CASEING BIBI - GDP#016

This week Global Design Project is back with another CASE the Designer challenge.  This time we get to CASE the very talented Bibiana Cameron.  I love Bibi's love of colour, fun sense of style and the fact she uess her sewing machine on quite a few projects too, lol!  I feel very privileged to be working with her on the Global Design Project team.

What does CASE mean?  Well at this challenge site it means to Copy And Selectively Edit.  Look for a few things that you like from the project, colour, texture, layout and then create your own project from there.

I was immediately drawn to Bibi's gorgeous watercolour background and used that as my starting point.  I used the same colours when creating my own watercolour background as they suited a nautical theme.  This card is for a friend's significant birthday and he used to work on boats.  I figured he has probably seen plenty of Jellyfish in his time

I also liked the circle element that Bibi had on her card and used my twine to recreate that feature behind the sentiment.  The sentiment is a sneak peek of a set available to earn during Sale-A-Bration - starting January 5th.  Not long to wait now!!

The Global Design Project Team have been working hard to bring you amazing projects each week and we thank each and every one of you for joining us and making this challenge site the success it is!  This challenge is going to run for two weeks instead of the usual one, so we can all enjoy the Christmas break with friends and family.  I look forward to seeing your inspirational projects using Bibi's project as a starting point.  Merry Christmas xox

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LOVE IS IN THE AIR - SNEAK PEEK

I know Valentine's day is a wee way off yet, but in preparation of my catalogue launch, I have been putting the Balloon Builders stamp set through it's paces.  Just look at my last post for another example of this set in action.  One of the balloon images is in the shape of a heart and there is a perfect sentiment for my card included in the set too!

I started off my card by sponging in the sky/clouds in Soft Sky ink.  I then stamped over the top with the heart balloon image in Blushing Bride and Watermelon Wonder inks.  The string tails have been stamped in Basic Grey ink.  On the pink balloons I have adhered Blushing Bride sequins.  These are from a gorgeous new embellishments kit called Love Blossoms.

The sentiment is actually a square stamp, with the word "love" at the top and the rest of the sentiment below the word.  I really wanted a banner across the card, so I masked my stamp, and stamped it in two portions - problem solved.  I heat embossed in white on a Basic Grey background.

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PARTY ANIMAL - GDP015

It's time to celebrate a new challenge with the Global Design Project team again!  Will you join in with this fun theme?  I have celebrated with another sneak peek of things to come in the new Occasions catalogue - the Balloon Builders stamp set.  How cute is this set?!

Playing with new toys is rather like being at a party for me, a definite cause for celebration, lol.  With Balloon Builders you are only limited by your imagination.  You could literally use this set in thousands of ways!

As soon as I saw "Party Animal" I knew I had to recreate a teddy, a big softie, completely opposite to a real party animal!  I liked the play on words though and wanted to use that as my theme.

I "built" my teddy on a separate piece of card, fussy cut her out and placed a rhinestone over her heart.  After sponging my background, I popped her up on dimensionals and added a Bakers Twine bow and length of string so she didn't float away!

I can't wait to see how you are going to "Celebrate" this theme with us this week at Global Design Project and I look forward to seeing you there!

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LOVE IS IN THE AIR - #GDP014

With only 17 more sleeps til Christmas, most of us have made our Christmas cards, created our gift packaging and finished our shopping.  It is summer here in the South Pacific and one type of event that is popular right now is - Weddings!  Now I don't have any to attend myself, but it doesn't hurt to have a few pre-made cards ready to give on standby.  At Global Design Project we have a sketch challenge for you which I felt had "wedding" written all over it!

Weddings and romantic type cards aren't ones I normally specialise in and sometimes find quite difficult to create.  I loved the great open space in this sketch and that was the element I wanted to keep on the card.  

The new Occasions catalogue, due for release January 5th, 2016, includes a beautiful suite called Love Blossoms - just perfect for this kind of project!

The designer papers are beautiful and it was hard to pick which one to use!  The embellishment kit made selecting the bling easy!  Oh, and is that new Glimmer Paper I see?!

I hope you will join us over at Global Design Project with this great sketch challenge.  The design team have amazing projects there to inspire you.  Go leave them some comment love!

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SHAKE IT UP! & A SNEAK PEEK

I love shaker cards and I am always impressed when I see what other people have done.  Over at the Global Design Project challenge site this week, we have a colour combination of Real Red, Old Olive and Crumb Cake to inspire you.  This was my first attempt at the challenge, but I discarded (excuse the pun) it and went with my little elf instead.

I thought I would share this card anyway since it has a sneak peek of new product available in the Occasions catalogue, which goes live on January 5th.  I have been playing with this sweet balloon set called Balloon Builders, which demo's attending Stampin' Up!'s Onstage events worldwide recently were given.  Just one of the many perks of being demonstrator!  Another perk is being able to order these new products a month earlier than the release date for customers!  Perhaps this is one of the motivators for you to join me and my team of demo's here in New Zealand.  I would love to hear from you if you would like more information!

The gorgeous sparkly sentiment started life as a wooden Expressions Natural Element.  I simply pressed it into my Real Red ink pad and then added Cherry Cobbler Dazzling details and left it to dry.  I love these wooden sentiments as you can easily customise them to any project!

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