Stampin' Up! co-ordinates in a BIG way!

One of the great things about SU! is that everything co-ordinates, the card stock, the ink, the ribbons, the brads, the buttons, the eyelets & even the designer papers. So it makes it really easy for those of us that aren't as artistic as others to make an awesome card really quickly.

This is from one who had to think & prepare for my downline training last night after Mother's day celebrations with the family. The techniques we were looking at tonight were water colouring, embossing & setting an eyelet (the old way & the new way with the Cropodile). I wanted a card that covered the lot, so designer paper to the rescue!

I used the very lovely Petals & Paisleys DP. One of it's flowers reminded me of a flower from the retired In Full Bloom set.

Stamps: In Full Bloom, Small Sayings (both retired)
Card stock: Pretty in Pink, Cool Carribean, Whisper White
Designer Paper: Petals & Paisleys
Inks: Pretty in Pink, Cool Carribean, Rose Red, Old Olive, Versamark
Other: Black embossing powder, black eyelets, Cropodile, Aquapainter, sponge dauber, Cropodile, black eyelets, dimensionals, Dazzling Diamonds glitter, 2-way glue pen, Snail adhesive

Listed below is the CURRENT Designer Paper range & their co-coordinating SU! colours (12 sheets of double dipped DP for $13.95):
Designer Series Paper Colour matches
Berry Bliss: Purely Pomegranate, Pretty in Pink, Close to Cocoa
Brocade Backgrounds: Always Artichoke, Chocolate Chip, Old Olive, River Rock
Dashing: Old Olive, Real Red, River Rock, Very Vanilla
East Coast Prep: Real Red, Wild Wasabi, Tempting Turquoise, More Mustard
Fall Flowers: Old Olive, Really Rust, Soft Sky, Sahara Sand
Jersey Shore: Wild Wasabi, Pumpkin Pie, Brilliant Blue, Bashful Blue
Le Jardin: River Rock, So Saffron, Very Vanilla, Always Artichoke, Bashful Blue
Notebook: Soft Sky, Kraft, Very Vanilla
Outlaw: Chocolate Chip, Creamy Caramel, Really Rust, Sage Shadow, Very Vanilla
Petals & Paisleys: Certainly Celery, Rose Red, Old Olive, Pretty in Pink, Soft Sky, So Saffron, Taken with Teal, Cool Caribbean (in-colour '07)
Spring Break: Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie, Blue Bayou, Soft Sky
Spring Fling: Certainly Celery, Sage Shadow, Pretty in Pink, So Saffron
Spring Flowers: Barely Banana, Cameo Coral (stamped off once), Chocolate Chip, Mellow Moss, Sahara Sand
Spring Showers: Barely Banana, Bashful Blue, Chocolate Chip, Close to Cocoa, Mellow Moss, Sahara Sand
Spring Silhouettes: Wild Wasabi, Certainly Celery, Soft Sky, Very Vanilla
Wintergreen: Always Artichoke, Certainly Celery, Sage Shadow, Soft Sky

Is it snowing OR is it magic??

Tonight the Braeburn Paperkrafters had a play with the Magic Snowflake Technique. It's an interesting technique & very simple.
- Emboss an image on glossy card stock (CS) with white embossing powder.
- Slightly wet a cotton wool ball with isoproponal alcohol - also known as rubbing alcohol (it's what you use to clean your heads in cassette & VCR players).
- Add 2 drops of one colour & 2 drops of another colour from re-inkers. In both my examples I used a 3rd colour as well. Dab in a circular motion all over the glossy CS, at this stage it looks really messy.
- Reheat with the heat tool & the colours actually run together & the white embossing becomes clean again as the alcohol evaporates.
- If still messy rub the cotton wool ball some more around CS. Reheat again with heat tool.
- Use an aquapainter to highlight some areas with a complimentary or contrasting colour - HAVE FUN!

See Split Coast Stampers for the full tutorial.



Stamps: Petal Prints, Small Sayings
CS: Glossy White, Bashful Blue, Green Galore
Reinkers: 2 drops of Apricot Appeal, 2 drops of Green Galore, 1 drop of Cameo Coral
Ink: Versamark, Green Galore
Other: aquapainter - painted centre of flowers with Pixie Pink ink, apple green grosgrain ribbon, 1/2 inch circle punch to "pinch out" edges



Stamps: Lovely as a Tree, Warm Words
CS: Glossy White, Really Rust, Old Olive
Reinkers: 2 drops of Old Olive, 2 drops of Certainly Celery, 1 drop of Pumpkin Pie
Ink: Versamark, Old Olive
Other: aquapainter - painted tips of leaves & acorn with Bravo Burgundy ink, copper cord