It's time for another blog hop with my Facebook Group Joy of Sets and my thanks to Andrea Parr for organising us all again. I love how big my initial idea of a SU group incorporating retired and current stamps has become over the last few years. Not only do we do blog hops but we also run monthly challenges, swaps, RAK's and our own Challenge Blog. They are a great bunch of ladies so if you love crafting, all companies, all products, come and join us!
Lots of the entries I'm sure will be new products from the Stampin Up Catalogue - however at Joy of Sets we don't only celebrate Stampin Up. So I'm branching out and showing a new set I recently bought from Clearly Besotted called Pawly Pals. This is a lovely little set with these cute images and the whole set cost me £3.70!!! How's that for value and no I'm not affiliated with Clearly Besotted in any way lol! I'm just clearly besotted!
However, I have sneaked in a retired Stampin Up stamp which is also another thing I am passionate about - continuing to use retired stuff. As a non demo I'm lucky that I don't always have to push the new products. The sun at the top of the card is from Kinda Eclectic and has been inked in Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Fossilised Amber. The clouds are from a stencil I picked up a craft fair and has been inked with Tim Holtz Distress Ink Tumbled Glass.
I inked up the cute little images in SU Basic Gray - one of the new style ink pads and so far I'm really liking them. I used some Tim Holtz Distress Oxide in Pumice Stone to colour in the mouse and the rabbit and Tri Spectrum Blend Pen for the teddy bear. The twine is retired Baker's Twine in Basic Black.
I hope you will join the hop and see what the rest of the gang have for you. If you would like to join in our Facebook Group just click the link below - we have lots of fun with swaps, challenges, blog hops, RAK's all over the world.
This month we are trying something different rather than the arrows and are listing all the participants below - that way there shouldn't be any hiccups to the blog list!
Jane Allmark
Annette Ball
Linda Hanford
Anne-Marie Maclean
Angie McKenzie
Vicki Millyard
Andrea Parr
Karen Pearmain
Susan Simpson
Rebecca Jo Unwin
Jennifer Arent
I was delighted to be chosen as the winner of the Colour Inkspiration challenge #CI51 and offered the chance to be a guest designer on their blog hop. The Crew are all a group of SU demonstrators in Australia and New Zealand. A long way away from me here in the UK! I wonder if this is the closest I will ever get to going to NZ or Australia?
Our inspiration colours for this challenge were as below - luckily I had all these colours!
I started off with SU Timeless Textures as the background inked in Bermuda Bay, Mint Macaron and Petal Pink. I used a stitched framelit for the square and sponged it with the Bermuda Bay, Mint Macaron and Night of Navy. The birds are from SU Wetlands. I did a wash of Ink of Stella over the inks to make them sparkle - sadly they don't show up in the image. The square was layered onto a strip of the gorgeous Shimmer Ribbon in Powder Pink. The chair was cut out of the Colourful Seasons framelits - sponged with ink and also covered in Wink of Stella.
The sentiment is from Colourful Seasons and I added some Happiness Blooms enamel dots. It's a pet hate of mine that I don't like full stops (periods) after sentiments and sadly SU seem to do this a lot so I always have to cover them up with something!
INKspired to join the challenge? It's so easy. Firstly, get some INKspiration by hopping around to see what all of the Colour INKspiration Crew have to show you. Then you have 12 days from today to make and upload your creation to the Facebook Colour INKspiration Group. You don't have to have a blog to participate but if you do you can link back to your post. Make sure you use all of the challenge colours. You can also use Whisper White, Very Vanilla and Basic Black as well as Metallics. Not a member of the Facebook group yet? Just click here and ask to join Colour INKspiration, add the group to your favourites and share it with your crafty friends so they can join in the fun too. We can't wait to see what you create with these gorgeous colours.
Pop along to Kelly's blog to see what she has in store for you on the Hop.
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f you love SU both retired and current why not come and join my Facebook Group the Joy of Sets. It is open to Demos and non Demos alike. You can ask to join here. We celebrate all things SU and have lots of swaps and challenges as well as RAK groups where we send out cards all over the world and spread the love.
