Cards for February

Hi there,

It's been hard trying to make up my mind what to teach in February!  However I think I've narrowed it down lol!  Just in case you don't know, this time of year with Stampin' Up! is Sale-a-Bration, when you order $90 of goodies, you get to pick a FREE Sale-a-Bration product, this year Stampin' Up! have also produced a couple of $180+ Sale-a-Bration products.

So these are the cards that made it.....
Card #1 uses possibly my 2 favourite sets (Sale-a-Bration and from the Occasions Catalogue) and my favourite colouring medium!  So allow me to introduce you to the Petal Palette Bundle, and the Happy Wishes Sale-a-Bration set to get this set for FREE you'll need to place a $180+ order.  Love that the roses are cut out with dies!, and I've coloured them in with the fabulous Stampin' Blends.

Card #2 mixes a couple of stamp sets, I think I've shown it before on this blog, it uses the Bubble Over stamp set, and the Fruit Basket Stamp set, some of the smoky slate gingham ribbon, and the absolutely gorgeous Myths and Magic Washi tape:

Card #3 I was thinking that Valentines day is in Feb, although some of the classes will miss it, so this can be adapted to a birthday/ anniversary or whatever you'd like card :)  This card uses the really pretty Painted with Love Specialty Designer Series Paper (just love the gold foil in this paper), and also back to the Petal Palette Stamp set for the wording:

And last but not least, I've gone with a "boy card" although it could be girl depending on the colours you choose!  This uses the Sale-a-bration stamp set Epic Celebrations (having 3 boys, I felt this one was a absolute must for me to get!)  When you purchase $90 of goodies, you could get this set for FREE! the set also has wording that says "You're Awesome".

So..... dates for classes making these cards in February are: Saturday 3rd Feb - Maryborough 10am, Wednesday 7th February - Bendigo 10.30am (all being well, but just check with me a few days prior),  Wednesday 14th Feb - Laanecoorie 7.30pm.   In case you haven't been to one of these classes before I charge $15 to cover the cost of cards/envelopes and instructions, or you can choose to purchase $50+ and have the class for free!  Do let me know if you plan to make it to any of the classes, I'd love to see you there!

I hope these cards inspire you to create!
God Bless love
Heather xox

Bubble Over New Stamp Set and Dies

Hi Everyone
Been wanting to do this post for a few days, but due to changing up my phone (or at least I'm assuming this is the reason) I'm having trouble watermarking my photos, for some reason the app I was using won't work anymore, and itunes/app store won't allow me to download a new one (grrr)
However winge over, excuse the extra watermarking.....

There is a new cool set in the upcoming Occasions Catalogue (if you've got the catalogue it's on page 32)   Bubble Over, and Bottles & Bubbles framelits
I felt it needed me to do something with it, so here's my offering!

First up I felt it should be teamed up with the new Sale-a-Bration papers that match it - Bubbles & Fizz Designer Series Paper, the "bottle tops" are in the paper, and there's a framelit to cut them out (yay)
Next card I made, I wondered how the bottles would look cut out of the new glimmer Papers (page 37) Tom (husband) wasn't keen, but then he's not so keen on sparkles lol.

 

Card #3 I've been meaning to try out this technique for a while now, it's where you use a Stampin' Write Marker just to colour over the edges and lines of a stamp (as you can see in the top card, the bottles are actually a block stamp, as oppose to a line stamp, I really like the look it gives them doing this this way (what do you think?)  I've teamed them up with this Painted with Love Designer Series Paper (which I accidentally ordered 2 lots of - lol) and the saying comes from Petal Palette Stamp set

Next up is the one that Tom quite liked (yay go me!) I've teamed it up with some of the Wood Textures Designer Series Paper to create the Bar table, and the circles (stamp) that are used in the middle of the "wine Bottles" above as the labels, have become the stains on the wood surface.

Ok so the last card for this post..... I just fell in love with the bubbles!, they made me think of my boy's bubble bath's, however slightly lacking in a bath stamp, so I've teamed it up with the Fruit Basket stamp set, in an effort to make it look like a washing up bowl (although thinking about it I'm not sure why I'd send a washing up bowl to someone for their birthday lol) but the bubbles are cute :)

Let me know which is your favourite? If you haven't got the new catalogues yet, let me know and I'll pop them in the mail to you/deliver them off.

I hope it inspires you to create,
God Bless love
Heather xox