Combining Sets

I'm sure that if your a fan of Stampin' Up or have been reading my blog for a while that it hasn't escaped you that the Stampin' up stamps come in sets that in themselves are very versatile, but how often do you combine sets to make projects. I know that it was something that I rarely used to do.
This card shows how stamp sets can be easily combined to make stunning projects. This card also combines a colour combination that I have never used before.

This card uses three sets of stamps

Stamps

Vintage vogue

Just Perfect Alphabet

Notably Ornate

Ink

Cajun Craze

Garden Green

Elegant Eggplant

Cardstock

Cajun Craze

Garden Green

Elegant Eggplant

Confetti White

Tools

1/2" circle punch

Paper Piercing tool

Mat pack

Pretties

Clear Rhinestone brads

All of the above products are from Stampin' Up and are available to purchase through me as an Independent Stampin' Up creative coach.

Bird House table favours

I originally saw these birdhouses earlier in the year when the bird punch was first released by Stampin' Up on Jo's Blog Jo is a very talented fellow demonstrator. I never got round to making the original project but when I popped back to Jo's blog a couple of weeks ago I fell in love with her Christmas version of the little birdhouses & even better Jo has altered the template so you now get two little birdhouses from a single A4 sheet of card. I decided that I would have a try of this project & make them as the favour boxes for my Christmas dinner table.

I've made six of these now ready to be filled, that's why the roof is only stuck down on one side.

The colours for my Birdhouse


Cardstock
Crumb Cake
Chocolate chip
Soft Suede
Real Red
Garden Green
Ink
Whisper White
Early Espresso
Stamps
Vintage Vogue
Serene Snowflakes


I will now have to try & make something equally as beautiful for the table for Boxing day., So watch this space.
Thanks Jo for the inspiration

Vintage Vogue feature

Have you seen this months issue of the Making cards magazine? The July Issue has a feature using the lovely Vintage Vogue stamp set & they ise the kissing technique.

The kissing technique is a great way to get more use from your stamps. There are several different ways to use this technique:

Take a background or textured stamp and ink it with a dark color. Place it face up on your work surface. Then ink a solid stamp with a lighter color. Press the solid stamp into the background stamp so that they “kiss” each other. The background stamp leaves a pattern into the solid stamp. Then take the kissed solid stamp and stamp onto cardstock.
As a variation, ink the two stamps in coordinating colors, rather than a lighter shade of the same color, and “kiss” them together. Then press the solid stamp onto cardstock.


Ink a solid stamp and “kiss” it with an un-inked pattern stamp. This removes ink in the shape of the pattern. Stamp the kissed solid stamp onto cardstock.

All of the Stampin' Up products are  available to purchase through me including the very versatile Vogue set used in this feature.

Mini Pizza box & 4 vintage vogue cards

With my new stampers 10 starting this week I thought I would start with one of my favourite sets & a mini pizza box and 3 cards which include a mini easel card at Angie's request.
Stamps
Vintage Vogue 117690
Tiny tags 118091
Live your dream 111486

Very Vintage wheel  117693

Inks

Soft Suede

Mellow Moss

Barely banana

Blush Blossom

Apricot appeal

Sage Shadow

Versamark

Cardstock

Very vanilla

Sage shadow ( the photo's aren't an accurate representation )

Blush blossom

Tools

Stampin' pastels

Sponge Daubers

3/4" circle punch

Scallop edge punch

Medium Jewellery tag punch

Very vanilla Taffeta ribbon

Kraft Taffeta ribbon

Step 1

With short side of 6" x 11" cardstock at the top of the scoring tool, score at 1" and 5".

Step 2

Turn cardstock, and on the 11" side of your cardstock, score at 1", 5”, 6” and 10”.

Step 3

Following the scored lines along the 11” side, use scissors to cut flaps.


Begin cut on outer edge of paper and stop at the perpendicular scored line

Step 4

Adhere flaps to inside of box.

Step 5

Decorate and fill box as desired.


The finished box measures 4" in width and 1" in height

Variations

Different Sizes To figure out the cardstock size you need for a different size box, try this formular" Cardstock width: 2 x height of box + finished box size Cardstock length: 3 x height of box + 2 x finished box size

Fond farewell challenge day 5

This wasn't quite the card I had in mind when I sat down at my desk, but due to my inability to be able to measure accurately combine that with being unable to cut a straight line this is how the card ended up, I rather like it actually.

Can you spot todays Fond farewell colours? yes there are two again.

Stamps
French filigree
Very vintage
Vintage vogue
Cardstock
Whisper white
Kraft
Ink
versamark
Mellow moss (FF)
Pretty in pink
Close to Cocoa (FF)
Trimmings
Very Vanilla Taffetta ribbon

All of the above products are from Stampin' Up & are available to purchase through me.

Vintage vogue again for another Fond Farewell

Not just one card today but two & they are slightly different.


This is one of the cards that i did with my lovely stampers 6 ladies on Thursday evening.

Can you spot the two fond farewell colours?

Stamps
Vintage vogue
Tiny tags
Cardstock
Very Vanilla
Bordering blue (FF)
Bashful blue
Sage shadow (FF)
Ink
Bordering Blue (FF)
Bashful blue
Trimmings
Hemp twine
Very vanilla Taffetta ribbon
Basic Grey Taffetts ribbon

All of the above products are available from Stampin' Up & can be purchased through me.

Fond Farewell day 3

Can you see a theme here?
I am loving the new vintage vogue set from the current mini catalogue, I hope Stampin' Up keep it in the new catalogue in October.

Stamps
Vintage vogue
Ink
Handsome hunter (FF)
Apricot appeal (FF)
Rose red
Card stock
Very vanilla
Rose red
Apricot appeal (FF)

All of the above products are from Stampin' Up & are available to purchase through me.

Fond Farewell ~ 2

Can you spot todays fond farewell colour ?
I am loving the Kraft card as it goes with every colour in the range.
Stamps
Vintage vogue
Tiny tags
French filigree
Ink
Mellow moss (FF)
Whisper white
Pretty in pink
Card stock
Very vanilla
Kraft
Ribbon
Very vanilla Taffetta


All of the above products are from Stampin'Up & are available to purchase through me.

Check back tomorrow & see if you can spot the fond farewell colour.

The first day of May brings a fresh month of challenge projects

I decided that my challenge for May would be to incororporate the 36 colours that are being retired in October.

I am absolutely loving the Vintage vogue set from the current mini catlogue really hope that it is carried forward into the new catalogue on 1st October as I love working with it.
Can you spot the fond farewll colours?

Stamps
Vintage vogue 117690
Very vintage wheel 117693
Ink
Summer sun (FF)
Old olive
Garden green
Mellow moss (FF)
Cardstock
Summer sun (FF)
Old olive
Garden Green
Very Vanilla

All of the above products are from Stampin' Up and are available to purchase through me.

Vintage vogue & Tiny tags A perfect pair

A beautifully simple easel card using not one but two of the lovely sets from the new Mini catalogue.

Since I first saw the easel cards I have fallen in love with this easy fold of card.






Cardstock
Basic black
Whisper white
Old Olive
Taken with teal
Ink
Old olive
Taken with teal
Tempting turquoise
Stamps
Vintage vogue 117690
Tiny tags 118091
Tools
Medium jewelry tag punch 117190
Eyelet border punch 117402
Trimmings
Rhinestone brads ~ Circle fire 110027
Linen thread 104199

All of the above products are from Stampin' Up & are available to purchase through me.

Only 2 more days to go

With just two days to go before the release of the new mini catalogue, I thought I would share with you a couple of cards that i've made using the new vintage vogue ( 117690 ) set that will be available from 1st April.

This is essentially the same card but just using different colour schemes.

Cardstock
Very Vanilla
Cameo Coral
Orchid opulence
Ink
Creamy Caramel
Cameo Coral
Orchid Opulence
Rose Red
Old Olive
Elegant Eggplant
Stamps
Vintage Vogue
Oval All
Tools
Stamp a ma Jig

All of the above products are available through me from Stampin' Up