Extreme Elements Boy's Birthday

Today I have a card for you I made using the Extreme Elements Set from Stampin' Up!  I'm really enjoying using this set and especially for male cards.   I've used quite a different colour scheme here - Cajun Craze, Baja Breeze and a colour not often used by me, Basic Grey.   I also added a bit of Smooch Spritz to the finished card to add a bit of shimmer without looking too "girly".  It's hard to pick up on it but it's there in blobs mixed amongst the Grey bits and also on the Grey Star which I attached with a small silver "Jumbo" brad.  If you turned the card to the light you caught the Silver bits here and there.

Keep an eye out soon for some new catalogue Sneek Peak projects I'm working on.

Till then, happy stamping

Tina

RETIRING LIST IS OUT FOR THE IBC

It's that time of year again when we have to make way for the wonderful new products coming in September.   Click on the link in the sidebar to take you to the full list of items which are on the way out.  Some are even discounted at 25% and 40% off.  Hurry as once they are gone they are gone forever. 

Explosion Gift Bag



A few months ago I made these gifts for my son's teacher as she was finishing her role as a teacher and moving into the office as the Curriculum Facilitator.  I made a similar gift bag at a retreat and thought I would make another one and fill it with some easter eggs (I did say it was a few months ago LOL).  To achieve the pattern on the top flap, I used Stampin' Up's Square Lattice Embossing Folder but before I put it through the Big Shot I rubbed the Elegant Eggplant Ink pad all over one side of the folder first and then carefully placed the cardstock inside making sure it didn't move before running it through.  It then transfers the colour into the depressed parts of the pattern making them stand out.

To keep the bag closed I used half a velcro Dot (both the hook side and fluffy side).  You might want to staple them as well as I have found the repeated openning and shutting of the bag weakened the sticky and they eventually pull off.

I also made her a little personalised note book with her initial on it.  I used Stampin' Up's  Die Cut Letters to cut out the K and if you look closely you can see I used Crystal effects on the K to make it shiny.   While it was still a bit wet I placed a little Rhinestone on there for added Bling.  It came up a treat and she loved it.



If you would like the pattern for the bag, simply leave me a comment with your email address and I can send one to you.

I have finally managed to get the template onto this blog.  Hope it helps you all.

Tina

As promised, here is one of the cards I made on a recent retreat weekend. It was very similar to a card I received at convention as a swap from Marelle Taylor. I added a few different things (not much). I used a different wheel - Baroque Wheel and I also added a touch of shimmer paint down the left hand side which is achieved by dabbing a small ball of glad wrap into the shimmer paint and dabbing onto your cardstock.

You can also see on the piece of cardstock behind the bird cage some shiny spots. This is called the Faux Mother of Pearl technique and what you do is dab Frost White Shimmer Paint with your ball of glad wrap onto gloss card stock and once it is try, using your brayer, paint your cardstock with your choice of ink. I used River Rock. Don't forget to stamp your image once the piece of cardstock is dry with Stayzon Ink otherwise it will rub off.

Till next time, happy Stamping

Tina

Daniel's 8th Birthday

This is the invite I made for my eldest son's recent birthday. He wanted robots (I think he was thinking of Wall E) but he was very happy with these. His words "Cute little Robot". I used the Platinum Shimmer Mist dabbed on with a dauber to the stamp to create the silver nuts an bolts. Also used the dauber to run a bit of silver around the edge of the robot piece of water colour paper as well. Blender Pen was used to colour in the little fella.

And these were the gift boxes I made filled with lollies and the stick of M&Ms with the robot topper at the top. I made a similar topper for his cupcakes as well. The boys loved them.

I recently went on a retreat for the weekend and had a ball. I made a few cards and even got a scrapbooking page made (big deal for me). I'll post them soon. Stay tuned...

Happy Stamping everyone

Tina

Faux Quilting

Hello everyone, today I'm showing you a card I made using a kind of faux quilting. What I have done is cut out pieces of DSP from the Subltes Paper DSP Pack using my 1 3/4" square punch and glued them down to a piece of white cardstock. I trimmed the white card stock back leaving a small edge around the patterned pieces. Then I have run the white piece with its glued on squares through the big shot using the Square Lattice folder. It gives the illusion of material. I rouched up the edges of the white piece with my cutter kit distressing tool. Then using the paper piercer tool and the mat pack template sheet, I punched small holes all around the edge and then used my white gel pen to draw small lines to give the effect of stitching. You could of course use a real sewing machine with cotton to achieve a more realistic result.

I finally added my sentiment in the middle and popped a button and ribbon bow in the corner to finish it off.

I also used the new stitches wheel to put a faint background on the So Safron cardstock.

Happy Creating

Tina

BACK FROM CONVENTION

Well I'm back from our Convention in Melbourne - five wonderful days of spending time with our fellow demos from Australia and NZ. I had an absolute ball learning all about our products and seeing sneek peaks of what's coming in our next Idea Book and Catalogue.

Here is a piccie of the Roomy Gifts I made for my three room mates. It's not clear in the picture but I clear embossed the scroll stamp on the coloured part of the box and it looked very elegant. Antique brads were popped on top to add to the look. Each night we gave each other pillow gifts as well. These were the two I made. Filled the milk carton with musk lollies and the other little box with Moon Rocks (chocolate filled candy).

This was one of my swaps for convention and I received so many nice ones in return. It's a great way to get new ideas.The other swap I made was the butterfly card in my previous post below.

This is Genelle Little, a fellow team member from Gladstone and one of my roomies. We had a great time. Here we are at the Awards Dinner on the Saturday Night. I earned myself a new stamp set, pin and a walk across the stage with a hug from Shelli Gardner along the way for my efforts of achieving $20,000 in sales for the year.

I had an absolute ball meeting fellow demos and catching up with some I met from Sydney last year. We had three days of convention and it was jam packed with fun, buying at memento mall and seeing WOW presentations from fellow demos. I especially liked Kirsty Brown and Tenealle Williams on the last day but all the ideas we picked up from the other ladies was fabulous. Not to mention getting some free new stamp sets from the next catalogue coming in September. You are going to love them.

Happy Stamping

Tina

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Elements of Style Birthday Butterfly

Hello everyone, what a month March was for me. Lots of work trying to reach my first ever major sales goal with Stampin' Up! I'm very pleased to say it paid off but I have lots of wonderful costumers to thank for their support and orders over the last few weeks. I really do appreciate it.

Today's card is the last card we made in class which accompanied the Box I posted earlier. I really love the colour combo I used here, Crumb Cake, Baja Breeze and Bravo Burgundy. I've also used the Spritzer Tool, sponge daubers, blender pens and the Square Lattice Embossing folder. Can you also see the little button trinkets on the label. Some of these items were from the Summer Mini which I'm so glad to say have carried over till the end of the year.

You can also see a new label there. You can find that in the New Autumn/Winter Mini which has just been released. Lots of wonderful items in there. I'll be posting some of my creations soon. Here's a little sneak peek.

This is part of my upcoming class EAT CHOCOLATE on Friday 8th April. Contact me ASAP to reserve your spot.

Keep checking back, I promise to update more regularly.

Hapy Stamping

Tina

Leafy Thank You

After the recent floods we had here in Brisbane, I made these cards up for my Mother-in-law to give to all the men who helped her get stuff up off the floor and help clean up after the water went right through her whole house. I came up with this one which she absolutely adored. The colours are Soft Suede, Early Espresso and Very Vanilla. I put the bottom section through the Big Shot with the Square Lattice embossing folder and used the bit we usualy throw away from the little leaves Die and raised it up on dimensionals for a different look. Then I spritzed all over it with the Early Espresso marker. Ever since Regionals I've fallen in love with that Spritzer Tool. It's a really good masculine card I think. Happy Stamping Tina

Elements of Style

I did a workshop for some craft ladies last weekend and so I wanted to make something really special for the Hostess as a thank you gift for having me. I just love this set Elements of Style so I had a bit of a play and came up with this lovely little gift box which I filled with Coffee Bags.

I have used my Spritzer tool to make the splatting marks and the distressing tool to rough up all the edges. I also used the lovely little vintage trinkets and the lace trim from the Summer Mini which finished this off beautifully.

Overall I was sooooooo pleased with this. I'm going to turn it into a class with a matching card I think.

The colours used are Crumb Cake, Baja Breeze, Bravo Burgundy and Early Espresso to stamp the rose image. Blender pens were used to colour the image in.

If you are interested in a class, please let me know and I schedule one in.

Happy Stamping everyone.

Tina

Friends Vintage

Im being a bit partial to the vintage look lately (had you guessed). Anyway, this is a quite simple card. The main features to note - the very vanilla piece has been embossed using the Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder and then I used a piece of sponge and lightly dabbed it in the River Rock ink then brushed it lightly over the raised parts of the embossing. I roughed up the edges with the edge of my scissors. The piece of Early Espresso has been scrunched up completely and then flattened out again to give a rustic look as well. The image is from Just Believe Stamp Set. I love these types of stamps as well. More Vintage Stuff coming soon. Tina

Love Defined

This is the card we recently made at my first class for this year. I love this little set "Love Defined". It has so many possibilities. I also love the lattice embossing folder which I used for the background along with the Top Note Die. You can also see I used the Pinking Hearts punch along the bottom of the card to add a little bit of fancy. All these items are in our new Summer Mini catalogue which runs through to the end of March.

Happy Stamping

Tina

Christmas Stamp-a-Stack

Hello everyone. Yesterday I had my Christmas stamp-a-stack and these are the three cards we made. All the ladies had lots of fun making them and were all so keen to get into more at home. The first is using Cherry Cobbler, Old Olive and Very Vanilla cardstock with the Contempo Christmas stamp set. The Very Vanilla Background was put through the Big Shot using the Petals a Plenty Embossing Folder. I just love this one and use it far too much. A few stick on bling was added to finish off the bauble.

This was my favourite. Using the Welcome Christmas Stamp Set and the Music Notes Wheel I came up with a Country feel type of card for Christmas. I have also used the Sleigh Bells Ribbon which is part of our special at the moment (see earlier post below). It goes beautifully with this type of card. Other materials used are Naturals Ivory cardstock, Jolly Holiday DSP, Always Artichoke cardstock, spritzer tool, crumb cake ink pad for the family image and Early Espresso for the words. I also snuck in the image from Autumn Days on the artichoke piece of cardstock at the bottom using the same colour ink. Most of the pieces were roughed up using my distressing tool. I love this type of look.

I've used our new shimmer paint "Champagne" and turned it into a shimmer mist and sprayed it all over the Cherry Cobbler background before starting with this card. Black embossed the Dasher stamp and added a couple of tiny tags with silver cord (courtesy of Spotlight) to finish it off. A bit of fiddling but certainly worth the effort. Lovely and sparkly this one.

I've made a few Christmas cards this year. Stay tuned over the next few weeks for my posts.

Happy Christmas Stamping.

Tina

Dress Up Christmas

Christmas is nearly on our doorstep - AGAIN and from now until 30 November, Stampin Up is offering a Christmas Special to it's customers. FREE Ribbon is yours when you purchase certain bundles of items from the current catalogue. One of the items is new to us and doesn't appear in the catalogue - Christmas Cocoa Specialty Designer Series Paper. We all love new stuff don't we. And the ribbon is not in the current catalogue either. Visit my website to find out all the details. Happy stamping Tina

Enjoying my Morning Cup

Hello everyone, this is another new set from our new catalogue. It's called "Morning Cup" and it's gorgeous. Lots of stamps to choose from including cups, mugs, stacked cups, coffee pots, tea pots and even a little tea bag with a few words thrown in here and there as well. There is also a corresponding wheel called "Take a Sip".

I took inspiration from this card from Kirsty Brown. I have used my water pen to colour the image which was first stamped in Stazon Ink on watercolour paper. I've used a few new items as well:

1. Circle Scissor Cutter
2. Marina Mist ink and grosgrain ribbon
3. Antique Brads
4. Scallop Trim Border Punch
5. Modern Label Punch
6. So Safron DSP from the Soft Subtles Paper Stack.

If you would like to make this card just give us an email and I could help you with your order.

Happy Stamping

Tina