Stampin' Up! Australia - Stampin' Up! Expressions Natural Elements

Hi!

I was messing around with some scraps from my stash and saw this discarded piece of emboss resist paper that I had been practising on when I made this card.

I saw the challenge over at Retro Rubber Challenge which is to use twine on your card so I threw some bakers twine on it and added some more scrap pieces to make this lovely wedding card.

I stamped one of the medallions from Daydream Medallions and white embossed the image then I sponged some Coastal Cabana ink over the top. :) The only new thing on this card is that fun wooden sentiment from the Expressions Natural Elements kit.

To play along with Retro Rubber, the stamps have to be at least one year old so I had to look up Daydream Medallions as I thought it was a year old, but it came out in 2012!! Time flies! 

I Love Lace came out in June 2014 but has since retired. 

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Expressions Natural Elements ...	Whisper White A4 Card Stock $15.00	Pearl Basic Jewels Embellishments $8.75	Floral Frames Framelits Die $45.00
Big Shot $169.00	Glue Dots $9.00	Stampin' Dimensionals $7.00	White Stampin' Emboss Powder $8.75
Versamark Pad $13.00	Embossing Buddy $10.00	Heat Tool ...	Stamping Sponges $6.00
Daydream Medallions Clear Stamp Set $50.95	I Love Lace Clear-Mount Stamp Set $24.95	Coastal Cabana Classic Stampin' Pad $9.95	Strawberry Slush Classic Stampin' Pad $9.95
Crisp Cantaloupe Classic Stampin' Pad $9.95	In Color Boutique Details $15.95	Pretties Kit ...

Stampin' Up! Australia - Stampin' Up! Delightful Dozen Valentine Card - Color Coach Card #30

Wisteria Wonder Card #3.1 and #3.2

Hi

This colour coach combination had me stumped a little bit until I realised that Wisteria Wonder, Pink Pirouette and Cherry Cobbler are perfect Valentine companions!

I was inspired by the muse at CASE Study #174 this week so I did a little bit of 'emboss resist' on this card with some splotches...plus I wanted to have a go at the Freshly Made Sketches challenge this week which is to create an 'angled' card. 

Now I know that this isn't true to the sketch, but trust me when I tell you that I TRIED to make it work, but no matter what sort of banner I put across the panel, it just didn't work....I think my sponged texture wanted to be left bare. So I just left it. So it doesn't really fit the sketch criteria, but you see where I was trying to go with it at least. :)

I embossed my sentiment onto white card stock with white embossing powder and then sponged Wisteria Wonder, Pink Pirouette and Cherry Cobbler ink onto my card and blended them together as much as I could....I also did a bit of splotchy-work with the Gorgeous Grunge stamp set and I did some 'faux bleaching' which is just dropping water from an aqua painter onto my card to give the washed out bleached dots.

I like how this card turned out....it has a bit of a tie-dye/intergalactic supernova look to it.....it is quite cool in real life. :)

Here's the proof that I had other stuff to put on my card.....lots of hearts...couldn't make them work so I made an entirely new card a made a graphic 'heart' flower with them. The stem is some off-cuts from my sponged angled piece. It is without a sentiment as I think it is striking enough without one. :)

Hope you like them. :)

Cheers

Alison xx

Materials used:

Card #1

Stamp - Delightful Dozen

Ink - Wisteria Wonder, Cherry Cobbler, Pink Pirouette, Versamark

Cardstock - Whisper White

Tools - White Embossing Powder, Heat Tool, Stampin' Trimmer, Multipurpose Liquid Glue, Sponges

Card #2

Stamps - none

Ink - Wisteria Wonder, Cherry Cobbler, Pink Pirouette

Cardstock - Whisper White textured, Wisteria Wonder (scrap piece...it has a bit of scoring & embossing on it if you look closely), Cherry Cobbler, Pink Pirouette

Accessories - Jewel Rhinestone

Tools - Big Shot, Hearts A Flutter Framelit (for big heart), Small Heart Punch (for medium heart), Owl Builder Punch (for mini heart), Multipurpose Liquid Glue 

Stampin' Up! Australia - Color Coach Card #9 - Flowering Flourishes

Soft Sky Card #3

Dear Stampin' friends

I got the idea for this card from a tutorial that Catherine Pooler posted on her StampNation website where she used the emboss resist technique. I really loved her card and thought the idea would also work well with Soft Sky and Island Indigo, which are the analogous colours on the Soft Sky Color Coach card.  This is Card #9 on my self-imposed Color Coach Challenge!      

 

Do you like it!? I think it has come out quite lovely.....it is on its way to a fellow demo and I hope she likes it. :)

 

Cheers
Alison

 

Materials used:
Stamps - Flowerish Flourishes, Happy Day
Ink - Soft Sky, Island Indigo, Versamark
Cardstock - Whisper White
Accessories - Very Vintage Designer Button, Baker's Twine
Tools - Stampin' Trimmer, Heat Tool, Embossing Buddy,
Clear Embossing Powder, Glue Dot, Stamp-a-majig