Maree McIntosh Stampin' Up Demonstrator,Australia: June 2019

Sunday, 23 June 2019

INKspired Sketch Blog hop 100 - Celebrations!

Hello and welcome to the hop this sunday night it is a big occasion with our 100th hop - so congratulations everyone.

You may have hopped across from Julie Martin

Congratulations Teneale for all the wonderful sketches you have given us and here is the 100th!!

Well I am loving the hostess stampsets so had to use one that is a favourite with a lot of us called New Wonders Cling Stamp set - 149426. Just ask me how you can get this cute set.

Started with Petal Pink cardstock and stamped the image onto Shimmery White cardstock and coloured in with the Stampin' Blends.

The DSP below is gorgeous and I had to cut the beautiful birds - (sigh) to have a piece of the polka dots...

Bird Ballad DSP - 149592

Wanted to use one of the die cut words so that you could still see the linen thread through - so chose the word friend from the Well Written Dies.

Well Written Dies - 148534

Thank you for stopping by

Now it is onto Allison McLeod and I can't wait to see what she has made

Until next time

Happy stamping

Maree xxx

Sunday, 9 June 2019

INKspired Sketch Blog hop 99 -

Hello and welcome to the sunday night INKspired sketch blog hop. You may have hopped across from Julie Martin and I can't wait to see what she has made. I am so excited about all the new products in the catalogue so it was a hard decision on what to use but I chose the To A Wild Rose Bundle and the Perennial Essence Designer Series Paper for my card.

Here is the sketch that Teneale has given us this fortnight.

Started with Flirty Flamingo cardstock for the base and stamped the leaves from the stampset onto the card in Flirty Flamingo.

I then cut a strip of the Perennial Essence DSP and adhered to the Blackberry Bliss and tied the linen thread around it. I didn't want to cover up the DSP (it is so beautiful - so Monet) so I used a piece of vellum over the top of the linen thread.

Stamped the Hello in Blackberry Bliss onto the Stitched Circle with a layer of Blackberry Bliss behind it.

Perennial Essence Designer Series Paper - 149100

Stamped the flower in Flirty Flamingo with the three stamps and stamped the leaves in Granny Apple Green but used only two of the stamps. Cut them out using the dies below - which is a great bundle.

Thank you for stopping by and now it is onto

Allison McLeod

Until next time

Happy stamping

Maree xxx

Sunday, 2 June 2019

ESAD 2019 - 2020 Annual Catalogue Blog Hop Sneak Peek -

Welcome and thanks for joining us for the ESAD 2019-2020 Annual Catalogue hop showing you a sneak peek. You may have hopped across from Sharon Dalton and I can't wait to see what she has made

Just hop to the bottom of the page for a detailed understanding of what ESAD stands for. For a quick overview it is the Australian and New Zealand facebook page for Stampin' Up! demonstrators who love and share stamps, ink & paper creations.

If you get lost the list of participants is at the bottom that will let you click and hop around.

I love the Free As a Bird stampset that comes as a bundle with the Stitched Nested Labels Dies (this is a mouthful to say quickly) but they are amazing.
I have made three cards using this lovely stampset. The first is the Balmy Blue card below where I cut the branch off so that there was only three birds - I needed it to fit it onto the stitched circle shape.

This card below is using Soft Suede as the main card with a layer of Petal Pink embossed with the Subtle embossing folder and the birds cut out with the Stitched Nested Label die.

I embossed the layer of crumbcake and then cut out the nested label piece and slipped in a piece of plain crumbcake - love how you can see the double stitched lines.