Team Welcome Gifts

Hello there how was your weekend? I am feeling refreshed and raring to tackle another busy week of work. I have been busy prepping for our team training tomorrow  night and I cannot wait to see everyone again. I want to thank you all for your comments and emails regarding my Pin It button. If I am honest it bothers me that its smack in the middle and I will try and work out how to move it, thank you for taking the time to contact me :) .

I am sharing today some welcome cards I made for new members that joined me  and the Passionettes in April. And I am excited as I am now ready to make some more packs for members that took advantage of the extra £25 special offer and decided to take the plunge and sign up. You can still join our team and become a Passionette until the end of May for only £99. For this amount you get to choose £155 worth of Stampin’Up! products and I will help you get your business of the ground. Email me for a no obligation chat I would love to hear from you and have you join our fun group.

This card was heavily inspired by one designed by the Stampin’Up! concept artists. I couldn’t find the original I first saw but it looks like I wasn’t the only one who thought it to be a great card, I found a fellow US demo who copied it as well. You can see her cute version as well as the original on this blog HERE.

And here’s a closer look for you.

The letters were stamped with the wonderful set Morning Post in Island Indigo, Pool Party, More Mustard, Primrose Petals and Lucky Limeade. The cardstock vellum has been stamped in whisper white ink with the Polka dot background stamp and scalloped with the wonderful scallop border punch. I made full use of the stamped dots and adhered my vellum to the card base using glue dots, yep you guessed it I used a glue dot underneath the stamped dots :)

Thank you so much for your visit today please come back tomorrow for another cute project I have prepared. Till then big hugs xxx

 

 

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Turn your embossing folders into a letterpress

Hello there I hope you are having a relaxing weekend. I am still in my pj’s !!! :) so this will tell you the kind of day I’ve been having.

I am sharing a card I made for a dear Passionette of mine Jo, who celebrated her Happy Birthday last week. And I have a little mini tut for it as it showcases a nifty trick for your embossing folders. Fist here’s the card.

Now Jo loves Crumb Cake to the point that is all she ever uses. I can’t say I have a problem with that as I love and use it lots too its the perfect natural goes with everything kinda colour. Naturally I was going to use crumb Cake for her card. Do you like the chevron background of this card? Well here’s how I did that.

Firstly ink the raised pattern of your embossing folder using your brayer and ink of your choice, I chose whisper white for mine. I prefer to use a brayer for even coverage but you can take the pad to the folder however the ink might bleed around the edges and spoil the effect.

Next wrap the folder around your card layer and pop it through the Big Shot machine on tab 1.

It will come out beautifully embossed and inked :). Now you  could call it done  it looks fab. However for my card here I wanted it a little white er, so I took my white embossing powder and added it to the card while the ink was still wet then I  heat embossed it.

The result a really white  background.

The Layered Labels stamp set from Stampin’Up! is a favourite of mine and here I inked the large image first in crumb cake then I added some soft suede and basic black ink with my markers to layer that colour, I randomly scribbled the darker colours onto the surface of the stamp. A few roses from the Artisan Kit add a splash of colour and you can spot a homemade little flower to match those wired ones, that was made using a Boho Blossom punch and some very vanilla card. A touch of regal rose ink was added to the edges of these flowers.

I hope you like my pretty card today and I want to thank you so much for your visit.

Before I leave though I would like to ask for your opinion about  my recently added Pin It button to my photos. Do you find this gets in the way or are you loving the ease of pinning any of my projects to your boards? I know there is a lot of talk re copyright and Pinterest , about people being afraid to pin projects, the reason I added it to my photos was to help you identify that I am cool with you pinning anything from my site. I would love to know what you think. Till next time BIG HUGS xxx

 

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Till next time big hugs xxx