Thinking Stamping: Artistic Mix Decorative Masks

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Friday, 16 February 2024

Trusty Toolbox for AYSI 317

Welcome to Recipe Challenge week at As You See It. This week, your mission is to take the five given ingredients and see what you can concoct with them. Team member Jane was thinking of Robbie Burns' Night when she popped some plaid into the mix for this one!

For some reason, plaid makes me think of masculine, so that's where I went. Curiously, this card used no stamps at all!

I used the Artistic Mix Decorative Masks to create the plaid background - tick for PLAID.

I used the Metal Plate 3D Embossing Folder for the Lost Lagoon tag - tick for EMBOSSING FOLDER.

I used Tailor Made Tags dies to create the two tags and the Mini Alphabet dies for 'DAD' - tick for DIE CUTS.

I used 2023-2025 In Color Dots in Copper Clay - tick for DOTS

I used the Baker's Twine Essentials Pack for the Gray Granite twine that ties the tags - tick for TWINE.

The tools are not stamps at all but are fussy cut from the Trusty Toolbox DSP, which is one of the Sale-a-bration items - free with qualifying purchase until the end of February. While this DSP does coordinate with a fantastic masculine tool kit bundle, it works a treat all on its own.

For details on how to make this card, you can view the tutorial below.

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.

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Orders placed with me can earn free tutorials.

Any order of $90 or more will receive the Creativity Abounds Tutorial Bundle, with 13 projects, as a thank you gift. The current theme is 'Birthdays'.
And if you purchase the Gorgeous Garden dies or the Hooray for Surprises bundle, you'll also receive a project bundle from 'Join in with Joanne and Jan' which will give you two project tutorials from me and two from my buddy Joanne James, aka The Crafty Owl.

Wednesday, 10 January 2024

Painted Lavender for Colour INKspiration 158

Welcome back to Colour INKspiration! This is our first challenge for 2024 and we're celebrating with a gorgeous summery palette. I hope you've had a great Christmas and New Year break and are back refreshed and inspired!

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 three 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. This challenge is open for FIVE weeks to accommodate the summer holidays, so closes on Monday 12 February 7pm (AEST).

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

I loved the colours of the beach blending in ocean in the graphic, so it got me thinking of ink blending. Of course, I also had new things on my desk from new January-April Mini Catalogue and Sale-a-bration, so one thing lead quickly to another....

I stamped the images from Painted Lavender in Blueberry Bushel onto Fluid100 Watercolor Paper, then blended over some Fresh Freesia, Petal Pink and Pool Party, then put the Decorative Mask over the whole thing before blending again to pick out the pattern. You do have to leave the image to dry before doing the blending as it can smear, so in hindsight it might have been easier to do the blending THEN the stamping! Although this way, I could see exactly where the image was and so how far to extend the ink blended background: six of one, half dozen of the other.

The sentiment is from Perennial Postage and is cut from one of the lovely circle dies from Everyday Details. I mounted it onto a circle of Silver Glimmer paper (online exclusive product), cut with Stylish Shapes. The beautiful Pool Party ribbon is a Sale-a-bration item.

You can shop with me from anywhere in New Zealand by clicking here.

Orders over $90 will receive, as a free gift, the latest Creativity Abounds Tutorial Bundle. This bundle of 13 PDF tutorials is on the theme of Birthdays.

Here's a peek at the whole tutorial package.

Product List

Painted Lavender Bundle

[162597]

$99.00

Perennial Postage Bundle (English)

[162608]

$108.75

Everyday Details Dies

[162864]

$72.00

Stylish Shapes Dies

[159183]

$63.00

Pool Party A4 Card Stock

[124391]

$21.00

Blueberry Bushel A4 Cardstock

[146991]

$21.00

Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper

[149612]

$19.00

Silver & Gold 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Adhesive Backed Glimmer Paper

[162288]

$14.75

Pool Party Classic Stampin' Pad

[147107]

$19.00

Petal Pink Classic Stampin' Pad

[147108]

$19.00

Fresh Freesia Classic Stampin' Pad

[155611]

$19.00

Iridescent Rhinestones Basic Jewels

[158130]

$15.75

Pool Party 5/8" (1.6 Cm) Crinkle Ribbon

[162980]

$0.00

Thursday, 22 September 2022

Season of Chic for Paper Players 609

I love leaf and foliage stamps. I also like Clean and Simple so it was hard to resist playing along with The Paper Players this week.

I started with the Artistic Mix Decorative masks and created a horizontal ground with Crushed Curry and Calypso Coral before stamping one of the leaves from Season of Chic in Early Espresso.

After that, it was a simple matter to add a couple of die cut leaves, one of which had a stamped under-layer, and a sentiment. The label die for the sentiment comes from the Meadow die set.

After some internal deliberation, I added a couple of Brushed Metallic Adhesive dots to finish.

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 on any of the products below.

Product List

Season Of Chic Bundle (English)

[158816]

$121.50

Meadow Dies

[155852]

$80.00

Early Espresso A4 Card Stock

[121686]

$19.50

Basic White A4 Cardstock

[159228]

$21.75

Distressed Gold 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Specialty Paper

[159237]

$10.50

Artistic Mix Decorative Masks

[159178]

$21.00

Blending Brushes

[153611]

$26.25

Early Espresso Classic Stampin' Pad

[147114]

$17.00

Crushed Curry Classic Stampin' Pad

[147087]

$17.00

Calypso Coral Classic Stampin' Pad

[147101]

$17.00

Brushed Metallic Adhesive Backed Dots

[156506]

$19.00

Stampin' Dimensionals

[104430]

$9.00

Wednesday, 7 September 2022

Waves of Inspiration for Stampin' Fancy Friday

Today I'm sharing with you the card I made for this month's Instagram Inspiration for Stampin' Fancy Friday. The Stampin' Fancy Friday crew is made up of past and current Stampin' Up! Artisan Design Team members and, each month, we have an inspiration topic that we share projects on throughout the month on Instagram. If you don't already follow @stampinfancyfriday, then go do it so you don't miss any of the team's great ideas.

Our theme this month is 'Boys to Men' - so masculine projects.

I've used the Artistic Mix Decorative Masks and the Waves of Inspiration bundle for my project.