Thinking Stamping

Friday, 11 February 2022

Artfully Layered for AYSI 268

This time around, the challenge at As You See It is to fill in the blank.

Tricky, right? I have so many favourite techniques! But the thing I always come back to is playing around with masks and blending brushes. A technique I've used a lot in the last year or so is faux torn paper.

Using a piece of torn photocopy paper as a mask, I've blended together Daffodil Delight, Pear Pizzazz and Garden Green.

Useful tip: use the base of your Stamparatus and the magnets to hold the mask in place while you blend.

Before removing the mask, I stamped using Garden Green and Pear Pizzazz.

After removing the masks, I added in some die cuts: tiny leaves in Granny Apple Green and Daffodil Delight, and a bold swoosh of foliage also in Granny Apple Green.

The embellishments are Faux Sea Glass shapes from the January-June 2022 Mini Catalogue.

You can see what the rest of the Design Team have done with this colour combo and link up your own entry at the As You See It 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 on any of the products below.

Product List

Artfully Layered Bundle (English)

[157761]

$112.50

Garden Green A4 Card Stock

[108605]

$18.50

Daffodil Delight A4 Card Stock

[121680]

$18.50

Granny Apple Green A4 Cardstock

[147014]

$18.50

Basic White A4 Cardstock

[159228]

$20.50

Garden Green Classic Stampin' Pad

[147089]

$15.75

Daffodil Delight Classic Stampin' Pad

[147094]

$15.75

Pear Pizzazz Classic Stampin' Pad

[147104]

$15.75

Blending Brushes

[153611]

$25.25

Faux Sea Glass Shapes

[158139]

$16.75

Wednesday, 9 February 2022

Positive Thoughts for Around the World on Wednesday February

Welcome back to another monthly inspiration blog hop from the team at Around the World on Wednesday. We hop on the second Wednesday of each month with a theme that we hope will give you some inspiration. This month's theme is The Basic Essentials. We were free to interpret this however we liked.

I've been thinking a lot about what it's like, when you're at the beginning of your stamping journey, and you're not sure what you need to have versus what you want to have. The choices can be overwhelming and then most often, the budget constrains you anyway!

With this in mind, I've done a couple of videos in a 'Starting Stamping' series, aimed to help people sort out the got-to have things: the Basic Essentials. The first one deals with the most basic equipment - things you just have to have such as a paper trimmer, acrylic blocks, adhesives and a minimum of stamp, ink and paper. The second video is about where to start with colours, where I recommend starting with Memento Black and a single colour family. The third is in the works and will deal with items that will give you more technical scope without breaking the bank such as blending brushes, rhinestones and Wink of Stella.

So in my interpretation of The Basic Essentials, I've limited to myself to the things I've recommended to starting stampers.

I've used a single colour family - Regals - and Tuxedo Black.

I've used no equipment more complex or expensive than paper snips and blending brushes.

I've used the most basic go-to embellishments: Wink of Stella and Basic Rhinestones.

Yet I'm more than happy with the outcome.

You can see how I've put it all together in this video, including how to make the faux frame.

The next person in the hop is the fabulous Leonie Stuart.

Here's a list of participants you can link to if you get lost along the way.

Jan Clothier - NZ - You are here

Leonie Stuart - AU

Rochelle Laird-Smith - AU

Cheryll Miller - AU

Melissa Gifford - AU

Danielle Kassing - NL

Elaine de Montmorency - CA

Teri West - US

Product List

Positive Thoughts Cling Stamp Set

[151490]

$44.00

Best Year Cling Stamp Set (English)

[152568]

$42.00

Garden Green A4 Card Stock

[108605]

$18.50

Card Stock A4 Crushed Curry

[131288]

$18.50

Basic White A4 Cardstock

[159228]

$20.50

Garden Green Classic Stampin' Pad

[147089]

$15.75

Crushed Curry Classic Stampin' Pad

[147087]

$15.75

Rich Razzleberry Classic Stampin' Pad

[147091]

$15.75

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad

[132708]

$12.00

Paper Snips

[103579]

$20.00

Rhinestone Basic Jewels

[144220]

$10.50

Clear Wink Of Stella Glitter Brush

[141897]

$14.00

Artfully Layered for CI 115

Welcome to the latest challenge at Colour INKspiration! This colour palette was chosen by Crew Member Monica Formosa.

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 three 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. The guest designer this challenge is Alisa Tilsner.

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

I am so very pleased that I bought the Artfully Layered bundle from the 2022 January-June Mini Catalogue. I moved it into my A-List because the DSP from the New Horizons suite was unavailable and what a serendipitous decision that was! (Although, who am I kidding - I'd have always got them both - and will do, once available.)

To create the variegated leaves in both the main spray of foliage and the tiny die cut leaves, I first inked up the stamp in Bumblebee then added in some Cajun Craze with a sponge dauber. It's a very easy and effective way to create mixed colours in a solid stamp.

The feathery leaf die-cut and tiny leaves are cut from So Saffron, while the skeleton leaf is cut from Bumblebee.

The fringing around the sentiment is created from the White 3/4" Frayed Ribbon. Wow - it really does what is says on the tin.... beautiful frayed ends to give a fringe look to the sentiment!

Visit the Colour INKspiration site to check out the album of Crew Cards for inspiration. You can also add your entry there. We all enjoy seeing what you do with our colour palettes, so join in!

Product List

Artfully Layered Bundle (English)

[157761]

$112.50

Gray Granite A4 Cardstock

[147008]

$18.50

Bumblebee A4 Cardstock

[153082]

$18.50

Cajun Craze A4 Card Stock

[121683]

$18.50

So Saffron A4 Card Stock

[108611]

$18.50

Gray Granite Classic Stampin' Pad

[147118]

$15.75

Bumblebee Classic Stampin' Pad

[153116]

$15.75

Cajun Craze Classic Stampin' Pad

[147085]

$15.75

Stitched Rectangles Dies

[151820]

$74.00

Sponge Daubers

[133773]

$11.00

White 3/4" (1.9 Cm) Frayed Ribbon

[158138]

$15.75

Stampin' Dimensionals

[104430]

$7.25

Monday, 7 February 2022

Flowing Flowers for Stampin Fancy Friday

The StampinFancyFriday team is a group of past and present Stampin' Up! Artisan Design team members. Each month, we have an inspiration theme and add daily posts on that theme. We recently hit 10 000 followers. If you haven't already followed us, then it's not too late! 😀

This month's inspiration was this sketch by team member, Jennifer Frost. Isn't it great? If you're inspired by this sketch, feel free to make your own. When you do create a project with the sketch, share your project on IG or FB then tag us or use #stampinfancyfriday or #fancyfridaychallenges in your post.