Oh………… I have a new color combination that I have fallen in love with…………. Soft Sea Foam and Gray Granite, both are new members of the SU color family and they go together so very well.
I have a number of wedding anniversaries on the horizon and wanted to make some cards ready to send, I also wanted to use one of the new bundles that was on the first order I placed after the new catalog went live on June 1st – Pop of Petals – a stamp set of the same name and the Four Petal Flower Punch.
It is a while since I shared one of Stampin” UP!’s fabulous tools – so today I am showing you the Stampin’ Trimmer. Now they have been out for a few years now and I use mine all the time. Some of the cards and 3D items I make and share here use 1/8’s and I know you probably groan to have to cut soooo precisely but with this trimmer it is very easy to do as they are clearly marked.
WOW – 650 blog posts since I first started back in July 2013 – so today is a double celebration! In the early days my posts were few and far between – often times I could not think of what to share, but these days I try very hard to post every other day as well as share video tutorials thru my You Tube channel.
I appreciate you following me, liking my posts and more importantly making comments – it just lets me know that you are all out there and I am not just talking to myself, so please ‘comment ‘ and ‘ like ‘ away – I truly appreciate your giving me some of your time!
Now – back to business…………….. I am not a great one for going onto Pinterest – not that I don’t love the whole concept but I loose track of time and suddenly 2 or 3 hours have passed and I have little to show for it!! So I ration myself ~ maybe for about 30 mins or so.
We have a new embossing folder in the 2018 -2019 Annual Stampin’ UP! catalog, simply called ‘ Tufted‘ I wanted to use it so much but for it not to get lost in too much other detail.
Once again a gentle stroll thru my stamp sets and dies I spied the Flourishing Phases stamp set and the coordinating Flourishing Thinlits Dies – neither of which had been used for a while.
Stampin’ Up! does beautiful paper …..but the pictures in catalog does not do them justice ~ you really need to get your hands on it to truly appreciate how beautiful they are!
We had a new family move in a couple of houses along from us – now I am not a great one for cooking a dish or baking a cake as a welcome gift but I am a card maker and so I went with what I am best at and made them a card!
I left it on their doorstep early one morning when walking the dogs, then last Sunday there was a knock on our front door and there was the new family of 4 with a Triple Chocolate cake as a thank you for the welcome. Daisy Mae and CiCi (our yorkies) gave their usual greeting then got lots of hugs from the children – so their morning turned out perfectly as well.
I have a monthly technique class and am always looking for new ways of using paper, stamps and ink. The Marbled Background Stamp has been in my stash for a few months and I wanted to use it for ‘something’ but not sure what – so I played for a while starting with stamping Memento Black ink and a quarter sheet of Whisper White card.
It was OK but was not floating my boat so I pulled out the Artisan Textures Stamp Set and randomly stamped over the surface with Versamark and sprinkled with Copper Embossing Powder then setting it with the Heat Gun……………. and there it was …………… a pretty cool effect that I have dubbed ‘Fool’s Gold’ as it reminds me of the rock of the same name – a throwback to my university degree where I majored in the Earth Sciences.
Today I am thrilled to be taking part in the Ink & Share blog hop again. You will have arrived from Rebecca-Jo Unwin’s post. This month’s theme is Summer ~ I really thought about this and recall family holiday’s when we were children in North Devon in the UK, there was a particular beach, Putsborough Sands, that had wonderful sand and you could walk into the sea for ages before it got too deep.
It bought back such happy memories that I decided that my summer card would feature a beach with a comfy chair where you can take time to just watch the world go by.
We are now 3 weeks into the new catalog and the new 2018 -2020 In-colors – these are a group of 5 trendy colors that are available for 2 years that coordinate with the core color families.
Most of my lovely customers will have seen the samples I made to showcase each of the new colors along with the scrummy coordinating ribbons, each card was made the same, just swapping around the colors.
I used the beautiful Love What You Do stamp set to help me making my samples – it has a lovely watercolor type ‘splodge’ which makes a great background to the flower and greeting.
Oh my gosh…………… it is very nearly 3 weeks since the 2018 – 2019 Annual Stampin’ UP! catalog went live!!!
I have shared a number of projects using some of the new products in the catalog – and today is going to be no different.
As you may know, being a demonstrator allows me to have early access to some of the products and one of those was the delicious Share What You Love suite – which included a brand new embossing folder, Lovely Floral Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder – mouthful to say, I know, but oh so very pretty.
I have paired this with the Love What You Do stamp set and one of the new core colors, Mango Melody. Continue reading
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