Month: November 2017

Pootler’s Design Team – The Little Things week 5

I can’t believe it, my last week on the Pootler’s Design Team. Thanks so much to my wonderful upline Sam for giving me the chance to bring these projects to you – 5 projects made using The Little Things stamp set.

This week I’ve made a box in a card that you may have seen on Pinterest or other social media. I have to give my credit to Dawn Griffiths for the box, but I think Rachel Tessman may have been an earlier designer.

Stampin' Up! The Little Things box in a card

For the box I used the Clear Tiny Treat boxes – they are 2″ x 2″ x 2″ (5.1cm x 5.1cm x 5.1cm) so just the right size to fit something tiny but delicious or adorable, or both in. They also fit in the card beautifully.

To make this card you need to cut a 2″ x 2″ (5.1cm x 5.1cm) hole out of the card 1″ (5.1cm) in from the edge. Cut through both pieces of card.

Stampin' Up! The Little Things box in a card

For the DSP background I used the Lemon Lime Twist from the Fresh Florals DSP, and added some red berries with my Real Red marker to make it look more festive. The trees along the strip at the bottom are from the Hearts Come Home stamp set.

I heat embossed the sentiment in gold, and die cut it using the Layering Ovals framelits.

Stampin' Up! The Little Things box in a card

I hope you’ve enjoyed seeing my projects as much as I’ve enjoyed making them!

Look out for Christmas ideas coming in the next few weeks.

Here’s what I used to make this card:

 
Table built using Product Table Builder by The Crafty Owl – Independent Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator.

Stampin’ Up! Another Remarkable You card using Blends pens

Stampin' Up! Remarkable You using Blends pens at Maudiepapercrafts

Following on from my last post, here’s another card I made using the lovely Remarkable You stamp set and Blends pens.

For this one I made a mask from a Post It note and stamped the middle flower first, then the two behind it, and the leaves.

I used Pool Party, Calypso Coral and Pink Pirouette to colour the flowers. They really pop off the page don’t they.

Stampin' Up! Remarkable You using Blends pens at Maudiepapercrafts

Although I’ve done some colouring before, I’m certainly not an expert, but these pens  make it easy for you to get a great finish. I used both the dark and light pens in each colour. Maybe just having the two pens to blend with is what makes the difference. You can get a darker look by colouring over the top several times.

Again I used Memento Tuxedo black ink  to stamp with, and this time used the silver embossing powder and card for the little bird.

Stampin' Up! Remarkable You using Blends pens at Maudiepapercrafts

The DSP background is from the Fresh Florals stack it is Powder Pink but goes well with the Pink Pirouette pens I used.

One last thought about the Blends pens for now. While you can buy the complete set, which is obviously an investment, they are available separately too. This means you can buy a couple at a time to test them out if you want to. You can buy pairs of the light and dark too.

If you have any questions about them, or anything else to do with Stampin’ Up! please contact me.

Here’s what I used to make this card:

 
Table built using Product Table Builder by The Crafty Owl – Independent Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator.

Stampin’ Up! Remarkable You card using Blends Markers

Stampin' Up! Remarkable You card with Blends pens

Oooh, I love this card! I wanted to try out my new Blends pens and thought the Remarkable You stamp set would be a good one to use because the flowers are quite large. I used both the light and dark Pumpkin Pie. I love orange and think this looks great.

I paired it with the Lemon Lime Twist DSP from the Fresh Florals DSP – the orange and green go well together don’t they.

Stampin' Up! Remarkable You card with Blends pens

I used Memento Tuxedo Black to stamp the image on Whisper White cardstock and gave it a minute or two to dry.

It doesn’t matter whether you use use dark pen or light pen first, you can still blend with them. It is easier though if the ink is still wet. It is normal to get some bleed through of the ink so remember to put something under your card.

Stampin' Up! Remarkable You card with Blends pens

Then I added gold accents. I’d always choose silver before gold, but this needed a warm gold to complement it.

The Happy Birthday sentiment is from the Best Birds stamp set. I heat embossed it, and while I had the set out I remembered that there was a little bird in the framelits which could sit next to the sentiment. Et voilà finished!

I have another card using Remarkable You and Blends pens for my next post. Be sure to check in and take a look.

Here’s what I used to make this card:

 
Table built using Product Table Builder by The Crafty Owl – Independent Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator.

Pootler’s Design Team – The Little Things week 4

 

Here’s my project for week 4 of my time on the Pootler’s Design Team – 5 Thursdays during November where 5 members of the Pootler’s team share projects made with The Little Things stamp set.

This week I’ve made 2 gift bags, one of them using the Gift Bag punch board:

Stampin' Up The Little Things gift bags

I don’t use the Gift Bag punch board as much as I should so after making one bag with the score board I thought I’d get out the punch board for the other.

Can you guess which is which? Hard to tell isn’t it – the black and white was made with the Gift Bag punch board.

I used the Merry Little Christmas DSP to make the bags. The cardstock is just the right weight, not too flimsy, and not too thick either.

Stampin' Up The Little Things gift bags

For the ribbon I used the Shimmer Ribbon in black, and also the Striped ribbon. The Striped ribbon is wired and so I used the Shimmer ribbon to go around the bag, then added the Striped ribbon bow on top.

The sentiments are heat embossed in gold. I think this sentiment is lovely, and you could just use the For My Sweet if you didn’t want the top.

Stampin' Up The Little Things gift bags

Both bags are the right size for putting some sweet goodies in – a lovely surprise for someone for Christmas!

Next Thursday is my last week on the Design Team. It’s gone so fast. Please come and and see what my last project is – hit the subscribe button so you don’t miss it.

Here’s what I used to make these bags (clicking on each image will take you to that item in my shop should you want to buy anything).

 
Table built using Product Table Builder by The Crafty Owl – Independent Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator.

Stampin’ Up! Online Extravaganza

 

Yippee! Stampin’ Up! have an Online Extravaganza from 20 – 26 November. Prices vary from 10% to 40% discount.

Some items are available on 20 November ONLY, so don’t hang around if you want anything. You can see the stuff available by downloading a PDF HERE.

There are some great offers on stamp sets, dies and more here. Please don’t wait if you want something, you might miss out.

Happy Shopping!

Pootler’s Design Team – The Little Things week 3

It’s the third week of the Pootler’s design team challenge for me, and this week I decided to make some gift tags.

Our team leader Sam has challenged five of us to use The Little Things stamp set to make five projects – one for each Thursday during the month of November.

This week I combined the stripe that’s in the stamp set with the wonderful Cookie Cutter Christmas set that carried over from last year.

Stampin' Up! The Little Things meets Cookie Cutter Christmas

I used the stripe in either Old Olive or Real Red across the bottom of each tag, then added one of the crew from the Cookie Cutter Christmas set, and a sentiment at the top.

I found some googly eyes to add to the gingerbread men and reindeer.

Stampin' Up! The Little Things meets Cookie Cutter Christmas

To make each tag I used a piece of Thick Whisper White card cut at 4″ x 2″ (10cm x 5cm), then stamped the stripe across the bottom. Then I used the envelope punch board to round the corners.

Stampin' Up'! The Little Things meets Cookie Cutter Christmas

I used the Scalloped Tag Topper punch to punch out the tags and then finished them off with gold metallic ribbon.

I’d like to think that they’d make a great addition to any present!

For next week’s project – gift bags.

Here’s what I used to make the tags – click on an item to go to it in my shop.

 
Table built using Product Table Builder by The Crafty Owl – Independent Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator.

Stampin’ Up! New Stamparatus stamp positioner

I have some exciting news for you today, about the new Stamparatus stamp positioning tool that Stampin’ Up! is releasing!

It’s something that demonstrators have been asking for for a long time, and now we are going to get one. This is what it looks like:

It has a magnetised bottom and comes with two bar magnets to hold your card in place. Plus, it has two removable flaps to do the stamping.

There is a mat to add for photopolymer stamps that you can take out if you want to use rubber stamps.

The cost is €59/£44.

So, down to the nitty gritty. How do you get your hands on one?

Well, Stampin’ Up! are trying a new system because they know how popular this product is going to be. You can reserve one. There are three reservation windows – 16- 30 November (for delivery approx 1 Feb 2018), 5 – 30 December (for delivery approx 19 March 2018) and 15-30 January (for delivery approx 15 April 2018).

You can reserve one Stamparatus during each window. You won’t be charged until the product is actually available, when you will receive an email about it. You can cancel a reservation at any time.

To reserve one you will need a customer account – click on the link in the sidebar to go to my shop and open one if you don’t already have one.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me. Demonstrators are getting their hands on this new piece of kit at the same time as customers so we won’t have used it before you!

Stampin’ Up! have released a video telling you everything you need to know about it:

Pootler’s Design Team – The Little Things, week 2

Welcome to my second project for the Pootler’s Design Team. I’ll be posting a new project each Thursday in November using The Little Things stamp set.

This week I have used the December Deliciousness stamp – what a great sentiment!

I wanted to make some little treat bags and thought I’d make some tags to hang around the top.

Stampin' Up! The Little Things

 

I love those little candy canes and ginger bread men. I heat embossed the sentiments in gold, copper and silver, and used the Stitched Framelits to die cut them. Then I added some sweets to clear bags and attached the tags using either gold metallic edge ribbon or black shimmer ribbon.

As you can see I also made some crates using the wood crates framelits. I wanted to see what different designs would look like so I made three crates, each different.

Stampin' Up! The Little Things

I used wood textures DSP on one (with a foil snowflake), Merry Music DSP on another, and more wood textures DSP that I stamped for the third.

I glued each piece of DSP to a piece of carstock before I die cut them to make a very sturdy crate – you will need to burnish well if you try this.

Stampin' Up! The Little Things

I think I might take these to a Christmas craft fair where I have booked a table at the beginning of December. I hope you like this week’s project – don’t forget to come back and see what I have made next week.

This is what I used for this week’s makes:

 

 
Table built using Product Table Builder by The Crafty Owl – Independent Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator.

Stampin’ Up! Painted Harvest eclipse Thank You card

Hello! Today’s post is part of a blog hop to say thanks to Sarah Reynold who has helped a group of use start, or like me, move our blogs. Sarah has the patience of a saint and has answered all our questions without grumbling (not that we heard anyway!) So, thanks Sarah.

My card combines the Painted Harvest and Large Letter Framelits, and uses the popular eclipse technique.

Stampin' Up! Painted Harvest eclipse Thank You card

As you can see the sunflowers don’t have to be sunflowers – here I’ve used Powder Pink and Berry Burst to make a beautiful colour combination.

The eclipse technique that is so popular at the moment is easy to do – simply create your design, or use some DSP, then die cut your image, word, number or whatever, then pop it up and fit it back into the image.

Stampin' Up! Painted Harvest eclipse Thank You card

It’s easier to see the effect from the side. I added some Wink Of Stella to make the letters really pop but it doesn’t show up well in the photos.

The Large Letter Framelits are fabulous, but are a real investment. You can fit 4, or at most 5 letters on a standard size card, but they do also look effective on a longer one. Expect to see more projects from me that use them – now I’ve got them they have to be used!

Stampin' Up! Painted Harvest eclipse Thank You card

We’d love it if you had time to visit all the blogs in today’s hop. Thanks again Sarah!

 
Table built using Product Table Builder by The Crafty Owl – Independent Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator.

Stampin’ Up! New Stampin’ Blends alcohol pens

You may have seen or heard that Stampin’ Up! were releasing some alcholol markers – well you can buy them now! They went live on November 1st.

For now there are 12 colours, each with a light and dark pen, as well as an ivory pen, and bronze pen, and a colour lifter.

These are the colours available, each with a light and a dark colour:

Bermuda Bay, Calypso Coral, Cherry Cobbler, Crumb Cake, Daffodil Delight, Night of Navy, Old Olive, Pink Pirouette, Pool Party, Pumpkin Pie, Rich Razzleberry, Smoky Slate.

Pens are available separately or as a duo. They are not reillable which is why they are being sold individually.

These pens are artist quality and blend beautifully. I have only had a small play with them, but from what little I’ve seen, I’m impressed.

The price point is €5.50 for each pen (€11 for a duo). For artist quality pens that’s a good price.

Stampin’ Up! have made several videos, here’s one to give you an idea of what you can do with them. If you have any questions, please contact me!