Fab Friday 105

There's a fabulous sketch at Fab Friday this week.

I was tidying up my box of glimmer papers when I came across this Blushing Bride heart, left over from a class last February. It ended up being the basis for this card.

Ingredients

Card: Sahara Sand, Very Vanilla, Blushing Bride glimmer paper, Falling in Love DSP.

Stamps: Floral Phrases, Bloomin' Love, Delicate Details

Inks: Sahara Sand

Other: Bloomin' Hearts thinlits, dimensionals, rhinestones.

As You See It DT Challenge 142

It's so good to have the As You See It challenge back up and running. If you joined us last week for our return, then thank you. If you're just joining us, then welcome! This week we have another sketch for you.

This one turned into a challenge for me as at first I didn't even notice the tucked in elements at each side of the front panel on the sketch we were given! That caused a bit of a rethink!

I've been playing around a lot with wedding and anniversary cards because I'd purchased the Falling in Love DSP and Falling for You stamp set from Stampin' Up plus I recently held a Saturday Special class with a wedding and romance theme. Although this card was not one of the ones I taught, I had all the things on my desk so I naturally played around with them some more - as you do!

I don't know about you, but I find mixing designer papers a bit tricky probably because I so seldom use DSP in my cards. At least with Stampin' Up, you know things will work together.

I'm really liking the lacy edge design from Delicate Details, which is my favourite Sale-a-bration item this year. You can earn the whole set for free with any order of $110. It's so pretty gold embossed but just as lovely in plain ink.

You have until 11.55pm PST on Wednesday 8 February to join us in this challenge. We'd love to see what you do with it.

Ingredients

Card: Sahara Sand, Very Vanilla, DSP from Falling in Love

Stamps: Falling for You, Delicate Details

Inks: Versamark

Other: gold embossing powder, 1/4" Very Vanilla ribbon, lace doilies

Inkspire Me 284

By chance the new challenge at Inkspire Me matches up beautifully with the new Stampin' Up supplies I got earlier in the week. Naturally, I needed no more encouragement than this colour challenge to get into my craft room and play around.

The colours in the challenge are all colours that are used in the new Falling in Love DSP. I don't usually use much DSP, preferring instead to use stamps and ink to create my own backgrounds. I often end up buying paper because it's pretty then struggle to use it, so today I made it my own sub-challenge to make sure that I used some.

I spent a bit of time before I was happy with the central flower. I've stamped the flower, put in a layer of vellum then added the outline die cut. The centre of the flower is cut from Sahara Sand then a rhinestone has been added. The vellum toned down the Sweet Sugarplum and let the die cut stand out more and then it's been give a lick of Wink of Stella, which hasn't shown up so well in the photo.

If you live in New Zealand and are interested in any of the products used today, please click on the Shop Now button on the side bar, or visit my Jan Clothier - Independent Stampin' Up Demonstrator facebook page. I would love to be your demonstrator.

Ingredients

Card: Sweet Sugarplum, Soft Sky, Very Vanilla, Sahara Sand, Falling in Love DSP, vellum

Stamps: Falling for You, Special Reason

Ink: Sweet Sugarplum, Sahara Sand, Soft Sky

Other: Layering Oval framelits, Sweet Sugarplum ruched ribbon, Stylish Stems framelits, rhinestones, clear Wink of Stella, dimensionals.

All products are Stampin' Up.