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!