Mother's Day

My Stamp Club this month is having a "girly" theme so we are going to make a Mother's Day card.
I am really pleased with how this has come out & I got to play with some new product from the current Seasonal Catalogue.

Stamp Club meets once a month & the girls take turns at receiving the Hostess Benefits.  Each month I provide a free class tailored to your experience & each member makes a minimum purchase ($60 for 6 months).  The great thing is that you don't have to do anything except provide supper on the night that you are the Hostess.

 

Amazingly this card has changed my opinion of the colour Primrose Petals.  It really works well with Pool Party.

To make the flowers I used the 7/8" Scallop Circle Punch to punch out 9 circles out of our Creped Filter Paper for each flower.  I then used Sponge Daubers to colour them in Daffodil Delight, Primrose Petals & Pretty in Pink (3 of each).  Finally I layered them together with a brad.

I love the new Honeycomb Embossing folder too. I used it with the Pool Party Core'dinations CS & then sanded it to show some of the white core.

The finishing touch is a butterfly using the Papillion Potpourri stamp set & matching punch.

 

 



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Watercolour Wonders

Watercolouring is one of my favourite techniques.  Each card you make is completely unique & sometimes what looks like a disaster can turn into a masterpiece (that is how the poppy card came about!)

For this card I started by inking the Pleasant Poppies stamp with Stampin' Write Markers & stamped the image on Watercolour Paper.  Next I sprayed the paper with water, let it run & then left it to dry.  I finished it with a Baja Breeze wash.  I was planning on mounting this on Baja Breeze CS but it stood out better on the Real Red with a black background, then I thought "oh, Caterbury colours" then I thought "Hang on, poppies, red, ANZAC Day!"

 

This card uses exactly the same method but I changed the colours to Wisteria Wonder & Perfect Plum & used the Serene Silhouettes stamp set. I have also embossed the contrasting CS with the Lacy Brocade embossing folder on both cards.

 

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If you would like to learn watercolouring or any other techniques please Contact Me & I will arrange something to suit you.

 

 

 

 

 



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My first My Digital Studio Project.

I just LOVE My Digital Studio (MDS)!  I've only had a little play so far, but it is so easy to use.
This is the card I made for our team's masculine card swap.  I think most of us struggle with masculine cards so it was great to receive some many fantastic examples.

 

Most of the "stamp brushes" (stamp images) came with the MDS software, I did purchase the Open Sea brush set though.  I love how you can add layers to build up some depth.  I printed the card on Crumb Cake CS, then distressed the edges & mounted it onto Early Espresso CS.  I then hand stamped & punched the greeting.

If you would like to learn more about My Digital Studio, just click on the tab at the top of this page.

 



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Colour Refresh

 

Here's what you need to know.

 

Now, if your eyes are as bad as mine & the above chart is a bit "fuzy" the retiring colours are:

Regal Rose

Pretty in Pink

Bashful Blue

Certainly Celery

Baja Breeze

Riding Hood Red

Bravo Burgundy

Not Quite Navy

More Mustard

River Rock 

It is sad to see some of the old colours going, but it is always exciting get new ones!

•  The retiring colours products eg. ink pads, cardstock, markers etc are now on run-out.  This means that if you would like to buy them you will need to order them ASAP or you may miss out.
• You will be able to purchase the new colours from the 1st of July when the new Annual Catalogue will be released.

Avoid disappointment & order today through my on-line store or you can Email Me



 

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Just Add Memories

This is a first for me – I am entering a Just Add Ink scrapbooking challenge!  Just
Add Ink is an amazing site where each week the awesome team of designers publish their ideas of a paper craft sketch to inspire others.  A great place to go if you need some inspiration.

This months scrapbooking “map” caught my eye, so here goes!

& here is my take on it.

 

These photos were taken of me as a baby at our family bach on Waiheke Island.  Unfortunately I have put the watermark right over me learning to walk with 2 of my Great Aunts – Ina & Lou.  Dad is also at the side of the bach fixing his fishing nets.  The larger photo is of Grandad, Grandma, Mum, Me, Aunty Lou & Uncle Eric. 
Waiheke will always hold a special place in my heart as will the family in these photos as Mum & I are the only ones left.  I thought the stamp I have used for the title from the Feels Good set worked well with this.

Anyway, you don’t want to know that, you want to know how I made this fabulous page!

You really have to love Stampin’ Up! for continuously brining out new product so we nearly always have new techniques to try.

The background strip is the new Pool Party Core’dinations card stock (CS).  I ran one end of it through the Big Shot using the Cloudy Day embossing folder.  This range of CS has a contrasting colour in the centre that will show when you sand it however, the Pool Party that I have used here is quite subtle & I felt it got lost with the strong colours on the page.  How did I solve this?  With bling of course!

After I had added Dazzling Diamonds to the clouds the other end didn’t look right & I was not able to get that end in the embossing folder & have the clouds going in the same direction, so I used a bit of Kiwi ingenuity 

Stamping with Bling

• “Ink” a flourish style stamp like the the one from Creative Elements that I have used with a 2-Way Glue Pen
• Stamp glue onto CS
• Sprinkle over Dazzling Diamonds

The DSP’s I used were Sycamore Street from the SAB catalogue (I am soooooo going to miss this!) & International Bizarre.  This allowed me to bring in contrasting colours of Rich Razzleberry & Daffodil Delight.

To make these flowers 

• punched 4-5 of circles using the 7/8” Scallop Circle Punch out of Whisper White CS for each flower
• sponge both sides with Daffodil Delight & Rich Razzleberry ink
• cut at each scallop but be careful not to cut down to far or they will fall off!
• screw each one up tightly then carefully unfold them
• stack 4-5 together, punch a hole in the middle & insert a brad to hold them
• play with them until they sit how you like them.

Colouring Flower Trim

• Colour the Vanilla Flower Trim using a Daffodil Delight Marker
• Allow to dry a bit then run the side of a Rich Razzleberry Marker over the edge of the petals

Now that you have some new ideas, why not hop over to Just Add Ink & enter one of their challenges!

 

Happy Stamping!

Ann

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Challenging Play

If you have never been to the NZSU website, it is a great place to see what all the Kiwi demonstrators have been up too.  On the side you will see a list of demonstrators blogs that automatically updates as each blog is updated.  Our NZSU coordinator also chooses  the best projects of the week to highlight & this week she has given us a challenge to make a card using one of the Creative Combinations from the Colour Coach.

The Colour Coach is great when you are stuck & don’t know what colours will work together & some of them, like the ones that I have chosen will take you right out of your comfort zone.

This card uses the colour combination of Wisteria Wonder, Elegant Eggplant & Lucky Limeade.  Other than the crooked photography I’m not sure that I like this (or the next one!) as it is not really my style.  I decided that I wanted to use our new paper doilies so I started by stamping the car from the Road to Happiness on to one.   That is when I discovered that the doilies is actually textured which adds a bit of a pattern to the image.  Not sure if you can see it or not but but I stamped the flower stamp around the edge with Wisteria Wonder & then used Champaign Shimmer Paint to highlight the centres & added a few rhinestones as well. 

Once again dreadful photography, but this card is meant to be crooked.  This colour combo is Elegant Eggplant, Summer Starfruit & Baja Breeze & features the ferris wheel from the Feeling Sentimental SAB set.

If you don’t have a Colour Coach yet, make sure you put it on your next order!

Happy Stamping!

Ann

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