Stampin' Up! Australia - Color Coach Card #49 - Happy 'Bee' Day!

Summer Starfruit #1

Hi

Summer Starfruit was one of those colours that seemed to polarise the Stampin' Up! population - you either loved it or you hated it. I love it - it is kinda retro to me, but still can feel modern and bold. For this card on my Color Coach Journey, Summer Starfruit is teamed with Perfect Plum and Smoky Slate.

I really wanted to play with my Stampin' Spritzers and use a mask/stencil for this card. The new SU masks haven't hit Australian shores yet so I used a non-SU stencil on this card as I wanted a hexagon background so as to fit with the challenge theme at Casology this week which is 'Bees'.  

I filled my spritzer with a mix of rubbing alcohol and some Summer Starfruit ink refill and sprayed it over my stencil. 

My card is also inspired by this sketch from CAS(E) this Sketch....and the "two stamps" challenge at Less is More. 

I separated my 'Happy Day' sentiment with a little bee from an old Sale-a-bration set called "Sweet Summer"....it is meant to be a bit of a bee pun....Happy B'day.... :)

Don't forget that Summer Starfruit is a retiring In Color so be quick and go to my online store to order it if you don't already have stocks. Happy Day is also retiring so check that out too. :)

Cheers

Alison xx

Materials used:

Stamps - Happy Day (retiring), Sweet Summer (vintage SAB set)

Ink - Summer Starfruit ink refill and marker, Perfect Plum, Smoky Slate (for bee)

Cardstock - Whisper White, Summer Starfruit, Perfect Plum

Accessories - none

Tools - Stampin' Spritzer, Hexagon punch (for pennant end), non-SU hexagon stencil, Stamp-a-majig, Stampin' Dimensionals

Sweet Summer Color Lab Challenge

Hi!
Today I decided to use up some of my scrap patterned paper and lo and behold this one matched the Color Lab Challenge #33 of Marina Mist, Pear Pizzazz and Regal Rose.





I have SO MUCH paper and 'stuff' that it is now my resolution to always use something 'old' in one of my creations and not just go for the new Stampin' Up supplies that I have recently fallen in love with. :)

I did use the "Sweet Summer" set for the first time - I have only really seen this set being used for watercolouring so I wasn't sure how often I would use it since I don't have any watercolouring supplies yet and I don't know how to 'colour-in' yet. I thought I would take a chance and just do a basic clean stamp of flowers. It seemed to work with a light sponge of pink over the top.



Here is my card:


Materials used:
Stamps - Sweet Summer from Stampin Up's Sale-a-bration 2011
Ink - Marina Mist, Pear Pizzazz, Versamark ink (a Regal Rose equivalent)
Cardstock - Pear Pizzazz, Regal Rose, Whisper White
Patterned Paper - misc patterned paper (I can't remember the brand or design)
Embellishments - misc ribbon in a Pear Pizzazz equivalent, Kaisercraft Pearls - Plum
Tools - sponges for edge of Whisper White and for flower 'middles'