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    OSAT Blog Hop ~ Creature Comforts

    Hi and welcome to Mitosu Crafts UK, thanks for stopping by. It’s Jay here with my projects for the One Stamp At A Time (OSAT) Blog Hop You may have arrived here from Dani Dziama’s blog if you’re following the hop already. Aren’t her projects wonderful?! Make sure you make your way around all the Design Team’s blogs for more papercraft inspirations with the theme of Creature Comforts I decided to use Animal Outing, this time with the an upcoming limited time bundle, The Blended Seasons Stamp Set and Stitched Seasons Framelits Dies Bundle. The images were also coloured with new Watercolour Pencils Assortment 2 For the topper, I used…

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    Stitched All Around Bundle & Garden Impressions for Paper Craft Crew Challenge #PCC298

    Hi and thanks for stopping by. It’s time for another sketch challenge from the Paper Craft Crew #PCC298 For my project I used the Stitched All Around stamp set and Stitched Labels Framelits Dies Bundle with a Designer Series Paper from Garden Impressions pack I also used the Square Stitched die on the paper to showcase both design, adding the Whisper White frame and the Petal Pink strip in between. Doesn’t the cross stitch look great?! This is also from the Stitched Labels set The Grapefruit Grove Nature’s Twine was adhered using Tear & Tape then I added the Soft Sea Foam circle stamped with the cross stitch design with…

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    Creating Kindness Blog Hop ~ Mixed Media

    Welcome to Mitosu Crafts UK, thanks for stopping by. It’s Jay Soriano here sharing my project for  the Creating Kindness blog hop with the theme of Mixed Media or Florals It’s an exciting month for us as Charlet Mallett and Sara Levin have joined the Design Team. We also have Valerie Perlin as our special guest designer this month. Please join us in welcoming these talented ladies and comment on their blogs. You can find all the blog links at the end of this post So onto my project in which I combined both themes and created this DL size card using a mixture of products and techniques I embossed…

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    High Tide for Paper Craft Crew Challenge #PCC297

    Hi and welcome to Mitosu Crafts UK, thanks for stopping. It’s time for another Design Team inspiration card for the Paper Craft Crew challenge #PCC297 I decided to use the High Tide stamp set to fit this week’s ‘By The Sea’ theme challenge. It’s fairly simple with a bit of sponging to create atmosphere I sponged the Whisper White card with Balmy Blue and Pacific Point inks, concentrating on the edges. I then stamped the land in Crumb Cake, grass in Granny Apple Green and the sentiment was in Tuxedo Black, masking the bottom 3 lines The lighthouse requires 2 Step Stamping, as the set is photopolymer, this is achieved…

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    Smooshing Technique and Delicate Lace Edgelits Dies

    Hi and welcome to Mitosu Crafts UK. We had our Cardmaking and Papercraft Class with our Basingstoke Craft Group this week and here is one of the class project we created using the Delicate Edgelits Dies amongst other Stampin’ Up! products We demonstrated the Smooshing Technique for the background using Pineapple Punch and Call Me Clover inks The Smooshing Technique is such an easy way to create artistic backgrounds with the help of a Window Sheet, Stampin’ Spritzer and chosen colours Whilst the Shimmer Card was drying, the Delicate Edgelit design was die cut twice on Whisper White card, top and bottom The Black Tuxedo sentiment is from Beautiful Day…

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    Climbing Orchid for Paper Craft Crew Challenge #PCC296

    Hi and welcome to Mitosu Crafts UK, thanks for stopping by. It’s time for another Paper Craft Crew challenge and we have a card sketch for you this week For my DT inspiration, I used the Climbing Orchid set, the matching Orchid Builder Framelits Dies and the new Birthday Backgrounds stamp set The orchid was stamped in Coastal Cabana, die cut then sponged with Flirty Flamingo ink. The detailed centre were stamped in 1st and 2nd generation Granny Apple Green I then worked on the stitched square element by stamping the stalk in Granny Apple Green and the buds in Coastal Cabana I stamped the confetti design from Birthday Backgrounds…

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    Stamp Review Crew ~ Animal Outing

    Hi and thanks for stopping by. It’s time for another Stamp Review Crew blog hop and today we are showcasing the Animal Outing set You may have arrived here from Rubber Redneck by Holly Krautkremer or started here, either way be sure to check out all the crew’s creations by clicking the ‘Next Blog’ button at the end of this post The Animal Outing set comes with 10 red rubber stamps which co-ordinates with the Animal Friends Thinlits Dies and are available as a bundle! We don’t have the thinlits so I paired it with the Stitched Labels Framelits Dies and the Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies for my first card…

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    OSAT Blog Hop ~ Lay It Out with Swirly Frames

    Hi and welcome to Mitosu Crafts UK, thanks for stopping by. It’s Jay Soriano here with my projects for the OSAT Design Team blog hop with the theme of ‘Lay It Out’. We are sharing scrapbook layouts and co-ordinating project ideas with you all today, so be sure to check out all the design team’s blogs for inspirations I don’t do much scrapbooking myself, so this was a challenge for me. My first cruise to Norway with Barry was full of beautiful sceneries which I took inspiration from to create a simple layout using Swirly Frames with Waterfront stamp set. The photo I decided to use is of lake Oldevatnet…

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    Creating Kindness Blog Hop ~ Packaging

    Hi and welcome to Mitosu Crafts UK, thanks for stopping by. It’s Jay here sharing my project with the Creating Kindness Design Team with our Special Guest Designer this month, Anja Luft Our theme this month is packaging and you know how I love fold flat gift boxes, so I recreated one which I found on Pinterest with no measurements. I used the new Detailed with Love Stamp Set & Detailed Trio Punch Bundle with the Birthday Backgrounds stamp set Barry & I are still cruising along Norway so there is no video from me this month. I actually did this box last Saturday morning, just before we headed off…

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    Creative Circle Blog Hop ~ New Catalogue Debut / Favourites

    Hi and welcome to Mitosu Crafts UK, thanks for stopping by. Barry and I are still cruising along Norway but I had to join the Creative Circle blog hop with the theme of New Catalogue Debut / Favourites from 2018-2019 Stampin’ Up! Catalogue You may have arrived here from Liz Holloway Design blog if your following the hop already. If you started here please check out all the Design Team’s creations from the links at the the bottom of this post For my projects today I chose to use the new Painted Glass Stamp Set & Stained Glass Thinlits Bundle from the Graceful Glass Suite on pages 164-165  The 1st…