Showing posts with label A Big Thank You. Show all posts
Showing posts with label A Big Thank You. Show all posts

Tuesday, 5 November 2019

Colourful Seasons for Retro Rubber 123 - Design Team Card

Welcome to a new challenge at Retro Rubber. It's one that everyone seems to enjoy - Anything Goes.
Of course, since this is Retro Rubber, the standard rules still apply: you must use at least one stamp that's a year or more old AND give us an approximate age for it.


This card uses not one but three older sets. One of the pleasures of getting them out after a break is that you can mix them up with new products. So while the sets are all older, this is the first time I've used the new Stampin' Up! Pigment Sprinkles. I'm loving the intensity of the colours, the ease with which they mix and bloom and the great little sprinkle pots (with lids) that they come in.


The gold embossed leaves come from Colourful Seasons, one of my favourite sets from the 2017 Annual Catalogue. The background for them is from Artisan Textures (AC 2018). I use this set a lot but I love these two stamps because they remind me of rain drops. I've used a mix of Mossy Meadow and Golden Glitz. Golden Glitz is one of the stars of the 2019 Holiday Catalogue: a gold pigment ink that stamps with great shine and coverage so you have to look twice to check it's not embossing. I like the informality of the 'Thanks' from A Big Thank You. (AC 2018)


To see what the rest of the team have done, and to link up your entry, pop over to the Retro Rubber Challenge site.

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.

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Tuesday, 10 September 2019

Retro Rubber 119 - Design Team Card

Welcome to the latest challenge at Retro Rubber, the site that gives you a reason to get out your old favourites. This week, we have a colour challenge for you. In New Zealand, we're heading into Spring but these autumnal colours are lovely any time of the year to me.


As always with Retro Rubber, the rules are simple. Use at least one stamp that's a year or more old, give us the approximate age of it, and don't link up to more than ten challenges.

The graphic put me in mind of one of my favourite sets from the 2017-18 Annual Catalogue, Colourful Seasons. I took the solid leaf stamp from it and stamped it onto watercolour paper. Then I wet the paper to get the ink moving a little bit which has given the images a soft, watercoloured look.


The sentiment is from A Big Thank You, which is still current, but premiered in the 2018-19 Annual Catalogue.


Why not pop over to the Retro Rubber Challenge blog, have a look at what the rest of the team have done with these colours and then join in with us?

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.



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Sunday, 4 November 2018

The Paper Players 417 - Design Team Card

It's theme week at The Paper Players and this week our theme is to give thanks.


There is no equivalent holiday to Thanksgiving in New Zealand, and it's rapidly heading towards summer here, but there's always room for Thank You cards in the stash. I opted for some autumnal colours for this card though, brought on by the sunflowers and leaves in the challenge graphic.



I totally fell in love with Floral Statements when the set first appeared in the Stampin' Up stable and now that I've got Stampin' Blends as well as coloured pencils to use with it, I love it even more! The blends are also really useful for giving us fully customised embellishments - aka coloured rhinestones.


I borrowed the little 'so much' from A Big Thank You, a real go-to set for all kinds of thank you cards. I used the label die from Petals & More and cut it shorter to suit the sentiment.

I also took inspiration from the sketch at Freshly Made Sketches this week.
We'd love to have you join us at The Paper Players and show us how you're giving thanks. Before you do, just check out our few rules:
  1. Create a new paper project.
  2. Upload your project to your blog with a link back to The Paper Players.
  3. Provide a direct link to your blog post for your challenge entry.
  4. Please link your card to no more than FOUR challenges (including ours).
  5. Enjoy!
Please take note of these few rules as entries that do not comply will be deleted from the gallery. 

If you live anywhere in New Zealand and don't have a Stampin' Up demonstrator, I'd love to help you with ideas and Stampin' Up products. Please message me through my Facebook page, linked in the sidebar of this blog or leave a comment below. 

And, of course, you can shop with me from anywhere in New Zealand by clicking any of the products pictured below or the SHOP NOW button in the sidebar of this blog or you can message me.

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