Guy Greetings from Stampin' Up! for simple male birthday cards

Stampin' Up! Guy Greetings Stamp Set

Busy week last week for me with Stamp a stack of birthday cards.  We made 24 cards 6 designs and 4 of each card.  Here's one using a popular stamp set called Guy Greetings along with the new Stampin Up Spring catalogue Hexagons Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder.  This is similar to the Cable Knit one we had at Christmas as it creates a 3D effect on your card with deeper texture than ordinary embossing folders.  This particular design is super for nature cards too especially with Bee stamp sets like the one in Dragonfly Dreams.

It teamed up well with the Urban Underground designer series paper to give a luxurious feel using small strips of the specialty paper in the pack.  Can you see that you can get 2 sentiments out of one punched Decorative Label too by stamping once then turning the shape through 180 degrees before stamping again.

The car itself is stamped in black Staz On ink onto a Stitched Shape Framelit square.  Simple but effective.  This was a popular card.  You could change the colours easily too to suit the favourite colour of the recipient.

More soon Zx

 

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Stampin' Up! Independent Demonstrators Techniques Blog Hop

Another month another Stampin' Up! Independent Demonstrators global Totally Techniques Blog Hop.  Our technique this month is all about 'reflection'.  This is a fun and easy technique and all you need your stamp, ink and the acetate imaging sheet from your Stampin' Up! stamp-a-ma-jig, stamp positioner.

If you've arrived here from Nadine's blog what did you think of her wow project?  You're here now with Zoe Tant Stampin' Up! UK demo and I've used the perfect set for nature lovers and also a great set for men's cards, Stampin' Up! The Wilderness Awaits.

So the reflection technique is achieved when you stamp an image onto your card stock and then stamp the image again onto your imaging sheet. Stamp it carefully so as not to smudge it.  Then turn the imaging sheet through 180degrees and flip it so as to place it onto your card stock below the original image.  Do this carefully and don't allow the imaging sheet to move.  Then gently rub the imaging sheet sheet so that the inked image on it goes as a reflection image on your card stock.  

I've actually heat embossed my first image in whisper white and then used my aqua painter, markers and re-inkers to colour the Mallard and the reeds.  I also used a watercolour wash to colour the sky and add water to the reflection pool.  

I've added some burlap with machine stitching and sentiment from Wetlands stamp set along with some foliage from the Wetlands set too!

Your next stop on the Totally Techniques blog hop is to Barbara Meyer in Austria.  Thanks for joining our hop and please do comment along the way so we can visit you too.  

Enjoy hopping Zx

 

1. Zoe Tant - that's me

2. Barbara Meyer - Austria 

3. Mathilde Kortekaas - The Netherlands 

4. Patrice Halliday-Larsen - New Zealand

5. Amy Koenders - USA

6. Shelagh Freemantle _ Canada 

7. Shannean Moncrieff - Australia

8. Nadine Weiner - Germany

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