Seeing Spots

Another set I got in my starter kit is the seeing spots set & the Spot on wheel, so I have set aside a couple of hours to make some samples with these two sets today.
I have been using the Colour combo site which helps to match colours not only from the same colour families but from the whole colour range.


Stamps : Seeing spots
Paper : Whisper White, Pumpkin pie, Tempting Turquoise, Chocolate Chip
Inks : Pumpkin Pie, Rose Red, Tempting Turquoise, chocolate Chip
Accessories : White Grosgain ribbon
Techniques : Stamping, Matt & Layer

Stamps : Seeing Spots
Paper : Whisper White, Chocolate Chip, Pink Pixie, Certainly Celery
Inks : Chocolate Chip, Pink Pixie, Certainly Celery
Accessories : White Grossgrain ribbon, scallop circle punch
Techniques : Basic stamping using pens direct to stamp

Stamps : Seeing spots, Best yet (sab)
Paper : Whisper White, Pumpkin Pie, Tempting Turquoise, Chocolate Chip, Rose Red
Inks : Pumpkin Pie, Tempting Turquoise, Chocolate Chip, Rose Red
Accessories : 1/2" punch used as a corner cutter
Techniques : Basic rubber stamping, using 3 colours on one stamp.

Stamps : Seeing spots, Season of joy, starring you
Paper : Close to cocoa, Pink Pixie, Chocolate Chip
Inks : Pink Pixie, Chocolate Chip
Accessories : White gel pen, scallop border punch
Techniques :

Stamps : Seeing Spots, Starring You
Paper : Chocolate Chip, Pink Pixie, Whisper White, Certainly Celery
Inks : Chocolate Chip, Pink Pixie, Certainly Celery
Accessories : Three for you punch, 1/4" circle punch, 1/2" circle punch, DSP Sweet always
Techniques :

Stampin Up ~ Seaside

When I was looing through the current Stampin up catalogue to choose my demo kit one stamp set in particular caught my eye & kept creeping further up my wish list.

Seaside
I love the beach & walking by the sea is one of the places I go whenever I need to re-charge my batteries, so its no wonder I was drawn to this set.

Feathered Hope

Mens cards as we all know are very hard to make unless the recipient falls into the stero typical football loving, car loving drinker. In reality most men dont fall into these categories making it very hard to make appropriate male cards.
When ever a craft rep comes into work or our buyer goes out on a buying trip ideas for men are always top of the list.
Stampin up however do have sets that are really nice for men. I have found feathered hope that I bought in america just such a set & often dust it off when I make mens cards.

Scrapbooking ~ A learning curve

I have recently been inspired By the very talented Jane to do more scrapbooking, its something that I have wanted to do more of for a long time but have never been so inspired. Going to Janes house is lovely as she has scrap pages hanging in all of the rooms & they are so cool not to mention inspiring.

I did start a scrapbook two years ago of a family holiday in Brittany, but a couple of months after the holiday my father in law died and it was painful to have all of the holiday pictures out as it was the last family holiday he came on.





Well today I have completed a whole page, but as I say it was a learning curve & today I learnt a very important lesson, I started this layout last night & left it on the desk in my Stamping studio, which is the same place I dry my hair.
Well you can imagine the rest ........... I managed to blow my whole layout away before I had stuck it all together.

The petals are Stampin up Pick a Petal stamped on Yoyo Yellow card with Pink Passion ink. The Chipboard flower is also stampin up & is triple embossed adding a layer of colour each time, the two colours used are Yoyo Yellow & Only Orange.
The paper is by Sassy Frass lass and really lends itself to one of my favourite photo's.