Stampin' Up! Coffee Break Random Act of Kindness Card

Jillian Selwood, Purple Jelly Designs, Independent Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator

For my September Random Act of Kindness card I used the Coffee Break Designers Series Paper.

I started off with a card base of Early Espresso which I thought was rather appropriate! On the top I used a layer of Old Olive which I dry embossed with the Petal Burst Textured Impressions Embossing Folder. I cut a strip of the Coffee Break DSP and adhered that off to the left hand side. The sentiment 'you can't improve on Fabulous!' is from the You've got Style Stamp Set.

To finish it off I tied some retired Whisper White and Early Espresso Bakers Twine around the Old Olive card before adhering it to the card base.

Thank you for stopping by this week and reading my blog, I do hope you’ve enjoyed it. Until next week.

Jillian xx

Stampin' Up! This Little Piggy OnStage Swaps

Jillian Selwood, Purple Jelly Designs, Independent Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator

This time last week I was in Birmingham at the Stampin' Up! OnStage convention. This is a twice yearly event. It's great to meet up with all my crafting friends, and create with them.

 It is a tradition of Stampin' Up! that at all their events you make swaps which you hand out to other crafters and they give you one of their swaps. It's a fabulous way to get lots of inspiration as everyone seems to see different things in the stamp sets and dies.

These are the cards I made. I used the five new In Colours for 2017-2019. Berry Burst, Fresh Fig, Lemon Lime Twist, Powder Pink and Tranquil Tide. I also used the This Little Piggy Stamp set and the Playful Backgrounds stamp set.

Thank you for stopping by this week and reading my blog, I do hope you’ve enjoyed it. Until next week.

Jillian xx

Stampin' Up! Bundle of Love DSP Thank You Cards

Jillian Selwood, Purple Jelly Designs, Independent Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator

Welcome to the Crafty Cupcakes Team Stampin' Up! Blog Hop for November 2017. Each m

onth members of the Team take part in our Team Blog Hop to share with you our cards and projects made using the fabulous Stampin' Up! products. You are currently visiting Jillian Selwood from the UK and below you will see the full list of everyone taking part. To move to the next blog just click the name after mine in the list. 

The theme for this month is Thankful. Whilst we don’t celebrate thanksgiving here in the UK I do love to send Thank you cards - any excuse to make and send a card! There is always something or someone to be thankful for so it’s just nice to be able to recognise it.

For these Thank you cards I used the Bundle of Love Speciality Designer Series Paper, this beautiful paper is double sided, on one side it’s either Blushing Bride or Soft Sky and on the other side it’s cream and gold.

So I started the cards with a base of Very Vanilla thick cardstock and used a mat of either Soft Sky or Blushing Bride. Then I embossed the sentiment on the bottom - ‘I am thankful for you’ this comes from the Painted Harvest Stamp Set. Then I cut some small strips from the DSP and adhered them above the sentiment. I then punch out three circles using the new Starburst Punch in all three Designs. These were adhered to the front of the card using two of the coloured side and one of the gold side.

Finally, I die cut the smaller flower from the Flourish Thinlet dies and adhered this on top of the two strips of DSP at the bottom of the card before adding a gold Faceted gem to the centre. I was rather pleased with how these turned out and I really hope the recipients like them too.

Thank you once again for visiting my blog and taking part in our blog hop, there are so many amazing ideas and inspiration you don't want to miss so make sure you carry on hopping through the list. Remember that currently you are at my blog Jillian Selwood so check the blog hop line up list to see who is next.

Until next week
Jillian xx

Stampin' Up! Black White and Gold Wedding Card

Jillian Selwood, Purple Jelly Designs, Independent Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator

I was asked to make a Personalised Wedding card recently and my client asked if I could make a card to match the wedding invitation.  The card on the left in the photograph below is the invitation and the card on the right is the card I made.

I did have a bit of a panic as I didn't have a dragonfly stamp but fortunately my very good and kind friend Lea sent me her Awesomely Artistic stamp set to use. Thanks so much Lea x

I heat embossed the gold spots on the card and then used my white gel pen for the white spots.

For the inside of the card I used Gold embossing powder and then my Basic Black Stampin' Write Marker pen for the black dots. I used the sentiment 'wishing you both a very special day' from the retired For the New Two stamp set.

I also stamped the dragonfly on the back of the envelope but unfortunately I forgot to take a photograph of that. I was really pleased with how the card turned out and my client loved it as well.

Thank you for stopping by this week and reading my blog, I do hope you’ve enjoyed it. Until next week.

Jillian xx

Stampin' Up! Climbing Orchids Cards

Jillian Selwood, Purple Jelly Designs, Independent Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator

Earlier this year I entered the Simply Sketched Saturday Challenge with this card, to see the original post click here

I loved the card so much I decided to make it again but I wanted the orchids to stand out more.

To do this I stamped the flowers on a scrap of Whisper White and die cut the three parts before adhering together. I then curled the petals before adhering to the square.

I used the same Layered Leaves 3D Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder as I thought that worked perfectly.

Then I tried to heat embossed the orchids and wondered what it would look like if I dry embossed a sheet of silver foil. I was rather pleased with the result although my husband thought it was too much.

A crafting friend of mine recently promoted to Silver so I thought this card was perfect to send her as a congratulations card.

So which is your favourite, please leave me a comment below.

Thank you for stopping by this week and reading my blog, I do hope you’ve enjoyed it. Until next week.

Jillian xx