Cards – Maudie Papercrafts

Pootler’s Blog Hop, Dashing Deer card

Yay, it’s time for another Pootler’s Blog Hop! We hop each time there is a new catalogue launch. So – this hop is for the new Autumn/Winter catalogue and each project on the hop uses items from it. We’d love it if you could take time to hop around every blog. Yes, I know there’s a lot of them, but I promise that the projects will be awesome!

My card uses the wonderful Dashing Deer bundle:

Stampin' Up! Dashing Deer

I’ve kind of CASED the catalogue but changed a few things too. All the gold elements are from the bundle – I heat embossed the gold sentiment and floral wreath design and die cut the deer. I also added some gold embossing around the edge of the mat in the background.

The circle that the deer is sitting on I embossed using the Swirls and Curls embossing folder – love it, and it’s not just for Christmas!

Stampin' Up! Dashing Deer

And last but certainly not least, the checkered background is the Buffalo Check background stamp. I used Soft Sea Foam ink, not immediately Christmassy, but it’s a colour I love and had to use.

Here’s one last close up look:

Stampin' Up! Dashing Deer card

This is a beautiful bundle, and one I plan to use a lot this year so look out for more cards and projects using it from me.

Here are the other Pootlers who are hopping:

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Stampin’ Up! Rooted in Nature card

Stampin' Up! Rooted in Nature card

Today’s card is a little bit different for me, and one I CASE’d from Wendie Young Waldman. Mine is a little different to hers, but the idea is the same – to cut up squares from one of the stamps in the Rooted In Nature stamp set.

If you like Lovely As A Tree you’ll love this. Plus, this one has not only a bigger stamp set, but dies too. Buy them both as a bundle and you get a 10% discount. Some of the leaf dies emboss too, it really is a great bundle.

Stampin' Up! Rooted in Nature card

I used new ink pads for this card – Grey Granite for the tree trunks, and Granny Apple Green for the leaves. Those leaves are beautiful aren’t they? Such a lot of detail in them. And I love that tree slice too.

I used the smallest of the Stitched Framelit squares to cut up the slices – I first stamped them onto a piece of card then die cut them afterwards.

Stampin' Up! Rooted in Nature card

The Happy Birthday sentiment comes from the Hand Delivered hostess stamp set.

I used this for a 60th birthday card for a man who I know will love it.

Stampin’ Up! have a video showing the whole bundle, stamps and dies, and ideas for how to use them.

Here’s what I used to make the card:

Table built using Product Table Builder by The Crafty Owl – Independent Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator.

Pootler’s Blog Hop, Stampin’ Up! Painted Glass card

If it’s a new catagloue, then it must be time for another Pootles Blog Hop. This post is one of many on this hop, all featuring products from the new catalogue. Please hop around as many blogs as you can and leave a comment, it means a lot to us all.

My card uses the Painted Glass bundle. I’ve used one of the stamps to make a background, and the butterfly stamp and die to add some interest. The stamp set and dies are available as a bundle at a 10% discount.

Stampin' Up! Painted Glass card

I coloured the butterflies using the blender pens and then die cut them out. The stamp set also has a rose and a bird that I could also have used.

There is also some beautiful patterned vellum which goes with this suite – I’m waiting for it to arrive so I haven’t used it here. You should take a look though, it is beautiful.

See that embossed background at the top and bottom of the card? That is a die that I used the new embossing pads on to make an impression rather than a a die cut. Effective isn’t it?

Stampin' Up! Painted Glass card

You can use any dies with the embossing mats and your Big Shot to emboss with dies, so you can make even better use of them.

The card base is Whisper White and the embossed card is the lovely returning Mint Macaron. Here’s a close up of that embossing.

Stampin' Up! Painted Glass card

I used some Wink of Stella on the butterflies but it doesn’t show up in the photos. I chose the A Reason to Celebrate sentiment because I thought it could be used for a number of things. Hope you like it!

Here are the other people on the blog hop for you to hop around:

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Stampin’ Up! Hand Delivered hostess stamp card

Stampin' Up! Hand Delivered card

I don’t usually feature many hostess stamp sets because you have to spend a certain amount (£150/€200) or host a party for that amount to be able to get one, but when I saw this I loved it and had to have it. It’s the Hand Delivered stamp set.

It’s a very clever stamp set, there is one pair of legs (!) with different skirt patterns. Then there are four options for the top half – books, cake, a poster, or as I have used here balloons.

Stampin' Up! Hand Delivered card

The easiest way I found to get the top and bottom lined up was to use the Stamparatus: more about that below.

I used the Stampin’ Blends to colour the balloons, and found that adding a thin darker layer around the outside of each balloon really made them stand out. I was going to write pop there but that wouldn’t have worked would it!

Stampin' Up! Hand Delivered card

You can’t see it here, but I added some Wink of Stella to just a couple of balloons, not all.

I added those squiggles in the background because I felt it needed something just to finish it off. They’re from the Happy Gorgeous stamp set.

I sent this card to a little girl for her birthday and she loved it. Hope you do too.

If you live in the UK, France, the Netherlands, Germany or Austria and would like more details about how to get this stamp set (and you don’t already have a demonstrator), please contact me.

The Stamparatus is fabulous! If you haven’t heard about it, it’s a stamp positioning tool but better, you can do so much with it. Here’s a video Stampin’ Up! have made to explain it, and why you need one.

Here’s what I used to make the card. Please note that the Stampin’ Blends are not available to order at present because they are out of stock so I haven’t added them to the supply list.

Table built using Product Table Builder by The Crafty Owl – Independent Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator.

Stampin’ Up! Pattern Party decorative mask meets Flower Shop

Well, today is my last card as a Daring Cardmakers guest designer. The past few weeks have flown by, and the challenges have certainly streteched me.

This week’s challenge was no exception – to use a stencil and green! That’s very specific isn’t it. Here’s my card:

Stampin' Up! Pattern Party mask

I’ve used one of the masks from the Pattern Party Decorative masks set – there are four very different designs in it, and they are at a very good price point.

For the stencil I combined Emerald Envy and Tranquil Tide inks. Then I punched out some tiny flowers from the Tree Builder punch.

Stampin' Up! Pattern Party mask

I thought the card still needed something else so I pulled out the Flower Shop stamp set and punch – I love this set but because of all the new stuff it’s been a bit neglected of late.

I haven’t added a sentiment and I think the card could probably do with one just to finish it off so I may add one later. It is definitely green and stencilled though!

Stampin' Up! Pattern Party mask

A big thank you to the Daring Cardmakers for inviting me to be a guest designer, and for stretching me!

Here’s what I used to make this card:

Table built using Product Table Builder by The Crafty Owl – Independent Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator.

Stampin’ Up! Bird Banter card

There are so many things to do with this stamp set that I found it difficult to know where to start!

However, I did manage to make a card, whilst thinking of all the others I wanted to make later.

Stampin' Up! Bird Banter card

For this card I sponged a cloudy background onto some card and then used the Stitched framelits to die cut a circle for the birds to sit on.

I used my Blends to colour the birds, they have become my ‘go to’ pens for colouring now, I love them. I managed to kind of fade the Cherry Cobbler into the Daffodil Delight on the parrot’s chest.

I decided to fussy cut the birds because I knew their tails where going to be outside the circle they were sitting on. They are quite simple shapes so it wasn’t hard to do.

Stampin' Up! Bird Banter card

You can just about see that I used the Petal Burst embossing folder on the background DSP, which was Naturally Eclectic.

I also cut out the balloon but didn’t want to draw the string on in case I messed up the card so I simply pushed it behind the sentiment! I added some Wink of Stella to it but you can’t see it in the photo.

Stampin' Up! Bird Banter card

Look out for lots more cards from me using this stamp set!

Here’s what I used to make this card:

Table built using Product Table Builder by The Crafty Owl – Independent Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator.

Stampin’ Up! Sweet Cupcake birthday card

This week’s challenge over at the Daring Cardmakers is to make a card using coffee, tea, cake or biscuits. I had to choose cake of course!

Stampin' Up! Sweet Cupcake

I’ve always liked the Sweet Cupcake stamp set. It’s a layering set, with three stamps to make the bottom and top which gives it so much dimension. I popped the top up on dimensionals to make it stand out even more, and added some Wink of Stella too.

I also did something that I don’t find easy at all on this card – put in something wonky! I find that very hard to do but wanted a pop of colour that wasn’t pink so chose Lemon Lime Twist to go behind the main panel, on a slight slant.

Stampin' Up! Sweet Cupcake

The stripey background behind the cake is a large background stamp – Brushtrokes. This is a new stamp to me and I think I’ll be using it a lot. Although I love DSP I also like making my own backgrounds.

Just for some extra pinkness I used the Powder Pink DSP from the Fresh Florals DSP stack too. Well, if you’re going to make something pink, you may as well go the whole hog.

Stampin' Up! Sweet Cupcake

Once the card was finished I thought it lacked something so I added some sequins to finish it off.

Hope you like it!

Here’s what I used to make the card:

Table built using Product Table Builder by The Crafty Owl – Independent Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator.

Stampin’ Up! Beautiful Peacock card

Stampin' Up! Beautiful Peacock

I’ve been enjoying using stamps to make my own background DSP recently, and this card is the latest.

I’ve used the Beautiful Peacock stamp set from the Sale-a-bration catalogue. There’s plenty of scope for using the stamps for more than one thing, and Stampin’ Up! have cleverly made the little flowers to fit into the peackock’s tail.

Stampin' Up! Beautiful Peacock

For this card I used Lemon Lime Twist and Sweet Sugraplum for the backtround stamp and added Emerald Envy for the body of the peacock.

The peacock is sitting on the medallion die from the Eastern Medallions Thinlits. I heat emboosed the sentiment to make it stand out.

Stampin' Up! Beautiful Peacock

I think this combination of colours gives the card a fresh and light feel.

You can’t buy this stamp set – but you can get it free! Spend €60/£45 on items from the annual or spring/summer catalogue and you can choose an item from the Sale-a-bration brochure. There’s no limit, for each €60/£45 you can earn something free.

Please contact me if you need any more information, if you live in France, the UK, the Netherlands, Germany or Austria.

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Stampin’ Up! Just Add Color new home card

So the theme on the Daring Cardmakers challenge blog this week is buildings – we have to feature a building on a project. As soon as I saw the challenge I knew what I was going to use: the Just Add Color speciality DSP.

Stampin' Up! Just Add Color new home card

There are two sheets of 6 designs in the pack and you can colour in each sheet as you want.

I chose to use Blends for my card. I used both dark and light shades of each colour so that I could add some depth to the houses, and added in some sky and greenery freehand afterwards when I thought it looked a bit odd just having a white background.

Stampin' Up! Just Add Color new home card

The Congratulations sentiment and die cut come from the Petal Palette suite, and I thought suited the card well.

There are lots of other choices in the DSP collection – teapots, feathers, a sea scene, feathers, leaves. If you like colouring this would make a great buy, or you could gift it to somone who liked colouring.

Stampin' Up! Just Add Color new home card

Back soon with another project!

Here’s what I used to make this card:

Table built using Product Table Builder by The Crafty Owl – Independent Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator.