My wonderful team to the rescue...

My upline Jacque's team (which I am a part of) is known as the Creative Inkers & they certainly hit the SPOT with inspiration for card class last Monday.

My favourite set in the new catalogue is Baroque Motifs & at $46.95 it is great valuePLUS I fell in love with the new in-colour Groovy Guava - it rocks all right especially with River Rock (another in-colour for '08). Which is what the samples in the new Ideas Book have been created with but my very talented upline Jacque added some Always Artichoke to the mix in one of her cards which looked stunning.

The 2nd card Anne Dil prepared for our demo swap & we finished them off just after midnight on Saturday night in Napier. Needless to say I was too tired to get it right so it was rather fortuitous that I had card class in my home the following day & I could repeat (reinforce) how it was made. Anne's original card/stand was made using textured card stock but apart from that mine is the same design & colours which are stunning.

Groovy Baroque Rocks:



Stamps: Baroque Motifs
Card stock: Groovy Guava, Always Artichoke, River Rock
Inks: as above
Other: twill, hodgepodge hardware, sponging, spritzer (Cameo Coral, A Artichoke)

Anne's fabulous card:



Stamps: Baroque Motifs
Card stock: Soft Sky, Purely Pomegranate, Whisper white
Inks: Versamark, Soft Sky, Purely Pomegranate
Other: Clear embossing powder, Purely Pomegranate double stitched grosgrain, linen thread, Dazzling Diamonds Glitter, dimensionals, 2-way glue pen, circle punch, lots of sponging & distressing.

Thanks "guys" they were a major hit.

More Rose Red

My dear friend Donna & her friend Wendy had a workshop last night. It was quite a scarey thing presenting to friends - much easier with strangers!

Donna wanted to do a magnetic bookmark card using glossy white card stock & the crayon resist technique which could be used as Mother's day cards.

She loves Rose Red, so using the colour coach wheel I matched this colour up with Elegant Eggplant (& purple is Donna's favourite colour) & Always Artichoke. A white crayon, sponges, magnetic strip & we were away.

Stampsets: Artfully Asian, Occasional Greetings, Weathered background
Card stock: Glossy white, rose red, elegant eggplant, always artichoke
Ink: as above
Other: Elegant eggplant grosgrain ribbon, magnetic strip, white crayon, sponges, white Signo gel pen

Some of the ladies filled their leaves entirely in with the crayon before sponging so really white leaves, some only used the elegant eggplant & always artichoke. But some great cards made by all, thank you to all who attended :-) And yes my bookmark which was on the table as a display "fell into" the rose red inkpad on the lower RHS at the end of the night whilst cleaning up :-(

Demo swap/training again

& the girls are off to Napier for the weekend (photos & goss will follow). I've been busy creating wee cards to swap with the team & lucky for me as what little mojo I have has been drained (trying to do a team colour challenge) that I found this really sweet little card on Angie's blog & it was perfect. I loved it, it was easy and it used the designer paper that is May's promotion with SU! (so the timing was perfect!). Unfortunately someone - yes me, had almost used up the Always Amethyst DP with the wee daisies on it, so I had to create more cards using the other colours so there was enough to go around the team, saying that I think the Rose Red has the most pizzazz & I don't even really like Rose Red. So maybe that was a good thing.



Stamps: Short & Sweet
Ink: Basic Gray
Card stock: Almost Amethyst, Rose Red, Certainly Celery, So Saffran & matching designer paper
Punches: 1 1/4" & 1 3/8" circle & square punches
Other: white brad & grosgrain ribbon, sticky tape, dimensionals