Elephants are on Parade!

 Hello, welcome to my blog & Merry Christmas to everyone!

My name is Alison & I am an independent Stampin' Up® demonstrator in Melbourne, Australia. I love creating cards & gifts for my loved ones & this blog will show you how to create something special for those you love. Today's blog features a gorgeous new stamp set called Elephants on Parade. This had been in the catalogue since May but I've only just received it. It's a lovely set, I hope you love it too.

I made 2 cards for you this week. One is a baby card for a friend who is due very early January. The other is a funfold step card.

The first card I'll show you is the baby card.


I used some old and some new for this little cutey. The matte & sentiment is Tahitian tide but the embossing folder is a retired one called Dandelions. It's very delicate & I thought it would be perfect for our little fella to sit under. I first added a little Tahitian Tide to the middle of the card front with a blending brush before embossing. The sentiment is heat embossed with clear powder so it just highlights the cardstock colour. 'Welcome' is a demonstrator only stamp set called Let's Create Together. For the little fella himself, I stamped him in Basic Gray then hand coloured with Derwent pencils. He was then diecut with the Elephant dies & mounted with dimensionals. The final touch were a few Glossy Dots.

For the second card I chose a fancy fold that will appear in my mid week blog on Wednesday. It's a blend of step & pop up fancy fold that I created on the fly. It uses some more of the stamps from the set but also incorporates some DSP from the Happy Forest Friends DSP pack.


If you would like more details on how I made this card then come back on Wednesday for all the details!

That's it for another week. Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you have a wonderful Christmas day with your loved ones & have some time to relax as well. If you would like to order any of the supplies I used today you can head over to my Stampin' Up® shop using the links below. Please note that there are some supplies I used this week that are not available any more as they are retired stock. That doesn't mean you can't recreate your own version of these cards though! Just swap out the retired items for whatever you have in your stash.

 I hope that you've enjoyed this week's blog & will join me again on Wednesday when I will be sharing with you the details on making the step card. In next week's Sunday blog I have a masculine themed card. I hope you can join me for both of them.

If you would like to purchase any of my creations that I feature in my blogs they can be found in my FaceBook shop at craftedbyalison or you can or order something unique.

If you would like me to send you a catalogue then please message me via my FaceBook page, Crafted by Alison or send me an email at craftedbyalison@gmail.com.

Thanks for stopping by, til next time, take care & keep creating! XX Alison



Shop with me

Elephant Parade stamp set

Elephant dies

Basic White Thick cardstock

Basic White cardstock

Tahitian Tide cardstock

Mossy Meadow cardstock

Happy Forest Friends DSP

Tahitian Tide Classic Stampin' pad

Basic Gray Classic Stampin' pad











Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts

Mid week blog #99 - Square tri-fold fun fold

Image
  Hello & welcome to my blog, My name is Alison & I am an independent Stampin' Up® demonstrator in Melbourne, Australia.  I love creating cards & gifts for my loved ones & this blog will show you how to create something special for those you love. I blog twice a week, once on a Sunday where I mainly showcase a stamp set or dies & sometimes special DSP. My second blog is mid week on a Wednesday where I look at techniques, colour challenges, card sketches, fun folds, tools & equipment & ways to make or improve your projects. That's what this blog is about. In this week's blog I'm sharing a fun fold I saw that looks really cool, allows you to use up DSP (if you're a bit of a hoarder like me or just have a little more than your should!) plus it's a lot easier to create than you'd first think. I took lots of pics to show you just how easy it is to create this style of fun fold. I hope you enjoy this post as I walk you through how I cre
Read more

New creations with He's All That

Image
 Hello, welcome to my blog, My name is Alison & I am an independent Stampin' Up® demonstrator in Melbourne, Australia. I love creating cards & gifts for my loved ones & this blog will show you how to create something special for those you love. If this is your first time here, thanks for visiting, I hope you enjoy what I have to share with you. If you're a returning visitor, thank you so much for supporting me! 😍 This week's cards are created using the He's All That stamp set & the co-ordinating dies, All That. I am trying to be good & use up old stock so I've included some DSP & diecuts when creating. I hope you enjoy them. These 2 will go into my stash for upcoming birthdays. Male cards are always a premium aren't they? Here's how I made them. For the blue card I started with a Blueberry Bushel card base & added 2 mattes, one Night of Navy & one DSP from Rings of Love. I decided to offset them a little for a slightly differ
Read more

Calendars & Christmas cards

Image
 Welcome back everyone, I hope you've all had a lovely week. Melbourne is slowly getting back to 'normal' with families reconnecting, friends catching up and socialising back on track. Just in time too, with Christmas only 32 days away!! I hope you've been able to get started on your present shopping or maybe even finished? I've managed to cross a few more presents off my list thanks to the wonders of on-line shopping. I've also been making some more Christmas cards to add to my selling collection & had a lovely play with designs of mini calendars for an order from a colleague. Here's some pics of the calendars that I've made..... I'm very happy with how pretty the calendars turned out & hope my friend loves them too.  Now for some of the Christmas cards. I really loved the cards I've previously shown you using the Tag Buffet, Ornamental Envelope  & Christmas Gleaming stamp sets & wanted to have a play around with some different d
Read more

3D creations - gift boxes

Image
  Hello & welcome to my blog, My name is Alison & I am an independent Stampin' Up® demonstrator in Melbourne, Australia.  I love creating cards & gifts for my loved ones & this blog will show you how to create something special for those you love. I blog twice a week, once on a Sunday where I mainly showcase a stamp set or dies, embossing folders, projects & sometimes special DSP.  This week I have a 3D creation for you. Gift bags are wonderful for enclosing presents but sometimes you need a box to hold your items. This week I show you how to create 2 different sized boxes using the same method but different measurements. Both are very easy to make & once you start creating them you will find that a measurement tweak is all you need to make lots of different sized boxes to suit your needs.  This box will hold 4 or 5 cards depending on the size of the card. If there are lots of dimensionals then you would fit less. I they are simple cards of one layer then yo
Read more

Tic Tac Toe challenge #174

Image
Hello & welcome to my blog, My name is Alison & I am an independent Stampin' Up® demonstrator in Melbourne, Australia. I love creating cards & gifts for my loved ones & this blog will show you how to create something special for those you love. Today's blog is all about making a card using a Tic Tac Toe themed challenge. Using the grid below I looked back over my creations & found a very special card I had made for a workmate to give to his niece. I would normally make a new card but this week has been rather challenging with my Mum being hospitalised. We weren't sure whether she'd make it but with lots of fluids & exceptional care from the staff at her nursing home she looks to be on the mend. I hope you understand & I hope you like what I've got to show you! This is the current Tic Tac Toe challenge, No. 74, that the card is based on. The principle of the challenge is there are 3 columns & 3 rows with a different focus in each squar
Read more