WACKY WATERCOLOUR BLOG HOP - MARCH 2017

Thank you for hopping by to my blog courtesy of Marie Green's wonderful blog.  What wonderful projects she has made for us.

I'm delighted to be part of the blog hop for Watercooler Wednesday and in our hop we are celebrating everything Sale-A-Bration - it only lasts until the end of March so if you have fallen in love with Hey Chick, Delicate Details, Avant-Garden to name just a few time is running out for you to get these items for FREE!


Here are some of my ideas for you for using some of our Sale-A-Bration offers.  

WATERFALL CARD - HEY CHICK 

I'm sure lots of you have made waterfall cards - they are much simpler than they look but they definitely have the Wow factor.  Here's one I did with Hey Chick for a class and they loved it.

I used Mint Macaron - sadly this colour will be leaving us at the end of May and it has been one of my favourites.  I used Watercolour Pencils to colour in the chicks and a touch of Dazzling Diamonds on the Cockrels feathers.  

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This is a really quick YouTube video I did just to show my customers what we were going to be doing that evening.  

 AVANT-GARDEN - PANEL CARD

Another one of my favourite sets from Sale-A-Bration was the lovely Avant-Garden and I will be sorry to see this go.  Here I've done a Panel Card.  The base is Whisper White and the Designer Series Paper is the Succulent Garden - I love these papers.  They are so so pretty.


 

  

  

 DELICATE DETAILS - SQUARE CARD

My final card for Sale-A-Bration uses Delicate Details - yet again another lovely set of stamps that I will be sorry to see leave us.  I made a square card this time and used some of the papers from Falling In Love Designer Series Paper. 

The Delicate Details were stamped by with Early Espresso.  I've also used one of the lovely dancing images from Beautiful You and the sentiment Celebrate .... because it looks as though she may be celebrating something.  A touch of Very Vanilla lace trim at the bottom of the card finishes it off.  The girls dress was coloured in with Watercolour Pencils and a touch of Wink of Stella.

I hope you've enjoyed my projects - I will be doing tutorials on all of them on my youtube channel so do pop back and have a look.

Now onwards on the hop to Sherri Lee and see what she has in store.




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SIMPLY SKETCHED SATURDAY CHALLENGE - AVANT-GARDEN, DELICATE DETAILS

 Welcome to another Simply Sketched Saturday Challenge.  Here is our Sketch this week which was put forward by Samantha Charlton.

I loved working with this set and wanted to have another play with the Avant-Garden Sale-A-Bration set.  Such a versatile little set.  I've also used the Delicate Details stamp set which is also part of Sale-A-Bration.  That means you could get both stamp sets for FREE.

I used embossing powder for the Delicate Details and some of our clear embossing powder.  This enables you to have embossed colour for any of our inks.  Just stamp in Versamark first, then the ink of your choice then add the clear embossing colour.  I have used Mint Macaron here to go against the Mint Macaron card stock.  This has been one of my favourite colours and I will be sorry to see it leave us in May.

I've used the Stitched Framelits for the circles.  The inks used for the flowers are Melon Mambo and Rich Razzleberry.  White Embossing Powder was used for the sentiment.

I used the Botanical Builder Framelits for the flower using the same colours.

As usual all products can be purchased direct from my store - don't miss out on the fabulous Sale-A-Bration offers.  

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I'm going to enter this into the SUO Challenges blog which is looking for projects made with Sale-A-Bration items

 HAPPY CRAFTING

 

TOTALLY TREES - DELICATE DETAILS - SALE-A-BRATION - WATERCOOLER WEDNESDAY

This week's challenge at Watercooler Wednesday is a sketch challenge - I love these - really makes you think outside of your usual box. This is the sketch for us to work with.

 

 I turned to Totally Trees for my card.  I've done a purple card for a change - its not my normal choice of colours but my daughter has Epilepsy and purple is the colour for the charity.  This month they are holding Purple Days to raise money and awareness for this condition so I will be making a lot of purple cards for her.

I used Rich Razzleberry on the tree here and then embossed over it with our Copper Embossing powder - this is so lovely!

The edging was done with one of our Sale-A-Bration FREE sets - did I mention it is FREE if you spend £45 on one order.  This set is called Delicate Details and has some gorgeous lacey images which look so lovely when embossed - embossed here once again in the Copper Embossing Powder.

The little bird is from the Best Birds Framelits. I used a white gel pen to go over him and give him some stitching marks to match the Stitching Framelits.

SUPPLIES USED:

Cardstock - Wisteria Wonder - Blushing Bride
Inks - Perfect Plum Elegant Eggplant, Crushed Curry, Rich Razzleberry
Stamp Sets - Totally Trees, Delicate Details, Jar of Love (For You sentiment)
Framelits - Stitched Framelits, Birds and Blooms,  Bunch of Banner Framelits
Accessories - Copper Embossing Powder, Enamel Shapes, Sequins Trim, Very Vanilla Lace Trim, Wink of Stella (on bird) 

Thank you for stopping by and leaving a comment - its great to hear from you

HAPPY CRAFTING 


 

POOTLERS BLOG HOP - SALE-A-BRATION - AVANT-GARDEN

Welcome and thanks for joining us on another Pootlers Blog Hop this time celebrating Sale-A-Bration 2017.

My card uses the Avant-Garden set - a wonderful set of 10 stamps with three sentiments which I know I'm going to really miss when Sale-A-Bration ends on 31st March.

I've used a retired embossing folder for the dots but you could use any folder you had to hand.  I wanted to use the dots to match up with the background dots behind the flowers.

 
 A touch of Dazzling Diamonds on the inside of the flowers adds to some sparkle and the Basic Pearls on the butterfly just lifts it.

  SUPPLIES
Cardstock - Very Vanilla, Pear Pizzazz, Crumb Cake
Inks - Pear Pizzazz, Rich Razzleberry, Melon Mambo, Old Olive
Accessories - Basic Pearls, Dazzling Diamonds, Lace Trim, Bitty Butterfly Punch, 
Stampsets - Avant-Garden, Papillon Potpourri


   

 

   

An InLinkz Link-up

As usual if you are in the UK or parts of Europe you can purchase all supplies from my store - click on the link below.

There will be a video tutorial for this on my YouTube channel coming soon.

HAPPY CRAFTING


 

AVANT GARDEN- CAS COLOURS AND SKETCHES

There is a colour challenge over at CAS Colours and Sketches this week.  I do like colour challenges because they really get you out of your comfort zone and make you use colours, be it inks or papers you otherwise would leave at the bottom of the pile!

I'm not a fan of Flirty Flamingo and don't often use it  - so it was nice to have to use it in this sketch.  Mind you, you have to look hard to find it on my card.  It's actually just used on the petals of the flowers, along with the Watermelon Wonder but it has come out a bit dark in the photo.

As the challenge is clean and simple I have tried to keep this as plain as I could.  I love the flowers in this Avant-Garden Sale-A-Bration set and what's not to like when it's a FREE set!

 

 

THANKFUL THOUGHTS, AVANT-GARDEN,

They say there are no mistakes in crafting, only creative opportunities.

Well, that's what happened with this card today.  I wanted to make a Thank You card and use the Thankful Thoughts stamp set.  I stamped it first in Early Espresso but it missed a bit on the stamping.  I then tried to restamp it - tricky with rubber stamps and of course it didn't work, but what it did do was create a shadow.  Which I liked.  So I re-did it and added the shadow.

I added some of the flowers from the Sale-A-Bration set Avant Garden - a FREE set if you spend £45 on either of our catalogues.  I also used some of the Botanical Builder Framelits to add a flower.

I'm not a peach lover - well not since the 1980's when I actually had it as wallpaper gulp!  But actually I think it looks quite nice against the black here and with the Early Espresso ink it gives the peach a bit more punch.

Are you a lover of Peekaboo Peach?

 HAPPY CRAFTING

 

AVANT-GARDEN BOXES YOU TUBE TUTORIAL

I've been playing with using the Avant-Garden stamp set on some boxes - originally Sam Hammond's boxes from way back.  I've given them a bit of a revamp with some up-dated products.

 A normal piece of A4 cardstock gives you enough for a box and an extra card.

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Check out my YouTube tutorial as to how I made these.  All of my You Tube subscribers are put into a draw each month and one winner will be chosen at random to receive the products I have made for that month!

 HAPPY CRAFTING

 

JANUARY BLUES? - AVANT-GARDEN

Good Morning Bloggers, is it just me with the January blues?  I'm guessing it isn't - I have to admit January is my least favourite month of the year.  My kids know this also so my Christmas present from my daughter was a spa day last Monday and a joint present for my husband from our son is a weekend away in a few weeks time.  They know me so well.

These "blues" seem to be coming across in my crafting - I'm not normally a blues colour sort of girl.  Reds and greens are my colours which is why Christmas suits me so well.

I must say though I've absolutely loved playing with these three blues I picked at random and they go so well together.

I'm playing with one of the Sale-A-Bration FREE sets - Avant-Garden.  Can I let you into a little secret - its my favourite out of the whole Sale-A-Bration catalogue.  I wonder what your's is?  Sometimes it takes other people to show us what a stamp set can do which is why we Demos are here after all!

Anyway - I'm blathering on - here's my card!  I don't know whether its the dull weather we are having here in the UK - promise of snow perhaps here in the south but its very dull and that's reflecting on the colours of this card.  Honest, in real life its much more vibrant and the Wink of Stella just glistens - like snow!

Hmm - not liking this picture at all - I will have to try some more shots and re-do it if I can.  I think its time to invest in a white box maybe?

I've put a list of the supplies below for what I used.  Sorry to say I have used something that is no longer available in those Antique Brads.  I love brads - its a shame they seem to be out of favour at the moment but these are just too lovely to sit in a box and I'm sure some of you will have them anyway.  Its not all about using what's current - shh don't tell anyone I said that! lol!

SUPPLIES

Cardstock - Island Indigo - Very Vanilla

Stamp Set - Avant-Garden

Inks - Island Indigo, Mint Macaron, Pool Party

Accessories - Linen Thread, Stitched Framelits, Antique Brads, Wink of Stella

As usual all supplies can be purchased from my website - click on the logo below.

If you love your Stampin Up products and would like to get them at a discount, consider joining up and being a Demonstrator yourself - you don't have to run it as a business but can be a hobby demonstrator.  By joining my Crafty Stampers you will be joining one of the top teams in the UK run by an awesome Team Leader.  I'd love to share Stampin Up with you.

In the meantime,

HAPPY CRAFTING