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Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Stampin' Up! Australia - Color Coach #76 - Stampin' Up! Lotus Blossom and Painted Petals

Blackberry Bliss #1


#ColorCoachJourney 

Hi


The colours on my card today are the Color Coach suggestion of Blackberry Bliss, Soft Sky and Old Olive.

Since Blackberry Bliss and Soft Sky are two of the colours featured in the brand new Painted Petals Designer Series Paper, I thought I would use those as the basis of my card. Now, the Painted Petals DSP that has the Blackberry Bliss flowers...the one that I used for my banner....has little specks of Daffodil Delight on it so, to make it Color-Coach-compliant, I went over the specks with the lightest marker from the Old Olive Blendabilities pack. Easy!

The Soft Sky DSP from the pack is really lovely and has a watercoloured wash over it - you can see how the bottom corner of the card is a bit of a darker shade of Soft Sky. Very pretty paper!

I've also used 2 items from the new Artisan Embellishment Kit....the Blackberry Bliss velvet ribbon and the small doilies - I put two together and they fit perfectly around the oval framelit die cut.

The gorgeous embellishment here is a brand new piece of bling from Something Borrowed Embellishments. They are SO beautiful. I layered it onto a punched piece of Blackberry Bliss to highlight it. Glue dots hold it perfectly in place.

My stamped image is the new Lotus Blossom stamp from the Sale-A-Bration catalogue. This stamp is FREE with any $90 order. It is a 3-step stamping product, so there are three layers to the flower.....all are stamped with Blackberry Bliss. The stem is Old Olive.

I went one step further as a final touch and lined my envelope with some more of the Painted Petals DSP. The Envelope Liner Framelit Dies are perfect for this.


This card is an Anniversary card for my parents-in-law...I tried to make the 'Happy Anniversary" sentiment work on the card, but it just didn't want to fit anywhere, so I left it without the sentiment and I personally think it looks better. :)

In keeping with the Anniversary theme, this is the sketch from the One Year Anniversary Celebration from Fusion, yet another reason that I wanted to put a sentiment on the card as a shout-out, but alas, it didn't come together for me.

I love this blog challenge and really should play there more often.....I will commit to more Fusion in 2015!! :)




I hope you like my card. If you have been inspired by it and would like to support my creative business, all the supplies may be found by clicking through the links below which will take you to my store. 

The 2015 Occasions Catalogue and the Sale-A-Bration catalogue are OUT NOW so if you would like to go on my mailing list and receive your free copy, just send me an email. :)

Alternatively, you may download the catalogues here (Occasions) and here (Sale-A-Bration) 


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Stampin' Up! Australia - Stampin' Up! 2015 Occasions Catalogue and Sale-A-Bration


Download the 2015 Occasions catalogue HERE 


Download the Sale-A-Bration catalogue HERE

Hi!

It's the most exciting time in the Stampin' Up! calendar.....the launch of the Sale-A-Bration and Occasions catalogue! Here's a checklist....



1. Download the Sale-a-Bration catalogue HERE and download the 2015 Occasions catalogue HERE 

2. Observe beautiful front cover designs:



3.


  • That's right....earn a FREE Sale-A-Bration product for every $90 that you spend between today and 31st March. TOPS! 
  • Your order can be made up of product from the Annual Catalogue or the Occasions catalogue or both! 
  • Order online and you will be auto-prompted to add your free product, otherwise just phone or email me with your order and I will add your free stuff. :) 
  • There is no cap on the number of products that you can earn for free in an order or during Sale-A-Bration. $90 spend = 1 free item....it's as easy as that.


4. 

Host a party or just get a really big order together with your friends and get an EXTRA $40 worth of free stuff (ON TOP OF YOUR FREE SAB items and on top of the usual hostess freebies) on orders of $400 and above. 

For example....place an order of $400 and get 4 free Sale-A-Bration items, AND get $100 in hostess dollars to spend on anything in the catalogues. 
Place an order of $450 and get FIVE free Sale-A-Bration items and get $100 in hostess dollars to spend on anything in the catalogues. 

It couldn't be easier to get free stuff!! Order online 24/7!

5. There's also free stuff when you join Stampin' Up! Receive either Option 1 or Option 2 when you sign up for your Starter Kit. Join my Stampin' Up! team and get your starter kit for $169 plus one of these extras as part of the Sale-A-Bration promotion. 

To read more about joining my Monsters Ink! team, click here. To join now and get started immediately click here.
 or 

6. Let's not forget the Occasions catalogue is also out today and anything you purchase from it will go towards your Sale-A-Bration rewards. Have a look at the catalogue...SO pretty!


It's a lot to take in so please don't hesitate to phone me on 0413 405 139 or email me if you want to chat about your order. 

If you would like a free copy of the Sale-A-Bration and/or the Occasions catalogue just drop me an email with your name and address and I will get one in the post for you. :)

Happy ordering! 

Cheers

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Monday, January 5, 2015

Stampin' Up! Australia - Color Coach Card #75 - Stampin' Up! Big Day

Mossy Meadow #3


#ColorCoachJourney 

Hi

Welcome to this week's Artful Stampers blog hop....you would have hopped here from Lynn Powell's blog. 

Here's another card inspired by my Color Coach journey....this one is Mossy Meadow, Bermuda Bay and Calypso Coral. Colours that you wouldn't think would work, but they make a bold, fun, and modern splash against Whisper White.

This week's challenge was a sketch and here's my card below. This was made using just one stamp...."Big Day" from the Sale-A-Bration catalogue. It is fabulous! You will LOVE it!


It actually looks brighter and more colourful in real life...the camera washed out the colours a little bit. 


Here's the sketch that we worked from:


I did tone-on-tone stamping on the background layers using some of the stamp sets in the Big Day set and then I sponged the edges. The main panel was stamped with Memento ink and then the 'celebrate' banner and 'CAKE' were coloured with Calypso Coral and Bermuda Bay (sneak peek!) Blendabilities and 'BIRTHDAY' was coloured with a blender pen dipped in Mossy Meadow. 

I'm also linking this card up to the Seize the Birthday challenge....which has an optional theme word of "Party" this week or an 'Anything Goes' theme. 



I hope you like my card. All supplies may be found by clicking through the links below which will take you to my store. 

The 2015 Occasions catalogue and the Sale-A-Bration catalogue will be out tomorrow so if you would like to go on my mailing list and receive your free copy, just send me an email. :)

Your next stop on the blog hop is Annette Sullivan. :)

Cheers

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Sunday, January 4, 2015

Stampin' Up! Australia - Sunshine Shaker Card with Back to Black DSP

Hi

I am vowing to play in more challenges this year and to use more of my vintage & retired stamp sets and supplies.....after all they are still perfectly viable and it is nice to show you how they can be incorporated with new patterned papers and techniques.

I was inspired by a few challenges this week....Freshly Made Sketches, Casology (theme word "LIGHT"), and the colour challenge at Less is More (Black, Metallic + own choice).

Here I used the retired 'Sunshine' stamp and coloured it with Daffodil Delight Blendabilities, and added some new Back to Black DSP. I love how the raindrops on the patterned paper and the clouds on the Cloudy Day embossing folder work with the "You are My Sunshine" story.

This is my second ever shaker card....they are really fun to make actually and I can see why they are so popular. I used the Gold Sequin Trim and took the sequins off the thread to use in my shaker frame, I added some yellow sequins and clear sequins too for effect. :)




 

LESS IS MORE


Stampin' Up! have Window Sheets and Shaker Framer foam adhesive sheets that make creating a shaker card very easy. The foam adhesive sheets are higher than a standard dimensional so that the sequins and confetti have space to shake around. On my first card, I used dimensionals and they all got a bit stuck sadly.

Hope you like my card. Visit my my online store to purchase any of the supplies used to make them (although the stamp set and the embossing folder are retired, you can use any square sentiment or embossing folder that you like), or click through the links below. 

The 2015 Occasions catalogue and the Sale-A-Bration catalogue will be out on 6th January so if you would like to go on my mailing list and receive your free copy, just send me an email. :)

Cheers

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