $31.00	Hexagons Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder [143231] $16.00	Whisper White A4 Card Stock [106549] $15.75
Daffodil Delight A4 Card Stock [121680] $14.00	Sweet Sugarplum A4 Cardstock [141423] $14.00	Rich Razzleberry A4 Card Stock [119981] $14.00	Basic Gray Archival Stampin’ Pad [140932] $12.25
Sweet Sugarplum Classic Stampin’ Pad [141395] $11.50	Versamark Pad [102283] $15.00	White Stampin’ Emboss Powder [109132] $8.75	Heat Tool [129056] $50.00
Brights Stampin’ Write Markers [131259] $51.00	Urban Underground Designer Washi Tape [142787] $8.75	Stampin’ Dimensionals [104430] $6.00

CASEing the Catty #109 CASE Anything

Posted by Kelly Kent

As we near Christmas, there’s lots of “lasts” for the year.

Last week was the last day of school (yay to sleep ins and no packed lunches!), next week is the last of work for me and today is the last CASEing the Catty blog hop for 2016!

It’s a free range theme today, so the crew are CASEing anything that takes their fancy.

For me, it’s another baby card. Do you remember the cute ‘pink but not pink’ elephant card from CTC#106?

Well, bubba Zoe is here and I wanted to make her a card that coordinated with the baby shower card.

This is the inspiration pic using the Large Letters Framelits & Letters for You stamp set in a frame…

I thought the styling was perfect to create a card for Zoe.

Simple but wonderfully personal. She’s a bit young to appreciate it, but I know her parents will love it (even if they don’t love the “pink”!)

Do you love the Large Letters as much as I do??? They are awesome- but may have been on your wishlist for some time.

Stampin’ Up! have a great joining promotion running from 4th Jan 2017 – 31st March 2017 – which means you can construct yourself a fabulous starter kit and save lots of money on your Stampin’ Up! wishlist.

Plus, you’ll be save 20% on all your favourite Stampin’ Up! products as long as you stay a demonstrator.

Contact me if I can share more information about how being a part of my Paper Adventures team works.

Next stop to inspire with you more lovely products for your wishlist is the gorgeous Liz Gross.

You may also want to join us for our last challenge of the month. The winner each month is invited to be a part of a CTC blog hop the following month.

Thanks for sharing my CTC experience with my this year. It was an honour to be invited to the team and I’ve loved creating each week. Challenges and blog hops really bring out the best in my creativity!!!

The CTC crew will be back in the second week of January, ready to share lots of creations inspired by the new catalogue.

If you’d like a catalogue posting to you, please fill out my request form here.

This is how I Stamp-A-Stack – Christmas 2016

Posted by Kelly Kent

On Saturday, I hosted 8 lovely ladies for a Christmas Stamp-A-Stack.

What is a Stamp-A-Stack? Typically, it’s a chance to make cards in bulk. The card designs are a little simpler, but you walk away with more.

For this reason, they are perfect for Christmas where people often send cards in larger numbers.

When planning my S-A-S, I decided we were going to make 12 cards – 4 each of 3 designs.

The ad went out, and not only did I fill the class I’d advertised, but I filled another one as well!!!

Now, despite knowing that the cards needed to be stripped back a little so we could get through them in the class time, I’m not so good at simple and just love to spoil my class participants with interesting cards.

So, even though I promised 4 cards of 3 designs, I actually ended up making 2 variations of each design so we actually had 2 each of 6 designs in the end.

So, here’s what I ended up thinking of as my the deluxe S-A-S of 2016!!!

Card 1 – a variation of my shrink reindeer CTC swap from OnStage