It’s not just one card for this Sweet Sunday. It’s the whole bundle. The Wishes All Around Bundle.
I think this bundle is so fun with the circles of trees and snowflakes. We don’t often make cards with snowflakes here in Australia. It’s too hot and sunny for that at Christmas. But the trees are very cool!
Let’s see them.
This one is stamping the trees twice. Once in Garden Green on Soft Seafoam and again in Garden Green on Garden Green. Then layer them together and add a little of the foliage. But how quick is it with the Brushed Gold Cards and Envelopes.
This is another one with the trees. Stamped in Bubble Bath and then again in Moody Mauve. The Moody Mauve trees are snipped out and layered on to the Bubble Bath ones. Oh! And check out the background. There Bubble Bath Ink has been swiped over the card base.
Here is another card so you can see the circle of snowflakes.
This is the Wishes All Around Bundle (stamps and dies).
This card is using one of the other masks in the Abundant Beauty Decorative Masks. While there is the set of masks to build up the Sunflower there is also the snowflake mask, the leaves and the Argyle pattern mask.
For this one I have used the snowflake mask.
The snowflakes were ink blended with Balmy Blue ink and then a touch of Night of Navy ink added on parts of the snowflake.
I used the Sending Cheer Bundle with it. It’s hard to tell but the bow on the gift is heat embossed in Silver Embossing Powder for some shine. I have used the Nested Essentials Dies for the banner.
If you are wondering about the blue strip. That is from the Textured Shimmer Paper pack. It has a subtle shine. It’s a shame you can’t see it.
We made this one for one of the cards in my classes recently. If you are a Wollongong local we would love you to join us. They are lots of fun. Send me a message and I can send you the details for our upcoming classes. If you are not local you can grab the Class Kits by Mail.
This is the Abundant Beauty Decorative Masks if you haven’t noticed them yet.
When I was creating an earlier card I diecut a square from a piece of white card with the Stylish Shapes Dies. There was still some white on the scrap piece that I could do something with later. You save bits like that right??
When I made one of the Sunflower cards recently I grabbed it to stamp my sentiment on.
BUT I thought hang on a minute – that would make a great frame! So I sponged some more Sunflowers with the Abundant Beauty Decorative Masks, cut them out and added them to the frame. How good was it that I actually centred the words on it though too.
Here is the card.
Here it is side on to get a closer look.
The Abundant Beauty Decorative Masks has layers that you can build up your flower adding ink or texture paste or even heat embossing. It creates such a great effect.
The paper is from the Les Shoppes Designer Series Paper. The sentiment is from the Go To Greetings stamp set.
Do you have “happy accidents”?
Happy Crafting,
Jenny
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Can you believe it? This was my first time at using masks of any time. And I do love how you create the layering Sunflowers from the Abundant Beauty Masks.
The colours I used was Daffodil Delight first on the flowers and then a little Pumpkin Pie in the middle of the flowers. I used Pecan Pie for the centre and then Pecan Pie for the detailed area in the centre. The leaves were with Garden Green.
I was inspired by Patty Bennett to emboss the card with an embossing folder after sponging. This one uses the Painted Texture 3D Embossing Folder.
The paper strip behind the stamped image is from the Joy of Christmas Designer Series Paper. The sentiment is from the Go To Greetings.
This is one of the cards we were making in class today.
I have had lots of play with these masks so I will show you more soon.
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Wednesday’s WOW! #154 – How to get a crisp stamping with Photopolymer stamps.
Sometimes when you stamp with Photopolymer stamps you don’t get the crisp stamping result that you would like. Do you find that?
I have particularly recently BUT I have a couple of tips for you to be sure to get a better stamping.
Firstly when stamping give your Photopolymer stamps a clean with the Stampin’ Mist and Scrub. This will remove some of the residue from production. You could use an eraser too.
Then when you stamp be sure to have something underneath your card. The Piercing Mat or even a catalogue. It will give you a little “bounce” and your stamped image should be much more crisper.
Did you find that helpful?
Happy Stamping,
Jenny
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Contact me directly
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How awesome is that?? You can save a bit there – or maybe more craft supplies 😉
You can stop by my store -> HERE to order if you are in Australia. Please use the Host Code: 9U6Y3AFW
Or Contact me directly and I can help you out. BUT be sure to do that today.
But of course the savings don’t stop there.
There are 2 other great options that will continue this month and there is no shipping on those either.
You can join the Stampin’ Up! Community and save all the time. Not to mention meet some great new stamping friends.
Purchase the Starter kit of products of your choice when you Join Stampin’ Up! in October. To celebrate Stampin’ Up!’s 35th Birthday get 35% off or 35% more.
Option 1 – Choose $235 of products of your choice and pay $109.85
OR
Option 2 – Choose $317.25 of products of your choice and pay $169.
AWESOME! AMAZING! INCREDIBLE whatever option you go for.
What will it be for you?
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This was one of the cards we made at last week’s Christmas Crafternoon event. It needed it to be kept fairly simple with so many people attending and many new to stamping too.
It uses the Joy To You Stamp Set and the Cottage Wreaths set. Along with the Joy of Christmas Designer Series Paper.
To streamline the process I diecut the white piece using the Nested Essentials Dies and diecut the red bow from the Country Wreaths Dies.
Everyone enjoyed the creating even those who had never done it before. So that is always exciting to see.
We are doing the Christmas Crafternoon again on October 15th so if you are local drop me a message and I can send you the details.
It’s not the right season for us right now in the South Pacific. Here we are in Spring. And we don’t make cards for Autumn when it is here anyway. But I noticed there were some hidden gems in the All About Autumn Suite that we can certainly use so it was worth checking it out.
Such as –
The Stamped leaves or diecuts can create great Masculine projects or even for Sympathy cards as well.
The papers have photographic prints on one side with texture prints on the other side great for Masculine cards too.
And the embellishments and the Embossing Folder are certainly great for any occasion cards.
They all can be suitable for our Papercrafting here in the South Pacific.
Let’s check out the whole Suite.
The All About Autumn Suite includes:
Autumn Leaves Bundle with the Stamp Set and Dies
All About Autumn 6″x6″ (15.2cm x 15.2cm) Specialty Designer Series Paper
Oxidized Copper 12″x12″ (30.5cm x 30.5cm) Specialty Designer Series Paper
Check out the background effect in the card further below. It adds such a cool addition to your projects with the “dotted” background.
The All About Autumn Specialty Designer Series Paper
It consists of 48 sheets of patterned paper: 4 each of 12 double-sided designs 6″ x 6″ (15.2 x 15.2 cm). The prints are really great just to use on there own. The reverse side provides the look of texture to your projects.
The colours include: Cajun Craze, Copper Clay, copper foil, Early Espresso, Moody Mauve, Mossy Meadow, Pretty Peacock, Pumpkin Pie, Very Vanilla.
The Oxidised Copper Specialty Paper.
This pack consists of 4 sheets of Specialty Paper. 2 each of 2 designs in 12″x12″ (30.5cm x 30.5cm).
One page features distressed copper imaging while the other is inspired by oxidized copper. The colours used in this paper are Copper and Pretty Peacock.
Use the paper to create textured coppery leaves or use them as a backing for a thoughtful sentiment. You can use this paper not only for Autumn projects but for any other cards to add that extra lushness.
We can’t go past the Distressed Tile 3D Embossing Folder. Add that extra texture to any project to give a distressed vintage or chic look.
Now for some cards.
See the embossing on the front of these leaves with the Embossing Folder.
Some of the beautiful paper is used as a card base.
This card shows the “dotty” background.
Pumpkins and Autumn leaves on this card but this really shows the paper. There is the added leaves with the Oxidised Paper too.
A little texture from the paper and the shine from the Oxidized paper.
Another card shows off the texture from the Embossing Folder and the shine from the Oxidized Paper. Also another crisp photo image from the paper.
So there is much to admire in this suite and even useful for those Papercrafters in the South Pacific.
You can see them all in more detail in my store -> HERE. You can shop there. (Please use the Host Code: PGECWEG9)
When I made this card I was in a little dilemma. Do I add a bow or not?? So your thoughts??
I added the Red and Gold Ribbon and stuck it all down and then when I finished I couldn’t get a bow to work right. It either covered up the words or the leaves and I had already added the leaves.
The words from the Joy To You stamp set were inked in Real Red and then the bottom half inked in Cherry Cobbler to give a variation in the colours.
The Joy of Christmas Paper is very traditional Christmas with the Reds and Greens. I do like it and have already used it so much.
These are both new in the September – December Mini Catalogue.
If you need any of these supplies or others and you are in Australia I would love to serve you.
You can head to my store -> HERE. Please use the Host Code: PGECWEG9 Or contact me directly and I can assist you.
