Month: June 2018

Stampin’ Up! Rooted in Nature card

Stampin' Up! Rooted in Nature card

Today’s card is a little bit different for me, and one I CASE’d from Wendie Young Waldman. Mine is a little different to hers, but the idea is the same – to cut up squares from one of the stamps in the Rooted In Nature stamp set.

If you like Lovely As A Tree you’ll love this. Plus, this one has not only a bigger stamp set, but dies too. Buy them both as a bundle and you get a 10% discount. Some of the leaf dies emboss too, it really is a great bundle.

Stampin' Up! Rooted in Nature card

I used new ink pads for this card – Grey Granite for the tree trunks, and Granny Apple Green for the leaves. Those leaves are beautiful aren’t they? Such a lot of detail in them. And I love that tree slice too.

I used the smallest of the Stitched Framelit squares to cut up the slices – I first stamped them onto a piece of card then die cut them afterwards.

Stampin' Up! Rooted in Nature card

The Happy Birthday sentiment comes from the Hand Delivered hostess stamp set.

I used this for a 60th birthday card for a man who I know will love it.

Stampin’ Up! have a video showing the whole bundle, stamps and dies, and ideas for how to use them.

Here’s what I used to make the card:

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

Pootler’s Blog Hop, Stampin’ Up! Painted Glass card

If it’s a new catagloue, then it must be time for another Pootles Blog Hop. This post is one of many on this hop, all featuring products from the new catalogue. Please hop around as many blogs as you can and leave a comment, it means a lot to us all.

My card uses the Painted Glass bundle. I’ve used one of the stamps to make a background, and the butterfly stamp and die to add some interest. The stamp set and dies are available as a bundle at a 10% discount.

Stampin' Up! Painted Glass card

 

I coloured the butterflies using the blender pens and then die cut them out. The stamp set also has a rose and a bird that I could also have used.

There is also some beautiful patterned vellum which goes with this suite – I’m waiting for it to arrive so I haven’t used it here. You should take a look though, it is beautiful.

See that embossed background at the top and bottom of the card? That is a die that I used the new embossing pads on to make an impression rather than a a die cut. Effective isn’t it?

Stampin' Up! Painted Glass card

 

You can use any dies with the embossing mats and your Big Shot to emboss with dies, so you can make even better use of them.

The card base is Whisper White and the embossed card is the lovely returning Mint Macaron. Here’s a close up of that embossing.

Stampin' Up! Painted Glass card

 

I used some Wink of Stella on the butterflies but it doesn’t show up in the photos. I chose the A Reason to Celebrate sentiment because I thought it could be used for a number of things. Hope you like it!

Here are the other people on the blog hop for you to hop around:

 

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

Stampin’ Up! Hand Delivered hostess stamp card

Stampin' Up! Hand Delivered card

I don’t usually feature many hostess stamp sets because you have to spend a certain amount (£150/€200) or host a party for that amount to be able to get one, but when I saw this I loved it and had to have it. It’s the Hand Delivered stamp set.

It’s a very clever stamp set, there is one pair of legs (!) with different skirt patterns. Then there are four options for the top half  – books, cake, a poster, or as I have used here balloons.

Stampin' Up! Hand Delivered card

The easiest way I found to get the top and bottom lined up was to use the Stamparatus: more about that below.

I used the Stampin’ Blends to colour the balloons, and found that adding a thin darker layer around the outside of each balloon really made them stand out. I was going to write pop there but that wouldn’t have worked would it!

Stampin' Up! Hand Delivered card

You can’t see it here, but I added some Wink of Stella to just a couple of balloons, not all.

I added those squiggles in the background because I felt it needed something just to finish it off. They’re from the Happy Gorgeous stamp set.

I sent this card to a little girl for her birthday and she loved it. Hope you do too.

If you live in the UK, France, the Netherlands, Germany or Austria and would like more details about how to get this stamp set (and you don’t already have a demonstrator), please contact me.

The Stamparatus is fabulous! If you haven’t heard about it, it’s a stamp positioning tool but better, you can do so much with it. Here’s a video Stampin’ Up! have made to explain it, and why you need one.

Here’s what I used to make the card. Please note that the Stampin’ Blends are not available to order at present because they are out of stock so I haven’t added them to the supply list.
Table built using Product Table Builder by The Crafty Owl – Independent Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator.

Stampin’ Up! Share What You Love Suite

Stampin' Up! Share What You Love card

Today’s card is a rare one for me for several reasons. First it’s a square card and I don’t make many of them. Second I CASE’d it from the new annual catalogue, and I don’t do that often, although I should. And third, I’ve used virtually the whole suite to make it – stamps, DSP, and embossing folder and I don’t do that often either! Wow, that’s quite a list.

So, do you like it? That Lovely Floral dynamic embossing folder is beautiful isn’t it, it really adds dimension to the card. I spritzed the Mint Macaron card with some water as Stampin’ Up! recommends and it embossed like a dream.

Stampin' Up! Share What You Love card

I fussy cut a few flowers from the DSP. It is so thick! It’s more expensive than usual but don’t forget that there is twice as much of it (24 sheets), and it is speciality paper because some of the sheets have pearlised elements. I hesitate to call it paper because it is so thick.

I finished the card with some Linen Thread and some sequins. Which is something else I don’t do often. I must be turning over a new leaf or something!

Stampin' Up! Share What You Love card

Any one of these elements – stamp set, embossing folder, DSP is beautiful, but put them together and they really pop. Oh, and I have more plans for that embossing folder too.

Here’s what I used to make the card:
Table built using Product Table Builder by The Crafty Owl – Independent Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator.

Stampin’ Up! New Annual Catalogue is live!

Well, it’s here, hooray! The new annual catalogue is live.

Click the image above to go to the PDF version.

If you live in the UK, France, Germany, Austria or the Netherlands and you’d like an English version of the catalogue (and you don’t already have a demo), please contact me and I’ll get one in the post to you.

Stampin’ Up! have released several videos to showcase some of their new sets. Here’s one of my favourites, Rooted In Nature. Love it – and if you like Lovely As a Tree you’ll find it compliments it so well.

 

If you have any questions about the new catalogue, or think now might be a good time to join Stampin’ Up! get in contact. Don’t forget that you’ll get discount on everything you buy, and although there is a quarterly minimum to meet, there’s no pressure if you want to stay as a hobby demo.

I’ll be back soon with some more new products.

Let me know what you think of the new catalogue.