September 4 Cards Classes for October

 Hi there Creators

Well as we're 1/2 way through September already 😱I thought I'd better get underway with October class cards!

October classes are a week later than normal on Friday 9th at 1pm in my classroom and Saturday 10th 10.30am in Maryborough,

 due to the Loddon Arts Trail happening and I'm displaying/teaching and selling at that in the Laanecoorie Hall. (hopefully it's a nice warm few days from Friday to Sunday)

If you plan to come to one of my classes just let me know in advance so I can have enough paper prepped with me!

Click on each of the cards to see the Supplies used in each one, and to purchase any that you "need"😉

This first one uses uses the fabulous new Box of Joy Bundle, I have to admit I bought this set because of the "Spoiler Alert" plus actually the box is kind of handy too🤣 and in fact the rest of the dies are growing on me too.

Next card - oh my goodness every self-respecting Australian Cardmaker needs this stamp set! Joyful Friends  I reckon they must have doubled the order for Australia!

3rd Card uses the absolutely stunning Luxe Foliage Specialty Designer Series Paper, which is the Product of the month for September (available while stocks last) If you place an order for $125+ then you get the option to pick it for $9😱

and the scored lines don't show up well on the first photo I took (but the foiling does!) so hence this photo too.....

Last but not least, we're back to Christmas and my plan is (she says taking a deep breath) to have my foiling machine ready for people to use and try out (again 😱)  How amazing is this Buffalo Check background?  Everyone's cards will be a little different as there are a few sayings to pick from, but the ribbon and background will be the same, the ribbon is soooo pretty! 💝

And that is it, the 4 cards we'll be creating!

If you plan to come let me know and you can make payment to my account or Pay ID, just ask me if you don't have it 😊

I plan to do a video at the Maryborough class again, so if you can't make it to the class come back a week or so after and I should have it uploaded.

Hope my projects inspire you to create

Beautiful Tree Rings - Chain Card Swap F

  Hi there Creators,

I joined in from April to August in something called a "Chain Card Swap".  And now we get to share the end results.

The best way I can describe it is Chinese Whispers for cards.  We took turns starting the chain off with our card, whoever starts it sends it to the next person on the list who CASE's it (Copy And Selectively Edit), they then send their card onto the next person and so it continues.  I'm fascinated to see how the beginning and end results turn out, each of these blog posts have links on them at the bottom to the others in the chain, so let me know what you think, and make sure you check out the whole round! 

If you have come from the previous blogs you'll have seen the progression so far! Make sure you tap below to see the next one!

My card in this swap is this one:  I've used the Beautiful Gallery Designer Series Paper, the Textured Tree Ring Embossing Folder, and I couldn't resist using my Hot foiling machine with the Classic Greetings Hot Foil Dies and a spot of Gold hot foil rolls.  Oh my goodness the foiling just lifts it another level!

So now go and check out the others in the chain, I love the variety and inspiration that everyone has gathered from the card that was mailed to them.

Something Saturday - What you can do with the Hot foil without a machine

 Hi There Creators

Yep we're back on the "hot foil" only we're using it cold this time🤣  I happen to know that the Stampin' Up! hot foil machines were so popular here in Australia that they didn't last long when they got released, so we're waiting on a new shipment (around September time), however in the meantime the foils themselves and some of the dies etc are still available, so..... I figured while you wait you might want to start ordering the bits, so you don't have such a huge outlay in one hit (plus you can still use them in interesting ways).

Equally if you are thinking of getting the hot foil machine, I can totally recommend joining my team (check it out here) because the machine is $280, (currently includes a $53 class in the price), and if you join which is $175, you get a voucher for $240, so potentially the outlay is the $175 plus $40 = $215 and not $280!  Yay think I finally got the maths right (didn't do so well in the video!) PLUS then you get an ongoing discount on the rest of your goodies (win, win) AND you get first dibs at new goodies coming out.  Plus you get a really cool welcome box worth $114!  and there's more, like Demonstrator only gatherings/ Facebook groups......... What's not to love?!  You also need a Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine (the bigshot doesn't work, as the foiler is a tad wider), so if you don't have one of those you're definitely going to want the discount!  (convinced yet🤣)

Ok, onwards to what you can do with the goodies:

First up you can emboss with the hot-foiling dies using the Impressions Plate, then, you can paint glue onto them and add foil (by pressing it onto the glue and it just sticks!😃🤩

With the Butterfly Flight Bundle you'd need to do the masking, then cutting then embossing, and lastly adding foil.  This photo shows both sides of a butterfly (bottom one is masked first)

Then you can also just do a line of tear & tape adhesive and press the foil directly onto it (great way to use up scraps! (looks way better in real life than the photos give it credit!)

I've also done a comparison photo for you, first up is the official hot foil, using the foiling machine, then the one where I've added glue and pressed the foil on, third is not using the foil, but using the brayer to add colour to the embossed butterfly, then the multicoloured ones are using the masks, and the last one underneath uses a brush to colour it in. (does show up the embossing nicely!)

Then I have a second card to show you (again looks better in real life!) sigh!

Then of course I had to utilize some of the butterflies that I'd actually hot foiled (just in case you weren't convinced you needed the hot foil machine 🤣)

The top one uses the gorgeous Botanical Glow Bundle, Oh why didn't I buy this sooner? lol, then I've used the "negative" (left over foil from the original card) to create the second card.

If you missed the video here it is:

I hope this inspires you to create

God Bless love 

Heather xox