Seeds of Thoughtfulness with Lorin Goodchild

Saturday, 17 June 2017

Badges & Banners - No. 1 Champ

As a Mother to two boys you would think I'd be flowing in creative juices for boy/ male cards... but alas, my tendencies towards pinks and purples remains, stronger than ever. But as I was tinkering around yesterday playing with my craft items, the Dapper Denim, Calypso Coral and Garden Green colour combination lit my spark and I was off creating these two...

Badges & Banners

"No. 1 Champ"

The Badges & Banners stamp set is awesome in that is comes with 7 rubber stamps, featuring a range of different shaped banners with versatile sentiments, making this set great for graduation or academic/ sporting accomplishments, birthdays, friendship or baby cards. And with a coordinating Best Badge Punch, it makes it quick & efficient at whipping out multiple when making a handful.

On the first card, I opted for a garden green cardbase topped with Smokey Slate & then Whisper White. The background stamps were from the Timeless Textures stamp set, and Oh So Eclectic stamp set. I made the error of embossing in white the crosses before I stamped the dapper denim crosses, and as most of you will know, once you stamp over white embossing it just wipes (or smudges) off. So error learnt for doing it next time! The card was finished off with silver metallic thread, and dapper denim enamel dots.

The second card I played around with circles cut out using the Layering Circles Framelits Dies and my Big Shot. Once my layout was to my satisfaction, I layered ribbon down and also two strands of metallic silver thread before placing my layered badge on top. Simple but effective, and great for any age.

Products Used:

Badges & Banners Clear-Mount Stamp Set [141610] $33.00	Best Badge Punch [140633] $31.00	Dapper Denim A4 Cardstock [141419] $14.00	Calypso Coral A4 Card Stock [124392] $14.00
Garden Green A4 Card Stock [108605] $14.00	Silver Metallic Thread [138402] $5.25	Timeless Textures Clear-Mount Stamp Set [140517] $35.00	Oh So Eclectic Clear-Mount Stamp Set [143940] $40.00

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Also be sure to check out the NEW June Craft Kit released this month - $55 including postage & handling within Australia!

If you liked my cards today, please feel free to leave a comment. Hope they have inspired you!

Have a lovely day and hopefully I'll see you again soon,

Lorin xx

Thursday, 15 June 2017

Stampin' Dreams Blog Hop - June 2017

Welcome to the Stampin' Dreams Blog Hop, running monthly. You are currently visiting Seeds of Thoughtfulness with Lorin Goodchild from Australia. I hope you enjoy my cards showcasing my favourite Carry Over Products from the old catalogue to the new one.

Picking your favourite stamp set is easy, right? Wrong! Not when I have a few... okay, a couple... hmm maybe a few more than that lol

In the end I opted to go with the lovely Stampin' Up! Watercolor Wings photopolymer stamp set. This butterfly stamp set features multi-layering with the stamps to create different tones or colour effects.

I've recently obtained mini blending tools and have been dying to try to them out, especially as I struggle a bit to master backgrounds that look flawless. You know the beautiful sunset backgrounds that send you straight to thinking of waves crashing on the beach, soaking up the sun, cocktail in hand... (can you tell I really want a nice summery holiday... am SO over winter and we are only two weeks in lol) Anyway, back to card making... so I started with spongeing my background on using these mini blending tools. Now if you don't own these yet, I definitely recommend you get your hands on some! They are super easy to use, and come with a few removeable sponges which make for easy cleaning so you don't need to buy one per ink colour. The trick to making these look well blended and even, is to start blending in circular motions off your cardstock and then gently go over your cardstock, continuing the circular motions and reapplying ink as required.

I opted for Lemon Lime Twist, Bermuda Bay & Island Indigo as my base colour palette. From there, I stamped my butterfly, sticking with the same colours. And decided to make it pop with some embossed gold on the outter wings. To assemble the card, I used gold foil cardstock as a background base for my sponged background art, then cut out the star lattice shape from the new Eclectic Layers Framelits Dies, and raised this using the new mini foam dimensionals.

I then used some gold metallic thread, and again used mini foam dimensionals to apply my butterfly on top, applying a touch of Wink of Stella Glitter Pen to the inner wings for a subtle metallic sheen. I debated applying a sentiment and in the end decided against it, as I will apply a gold embossed sentiment inside the card when I decide what occasion it will be given for. This makes for a versatile card that is simple but sophisticated.

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