Have you been looking for ideas for young teens, especially for those teen boys. Well I have found a great Stamp set and famelits for you.
On page 30 of the Occasions Catalogue there is Custom Tee.
It can also be used with the Tie Dyed stamp set on page for other great effects.
Then there is also the Designer Tee from Sale-A-Brations
They also work well this other sets as you will see in this video.
Have decided to have a “Weekly Highlights” once a week.
Sometimes I may have lots to share sometimes not much. These Highlights may be from Stampin’ Up!
or from my own life.
So here goes, I hope you enjoy!
Last night I was wonderfully surprised to find that I was in the Top 5 in the Colour INKspiration Challenge I did last week.
On Monday I also received 5 beautiful cards from a card swap I was involved in.
Stampin’ Up! will be releasing 3 new item s for Sale-A-Bration for you to earn. These products will be available from the 21st February until the 31st March. What do you have to do to receive these…
spend $90 or more and choose 1 Free item from Sale-A-Bration.
This week I have also decided to go back to the pool and start swimming again.
Not the nicest photo of me…but here I am, about to get in the pool.
Also last week I did another You Tube video Watercolour Wings- stamping on candles…so check out my You Tube Channel by going to the Tab above
Hope you have enjoyed my Highlights
Keep Stampin’
This week I’m taking part in 2 challenges ……
Neutrals such as Black, Vanilla, Crumb Cake, Kraft, Sahara Sand and Metallic’s can also be used.
These beautiful soft colours work well together and the Garden Green even though is a strong colour works in well.
I have teamed these colours Sahara Sand which has a slight green tone to the soft neutral colour.
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I just wanted to show you a card I did last week for a card swap using the same sponging technique I used on another cards.
Remember this one…
A simple and I think a very effective card, simple to do.
With a little Resist Embossing before the sponging was applied.
And here it is.
This card only has two layers…the card base and the sponged strip.
You can Find a PDF tutorial HERE
This is a fun little project and it just sort of came together…….
I have been getting things ready for my market this Saturday and the other day purchased some candles and this great jar. Now I was going to store lavender in this jar….
but then read that GDP was doing a 3D project…..OK I can make this work. This will be a great display item.
With few little pieces of ribbon, gold thread and some flowers this is what I came up with.
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It’s Wednesday night and only 2 days left to get everything ready…
ready for what, I hear you say.
Ready for the Moss Vale Night Market..
If your in the area please call in and say Hi!
Anyway here is what I have been working on…
I am so please with how these have worked out and they will be a great part to my display.
I’m hoping to run a class on making these as I can see these as great gifts or even part of a display for a Wedding or Engagement Party.
If you are interested in learning how to make these or be apart of a class then please contact me.
The other day I was offered the chance to have a one off Market stall at Moss Vale Night Time Markets on the Saturday 28th January. I spent an hour or two thinking about it and decide OK lets to do…the problem being that’s this weekend less than a week to organise. Well with my skates on…I’m off..
Make a list….I’m not a list maker…..post-it notes every where.
Business Cards – Give away Done
Gazebo, Table, Chair – Organised for me
Cards…packaged, Priced – Done
Yesterday finished off the January Birthday Cards and they have been sent…forgot to photograph…Blast!
But heres some happy mail I did receive from a Stampin’ Up! friend Alisa Tilsner, isn’t it a beautiful card I’m feeling so lucky.
Did I mention that my son is in Cambodia with the school and having a great time.
He’s been visiting different place learning about there life and customs. They have a sister school which for years the students have been visiting and raising money for them. yesterday they went there and taught the children for a day…they taught them about Australia – where we are and our animals. And played soccer against a couple of school teams, apparently the Cambodian kids practice all year looking forward to there visit……Cambodia WON!
Trust my son to play with glasses on!!
Anyway he gets back same day as the markets….good thing that’s AM and markets PM…..hope plane isn’t delayed.
So please forgive me for not posting …
How often do we forget to “Enjoy the Little Things”,
we spend so much time worrying about all the different things that life throws at us that we forget to “Enjoy the Little Things”.
This week, Global Design Project has challenged us with a Sketch Challenge.
Funny things is …I started my card the day before the challenge came out.
Last week I did a water colour card using these same colours.
Blushing Bride, Mint Macaron, Sweet Sugarplum, So Saffron, Tempting Turquoise and Peekaboo Peach.
This was a fun card to do and a simple card to do but I think very effective.
With this card I masked off the bottom section of the card and then sponged the colour blending them one into another.
A Bokeh effect was created by adding drops of water onto the sponged area and letting it dry, the water moving the colour to form lighter areas.
The sentiment was stamped with Basic Black – Archival Ink, this will with stand any water and not bleed. Splatters of ink was added with the same 6 colours used in the sponging.
This was done by watering the ink down with an Aqua Painter and tapping the Aqua Painter against another bush to form the splatters across the card front.
Just take care when doing this as the splatters will go everywhere and I mean everywhere.
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Talk about leaving things to the last minute…..today is the last day for this challenge. Luckily I knew what I wanted to achieve…
something simple and elegant.
I knew what stamp set I wanted to use but some of the components I needed I didn’t have.
Its amazing sometimes what you can come up with if time is running out…LOL, but its not something I recommend doing, can also be a bit stressful.
“Here is our colour challenge this week the fun part is you get to choose one of the colours to add in.”
If you don’t have a copy and you live in Australia let me know and I will get one to you ASAP.
This set is becoming a favorite for many but as soon as I saw it I loved it and for many reasons.
This list could go on and on……but for me one stamp meant more than to me than the others. It reminded me of a drawing I have and love.
It was done by Grandmother and it was done when my father would have been a child.
Pencil Drawing by Gladys May Harris (nee – Duncan)
“The cloche hat or simply cloche is a fitted, bell-shaped hat for women that was invented in 1908 by milliner Caroline Reboux,
especially became popular from about 1922 to 1933. Its name is derived from cloche, the French word for “bell”.” – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloche_hat
A more in depth history on this hat can be found here – https://startupfashion.com/fashion-archives-history-cloche-hat/
So of course I card is of the elegant lady wearing a Closhe….“life looks beautiful on you” or on her!
The colours for this challenge are Delightful Dijon, Silver and one other of your choice. I just went with “Black” as I wanted to keep this looking very elegant, slightly formal and simple.
This stamp is a simple “outline” stamp with another stamp that gives you a stylized wash for the dress.
I have added a layer on the black of the Fabulous Foil Designer Acetate using the silver side (gold on other side).
Very simple and easy to do, a stamp set I real recommending you getting..
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February’s Class is going to based on these Dyes and Stamp set.
If your interested in this class, check out my class dates in the Events Tab above and give me a call and book your spot.
This is going to be so much fun, I can’t wait. So in the meantime have a look at this video by Stampin’ Up!