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Stampin’ Up! Christmas Quilt cards

Stampin' Up! Christmas Quilt

This is the first of no doubt many using some new products from the new Autumn/Winter catalogue

This is the Christmas Quilt bundle. Now, I am not a quilter but I loved this suite as soon as I saw it. One of the reasons for that is that although you can see I’ve made Christmas cards this time, you could use the bundle all year round – I’ve already made some non-seasonal cards with it.

Stampin' Up! Christmas Quilt

The Framelits dies cut out the pinwheel and you can fit in different colour/design pieces. I’ve also used the Quilt Top embossing folder, which you can see above, which is also not just for Christmas!

What made piecing this altogether an easy process was using some of the new Mulitpurpose adhesive sheets – they have adhesive on both sides and are so useful.

Stampin' Up! Christmas Quilt

I made these cards for a swap, hope the recipients like them!

To see more uses of this versatile bundle watch this Stampin’ Up! video

This is what I used to make the cards. Please contact me if you have any questions about them. Clicking on the products below will take you to that item in my shop should you wish to order.

 
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Stampin’ Up! Carols of Christmas

Stampin' Up! Carols of Christmas

So, the Seasonal Catalogue is now live – hurrah!

I know you could already buy this bundle in August, but I think it deserves another outing because it is so diverse. I have seen lots and lots of different cards made with it, each different, and each beautiful.

 

Stampin' Up! Carols of Christmas

This is what I’ve made with my bundle. I have plans for more designs so watch this space!

In the example above I’ve also used the beautiful Softly Falling embossing folder, and a stitched oval framelit as well as heat embossing the sentiment.

Stampin' Up! Carols of Christmas

This card uses the frame, which you could easily use on non-seasonal cards. I’ve used Old Olive cardstock and ink here but it doesn’t show up as well on the photos as it does in real life.

Here’s the video Stampin’ Up! made to go with the bundle:

So – if you’d like a Seasonal Catalogue and you don’t already have a demonstrator I can send you one. You need to live in France, the UK, The Netherlands, Germany or Austria – I can’t send one outside Europe, sorry!

I’m off the Cornwall for a couple of weeks, I’ll still be posting with new catalogue goodies, as well as some from the Annual catalogue.

 
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Eastern Beauty cards from Stampin’ Up!

Stampin' Up! Eastern Beauty cards

Sometimes you come across a stamp set with co-ordinating dies that have so many possibilities it’s hard to know where to start.

This is one of those sets. Eastern Beauty is available as a bundle (which means you get a 10% discount, yay!). Honestly you could go on and on and on with all the different combinations of stamps and dies.

There are also dies that have no matching stamps, but go wonderfully with the rest of the set and give even more possibilities.

Stampin' Up! Eastern Beauty cards

I used just a couple of combinations on these cards that I needed as thank you cards. I used the new In Colors which look good together too.

To go with this suite there is also some speciality Designer Series Paper, Eastern Gold vinyl stickers, and Mini Tassel assortment. I haven’t used any of those here, but you can use them to compliment the stamps and dies if you wish.

If you were looking for just one bundle, I would recommend this one. It’s useful for masculine cards too which can sometimes be a problem.

Stampin' Up! Eastern Beauty cards

Here’s what Stampin’ Up! have to say about this bundle:

Give it a go, I don’t think you’d regret this bundle.

 
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High Tide card with sponging from Stampin’ Up!

Stampin' Up! High Tide card with sponging

Today’s card uses the High Tide stamp set which is yet another one that I couldn’t decide whether to buy or not. After seeing lots of lovely cards made by fellow demonstrators though I took the plunge.

The lighthouse is two step stamping to give the shadow and dimension but it’s not hard to do.

Stampin' Up! High Tide card

I used a Post It note to mask off first the sky, then the sea to sponge them on. I used the Tree Builder punch to make the mask for the clouds, and after sponging the sea I used the stamp in the set to add the darker waves.

I added the birds right at the end.

Stampin' Up! High Tide card

All in all not the kind of card I’d usually make but I like it, and will be making more!

A little reminder. If you have vouchers from purchases in July you only have a few days left to use them on your August orders.

Not long to go til the Seasonal catalogue goes live! Lots of exciting stuff to come.

 
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Watercolour Fairy Celebration card from Stampin’ Up!

Stampin' Up! Fairy celebration watercolour card

 

This card is made with one of the stamps from Fairy Celebration. When I first saw this stamp set in the annual catalogue last year I liked it, but didn’t know whether I liked it enough to buy it.

Well, after it carried over to this year’s catalogue I caved in, and I’m glad I did. One piece of advice for you: if you want to watercolour the images as I did, then you do need watercolour paper. Textured paper or thick cardstock won’t do.

Stampin' Up! Fairy celebration watercolour card

I used an Aquapainter, but if you had a paint brush that would do fine.  I tried not to use too many colours – Rose Red, Peekaboo Peach, Old Olive, Melon Mambo, Soft Sky and Powder Pink.

I used Stampin’ Up! Basic Black archival ink so that the colour wouldn’t run. The backgound mat paper is from Naturally Eclectic because I thought it went well with the image.

Stampin' Up! Fairy celebration watercolour card

Now to try out the other images in the set. I’m thinking one of them would make a good shaker card – watch this space!

 
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Wood Words cards in the new In Colors from Stamp’in Up!

Wood Words cards, Stampin' Up!

 

Recently I made some cards using the Wood Words stamp set to send out to demonstrators around the world.

I wanted to use the new In Colors, and Crumb Cake snuck in there too! There’s a lovely flower stamp in the Wood Words set that I’ve used here. I heat embossed the cards in white and added the sentiment (which comes from the Lift Me Up stamp set).

Stampin' Up! Poweder Pink Wood Words card

I’m really pleased with the way they turned out – although I liked the matching framelits with the crate when I saw them in the catalogue, I hadn’t really considered using the stamp set on its own. The hears is also from the same set, and I added some linen thread to finish it off.

Wood Words cards in Crumb cake

This stamp set is avaialable as a bundle with the framelits for a 10% discount.

Don’t forget that you have until the end of the month to get your vouchers to spend in August. For every €60/£45 you spend before the end of July you get a voucher for €6/£4.50 to spend in August – splendid!

If you live in France, the UK, the Netherlands, Austria or Germany and don’t already have a demo, I’d love it if you shopped with me!

 
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