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Something Saturday - Inchie equivalent card for those with an A4 Brain!

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Hi there Creators, Well today I thought I'd have a go at an "inchie" card, only mine (unsurprisingly for me) aren't inchies! The idea behind it is that you have inch squares, which get attached to a background paper (which has been scored up before hand so you have lines to attach your inchies to, and embossed with an embossing folder, which then deletes the score lines. However, as you have to cut your base card down to create an inchie card, I decided to do things "my way" hence "equivalent for an A4 brain" Here are the 2 Inchie cards I received the first one from Simone my up-line as a swap at the Stampin' Up!event. She's used the beautiful vibrant Flowering Zinnias designer series paper and the second from Lee-Allan one of my down-line (which uses some paper that now I need to buy 🤣) check it out for yourself:  Natures Sweetness Designer Series Paper then I got onto creating one - my size using retired Designer Papers (you can never

Something Saturday - Rainbow shaker glitter card

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 Hi There Creators, If you watched the video you'll know I'm so chuffed with this card!  The glitter shakes freely, and I think it's amazing 😍  Sadly the glitter is a throwback from several years ago, but everything else is still current Brilliant Rainbow Dies / Stampin' Blends (various)/ Party Puffins (for the saying)/ with Stampin' Write Markers (to colour the stamp), and the most useful bits the Foam Adhesive Strips and Window Sheeting Ok, well I guess you want to see what all the fuss is about.....      I did put an overlay on the video at one part to say that I've worked out another way of adding the glitter, and I'd add it to this post, so here goes.... First up cut the big rainbow out of white cardstock (I used 10cm x 14.5cm) colour the cut pieces (I used my Stampin' Blends - alcohol markers to get a even graded look) lay (don't stick) the die cut white piece over your base card and slot in the coloured pieces, gluing them in place then rem

Something Saturday - Stamping with water!

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 Hi there Creators, Yep stamping with water!  I was messing around with my water painters trying to do something different with them (which didn't work out), when I discovered that if I stamp an image in ink on some of our Thick White Cardstock, then stamp another one on top using water, it does something rather cool! So here's the card I made before the video... Aren't the images in the middle of the flowers and leaves cool?  In order to get this overlay image I "inked" it up with water, then stamped and held the stamp down for 10 - 15 seconds. So here is the one all made up that I did in the video: As you can see I've also used the Loose Flower Flourishes, which I thought went nicely with it (not sure I've actually used them before!).     Then I discovered that the small diamantes will fit nicely in the middle of the big Flower Flourishes (bonus!!)  I also discovered that once you stamp you can draw on water with the small water painter, see the leaf wi

Something Saturday - Rolling Waves Card

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 Hi there Creators, So, today I was showing how to make the most of the Stamparatus and create a Rolling Waves card, using the main waves image in the Waves of Inspiration stamp set , and repeating it to create that look of a wave a surfer might go through. Here are the 2 cards I made top one is the one I created with what I made in the video, bottom one was my initial go at it.  I mentioned at the end of the video I might add another colour with it, which is what I did and I love the blend of colours, even though they're on top of each other Anyway how did I do it?, I took a couple of photos for you in case you didn't see the video I lined up the stamp onto the stamparatus as far right as I could, inked it up, then used a dauber to blurr the edges, so they wouldn't be so "sharp" once stamped, then stamped my strip of cardstock, once. Next I moved the plate to the next position along the top rung, and repeated the process all along till I had a whole line  If you

Something Saturday - Clear Blocks are more than just for Stamps!

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 Hi There Creators join me today as I show you how to make the most of your clear blocks! Before the video I had actually managed to create a couple of cards - yay go me!! Which were these ones; To find out what I used on this first card click here:  What Heather Used   To find out what I used for this Chick Card, click here: What Heather Used  Then in the video I showed how to create this wall using clear blocks, to see what I used click here: What Heather used   In the video I mention when one of us at work gets distracted one of the other girls has a catch phrase for it "Oh look a squirrel!"  After having mentioned that, I thought, Oh squirrels would look good on top of the wall! 🤣 (good job I have squirrel stamps!) and for this card I show how to create these frames, to see what I used clear here:  What Heather used  It's actually easy to use your clear block to create cool backgrounds or as in the squirrel card, bricks.  All you do is forgo the stamps on your blocks

Something Saturday - Reverse Stamping

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  Hi there Creators I thought I'd do a spot of reverse stamping this week, there's a really lovely stamp set: Elegantly Said, that has this cute little die that looks like 1/2 a butterfly, so if you know how to reverse stamp you can create the butterfly quite easily.  In the video I show creating the pink butterflies, I've then added the Pool Party Butterflies and the large flourish in the corners is also reverse stamped for the upper corner.  check out what I used here:  What Heather used This next card uses the Boughs & Blossoms stamp set, the leaves only go in one direction and as it's not a photopolymer set I can't bend them in the other direction, so reverse stamping allows me to get them to wave their way across the page (they'd make a pretty good wreath I reckon if you kept stamping them round!)  check out what I used for this card here: What Heather Used  Anyway, nitty gritty, how do you do this?  Easy peasy, stamp your main image 1/2 strength onto y

April Class cards

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Hi There Creators, oops I keep forgetting to add this post with next months class cards! (apparently I completely forgot last month, I'm so sorry!) Next months classes are: Wednesday 6th at 10.30am in Laanecoorie, Thursday 7th at 7pm in Laanecoorie, and Saturday 9th at 10.30am in Maryborough, class cost $20 for all 4 cards. Ok, well as many of you already know, the retiring list is out!  Products from the annual catalogue (check them out here:  Retiring products)  there's some fabulous discounts to be had! And would you believe it but 2 out of 4 stamp sets I picked are retiring and discounted! First up In Bloom Stamp set now 1/2 price at $15!!! wow what a bargain, it's such a cool set this, I love the block images as you can do so much with them, and create your own patterns inside them, which is what I'll be showing how to do with this card.  Next is the ice cream 😢 such a useful set for anybody's birthday (I mean who doesn't like a bit of ice cream every so

Something Saturday - Tulip Dies

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Hi Creators, Well this week I thought we'd check out the gorgeous Tulip Dies they're a bit different in that 3 of them have special folds, which I felt needed a bit of explanation (in other words I had to check out what others had done too 😉) So here's my "take" on it...... this is the card I made before the video I love the idea of the tulips being a bit 3D, so I've curled the card, and added the glossy stuff, which on the left hand tulip is the Shimmery Crystal Effects and the other 2 are done with the Fine Tip Glue Pen .  Mine sadly got all gunked up in the lid,  (there is a pin that's meant to go into the extremely fine tip, and the pin got a bit mangled!)  anyway more than one way to get round things, so I unscrew the lid and use a toothpick to apply it 😃 gives a lovely glossy finish. Then in the video I show the components I used to create these 3 flowers: Here is the line up...... Then in the video I make up the flowers for this card...   I thi