2015 Sneak Peek ESAD Blog Hop

Welcome to my first ever blog hop. I'm glad to be joining the ESAD girls for my first venture. If you haven't started with me you've probably just come from Narelle's blog and no doubt already seen so many amazing projects that you will be able to make from the new 2015 - 2016 Stampin' Up! catalogue. You will be able to place orders from this catalogue from Tuesday June 2.

 

There are so many new stamp sets and accessories in this new catalogue that I love. I was struggling with ideas for projects that would showcase many different items without being too overwhelming. The idea of making a birthday card using a Project Life pocket page occurred to me while working on my new technique album pages. I narrowed it down to 3 stamp sets - Sprinkles of Life, Build a birthday and You're so sweet. I've also used 2 new punches - Tree builder and Banner triple punch.

This is it completely opened ready for display.

I love this idea as it shows card makers how their skills can be applied to scrapbooking by simply scaling up their designs. Conversely, scrapbookers can see how their skills can be used for cardmaking. Plus you get to use a lot of different products and techniques on the one page/card. And let's not forget the recipient - they'll have a great card to display and they can even put it into their album.

Some of the pockets can be removed like the star card to reveal a surprise inside.

The Just For You card can be removed to add a private message.

I've tried to use the offcuts and extra die cut pieces from one pocket in another. It was so  much fun creating this collage with only a few stamp sets and punches. Isn't the Cherry on Top Designer Series Paper Stack gorgeous?

The only dilemma you will have is which way to fold it!

Will it be this way.....

.....or this......

.....or this way?

When designing cards I always seem to end up with a lot of offcuts and unused stamped images - do you? Instead of putting them in a box with all of the others from past projects to be used (maybe one day) I used them to decorate these cute little boxes made from the Curvy Keepsake Box Thinlits.

The Sprinkles of Life stamp set and the Tree builder punch make a cute little box for a thank you gift.

 

This little box features the Build a Birthday stamp set.

 Thanks for stopping by. I hope I've been able to inspire you to create some great projects when you get your goodies from the new catalogue. Next stop is Bernice's blog.

 

 

LIST OF BLOG HOP PARTICIPANTS:

 1. Rachael Lewsley

2. Andrea Buckland

3. Kelly Kent

4. Nicole Wilson

5. Libby Dyson

 6.Cherie Davies

7. Narelle Fasulo

8. Lou Kitzelman - You are here.

9. Bernice Collins

10. Monique Fielder

11. Courtenay Heuston

12. Donna Chapman

13. Amity Knight