Retro Rubber 82 - Design Team Card

Welcome to a new challenge at Retro Rubber - the challenge that lets you get out all your old favourites. This week, it's a Tic Tac Toe challenge and I'm particularly happy about it because this is the first time ever that I've made up the challenge. So, I've got a vested interest in hoping that you enjoy this challenge!

I've played the middle line - twine, die-cut, green. I've used the limited edition Thoughtful Branches and the associated Beautiful Branches dies from 2016 but I've mixed it up with some new colours and washi tape.

I think that the chance to breathe new life into older stamps by mixing them up with new products is one of the nicest things about Retro Rubber Challenge. It's also a chance to revisit old favourites that have languished behind the new toys.

We'd love to see what you do with this challenge - and I particularly would love to see what you make of the grid. Just make sure you use at least one stamp that's older than a year, give us an indication of how old it is and don't link up to more than ten other challenges.

I'm also taking inspiration from the challenge at The Card Concept. You can link up with this challenge until Monday 19 March. The trickiest part of this challenge is to describe your style. Upon reading the definitions, I think I'm too busy to be Clean and Simple and perhaps not layered enough to be Clean and Layered. So I can only conclude that my card is Clean and Simply Layered!

The gorgeous photo provided inspiration not only in the variety of greens but in the little details such as the twine on the travel tag.

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. Sale-a-bration is on and there's a new Special Occasion Catalogue out. Please message me through my Facebook page, linked in the sidebar of this blog or leave a comment below. 

If you live in New Zealand and you would like to join my Stampin' Up team, message me for a chat. And, of course, you can shop with me from anywhere in New Zealand by clicking the SHOP NOW icon in the sidebar or from my Facebook page.

Ingredients

Card: Tranquil Tide, Whisper White, Lemon-Lime Twist, Crumb Cake

Stamps: Beautiful Branches

Inks: Tranquil Tide, Lemon-Lime Twist, Garden Green

Other: Beautiful Branches dies, Layering Circles framelits, Linen twine, Washi Tape Basic Pack 2, dimensionals, rhinestone

The Paper Players 38 - Design Team Card

Joanne has a great colour challenge for us this week at The Paper Players. This is a challenge with many possibilities: soft and romantic, bold and bright, a little bit sassy or something else altogether?

Although I started out with visions of soft, romantic pastels and florals, somehow I ended up in the 'something else altogether' camp!

My Lovely Inside and Out stamp set, which bundles with the Lovely Words dies, has been sadly under utilised. I have someone in the family going through some tough times who lives a long way away, so I was thinking of sending a card to her. This set fits the bill perfectly for that. 

I had out on my desk several shades of pink, trying to make one of them speak to me, when I had an 'aha' moment. Why not use them all?!

I used the stitched circle framelit to cut out the 'Hugs' so I could back it with a plain circle. The Flirty Flamingo enamel shapes have sadly retired now.

We'd love to see what you do with this colour challenge. Here's a reminder of the rules of the challenge.

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!

Pop over to The Paper Players to see the creations of the rest of the Design Team.

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. Sale-a-bration is on and there's a new Special Occasion Catalogue out. 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 the SHOP NOW button in the sidebar of this blog.

Product List

Lovely Inside & Out Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[144011]

$42.00

Flirty Flamingo Classic Stampin' Pad

[141397]

$14.00

Powder Pink Classic Stampin' Pad

[144084]

$14.00

Berry Burst Classic Stampin' Pad

[144083]

$14.00

Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies

[145372]

$60.00

Lovely Words Thinlits Dies

[143733]

$54.00

Basic Black A4 Card Stock

[121688]

$17.00

Whisper White A4 Card Stock

[106549]

$19.25

Berry Burst A4 Cardstock

[144249]

$17.00

Freshly Made Sketches 327

I was in my room this afternoon playing around with Brusho because I was thinking about a class in using Brusho that I'm running next weekend. I played around with colouring the rose from Beautiful Day and tried layering it up. It turned out so prettily that I made it into a card for the sketch at Freshly Made Sketches.

When I was cutting back the second rose for the top layer, I took it one petal at a time to decide how it looked best. I added a gold faceted gem to the centre to tie in with the gold embossing more. The gold washi tape along the diagonal line is sadly retired.

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. Sale-a-bration is on and there's a new Special Occasion Catalogue out. 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. Just click on the SHOP NOW button in the sidebar of this blog or click on any of the items in the Product List below.

Product List

Beautiful Day Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[145915]

$44.00

Brusho Crystal Colour

[144101]

$63.00

Basic Black A4 Card Stock

[121688]

$17.00

Watercolor Paper

[122959]

$10.75

Petal Passion Designer Series Paper

[145589]

$23.50

Versamark Pad

[102283]

$18.25

Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder

[109129]

$10.75

Gold Faceted Gems

[144141]

$10.75

Wild Wasabi Classic Stampin' Pad

[126959]

$14.00

Aqua Painters

[103954]

$24.00

As You See It 171 - Design Team Card

What an interesting new challenge we've got for you this week at As You See It! It's a recipe - make something that uses all the ingredients and see what you come up with.

'One word' is pretty straight forward but as for the rest? How do you see it? This is what I did.

I used my watercolour pencils and aqua painter to make a rainbow panel which I slipped underneath a row of confetti stars punched out of the white card front. I used the same star confetti punch on a second rainbow panel but this time, I kept the punched stars. The trickiest part of the card was attaching some of those punched stars to the card front so they looked like falling confetti. They were very fiddly beasts! 

The single word, 'celebrate' is stacked up on several layers of black to give some depth and extra definition. The 'wide' is the wide shape of the actual card.

We'd love to see what you do with this challenge. You can join us up until Wednesday 21 March. 

Pop over to As You See It Challenge and see what the rest of the team have done with this recipe.

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. Sale-a-bration is on and there's a new Special Occasion Catalogue out. 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. Just click on the SHOP NOW button in the sidebar of this blog.

Ingredients - all products Stampin' Up

Card: Basic Black, Whisper White, Gold glimmer paper, watercolour paper

Colour: Watercolour pencils

Other: Celebrate You thinlits, Star Confetti punch, aqua painter

Less is More 366

Sadly, I have had need for sympathy cards of late. The challenge at Less is More has turned out to be a chance to add to my supply of these.

I kept coming back to the gorgeous Heartfelt Blooms set from Stampin' Up. The new style of stamp creates an image almost like an old-fashioned lithograph and is perfect for a simple, monochrome card, even though it also lends itself to colouring.  It actually looks amazing in just about any colour and makes a great background stamp too. This set is a Sale-a-bration item so is only available as a free gift with a qualifying purchase of $110 and only until the end of March.

You can see the beautiful shading in the stamp in this close-up.

If you live in New Zealand and would like to know how to get this fabulous set, then please message me via my Facebook page, linked in the sidebar, or leave a comment below.

Product List

Heartfelt Blooms Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[147202]

$0.00

Whisper White A4 Card Stock

[106549]

$19.25

Card Stock A4 Smoky Slate

[131291]

$17.00

Basic Black A4 Card Stock

[121688]

$17.00

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad

[132708]

$12.00

Black Rhinestone Jewels

[144639]

$11.00

The Paper Players 383 - Design Team Card

Welcome to a new challenge at The Paper Players. This week, Jaydee has a theme for us.

I see that the tulips in the graphic really grabbed the attention of the rest of the design team. For me, I know it's really spring when the camellias start to bloom so I got out the retired Avant Garden for this challenge. I know they're not really camellias but when they're stamped together like this, they do put me in mind of a laden camellia tree.

The Petal Burst embossing folder adds in a subtle touch of spring to the card as well.

We'd love to have you join us at The Paper Players this week. Here's a reminder of the rules of the challenge.

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!

Pop over to The Paper Players to see the creations of the rest of the Design Team.

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. Sale-a-bration is on and there's a new Special Occasion Catalogue out. 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 the SHOP NOW button in the sidebar of this blog.

Inspiration for this card also came from the sketch at Freshly Made Sketches.

Update: Delighted to be a Perfect Princess at Freshly Made Sketches this week.

Ingredients - all products Stampin' Up

Card: Whisper White, Flirty Flamingo, Basic Black

Stamps: Avant Garden (retired), Perennial Birthday

Inks: Powder Pink, Flirty Flamingo, Wild Wasabi, Tuxedo Black, Versamark

Other: Petal Burst embossing folder, White embossing powder, rhinestones

Colour Inkspiration 28

Once again, the team at Colour Inkspiration have come up with an irresistible colour combination: tempting but tough!

I'm continuing my love affair with the Sale-a-bration duo Amazing You stamps and Celebrate You thinlits in this challenge.

I started by sponging an area of Lemon-Lime Twist then stencilling over it with Bermuda Bay and Sweet Sugarplum.

The 'amazing' has two layers of Soft Suede underneath it and although I've not intentionally offset them to give a definite shadow, the layering has produced a very subtle hint of Soft Suede anyway.

The gorgeous branch die cut is from Petals & More, part of the Petal Palette suite. Isn't it wonderful? And so very versatile!

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. Sale-a-bration is on and there's a new Special Occasion Catalogue out. Please message me through my Facebook page, linked in the sidebar of this blog or leave a comment below. 

If you live in New Zealand and you would like to join my Stampin' Up team, message me for a chat. And, of course, you can shop with me from anywhere in New Zealand by clicking the SHOP NOW icon in the sidebar or from my Facebook page.

Ingredients - all products Stampin' Up

Card: Bermuda Bay, Whisper White, Sweet Sugarplum, Soft Suede

Stamps: Amazing You

Inks: Lemon-Lime Twist, Sweet Sugarplum, Bermuda Bay, Soft Suede

Other: Celebrate You thinlits, Petals&More thinlits, Pattern Party decorative mask, sponges, Enamel shapes, dimensionals.