Sharing my love of all things paper-craft: Card making, Scrapbooking, Gift Boxes, Invitations, Party Favours, Craft Supplies and more. (Formally Stampin'Fantastic)
I have been busy lately with fundraising for Breast Cancer support. Some of my team and I have run a very successful fundraising night where we made cards using the Stampin Up kits. We also promoted the Love and Courage stamp set.
This stamp set is special because it is Pink Ribbon Month this month and Stampin Up are donating $4.25 from every one of these stamp sets sold to support the fight against breast cancer.
We made several cards to give away and a ton of thank you cards for the businesses who supported our event.
This is a beautiful stamp set,worth having in your stash as so many people today are affected by cancer either directly or indirectly and giving a card of support, hope and encouragement is a great way to show that you care.
I made this card to showcase another way of using our Stampin’ Up’s Blends. This panel on the side is made using a strip of window sheet coloured with Blends, then spritzed with alcohol.
It is a fun technique. It’s easy to do. The longest part is waiting for the alcohol to evaporate so that the ink is properly dry. I ended up using a heat gun to speed up the process which is a good ideas because it spreads the ink around more and creates the marbled look you see on my card.
On the 25th of April we remember and honour all those who have fought for our country. I felt it only fitting to make some cards that I will drop off to the RSA with some chocolate. It says, “It’s your time to be remembered. “
Inside simply says “Thank you”. The words are from the Inspiring thoughts stamp set and Poppy stamps are from the Painted Poppies stamp set.
I made a birthday card of the same design. The black decorative border is a die cut from the Palm dies.
It’s Sale-a-bration time again which means for every NZ$110 you spend, you get to choose a free product from the Sale-a-bration catalogue. I am joining with my fellow South Pacific Demonstrator Council members from last year to showcase one of the Sale-a-bration products.
I have decided to show you the free notecard and envelope pack. They are gorgeous! I feel that the notecards are often overlooked and I want to persuade you as to why they are a good choice. They are called notecards but they are actually an American full sized card. Which means they are slightly higher than our South Pacific sized cards and not quite as wide. Here is a comparison photo…
The cards measure 14 x 10.8 cm when folded in half.
There are 20 cards and 20 envelopes. The envelopes are all the same, in Soft Seafoam with lovely subtle white printing on the front bottom corner and on the envelope flap. Inside the flap is a scattering of pool party small leaf images. There are two different card designs. 10 cards in pool party with a darker pool party leaf background and 10 cards in soft seafoam with a white leaf background. The leaf images coordinate perfectly with the Splendid Day Suite in the annual catalogue.
Because I didn’t have the Splendid Day Suite, I decided to use the Forever Ferns bundle. The colours and patterns were delicate and it needed a stamp set that also had delicate leaf designs. I think this bundle worked perfectly. I kept to the colours in the cards but added in Sweet Sorbet to give it a little lift. I used the white seambinding ribbon as it is also soft and delicate.
On the soft seafoam card, I added a little bit of white embossing, just to carry through the white on soft seafoam look.
The embellishments I used were the in colour matte decorative dots. All the green dots are technically Parakeet Party in colour but because they are ombre dots, I was able to use the lightest green and it toned in well with the soft seafoam background.
I hope these projects inspired you to give this card and matching envelope set a go. I am certainly happy with how these wedding and thank you cards turned out.
Please click on the links below to see what other sale-a-bration products have been used by the other ladies in our blog hop and don’t forget to leave a comment if you like what you see.
Little Paper Star - Rhonda Fawcett 