Succulent Window Box GDP071

Happy Australia Day!

I hope everyone is having a fun and safe Australia Day and I hope no one is melting in this heat. I had to work this morning, and I made this little box for a work friend who is OBSESSED with Succulents, she wasn't looking forward to working today and I wanted to brighten her day a little bit.

As well as being a way to brighten to someone's day this is also my entry for the Global Design Project 071. You can follow the link in the challenge picture below to check out the other entries as well as the design teams projects, there are some amazing pieces up already.

With a theme of 3D or off the page I couldn't help but team the beautiful window box thinlits with the succulent thinlits to make this little trinket box.

I chose to keep the box itself rather simple as I wanted the beautiful succulent's to steal the show and didn't want them to be overpowered by embellishments down the side of the box.

Below I have included colour swatches of all the colours used in this project, below them you will find a list of which colours were used on each part of the project in case you want to try to recreate all or part of this project yourself.

Large Center Succulent

• Cardstock - Garden Green
• Inks - Always Artichoke, Rich Razzleberry and Whisper White

Small Green Succulent

• Cardstock - Mint Macaron
• Inks - Pear Pizzazz, Soft Suede and Whisper White

Small Purple Succulent

• Cardstock - Sweet Sugarplum
• Inks - Rich Razzleberry, Soft Suede and Whisper White

To create the effect sponge the first colour over the whole cut out, do not create a solid look with this it is just to add texture, then darken the tips of the petals with the second colour and finally apply the white to the center and use your finger to tap it and diffuse the colour for a more natural blended look

Box

• Cardstock - Tip Top Taupe
• Inks- Soft Suede

For the box I just sponged Soft Suede around the edges to tie the box in with the look of the succulents more then it did as a stark clean box.

Click on the products below to purchase them and make your own masterpieces.

Window Box Thinlits Dies [142762] $63.00

Succulent Framelits Dies [142757] $56.00

That's all from me for today, I hope you all have an amazing day and happy crafting.

Crazy Crafters & Pootlers Blog Hop

Welcome to the Crazy Crafters & Pootlers Blog Hop for December. This month we are excited to show off our "2016 Occasions / Sale-a-bration Sneak Peeks". We hope you find great inspiration from the projects. You may just be starting the blog hop here at my blog or may have come from the person previous to me Rosalie Desmond. Be sure to click on the next button further down to continue your journey on this blog hop.
This month we have very exciting news that we have the famous Pootles - Sam Hammond Donald and her lovely team playing along with us! All the way from the UK. We are thrilled that they said yes to playing along with the Crazy Crafters this month as Sam is VERY talented and has a following all around the world. Thanks Sam and her team. x

When I saw the new Occasions catalog I fell in love immediately with the Rose Wonder stamp set and Rose Garden Thinlits and knew I just had to get that bundle. So these are the products I have chosen to showcase for you today.

I decided to try and keep this card simple compared to my usual efforts, something I find a challenge but I love how it turned out. I used Mint Macaron and Blushing bride on this card and used the Perfectly Artistic designer series paper you can get free through Sale-a-bration when you order a qualifying amount to layer behind the rose. 

I hope you enjoyed viewing my card and thank you so much for stopping by. Don't forget to keep hopping around and view all the other amazing projects by both teams, I know I will be.

Sam Donald

Angela Lorenz

Angelina Clark

Nicole Spicer

Lea Denton

Bruno Bertucci

Angela Westland

Wendy Boag

Jessie Holton

Camille Moriarty

Stephanie Fischer

Ania Krol

Emilie Robinson

Hannah McCurley

Michelle Mills

Vicki Hunter

Sara Evans

Louise Thomas

Carolina Evans

Kate Benade

Katie Kaup

Kathleen Rintoul-Waite

Sue Vine

Louise Thomas

Kylie Bertucci

Fiona Bradley

Rosalie Desmond

Sarah Burnett

Lisa Whitehead

Maddy Smith

Suzanne Hullah

Justyna Cieslinska

Karen Coulter

Crazy Crafters February Blog Hop

Welcome to the Crazy Crafters February Blog Hop!! I am so excited that you have joined us whether your joining us for the first time or have been following since we started. This month we wanted to showcase the amazing new products from the Occasions Catalog. I'm sure you have already seen some stunning projects from the girls before me and plenty more to come.

If your on the right track you should have just come from Angela Lorenz's blog Angs Crafty Cards, if you haven't don't worry there is plenty of time to get back on track by viewing the full line up at the bottom of this blog.

I had a lot of fun with this blog and really wanted to make something a different with these amazing products. To do this I jumped onto youtube to learn something new and stumbled across a technique I just had to try. It is called a Waterfall Card and the youtube tutorial was made by Dreaming About Rubber Stamps <---Click the name to see the full tutorial 

Without further delay this is the card I created for this months blog hop! There are a few technical issues I still need to work on but I am excited to have had a play with this new technique and I hope you do too.

 I love the look of this technique and cant wait to try a few different variations of this, I just love flowers and couldn't help but use this new paper from the Occasions Catalogue teamed with one of the stamps from Peaceful Petals

I couldn't resist continuing the beautiful paper into the card to frame whatever message will one day be written here :)

The following Photo's will demonstrate the waterfall effect accomplished with this technique by simply pulling on the ribbon the image folds away to reveal a hidden message.

The thing to remember when making this sort of card is to allow a decent amount of room between your pull down card and the brads holding the sides. This was my main error with this card the position of mine are too close causing the last tab to be quite difficult to pull down. We live and learn and I will be keeping that in mind for next time. 

Supplies: 

Inks

Basic Black, Melon Mambo, Tangerine Tango, Pear Pizzazz, Jet Black StazOn

Cardstock

Pink Pirouette, Whisper White, Watercolor Paper, Watercolor Wonder Designer Series Paper

Stamps

Peaceful Petals Clear Mount - Wood Mount

Chalk Talk Clear Mount - Wood Mount

Tools 

Blender Pens, Framelits Chalk Talk Collection , Simply Scored, Stampin' Trimmer,  Stamp-A-Ma-Jig and Big Shot

Adhesives

Sticky Strip

Embelishments

Ribbon, Eyelits

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog and this blog hop I hope you enjoyed your visit and maybe even discovered a new technique. Now it's time to pass you along to the next blog in the line up Aroha Mills-Barlow at ScrapTasticMama

Have a wonderful February and I look forward to seeing you back here for the March Blog hop

Full Line Up:
1. Sue Wdowik at Nigh Nigh Birdie
2. Carolina Evans at Studio Evans
3. Kate Benade at Stamping with Kate
4. Tamie Holt at Tamie Luvs Craft2
5. Teena Maher at Stamping with Teena
6. Barb Conroy at The Stamping Queen
7. Angela Lorenz at Angs Crafty Cards
8. Sarah Rae Oakes at Stampin' Up! with Sarah <----You are here
9. Aroha Mills-Barlow at ScrapTasticMama
10. Kylie Bertucci at Crafty Kylie
11. Deb Raymer at DebzHouse
12. Michelle Mills at hello day cards
13. Alex Trofimov at Pink Crafty Mama