Card Pick & Mix

Showing a selection of cards made recently, hope these might give you a few ideas Cath.

This first card featurs the Up, Up & Away stamp set and papers from Big Top Birthday.

This next two cards are from a recent workshop for Jolande and friends.

Not a very clear picture of the first one above, but a very simple card with leaf colours of Early Espresso, Bravo Burgundy and Pumpkin Pie stamped onto Saraha Sand card.

And this one uses the new Mixed Bunch stamp set and Blossom punch with papers from Beyond the Garden. Cardstock and ink is Melon Mambo.

Julia



Masterboard Fun

It has been a very wet day here, so hope these cheerful colours will brighten things up a little.

The cards have been made from a 'masterboard'. Take a piece of A4 pink card and stamp some large pink flowers and a mustard swirl. Using a spritzer tool and co-ordinating marker pens spritz colours between your stamped images to fill in the gaps, or you could use a stipple brush to achieve a similar result. Then spray the card with water and let the colours 'bleed' a little. Now use a heat gun to dry the card. Stamp some mustard 'splodges' and black bees, birds and flower centres. You can also add some torn pieces of text paper on which the edges have been coloured with a dauber (see card no. 3 below). Your 'masterboard' is now complete and you can cut it up to required sizes to design your cards, I made five cards in total.

Please note that when the card has been sprayed with water and dried it will curl up a little, so when placing pieces on your card design be sure to stick them down with some strong sticky red tape.

Card Colours: Pretty in Pink, Melon Mambo, More Mustard and Basic Black
Inks: Melon Membo, More Mustard and Basic Black.
Stamp: Stampin' Up various sets

Julia

Latest Offers from Stampin' Up

Hello, just wanted to let you of the latest offers from Stampin' Up.

Firstly during June if you purchase 3 designer paper packs you get to choose another pack for free. This includes the new designs from the Summer Mini catalogue and if you go the the Stampin' Up site via this link www2.stampinup.com you will be able to see the designs that are included in the offer.

The second offer is for hosting a workshop during June or July. If you host a workshop with sales of £325 you will get extra hostess pounds to spend in the catalogue. Instead of the usual £50 hostess spend plus 1 item at half price for a workshop with a value of £300, if the workshop sales reach £325 you will get a bonus of £30, pushing the total benefits to £80 hostess spend plus 1 item at half price. Again if you would like to see more details of this please click on the link above.

I hope to be back over the next few days with a couple of card samples.

Have a great weekend.

Julia