ColourQ 174 and Freshly Made Sketches 71

Initially, I thought the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches was difficult, but after the first card, the second was easy. I decided to use the colour challenge from ColourQ so that I expanded my colour choice for a change. I always feel more comfortable with only three colours, but after all, these three shades of pink do go beautifully together, so it wasn't too tricky.

I chose Primrose Petals for my base and added a NEW dry embossed border, one of the two in the Needlepoint Border folder (page 5) available in the 25th Anniversary Catalogue. Next, with the Big Shot, I cut the wider tag from the Two Tags die in Very Vanilla card. There is a crease just above the greeting, so I could have folded the tag and made a little pocket and these two dies are able to be used not only as tags, but as gift holders for small gifts. Ask me, I'm happy to show you how.
 


Summer Silhouette/ Daydream Medallions



I twice-stamped the lovely leaves from Summer Silhouettes, without re-inking between stamping, which gave two shades to the Early Espresso. This sweet little greeting is from a lovely little set of three stamps called Made For You. I really like this font, so fresh and young.

Next I stamped some Pink Pirouette card with Primrose Petals and Raspberry Ripple using the Daydream Medallions stamps, before using Floral Frames Framelit die to cut matching floral shapes, which I layered up after hand turning the petals, and finished off with the NEW Large Rhinestone.

Lastly, a piece of Raspberry Ripple ribbon and an Antique Brad were the finishing touches.

Cheerio for now,
Rachel

New Catalogues today!

Great excitement as we get to enjoy the new products from Stampin' Up from today, with the release of our NEW Annual Catalogue AND the Holiday Catalogue. Stampin" Up are bringing us more into line with the US market, who I understand also start their Holiday Catalogue today. Next year our Annual Catalogue is released in June(I can't remember if it is the 1st or 30th June) Ooops!

If you haven't received copies of the catalogues from me yet (and you don't already have a SU demonstator) email me and I can post both of them to you for $5.00 plus $11.50 postage (they're heavy!), or if you live nearby (I am in South Morang, VIC) you can pick up copies. Call me on 0417 500 681 to arrange a time. If you live in Australia you can order through me and the Stampin' Up shipping brings your order right to your door, wherever you are. You also should be able to link to online catalogues from the buttons on the side panel if you just can't wait to see what's new.

* If you'd like to place an order, phone 0417 500 681 or email rpalmieri5@bigpond.com

* Payment can be made by Visa, Mastercard, or direct deposit at the time of ordering. 

* Delivery is by Australia Post and takes 1 - 2 weeks depending on your location.

* Shipping is 5% (minimum $5.95.) 

Another little sneak peak of a couple of the projects from Canberra Convention last May. The sweet boy is my second grandson on his second birthday late last year - such a cutie!

The lovely swirly circles are from  Daydream Medallions, page 117 of the new annual catalogue, 5 gorgeous stamps with a variety of open medallions, and the bonus is that the centres from these can be stuck to the reverse of the block and you can stamp a variety of smooth circles too - double the value!

The numbers down the side of the photo are part of a set called Memorable Moments which includes the words Anniversary, Birthday, happy a shape which frames a small Framelit and can also be used as a journalling spot if you like. Then there is RD, ND, TH, ST  to go after the numerals, so a very useful set of stamps for birthdays, anniversaries etc. You can view this set on page 139.

I didn't make the projects at convention and I might have lost some of the buttons which were for the butterfly centres so I've improvised and used the Rich Razzleberry ones with tiny pearls to decorate and I LOVE the look! There is a border of one of the smaller medallions stamped in Baja Breeze along the bottom of the card and above it a strip of the Summer Smooches DSP with three butterflies from the NEW Elegant Butterfly Punch punched out. This punch, seen on page 184, has a matching stamp set, Pappillon Potpourri on page 115, and I'm sure both will be very popular. I don't have these yet, but like all the other demonstrators, I'm itching to put an order in.

Have a lovely weekend,

Rachel