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.

Product List

Note: The Iridescent sequin assortment is retired

Beauty Abounds Cling Stamp Set

[148726]

$48.00

Butterfly Beauty Dies

[151819]

$82.00

Whisper White A4 Thick Cardstock

[140490]

$17.25

Whisper White A4 Card Stock

[106549]

$20.50

Shimmery White A4 Card Stock

[121717]

$21.00

Basic Gray A4 Card Stock

[121689]

$18.50

Versamark Pad

[102283]

$20.00

White Stampin' Emboss Powder

[109132]

$12.50

Water Painters

[151298]

$25.25

Real Red Classic Stampin' Pad

[147084]

$15.75

Pumpkin Pie Classic Stampin' Pad

[147086]

$15.75

Daffodil Delight Classic Stampin' Pad

[147094]

$15.75

Granny Apple Green Stampin' Pad

[147095]

$15.75

Pacific Point Classic Stampin' Pad

[147098]

$15.75

Highland Heather Classic Stampin' Pad

[147103]

$15.75

Gorgeous Grape Classic Stampin' Pad

[147099]

$15.75

Iridescent Sequin Assortment

[144212]

$10.50

Stampin' Dimensionals

[104430]

$7.25

Itty Bitty Birthdays for Retro Rubber 144

This week at Retro Rubber, we have an 'Anything Goes' challenge. Of course, since this is Retro Rubber it's not quite anything goes. You still have to use at least one stamp that's a year or more old AND give us an approximate age for it.

I've made a quick, easy card that is very dramatic because of the black background and brightly coloured die-cut.  However, the design could be made in any colour - maybe Petal Pink on Whisper White for a baby girl?

A couple of years ago, I held a card class where we coloured a white glimmer paper using Brusho and then cut the resulting coloured paper using the Butterfly Beauty dies. The results were spectacular but oh my, it was so, so much easier to just use the new Rainbow Glimmer Paper! Isn't it lovely, the way it moves from colour to colour?

While the Butterfly Beauty dies have been around for a couple of years, the Ornate Floral embossing folder is new as are the 2020-2022 In-Colour enamel dots.

The greeting is from Itty Bitty Birthdays, one of my favourite sentiment sets which came out in the Occasions catalogue, January 2019. The pretty little stitched banner is from Tasteful Labels.

You can see what the rest of the team have done with this challenge, and link up your entry, by visiting the Retro Rubber Challenge site. We'd love to see what you do and what stamps you have in your stash.

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

Itty Bitty Birthdays Cling Stamp Set

[148618]

$48.00

Basic Black A4 Card Stock

[121688]

$18.50

Whisper White A4 Card Stock

[106549]

$20.50

Rainbow Glimmer Paper

[153056]

$12.50

Ornate Floral 3D Embossing Folder

[152725]

$19.00

Butterfly Beauty Dies

[151819]

$82.00

Tasteful Labels Dies

[152886]

$65.00

2020–2022 In Color Enamel Dots

[152480]

$16.75

Stampin' Dimensionals

[104430]

$7.25

Butterfly Beauty dies for TGIF259

The sketch at TGIF Challenge was timely, as I'd been going through my bits box the day before and found a pretty Blushing Bride die cut from the Butterfly Beauty dies. I thought that would be perfect for the overlapping shapes in the sketch and so built the rest of the card from there.

The background piece was embossed using the new Ornate Floral embossing folder. Then I trimmed the edges with one of the dies from Ornate Borders, before gold embossing it with a stamp from Artisan Textures.

The sentiment is also gold embossed, with the tiny heart coloured in with a Blushing Bride Stampin' Write marker. Both the sentiment and the scalloped, stitched edge rectangle are from the Stitched So Sweetly dies, companions to the So Sentimental stamp set.

The final touch was a triple twist of linen thread and matching triple bow.

Thank you TGIF team - great challenge!

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

So Sentimental Bundle (English)

[153828]

$101.50

Butterfly Beauty Dies

[148536]

$82.00

Artisan Textures Cling-Mount Stamp Set

[151278]

$36.00

Ornate Borders Dies

[152724]

$71.00

Sahara Sand A4 Card Stock

[121695]

$18.50

Whisper White A4 Card Stock

[106549]

$20.50

Card Stock A4 Blushing Bride

[131287]

$18.50

Versamark Pad

[102283]

$20.00

Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder

[109129]

$12.50

Ornate Floral 3D Embossing Folder

[152725]

$19.00

Linen Thread

[104199]

$10.50

Subtles Stampin' Write Markers

[147156]

$62.50

Stampin' Dimensionals

[104430]

$7.25

The Paper Players 420 - Design Team Card

This week, we have a sketch for you to play with at The Paper Players.

One of the advantages of being a demonstrator is access to new product before it is generally available. If you go to an On Stage event, it gets even better: you get it even ahead of other demonstrators. So it's been bothering me that my box of new goodies has been sitting largely unused owing to commitments with extra card classes and having taken on some temporary work with school exams. So today, I was determined to use this beautiful bundle from the forthcoming Occasions catalogue for today's Design Team Card.

The Beauty Abounds set combines with the Butterfly Beauty thinlits in a stunning way. The butterfly thinlits layer with each other so can be used separately or together. In this card, I've used both layers and I've snipped out some of them from the bunch to make them the focus of a smaller space. The tiny butterflies and the spray of foliage are extras in the die set.

The set also co-ordinates with one of the Saleabration offerings: Botanical Butterly DSP, which I've used a small sliver of as one of the two rectangular elements. The other one I have self-stamped using a lovely floral spray stamp from Beauty Abounds, which I've also used behind the big butterflies.

I went a bit old-school and broke out my distressing sponges and sponged the edges of all the panels. My favourite Annual Catalogue embossing folder, the Subtle folder, was used as well to give some interest to the background.

Visit the rest of the Paper Players team to see what they've done with this versatile sketch, then join in with us!

Here's a quick reminder of 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 not 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.

Product List
Note: Beauty Abounds bundle and Botanical Butterfly DSP will be available in January. Add them to your wish list.

Basic Black A4 Card Stock

[121688]

$17.75

Whisper White A4 Card Stock

[106549]

$20.50

Lemon Lime Twist A4 Cardstock

[144250]

$17.75

Highland Heather A4 Cardstock

[147010]

$17.75

Lemon Lime Twist Classic Stampin' Pad

[147145]

$15.75

Daffodil Delight Classic Stampin' Pad

[147094]

$15.75

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad

[132708]

$12.00

Subtle Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder

[143706]

$20.00

Stamping Sponges

[141337]

$7.25

Layering Squares Framelits Dies

[141708]

$69.00