Stampin' Pals: Little Letters Thinlets

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Wednesday, 30 March 2016

Last Hurrah For Sale-A-Bration!!!

SALE-A-Bration finishes on March 31st for another year and as usual there were some fabulous stamp sets to choose from, as well as paper packs & vellum. I love the SALE-A-Bration offerings every year. I've been thinking about which was my favourite, and going by the cards I've made, I'm thinking it is Flowering Fields.

I enjoyed putting together this grunge card with three panels back in January when SALE-A-Bration was just starting out, and this pretty watercoloured offering was even earlier and has been pinned many times on Pinterest.

Most recently, I made a set of notecards to give to an old friend of my mother's.
Again, these have been watercoloured, using ink and a combination of blender pen and Aquapainters to colour the images. The outside border is matched to a shade used on the bloom, and I stamped and coloured the envelopes to match. I have left them free of a sentiment, as I hope June will use them quickly and not hoard them for a 'special occasion'. June upcycles the magazines she receives from the boarding school that she, my mother and I all attended, which must be an effort for her, now she is 90. She truly deserves some 'happy mail'.

At the same time, I stamped this notebook which Stampin' Up!® used to sell. I wanted to keep a record of the classes I hold, who attends, and what products we used.
Four flowers were stamped and coloured straight onto the Kraft cover. A strip of Wildfower Fields Designer Series Paper was added to the base, after using the corner rounding punch from the Envelope Punch Board to round two corners. A length of ribbon finishes the notebook, along with a gold button and linen thread. The Little Letter thinlets were used to cut the title. You can get two of these notebooks for $3.58 here in the Clearance Rack.

Australian readers only.
This week, the Weekly Deals are a worthwhile place to begin your shopping, if you've been meaning to make an order and get yourself some SALE-A-Bration freebies.
If you leave a comment telling me which is your favourite SALE-A-Bration item and why, you will be in the running to win a free SALE-A-Bration stamp set *no purchase required to qualify*!!!!

Cheers, Rachel

Sunday, 31 August 2014

Bright, Fun and Happy Birthday!

Although I have been feeling 'under the weather' this week, the bright, spring sunshine has really lifted my spirits. Something about the sketch at CAS(E) this Sketch made me think of my new Little Letter Framelits, and although I had planned a different card for Just Add Ink's Rainbow challenge, I began to gravitate toward combining the challenges, the more I thought about it.

The bright spotty I Am Me DSP seemed perfect to begin with and it was easy enough to randomly place the letters on it, no worrying about keeping things straight here! I placed coloured squares of card behind afterwards, and a contrasting candy dot in those that required it. There is another piece of Whisper White behind the geometric panel, just to keep everything neat and tidy and then it is raised on Dimensionals.

The flamboyant greeting is from Age Awareness, one of the new sets that comes only in photopolymer, but that does make for very easy placement of the sentiment.

So that's it! Short and Sweet, and Bright, Fun and Happy (just like me?) ha,ha!
Cheerio
Rachel

Friday, 29 August 2014

CASE-ing The Catty #7 Home Decor

Here it is, Friday again and this week we are CASE-ing the Catty pages 94-101. This was the week I was fearing the most (I don't do home decor, apart from making quilts), but I ended up enjoying making both my projects, and probably would try something like this again.For this first canvas piece, I didn't choose any one particular item to CASE, but in general, looking at page 95, I decided that it would be fun to use the Decorative Masks. I decided sponging a cushion cover looked a bit too tricky, so I bought a stretched canvas from an art & craft store. The piece of card the photo is mounted on has been spritzed with the large dots mask, using a Stampin' Spritzer with Lost Lagoon re-inker to colour. It looks very faint in that particular photo.

While that was drying I took a sponge and using Hello Honey, sponged straight from the ink pad. The mask was placed side-ways on the canvas, and needed to be moved a couple of times to cover the area. I liked the way the stars were quite dense on the left and scattered thinly on the right.

This was the first time I'd used Little Letters Thinlets. They needed to be placed in a straight line so I could use the negative of 'FAMILY' at the base of the card, and I used the perspex Big Shot sheet over grid paper to help get everything lined up, and a little bit of washi tape held them in place. The peg and butterfly pennant are actually recycled from a Make & Take from the Stampin' Up!® South Pacific Convention. I've used glue dots to attach everything, and if the photo and card backing become dated/tired, it will be easy to replace them.

For my second project, I had admired the Letter on page 96, which has been covered with DSP. I wanted to stamp mine with I love Lace using Blackberry Bliss. Originally, this was to be my main project, because I'd imagined how beautifully it would turn out. Then, I had trouble getting the white paint work even. Apparently I'm not very good at painting!!!! I'd used what I could find in the shed, which seems to be a gloss or semi-gloss. The letter was too large to stamp just once, and there was a slight overlapping in the stamped image. Finally, I left it to dry for 5 hours, and it still was as wet as ever, so I took a baby wipe to remove the ink and start again.

That's when it became apparent that the ink had taken, and the result was a lovely, lacy shade of pink. I decided at that point to leave well-enough alone and stamped and punched some small flowers for the finishing touch.

My hints for this project:

I'd suggest a flat paint would work better.

Even better, purchase a painted letter, not raw.

I wonder if the ink would have dried with heat applied.

And if you have ever tried doing this, I'd welcome your tips too!!!!

Now, do you know that we'd love for you to join us for this challenge?

Take inspiration for Home Decor from those pages of your countries Stampin' Up! catalogue. In Australia/New Zealand it is pages 94-101.
Mention CTC in your blog and link back to the challenge blog
Share which project you cased, the page number and catalogue country.
Stampin' Up!® products only, current or retired.

Hope to have you join us at Case-ing The Catty,

Rachel

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