Kylie Bertucci’s International Project Highlights

12 June 201813 June 2018 ~ Anna Krol ~ 2 Comments

Anna’ Stampin’ Cave – Kylie Bertucci’s International Project Highlights

Thanks for coming to my blog today! We are being highlighted internationally by Kylie Bertucci and you are able to vote for my project. The top ten winners will get to be part of an international blog hop so please vote for my project. My project is under number 27! You can do it here or use a button at the end of my post.

A theme for this highlight is ‘Friendship’. So I thought I will use some of the new products to create my card.

To create this card I used the sketch from the Global Design Project:

I slightly re-engineered it though (lol)

And here’s my card:

Friendship card dimensions:

Very Vanilla Thick Cardstock: 11-6/8″ x 4-1/8″ scored in half at 5-7/8″ (29.7 x 10.5 cm scored in half at 14.8 cm)
Very Vanilla regular cardstock for stamping
Wood Textures DSP Stack: 2″ x 4-1/8″ (5.08 cm x 10.5 cm)
5/8″ Burlap Ribbon 7″ approx (17.8 cm)

First, I created the base. Next, I cut DSP at a slight angle – the narrower end measures 1-2/8″ (3.2 cm). I adhered it to the base using snail adhesive.

Now the Stamparatus came in handy. I wanted to create a little border where DSP ended. I placed my card in the Stamparatus at an angle so the grid at the Samparatus base and the edge of DSP created ‘one line’.

I placed the border stamp where I wanted it to stamp, and using the plate I lift it up. I inked my stamp with a Pool Party Ink Pad and made my first impression. Now taking advantage of hinges, I moved the plate one spot in the right direction, inked and stamped again. Moved it, inked and stamped it one more time. Perfect alignment each time!

Next, I took the Petal Burst embossing folder and placed it on the bottom part of the card base, so it ended just by my stamped Pool Party border and run it through the Big Shot.

For the sentiment, I chose ‘Life is sweeter with friends like you’ also from Detailed With Love Stamp Set. I thought it would fit well. I stamped it in a Pool Party on a piece of regular Very Vanilla cardstock and next die cut it using the second largest oval die from Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies.

I took a piece of burlap ribbon, fold it in half and adhered under the oval. Next, using dimensionals I mounted it on my card.

I truly hope you’ve enjoyed coming to my blog today.

Now, make sure you head over to Kylie’s blog to check all lovely projects and vote for your favourites. Hope my project will be among them. My project is under number 27!

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Detailed With Love Clear-Mount Stamp Set [146606] £19.00	Detailed With Love Wood-Mount Stamp Set [146603] £26.00	Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies [145372] £28.00	Petal Burst Textured Impressions Embossing Folder [141493] £7.00	Very Vanilla A4 Thick Cardstock [144238] £7.25
Very Vanilla A4 Card Stock [106550] £9.00	Wood Textures Designer Series Paper Stack [144177] £10.25	Pool Party Classic Stampin’ Pad [147107] £7.00	5/8″ (1.6 Cm) Burlap Ribbon [141487] £6.50	SNAIL Permanent Adhesive [104332] £6.25
Stampin’ Dimensionals [104430] £3.75	Stamparatus [148187] £46.00	Stampin’ Trimmer [129722] £28.00	Big Shot [143263] £102.00

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Celebrate You with Go For Greece Training Group Blog Hop

27 March 201828 March 2018 ~ Anna Krol ~ 8 Comments

Anna’ Stampin’ Cave – Celebrate You with Go For Greece Training Group Blog HopHello everyone and welcome to my blog. We are super excited to share with you an array of creations showcasing products from Stampin’ Up! Annual and Occasions (Spring-Summer in the UK) catalogues (and Sale-A-Bration freebies too). We hope you find great inspiration from our projects. You are currently visiting Anna Krol from the United Kingdom.

Sale-a-bration is coming to an end and today I’ve got for you beautiful, clean & simple card using Amazing You Stamp Set and Celebrate You Thinlits Dies – both of which you can still earn FREE (Sale-a-bration ends on 31st March).

But there’s also something you may don’t know about Celebrate You Thinlits Dies – they are carrying over to the new Stampin’ Up! 2018-2019 Annual Catalogue!! But why pay for something if you can gave it for FREE, right?

Let’s Celebrate card dimensions:

– Berry Burst cardstock: 11-6/8″ x 4-1/8″ scored in half at 5-7/8″ (29.7 x 10.5 cm scored in half at 14.8 cm)
– Whisper White cardstock: 3-5/8″ x 5-3/8″ (9.3 cm x 13.6 cm)
– Whisper White cardstock (for inside): 3″ x 4-5/8″ (7.6 cm x 11.7 cm)
– A piece of watercolour paper for Stamping
– A strip of Gold Foil cardstock for die cutting
– Gold 1/8″ Ribbon: 8″ approximately
First, I stamped my flower on a piece of watercolour paper in Versamark, heat embossed it in gold, and fussy cut it (without leaves).
To paint the flower I’ve used aqua painter. For the first layer of colour I chose Powder Pink ink pad. Once it dried, I’ve used Berry Burst ink pad to add more depth to the petals.

I took a Whisper White panel, decided where my flower will be placed, and using Stamp-a-ma-jig I stamped leaves in Lemon Lime Twist. Next, I stamped over them with Pear Pizzazz to darken them a bit and also stamped more leaves in Pear Pizzaz.

Using dry brush I picked some of that Berry Burst ink, flicked it over the Whisper White panel and assembled my card before adding the flower.
I cut a piece of Gold 1/8″ Ribbon (briefly 8″), added it underneath the flower and adhered it to the card base with dimensionals.

For the sentiment I die cut the word “celebrate” from Celebrate You Thinlits Dies in gold foil and also stamped “Let’s” from Amazing You Stamp Set in Powder Pink next to the flower. And that’s my card for today.

I really hope you enjoyed visiting my blog today and I would love to encourage you to hop along with us and see the rest of beautiful projects designed by amazing artists. Please be sure to continue to hop using the list below. You don’t want to miss any!

Thank you for stopping by and have a blessed day

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Special Notes:

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3) If your order is £150 or more do not use the code and grab your own Stampin’ Rewards + gift from me

Amazing You Clear-Mount Stamp Set [147215] £0.00	Amazing You Wood-Mount Stamp Set [147212] £0.00	Celebrate You Thinlit Dies [146840] £0.00	Berry Burst A4 Cardstock [144249] £7.25	Whisper White A4 Card Stock [106549] £8.25
Watercolor Paper [122959] £4.50	Gold Foil Sheets [132622] £3.75	Berry Burst Classic Stampin’ Pad [144083] £6.00	Powder Pink Classic Stampin’ Pad [144084] £6.00	Lemon Lime Twist Classic Stampin’ Pad [144086] £6.00
Pear Pizzazz Classic Stampin’ Pad [131180] £6.00	Versamark Pad [102283] £7.75	Embossing Buddy [103083] £5.50	Gold Stampin’ Emboss Powder [109129] £4.50	Aqua Painters [103954] £15.50
Gold 1/8″ Ribbon [134583] £4.50	Stamp-A-Ma-Jig [101049] £11.00	Paper Snips Scissors [103579] £9.00	Fast Fuse Adhesive [129026] £9.00	Stampin’ Dimensionals [104430] £3.75
Stampin’ Trimmer [129722] £27.00	Big Shot [143263] £99.00

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Colour With Me – Stampin’ Dreams Blog Hop

15 February 20182 April 2019 ~ Anna Krol ~ 34 Comments

Anna’ Stampin’ Cave – Petal Palette Bedazzled with gold

Hello everyone! Welcome to the monthly Stampin’ Dreams Blog Hop. This month’s theme is Colouring. You are currently visiting Anna Krol from the United Kingdom.

Colouring and painting must be my favourite hobby. And it does not really matter what medium I use. For today’s hop, I’ve created two beautiful cards in different colour combinations, using amazing Petal Palette Stamp Set and Watercolour Pencils.

To showcase beautiful roses from Petal Palette Stamp Set, I decided to try a double layer stamping technique.

Dimensions for both cards:

card base: 11-6/8″ x 4-1/8″ scored in half at 5-7/8″ (29.7 x 10.5 cm scored in half at 14.8 cm) – Basic Black & Smoky Slate cardstock
Whisper White cardstock panels: 3-3/4″ x 5″ and 2-1/2″ x 3-3/4″ (9.5 cm x 12.7 cm and 6.3 cm x 9.5 cm)
Basic Black & Smoky Slate panels: 2-3/4″ x 4″ (7 cm x 10.1 cm)
Daffodil Delight & Melon Mambo panels: 2-5/8″ x 3-7/8″ (6.7 cm x 9.8 cm)
both sentiment strips (Basic Black & Smoky Slate) measure 2″ x 1″ (5 cm x 2.5 cm) with Melon Mambo & Daffodil Delight strips are just a smidge smaller

For one of my cards, I’ve used a classic colour combination: Basic Black & Melon Mambo with a hint of Old Olive on the leaves.

I’ve layered together two panels of Whisper White cardstock (smaller & larger) securing them together with a dab of snail adhesive in the middle so they won’t move.

I stamped roses from Petal Palette Stamp Set in two corners of my panel making sure they overlap both layers. Because I planned to use Watercolour Pencils, I stamped them using Basic Black Archival ink.

Next, I took apart those layers and decided to colour only the images on a small panel, and leave the rest just black and white.

To colour my roses, I’ve used Watercolour Pencils in Melon Mambo and Old Olive. Blender Pens helped me to blend those colours nicely.

Blender Pens are colourless, but the solution they hold, helps moving colour around, even on regular cardstock.

To add more colour to the image, you can either colour over the image or use Blender Pen to pick up the colour straight for the pencil.

For my second card, I decided to use a rather ethereal colour combination of shades of grey with a pop of yellow.

Same technique but completely different look.

For the roses, I’ve used Daffodil Delight watercolour pencil. I’ve added more colour to the edges of each petal and then using Blender Pen blended the colour towards the centre.

Leaves are coloured with Basic Grey watercolour pencil

And now comes the magic…

I really loved how these cards coming up together, but they seemed too plain to me. So I did a small experiment hoping it will work (and it did!Yay!).

Before assembling my cards, and all the layers together I took those small panels (one at a time of course), flicked water droplets all over them and immediately sprinkled with gold embossing powder.

Did you know that water can hold embossing powder if you act fast enough? Just apply heat from the back.

I heat set it with a heat tool. Once it cools down, I prepped the cardstock with Embossing Buddy, re-applied the heat to those droplets of gold embossing and quickly sprinkled with Gold Stampin’ Glitter. Dabbed off any excess back to the container and heat set it again to set the glitter in place.

I admit it is a VERY MESSY TECHNIQUE!! But it was so worth to have a glitter all over the house haha. Do I have to say it wasn’t last time I used this technique?! Can’t say more now lol

Hope you’ve enjoyed visiting my blog today. I’m wondering which card do you like the most? Classic black & pink or maybe the one in greys and pop of yellow? Please let me know in comments below.

I would love to encourage you to hop along with us and see the rest of beautiful projects designed by amazing artists. Please be sure to continue to hop using the list below. You don’t want to miss any!

If you wish to purchase any of products I have used, simply click the images below to go directly to my online store and don’t forget to enter the hostess code RRMR76JH to receive a gift from me.

Thank you for stopping by and have a blessed day

Hostess Code for February: RRMR76JH – Use this code in the month of February and receive a gift from me. Spend £50 or more and use the code, and you will receive a Whisper White 1/4″ (6.4mm) Organza Ribbon + a handmade gift from me

Special Notes:1) Make sure you select Anna Krol as your demonstrator;
2) If you select “No Contact” box I do not have access to your name and can’t send you a gift;
3) If your order is £150 or more do not use the code and grab your own Stampin’ Rewards + gift from me

Product List

Petal Palette Wood-Mount Stamp Set [145785] £42.00	Petal Palette Clear-Mount Stamp Set [145788] £32.00	Basic Black A4 Card Stock [121688] £7.25	Melon Mambo A4 Card Stock [119980] £7.25	Card Stock A4 Smoky Slate [131291] £7.25
Daffodil Delight A4 Card Stock [121680] £7.25	Whisper White A4 Card Stock [106549] £8.25	Basic Black Archival Stampin’ Pad [140931] £6.50	Watercolor Pencils [141709] £14.50	Blender Pens [102845] £10.75
Embossing Buddy [103083] £5.50	Gold Stampin’ Emboss Powder [109129] £4.50	Gold Stampin’ Glitter [133457] £3.75	Aqua Painters [103954] £15.50	SNAIL Permanent Adhesive [104332] £6.25
Stampin’ Dimensionals [104430] £3.75	Heat Tool – Uk Plug [129054] £27.00	Stampin’ Trimmer [129722] £27.00

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For The Love of Creating Blog Hop

9 February 201813 February 2018 ~ Anna Krol ~ 22 Comments

Anna’ Stampin’ Cave – For The Love of Creating – Beautiful Day Stamp Set

Hello and welcome to our very first For the Love of Creating with Stampin’ Up! Blog Hop run by the amazing Australian demonstrator, Kim Oliver. We are super excited to share with you an array of creations showcasing products from 2018 Occasions (Spring-Summer in the UK) catalogue and Sale-A-Bration freebies too. We hope you find great inspiration from our projects. If you have arrived here from Jay Soriano a big welcome to you. You are currently visiting Anna Krol from the United Kingdom.

I really want to encourage you to hop along with us – you are in for a real treat, as we are demonstrators from all over the world. Below is a list of all designers, but you can also use the NEXT button further down to continue your journey on this blog hop.

For my projects today I decided to showcase beautiful stamp set called (not mistakenly) Beautiful Day. I will show you how to achieve stained glass effect using two different mediums.

Stained Glass Effect With Brusho –

I love these bold images with its stained glass look – perfect for techniques and colouring. And that’s exactly what I did.

I stamped the flower and the butterfly on a piece of watercolour paper in Versamark and heat embossed them in white. Next, I filled them in with water and sprinkled Brusho Crystal Colour over the top.

Heat embossing creates a barrier for the water and colour, so you can easily control how the colour spread. I’ve also used the aqua painter to move the colour around.

For the flower, I’ve used Brilliant Red, Gamboge and Moss Green for the leaf. The butterfly is a mix of my favourite Prussian Blue and Moss Green.

Once the flower and butterfly were dry I fussy cut them. To add that stained glass look, I smooshed Versamark on top of both images, sprinkled with clear embossing powder and heat set it.

I love this rough texture of watercolour paper!

I kept the rest of design very clean. I sprinkled some brusho on Whisper White panels and spritzed with water (very, very lightly) before assembling my cards.

The edges of both card bases are stamped with three tiny flowers from the same stamp set, and I’ve used Versamark ink. Sentiments are stamped in Archival Basic Black ink. Few pearls finish off the look. I love these vibrant colours.

Stained Glass Effect With Stampin’ Blends –

First, I stamped both images onto two pieces of vellum using Versamark ink and heat embossed them in gold.

Next, I colour on the back of te vellum with Stampin’ Blends Alcohol Markers as follows:

flower – Pink Pirouette, Calypso Coral, Rich Razzleberry & Old Olive
butterfly – Pool Party, Night of Navy & Old Olive

I even used Stampin’ Blends to dye Whisper White Organza Ribbon so it coordinates with my bookmarks – so much easier and quicker than using reinkers!

I fussy cut my images.

I die-cut four labels using Lots of Labels Framelits dies – two in Very Vanilla, one in Pink Pirouette and one in Night of Navy so they would coordinate with colours on the images. I die cut the Very Vanilla pieces slightly shorter.

I stamped, repeatedly. greeting from You’ve Got This Stamp Set (without re-inking) on my Very Vanilla pieces: For the butterfly bookmark using Old Olive ink pad; and for the flower bookmark in Rich Razzleberry.

I assembled my bookmarks and adhered butterfly and the flower in the middle using Fast Fuse.

Hope you like my little showcase and that you give the stained glass technique a go.

Now, be sure to hop along and see more inspiring projects. Below is the list of all the participants but you can also use the buttons to keep hopping. Your next stop is lovely Pia Gerhardt from Germany – go and see her beautiful projects

Thank you for stopping by and have a blessed day

Hostess Code for February: RRMR76JH – Use this code in the month of February and receive a gift from me.

Product List

Beautiful Day Clear-Mount Stamp Set [145915] £19.00	Beautiful Day Wood-Mount Stamp Set [145912] £26.00	You’ve Got This Clear-Mount Stamp Set [139575] £25.00	You’ve Got This Wood-Mount Stamp Set [139572] £35.00	Lots Of Labels Framelits Dies [138281] £24.00
Whisper White A4 Card Stock [106549] £8.25	Tangerine Tango A4 Card Stock [116206] £7.25	Island Indigo A4 Card Stock [124390] £7.25	Very Vanilla A4 Card Stock [106550] £8.25	Pink Pirouette A4 Card Stock [116203] £7.25
Night Of Navy A4 Card Stock [106577] £7.25	Watercolor Paper [122959] £4.50	White Vellum A4 Card Stock [106584] £6.00	Basic Black Archival Stampin’ Pad [140931] £6.50	Rich Razzleberry Classic Stampin’ Pad [126950] £6.00
Old Olive Classic Stampin’ Pad [126953] £6.00	Brusho Crystal Colour [144101] £27.00	Stampin’ Blends Markers Collection [147475] £108.00	Calypso Coral Stampin’ Blends Markers Combo Pack [144045] £8.00	Old Olive Stampin’ Blends Markers Combo Pack [144597] £8.00
Pink Pirouette Stampin’ Blends Markers Combo Pack [144604] £8.00	Night Of Navy Stampin’ Blends Markers Combo Pack [144040] £8.00	Rich Razzleberry Stampin’ Blends Markers Combo Pack [144602] £8.00	Pool Party Stampin’ Blends Markers Combo Pack [144605] £8.00	Versamark Pad [102283] £7.75
Embossing Buddy [103083] £5.50	White Stampin’ Emboss Powder [109132] £4.50	Clear Stampin’ Emboss Powder [109130] £4.50	Whisper White 1/4″ (6.4 Mm) Organza Ribbon [145590] £5.50	Gold 1/8″ Ribbon [134583] £4.50
Twine Baker’s Whisper White [124262] £2.75	Pearl Basic Jewels [144219] £4.50	Aqua Painters [103954] £15.50	Stampin’ Spritzer [126185] £2.75	Fast Fuse Adhesive [129026] £9.00
Heat Tool – Uk Plug [129054] £27.00	Big Shot [143263] £99.00

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Elegant Monochromatic With Pop Of Colour

Image ~ 29 September 201622 February 2018 ~ Anna Krol ~ 2 Comments

Anna’ Stampin’ Cave – Elegant Monochromatic With Pop Of Colour

Wow! It’s hard to believe, but today is last day with My Hero Stamp Set from Stampin’ Up! Yep, 5 weeks have passed!

For my final project, I’ve created this striking yet elegant, almost monochromatic card, in shades of grey but with a pop of colour in form of dainty orange flowers.

For the base of my card I took an A4 sheet of Smoky Slate cardstock, cut it in half at 4-1/8″ and folded in half at 5-7/8″. I run the front of the base through Big Shot with Festive Embossing Folder. The panel is a piece of Basic Grey cardstock that measures 2″ x 5-7/8″. I adhere it to the base with Multipurpose Liquid Adhesive.

Next, I created my floral composition using Botanical Builder Framelits Dies. I die cut a couple of leaves from vellum and six flowers: three tiny flowers and three small 3D flowers from a scrap of Whisper White cardstock.

Savvy Tip: Don’t know what to do with random off cuts that are to small to use on cards or to punch anything out of them? Don’t throw them away! I save all my off cuts and use them up when need to die cut small elements, flowers, etc using framelits dies

To add a little bit of colour to my flowers I sponged the edges of the tiny flowers with Watermelon Wonder. For 3D flowers, I decided for more ‘dramatic’ look I sponged entire flowers using Pumpkin Pie ink pad and a dab of Watermelon Wonder to the centres. I also added a large rhinestone to each centre. You can’t really tell from the photos (blame the awful English weather) but I’ve added a touch of shimmer using Clear Wink Of Stella Glitter Brush to each flower (tiny ones too).

Next, I took a strip of vellum ( 1/2″ x 4-1/8″) and stamped a ‘Celebrate’ from My Hero Stamp Set in Versamark. Of course, I’ve used an Embossing Buddy prior to stamping. I heat embossed the sentiment with Silver Stampin’ Emboss Powder.

Tip: For best results with heat embossing always treat your cardstock, dsp, vellum, etc with embossing buddy. I takes off the statick from the surface of your paper, and makes the powder stick only to the areas you stamped.

Tip 2: If you don’t have an embossing buddy or any other antistatic tool you can use cornflour instead. Just sprinkle a little amount of flour over the surface of your cardstock, spread it with fingers or paint brush, and shake off the excess. Now you can stamp and heat emboss.

I assembled my composition using Glue Dots and liquid adhesive. Two tiny flowers on the vellum banner are hiding adhesive that I’ve used to adhere the banner to the card base.

I really like how this card turned out. I love the monochromatic, cold look of greys with a pop of bright orange. And what do you think about this colour combination? Do you like it? I would love to hear from you in comments below.

Thank you for stopping by and have a blessed day,

Anna' Stampin' Cave

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Kylie Bertucci’s International Project Highlights

Elegant Monochromatic With Pop Of Colour

Savvy Tip: Don’t know what to do with random off cuts that are to small to use on cards or to punch anything out of them? Don’t throw them away! I save all my off cuts and use them up when need to die cut small elements, flowers, etc using framelits dies

Tip: For best results with heat embossing always treat your cardstock, dsp, vellum, etc with embossing buddy. I takes off the statick from the surface of your paper, and makes the powder stick only to the areas you stamped.

Tip 2: If you don’t have an embossing buddy or any other antistatic tool you can use cornflour instead. Just sprinkle a little amount of flour over the surface of your cardstock, spread it with fingers or paint brush, and shake off the excess. Now you can stamp and heat emboss.