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Sale-a-bration Blog Hop

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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.

Rhonda Fawcett – Little Paper Star

Deborah Schultz – Handcrafted by Deb

Caroline White – Creations With Caroline

Surfing cow card

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It was my son’s girlfriend’s birthday this week and she likes cows and surfing. I pulled out a couple of old stamp sets called Over the moon and Surf’s up and combined them with Waves of Inspiration and Oceanfront stamp sets to create this card.

It was a fun project. The waves on the front were brushed with Wink of Stella so they had quite a sparkle.

Inside the card, I carried on the surfing cow theme using the recently retired Oceanfront stamp set. I had to mask the cow stamp in a couple of places to remove the gumboots and the horns but I think it worked out well.

Haha… Just seeing this photo below now, I realised that I forgot to colour in the cow’s top hoof. 😳

He’s the man – Scrapbooking page

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I used the wonderful DSP pack called “He’s the man”, to make this 12 x 12 layout. It uses showcases all the papers from the pack.

I started by stamping and daubering the edges of a 27 x 27 cm piece of Sahara Sand card. I then embossed some smaller pieces of Sahara Sand card with the Brick and Mortar 3D embossing folder and tore the edges of each piece. I daubered the raised areas and the torn edges using Sahara Sand, Cajun Craze and Early Espresso inks. I joined the two embossed pieces together and covered the join with a folded circle shape. I made several more of these shapes to scatter on my layout.

I finished with a tailored tag journal box and some die cut pieces from the “He’s the man” pack. There are die cut pieces for all interests from cars to camping and handyman to hero. I thought this die-cut featuring the beer glass was just perfect for my layout.

My customers usually only make a single 12 x 12 page in class but they often ask me how to do a double page layout. This is a mock up I did as a suggestion for them. Nothing was glued down.

This double page spread had an Early Espresso base instead of Cajun Craze.

I was impressed that my group of ladies all wanted different die-cuts to complete their own pages. There were many different variations to choose from so there was no fighting. Lol.

Here is another example of the layout. This page was made by Wendy Foley. She also used the retired Playful Alphabet dies.

In Colour Blog Hop

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Hi and welcome to my blog. I am excited to be a part of this blog hop with some of my fellow South Pacific demo council members from last year. It was a privilege to work with these group and although we only have 3 of us doing the blog hop this time, we hope to have the others join us next time.

This is my first ever blog hop and I am going to show you a project made from my favourite new in colour – Orchid Oasis.

This card features Orchid Oasis cardstock, ink, DSP, ribbon and decorative dots. I used the Sweet Songbirds bundle and the Bough Punch

I started with a folded A5 card base and added a white cardstock layer (14.6 × 10.2 cm), which I distressed the edges of, with my scissors. I then added two pieces of DSP (Designer series paper), both measuring 11.5 x 7 cm. I used Orchid Oasis and Starry Sky. The reason I added in the darker shade is so that it gave more interest and to help it tone in more with the ribbon. Because the ribbon has a metallic sheen to it, it doesn’t match perfectly with the Orchid Oasis card, so I wanted to bring in some more shades of colour.

I then took a white card measuring 8 x 6.5 cm and stamped the birds feet about halfway. I used versamark and Mango Melody ink and heat embossed with clear embossing powder. I did the same with a scrap piece of card. Then I stamped on top of the feet with Crumb Cake ink. The ink didn’t cover the feet. Embossing first causes ink to resist where you have embossed, so the feet still stood out nicely.

I punched out the bird and leaves using Orchid Oasis, Tahitian Tide, Mango Melody and Granny Apple Green card. I distressed the edges again, tied around the ribbon, and added fine tip glue to brighten the eyes. I mounted this to my card base with dimensionals.

I stamped another bird inside along with a sentiment. This was a fairly easy card to make. Embossing the feet was the part that took the longest and in reality that wasn’t even too long. I hope this inspires you to try out some of Stampin’ Up!’s new in colours.

Please check out the rest of the blogs on our blog hop…. Don’t forget to share and comment if you like what you see.

Deb Schultz – Handcrafted By Deb

Caroline White – Creations With Caroline White

Rhonda Fawcett – Little Paper Star

Everyday Heros – A card for my dentist

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Stampin’ Up! currently has a campaign on, encouraging people to send a card of appreciation to people who has gone that little extra mile or who have shown kindness to others.

I decided that I wanted to thank my dentist who spend extra time making sure I was happy with all the dental work. She even was prepared to come in on her day off to see me at no extra charge. #EverydayHeros

I was originally going to make a card using the retired Handsomely Suited dies with dental tools poking out of the pocket but yesterday when I was using the hand penned petal dies, one of the inside flower pieces ended up in my lap and it looked just like a tooth. So I made a much simpler card using that. Scroll down to see photo of die, were I got the tooth shape from.

The dies I used were from Paradise Palm bundle, Love you more than bundle and Hand penned petals bundle.

Did you know it is super easy to create thank you using the Love you more than dies? Just die cut “love you more than” and “cookies”. Use the k from cookies and add it to the word than. So easy!

My sentiment for inside the card was from the “Nothing’s better than” stamp set.

Sweet Songbirds

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I made this slimline card as an entry into a card challenge. Colour INKspiration # 124. The colours to use were Daffodil Delight, Parakeet Party, Tahitian Tide and Night of Navy. I also used black to stamp the birds eyes and a bit of crumb cake for the branches. To enter this challenge go to Colour INKspiration challenges on Facebook or Instagram #colourinkspirationchallenges

I used my blending brushes to do a lightly sponged background. The clouds were free hand cut from a piece of scrap paper to make a stencil to sponge over. I used a few of the stamps from the Sweet Songbirds stamp set but the main part of the bird is created with the corresponding punch.

The reason I love the punch so much is that I can easily change the orientation of the bird by flipping the card over once I have punched it out.

Let’s set sail.

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I had a day in my craft room today, to just play. It is rare these days as mostly I am on a tight time frame to get ready for classes. Anyway I decided to take part in a challenge and I chose a #justaddinkchallenge. It is a colour challenge. #jai608

I certainly picked a hard one. I hardly ever use these colours. And certainly not these four on their own. Anyway after a couple of failed attempts, I finally came up with this card.

Do you like it? I used the stitched rectangle dies, the horizon dies and the sailboat punch. All the stamped images are from the Let’s set sail stamp set. I used Wink of Stella on the reflection of the setting sun over the water. It’s a little hard to see in a photo but looks pretty in real life.

I kept the inside of the card fairly simple.

If you would like to take part in this challenge head over to just-add-ink.blospot.com and have a go.

Waves of Inspiration Card

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This is a card that I taught in class last week, using one of my new favourite bundles; Waves of Inspiration.

It features an old stamping technique called Kissing Technique. This is where you take a bold image stamp and detailed image stamp. Ink them both up in two different colours. Use a lighter ink colour on the bold image stamp. (I used Balmy Blue on the hello stamp) and use a darker ink colour on the detailed stamp. (I used Pacific Point on the nest stamp, taken from Sweet Songbirds stamp set). Then press or kiss the two stamps together. The darker ink colour will transfer onto your bold image stamp, which you can then press onto your card. I like how this turned out as it gives the impression of waves, in the word “hello”.

I stamped the pelican again inside the card but this time I masked off one of the posts, to give the impression of a rising tide.