Thinking Stamping: Forever Blossoms

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Tuesday, 3 August 2021

Forever Blossoms for Retro Rubber 164

Welcome to a new challenge at Retro Rubber Challenge. This time, it's Anything Goes, which is almost true! Because it's RETRO rubber, of course you still need to use stamps that are a year or more old and give us an approximate age for them.

Forever Blossoms is a set that came out in the Occasions catalogue, January 2020. It's really a romantic occasions set, with some suitably romantic sentiments. While I was thinking of this as an Anniversary card, there are plenty of other times you might want to remind someone of how much they mean to you.

I started by stamping the large spray of flowers twice and colouring them with Stampin' Blends. Then I cut some flowers out of the second spray so I could layer them up on the final card.

I sponged some Pool Party onto the card front using a Blending Brush. The sponged area grounds the flowers while suggesting a hint of sky behind them.

For the Flirty Flamingo base, I stamped the flower spray stamp over it in Flirty Flamiingo ink. Then I set the white panel into one corner, rather than centrally, so that the pattern could be seen.

You can see what the rest of the Design Team have done, and link up your entry, by visiting the Retro Rubber Challenge site here.

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

Forever Blossoms Cling Stamp Set (English)

[151457]

$48.00

Cherry Blossoms Dies

[151456]

$76.00

Flirty Flamingo A4 Cardstock

[141421]

$18.50

Basic White A4 Cardstock

[159228]

$20.50

Flirty Flamingo Classic Stampin' Pad

[147052]

$15.75

Pool Party Classic Stampin' Pad

[147107]

$15.75

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad

[132708]

$12.00

Flirty Flamingo Stampin' Blends Combo Pack

[154884]

$19.00

Granny Apple Green Stampin' Blends Combo Pack

[154885]

$19.00

Blending Brushes

[153611]

$25.25

Rhinestone Basic Jewels

[144220]

$10.50

Stampin' Dimensionals

[104430]

$7.25

Wednesday, 12 August 2020

Forever Blossoms for CI83

Welcome to a new challenge at Colour Inkspiration. We're continuing our look at the 2020-2022 In Colours, this time showcasing Bumblebee. We'd love to see what do by mixing it up with Bumblebee, Mossy Meadow, Black and White.

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 two 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.

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

Like others on the Crew, the colours drew us to a floral set. I've used Forever Blossoms, although the sentiment is from Timeless Tulips.

I started by gold embossing the large floral image onto Shimmery White cardstock, then colouring it with ink and water painters. I used some of the left over ink and a water painter to flick a fine mist of Mossy Meadow onto the Whisper White front, which I then embossed using the Tasteful Textile embossing folder. If you've not got that one on your wish list, add it right now - it's fantastic!

The striking black lattice die cut comes is one of the dies in the Many Medallions dies.

We'd love to see what you make of these colours. You can add your project, see the other entries and look at the Design Team inspiration by clicking here.

Product List

Forever Blossoms Cling Stamp Set (English)

[151457]

$48.00

Timeless Tulips Photopolymer Stamp Set (English)

[151534]

$38.00

Basic Black A4 Card Stock

[121688]

$18.50

Whisper White A4 Card Stock

[106549]

$20.50

Bumblebee A4 Cardstock

[153082]

$18.50

2020–2022 In Color 6" X 6" (15.2 X 15.2 Cm) Designer Series Paper

[153070]

$24.25

Versamark Pad

[102283]

$20.00

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad

[132708]

$12.00

Bumblebee Classic Stampin' Pad

[153116]

$15.75

Mossy Meadow Classic Stampin' Pad

[147111]

$15.75

Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder

[109129]

$12.50

Tasteful Textile 3D Embossing Folder

[152718]

$19.00

Banners Pick A Punch

[153608]

$48.00

Cherry Blossoms Dies

[151456]

$76.00

Many Medallions Dies

[153584]

$71.00

Water Painters

[151298]

$25.25

Friday, 24 April 2020

Forever Blossoms for AYSI 224

At As You See It, we were blown away by both the number and quality of the entries in last week's Rainbow challenge. Talk about tough choices! I hope this week's Speed Stamping challenge excites you all just as much.

Speed stamping challenges both excite and daunt me. I'm always keen to give them a go but I'm always a bit worried I won't create anything worthwhile when I can't labour over each decision.

The secret to speed stamping is to have mentally made all your decision before you start. The second secret is to have assembled your gear. And I mean gear, not kits. Have the embossing folder you plan to use already on the desk and not in the drawer with everything else. Have the stamps you intend to use blocked up already. Have the heat gun plugged in and ready to switch on. But the moment you start using any tools: cut the card, ink up the stamp, emboss a strip of card, punch a shape - then you've started and clock should be ticking.

For this card I went with an all-over stamped pattern and a big sentiment. With a stamp as lovely as Forever Blossoms, it's hard to go too wrong.

After stamping all over a piece of Whisper White, I ran it through the embossing machine using the Subtle folder. Then I distressed the edge in Rococo Rose.

The big sentiment from So Sentimental, and cut out with the coordinating Stitched So Sweetly dies, is white-embossed and popped up on dimensionals. I had time to add in some white Polka Dot Tulle Ribbon, although if the clock had been running closer to the end, I'd have omitted this.

The final time - 9 minutes and 5 seconds. Of course, the other thing about Speed Stamping is that the time doesn't include cleaning up the craftermath!

We'd love to see what you can put together with flowers and ten minutes of actual making time.

You can see what the rest of the team have done over at As You See It Challenge site and you can link up your entries there too.

Product List

Forever Blossoms Cling Stamp Set (English)

[151457]

$48.00

So Sentimental Bundle (English)

[153828]

$101.50

Rococo Rose A4 Cardstock

[150888]

$18.50

Whisper White A4 Card Stock

[106549]

$20.50

Rococo Rose Classic Stampin’ Pad

[150080]

$15.75

Versamark Pad

[102283]

$20.00

White Stampin' Emboss Powder

[109132]

$12.50

Whisper White 5/8" (1.6 Cm) Polka Dot Tulle Ribbon

[146912]

$15.75

Subtle 3D Embossing Folder

[151775]

$20.00

Rhinestone Basic Jewels

[144220]

$10.50

Stamping Sponges

[141337]

$8.50

Wednesday, 11 March 2020

Forever Blossoms for CI73 - Crew Card

It's time for a new challenge at Colour Inkspiration.

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.

If you play with us regularly, you'll notice a couple of changes from this point forward. We will no longer be doing a Design Team Blog Hop to kick off each challenge. Instead, there will be an album of Design Team projects for you to look at for inspiration. If there is a blog post on a particular project, there will be a link to it in the comments. Secondly, we will no longer be holding a poll of the Top 5 picks to choose a winner. A Top 5 and overall Winner will be selected by the Design Team and announced. The winner will still be offered the chance to Guest Design with us for a future challenge.

This time around we have this lovely inspiration for you. The picture was taken by Sally Graham, a friend of Liz Gross - one of our crew members. What a fabulous image!

So the colours for us this fortnight are Highland Heather, So Saffron and Mossy Meadow. That combination sent me straight to a floral image. I love the detailed spray of flowers in Forever Blossoms, one of the sets from the January-June Mini Catalogue. After stamping the spray in Tuxedo Black, I coloured it with Stampin' Blends in Highland Heather, So Saffron and Mossy Meadow. After die-cutting it out, I also die cut out the same shape twice more in Mossy Meadow and stacked them. That way, a subtle Mossy Meadow shadow helped define the floral image.

I built up the background for the image by sponging in So Saffron and then overstamping it with the script stamp from Very Versailles, also in So Saffron. Then I added in some open splats from Artisan Textures in Highland Heather.

The pearls are subtly coloured with a dark So Saffron Stampin' Blend. The sentiment, from Good Morning Magnolia, makes the card a versatile one - suitable for many occasions from a birthday to 'just because'.

You have a fortnight to join in the challenge. We'd love to see what you do with this pretty colour palette, so make sure you join up on the Facebook Group, Colour Inkspiration.

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