Here’s another stamp set that you need to grab quickly – it, along with the rest of the 2016-2017 is only available for SIX more days and some of the products are selling out. Love Sparkles is down to low inventory and you need it. Here are a few of the cards that I’ve made with it:
The Festive TIEF isn’t going to be available after Tuesday either – it’s on sale for $6.80.
I’m so glad that the watercolor pencils are in the new catalog!
Here’s my recent play with the shaving foam technique
And here’s a very recent card, also showcasing the beautiful Fruit Stand DSP.
I hope you enjoyed today’s collection of cards using the Love Sparkles set. Please use the Stampin’ Rewards code to get five FREE handmade cards; the current Stampin’ Rewards code is 7UYN7HEJ (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free cards). In addition, to celebrate the new catalog, if you spend $50 this month, I’ll send you either the clear or gold faceted gems FREE (let me know which you’d like). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here. For more details on my Customer Loyalty Programme, click here.
I’ve been meaning to use the Love Sparkles stamp set again for a while now and I finally got around to it at the weekend.
First though, I dry embossed the entire blushing bride card front (before folding my card base) using the Festive TIEF. I like how the dry embossing goes all the way to the edge, but the slight downside (if it is one) is that the debossing is seen on the inside and the card isn’t as sturdy. Still, it looks great! I then heat embossed the Celebrate sentiment from Love Sparkles on very vanilla card – I used the retired blushing bride embossing powder but you could easily ink your stamp with blushing bride ink and then versamark before using the clear embossing powder. The layering ovals framelits were a perfect fit and, since I’d decided to add rhinestones to the sparkly parts of the sentiment, it made sense to add a silver foil mat which I popped up. A really quick and easy, but effective, card.
I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the Stampin’ Rewards code toenter the raffle for a chance to win your very own Bookcase Builder stamp set for free; the current Stampin’ Rewards code is Y3JVQ4Q7 (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get an entry into the raffle). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here. For more details on my Customer Loyalty Programme, including this month’s raffle, clickhere.
And don’t forget that during Sale-a-bration, for every $50 you spend (before taxes and shipping) you get to select a FREE product from the Sale-a-bration catalogue. Don’t have paper copies of the catalogs? Drop me an email and I’ll put one in the mail.
Firstly, I’d like to thank Valentyna at The Paper Players for selecting my card as A Cut Above in last week’s challenge. It is fun playing with challenges and to be selected for an honour is the icing on the cake. You can see my card here.
Today’s card is due to an entirely different challenge. As I mentioned there was a hair cut yesterday, and that operation is known in my family to take a really long time. Eight hours kind of time! But the hair cut is just the start – my buddy Julia and I go together and then have lunch and solve the world’s problems. Or try to. Then there’s something we need to buy or a project at one of our houses that needs attention or even a pedicure as happened yesterday. And then we ended up at my house and Julia was looking at some of the product that I have on my table. The Celebrations Duo TIEF caught her eye and she started playing with it. Could she, she wondered, use a melon mambo watercolour pencil to add color to the debossed part? Yes you can but we didn’t like the result. The blender pen didn’t give what she was looking for. Next she wondered about a see through glitter kind of thing on top – I pulled out the dazzling diamonds glitter and a fine tip glue pen. She was happy with the piece and handed it to me as a “starter piece” and challenged me to make a card with it. Here’s a shot showing more of the sparkle.
I pulled out the Festive TIEF and ran through a whisper white layer and attached that to a thick whisper white card base. I trimmed down the celebrate piece (necessary because it was done on a piece of scrap with a hole cut out of it!), rounded the corners with the project life corner rounder and popped it up with a lot of dimensionals. It seemed a little too white so I added some melon mambo enamel dots. Julia was home by the time I did this, so I sent her a photo. She approved and I hope that you also like our collaboration card.
If you’re placing an order, thank you very much – please use the hostess code to get freehandmade cards; the current one isPNF6CKRH (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the freecardsfrom me). Clickhereto go to my online shop orhere to joinmy team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, clickhere.
And don’t forget that during Sale-a-bration, for every $50 you spend (before taxes and shipping) you get to select a FREE product from the Sale-a-bration catalogue. Don’t have paper copies of the catalogs? Drop me an email and I’ll put one in the mail.
Here’s the thank you card that I sent to my December customers; I appreciate all of my customers and I enjoy creating cards to send to them – along with a little extra which I’ll share tomorrow. As I’ve mentioned, I’ve been rather busy at work lately so I wanted a card that would be quick and easy to mass produce. DSP is always a great choice in this situation and the designer series papers in the Occasions catalog are really gorgeous – here I’ve chosen the beautiful Succulent Garden DSP.
I like to have some card stock pre-cut into card base sizes so that I’m not continually popping up to cut something (it might be good for me to get up all the time though) and I cut many at a time with my large carl cutter. This saves time and saves my Stampin’ Up! trimmer blades wearing out just cutting lots of bases. So I cut a bunch of old olive bases and then the DSP into pieces of 5 1/4 inches by 4 getting 6 to a sheet. It’s fairly soothing, folding all the bases and then gluing all the DSP on. At the next session, I stamped the sentiment from Bunch of Blossoms in sweet sugar plum and then cut it out using the stitched shapes framelits dies cranking that through the big shot at the same time as a piece of old olive and the layering ovals. Then it was a simple matter of gluing the two pieces together and popping it up with dimensionals. To finish things off, I dry embossed the envelope flap with the Festive TIEF. I love the polished look of an embossed envelope.
I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get freehandmade cards; the current one isPNF6CKRH (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the freecardsfrom me). Clickhereto go to my online shop orhere to joinmy team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, clickhere.
And don’t forget that during Sale-a-bration, for every $50 you spend (before taxes and shipping) you get to select a FREE product from the Sale-a-bration catalogue. Don’t have paper copies of the catalogs? Drop me an email and I’ll put one in the mail.
Here’s the final card of the ones that I made at the crop using the Tuscan Vineyard set. On this one, I decided to watercolour the entire image and to use last year’s in colours.
So I started off with delightful dijon for the basket and decided that the other bottle was terracotta and thus I could use watermelon wonder. For the ground and shadow, I used tip top taupe and I also used that for the stoppers. I trimmed down my watercolor paper until it felt “right” and then cut a piece of tip top taupe 1/8 inch larger for the mat. Before committing my watercolouring to the card, I stamped the sentiment (which is from Endless Birthday Wishes) in more tip top taupe on a delightful dijon base. Once that was safely executed, I glued on the watercolouring.
For the envelope, I used the Festive TIEF to dry emboss the flap – and this time I remembered to take a photo to show you! It’s a really fun pattern.
I really enjoyed playing with Tuscan Vineyard and since I have a day of stamping planned for tomorrow, there may well be some more examples of its use in the upcoming week! I hope that you have something fun planned for the weekend and that you have a great Friday too.
