Stamping Inspiration By Leonie: Around the World on Wednesday Blog Hop

Hello and welcome to the Around the World on Wednesday Blog hop for February.

Below is an image of where the crew are from around the globe. Such a wonderful group of creatives wanting to inspire you. This months theme is a Technique Challenge. I have decided to use my favourite technique to create a Valentine's Day card for Valentine's Day today.

Here is my project, and you can easily tell my favourite technique is to heat emboss. I heat embossed the sentiment. I still get a kick out of the agic that is heat embossing. If you haven't tried it before I encourage you to have a go. The effect is truly gorgeous.

I settled on the Bee Mine Suite Collection for my project. The card base is Sweet sorbet and the DSP from the Bee Mine Designer Series Paper. I love the design on this piece of DSP. I tied a piece of the Sweet Sorbet ribbon around the centre of the DSP.

I die cut the second largest Scalloped Contour rectangle in Basic White. I cut out the larger circle from the Everyday Details Dies in Basic White to sit under my Bee and a second smaller on for the sentiment.

The bee was stamped in Daffodil Delight and Memento™ Tuxedo Black ink. The wings in Pool Party ink. I punched out these images after stamping them and put it together before adhering to the larger circle and the scalloped rectangle using Dimensionals.

The sentiment was stamped in Versamark™ ink, sprinkled with Black Embossing Powder and set with the heat tool. Then the circle adhered to the scallop layer using Dimensionals.

I punched out two hearts in Sweet Sorbet and adhered using glue to the lower centre of the two circles. I then adhered three of the hearts from the Adhesive Backed Hearts and Flowers. The final touch was a length of White Twine tied in a double bow on the right hand side.

Up next on the months blog hop is my friend Rochelle Laird-Smith. Click on the next blog button below to head to her post for more inspiration.

Leonie Stuart - AU

Rochelle Laird-Smith - AU

Cheryll Miller - AU

Danielle Kassing - NL

Aurélie Fabre - FR

Mikaela Titheridge - UK

Angie McKenzie - US

Kelly Taranto - US

Sharon Hashimoto Burkert - US

Thanks for stoppng by today. You are appreciated!!

Product List

Bee Mine Suite Collection (English) [162560] $132.00	Adhesive Backed Hearts & Flowers [162557] $14.00	Everyday Details Dies [162864] $60.00	Scalloped Contours Dies [155560] $61.00
Basic White A4 Cardstock [159228] $18.50	Sweet Sorbet A4 Cardstock [159266] $17.50	Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708] $11.50	Versamark Pad [102283] $16.75
Basics Embossing Powders [155554] $32.00	Heat Tool [129056] $54.00	Whisper White C6 Envelopes [106588] $13.00	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] $7.50
Mini Glue Dots [103683] $10.25	Paper Snips [103579] $19.25	Stampin' Trimmer [129722] $50.00	Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine [149653] $223.00
Cutting Plates [150815] $23.00