Tap Tap Tap birthday card

I made this for a colleague’s birthday, left it until the last minute as usual, so had to photograph it at work before giving it to her! Turns out the light is really good at work, so I may just have to do that again!

Have I mentioned how much I love this typewriter stamp? It seemed a very appropriate card to give to a journalist.

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AW37: Confetti with Tap Tap Tap

It’s time for another Around the World Challenge and this time the subject is ‘confetti’. I’ve had this idea brewing for a while and so thought I’d put it into action. The confetti is a little hidden in the main picture - I knew I should have put more in - but the picture below shows it better.

The background is created by using the Alphabet Press embossing folder as a stamp. To do this, ink up the raised portion of the folder, using either a brayer or the ink pad direct, then press it firmly onto your paper. You can get different effects by inking up just part of the folder, and by pressing more or less firmly to get a shabby chic effect. It comes out reversed but I like that as a real letterpress would be reversed. This is upside-down, too, but who cares? It all adds to the effect (probably). 

Have I mentioned how much I love this typewriter image? Well I think I love it even more stamped in black on Melon Mambo!

Now it’s your turn to have a go at the Around the World Challenge and I still haven’t seen a familiar name in the entrants, so here’s a thing: if you’re one of my customers (and by that I mean you have purchased from me in the past 12 months) and you enter a card into the challenge, I’ll send you a small free gift!

Don’t have a blog? Don’t worry… just photograph or scan your card, upload it to Pinterest and then link to it there. 

Get some more inspiration for this challenge by visiting the Around the World Challenge blog, here. There are creations from almost every country where Stampin’ Up!® operates (we don’t have a Japanese representative yet, but we’re working on it). 

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Around the World Stampin' Challenge - Tap Tap Tap

It’s time for another Around the World Stampin’ Challenge! This time, for AW25, the theme is gratitude, which I had to confess threw me for a while, until I realised that all I had to to was make a thank you card! 

Here is my rather high-maintenance effort; I threw everything at this card and it’s only now that I look at it next to the challenge image that I see I may have subconsciously mirrored the background of that photo!

I began by brayering a piece of Whisper White cardstock, building up the colours using Crumb Cake and Baked Brown Sugar at one end, and Pool Party and Bermuda Bay at the other. I love the look of brayering and don’t do it often enough. 

But brayering wasn’t the end of this background; next I stamped on top using Gorgeous Grunge splatters in Whisper White, and some subtle images from the same set in Island Indigo, stamped off so they weren’t too harsh. 

It still wasn’t enough; I liked the look of the typewriter key stamp from Tap Tap Tap but thought it would be too big on this project, so found the similar image from Kinda Eclectic and used that instead. 

I still wanted more from this background, so I finally had to decide which was the top so that I could emboss it. My Big Shot is quite tight, and I forgot to account for this so some cracking did occur, but I don’t mind as it fits in with the grungey look of this card. 

After colouring the typewriter, I cut it out, then stamped the sentiment separately. I hand-drew a longer piece of paper around it, cut it out and stuck it on; you can see the join if you get really close!

Hope you like it! Why not have a go at the challenge yourself? Just visit the Around the World Stampin’ Challenges blog for more details! 

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