Stampin Up Colourful Seasons VideoTutorial

Stampin Up Colourful Seasons Video Tutorial

The New Annual Catalogue has arrived and it is jam packed full of lots of new exciting products one of which is the Colourful Seasons Bundle 24photopolymer stamps with coordinating 17 dies. This bundle covers all seasons with some lovely sentiments.

Colourful Seasons Video Tutorial

In this video tutorial I have shown how you can layer some framelits, I  used Stitched Shapes Framelits and Layering Circle Framelits Dies to create the layers and then stamped the small circle flower from the Colourful Seasons stamp set in Fresh Fig ink and Sweet Sugarplum ink. These two inks are a perfect blend.

To be able to use all of our lovely dies which coordinate so well with all of our lovely stamp sets you will need a Big Shot by Stampin Up This is a considered purchase at £99 but is a complete workhorse and I have had mine for nearly 5 years, have used it daily myself and for classes and it is still going strong. I cannot recommend it highly enough and if you club together with a few friends and put in an order of £525 you can get it for half price making a real bargain.

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Easter Card

Sometimes it's nice to get some pastel colours out and this Easter card is using pool party and Sweet sugarplum with some smoky slate for a pretty subtle look.

Combining Vintage Leaves and Papillon Potpourri building some layers and giving some texture with a sentiment from Teeny Tiny Sentiments, which really has a sentiment for every occasion.

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Have a fun sunny weekend 

Clean and Simple card using Flower Patch

Sometimes I struggle with clean and simple card ideas as I like to cram as much detail and technique into every card and project that I do. However it is good to take things back to basics and challenge oneself to create a clean and simple card which still looks pretty.

So today's card is using Flower Patch inked in the In Colours flirty flamingo, peekaboo peach and Sweet sugarplum and then die cut using the matching Flower Fair framelits. The sentiment and flower centres are stamped in Dapper Denim from the same In Colours collection.

With a few little rhinestones about for some bling and the flowers and background popped up on dimensionals it make a clean and simple yet effective card.

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Kissing Technique Using Stampin Up Lucky Elephant

This is a great technique to use with solid image stamps and the Lucky Elephant is just perfect for this. The video shows several cards using this technique
Sweet Sugarplum and rich razzleberry ink pads with little flower from Best Birds
Wild wasabi and emerald envy ink pads with butterfly stamp from Papillon Potpourri
Pool party and island Indigo ink pads with floral swirls from Timeless Textures

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Kissing Technique Using Stampin' Up! Lucky Elephant

I have always had a love for elephants as they are just graceful majestic animals so when this stamp set came along I just had to get it.
Today's card is using several different techniques.
Kissing Technique - ink Up the stamp in one colour and then use another inked stamp to stamp on top of the other. Large solid stamps are best for this technique so this elephant is perfect.

Background -  tear or cut a mask to use for the landscape and sponge in Crushed Curry and pool party. Sponge the edges of the card with Sweet sugarplum ink.

The elephant was fussy cut and mounted on dimensionals for depth.

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Lucky Elephant 142936 wood mount £15 or 142939 for clear mount £12

Clean and simple with a little bling

My style is a bit of an eclectic mix with lots of colour and background detail and I have always been worried about having white space as I have an uncontrollable desire to fill it.  So today I thought I would challenge myself with a clean and simple card using just a tiny piece of our gorgeous Saleabration glimmer paper, free for £45 purchase while stocks last.

I used the sunshine wishes heart, stitched framelits, butterfly punch and the teeny tiny wishes stampenset for the sentiments. This card shows just how well our products coordinate as the sweetsugarplum glimmer paper is a perfect match.

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Glimmer paper assortment pack

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So gorgeous and only available while stocks last. So get in there quick to avoid disappointment.

Catch you tomorrow for more ideas and techniques

Stampin Up Paisley Petals with bubble technique background

i was looking through my box of cards for a card for s friend and came across this one which reminded me of this fantastic technique. If you look back on my blog to September you will find pictures and a step by step tutorial, but for those that just need a quick recap here is how to do the background technique.

Take a small container (a shot glass is ideal) and put 2 tablespoons of washing up liquid and 2 tablespoons of water then add 8/10 drops of reinker of your choice. Mix the mixture together then take a drinking straw and blow to make bubbles. When the bubbles reach above the top of the container tap a piece of cardstock onto the bubbles so they burst and cause a great background, continue to build up until the desired effect is achieved.

I used Sweet sugarplum for this card and then added the lovely Paisley Petals thinlets to embellish.  All products are available through Stampin Up just click on shop button to go to my shop.

Have a great day and catch me tomorrow for more techniques and ideas.

Stampin Up Sale a Bration Avant Garden

Sale a Bration is a wonderful time where by you can choose a free products from the Saleabration catalogue for every £45 spent from the annual or spring/summer catalogue. One of the lovely free stamp sets is Avant Garden a flower and leaves set with sentiments which can make a multitude of different cards for many different occasions.

These two cards use the new in colours, sweetsugarpkum and peekaboo peach. The top card has a simply cut and layered banner style sentiment and the second sentiment is cut using the new stitched framelits which have squares, circles and ovals dies for a lovely stitched edge to any sentiment or matching and layering.

Use the buttons above to browse our catalogue range and remember for every £45 spend choose a free product. If you spend £90 choose 2 free items and so on.

Have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by 💜

Stampin Up double Z fold card using Fairy Celebration and bronze embossing

I just love the double Z fold cards and combined with the fairy celebration stamp set and some bronze embossing powder it makes for a fantastic scene card.

 I embossed all the flying fairies in bronze embossing powder and then using the aquapainter and using in colours watercoloured the images.

The background was a masked circle in peekaboo peach, dapper denim & sweetsugarplum sponged lightly to create an aurora borealis background.

Using the lovely as a tree bronze embossed the oak leaves and washed in sweet sugarplum.

Stamped in black the twinkles and sentiment and then used some sparkle on the twinkles.

The effect is stunning and all products used are from Stampin Up. Check them out by clicking on above link and when ordering use me Jane Allmark as your demonstrator of choice.

Stampin Up Bubble technique for great backgrounds

One of the things I love about the Stampin up family is that we share and help each other with techniques and ideas. This bubble technique has been around for a while but something I had not tried but was suggested in a Stampin Up group I belong to.  Always up for a challenge and a new idea to me I set about having a go.

Now like everything there is a certain amount of trial and error until you find a combination that works for you. So this is what works for me.

You will need a container, a small shot glass worked best for me.

A few drops of washing up liquid, some water and reinker of your choice 8/10 drops

A drinking straw.

This is about the right amount of liquid before the reinker is added. Too much and the effect will be diluted.

Blow into the liquid with drinking straw to create bubbles.

Tap your cardstock, I used just normal whisper white, but you could use glossy or coloured.

You will get a lovely bubble pattern. This one was using marina mist.

This one using sweet sugarplum

Use as a background with coordinating cardstock for a really wow card.

For Stampin Up products click on the link above which will take you to the Stampin up website and if you order please use me Jane Allmark as your demonstrator of choice.

Thanks to whoever originally thought of this idea and my fellow demonstrator for suggesting this fab technique to try.

Stampin Up Crayon Resist Technique using In Colours

Just love this technique for adding a bit of depth of a card with some white area.  All you use is a white crayon, yes the kiddies crayons Crayola or any other make and take the white one.  White is the only colour that gives highlights on white cardstock but if you wanted shadows you could use black on black.

On this card all I wanted was to pick up the edges and curl over of the petals and some of the centre stamens. So I just drew round them in the white and then using my songs daubers used sweet sugarplum and peekaboo peach.  I will add an appropriate sentiment at a later stage.

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Stampin Up Flower Shop and Petite Petals in New In Colours

There are some products within the Stampin Up range which are real staples and classics and should be in everyone's stash list. The flower shop and petite petals with coordinating punches are two of those.

Combined with the lovely new in colour dapper denim it makes a lovely card.

Sweet sugarplum cardstock stamped in coordinating ink and mounted on dsp in crumb cake, which goes with everything and teamed with dapper denim.

A simple sentiment makes this a really gorgeous card and a way to use up some of those scraps.

Follow the link above to take you to the Stampin up website and when ordering use me Jane Allmark as your demonstrator of choice.

Stampin Up Baby Bear

The gorgeous new in colours from Stampin Up has a colour sweet sugarplum which is a lovely subtle lilac colour and was perfect for this lovely bear stamp set.  It is a three step stamp set meaning ther are three components to the bear to add depth and tone. Now they are numbered 123 but I fine if you use 321 so the detail first and ending with the solid background it is easy to line up and see through the photopolymer stamp.

The sentiments for this stamp are lovely from wedding to new baby to general so this set can be used for many different occasions.

The link above take you to the Stampin Up website and when ordering please use me as your demonstrator of choice.

Thanks and have a good week. Back soon with more showcases of the new annual catalogue.

Stampin Up Fairy Celebration

How exciting Stampin Up have given us a fairy stamp set. It is a gorgeous set which reminds me of the illustrations of the flower fairies in the children's book I had when I was a child.

Lots of options with this set and the sentiments are adorable. 

Sweet sugarplum one of the new in colours is my favourite so I teamed it with wisteria wonder and used the blender pens to colour the image and then mounted on those colours. Had to use a bit of sparkle and the card was complete.

If you love fairies too then click on the link above and you will be magically whisked to the Stampin Up website where you can browse the catalogue and if you do order please think of me and use Jane Allmark as you demonstrator of choice.

Thanks and have a magical day 

Stampin Up Baby Bear

I have just received delivery of some rather lovely stamp sets from the new annual catalogue and have been playing with the baby bear set.

Now if you are like me I normally avoid triple step stamps as they can be difficult to line up and never look as good as in the catalogue. Well this time I have been surprised.  As this set is photopolymer it is easy to see through and with the curve of the bottom of the bear it lines up really easily. Eureka!

So I used Sahara sand, crumb cake and soft suede as the three tones and the gorgeous sweet sugarplum for the bow tie, sentiment and background dsp ( although I cheated and used the envelope paper which works really well.

I think it is gorgeous.  The sentiments work for new baby, wedding and just a general card with this love you Beary  much. If you want this stamp set or any others click on the link above and when ordering use me Jane Allmark as your demonstrator of choice.  I am no computer whizz so ther aren't fancy links etc but by clicking on the catalogue it does take you to the Stampin up website and then I hope you will use me Jane Allmark as your demonstrator. Thanks a lot and check back for more ideas from the new catalogue.

Stampin Up New In Colours

Well I just love blending the new In Colours which launch on the 1st June 2016.

Today I masked a circle and then blended flirty flamingo, peekaboo peach and sweet sugarplum then went round the edge of the circle with dapper denim to give a lovely northern lights sunset sky. I mounted on the sweet sugarplum although any of the colours would have looked lovely.

I used a returning set Serene Silhouette (rush over to the link above to see if there are any left on the returning list, use me Jane Allmark as your demo of choice)

The result is lovely. Really impressed with these new In Colours as they are very different to the other colour ranges and the pink, peach and plum colours coordinate perfectly for those lovely skies.

New catalogues can be ordered through me for the 1st June launch so just get in touch and I will send one out straight away.