Watercolour Wings is Just for You!

Gorgeous colour combo today

 

Watermelon Wonder

Tip Top Taupe

Mint Macaron

Early Espresso

 

Why is that Stampin' Up!'s colours just go sooooo well together, just one of the many things I love, love, love about this company and it's products!

 

Co-ordination is definitely the thing that drew me love the products instantly, and I honestly mean instantly, it was like love at first sight!

 

This stamp set I'm using today is called

 

"Watercolour Wings"

 

and is from the new Annual Catalogue

 

It's a 2-step stamp set where you basically layer two stamps together to create a two-toned image.

 

I love that this set has a matching Framelits set of dies, makes it much easier to be creative and creates a nice clean cut image to finish.

For my butterflies on this card I stamped first using the solid butterfly image with Tip Top Taupe ink, then followed by an outline image in Early Espresso.

 

 I find it much easier to die cut the butterfly once stamped, then to ink up the body piece and stamp onto the die cut butterfly.

 

 

The "Just for You" greeting is also part of the same set, I've used the Oval and Scallop Oval punches to frame it and layer with Dimensionals.

 

 

Here you can see just how 3D this card is in real life, beautiful don't you think?

 

Product List

Tip Top Taupe Classic Stampin' Pad [138325] £6.00	Early Espresso Classic Stampin' Pad [126974] £6.00	Mint Macaron Classic Stampin' Pad [138326] £6.00	Large Oval Punch [119855] £14.50	Scallop Oval Punch [119856] £16.00
Whisper White A4 Card Stock [106549] £7.25	Watermelon Wonder A4 Cardstock [138341] £6.50	Mint Macaron A4 Cardstock [138344] £6.50	Watercolor Wings Photopolymer Bundle [140232] £32.50

Masculine card

Today's card uses two stamp sets from the Autumn Winter Catalogue

Fall Fest (leaves)
Four Feathers

Both sets are on bundles with the matching Framelits dies which means you save 15% when purchasing the stamps with the dies!

 

I am in love with the little leaves from the "Fall Fest" stamps, the set also includes pumpkins and a ghost but for me the leaves are the cutest yet!

 

Here are the images, the stamps with the matching framelits dies, as a bundle you can have both of these for just £29.50, the stamps on their own are just £13.95 for this cute little Photopolymer set.

 

 

 I used the large Chevron Background stamp behind the tag and stamped the leaves in Soft Suede and Crumb cake, using the dies to cut them out.

The feathers are a really useful set to own, I have used them so many times for all different types of cards I've needed to send, masculine, feminine, thank you's, retirement, the list goes on!

 

 

The Four Feathers stamps contain 4 images which work with the 2 co-ordinating Framelits dies, as a bundle these Clear Mount stamps and dies are an amazing £18.50

 

 

 

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Playing with Punches

I made this card a while ago, originally as a Christening Card but it was one of many so I altered the greeting.  I saw a similar item whilst blog hopping and decided to have a go myself.  I didn't have any measurements so just guessed most of it but it is quite straight forward!  The sleeves and bottom of the dress are punched with the Eyelet Border Punch and the neckline with the Scallop Circle Punch.  My greeting was punched out with the Oval Punch and bordered with the Scallop Oval.  All edges were inked with Chocolate Chip ink and then to finish, I tied a bow with Kraft Taffeta Ribbon, really quite sweet and simple!

Just to let you know that my UPS Man delivered my parcel successfully today after 3 days in transit!!!  Poor men must wonder why us Stampin' Up! ladies are always so excited when we answer the door!

Gift Box

I saw the template for this cute little gift box on Amanda's blog and thought that I would give it a go.  I have used the Designer Series Paper in Chocolate Chip and used the Chocolate Chip cardstock, along with the Scallop Edge Punch to create a border around the bottom, which is difficult to see in the photo as it is quite dark.  I also used the Circles Punches to cut out my stamped image along with the ribbon holes and the Oval Punch to create the handles.  So cute, just the right size for one of those cute minature boxes of chocolates you can buy. 

Carte Postale

Just a quick post this evening and guess what, another card using the Chocolate Chip Designer papers and Carte Postale stamps, this set has now retired and I will be moving onto other stamp sets as soon as they arrive with me!!  Thank goodness I hear you all shouting!

I have used the Scallop Edge Punch to create a border around my stamped image and tied Certainly Celery 5/8" grosgrain ribbon around the top section of the card.  My sentiment is stamped using the "Ovals All" stamp set and punched out with the Oval and Scallop Oval Punches.  The centre flower in the image has been double stamped, hand cut and a dimensional has been used to give depth.

Supplies Used:

Whisper White & Chocolate Chip cardstock

Chocolate Chip Designer Series Paper

Certainly Celery 5/8" grosgrain ribbon

Stamps from the "Carte Postale" (now retired) and "Ovals All"

Scallop Border, Oval and Scallop Oval Punches

Chocolate Chip & Old Olive Stamp Pads

Dimensionals

Thank You Notes

Last week it was my daughters birthday and I thought that it would be nice to send out Thank You notes to everyone, just another excuse to get stamping really!!  I used a retired set called "Friendship Blooms" and the largest flower worked well with this sized card.  I used Old Olive and Pink Pixie ink pads to stamp the flowers and cut and layer them to give depth.  I used the Oval Punch to cut out the greeting, the Paper Piercing tool to add interest and brads for the centres of the flowers.

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