I do love the vintage technique (shabby chic) for my cards – it takes a little time but is satisfying to do and the final finish is so worth the effort. When I saw the Sale-a-bration exclusive free stamp set, Detailed Dogwood, I just knew it would be perfect for this technique, especially as it has a fine collection of eclectic images along with a beautiful dogwood spray. It also gave me a chance to use a few techniques as well.
Continue readingToday I have gone right back to basics with some Card, Ink and Stamps………….. and a little bling, of course!!! Sometimes I can get so wrapped up in fancy colds or techniques that I can forget the pleasure of just simply using color to create texture, so I cracked out my Blending Brushes, the Layering Leaves Stamps set and a couple of ink pads!
Continue readingToday’s card is purely ink, stamps and paper – it is very quick to stamp and shows the ‘stamping off’ technique to create a peaceful beach themed card using the Oceanfront Stamp Set……… and just to show how quick the card is to make there is a video!.
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I am not new to scrap booking or memory-keeping but I do find it hard to find the time to dedicate to it, so I am delighted to be taking part in the Ink & Share Scrapbook blog hop for its very first HOP!
You will have either arrived from Cheyrl Taylor’s post or starting here ~ either way WELCOME . This month’s theme is to use anything that is currently available from Stampin’ UP! ~ and I have designed a vintage theme and chosen to create a 12 x 12 page using Crumb Cake Card and Balmy Blue Card. I want to show you that your card making supplies can be used for creating scrapbook pages and customized embellishments, quickly and easily.
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.
Earlier this week I shared a couple of cards with the two-step stampin’ technique using the ‘Bunch of Blossoms’ stamp set. I have a couple of cards today that uses the same stamp set using ‘filler’ stamps to give a more subtle ‘watercolor’ effect, As the stamp set is a photopolymer it is very easy to line up each of the layers – in fact you could even do three layers! The set also has 5 beautiful sentiments in such a pretty font. Continue reading
Sale-a-bration started last Wednesday, Jan 4th, the first FREE stamp set on my list was Avant Garden………… cos it has flowers and I am a real softie for flowers! The other thing that attracted me was it can be used for a couple of techniques – 2 step stampin’ and stamping off – which is the one I am sharing today…. with a video!
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