Monthly Archives: December 2014

Sale-A-Bration sneak peek

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My order arrived today – a day ahead of schedule! So rather than play with any challenges, I had to play with some of my new stuff. I’ve been looking forward to trying the Stampin’ Up! Lotus Blossom set. It’s a sale-a-bration item which means that you can get it for free after you spend $50 (before shipping and tax) which really isn’t hard to do. In fact, for each $50 you spend, you get to select one item. Sale-a-bration starts for the general public on January 6th. For now, all demonstrators can show is projects made with the new items, not any of the pages of the new occasions or sale-a-bration catalogues.

Stampin' Up Lotus Blossom

I really love this stamp set – it’s a 3 step set meaning that you layer 3 images to get the end result. I started with the first stamp (they are numbered, don’t worry!) in cajun craze but I stamped on scrap paper first to get a less intense colour and then used crushed curry for the second image. I decided to also use crushed curry for the third image but stamped off on scrap paper first to get a paler colour there as well.

The stems are a two stamp image and I used Always Artichoke for both, stamping off for the second image to give the contrast. The Thank you is from the same set and that is obviously stamped in crushed curry as well. I adhered my piece of very vanilla onto a crushed curry base and then lined the envelope using the Background DSP from the Regal collection in crushed curry.

 

More Merry Mini Punches

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Amazingly this card isn’t for a challenge – although it was inspired by a card that I made for one – see it here. At the time, a friend of mine commented that she’d like to see it in red and it occurred to me that making one of the ornaments gold would be a good idea.

Stampin' Up! Merry Mini Punches

With this card, I had a large top layer and so could fit 7 of the ornaments – the ornaments are from the Stampin’ Up! Merry Mini punches. As before I lined up the edge of the punch with the edge of the previously punched ornament to give me a consistent space between ornaments. I then took a scrap of the gold foil paper and glued it in place onto the back of the whisper white card. I stamped the sentiment from the Sassy Salutations stamp set. I then popped up the top layer using stampin’ dimensionals.

In the pink’s Christmas challenge

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I was browsing the challenge sites that I usually frequent and found a reference to a new one (to me) – In The Pink,  who are running a Christmas challenge this month. I decided that this was the perfect challenge for me to get out Strawberry Slush again; I’ve been neglecting this colour after making the pink cat card for my dentist a few months ago. I struggled with that card and ended up rather “pinked out” by the end of it – not a state that I knew was possible! So here’s my entry:

 

Stampin' Up! Endless Wishes

As I mentioned, I used strawberry slush for the card. I cut a piece of card 1/4 inch smaller than the base and scored, using the Stampin’ Scorer, a quarter inch from the edge all the way around. I liked it best with the raised edge being the front of the card. I then used the Stampin’ Up! Endless Wishes stamp set to emboss the greeting in white embossing powder. Next I took the blushing bride embossing powder and heat embossed the 3 large snowflakes (they are actually the medium sized snowflake from the set) and then filled in with the smaller snowflake with more embossing, this time in white. After that is was a simple matter of popping up the mat with stampin’ dimensionals and dry embossing the envelope with the lucky stars embossing folder. I think I’m going to try this design in a few other colours too. But first, I should probably write more of my Christmas cards and get them mailed!

Blues for the Pals Paper Arts Challenge

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This week’s challenge from the Pals Paper Arts is three blues. I love colour challenges and I love blues. Perfect. Here’s the banner:

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I used up my last Hanukkah card yesterday so I needed a new one and decided that these colours would be good since I have two more friends that need to receive one. So I pulled out the Stampin’ Up! Happy Hanukkah stamp set which is the only one I have. I have the pool party embossing powder and decided to emboss the image on the bermuda bay. I messed up the embossing slightly and the sentiment wasn’t perfect so I cut that off – I realised that I always just use the entire stamp and there’s no need for that. I then cut a piece of soft sky an 1/8 inch larger than the Bermuda bay as a mat. This gave me a large Bermuda Bay mat around the soft sky and I really like how it works.

Stampin' Up! Happy Hanukkah

I stamped the Happy Hanukkah sentiment from this stamp inside the card in Bermuda Bay.

Sending Good Thoughts

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I’m just sliding in under the wire to enter my submission to the Addicted To CAS challenge which has the codeword of dots.

I’ve been contemplating this challenge for about a week but it took the deadline looming to really get me focused. I love the tangelo twist and white paper from the Confetti pack, which is a surprise because I struggle with orange. However only having 2 colours in the paper helps to keep it more simple. I pulled out the Stampin’ Up! Perfect Pennant set which arrived earlier this week and was so far unused and contemplated the tangelo twist DSP and the stamp set. And I was determined to finally use ribbon. Actually, I’ve used it a couple of times, but in a very minimalist way and never a bow. So the challenge became the DSP, ribbon and orange. Here’s where I ended up:

Stampin' Up! Perfect Pennants

I used the white embossing powder for the sentiment and then cropped it with the #4 banner framelit (counting from the smallest) I initially intended to add a border in the same shape around the orange banner and cropped the DSP with the #4 and #6 banners which obviously left me with a banner the same size as my sentiment in the DSP. I decided that I preferred the 2 banners on the card to one with a border. I guess my next challenge will be to use the border! As I tied the bow in the tangelo orange the card seemed to need something else. My brother commented that it was a bit, well, too orange so I tried the blackberry bliss ribbon and really liked the effect. I usually take out my ribbon and look at it and then put it away after deciding it’s a bit too much for the card – I’m glad I got some on the card today!

I used some more of the DSP to line the envelope to really tie it all together.