Last Week’s Card & Cuppa – Bottled Happiness and Layering Leaves

July 24, 2023July 21, 2023 ~ Karen Young

Last week’s Card & Cuppa project paired the Bottled Happiness and Layering Leaves Stamp Sets.

My earthy colour combination is Copper Clay and Moody Mauve new In Colors, along with Pretty Peacock and Misty Moonlight, plus Very Vanilla.

This combination is great for a neutral project suitable for anyone.

Both of these stamp sets for this design have matching punches, the Vintage Bottle Punch and the Bough Punch. You may remember I forgot to take the Bough Punch to this class several weeks ago, so I decided to remedy that!

To begin, a line is stamped across the background using an image from the Inked & Tiled Stamp Set. As the line isn’t quite long enough to go all the way across, it is stamped twice with the join under the bottles.

Using Go To Greetings, a sentiment is also stamped into the top corner.

Next, the bottles, leaves and flowers are stamped in Copper Clay, Pretty Peacock and Moody Mauve using a mixture of first, second and third generation stamping. The tall bottle, leaves and flowers are then punched out. As the Pretty Peacock shorter bottle doesn’t have a coordinating punch, it is cut out by hand.

A length of the In Color Textured Ribbon, in Copper Clay is stuck across the piece.

The leaves are then arranged to look like they are in the shorter bottle using a combination of glue and glue dots.

This and the tall bottle are then stuck to the project, the tall bottle directly, the other with Dimensionals.

A touch of Wink of Stella is then added to the Moody Mauve flowers. Finally, some Iridescent Rhinestones add some more bling.

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Happy crafting

Karen Young HIPPOFROG Designs

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Last Week’s Card & Cuppa – Bottled Happiness Bundle

October 31, 2022October 30, 2022 ~ Karen Young

After using an ‘A’ Stamp Set for my first back to in person Card & Cuppa Class, for last week’s class I reached for ‘B’.

This is the fabulous discounted Bottled Happiness Bundle (Bottled Happiness Stamp Set and Vintage Bottle Punch).

I chose the new In Color blue and purples of Orchid Oasis, Starry Sky and Tahitian Tide for my colour combination, plus Basic White.

As the Stamp Set has two-step stamping, everything comes together really quickly.

First, we stamped the flowers in Tahitian Tide and then lined up the leaves and flower centres and stamped those in Starry Sky.

The bottle and sentiment are then stamped in Orchid Oasis onto a separate sheet.

Using the coordinating punch, the bottle is cut out and then the sentiment with the Double Oval Punch. It just fits.

I could have stamped the bottle directly onto the project, but I wanted to bring it forward, so stuck that down in front.

A bow is then added in coordinating In Color Metallic Woven Ribbon.

The sentiment sits across the project on Dimensionals.

For a touch of sparkle, Wink of Stella is dotted in the centre of each of the flowers.

Finally, some small Brushed Brass Butterflies are placed around the bouquet.

This is a really quick project that would look great in a variety of different colours.

I made versions of this project for my recent customer Thank You cards. Some had different colour layers and some different ribbon. All were without the Brushed Brass Butterflies as sadly I didn’t have enough!

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Happy crafting

Karen Young HIPPOFROG Designs

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Introduction to In Color Class – Sweet Sorbet

June 18, 2022June 15, 2022 ~ Karen Young

For the Sweet Sorbet project at my recent Introduction to In Color Class, we made this card.

It combines here with Pear Pizzazz, Blushing Bride and Very Vanilla.

Using the Vintage Bottle Punch, Vintage Bottle Shaker Dome and Effervescent Elements, all new in the Annual Catalogue, the fun shaker section is created.

Leaves, cut using the Bough Punch are stuck to the project. Then, flowers from the Sending Dies, Flowers of Home Dies and Penned Flowers Dies are coated in Wink of Stella and added using Glue Dots.