Tools

Take your Pick Tool

Published on by Michele Jutrisa

Take your Pick Tool……

Have you seen it….its wonderful, its great….I LOVE it!

Take Your Pick Tool a must have for any paper crafter…the Stampin’ Up! multi-purpose pick-up and precision tool that simplifies those meticulous tasks.

You have to have one in your ‘Tool Kit’

I always use a blade to pick up the pearls or jewels to place on my card…but I always worry that I could cut myself or worse still someone else cut themselves. But this tool has a spatula to pick up those small embellishments for you and no more sequence every where with the putty tool…

The end with the spatula is interchangeable with a stylus, and small and large stylus. The tool is fits nicely into your hand and is so easy to use…just loving mine.

Take your Pick 144107

Take Your Pick Putty Refill 150006

Here’s a video by Stampin” Up! to tell you more…

 

Feathers and Frost, Joy to the World.

Published on by Michele Jutrisa

Feathers and Frost by Stampin’ Up!

Stampin’ Up!  Holiday Catalog has gone live and I hope you have had a chance to sit down and go through it. There are some really great stamp sets and bundles in there…if you live in Australia and you don’t have a copy then drop me a line, I will get one to you.

Last month I participated in a card swap with 12 other demonstrators from ESAD Facebook Group using products from the Holiday Catalogue, being a demo means you get to purchase the products a month before it goes live…that’s one of the many perks. So I thought I would share with you the card that I made using the Feathers & Frost 147771 photopolymer stamp set.

The Stamparatus 148187 was a real asset to stamping this card as it allowed me to stamp the images twice to give a clear dark colour, this tool is a must for every stamper

The leaf design and the ‘to the world’ sentiment was stamped in Early Espresso onto Crumb Cake Cardstock .The word ‘Joy’ was stamped in Merry Merlot using the Stamparatus stamping exactly on top of the Merry Merlot, then re-stamped in VersaMark and clear embossed.

Once all the stamping was completed using a Blender Pen I coloured the leaves in with Mossy Meadow and Merry Merlot for the berries.

Here’s a TIP for you….I wanted the berries to have a similar look to the embossed ‘JOY’ so with the Fine-Tip Glue Pen I added a drop of glue onto each berry – it drys clear and looks like an enamel dot.

Thank you for reading my post please leave a comment so I know you have visited my page. If you have any questions please contact me. All products used are listed below and linked to my On-Line Shop

 

Table built using Product Table Builder by The Crafty Owl – Independent Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator.

The count down is on!

Published on by Michele Jutrisa

The count down is on….the NEW Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalogue will be available on the 1st June in 3 days time.

Order your copy today by contacting me! (Australia Only)

A sneak peek to a New stamp set…

‘Enjoy Life’ is a fun photopolymer stamp set with lots of silhouette images and some great sentiments. This makes a good stamp set to use on projects for male or female, young or old.

On this card I created a ‘Brusho’ background on watercolour paper.

Using the Stamparatus I was able to stamp the images on the background, going back and re-stamping until the image and sentiment was fully covered.

This is a simple card to create and I am sure you will enjoy using the ‘Enjoy Life’ stamps as much as I do.

Stampin’ Up! Stamparatus

Published on by Michele Jutrisa

About a week ago a box from Stampin’ Up! arrived on my door step and I was so excited….I new what was in that box and I have been waiting for this since the beginning of the year.

My Stamparatus

This was so exciting….now what will I do, what will I make. I pulled out the Baby Bear 141859 stamp set. This is a stamp set I love but have only used once before as its a 3 set stamp and was never really happy with what I had stamped with just using the blocks and trying to line everything up.

So played with just stamping the Baby Bear image over and over, just to get the hang of it. Still need to stand up to get everything lined up, but that’s OK because once you have it set up once and if your making multiples of the same card its all set.

Stampin’ Up! have made 3 YouTube Video’s on how to use and they are worth while watching just to see what you can do. Below are the links to these videos.

Precision Placement – https://youtu.be/kSCoGyNLNd4

Aligning with Red Rubber Stamps – https://youtu.be/xWt-_YdYJfc

Creating Patterns with the Hinge-Step Technique – https://youtu.be/NfwgdoUReLQ

 

What did I end up making with the Baby Bear

Here I have used the Stamparatus in two different ways…

The first was to create the wording down the side of the card, this took a bit of time and playing around as I wanted the two lines to be in two different colours and also spaced evenly between top to bottom of the card.

To do this, I treated it as if it was a 2 step stamp. Each phrase was on each plate (the Stamparatus comes with 2 plates). Once positioned on each plate I held them up together to see if the phrases were in the correct position and then did a test run. When the position was correct it was just a matter of stamping the first phrase down the side of the card by moving the plate down the hinge. Then repeating it again with the second plate and using a different colour ink.

 Baby Bear image was stamped on the other side of the card again using the Stamparatus and 3 step stamping.

To finished the card I used the Eclipse Technique to frame the bear.

 

Hope you enjoy my card. If you have any questions please contact me.
Below are links to all the products used in this card. The Stamparatus will be available later in the year.

 
Table built using Product Table Builder by The Crafty Owl – Independent Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator.