Thinking Stamping: October 2020

Saturday 31 October 2020

Posted For You for JAI 529

Sometimes, a colour combination just takes your fancy. That's what happened when I saw this week's interesting challenge at Just Add Ink.

I broke open the Posted For You bundle for this challenge. The pretty images lend themselves to colouring, so I silver embossed one of them and coloured it using a Water Painter and ink. The coordinating punch instantly turns it into a faux postage stamp. I cut a second in Silver Foil as a shadow backing.

I added some background stamping with the 'Special Delivery' stamp from the set and splatter stamp from Forever Fern before embossing with the Subtle embossing folder. The sentiment, which is also from Posted For You, is on a strip and I fishtailed the ends using the Banners Pick a Punch. Using a punch, rather than eyeballing a cut makes it much easier to achieve matching ends.

The white ribbon and the Misty Moonlight/silver twine are both part of the Flowers for Every Season Ribbon combo.

Update: Delighted to get an Honourable Mention at JAI.

If you live in New Zealand and don't have a Stampin' Up Demonstrator, I'd love to be yours. I can help you with ideas, get you catalogues and provide you with Stampin' Up products. You can leave a message in the comments or contact me using any of the methods listed in the Contact Me tab at the top of the page. You can shop with me from anywhere in New Zealand by clicking on the SHOP NOW button in the sidebar or clicking on any of products below.

Product List

Posted For You Bundle

[154075]

$66.50

Forever Fern Cling Stamp Set (English)

[152559]

$50.00

Misty Moonlight A4 Cardstock

[153086]

$18.50

Magenta Madness A4 Cardstock

[153085]

$18.50

Whisper White A4 Card Stock

[106549]

$20.50

Silver Foil Sheets

[132178]

$10.50

Misty Moonlight Classic Stampin' Pad

[153118]

$15.75

Magenta Madness Classic Stampin' Pad

[153117]

$15.75

Versamark Pad

[102283]

$20.00

Silver Stampin' Emboss Powder

[109131]

$12.50

Subtle 3D Embossing Folder

[151775]

$21.00

Banners Pick A Punch

[153608]

$48.00

Flowers For Every Season Ribbon Combo Pack

[153620]

$21.00

Magenta Madness 1/4" (6.4 Mm) 2020–2022 In Color Ribbon

[153623]

$12.50

Metallic Pearls

[146282]

$14.75

Stampin' Dimensionals

[104430]

$7.25

Heat Tool

[129056]

$60.00

Wednesday 28 October 2020

Free as a Bird for CI 88

Welcome to a new challenge at Colour INKspiration. Isn't this a gorgeous inspiration picture to work with?

If you haven't played with us before, we are a group of Stampin' Up Demonstrators from the South Pacific. Challenges are shown and entered via our Facebook Group page. If you don't belong, and would like to, click here. Don't forget to answer the two easy questions you'll be asked when you ask to join the group.

Each challenge, Top Picks and a winner are chosen by the crew and the winner offered a chance to Guest Design with us for a future challenge.

If you don't have an exact challenge colour, feel free to replace it with whatever you have that's closest. Black, White, Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake and metallics are free colours, as are flesh toned Stampin' Blends.

I used the challenge colour of Crumb Cake, Crushed Curry, Just Jade and Pretty Peacock with a favourite set of mine, Free As A Bird. I stamped the image in StazOn Ink onto Fluid100 watercolour paper then used the inks and waterpainters to colour it.

Then I broke out the Stitched Triangle dies, which I've not used nearly enough yet, to cut the coloured image up.

Then I cut two largest equilateral triangles in Pretty Peacock and Just Jade to provide a backing.

I also used the Bricks and Mortar embossing folder on Whisper White, to enhance the idea that we are looking at a piece of art on a gallery wall.

To begin with, I stamped the 'thank you' - also from Free As A Bird - directly onto the Just Jade triangle but it got a bit lost, so I stamped it onto a scrap of the Fluid100 watercolour paper and cut it using the Stitched Rectangle dies.

We'd love to see what you make of these colours. You can add your project, see the other entries and look at the Design Team inspiration by clicking here.

Product List

Free As A Bird Cling Stamp Set

[149468]

$46.00

Crumb Cake A4 Card Stock

[121685]

$18.50

Pretty Peacock A4 Cardstock

[150886]

$18.50

Just Jade A4 Cardstock

[153084]

$18.50

Whisper White A4 Card Stock

[106549]

$20.50

Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper

[149612]

$19.00

Crumb Cake Classic Stampin' Pad

[147116]

$15.75

Pretty Peacock Classic Stampin’ Pad

[150083]

$15.75

Just Jade Classic Stampin' Pad

[153115]

$15.75

Crushed Curry Classic Stampin' Pad

[147087]

$15.75

Jet Black Stāzon Ink Pad

[101406]

$21.00

Brick & Mortar 3D Embossing Folder

[149643]

$21.00

Stitched Triangles Dies

[152710]

$74.00

Stitched Rectangles Dies

[151820]

$74.00

Water Painters

[151298]

$25.25

Rhinestone Basic Jewels

[144220]

$10.50

Stampin' Dimensionals

[104430]

$7.25

Monday 26 October 2020

Playing Around with Curvy Celebration

Demonstrators around the world have been able to order the Curvy Celebration bundle since the beginning of October. Did you know that one of the advantages of signing up as a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator is early access to new products? If you're interested in finding out more about joining my team, message me or click on the Join My Team tab at the top of the page.

Next week, starting on 3 November anyone can order this bundle. You can order all of it or parts of it.

There's the Quite Curvy bundle. This is an early release from the January-June Mini Catalogue.

Especially for your Christmas crafting pleasure, there is the limited edition Curvy Christmas - which also coordinates with the Curvy dies.

And... there's also this awesome Classic Christmas 15cmx15cm DSP stack in the luscious Cherry Cobbler, Shaded Spruce and Sahara Sand.

The Stampin' Up Artisan Design team hopped using items from Curvy Celebrations and if you missed it, you can join in with me right here.

Today, I'm sharing with you a couple of other cards I've made using these products.

Curvy Christmas

First up, here's a simple Christmas Card made with the Curvy Christmas set, Curvy dies and Classic Christmas DSP. There's nothing magic here - just the stamps, dies and DSP working together perfectly, as they were intended to do.

I've cut the white paper into a curvy swoosh, using my favourite die: the eyelet edge. I've slipped a piece of coordinating DSP in the gap.

Then I've simple stamped the sentiment and star swoosh stamps in Tuxedo Black, added in a couple of small Cherry Cobbler stars around the sentiment and used a dark Cherry Cobbler Stampin' Blend to colour some of the stars in the star swoosh.

Don't you love it when a simple card looks as though you've lavished hours on it?

If you like the look of these, order as soon as you can. They are only available while stocks last.

Quite Curvy Bundle

This card did take a little more time because of the colouring of the vine and the birds as well as the building up of the background. However, since those things were both fun and relaxing, it didn't matter at all and the card itself is simply put together.

The vine is coloured with Stampin' Blends in Just Jade, Shaded Spruce and Granny Apple Green with some touches of Crumb Cake. Isn't is fantastic that such a pretty image can be die-cut so easily and popped up on dimensionals?

The background is really very easy. I simply sponged Daffodil Delight, Granny Apple Green and a touch of Shaded Spruce on Shimmery White Card, starting with lightest in the middle and working to the darkest. Then I gave it a very fine misting of water using a Stampin' Spritzer and left it for a few seconds so that some of the colour lifted before drying it off with the Heat Tool.

Product List

Quite Curvy Bundle

Curvy Christmas

Classic Christmas DSP

Available to order 3 November 2020