Cards for April

Hi there Creators,
Well almost at the end of March, and so here are the cards I'll be teaching in April.  The class dates are Wednesday 3rd 10.30am in Laanecoorie, Thursday 4th at 10.30am and 7.30pm in Laanecoorie, then Saturday 6th at 10am in Maryborough.  Do let me know if you plan to come to one of the classes (and haven't done so already).

Best start showing you the cards!  This first one uses the stunning Country Floral Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder, which is currently a Sale-a-Bration item till the end of March, so spend $90 and you can choose it for FREE! (you can't purchase this one at the moment).  I've also used the Label Me Pretty Stamp set with Matching Pretty Label Punch, and the lovely chunky ribbon is Gray Granite Textured Weave Ribbon.

 

Card #2, I thought we hadn't used the Stampin' Blends for a while (don't forget if you're using the Blends they are alcohol markers so you need to use memento ink for your base lines so it doesn't smudge with the pens.  I really love the way this card came out, I've used the Serene Garden Stamp set and Itty Bitty Greetings Stamp set.

Moving onto the next card, I think I had a couple of triangle off-cuts lying on my desk, so then of course I played with them, and Oh light bulb!  a pinwheel card lol, I've used the Tropical Escape Designer Series Paper, such lovely colours in it, and paired it up with the Sunshine Sayings Stamp set and some Gingham Gala Adhesive Backed sequins (they're so pretty).

And the last card, I was asked for more heat embossing, so I thought it would be fun to have 2 embossed colours together - gold and silver (hope it works in class lol)  I've used the Sheet Music Stamp set with the Better together stamp set.  thought this saying was somewhat appropriate to the background 😆

 

As the silver/gold embossing is not so obvious in the above photo thought I'd give a close up too, this Sheet Music Stamp is really one of my favourite stamps!

oh and as you can see from this photo I've used the rectangle stitched framelit dies too (such a useful set of dies)
Well that's it!  I hope if you can't make it to class these cards inspire you to create in your own space.
God Bless love
Heather xox
Oh and if you're ordering between now and the end of the month, make sure you use this hostess code to go in the draw for the free hostess benefits:  2H4RBNQQ

New 2nd wave Sale-a-Bration goodies and more

Hi There Creators,
thought I'd drop in and show you a few things I've been creating recently.

After the class I had a few horse cards unfinished so one of them got turned into this, using some of  of the other stamps in the Let It Ride stamp set, to do this I've ended up cutting out more stencils, 2 for the single horse and one for the 2 background horses, so that I could stamp the trees into the background  I think it's kind of cool having the 2 galloping away in the foreground, what do you think?

 

 There is a second wave of Sale-a-bration products available from tomorrow 15th Feb, and this card that I have made up as my "tag" card for the month uses some of them.  I've used the Country Floral Dynamic Textured Impressions embossing folder, which is so pretty!  I've used Rich Razzleberry, Pumpkin Pie and Old Olive daubers to lightly daub over the raised pattern. For those of you receiving it I've left it white for you to add your own colour to it.  The tag itself is made using the beautiful stamps in the Painted Season Bundle, and also the really useful Rectangle Stitched Framelit dies (have you noticed them? they're on page 28 in the catalogue) and I've just realised that they bundle together with the Amazing Life Stamp set!

always good when things bundle and you get 10% off!

I also thought I'd show you the "one sheet wonder" type sheet I created to cut the stamped tags from, as it really lends itself to a one sheet wonder this stamp set!  I stamped up the whole A4 sheet (and I have some left over, so I'm planning to see how many cards I can make out of it!)  aren't the flowers so pretty though?

Ok moving on....  actually lets not move on too much as I also made up another card with the same stamp set, slightly ironic as the main reason I went ahead and got the set is for the Pine cone and I haven't used it yet!  I wasn't sure I'd like the flowers so much, but I really do! this card I took the flowers and stamped them on the card, then stamped them a couple more times on scrap card, and cut out the bits to create a Paper Tole type image, layered up with dimensionals.  The saying are from the beautiful Dear Doily Stamp set (more about that too in a mo!)

thought I'd show you a close up of the flowers (because I can lol)

Then we'll flow onto the Dear Doily stamp set.....which conveniently comes as a bundle too.  And Oh My Goodness!  it is awesome! however I don't have anything with the dies to show you just yet, as all I've done is cut them out in white card and ooh and Aah over them lol, but I did make up this simple card with the stamps, as it's so delicate I was looking around for a ribbon to go with it and thought this one was perfect - it's the Whisper White 5/8" flax ribbon, although it's chunky it has the right amount of delicacy for this card, I think it's the slightly see through nature of the ribbon.  Colours I've used with this are Balmy Blue, Mint Macaron and Petal Pink, which has a slightly coral/orange'y hue to it.

Well I think that's it for now, do let me know if you have any questions, or you're interested in placing an order but unsure how.  Don't forget for every $90 you order till the end of March you get to pick a free Sale-a-Bration product YAY!
Thanks for reading this, and if you're not on my e-mailing list and would like to be, do let me know!
Happy Creating
God Bless love
Heather xox