Weekly Deals 31st December

I'd like to begin by wishing you a very Happy New Year, may it bring you health, happiness and good fortune! I was a little surprised to see the Weekly Deals go live this morning, but I'm sure it is all programmed well in advance.


Here are your Weekly Deals

I think the Amazing Birthday stamp set is a "must have" if you make birthday cards. It's great for guys, for gals for kids! I have used it heaps since I received it back at Convention. Now I must point out, $37.46 is a great deal for a wood mount stamp, reduced from $49.95 for just the next week, BUT the clear mount stamp set is incorrectly priced in the catalogue at $25.95(if you compare Australia's price next to NZ's you'll see what I mean) but for the life of this catalogue, Stampin' Up! are honouring the misprint, so if you prefer clear mount, best you get on and order it before too long.

Amazing Birthday & Just Sayin'

Amazing Birthday & Pictogram Punches

Amazing Birthday & Work Of Art

Don't forget that the Year-End Closeout Sale AND the Holiday Catalogue finish on January 5th also.

Stay safe, 

Rachel

To Have & To Hold

I've had an overnight visit with my son, daughter-in-law and their three darling children and now I've waved goodbye as they head off on a weekend camping trip with friends. Then on Monday, I will drive an hour and a half to their home, so that I can attend the eldest grandsons kindergarten for Grandparents Day. He is really looking forward to going to 'big school' in January (and I bet his Mum

is looking forward to it too!) The littlest grandchild used my craft room as her bedroom overnight, so my crafting was delayed, just a tad.

The sketch by Kasia at Retro Sketches this week is brilliant, and I can see this as being perfect for baby, wedding, Christmas cards - all sorts of cards really.
I went with wedding and I've used Shimmery White card ( 121717)since its a special occasion. It's just a shame the shimmer on the card and the glimmer of the Rhinestones hasn't really shown up in my photos!!!!





Products Used
Stamp Sets: Hearts a Flutter (129252), Banner Greetings (129714) and a retired one which is available now in the US in "Best of Greetings" Stamp Set and it will be released in the coming months in Australia too.
Framelits: Hearts a Flutter (130159), Circles Collection (130911)
Other: Bermuda Bay Taffeta Ribbon(131206) Stampin Up Basic Jewels Rhinestone(119246)

Best of Greetings

Have a happy weekend, 

Rachel

Hi, Hello There!

Have you used Canvas Creations on page 156 of the catalogue yet? I have made some card fronts for an October class and was trying to find something small for the left over pieces, when it occurred to me to make mini letter banners for a card.

I have stamped 'HI' with Morning Post Alphabet onto the canvas using Bermuda Bay and Crushed Curry. Just love the way the script on the letters shows through. I took my color-cue from the Epic Day DSP and cut some of the shapes using the Hearts a Flutter Framelits, and hand cutting others. After adding some brads to a couple of the banners, I adhered them over Baker's Twine (which isn't visible after all that!) and finished off with hello there from the Happy Day stamp set.

I'm spending a few days near St Ives, Cornwall at the moment with my dear husband
Feel free to leave a hello for me here, and thank you for visiting.
Rachel

More playing with colour!

Hi there!

Thanks for dropping by.

You might remember last time I was telling you how I started to make one card, and actually ended up with three?
This post I am showing you how to Step It Up, a common term for when you take a basic card and dress it up a bit more, or a lot! *wink*.

So the card to the left was the one I submitted for Freshly Made Sketches #89, some weeks ago now. You will notice that the dimensions of the basic card are smaller too, but the idea was the same.

When I Stepped It Up, I stamped the large blossom from Betsy's  Blossoms onto the large greeting panel, inking once and stamping twice to get two tones of the same shade of Primrose Petals. The greeting from Vintage Verses (retired Sale-a-bration) was stamped in Basic Grey on both, and banners were cut from More Amore DSP (retired) using the Hearts a Flutter Framelits.

The other main difference is the stepped up card has some embellishments added; pearls, Itty Bitty blossom punch flowers, a tiny punched butterfly in Pool Party to pick up that colour in one of the banners and an In-color Dahlia. The edges of the banners were all softened with ink too.

Which version do you prefer?
Rachel

Item#126006 $39.95 AU (clear)

Birthday Banners

It seems to have taken me ages to make this little birthday card today. It shouldn't have taken so long but I was really having a big play with colour, so there are a lot of partly made samples on my work table!!!

I wanted to use the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches, and I probably should have used a different focal stamp, because the orientation is all wrong and it doesn't allow the banners to shine.

I've used a sale-a-bration stamp Vintage Verses, and some flowers from Betsy's Blossoms. The banners were cut  mainly using the Hearts A Flutter framelits and mostly DSP from More Amore.

The colours that ended up on this card were Basic Grey and Primrose Petals, a far cry from the Summer Starfruit and Gumball Green I began with!!!

I usually go for a swim on Thursday morning at my local, indoor heated pool, but I have a cold and decided to give it a miss today. I was also waiting on my box of goodies from Stampin' Up!, but it hasn't come. Boo hoo! It shipped on Saturday, and I thought it should have been here by Thursday, and if it doesn't arrive tomorrow, it won't be here till Tuesday. Its good that we are having a long weekend, but sad that my new toys haven't come yet!

At least I will have a big rest this weekend

Hope you have time to do something you enjoy too,

Rachel