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
I bet the title of this post threw you a little, but it was hard to find something that was descriptive! At the beginning of June I held my launch party for the 2018 – 2019 annual catalog. I have new product for my dear customers to ooo and aahh over as well as some make and takes but I also like to make a little gift for each as a thank you for coming as well as shopping with me over the year!
This year I found some packets of sticky-note page flags which seemed to me to be absolutely perfect for marking up their new catalog with the goodies that caught their eye!
A must have tool for all stampers, the Stamparatus helps you perfectly line up your stamp images, stamp multiple images of the same project quickly and precisely and get complete ink coverage! It was created by stampers for stampers ~ and I am delighted to say I was one of the stampers that were part of the design team !!!! Continue reading
Today’s card shows a number of products from the new Graceful Glass Suite. The is a perfect suite if you love to color because it has a boatload of images in the Graceful Glass Designer Vellum pack and coupled with some of the Stampin’ Blends you can color to your hearts content.
The focal part of my card is made from one half of one of the sheets in the pack – so you can get 2 cards out of this design. A couple of the new In-Color cards and some of the black 1/8 cord complete the card. The greeting is from the Painted Glass Stamp Set – which has a selection of greetings for most occasions, Thank You, Birthday, Sympathy and Celebrate.
Nature’s Poem Suite ~ what a lovely name for this suite of products which have lots of natural images of trees, leaves and soft mellow colors which include Soft Suede and Cajun Craze, perfect for the autumn (although to be honest I really don’t want to think about that just yet!)
Today’s card features the Rooted in Nature stamp set and the coordinating Nature’s Root Framelit dies – I am thinking this would make a really good guy card.
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