{Christmas Challenge Stampathon 2018 - Easy Card Making with a Sketch}

Welcome to the...

7th Round of the
Christmas Challenge Stampathon 2018

Be inspired every month with a Christmas Challenge on the 25th of the month.

We are now onto the 6th challenge and its to make 4 projects using this
Card Sketch
designed by Rosalie

You can turn the sketch around and use whatever Stampin' Up! papers and stamp to create your card.

Here are the cards I created.  Can you spot the "non Christmas" paper?

please have a look at what the other challengers made

Denise Kepple Garrison 'Lady Bug Stampin'  from America

Ellen Woodbridge  and Rosalie Desmond from Australia

This is how I made the cards...

So, if you would like to join the fun... here is the information and rules.

• Everyone is welcome to join in the Challenge.
• The Challenge will be set on the 25th of the month on each of the organisers Facebook pages and will then have followup information on their blogs and YouTube channels.
• The deadline for submission is 11pm on the 24th of the following month in your respective time zone.
• To be entered into the Prize Draw in November you need to participate 1 or more of the challenges, the first month you enter you will recieve 1 "ticket", the second month you enter you will recieve 2 "tickets and so on for every month you participate.
• Photos of your projects need to be posted on the Facebook group or emailed to one of the organising demonstrators to be shared, please state your country of residency.  
• To be eligible to win a prize you need to live in the USA, UK or Australia.
• All entries must use at least one Stampin' Up! product - ideally a stamp.
• The winners will be randomly selected by an online generator from all the eligible participants.
• By submitting a photo you give the organisers permission to use the photo on their blog and social media.
• There are prizes available for each country.  The first prize is US $60, UK £50, AUS $88 of product that the organisers will choose and ship free of charge.  The second prize is a sample of each of the items the organiser/s from your respective country makes.
• Everyone who participates are will be allowed to use our specially designed badge that can be displayed on your blog.
• Please use the hashtag #christmaschallengestampathon2018 in any social media you post your entries too.

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{Stamping Sunday Blog Hop Tropical Chic}

Such fun to join in with this blog hop today. 

The focus is on the Tropical Escape Suite which can be found here.

It's a fabulous fresh collection full of lovely leaf shapes, great for people who like making floral cards... ahem me!

I used 3 sheets from the paper collection... oooh remember you can earn a free pack of DSP when you buy 3 packs - until the end of the month.

Using the stamps and dies I cut out a pile of leaves and flowers which made assembling the cards very easy.

Here is a video of the process

After I made the card, I had a play with the square leaf die to decorate a little bag, and made a decorative peg to hold the top together.

Have a look at the other creations from some wonderful demonstrators from around the world.

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{Pop of Petals Stamp and Punch set - Love it!}

It feels a little bit like Christmas when the new Stampin Up! catalogue comes out each year.  When I was a child, my father would take great care to purchase gifts that he knew I would love, play with and get enjoyment from using - like my first set of artist watercolour pencils.  sometimes there would be so many things I wouldn't know what to use first.

This stamp set and punch where the first to go on my list when I had the new catalogue.  As you probably know (if you have followed me for a while), I love all things floral, o having a new flower stamp and punch to play with filled me with great delight.  What I did not anticipate was how much I would love it - the set is so well designed.  It contains such a variation of textures and images.  Having these options make it so easy to use as a set or combined with other images.

Purchasing the bundle means you get 10% off the total.  I think this is such a great value for money set coming in at £33.25

It is useful to limit the colour palette when getting to know a set, here are the colours I used for the cards below.

I had great fun layering images and punched out shapes.

Here is a quick video explaining my thought processes when I get a new stamp set.

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{Beautiful Bookmark making using One Sheet Wonder technique}

This beautiful stamp set is so detailed that I wanted to show it off using a very simple colour scheme. 

I used Blackberry Bliss ad Rich Razzleberry on Daffodil Delight cardstock.

Here is how I did it.

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{Stencil background using dies - Oh So Eclectic by Stampin Up}

I love stretching my Stampin' Up! supplies and finding new ways to use them.

Do you see the lovely geometric pattern background?  I made it by cutting a stencil out of the Eclectic Layers dies.  

It's been very sunny and hot here in mid Wales, and the garden has been growing weeds, it's a shame I can't control the garden like I can cards!

Here is the video tutorial.

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To receive a paper copy of the current catalogue, contact me here 

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