A day for colouring

April 15, 2020

Yesterday was one of those colouring days. I’ve always loved to colour ever since I was a little girl…I find it relaxing and therapeutic. I realize though that not everyone likes to color. When I pull out the colouring tools for a class, I often hear groans and panic because they feel like they don’t know how to blend colours to make them look nice.

I’m here to tell you that you will LOVE our Stampin’ Blends. These high-quality, dual-tip markers in Stampin’ Up! exclusive colours will open a whole new world of colouring creativity for you. I promise.
I must admit that I am a sucker for Rifle Co. prints. I have a calendar, plenty of notebooks, and I absolutely love the color combinations in their artwork. I recently received this lovely notecard from a dear friend and knew I had to make a copy of it! So I pulled out my Stampin’ Blends yesterday and set to work. I scribbled a bunch of the colours that I thought would be a match.
Next I pulled out the brand new Ornate Style stamp set that will be in the new 2020-2021 Annual Catalogue. That floral bouquet was perfect!
After I finished coloring, I hand-cut all around the edge of the image staying as close as I could to the black outline. I was then left with the white spots in the middle. I could’ve taken my exacto knife and painfully cut all those little bits out, but that’s way too much work – even for ME! LOL! So here’s a tip. Because this bouquet was going onto black cardstock, I took my dark Basic Black Blends and just colored in those spots!
What do you think? I did it!! I’m pretty happy with the outcome…
Check out the “stepped-up” version…If you would like to make this card, here are the supplies I used:

Ornate Thanks Stamp Set
Ornate Style Stamp Set
Ornate Garden Ribbon Combo Pack
Gilded Gems
Versamark Ink, Black Embossing Powder
Cardstock – Basic Black, Whisper White, Crumb Cake
Stampin’ Blends – Petal Pink, Calypso Coral, Flirty Flamingo, Old Olive, Mossy Meadow, Night of Navy, Crumb Cake

The Ornate Garden Suite is collection of products in an exclusive early release from our new annual catalogue.
You can view the entire suite HERE.

CLASS TO GO

The bundles in this suite are so beautiful. I’ve chosen to feature the Ornate Thanks Bundle in a class to go format for the month of April.

The class to go kits will include four project kits and the full color step by step tutorial PDF. I will also provide you with a private link to a short video on how to assemble your projects. (This is new…I hope you find it helpful.)

Cost: $80

Includes Ornate Thanks Stamp Set & Ornate Border Dies, 4 project kit packets, and the color PDF tutorial.

Click here register. Deadline to register is this Friday, April 17th.

I hope you are all staying healthy and doing the best you can under the current world conditions. I miss your faces!
Sending hugs to brighten your day,

Create easy backgrounds

February 24, 2020

Do you ever see something in a store and think to yourself, I wonder if I could create something like that? This happens to me a lot. Last weekend, I was in a little collective shop here in Melbourne (owned by a family friend of the Marks’ family) and I fell in love with her watercolor prints. I couldn’t help but buy several as gifts to bring home. Aren’t these beautiful?Immediately my mind went to watercoloring with our watercolor paper and an Aquapainter. However, I don’t have access to my entire stamp room back home. Samantha has a few things, but watercolor paper is not one of them. And I had to work with the colors of ink pads that she has.

So here’s my first attempt. I just used my Aquapainter very carefully on Whisper White cardstock. Again, with limited supplies (some old style ink pads and some new style ink pads), I put a black matte behind it and raised it up with dimensionals onto a 3-1/2″ x 5″ notecard. Did you know that you can use any Stampin’ Spots you have to dab ink onto a clear block and pick up the color from there? It works just the same as squishing your stamp pad lid. I was pretty happy with my first creative attempt at this background design.

For the other one, I tried to use our Blends Markers to create a simple wash look. It doesn’t get any easier than that. I just used 3 color combos and then stamped this clever little stamp from the Witty-cisms Stamp Set in the mini catalogue. So that was my little creative play for today. I want to encourage you to pull out some stamping supplies and just PLAY. See what you can come up with. How many different color combinations can you come up with? Would you like to place an order?
You can order any products by shopping through my online store 24/7 and have your order shipped directly to you.
USE THIS HOSTESS CODE: TGZUU9WM
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Don’t forget about the Sale-a-bration Rewards as well!

It’s simple…spend $60 (before shipping and tax) and pick a free item from the Sale-a-bration brochure. You get one for EACH $60 that you spend!

View the Sale-a-bration Brochure HERE.
View the exciting new Coordination Products you can order HERE…and what they coordinate with HERE.

View the complete Mini Catalogue HERE.

On a personal note…the countryside here is breathtaking. Just a few minutes drive and we are in this!Have a great week everyone.
I’m thankful you checked back in today.

Birthday Bonanza Suite

February 17, 2020

I seriously love these little guys…introducing the adorable Bonanza Buddies!
And seeing as I’m in Australia right now, I thought it would be fitting to show you some adorable koala bear cards.

I received this card sample from Lisa Althouse before I left. She used the little pompom image to create a background…Smoky Slate ink on Smoky Slate cardstock. And the tag is a die that comes in the Bonanza Dies. Isn’t it sweet?
And we made this one at our team meeting in January. (The design is Bronwyn Eastley’s.) How cute is this??!! Mini easel cards!
This is what the card base looks like.
You can make so many different easel cards using these Stitched So Sweetly Dies.
Ordering Details
The whole Birthday Bonanza Suite can be found on pp. 32-34 in the mini catalogue. You can purchase the whole suite with one number, or you can pick and choose which ones you want first. Remember that when you order the stamp set and dies together, you will receive the bundle price of 10% off.
If you want all the items shown here, order:
#153929 Birthday Bonanza Suite Bundle $94.25

If you want to order certain items separately, choose from these:
#153815 Bonanza Buddies Bundle $51.25
#151313 Birthday Bonanza Designer Series Paper $15.75
#151312 Printed Gusseted Cellophane Bags $9.50
#151311 Daffodil Delight 1/4″ Ruched Ribbon $10.25
#151310 Assorted Pompoms $7.50 (These are mini! So easy to use on your projects.)

All orders over $60 will receive an extra-special koala bear card and a package of champagne rhinestones from me.
How do you order?
You can order any products by shopping through my online store 24/7 and have your order shipped directly to you.
USE THIS HOSTESS CODE FOR ONE MORE WEEK: TGZUU9WM
SHOP HERE
Don’t forget about the Sale-a-bration Rewards as well!

It’s simple…spend $60 (before shipping and tax) and pick a free item from the Sale-a-bration brochure. You get one for EACH $60 that you spend!

View the Sale-a-bration Brochure HERE.
View the complete Mini Catalogue HERE.

Before I go, maybe you want to see some REAL koala bears This was from our last trip to Australia. My husband took these! To see koalas in the wild is pretty rare. We were thrilled to say the least.
Seriously so crazy that he got these photos!