Shades of green

Its no secret that I love to use green in my scrapbooking and cardmaking. All you have to do is look at my cardstock collection and notice that the green area is huge! I'm thrilled that Stampin' Up! has so many great colors of green and they work so well together. I used a www.colorq.blogspot.com challenge to jumpstart this card. I highly recommend them because sometimes putting colors together is the hardest part of a card or layout, plus they use Stampin' Up! colors both old and new.

In other news the holiday mini has gone live and is full of fabulous new products including our own scoring board called Simply Scored and its amazing! You all know how much I love a good tool and this one is a must have! The first class for the Stamp Club is Sept. 23 at 6:30pm please come prepared with 2-3 photos that will work well with calypso coral, basic grey, pool party and daffadil delight. If you can't find photos like this just convert them to black and white :) So excited for our first class of the year!

Punch Love

Hello and Happy Labour Day! I wanted to show a card that utilized some of the great punches from Stampin' Up! I had purchased the mini punch set last year and when I got them they were a little intimidating. They were small! How could use them on a card so that they wouldn't be lost on the front? Well after some flipping through the catelogue I came across a card similar to this. I used a different color scheme but essentially its the same card. The colors that I used were tangerine tango, melon mambo, pool party and black/white. I also used the itty bits stamp set that coordinates with the punch set.

Going Bold!

Hello! Its been a while! After a self imposed holiday I'm finally getting around to posting some cards. I promise I'll get back to regular stamping and posting soon. I was able to get my hands on a this fabulous doily background stamp that reminded me so much of my beloved medallion stamp. I used a bold color palette including tangerine tango, daffodile delight and a new in color, island indigo.

The die cut doily paper is actually a part of the specialty designer series paper set that I inked up with tangerine tango. It wasn't the right color for my card so I changed it! I love that Stampin' Up! has so many embellishments that can be altered to fit any card or scrapbooking page.

I'm also happy to announce that my Stamp Club is full for this season, I've got a very excited group of ladies that are geared up for the class season. If you or anyone else would like to join the group send me an email and I can get another group together. There are tons of benefits to the club including being a hostess, earning free product plus a free 2011-2012 Idea book and Catelogue, free classes every month, an evening out to learn new ideas and just have time to play and of course awesome Stampin' Up! products! My email is hilligas@mcsnet.ca and I hope to hear from you :)

old ideas, new supplies

Hello! Its been a while! A whole week in fact. I must apoligize, we've been in full summer swing and I've been tied up with VBS for the past 2 weeks. The first week was prep and the second was a whole lot of volunteering. My 2 younger kids participated and my oldest and I volunteered our time. Surprisingly I was the craft coordinator, lol!

But back to a semi scheduled life this week :) Today's card has a couple of features that I want to draw attention to. First of all the lollipop design came from the old idea book. Yup, even after the old catalogue retires you can keep it for oodles of inspiration. Secondly I've used new supplies like the colored embossing powder in melon mambo and some of the new in color, lucky limeade (my color was off when I took the photo but honest its lucky limeade!) I love making use of all the inspiration around me and mixing it up with new and old supplies.

There is a new promo out, a special price a new mini starter kit. http://www.stampinup.com/ca/enc/default.asp if you'd like more information or you'd like to sign up to be a demo, right now is a great time! Please contact me through the comments section here or via facebook.

turning a mistake into a card

Good morning! I hope that you've all had a great holiday weekend! Today's card got ruined while I was making it. Not that you'd notice now. I had just finished up my card and was very happy with it, I love the color combo and the embossing, then I took a sip of my water from my water cup with a straw...and promptly splashed 2 big drops of water on the red part of my card! Even after wiping it up it was drying darker than the rest of the card. So instead of throwing it away I took my brayer and inked it up with versamark, then rolled it over the entire embossed cardstock making the real water stain disappear plus it made the houndstooth embossing more prominant. What a save! So just beacuse you make a mistake doesn't mean you have to waste paper, sometimes just adding some stamping or adding a new embellishment can save the day, or the card in this case ;)

Two Step stamping

Happy Canada Day! Today is our nation's birthday as well as the first day of the new Stampin' Up! 2011-2012 catalogue. This card features a new hostess set called Simply Soft with both of the In Color collections, Wisteria Wonder and Concord crush. I found that these two colors complimented each other every well and were perfect for some two step stamping. Two step stamping has you stamp one image, usually a silloutte, in one color then stamping a solid image in a different color to create some depth to the total image. If you'd like to see the new catalogue or host your own workshop to get some great free products please contact me :) Have a great holiday weekend everyone!

color popped image

Hello and welcome back! Today's card I wanted to show a different technique with the stampin' pastels. All I did was stamp my image with Melon Mambo ink. Then I took my stampin' pastels and with my little sponge I smudged in some melon mambo pastels. I then added some umph with the new flirtatious designer series paper cut out with the top note die, and finished things off with an antique brad.