Retro Rubber 72 - DT Card

Welcome to Retro Rubber, the challenge that encourages you to look up your old stamps and give them some ink. This week, we'd like you to look up your backlist of stamps and make a card that uses some form of transportation.

When I first started stamping and I hadn't yet become a Stampin' Up girl, I dipped my feet into the world of on-line purchasing and got a few things from Clearly Besotted. This was around late 2014/early 2015. Included in that purchase a set called Good Times. It has this cute bicycle and various accessories such as the basket and a flight of butterflies.

Good Times is teamed up here with some new Stampin' Up product: the ombre Crushed Curry DSP from the Colour Theory suite, the Pick a Pattern washi tape and the enamel shapes. I think the Calypso Coral twine is now retired.

We'd love you to join up with this challenge with your own transportation creation.

Just remember that you need to use at least one stamp older than a year, give us some indication of how old it is and don't link up to more than ten challenges in total.

You have two weeks to join in with us and we'd love to see what you do.

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

Ingredients

Card: Crushed Curry, Whisper White, Colour Theory DSP

Stamps: Clearly Besotted Good Times

Inks: Tuxedo Black, Calypso Coral

Other: Clearly Besotted Good Times dies, Pick a Pattern washi tape, dimensionals, Calypso Coral thick baker's twine, enamel shapes

All products Stampin' Up unless otherwise noted.

As You See It 158 - DT card

This week, at As You See It Challenge, we've a very pretty sketch for you to play with.

I'm still in Christmas mode,  although this card uses hardly anything that is explicitly a Christmas set, except for the sentiment which is from Hearts Come Home. This set and the silver snowflake doily are in the newly released in the Holiday Catalogue.

These gorgeous snowflakes are from the Seasonal Layers dies, part of the Colour Theory suite. The crackly-patterned DSP is also from the Colour Theory suite.

We'd love to have you join us at As You See It. You have two weeks to play with us. Just link up by Wednesday 20 September and show us your creation.

If you live in New Zealand and don't have a demonstrator, please feel free to contact me. I'd love to help you out with ideas and Stampin' Up supplies. There's a link to my Facebook page in the sidebar if you'd like to message me.

Ingredients

Card: Dapper Denim, Colour Theory stack, Whisper White, Marina Mist, Vellum

Stamps: Hearts Come Home

Ink: Dapper Denim

Other: Seasonal Layers thinlits, silver Snowflake doily, Dapper Denim ruched ribbon (retired), narrow silver ribbon, faceted gems, rhinestones.

All products Stampin' Up.

The Paper Players 353 - DT card

Welcome to Claire's CAS Summer Fun in the Water challenge at The Paper Players. I have to tell you that this challenge has special significance to me because as this post goes live, my husband and I will be enjoying the fun and sun in Tahiti, where we've gone for a winter get-away.

As gloom and winter ills have surrounded us for the last few weeks, the prospect of a warm beach and sunshine seemed very attractive so I was drawn to my new Colourful Seasons set and the deckchairs in it. I hope I'm sitting on one right now! I gave them a masked and sponged background: sand, sea and sky. I made the sponging a bit rougher than usual to add to the sense of ocean movement and sandiness.

The chairs are a two-step stamp so I stamped the base on to the sand but I paper-pieced the seat using papers from the Colour Theory paper stack. To get the shape right, I stamped the seat using versamark and clear embossed it before fussy cutting it. Then I shaded under the seat to give some solidity to the chairs. 

The drinks are popped up on dimensionals. I hope I've got some of those on the beach with me too!

I cut one of the snowflakes in Crushed Curry to be a stylised sun to ground the sentiment, which is from Clearly Besotted's Say it in Style. And I added in some starfish from By the Shore for some more marine life. 

I do hope you'll join us for this fun CAS challenge. Here's a reminder of our few rules.

1. Create a NEW paper-craft project specifically for this challenge.
2. Upload your creation to your blog with a link back to us.
3. Please provide a direct link to the post featuring your challenge entry.
4. Please link your card to no more than four challenges, TOTAL. Entries linked to more than 4 challenges, including ours, will be deleted without notification.
5. Have fun!

Ingredients

Card: Bermuda Bay, Watercolour paper, Colour Theory DSP

Stamps: Colourful Seasons, By the shore, Clearly Besotted Say it in Style.

Inks: Bermuda Bay, Dapper Denim, Crushed Curry, Crumb Cake, Early Espresso, versamark

Other: Seasonal Layers thinlits, dimensionals, clear embossing powder, glitter enamel dots, sponges

As You See It Challenge 151 - DT card

Welcome to a new challenge at As You See It Challenge, the challenge that lets you use any style you like. This week we have a sketch challenge for you.

With the 2017-18 annual catalogue going live this week, it seemed a good chance to play with some of the pre-order products that I had. I've used part of the very versatile Colour Theory suite. There are stamps, dies and paper to match all seasons in this suite.

I actually made this card for my husband's birthday this week. The sunny colours and beach chair are a happy contrast to the winter scenes outside our window.  I sponged the stitched framelit square with Crushed Curry and Crumb Cake to make a 'beach'. The deck chair was fun to stamp but it was the glass of pineapple juice - or maybe it's a pina colada -  that was the clincher for me. It immediately made me think tropical island holiday, which is exactly what we have to look forward to next month.

I tried out one of the snowflake images by stamping it in Crushed Curry so that it would look like sunshine instead of snow. I perched the drink on top of the sentiment strip so it would look like it was perched on a bar.

I like the ombre papers in the Colour Theory stack, which this Crushed Curry banner is one variant of, but my favourite is this crackle effect paper. You'll love it when you see it for real! 

The little glitter enamel dot is also a new item in the catalogue and designed to accompany the four colours in this suite.

So please, join us for our sketch challenge. You have two weeks to join us. Link up by 11.55 p.m. Wednesday June 14 PST.

If you live in New Zealand and don't have a demonstrator, I'd love to be yours. Feel free to contact me. There's a link to my Facebook page in the sidebar of this blog.

Ingredients

Card: Dapper Denim, Whisper White, DSP from the Colour Theory stack

Stamps: Colourful Seasons, Thoughtful Banners

Inks: Crushed Curry, Dapper Denim, Soft Suede, Crumb Cake

Other: Stitched Shapes framelits, Seasonal Layers dies, Glitter enamel dots, dimensionals, sponges