Casing Louise Sharp for GDP#080

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Thank you for stopping by today. It's been a busy week but managed to take a break and play along in the Global Design Project #GDP080 which is Case the Designer ~ Louise Sharp

I took the floral elements and the layout of Louise's beautiful card above for inspirations and here is what I came up with...

I mixed the Craft Ink Refill with Melon Mambo Ink Refill to achieve this effect. I then used the Watercolour Pencils for the high & low lights.

Stampin' Up! products used:

Blooms & Wishes Photopolymer Stamp

Gorgeous Grunge Clear Mount Stamp

Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies

Watercolour Pencils

Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder

Whisper White Craft Stampin' Ink Refill

I hope you like my card for this challenge and check out the rest of the Design Team's creations at Global Design Project - HERE

Stop by again on Wednesday when the Top 10 winners of Kylie's International Highlights will be sharing our projects in a blog hop!

Until then BYEEEEE

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International Project Highlights

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Welcome to our International Project Highlights using Stampin' Up! products. We have all created this gallery of projects for you to be inspired by! We would love it if you could visit every one of our blogs and see a close up of our projects.

So here is my project with the Wherever You Go stamp set which is great for male orientated designs and can be for different occasions.

For the main picture I used the Stamp-a-ma-jig and Marker to Stamp technique

Added a horizon line with a ruler and used the Sponge Daubers for the clouds as well as for darkening the edges

The chevrons were achieved using the Triple Banner Punch

The compass was heat embossed with Copper Stampin' Emboss Powder

Before adhering all the elements, the Very Vanilla base card was embossed with the Brick Wall and stamped with Gorgeous Grunge

Products Used:

Wherever You Go

Gorgeous Grunge

Triple Banner Punch

Layering Circle Framelits Dies

Brick Wall Embossing Folder

Copper Stampin' Emboss Powder

Stamp-a-ma-jig

Sponge Daubers

All current Stampin' Up! products are available in our Online Shop

Thank you for stopping by today. Check out our gallery of projects below with amazing ideas and inspirations from Stampin' Up! demonstrators around the world!

Jay Soriano

Mitosu Crafts

Your Independent Stampin' Up! Demonstrators in Basingstoke

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World Card Making Day Blog Hop with Stampin' Up! Products

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Welcome to our World Card Making Day Blog Hop using current Stampin' Up! Products. What better way to celebrate today than to share with you amazing inspirations! You are currently at Mitosu Crafts by Barry & Jay, based in Basingstoke, England and you will be visiting blogs from different places in the hop today. There is a list at the end of the page which will help you to move along so you can see all the amazing projects created just for you.

For our card we wanted to share a wintery scene using the following main products:
Greetings From Santa
Detailed Santa Thinlits
Lovely As A Tree
Gorgeous Grunge

Clear emboss the spatter stamp from Gorgeous Grunge on Whisper White
Create masks from copy paper for the mountains and valley
Colour the card with Night of Navy, Rose Red and Old Olive with the Sponge Brayers and Daubers
Stamp the main tree from Lovely As A Tree

Smokey Slate for the card base which is die cut with the border thinlits from Detailed Santa
Adhere Sweet Sugarplum Glitter Ribbon
Stamp the sentiment using the Stamp-a-ma-jig

Thank you for stopping by and we hope you like the card. There are many more amazing ideas and inspirations which you don't want to miss so hop along

Blog Hop List

All Stampin' Up! products are available from our Online Shop where you can also make the most of this amazing promotion!

Happy Stampin'

Barry & Jay

Mitosu Crafts

Your Independent Stampin' Up! Demonstrators in Basingstoke

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CAS Colours & Sketches #185

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I am super excited to announce that I have been invited to be the Guest Designer for August at CAS Colours & Sketches. It is a weekly challenge blog which starts on Thursday and winners are announced on Monday. It's a great source for inspirations so check out the challenges and join in.

Here is my design for challenge #185

I used White Stampin' Powder to heat embossed a flower from the Falling Flowers set - having the raised outlines made watercolouring with the Aqua Painters and Stampin' Markers so much easier.

Once I was happy with the flower, I used copy paper to mask it and stamped Gorgeous Grunge twice in Dapper Denim. The flourish from Falling Flowers was achieved by using the marker to stamp and 2nd generation stamping techniques.

The flower and splatters were then coated with Clear Wink of Stella Glitter. The sentiment from Thankful Thoughts and was also heat embossed.

Check out the rest of the design team's cards and join in the fun at CC&S#185

Thank you for stopping by

Jay

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Onstage 2016 Swaps

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Thanks for stopping by. Today we wanted to share the swaps we made for the Stampin' Up! Onstage 2016 event we attended last weekend. 

It's a great event where we get to meet other Stampin' Up! Demos, socialise and generally have a fun day. Plus we got our advance copy of the new Annual Catalogue, see previews of products inspirations, win prizes and watch demonstrations. All we can say at the moment is WOW, your in for a treat. You too can attend this fun event in November by joining our team as a demonstrator.

But before the new catalogue comes out, Stampin' Up! retire some products from the current catalogue. So if you have a favourite, check out the retirement list and grab it before its gone. Details of the retirement list can be found on the link to the left or on the post below this. 

Anyway, got a bit side tracked then, just really enjoyed Onstage Local and back to our swaps. 

For our swap we used the lovely 

Gorgeous Grunge Stamp Set

Brick wall embossing folder

Petite Petals Punch

Itty Bitty Punch (this is sadly retiring, booooo)

In Colours 2014 - 2016 Card & Ink (also retiring)

Melon Mambo Card & Ink

Tip Top Taupe ink

vellum 

We also did a version of this card at our Monthly Card Class, demonstrating some new techniques some of our ladies have never tried before. So if you would like to learn something new or just meet new friends who enjoy crafting, why not join us for our fun Stampin' Card Class.

We hope you like our Swap for Onstage Local 2016 and have inspired you to try something new. If you have any questions please feel free to leave a comment or contact us direct. Or if you would like to purchase any of the products used or retiring products visit our 24x7 online shop or again contact us direct.

Have a wonderful day and happy crafting.

Barry & Jay

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Balloon Celebration and Number of Years

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Here are full pics of recent cards we've made using the Balloon Celebration and Number of Years stamp set from the Spring/Summer catalogue.

I love how the background pop on this card which Barry made.

Other products used:

Brick Wall embossing folder

Gorgeous Grunge stamp set

Petite Petals Bundle

Flower Shop Bundle

Beautiful Bunch Bundle

Triple Banner Punch

Flower Fair Leaf Die

I like how the ink fades on the edges of the card which were sponged through the mask.

Other products used:

Happy Patterns Mask

Zig Zag Embossing Folder

Alphabet Rotary Stamp

I used a pigment pen to draw the border free hand and added dots on the 3 flowers.

Other products used:

Itty Bitty Accents Punch Pack

Little Letters Thinlits

Stampin' Write Markers

Hope you like them and thanks for looking.

'Til next time, happy stampin'

Jay

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Balloon Celebration Bundle and Sale-A-Bration Free Stamp - Sky Is The Limit

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Here are the cards we made on our recent class using the Balloon Celebration stamps with the matching punch.

The stamp set and punch can be bought as a bundle with a saving of 15%. 

Products Used:

We used the Heat & Stick powder to apply Mica Powder to the card on the right. It's also great for Gilding Flakes and Glitter!

We also used the smooshing technique to create a unique background for the Sky Is The Limit card, whilst the Stamp-a-ma-jig helped to position the images exactly where we want them.

Products Used:

The Sky Is The Limit stamp set can only be earned for a limited time during Sale-A-Bration. 

It's a great time to purchase the products on your wish list from both catalogues to earn more products for free. Check out our Online Shop now.

Contact us if you have any questions or if you would like to join our next craft class:

Tuesday 23rd February

10am - 12pm

Christchurch

Chineham, Basingstoke

Hampshire

RG24 8LT

Thanks for looking and happy stampin'

Barry and Jay

Mitosu Crafts

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Sleigh Ride Edgelits

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Hope you're having a great week so far. We had our class on Tuesday and used the Sleigh Ride Edgelits on our projects.

The sky was created by randomly applying 3 shades of blue inks with Stamping Sponges then using the Craft pigment ink with the Sponge Daubers for the moon and the clouds. Add a bit more of the blue inks to darken certain areas before using Gorgeous Grunge for the falling snow.

Use 7.5cm x 9.5cm card, align the top of trees edgelits to the top of the card and run through the Big Shot. For the houses edgelits, use 6cm x 9.5cm card.

Ink the edges, stamp the sentiment before adhering with stampin' pads. Apply glitter and use yellow glitter pen for the windows.

Quick and simple card, just add sentiment (from Christmas Cuties) and Gorgeous Grunge for the background.

Barry made another card for our class which we currently can't locate but will hopefully post in the future.

We also made a few more cards using the edgelits for our inspiration table

Colour combo was inspired by a game. The sentiment is from Wondrous Wreath and Endless Birthday Wishes. TIP: use cotton buds for finer details on the clouds if the daubers are too big.

This card can be flatten to easily put in an envelope. Barry created the scene by adding 1cm depth on both edgelits. 

Dimensions when opened 12.8cm x 10.5cm x 2cm

Black card 16.8cm x 10.5cm. Score at 2cm and 14.8cm

Houses 14.8cm x 8cm. Score at 1cm and 13.8cm 

Sleigh 14.8cm x 8cm. Score at 1cm and 13.8cm

Another card by Barry with 2cm depth using different inks. I couldn't quite get the lighting right for the glitter to show on this card :(

I also made 2 more after our class:

I made this card using the piece I started during class to demo how to do the clouds. I used the off cut of the edgelits as a stencil to add the silhouette. We were also talking about the super moon during class which I tried to recreate here.

I just love these colours and creating the clouds so I did another one with the off cuts as stencil.

Hope these inspires you to create something this weekend. Details of our demos and class this month can be found on our site - CLICK HERE

Thanks for looking and have a great weekend.

Jay

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Thank You Cards with Awesomely Artistic and No Bones About It

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Hope you're having a great week so far. The weather has been horrible where we are and it's getting colder, hope you're all dry and warm where you are.

Anyways, I just wanted to share a couple of Thank You cards I made recently using the stamp sets I received for my birthday last month.

I stamped the image on Tangelo Twist card then I used the Blender Pens around the image outline and adding glitter in the middle of the flowers. I also used Gorgeous Grunge stamps to add more interest.

I stamped the same image on the card base then used white Grosgrain ribbon, dyed with Tangelo Twist, folded and adhered on the top left before sticking the topper with foam pads. The sentiment is from Another Thank You set stamped using Archival Gray.

For this card I cut Delightful Dijon card into 4 sections and used opaque embossing powder for the dinosaur. The Gorgeous Grunge stamps were used to add more interest with 1st and 2nd generation stamping before sponging around the image and edges.

The sentiments were stamped with Archival Gray and adhered the 2nd and 4th panels with foam pads.

If you are interested in any of the products used, check them out below. We also run stampin' craft classes in Basingstoke so contact us if you any questions.

Thanks for looking and until next time, happy stampin'

Jay

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Banner Punch With Honeycomb Hello

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Just a quick post as I would like to share a masculine card using the sketch from Can You Case It? (CYCI#82) as a starting point. I ended up changing it slightly but I hope it's still ok to submit.

I used the off cut from the Banner Punch as a guide to cut the other end to form the arrows / shield to match the shapes on the embossing folder.

I also stamped the sentiment 2 ways so the card can either be portrait or landscape!

Thanks for looking and happy stampin'

Jay

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Stampin' With The Sheltering Tree

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Here's a card that I made for a friend. I went to her surprise Hen Night and the theme was Gothic Bride so I used Tim Burton's Corpse Bride for inspiration. 

Check out the products I've used below which you can purchase from our Online Store.

I am also entering this card to the following challenges:

Crafting From The Heart - 64 Anything Goes
Craft Your Passion Challenges - 266 Anything Goes
The Crafter's Cafe Challenge Blog - 120 Anything Goes
Creative Fingers Challenge Blog - 83 Anything Goes
Sister Act Card Challenge - 110 Anything Goes

Thanks for looking.

Jay @ Mitosu Crafts

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