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This layout was inspired by a Layout Challenge on splitcoaststampers. I saw it done up in all pinks and liked the concept, but thought the colours could use a little more sophistication with this set.
I love the Bella Bleu DSP! And here I've paired it with a hint of black for some real class! What do you think?
The real technique though, was the use the Watercolour Wonder Crayons for watercolouring. I've used watercolour paper here and the Aquabrushes. It makes a big difference to watercolour on the proper paper rather than standard paper. Either works, but to get a really great effect, there's no replacing purpose-made watercolour paper.
We played around with blending colours into the image and got some really neat effects during class. I've also gone back over the image lightly with the Weathered Background stamp.
Watercolour Wonder crayons are sold in the sets of twelve (colour families) and then a smaller neutrals pack. Contact me to order yours today!
Supplies Used:
Stamps: Embrace Life
Colours: Kraft, Basic Black, Bordering Blue, Very Vanilla
Other: Watercolour Wonder Crayons, black ribbon, vintage brads
The featured products this month were again a Pretties Kit Daisy, buttons, and linen thread. And look what Tilly had made!
The first card is a ladybug one, a personal favourite motif of mine. She'd cut the daisy in half to make two flowers (clever!) and then used circle punches for much of the rest of the design.
The stamp set she's used is called Darling Dots, one that is yet to make an appearance in the New Zealand market.
Tilly's second card is just a work of art! The background is sponged and the linen thread is knotted around the tree images. The nappies are made from scraps of white paper and the pram is made from a simple circle punch with 1/4 sliced out. The rest of the linen thread is used on on the button in the lower left hand corner. Beautiful!!
The Watercolour Wonder Crayons are truly a lot of fun to use; I get them out and always wish I got them out more often!
This card was strongly inspired by Teneale Williams in Australia, a wonderfully talented lady. She used a different technique for the flowers, but it was a perfect layout for using the crayons, too.
Everyone's projects turn out differently because we not only colour it in differently, but also all use a different amount of water and pressure. See the video for more on this one way to acheive colour variation in your images.
Supplies Used:
Stamps: Inspired By Nature
Colours: Old Olive, Elegant Eggplant, Pale Plum, Chocolate Chip
Next weekend is the BIG Senz show here in Auckland, and my team and I have been busy bees, to say the least!
We've got some great classes on offer! Some are already full, but we still have a few openings left.
Saturday 2:30 I have a Card Class featuring embossing and the Pocket Silhouettes stamp set. You will recieve the stamp set with your class fee to keep. ($39.95) Class is $55 (If you already own the stamp set, please bring it with you and I will give you an equivalent gift voucher in its place)
Sunday 2:30 Masculine Layout Class featuring the Trendy Trees stamp set, which you will also get to take home with you with your class fee. ($37.95) class is $50
Every mother has photos like these! Isn't she cute? Especially when the memories of cleaning up such fun has eased with time . . .
I loved doing up this page and using the rather luxurious textured Designer Series Papers, Sweet Slumber. It looks complex due to all the prints (quite a few on this one), but it's really just layering up pieces of cardstock.
The stamp set here is called Live Like You Mean It, and it's a great one! The two step stamping sets can be used together for an "outline" and a "fill", or you can use either or separately.
The great news is you can get this set for FREE! All you need to do is host a workshop OR gather up orders between yourself and freinds that equal $350 or more. And bonus - you get $35 to spend on top of your free set as well. Contact me to set up a workshop and/or to find a demonstrator nearest to you.
This page was featured in the latest Innovations Magazine.
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Supplies Used:
Stamps: Live Like you Mean It
Colours: So Saffron, Baja Breeze, Ruby Red, Mellow Moss
Challenge Supplies this month were: Pretties Kit big Daisy, Bouquet Buttons, and Linen Thread.
After seeing the work these ladies have done, I am so inspired to use those big Daisies!
Elaine has dyed her flower a soft pink and used it to anchor the fun fold on this card. And clever girl has used the Build a Brad leftover from last month for a nice centre. It makes a nice focal point, but because of the monochromatic theme here, a very nice, soft look, too. Even with the Pink Flamingo paper background. Now there's talent! :)
Elaine's second card has a totally different look. What a clever idea to put a button right in the middle of the Chocolate Chip flourish, something I would have not thought to do myself. And again, Elaine has stamped onto the Windsor Knot papers left over from last month and also as the Baja Breeze strip behind the words. It's just the right amount of colour to tie that button in nicely.
Many thanks to all the lovely ladies who attended the Auckland Stamping Extravaganza on Saturday! It was such a good day with lots of laughs and creative inspiration.
We had hundreds of displays and five projects. This is the project that I presented on the day. You all did well to cope with a slightly more advanced one with numerous steps! In fact, not one person had to start over. Well done!
Upsy Daisy is one of my favourite sets so far - such an easy one to use and perfect for quite a few advanced techniques.
The colours and papers are from Urban Garden, another favourite. My customers love it, that's for sure.
And of course, many thanks to the wonderful demonstrators on my team who work many hours in preparation. This is truly a group effort.
There will be another Extravaganza for Christmas in Auckland and in other locations as well. Keep you eye on the calendar and newsletter to be sure to book in your spot!
Supplies Used:
Stamps: Upsy Daisy
Colours: Kiwi Kiss, Baja Breeze, Going Grey, Whisper White
Other: Oval and Designer Label Punch, Stampin' Write Markers, silver brads, ribbon, white embossing powder, Dazzling Diamonds glitter
This is one of those cool projects that is so easy to do! You need only a punch or two to make your windows and you're good to go.
These cards fold flat for mailing, and I've sized this one so it still fits into a standard C6 envelope. My girls here complained a bit about the cutting out of the branches, but I think it really makes the card quite cool, don't you? I love the pear hanging down, too.
I think I'll be making more of these!
Supplies Used:
Stamps: Cheep Talk, Best Yet
Colours: Pacific Point, Kiwi Kiss, Rose Red, Summer Sun
Other: Scallop Circle, 1 3/6 circle, large and small tag, sticky strip
Welcome to another month of the Creative Team challenge! This month each lady was given a Pretties Kit flower, some Bouquet buttons, and linen thread.
Isn't this beautiful! Pam has dyed her flower here with the Really Rust stamp pad and then stamped over it again to give that realy cool design and colour depth. I love how those flowers can be dyed to match any project!
The buttons are used for the flower centre here and also as an embellishment for visual weight.
I wouldn't have thought to pair the Bella Bleu papers with Really Rust, but don't you like it?
Thanks Pam!!
Supplies used:
Organic Outlines & By Definition Stamp Sets
Really Rust Cardstock and Stampin' Pad
Whisper White Cardstock cut and embossed with Nestabilities Labels One
As an American myself, I would not have thought of high tea, but my friend Fiona had that idea with this one. I like it!
My card here is a conglomeration of ideas I found on the net - don't you love how we can take a bit of this and a bit of that and make it our own?
I count eight punches used here - can you find them all? The purses are made entirely of punches, which is quite cool. My girls are already planning their invitations for next round of birthdays with these - only 11 months to go and counting.
The floral purse is made with the Circle Circus set. That's one that I haven't used a lot yet, but will do. I like it a lot.
Keep well, everyone, and get better if you are under the weather. Seems it's really going around.
Supplies Used:
Stamps: Circle Circus, Stemp Sayings
Colours: Riding Hood Red, Pink Pirouette, Close to Cocoa
Punches: Eyelet border, scallop edge, 1 3/8 circle, 3/4 inch circle, large and small oval, curly label, round tab
This is a page I did up that was featured in the new, beautiful New Zealand magazine, Innovation. It's available at Scrapbook stores and online scrapbooking outlets. It's worth getting your hands on a copy! Very well done magazine.
This page features the Fresh Cuts stamp set, one of my favourites from the new product release in April. I have emboss resisted the "patterned paper" on the right hand side, adding in the colours I wanted to make the image pop.
The flowers are dyed with the ink pad refills (see a tutorial here) and half back pearls (also from the Pretties Kit) are placed in the centres.
I love my Sofie.
Supplies Used:
Stamps: Fresh Cuts $46.95, Together Forever $46.95
Our last Challenge Team artist for June - using Windsor Knot and the Build a Brad kits.
Tilly sent over three projects! She got busy!
The first card is a real cutie with a fun envelope-like fold, secured with an Old Olive ribbon. She was very innovative and used those really tiny stamps from Short and Sweet on her Build A Brad.
Stamp is out onto the Windsor Knot dsp, and colour in with markers and the white gel pen. Punch out with the 1/2 inch circle punch and adhere to the top of your brad. Rather than using the clear dome that comes in the kit, Tilly chose to put a tiny crystal on top for the cherry. Cute!
The next card uses a retired beach set that I adored for the short time we had it. Now check out how Tilly has adhered the So Saffron Windsor Knot and the striped print together, with a torn edge in between. She's then stamped on both layers to create the sand and water or sand and sky look. How cool is that?!
The details with the circle punches and the ribbon is quite nice as well.
The last little treasure uses the Windsor Knot just as a peek of a mat, which is a very nice way to use stripes. She's repeated the stripes in the Build A Brad placed in the corner. I like the use of the white gel pen here, too, Tilly!
Our four artists have done such different and neat things with just a few pieces of the same Windsor Knot papers and Build A Brads. Keep watching next month for the next installement!
We made a set of four simple, but effective, cards with matching envelopes and then a reasonable straightforward box for gift giving. There's even still more room in the box for a few more if you wish.
In keeping with this month's theme, too, I've used a Build a Brad on the front of the box, giving a nice weighty finish to the front . . . which also matches perfectly, of course!
This idea is such a neat gift to receive and a reasonably inexpensive one to make as well.
Supplies Used:
Stamps: Eastern Blooms, Three Little Words
Colours: Rose Red, Regal Rose, Kiwi Kiss, Real Red, Old Olive, Chocolate Chip
Other: Raspberry Tart Designer Series Papers, Build a Brad, various ribbons, crimper, oval punches
My page features some neat Faux Techniques, Faux Silk, Faux Stitching, and Faux Buttons. Can you find them all?
The Faux Silk Technique is quite fun and easy, although it did take me a few minutes to get all those little flowers coloured in. All you need for this one is some tissue paper and a good glue stick.
1. Stamp on your tissue with a waterproof ink if you are going to colour it in and any ink if not. Colour if appropriate using a blender pen.
2. Scrunch up the tissue into a ball and flatten it back out, but not totally flat. You want a few wrinkles.
3. Spread glue with the Stampin Up glue stick all over a sheet of card (I've used whisper white here) and stick the tissue down over it. You can wrap excess around the card or trim to fit the card.
*By the way, I haven't put the journaling on this yet. Madeliene and I had a big run-in that afternoon, and I didn't want to writen when I was rather upset still. Storm over; I will add it today.
Supplies Used
Stamps: Sprinkles $28.95, Once Upon a Time $39.95, Perfect Princess $46.95, Pefectly Pretty Wheel $13.95
Colours: Bashful Blue, Perfect Plum, Rose Red, Certainly Celery, Whisper White
Other: Five Petal Flower Punch, 1/2 inch circle Punch, White Gel Pen, various ribbons, Mat Pack, Perfect Plum Marker
Elaine's take on June's Challenge Team supplies is two different cards with two different styles. The first is quite clean and vivid, using emboss resist on So Saffron Card, which is quite clever. Although that Windsor Knot paper can be interpreted as quite masculine, she's prettied it upw ith a bow and flowers. The six brads and big bow add a great balance!
Her second project has more of a textured feel to it with lots of ink sponging and layering up of stamp images. Elaine has roughed up the Windsor Knot here by tearing around the edges and then inking heavily with the Chocolate Chip, which really gives a nice look!
Don't miss out on this one! I only have a few tins left, so when they are gone, I can't make up any more kits!
June's class offers a beautiful Altered Tin using the Urban Garden papers and the Upsy Daisy stamp set. You'll receive the tin, all the papers plus extra for making cards or items for inside the tin, brads, ribbons, templates, a pearl, a pen to alter to match, and complete directions with photos to complete your project.
The cost is $35 including postage. You will need either the Upsy Daisy stamp set at $39.95 OR another similar image of your choosing. Order your kit and start creating a beautiful gift or keepsake!
Many of us LOVE to do 6x6 pages because they are so QUICK and not a far jump from doing a card!
I've used the Trendy Trees wheel in Chocolate Chip across the bottom and then added a bit of colour using the Stampin' Pastels. We don't always think to pull those out, but they are quite effective here.
The Trendy Trees stamp set is a slightly bigger tree than the wheel, and I used that for the embellishment, punching out the tree top with the Boho Blossoms Punch. That sure was easier than cutting out those tiny leaves!
Each artist was given a selection of Windsor Knot papers and Build A Brads. Can you see them on this layout? Ness has been very creative with her supplies!
The mat for the photo is part of the Windsor Knot series. Ness has layered it on a Chocolate Chip Textured card (tone on tone), but cleverly made a differentiation between the two by distressing the edges for a textured white edge.
The tree leaves are also cut from the Windsor Knot papers and then blinged up with a scattering of microbeads.
Ness has used just the domed stickers from the Build A Brad kit and framed her journaling block with them. She's added some stickers or rub-ons to the domes for a dash of colour as well. Very nice, Ness!
