Showing posts with label Beauty Abounds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Beauty Abounds. Show all posts

Wednesday, 31 March 2021

Beauty Abounds for Retro Rubber 155

 Welcome to the Retro Rubber's new challenge. This time it's a rainbow theme challenge: use either a rainbow, or rainbow colours, to create your card. Make sure that you use at least one stamp that is a year or more old, and tell us the approximate age of the stamp.


With the posting of the retiring list last week, I've been looking through my shelves and beginning my goodbyes. The Beauty Abounds stamp set and the coordinating Butterfly Beauty dies will no longer be available after the end of April and have been with us since January 2019. It was nice to be reminded of them so I decided to use them for this challenge. 

I started with a piece of Shimmery Cardstock and painted a rainbow stripe all over it using inks and a waterpainter.  Once it was dry, I cut out one layer of the Butterfly Beauty die from it and cut the second layer from Whisper White.


Once the two layers were together, I attached them to a piece of Whisper White and added it to a Thick Whisper White card base.


The sentiment, from Beauty Abounds, is white embossed onto Basic Grey card. To finish off the rainbow effect, I added is some sequins from the retired Iridescent Sequins while keeping to the rainbow colours.

You can see what the rest of the team have done and link up your entry by visiting 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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Note: The Iridescent sequin assortment is retired

Thursday, 12 March 2020

Butterfly Gala for Retro Rubber 130 - Design Team Card

It's time to get sketchy at Retro Rubber Challenge! Jane's given us a great sketch to work with and as usual, we ask you to use at least one stamp that's more than a year old AND tell us the approximate age of it.


Some of my favourites from last year's Occasions catalogue (January 2019) were the two butterfly sets, Butterfly Gala and Beauty Abounds. I've used both of them here: the punched butterflies are from Butterfly Gala while the lovely background swirls are from Beauty Abounds. Both of these sets, and the matching Butterfly punch, are still currently available.


The butterflies are copper embossed and sponged with Petal Pink. The mat layer of the card front is copper foil, embossed with the Scripty folder. This folder is so lovely - it adds elegance wherever it appears. The warmth of the foil is picked up in the Champagne rhinestones, a new product from the January-June Mini Catalogue.


We'd love to have you join in the challenge and show us how you see the sketch. You can visit the Retro Rubber Challenge site to see what the rest of the team have done with it and to link up your entry. You can play along until 20 March.

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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Friday, 26 April 2019

As You See It 199 - Design Team Card

Welcome to a new challenge at As You See It. This week, we have a colour challenge. Amanda's given us one that I found to be particularly challenging!


I thought I'd try to go subtle, since Lovely Lipstick and Pineapple Punch are in-your-face kind of colours but somehow, it didn't end up being in the least bit subtle...


This die set, Butterfly Beauty, is stunning all by itself. It co-ordinates with the Beauty Abounds stamp set. It's lovely layered like this but also works well in its separate layers. It can also be carefully cut apart so that you can use small groups, or even single, butterflies. I haven't used it whole like this anywhere near often enough, so I simply layered it using Powder Pink and Lovely Lipstick.

The background is made from a mix of shaving foam, Pineapple Punch inkpad and Powder Pink re-inker. Each of the inks was applied with an acrylic block, in the style of the Kim Jolley


If you'd like to see what the rest of the team have done with this colour combo, visit them at As You See It. Then get out your ink and join in with us. We'd love to see how YOU see it!

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. 


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