For once, I am preparing a post three weeks in advance. Reason being that in just over a week or so I need to have prepared 21 swaps for the next Creative Inkers’ Team Swap. For this swap we have to use at least one item from the new Holiday Catalogue but at the time of preparing this post we were not permitted to show new product just yet hence the delay in posting. I wasn’t sure what to do for this swap as I needed to keep my expenditure down.
It turned out to be an interesting challenge and I am pleased with the results so far. I have come up a card in two different colour combinations. I’m not sure which one I will choose for the actual swap. Let me know which one you prefer?
Soooo, I chose the new Glad Tidings Stamp set which using the two-step stamping technique creates a beautiful holly leaf and berries.
For the first card, I have used traditional colours – Cherry Cobbler, Garden Green, Wild Wasabi, Real Red, Always Articoke (this is a first for me – never knew quite where to use this colour before) and Gold Embossing Powder on Very Vanilla cardstock.
The holly was stamped directly on the top layer of the card. The greeting, on a seperate piece of cardstock, die cut using the Stitched Framelits and layered with dimensionals.
The second card also used Very Vanilla card stock and Gold Embossing Powder but for the rest I have used several ink colours from the Neutrals range to create a sepia effect.
Sahara Sand and Crumb Cake for the leaves, Soft Suede and Early Espresso for the berries.
I still don’t know which I prefer….. normally I would assume I’d like the more traditional colour combination but I really quite like the Neutrals.
Then I got to thinking….. what other colour combinations could you use? Shades of grey and blue, maybe? That would probably look cool. Either way, that is the advantage of making your own cards. There are no rules and if you want to change out the colours, why not?
I actually came up with another card but I’ll save that for another time.
Happy stamping!
Christine
If you live in New Zealand all supplies used to create these projects can be purchased HERE.
Supplies used:–
Stamp set: Glad Tidings (2017 Holiday Catalogue)
Framelits: Stitched Shapes
Cardstock: Very Vanilla, Cherry Cobbler, Soft Suede
Ink: Real Red, Cherry Cobbler, Wild Wasabi, Garden Green, Sahara Sand, Crumb Cake, Soft Suede, Early Espresso, Versa Mark, Always Artichoke
Miscellaneous: Tombow Multipurpose Liquid Glue, Stampin’ Trimmer, Big Shot, Gold Embossing Powder, Dimensionals
When I was first married, we lived in a house that had a large patio with a pergola overhead. Growing over this pergola was beautiful old wisteria. Early spring it would gradually become a mass of pale purple (mauve, lilac). It would look glorious for a week, then the spring breezes would hit and the petals would fall like a gentle snow. Beautiful.
why not the home made envelope was well?
And we all tend to be more likely to send birthday cards instead of thank you cards.
I do love the way Stampin’ Up! encourages casing projects. (CASE = Copy and share everything). The other day I came across 
One of my favourite suites in the new 2017/18 Annual Catalogue is the Delightful Dasiy suite. The combination of a cute stamp set and matching punch are fabulous and even better still, are available as a bundle thus saving 10%. Then adding the beautiful Delightful Daisy Designer Series Paper, Double Stitch Ribbon and topped off with Facet Gems….. what can I say.
This project seems a little different to my usual projects. I’m not quite sure what is different about it. Maybe it is the colour combinations? But then again, it is red, white, blue and yellow…… or should I say Real Red, Whisper White, Night of Navy, Soft Sky and Daffodil Delight. Nothing strange about that either. I don’t know what it is, maybe you do.
With a closer angle you might just be able to make out the sparkle on the background. Before applying the Embossing Paste, I mixed in a little Dazzling Diamonds.
With Stampin’ Up! releasing the “Christmas in July” promotion I thought it would be a good opportunity to do a few mid winter Christmas cards. So here is my first offering.
Having looked back on my recent posts I have noticed that they are all from a similar colour palette. Easy to tell that it is a palette that I am comfortable with and tend to move towards naturally.
appears to fly. This can be seen in the video 
I used the shaving foam background more as a mat and embellishment rather than a total back ground.
And who’s to say that you can only use this technique to only create backgrounds and mats.
As some of you may know, I play in the Manukau Concert Band and yesterday we had the privilege to join with the SGI Victorious March Band for our annual friendship concert. This concert is always a highlight of our year. We are made to feel very welcome and in a mark of appreciation I was ask by my band to make a thank you card to send to SGI and this is what I came up with.