Totally Techniques Stampin' Up! Demos Blog Hop

The Eclipse Technique

Stampin' Up! set We Must Celebrate is sooo cute.  I couldn't resist using it for our Totally Techniques blog hop this month which is the eclipse technique which is very trendy at the moment and also a lot of fun to create cards or home decor pieces with it.  You've just arrived from my team mate Annette's blog and her fab take on this fun technique so welcome to the UK. 

All the stamps on my card are part of Stampin' Up!'s We Must Celebrate set including the sentiment.  I used colours pear pizzazz, wild wasabi, and early espresso, black memento  ink pads and coloured the cute creatures with my Stampin Blends using old olive, pumpkin pie, ivory, bronze, smoky slate and crumb cake.  

I die added some tear and tape to the back of my whisper white card which helped, even though it got cut, to keep the letters in place after I'd die cut them using the Stampin Up Large Letter dies.  It was then also useful for adhering the drop parts of the letters to the base card of early espresso.  I decided that is was easier to get faces where I wanted them after cutting rather than before, but you can work it which way suits your design best.  Once stamped and coloured the white outline was stuck to the base card and then each letter was carefully raised with mini stampin dimensionals.    I stamped the sentiment, separated the two words and then free hand cut them out and added them to early espresso card to free hand cut again.  They too are adhered with stampin dimensionals.  Here's a Stampin' Up! video to show you how to do the basic technique.  

You can also see another example of this technique using designer series paper with no stamping by visiting this  stamping scene post of mine.

Thanks for stopping here to look.

Zoe x

Now it's time to continue with the hop and see the other creations. Your next stop is Kelly over in the USA.

Blog List

1. Nadine Weiner - Germany

2. Shannean Moncrieff -Australia

3. Annette Elias - The Netherlands

4. Zoe Tant UK - You are here

5. Kelly Acheson - USA

6. Marine Wiplier - France

7. Satomi Wellard - Japan

8. Lynsay Mahon - Canada

9. Barbara Meyer - Austria

10. Paula Dobson - New Zealand

Stampin' Up! Alaska Incentive Trip Blog Hop January 2018

Stampin' Up! has it's biggest promotion of the year every new year and this one is just the same with some fabulous free gifts available to party hosts, demonstrators, shoppers and also anyone who chooses to join and enjoy the benefits of being part of a big family of crazy crafters.  Everyone can earn points on their purchases and for helping others get the most out of being part of the team and some save their points to achieve the amazing annual incentive trip.   Many of us join together each month to share our projects with you our fabulous blog readers.  This is January 2018's blog hop of Stampin' Up! Alaska incentive trip achiever's.  Welcome and enjoy the tour!

I'm sharing a funky card using one of the free sets I mentioned which is in the Saleabration booklet from Stampin' Up! . The stamp set is called Epic Celebrations. When I first saw it I knew I had to have it as it could have been designed for Charlie my guitar playing, trainer loving, music and internet surfing teenage son.  It's perfect really for boys of all ages, but so so perfect for Charlie.

I've also used the new to Stampin' Up! Brusho Crystals to create a fun background on glossy card.  I've then stamped the guitars onto a piece of window sheet and coloured them in with my Stampin' Blends alcohol markers.  They work on acetate and dry fairly quickly, but be sure the ink is dry before you use the sheet.  I also stamped and coloured in a pair of 'converse' style trainers and a headset with the Stampin' Blends and then fussy cut them out with Stampin' Snips.    To complete the card I used a stapler to attach the splattered background to the window sheet then stampin dimensionals to adhere this layer to a real red matt layer and night of navy card base.   You can see all the free gifts on offer in my Stampin' Up! shop.

If you like the idea of discounted craft products and possibly a free cruise in somewhere exciting like Alaska then please do contact me for more details if you are from the UK, France, Germany, The Netherlands or Austria.

contact me at zoetant@live.co.uk 

Now it's time to visit the other blogs for more spring and saleabration catalogues.  You are here with Zoe Tant in the UK, but you can visit the others by clicking down the list below. 

Thanks for stopping by. 

Zoe x

Christmas Card Club - Apron of Love for Christmas Baking Theme

Stampin Up! Apron of Love arrived this week just in time for Maureen's challenge for our jolly Christmas Card Club.  She asked us to use the theme of Christmas Baking and this set just leapt out for me.  I've also used the Stampin' Up! favourite Cookie Cutter Christmas set to include a peeping gingerbread man to compliment the sentiment which is from a set I've had for years.

My colour choice is cherry cobbler, garden green, crumb cake with touches of silver with a metallic foil doily, foil utensils and some silver metallic enamel shapes.  I used the stitched shape dies teamed with layering square dies to cut and mount the sentiment.

You'll see that some of the pieces of the lovely apron are very fiddly and so to make it easier to adhere them I first added some multipurpose adhesive sheet to the reverse of my designer paper so that once die cut they already had adhesive on the back and all I needed to do was peel off the backing paper to stick them onto my card.  It makes it so much easier than adding wet glue or fiddling with glue dots.  An assortment of adhesives makes life so much easier don't you think!

To bring the apron to life I added various glue dots or stampin dimensionals to give a bit of a 3D effect layering the utensils and the pockets.  I love the sweet oven gloves one is from the Apron of Love stamp set, the other I stamped with a stamp from Timeless Textures after I had die cut them both.

I love Christmas bakes and hope you do too, so please be sure to visit the other ladies and see their Christmas bake cards.

Happy Sunday and best wishes for a crafty week.

Zoe x

Supplies available in Zoe's Stampin Up online shop

Apron of Love photopolymer stamp set 145835
Apron Builder Framelit dies 145661
Apron of Love Bundle with 10% discount 145986
Metallic Foil Doilies 138392
Metallic Enamel Shapes 141678
Multipurpose Adhesive Sheets 144106
Layering Squares Framelits 141708
Stitched Shapes Framelits 145372

 Shop now until 31 March and you could earn free stampin up stamps and accessories

visit my shop or contact me for details 07717855179 or zoetant@live.co.uk

Challenges

CHNC - ATG #369

The Corrosive Challenge - ATG

The Merry Christmas Challenge #3 - ATG

Party Pandas from Stampin' Up! Saleabration

Stampin' Up! designers hit the cute button big time with this fabulous stamp set, Party Pandas.  They are uber cute little creatures and fit the bill for birthdays, valentine's, Christmas and any other event as well as fitting in well into trees or the woodland embossing folder for fun cards for men and boys.

It's also my card for the Moving Along with the Times Challenge for my DT slot.  Pop over HERE and join us for this Clean and Simple challenge.

This is a card we made at my card club last week.  It features one of the pandas and is really simple to make. It's also perfect for last minute.com birthdays.

1. Stamp the confetti stamp diagonally across the card using lemon lime twist ink on lemon lime twist card for tone on tone effect.
2. Stamp the Happy Birthday in the same ink onto white card and punch out with the classic label punch and adhere with mini stampin dimensionals on the card base.
3. Use the starburst punch to punch a real red matting layer and adhere over a folded strip of white organza ribbon onto the card base.
4. Stamp with archival black ink the panda onto white card and fussy cut it out.
5. Colour the balloon with a real red marker and add some shading with the chalk marker
6. Using stampin dimensionals adhere the panda to the card.
7. Add some self adhesive lemon lime twist sequins randomly on the design.

Here's some of the ideas from the Saleabration brochure of more Party Panda antics.

So cute and adorable hard to believe they can be added free to your order when you spend £45 in my Stampin' Up! shop.  

More to come Zoe xx

Christmas Card Club

It's our first Christmas Card Club Challenge today. We've changed our running slightly in that if you don't have a stamp, die or punches for the theme then anything goes.  I've run with that as I don't have pixies, elves or gnomes at the moment and I've decided to share a handful of the beautiful handmade cards we received at Christmas.  These feature some current, retired and long term favourite stamps from Stampin' Up! notably the popular Lovely As A Tree in the card below with the fabulous single pine tree embossed in silver here by Sue W.   Robins are also popular and something that many UK demonstrators wish for every year in our winter catalogue, but our breed of Robin is apparently different to the USA.  Above Gina has used Christmas Pines still in the Stampin' Up! annual catalogue to great effect. I love the embossing under the die cut leaves. 

Roz has made a simple but very effective Christmas Wreath using Painted Harvest which appeared in the Winter Stampin' Up! catalogue of 2017 and I'm delighted to say is now a carryover stamp set so still available.  Below I really like how Judy layered the pretty two step holly from Good Tidings over the beautiful frame and Christmas Greetings stamp from Father Christmas set in the Stampin Up annual catalogue. 

I will share more of my customer cards when anymore challenges arise that I don't have the images for so you might see yours at some point. 

If you want to get organised, dare I say it so soon, for Christmas 2018 then why not have a go at our fortnightly challenge which is just for fun and to share inspiration and ideas for festive designs in slow time over the year then please do and take a look at the other ladies via the link at the top of my home page.  

Happy Sunday all and best wishes for the week ahead.

Hugs Zoe x

Happy New Year and Happy New Stampin' Up! Catalogue

Stampin' Up! has launched the new spring catalogue today and you can view it by clicking here Stampin' Up! Spring Catalogue.  It is awesome and full to bursting with lots of fun, lively and seasonal products.  For my Happy new year card I've created an eclipse card using the Picture Perfect 6' x 6' designer series paper, the large number dies, new Tutti Fruitti adhesive backed sequins, glimmer paper and the Happy Birthday thinlit die.

Happy New Year to you and thank you for your ongoing visits to my blog and lovely comments.  I hope 2018 has started well for you and wish you health and happiness throughout the coming year.

For those of you who are familiar with Stampin' Up! you'll know that it is now Sale-a-bration time from today until 31 March which brings lots of excitement for demonstrators, party hosts and also everyone who is a customer as there are lots of bonuses on offer to us all.  You can visit my website to find out more at Zoe's online stampin up shop. 

I love the new designer papers on offer and the fun selection of stamp sets that have launched today.  Here is a sneak of what is waiting for you.

Enjoy browsing and if you would like a copy of the catalogue to browse and stroke please email me at zoetant@live.co.uk with your name and address and I'll pop one in the post to you.

I'll be back soon with samples, tutorials and tips for more Stampin Up products.

Thanks for dropping in

Zoe xx