A Convention Case

Following on from my last post, these items are a case from the demonstration by Vanessa Webb (her website is here) at convention. Thanks Vanessa for the great ideas.

I was visiting one of my lovely stamping buddies (hi Margaret), who now has the most amazing craft room (I would like to move into it). Well she also happens to be a quilter and I got talking about wanting to use fabric on my cards, so she pulled out a drawer and said take a piece home - yeah, she is so sweet and generous.

The card has a base of Naturals Ivory with an embossed Cherry Cobbler mat. For the butterflies, I glued the fabric onto some Cherry Cobbler cardstock (I just used the anywhere glue stick). Then cut the butterflies using the Stampin' Up! Beautiful Butterflies Die. Using a bone folder I curled slightly the wings of the butterfly, unfortunately you can't see it to well in the photo but it gives the card a bit of 'height'. A few Pearl Basic Jewels finishes them off.

Now for the envelope I started the same way by glueing the fabric to the Cherry Cobbler cardstock, then die cut the Scallop Envelope. Then I ran the envelope through the Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder, and it gives this gorgeous embossed effect to the fabric.

The little card uses Naturals Ivory which I sponged the edges in Soft Suede and added some of the new Seam Binding ribbon to finish off.

A Fabric Flower

At Convention this year we had a great demonstration by Vanessa Webb about using fabric on cards, so when I got home I just had to try it out, unfortunately I didn't have much fabric at home so had to make do with what I had.

This card uses a brand new die called Fun Flowers that will be available from 1st September in the new Stampin' Up! Idea Book & Catalogue 2011/2012.

I wanted to make the flower sit up a bit so I glued the fabric to some copy paper then ran it through the die. I used 2 sets of the flowers and secured it to the card with a vintage brad. The card was also spritzed with Early Espresso.

I used Always Artichoke for the base card with a Cajun Craze mat and Naturals Ivory. The card is not quite the normal C6 size as I wanted it to fit the size of the Framed Tulips embossing folder (I embossed the cardstock first then worked out the rest of the sizes).

I had to add a couple of layers to the inside - this is actually serving a purpose (and not just to look pretty). You see with the flower it makes the front of the card very heavy and without the layers on the inside it would just fall over!!!

A Pennant Christmas

Just a quick post with a sneak peek of a set coming out in the new Idea Book & Catalogue (to be released on 1st Sept).

This card uses the Pennant Parade Stamp Set and the Petite Pennants Builder Punch - yeah I love it when a punch fits a stamp set. The punch can punch the triangle below and a slightly larger scallop triangle - perfect for layering.

Simply Faith in Nature Sneak Peek

As a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator we get a sneak peek at the new catalogue coming out in September and can order a couple of sets (yeah).

This is a new Hostess Set called Faith in Nature. It is a gorgeous set of 3 different designs.

I used my blender pens and inks to colour the image.

I wanted to keep the card simple so the image was the focal point of the card so I just added the image to some Crumb Cake cardstock.

A Little Gift Tag

I know it was been a while. In Australia it is winter and that means the season for colds and flu, I was hoping I was going to avoid it this year, but unfortunately not. Have been down with a cold for the last week and hoping that it is finally going way.

This is a little tag I created a while ago. I stamped the image using Versamark and then used the Stampin' Up! Pastels and a sponge dauber to add the colour to the image on the front.

I then sponged the outside of the cardstock with Whisper White Craft Ink and added some ribbon.

A Sweet Treat Rattle

This is another card I made for my Sweet Treat Class coming up soon. I have made of few of these in different colours as they are perfect for a card for a new arrival.

The balls in the rattle are from the cake section of my local supermarket - the perfect place to find things to put in the sweet treat cups. By the way the sentiment does say 'sweet little baby', the 's' is hiding behind the ribbon.

The base card is Chocolate Chip with a Whisper White Mat and Baja Breeze Designer Series Patterned Paper. I finished with some Whisper White Taffeta Ribbon for the bow.

A Take on a Regional Make & Take

Stampin' Up! hold Regionals each year, these are held in most capital cities for demonstrators to get together and learn some new things - lots of fun.

At the Regional last year we made the bag below (back right). It uses the Every Moment Stamp Set, the Fancy Favor Die, and was coloured using blender pens. I decided to use this for class I held last week, but of course I had to add a few more items that carried the design through.

The bag is made using two Fancy Favor Bags cut from the Fancy Favor Die from Stampin' Up! Make the base bag up as normal. For the top bag cut off the bottom pieces and turn upside down and slide over the base bag - Voila.

The image is stamped in Staz On and coloured using Baja Breeze, Old Olive and Soft Suede Ink and blender pens.

I also made up a little 2.5" square box using the same design. The edge on the lid is done simply by using a strip from the top of cardstock cut using the Fancy Favor die and attached around the edge of the lid.

Finally I had the ladies make 2 small notecards. These cards use a panel from the Fancy Favor Die.

All items were spritzed with Soft Suede.