08.13.09
Fun with Markers.
I just love my Stampin’ Up! Markers! There are so many ways to use them, and here’s a really cool thing to do with them… colour directly onto your rubber stamp in a combination of colours and then stamp once to have a multicoloured image. I think I’d better show you a picture to explain better (LOL).
Fun & Fast Notes with Markers
As you can see, the flowers, leaves, mug/vase and saying from this image from Fun and Fast Notes are all different colours. I acheived this by colouring-in sections of the rubber stamp in my choice of colours and then when done, I gently breathed on the rubber to re-moisten the ink, and then stamped onto my Whisper White cardstock! This technique is great for adding multiple colours to an image without needing to colour-in the image after you’ve stamped it on the white cardstock.
I’ve used Riding Hood Red as the base card with a little flower image from Short & Sweet randomly stamped over the background in Riding Hood Red ink. I used Kiwi Kiss cardstock for the middle strip, and Apricot Appeal for the layering section. Gently tear the Apricot Appeal cardstock and adhere to the card. I then added 3 Old Olive brads (the closest in colour to Kiwi Kiss) to finish it off. And of course, Dazzling Diamonds Glitter!! LOL.
Enjoy. 
08.12.09
Inspired by the Stampin’ Up! Idea Book & Catalogue
One of a Kind
Here’s a card that I made after seeing an example card for the stamp set called One of a Kind in the current Idea Book & Catalogue. Have a look on page 95 and you’ll see a small square-cut card in green and blue… I used this example as inspiration for my card.
I used this card as a Make and Take for a couple of my workshops as it’s quite easy – just a bit of punching (ouch!! just kidding!!) and cutting and you’re pretty much done! One of the great things about Stampin’ Up!’s punches is that very often they co-ordinate with a particular stamp set. (How kind of Stampin’ Up!) The punch that matches the One of a Kind stamp set is the Boho Blossoms punch ($30.95 page 153) . You simply stamp the 3 flower image from the stamp set, slide it into the punch and line up the stamped image with the metal edges of the punch and punch out three perfect flowers that are already stamped in your favourite choice of colour. Of course, you can also just punch out the 3 flowers in Designer Series Paper or cardstock in your choice of colour to use as embellishments on cards and scrap-book layouts. It sure beats cutting around the tiny flower images!!!!
I love this colour combination – Almost Amethyst and Lovely Lilac.
Enjoy. :-)
08.03.09
Baja Breeze with butterflies
Here’s a card that I CASED from the Stampin’ Up! Convention. I didn’t go to Convention (by all accounts it’s a MUST! …. maybe next year!) but on our website, Stampin’ Up! have posted a video of all the fun things that the demonstrators who DID go to Convention got up to (lucky girls!!). They also played a video of some of the many cards that were demonstrated on the stage… this is one of those.
I don’t know the name of the wonderful demonstrator who made this card as there isn’t any indication from the video, so if you DO know, please leave me a comment and I can edit this to give credit! Thanks!
Stamps: Dreams Du Jour
Inks: Baja Breeze, Riding Hood Red, Kiwi Kiss
Cardstock: Baja Breeze, Kiwi Kiss, Confetti White
Other: Blender Pens, Dazzling Diamonds Glitter, 2-way Glue Pen, scallop square punch
Convention Card
I made my card 10 x 10 size whereas the one on the video appears to be more rectangular, I also added a third butterfly.
Here’s my second version:
Convention Card. Julia's Version.
I stamped the butterflies in Baja Breeze ink on Baja Breeze cardtock to give that very subtle look.
I like this card… *much love* to whoever created the original!!! *bows*
08.02.09
Quick Cards.
In a hurry? Need a card NOW? Well, here is your answer…
Find some Stampin’ Up! Designer Series Paper that you like, match the cardstock to the colours in the pattern and add simple embellishments and a quick saying, and you’re done!
Quick Card
I’ve used retired paper for this card, but you can see how easy it is to create this card with your own favourite papers and colours.
Quick Cards.
The other great thing to working with Designer Series Paper is that you can create multiple cards at the same time, using the same colours and accessories, but simply changing the layout slightly or stamped image etc…
Quick Cards
08.01.09
More Double Pocket Bags.
Here are a couple more of the Double Pocket Bags and cards that I made for the fundraiser recently. I LOVE these things! I made one at my last Workshop and gave it away as the Door Prize! I also gave all my guests the template and instructions so that they could go home and make their own bags.
Chocolate Chip Double Pocket Bag
Here is a set I made with Berry Bliss DSP, Chocolate Chip and Close to Cocoa colour combination. Each bag can hold four cards; here are the second two cards for this set…
Small cards
Making these 10 x 10 cards was great fun – I felt that due to the smaller size, Id din’t have to worry about filling the empty spaces with stamped images or embellishments – I just used Designer Series Paper and cardstock with one or two small elements/embellishments. Easy!
You may notice the very cute Scallop Oval Punched shape? WELL! It’s available in the NEW Spring Mini NOW!!!! It also has a matching stamp set -how kind of Stampin’ Up! to do that for you! There are MANY new and exciting products, stamps, papers and accessories in the Mini Catalogue so if you’d like to have a look, send me an email me and I’ll arrange for you to receive a copy.
Don’t forget, if you’re in the Barossa Valley area and would like to host a Workshop to receive free stamp sets and products (based on sales, conditions apply), or if you’d simply like to place an order, please send me an email and I can arrange this for you.
Enjoy!
07.31.09
Double Pocket Bags
Here are more goodies that I made for the Gawler Soccer Club’s Fundraiser night; Double Pocket Bags! So easy and they only use ONE sheet of 12 x 12 designer series paper or cardstock.
Aaron Scott from Stampin’ Up! showed us this wee little bag at the Adelaide Regional training seminar and I’ve only just used the template (Gosh! Why didn’t I make them sooner!!! They’re so gorgeous!) As you’ll see, I made matching 10 x 10 cards for a couple of the bags, but all the other bags were empty so that guests could fill them with their own choice of goodies later.
These are a great idea for gift bags, lolly bags for children’s parties, bags complete with handmade cards as a gift for someone, or just because they’re so darn cute!! (My darling little Miss 8 keeps asking if she can have them.)
Double Pocket Bag set.
As my friend Ju and I were going to sell these (and other) items on our stall as well as have catalogues and order forms ready for current-stock orders, we thought we’d use up some of our retired papers and stock. Much to my joy, I realised that I had a pack of Die Cut flowers from last years Spring Mini (which conveniently are ALSO in our current catalgoue!) that match the Designer Series Papers I wanted to use. I adhered the Die Cut blooms onto the cards and bags and also added some bling!
Double Pocket Bags
Here is a better look at the small cards that fit inside the bags:
Double Pocket Bag set
Double Pocket Bag Set
I love these bright funky colours. I can totally see myself buying the Die Cut Blooms again as they were so much fun to work with. In the current catalogue you can buy the Die Cuts Blooms in a set of Real Red, Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie and Bashful Blue, as well as the NEW In Color option of Baja Breeze, Very Vanilla, Close to Cocoa and Kiwi Kiss. You’ll be surprised just how many blooms you get in the pack – there are HEAPS!!!!
07.30.09
More Glitter Cards.
I made these small 10 x 10cm cards for a Fundraiser that me and my awesome buddy, Ju, went to last Friday night. We had one week’s notice and during that ONE week we madly prepared, cut, made, folded, stuck and glittered approximately 50 cards and 3D projects between us! *phew*. We had a lovely evening and enjoyed the company of the Gawler Soccer Club ladies. “Hello to anyone we met that night!!!”
These are some of the cards that I made for sale on the night…
I wanted a very simple layout and also wanted to see if I could use all the stamps in the Fun and Fast Notes set. (I used every image except the Christmas tree – although not all are photographed here).
Glitter Cards Fun & Fast Notes
I used the Sprinkles set as a random background for the cards in the same ink as the base cardstock (or in the case of the light blue and yellow cards, I used a slightly darker shade of ink.)
Glitter Card. Get Well
Glitter Card. Cake!
Glitter Card. Forever.
Glitter Card. New Baby
Glitter Card. Thanks
As you can see, making 10 x 10cm cards is easy and a great way to use up all the images in a stamp set. I chose nice bright colours for this set and I really like how they’ve turned out. This is definately a style I’d do again and may even try this design on a more traditional sized card to see how it looks (perhaps with a little embellishment if needed.)
If you’d like to learn more about this technique or see this made as a demonstration card at a workshop, please contact me and I can arrange this!
07.29.09
Funny Face
*chuckles*
I just love this little guy:
Pick a Petal Funny Face
There are tonnes of face-cards on the net using Pick a Petal but I haven’t seen many Happy Faces – they’re mostly the sad faces with the “smile” petal used as “Get Well Cards”.
Darling Daughter needed a card for a friend’s birthday and as the young boy was turning seven, he was a little old for the truck and animal sets in the catalogue and I thought a funny face would suit his personality perfectly!
My colours are Tangerine Tango, Bashful Blue and Not Quite Navy. I’ve stamped the Polka Dot background stamp onto the Tangerine Tango card to match the dotty nose and punched the Spiral punch along the edge of the Not Quit Navy cardstock for interest. I stamped the Happy Birthday saying from Family Phrases and punched it out with the Word Window Punch and adhered it to the card with dimensionals.
So much fun! These funny faces are just too cute!
07.28.09
Christmas in July!
I had a workshop recently where the Hostess requested all Christmas cards – what a fabulous idea!! I think we all agree that Christmas always comes around far too quickly, so I thought this was a wonderful way to start to get prepared with ideas.
Here are a couple of my Christmas cards that I made in preparation to have on display as well as the cards I demonstrated and had as a Make ‘n’ Take card.
Punch Pals Snowman
This is using my new-favourite technique! I call this my “Glitter Card”. I was going to add Dazzling Diamonds Glitter with my glue pen over parts of the snowman and the snow around his “feet” (bottom snowball LOL!), but then had a brilliant idea to cover the entire cardstock with glitter by using Heat ‘n’ Stick powder! I stamped and coloured my snowman using Blender Pens and chalk, and then simply pressed the white cardstock onto my VersaMark pad until it was completely inked. I sprinkled Heat ‘n’ Stick powder over the top, heated with the Heat Tool and then quickly threw on the Glitter. (Heat to set). Such a dazzling card and it looks great over the snowman! I’ve used Brocade Blue ribbon and cardstock to match.
Holiday Lineup Glitter Card.
Again, using my Glitter Card technique, I’ve made this fun card using the Holiday Lineup set. I LOVE the images in this set – so much fun! The colours I’ve used are Baja Breeze (cardstock, DSP, ribbon) and Not Quite Navy (cardstock, brads). I also discovered that Taken with Teal chalk is an almost-perfect match to Baja Breeze when you want to match chalks with Baja Breeze cardstock. If you look at the coloured snowmen in the above card, you will see that the middle and second-from-right snowmen are a great match to the BB c/s. I coloured them with varying amounts of Taken with Teal chalk!
Holiday LineUp snowmen.
I then made a second card but rotated and tweaked the layout and switched the stamp set:
Punch Pals snowman on Baja Breeze
So Swirly Baubles
I’ve seen this idea on the internet last year and thought I’d have a go. I wheeled Brocade Blue ink onto Whisper White c/s with my So Swirly jumbo wheel. I punched a circle out of plain scrap paper and used it as a template over the So Swirly image. I used my Sponge Daubers with Brocade Blue ink and gently dabbed around the edges of the circle until I was happy with the shading. I then punched out the cardstock over my shaded areas. I added highlights with a white gel pen and a streak of glitter with my glue pen. You can see how I layered the ‘baubles’ and used metallic silver cardstock as the “ribbons” and also as a matt (layering) under the white cardstock.
This next card is a CASE of a brilliant card I saw on SplitCoast Stampers by a lady named Allison Frandle ( http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/1073279?cat=500&ppuser=162234 ) I added some Riding Hood Red ribbon and Chocolate Chip layering, but otherwise the layout/design is from Allison.
Holly Jolly Christmas
My colours are Riding Hood Red cardstock, RHR taffeta ribbon, RHR Designer Series Paper, RHR ink and Chocolate Chip cardstock.
This last card was our Make ‘n’ Take card at the workshop.
Holiday LineUp Reindeer.
The colours are Close to Cocoa, Riding Hood Red and Candy Lane Designer Series Paper. We coloured the cute reindeer with Blender Pens and the Stampin’ Up! chalks. Tee Hee – I can’t believe that I’ve managed to get a flash of glitter sparkling from the flash of my camera on Rudolf’s nose when I took this photo! It’s just like the flash of teeth on a toothpaste advert “CHING!!”
I know that I have some cool designs and fun ideas now for my Christmas cards for this coming Christmas and I hope you get some inspiration for your own – it’s never too early to be prepared!!!
If you live in the Barossa Valley area and would like to book your own workshop (perhaps have your own Christmas themed workshop) please don’t hesitate to contact me via the links on this site. As a Hostess, don’t forget that you can earn a free stamp set and earn free products depending on sales – you also get to keep everything that I demonstrate, not to mention get to hang out for a couple of hours with your friends (and me!!) and have an AWESOME time!
07.20.09
Pick a Petal… any petal…
I’ve had the Pick a Petal set for quite some time (I redeemed it as part of my Sale-a-Bration rewards in April), but haven’t used it for quite a while so felt that I’d best dust it off…
This design seems to be quite a popular way to use this set, so for starters I made a simple card along those lines.
Pick a Petal
Colours and supplies used: Pick a Petal set, Stem Sayings set, Pink Pirouette, Close to Cocoa, Kiwi Kiss inks and cardstock, Kiwi Kiss satin ribbon, mini glue dots. Fire rhinestone. I can really see me enjoying many cards with this set…
