Quick Make Challenge

At  my Stampin' Up! Team day this weekend I gave everyone a packet that contained supplies and challenged them to make a card in 30 minutes.  They all had the same supplies and were able to use the new stamp set Label Me Bold in the Spring mini along with Poppy Parade and Memento Tuxedo Black ink pads.  They also had access to a pot of the Peaceful Poppy sequins to use.  I only used one for my card, but have since cheated and added two or three red rhinestones. 

I love the modern on trend feel of the Label Me Bold stamp set. It's great for creating backgrounds to bold images like these poppy die cuts.  I used two of the stamps with the black ink and stamped off to get 3rd generation ink to make it a softer shade of black.  I added the bold hearts and then stamped two sentiments and free hand cut them out.  It was really quick to do and is a great way to have a bunch of cards made quickly for adding a sentiment to later or for one when you need a card in a rush. 

The Poppy Elements are worth looking at closer.  They include embossed black borders and label shapes, vellum embossed poppy flowers and leaves and also on watercolour card and finally these fab printed die cuts that make it really easy to add a pop of colour.  You get 2 sheets of each and they only cost £6.  They are a great add on for all sorts of designs, but as well as working particularly well with our lovely new poppy stamps and die sets they look great with this modern set Label Me Bold.

You can see them all in my Stampin' Up! online shop.

Any questions about them or anything else Stampin' Up! related drop me a line at zoetant@live.co.uk  and I'll do my best to help or point you in the right direction of someone who can.

Happy crafting

Zoe x

Blossoming Basket new stamp set

Each year Saleabration sees Stampin' Up! offer some amazing stamp sets and other gifts as FREEBIES for stampers who spend with them. Also in recent years Stampin' Up! has added to this wonderful gift with purchase offering by adding to the choice half way through the promotion.  This year is no exception and from Friday you can have this beautiful stamp set Blossoming Basket and Basket Weave textured embossing folder when you spend £90 on any current product in the spring and annual Stampin Up catalogues.  We used them both today in one of my card club classes and it proved very popular.  We simply stamped the basket full of all the stunning blooms and coloured it in using Stampin' Blends, the new alcohol markers from Stampin' Up!.  

With two shades of each colour available, a bronze, ivory and colour lifter available the world is yours to colour.  It's easy to blend shades to create light and dark and also you can blend colours to create further colours.  Start with either light or dark, I prefer to start with the darker shade following advice from some of my lovely friends who've used alcohol markers in classes at Sir Stampalot.  Build up some colour and a level of 'wet' colour that you can then come in with the lighter shade moving from the darker coloured section into a lighter section in small circles to avoid lines and create seamless shade.  You've heard me say several times 'I'm not a colourer inner' but I'm closer to believing I can be and it is so relaxing and therapeutic.  Give it a try with a cuppa and fabulous image stamped with Tuxedo Memento black ink.  

Thank you Stampin Up for this awesome addition to Saleabration 2018.  

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More soon Zoe x