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A CASE off the net - Many thanks to the original artist Amy Risary. I loved the simplicity of the butterflies and the cool use of DSP. I've used the Paisley Petals DSP here:
AND I like how we've used a few of the butterflies from the Bigz Butterfly Die that I don't normally use. It comes with four, and I have tended to just use the one, so this was great.
A little white embossing on them gives them just that bit more interest and it's quick and easy to do.
This makes a nice Mother's Day card or a sympathy card or a birthday card - an easy design that's quick to adjust for the occasion.
Now, I'm off to do some work for convention! Just two weeks and a bit away before we leave!
Supplies Used:
Stamps: Just Believe, Loving Thoughts
Colours: Calypso Coral, Soft Suede
Other: Paisley Petals DSP, Basic Pearls, White Embossing Powder, Taffeta and lace ribbon, Bigz Butterfly die
I saw this project of Debbie Lamb's up on Facebook and just had to make one! Such a clean and elegant design - using the new dies that are so fantastic!
This one really isn't that hard to make once you've got all the pieces out. It's a fair bit of die cutting and embossing, but such a lovely effect.
The flowers are from the Mini Catalogue Set, Bordering on Romance, and easily coloured in with an aqua pen and the ink pads.
So this is one that can be used for a special person's birthday or for Mother's Day. I put the Mother's Day greeting inside as it's just quite small. I will have to find someone to give this to on Sunday! (My own mother lives in the USA so I posted hers out a week ago).
I had a request some weeks ago for the Polished Stone technique, and I found this lovely idea on the net - rather than using it as a background, to die cut the Polished Stone into shapes to be used as embellishments.
These leaves were perfect.
To do Polished Stone, you need glossy cardstock, ispopropyl alcohol (rubbing alcohol from the chemist), and ink refills. We also used a spray of the Gold and Silver Shimmer spray on top.
Wet a cotton ball with the reinkers (3-4 colors) and dab in the alcohol. Then dab or wipe all over the cardstock until you have the look you want. You can even spray the cardstock with alcohol to make the colors blend even more if you wish.
This is a simple layout card, but a great one to feature a striking technique like this one.
Well the day I took these must have been very dark in my house! LOL
These little cuties were my swap for team training on saturday. My eldest daughter commented that they were more simple than I usually do. Actually not.
Although there is a lot of white and white space, that doesn't necessarily mean the techniques were simple. Just that the design is easy for the eye to interpret.
I've used the new set Mouthwatering here, which are some fun, bold images - perfect for the new Scented Embossing Powder! I've done these up with the cherry scent, which had all three of my daughters' attention when I was heating it.
The background paper is the fun new DSP, Sweet Shop, a specialty pack that features raised embossing on some of the prints. I'd like to do a scrapbook page using these papers. I'm sure I have a messy, ice cream or ice block photo in the stash.
And LOVE the baker's twine - all the colours from last catalogue (white, espresso, and cherry cobbler) are still available too!
My lovely team member and friend, Kate Tobeck, gave me a card a few weeks ago that I have cased here. It's beautiful! She had a flower rosette made out of the striped grosgrain ribbon, while I added a pinwheel rosette made of various cardstocks. I also added the Chantilly lace Ribbon.
This card actually has quite a lot to it - the background stamping on the Top Note Die is lovely and easy to acheive. The eiffel tower is lightly coloured in for a little bit of pop from the vanilla background.
We used nearly every single stamp in that Artistic Etchings set!
These rosette flowers are easy to do using the new Simply Scoring Tool! You will recieve a free PDF File with how to make these along with other projects and tips for the Simply Scoring Tool with your Scoring Tool purchase. Have it shipped directly to you for the discounted postage of $3.40 instead of $9.95 from now through April 30th!
I did a double layer here for the interest of colour. And Kate, I love how you mixed Night of Navy with Not Quite Navy & Baja Breeze - a combination I would have never imagined looked right. It's beautiful!
On to my busy but fun day! I have training here for my team of demonstrators in the morning, so the girls and I will finish swaps and design up a project for the ladies to do in the morning. AND I'd like to make a skirt today. DAncing tonight!
Have a wonderful weekend and if you'd like to order any of the above products, I will have it shipped right to your door:
Supplies Used:
Stamps: Artistic Etchings set of six $32.95, En Francais $40.95
Colours: Night of Navy, Not Quite Navy, Crumb Cake, Soft Suede, Basic Grey, Baja Breeze, Wild Wasabi
Other: Chantilly Lace, Boho Blossoms Punch, Scallop Trim Border Punch, Simply Scoring Tool, Metallic Brads, Blender Pen, Top Note Die
Join us for Classes or book a class in your area!
Monday April 23rd Techniques Class - Simply Scoring Tool. $15 7:30pm Birkenhead
Tuesday April 24th Papakura Stamp Class - Join us for two technique projects! $15 7:30 Takanini
Saturday April 28th Hamilton Stamp Class - project requests taken or I'll bring my most popular ones going. $15 1pm
Yesterday I finally got some time to crack open the new goodies from the Autumn Winter Mini Catalogue! It was fun to have a play! I was very impressed with the new Framelits Dies - the nesting shapes make it easy to make mats and layers perfectly as featured here:
The request at the West Harbour class yesterday was to do an Acetate Card, which are fun to do. Easy enough once you get your head around making sandwiches and layers to hide adhesive.
This is a beautiful flower stamp from the Mixed Bouquet set, which coordinates perfectly with the new Blossom Punch.
We used the oldie-but-goodie Rock & Roll Technique to acheive two mixed colours on the image - a sublte and lovely technique when used with similar colours.
The sentiment is from Bring on the Cake, a huge set with all sorts of birthday wishes. We embossed this in white to help it stand out on the printed papers. It's nice sometimes to stamp on the coloured paper and use the white as the mat. . .
Thank you, Rhonda Fawcett, for adapting this design from Vanessa Webb and sharing it with so many lovely customers at our Extravaganzas!
This project features the Elementary Elegance set - one of the four SaleABration sets you can receive for FREE - place an order before Saturday afternoon to still get this one!
Love the font on the words in this one!!
That Beautiful Butterflies die sure does get a workout in my craft room. Who doesn't love butterflies?? From age 1 to adult, they are always a winner!!
It's quite clever how the butterflies and folded in half and then layered again with vellum to give quite a lot of height and interest.
And love those Vintage Tags!
The papers used are the Everyday Enchantment, another SaleABration item - order yours today or tomorrow or first thing Saturday before they are gone!
Supplies Used:
Stamps: Elementary Elegance - FREE with $120 order
Colours: soft Suede, Lucky Limeade, Poppy Parade, Pool Party
Another remake of an oldie - this one originally inspired by a simple card found in the good old Idea Book & Catalogue.
We've used a few different pastel techniques here - used them over Versamark on the Lucky Limeade piece and used them to colour in an image on the flowers.
I remember in the olden days we just used pastels to shade edges . . .
The little words are done using the Curly Label Punch - don't you love how a punch can be used in so many different ways?? Gosh I love my tools!!
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I designed this project up about three years ago, and today I'm posting a little remake of it. It's a cute little one with a fun punch technique:
We used a series of circle punches to create the frame / window on the front, which is quite simple and effective. The leftover scallop shaped frame can be inserted inside the card for a little wow.
Love the striped embossing folder!
This little cutie is perfect for any girly girl ~
See a tutorial on how to do a similar window frame!
I think the Spice Cake product suite is perhaps my favourite suite ever. So far. Subject to change with the next mini catalogue . . . :)
While in Fiji, we were lucky to get to play around with this suite a few months early - and it was love at first sight. I would have never put More Mustard with Pool Party, but it works:
Well I just had to order the Triple Treat Flower stamp after this one. It works perfectly with the set and the images in the papers. So even if you are not into paisleys, you can still get the spicy papers and the Triple Treat Flower and you're away laughing.
I took a lovely six weeks off which went waaaay too fast as holidays always do. Many of you know I went to Perth for a very special trip - and all went well. I am sending out my newsletter tomorrow or very late tonight after class and will share some pics and things there, too.
In the Meantime . . .
Its SAle A Bration time! As demonstrators, this is our most favorite time of the year!! Awesome and generous benefits for customers, hostesses, new recruits, and for us!! Doesn't get better than this and I mean that!!
Earn free stamp sets when you purchase, when you hostess and when you join my team!
And this year we get not only four stamp sets from which to chose, but also a pack of papers and a set of ribbons & brads.
Aren't they just beautiful??! You'll be seeing a lot of these papers in classes and on the blog - they are probably my most favorite SU has come out with yet!
The butterfly is embossed with the new Iridescent Ice Embossing Powder - I just LOVE it.
I just spend the afternoon/morning setting up my new calendar for the upcoming year, and I'm getting booked up already. Please if you'd like to take advantage of the SaleABration promotion for your own purchases or as a hostess, please contact me straight away. and if you'd like to book far in advance as well, that's perfect!
This card was a lot of fun to make! We did double embossing and heated ribbon flowers. I love how the background turned out - several layers but still all quite subtle.
This project was inspired by Stamper Dog's Double Double Card - link below:
This is one of my favourite colour combinations - real red with a pale blue. Here I've used Bashful Blue. I used this combo because it could be Christmas - especially if used with the Petals A Plenty (poinsetta) embossing folder.
The background is stamped, dry embossed, and then heat embossed with white ink and clear EP.
Now that rose . . . .
Here is a very good video on how to do this flower. It takes about ten minutes to do, but I do like the shabby effect. And it works really well!! Can't really mess this one up.
Supplies Used:
Stamps: You're a Gem
Colours: Bashful Blue, Real Red
Other: Real Red Satin Ribbon, Whisper White Satin Ribbon, Antique Brads, Adhesive Sheets, 1 3/8 circle punch, Large oval punch, Clear EP, Vintage Wallpaper Embossing Folder
This is a remake of a project I taught three years ago - and taken from Atomic Butterfly (Splitcoast stampers), one of the many many talented artists . .. . my favourite one actually.
I love the non traditional colours on this one as well as the frosty look the acetate gives. It's hard to see in the photos, but the base card is stamped pink on pink as well.
The main snowflake is done with Heat and Stick - a very cool product that makes use of our very fine coloured glitters. Love it! Can't have a snowflake card without glitter . . .
Stamping on acetate is easy, but you must use Staz-On ink. The white ink is used here both for the snowflakes and for the edging.
I know it's still technically August, but yes, it's time to start thinking about Christmas cards!
I love how this simple brayering project turned out. I taught this one at one of the Senz Classes and then subsequently throughout my classes the last month - everyone was quite successful with this one:
An old favourite and thankfully sticking around another year, Upsy Daisy is one of my most used and loved stamp set. So many techniques you can do with this one!!
The flowers are black embossed. The subtle words in the background are the En Francais Background stamp - another well loved one.
The sunset look in the background is acheived using a brayer, although you can also acheive a similar look using sponges. Love it. With brayering projects, the rest of the construction can be quite simple.
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Supplies Used:
Stamps: Upsy Daisy $40.95 set of four, En Francais $40.95
Colours: Cajun Craze, So Saffron, Pumpkin Pie, Basic Black
Other: Scallop Trim Border Punch, Basic Black Grosgrain ribbon, brayer, Black Embossing Powder
I've been down and out with a bad cold the last week on top of school holidays, so that's why I"ve been MIA. However, I was very happy and well on Saturday when we had our Auckland Winter Extravaganza. This is the project I presented, inspired by the lovely Pam Jorgenson:
I was very impressed with all the ladies - completing this in about 40 mintues! Goes to show how well you all cooperate and share and help, too.
The technique here is to use markers to ink up the images, giving us some ability to mix and blend the colours right on the rubber.
The glitter and tile technique is made possible using the fantastic Adhesive Sheets in the Autumn Winter Mini - great value for money!
I'll be teaching this project tonight in Papakura if you care to join us!!
Supplies Used:
Stamps: French Foliage $37.95
Colours: Cajun Craze, Cherry Cobbler, Early Espresso, So Saffron, More Mustard, Tangerine Tango
This is one of my favourites from the Autumn Winter Mini Catalogue - and this sample is taken nearly directly from the book itself. The Idea Books are excellent sources for project ideas and inspiration!
There are quite a few steps to this one - lots and lots of layers - but all simple techniques. I love how the butterfly turns out on this one:
$2 from every set is donated to Breast Cancer research - order it today in wood mount and pay the clear mount price!
Off to school today - last one for the term. Yippee!
Supplies Used:
Stamps: STrength and Hope
Colours: Baja Breeze, Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake, Melon Mambo, Early Espresso
Other: LInen Thread, Basic Rhinestones, mat pack, White Taffetta Ribbon, Cropodile, Sanding blocks
I can't remember if mentioned this on a previous post, but when I was designing this, I challenged myself to use colours I don't normally reach for.
This Level 2 Hostess Set is absolutely perfect for many many techniques - one of which is coloring on the stamps using Watercolor Wonder Crayons:
It takes a bit of finesse, but this is one of my favourite techniques - one of my favourite finished looks. The blending of colours is just beautiful!
The Words are from the new You're A Gem set in the Autumn Winter Mini - all sized perfectly to fit with the Beveled Windows, I discovered. Loving those windows; they add such class to a project. I think I will use them heaps in my Senz Classes:
To use the Watercolour Wonder Crayons for this technique:
1. Spritz your Cardstock with water until it's wet, but not puddling. I've used Naturals Ivory here because it contains a bit of cotton and won't shred as readily as other cardstocks.
2. Colour your rubber directly with the crayons. You might need to VERY lightly spritz the rubber inititally to get the wax to transfer.
3. Stamp. You can usually get 2 or 3 pretty good images out of one colouring.
*You may need to just play a bit testing different wetnesses and things to get it just how you want it.
Feel free to email me with any questions or to book in a class to do this technique with me!
You can get this stamp set FREE by hostessing a class or workshop or by using my Loyalty Punch Card!
Supplies Used:
Stamps: Love & Care, You're a Gem
Colours: River Rock, Certainly Celery, Marina Mist, Perfect Plum, Rose Red, Elegant Eggplant
This month's creative challenge for the Guest Artist Team is to use the Botanical Gazette Designer Series Papers. These ones have a lot of different colours in them - but still manage to acheive a very soothing mood.
This project was made up by the lovely Anne Dil when she visited me a few months ago:
Reminiscent of a project we did many years ago together, it works beautifully in this updated version!
I'm loving the Beveled Window Frames; I hope they stay on into the new catalogue in September. In the meantime, they can be purchases this month and next month only from the Autumn Winter Mini Catalogue.
This is a neat feature on the card - making a peek a boo window on the front using the two sizes of the Oval Punches.
Love those tiny button brads in the Vintage Trinkets too . . .
Supplies Used:
Stamps: Clearly You
Colours: Early Espresso, Cherry Cobbler, Certainly Celery, Crumb Cake, Old Olive, Not Quite Navy
Other: small Oval Punch, Large Oval Punch, Vintage Trinkets, Early Espresso 1/4 Grosgrain Ribbon, Beveled Window Panes
Wow, you will love this! For May the Guest Artist Team was given the Sweet Stiches papers and the PomPom Trim. Chrissie said this was a real challenge for her, but it's hard to believe with her creation . . .
Apparently is punishable by death if the bow gets undone - it's perfect Chrissie!
The detail here is impressive! Chrissie punched holes and drew stitches between all of those squares. And don't you love how she's used the Vintage Wallpaper Embossing Folder as the "quilting"??
Chrissie has made a cute box using the envelope die that we did in class yonks ago. Such a cute way to use that die - so much more than an envelope! She told me she used every single scrap of that Sweet Stiches DSP, and I completely believe her! Lots of cute embellishments for the box.
Now check out the card set inside!
Each and every card is "quilted" with tiny strips of the Sweet Stitches DSP. It's just beautiful Chrisse!
The Stamps are from Punch Bunch, a SaleABration set from March. I do have a few of these left over, but just a couple. First hands up get them!
Thank you Chrissie for another impressive display of your talent!
