Supplies: Stamps: Sweet Summer, So Happy For You Card: Old Olive, Whisper White, More Mustard Patterns DSP (Regals Pattern Stack) Ink: Stazon Jet Black, Old Olive, Pacific Point, More Mustard Accessories: Scallop Edge Punch, Wide Oval Punch, Big Shot, Lots of Tags Die, Aqua Painter, Old Olive 3/8” Taffeta Ribbon.
Over on Stampin’ Up in Oz we’ve started on Weekly Challenges for the year which is something new to the group. This weeks challenge is ‘Water Colouring’. I love water colouring myself, but will admit I don’t do it often enough. I’m really looking forward to playing with my Watercolour Crayons now that the new colour packs are available but for this card I made for the challenge I’ve gone with Inkpads & Aqua Painter.
Seeing how next month we celebrate Valentine’s Day I thought I’d actually make my hubby a card this year (I know that sounds strange and even a bit terrible but I usually don’t bother) and opted to use the Build-A-Roo stamp set which I was yet to ink up. I was hoping not to make the card look too ‘girly’ so chose a colour combination from the Colour Coach that hopefully I could pull of to be at least a little masculine. Of course I wanted my Kangaroo to be a brown, so I chose Soft Suede and went with the colour combination of Soft Suede, Baja Breeze & Cherry Cobbler.
This is the end result.
As we don’t have any Baja Breeze ribbon anymore I’ve used a retired one. I also made some Faux Brads using the 2-Step Owl Punch and Crystal Effects.
Here’s another card that I made at our Team Stamp Camp last month. This one was made for my lovely upline Marelle Taylor, to thank her for such a fabulous weekend.
I remembered to snap this one on my phone before giving it to Marelle so I only had to make one of these.
I’ve used the ‘All A Flutter’ stamp with the ‘Heard from the Heart’ sentiment set on this card. Both sets are from the Autumn/Winter mini which ends on the 31st August. The colours are Melon Mambo, Soft Suede and Whisper White. The butterfly was stamped onto Watercolour paper using Stazon and coloured using an aqua painter and inkpads. I’ve also added some Crystal Effects over the butterflies body but it doesn’t show up in the photo. This is a beautiful butterfly stamp and I really need to play some more with it.
I’m back with another of the cards I made at the Team Stamp Camp. Remember I took limited supplies away with me so even though I think the cards are pretty basic I was still happy that I was able to create.
There’s a bit of a story behind this card. One of our fellow team members wasn’t able to attend the camp due to breaking her ankle and need surgery only a few days prior to the camp. Just to let her know we were all still thinking about her, quite a few of us made her a card which was delivered the Sunday afternoon by some of her good friends that still attended camp. I made my card, wrote in it, popped it in an envelope, sealed it, gave it to the lovely ladies for delivery and then realised that I didn’t snap a picture first.
Oh well, what do you do?
Make another…….lol
And so I did and this time I remembered to take a photo.
Supplies: Stamp set: Embrace Life Card: Rich Razzleberry, Perfect Plum, Old Olive, Watercolour Paper Inks: Stazon Black, Rich Razzleberry, Old Olive Accessories: Old Olive 1/4” grosgrain ribbon, Polka Dot Textured Impressions Folder, Clear Rhinestone Brads, Aqua Painter, Stampin’ Dimensionals, Mini Glue Dots.
The first challenge we were given at Stamp Camp was a Mystery Challenge. We were given a paper bag with the mystery items inside which we had to create something with. We didn’t have to use everything just so long as we used something.
Inside the bag was an A5 piece of Soft Suede cardstock, a piece of Kraft, Regal Rose, Pink Pirouette and Very Vanilla cardstock, some Very Vanilla taffeta ribbon and a sweet treat cup. I ended up using all bar the Kraft cardstock and the Sweet Treat cup and had to add a little extra Soft Suede and Very Vanilla cardstock.
This is what I came up with.
The main image has also been stamped randomly over the Pink Pirouette cardstock using Versamark ink but I’m not sure you can see it in the picture.
These are not colours I would normally grab to use together but I don’t think it turned out too bad. Remember I had limited stamp sets on hand and even though Marelle had quiet a few of hers there I was trying to use what I took.
When packing for camp I tried to restrict myself so I didn’t end up returning home with lots of things I needn’t have taken as I didn’t use them. I’m happy to report that the only thing I could of taken less of was ribbons but seeing how I only packed about 6 – 8 it really wasn’t a lot of space anyway. You know what would have happened if I didn’t have them though……. I would have needed them.
Supplies: Stamp sets: Embrace Life Card: Soft Suede, Regal Rose, Pink Pirouette, Very Vanilla Ink: Veramark, Stazon Black, Pink Pirouette, Regal Rose, Soft Suede Accessories: Scallop Edge & Word Window punches, Very Vanilla Taffeta Ribbon, SAMJ, Stampin’ Dimensionals, Mini Glue Dots, Aqua Painter
