Crazy Crafters March Blog Hop - Casing Allison Okamitsu

Welcome to the Crazy Crafters Blog for March. This month we are excited to be CASE'ing Allison Okamitsu from Canada! Now even better we get to hop along with Allison herself! Woo Hoo!
We hope you find great inspiration from the projects. The full blog lineup below will help you move along to see all the projects. This is a blog hop you will not want to miss out on!

My inspiration came 2 of Allison's project's

I really couldn't choose from all the fabulous creations that Allison has on her blog! WOW project after WOW project. So I decided to CASE slightly differently. Take 2 projects and create a baby!
I was inspired to use many of the elements on Allison's cards - from the Vintage Leaves stamp and Framelit Bundle, Hardwood background stamp, Burlap ribbon (which I LOOOOVE), the wooden 'thanks' and the First Edition DSP - another favourite of mine.

I used a super cool stamping techniques on this card its called ROCK n ROLL stamping - stamp in Bermuda Bay First then in Night in Navy - but only just the edges! How great does the leaf look stamped on the newspaper like DSP?

 I love the subtleness of the Hardwood stamp for the background - here I stamped Crumb Cake (stamped off once) onto Island Indigo cardstock.

Try making this card! Here are the measurements for you:

• Aussie C6 card base in Whisper White Thick cardstock
• Pool Party Frame 3-7/8" x 5-5/8"
• First Edition DSP Panel 3-3/4" x 5-1/2"
• Night of Navy Frame 4-1/2" x  3"
• Island Indigo Panel 4-3/8" x  2-7/8"
• Very Vanilla Circle 2" circle punch 

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Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you enjoyed seeing my project please leave me a comment I'd love to hear what you think! There are so many amazing ideas and inspiration you don't want to miss. Please check the line up list to see who is up next!

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Flashback to Kinda Eclectic

I'm getting all excited!! I just registered for the next OnStage Local event which is being held in Sydney & Gold Coast this coming April. I'm excited to say I will be going along to SYDNEY!!! I haven't been away from home to attend something like this before...I'm super excited. It's going to be great! I revamped the below card which we made at last years convention. At that time they launched the NEW annual catalogue (current) with the new InColors and new stamps of course.  My fingers and toes are all crossed we get to see the NEW annual Catalogue and new InColors for 2016-2017! 

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Giggle Greetings stamped on Patterned Paper DSP

How cool is this stamp set? Phew! Its not on the retiring list which means it's made the 'cut' and into the next annual catalogue. Not far away now friends, just under a month to go. You know, one of the perks of being a demostrator is that I get to see the catalogue before it's released and even better I get to order from it early too.

For a long time I used to only buy solid image stamps. I wasn't very confident at colouring my projects. As I practised and began to experiment I grew fonder of the outline style stamps, and here's a great example of how you can get colour into your images too with very little skill. It's also a great way to use up some of that DSP that's just sitting there looking pretty.

Here are my cards..

The Perpetual Calender stamp set provided the perfect background image for these funny cards.  Stars background for the dog running cirlces.  Spotted background for the Cheese. Leaves for the bowl of Cherries and a Splat for the Cat's hairball.

Here's a closer look at the fussy cutting. I added in a tiny bit of colouring with some ink from the ink pads and an aqua painter. Just a touch!

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Hello You Thinlits card inspired by Mary Fish

I've been running a craft class at a local retirement village {hi girls!!} for a few weeks now and here's our first card we made together. My card is CASE'd from Mary Fish and is a super quick card to put together.
Here is Mary's card

Here is my version..
 

Here are the class girls, busy creativing ...
We decided to stamp our own backgrounds instead of DSP as the ladies loooooove stamping. I think it looks great! Tempting Turquoise and Hello Honey.

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The Crazy Crafters April Blog Hop - Retired Products Theme

Welcome to another Crazy Crafters Blog Hop! How lucky this is our 2nd blog hop for April. This round our theme is all about the Retiring products {sob sob}. As sad as it is to see our favourites go, we can't wait to see what the new catalogue will bring! So if you haven't yet had a look at whats going, make sure you do and quickly, there are so many discounts you won't want to miss.  See all the items here. Be sure to check out my 'Walk down memory lane series' - a showcase of projects with the retiring products using Stamps, DSP (Paper), Punches & Big Shot accessories.

Here is my "Miss you already" card in honour of our retiring products...

If you haven't yet registered for a copy of the new catalogue follow the paypal link and I will have one posted out to you as soon as they are released!

Don't miss a thing, the new annual catalogue is coming on June 2nd - request a catalogue via paypal

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Up next we have Angela Lorenz hop on over to see her beautiful creations.

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