Stampin' Up! Incentive Trip Achiever's Demonstrator Blog Hop - Sneak Peek

It's Stampin' Up! Incentive Achiever Blog Hop time again so join on a journey of all things wonderful as a demo and attending our recent regional Stampin' Up! events.  As a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator you are able to attend Stampin' Up! events where you are one of the first to see new catalogues and products and share a fun time with other demonstrators from your country and sometimes from other countries too when there is an event called Onstage Live in your market. Of course you can choose to attend any event worldwide so could make it your ambition to travel the Stampin' Up! globe and see lots of countries, cities and of course fellow demonstrators.

Recently I went to the UK local event held at Telford.  It was a fab weekend as hubby and son came along too and they were able to attend The Telford Museums courtesy of Tesco vouchers.  It kept them entertained whilst I went to centre stage, an event for senior managers and then the following day to the main event where we were given a copy of the new 2018 - 2019 Annual catalogue. Oh boy are you in for a treat..... that's all I'll say for now. However I can share that this fabulous stamp set is staying in the new catalogue.  I used it to make some of my swaps that I traded for ideas with other demos.

I love that it all fits around family life too and that we got to stay in a beautiful place, eat good food and also my boys were entertained at The Ironbridge Museum.

Not Ironbridge but a mini version near the pub!

At Onstage we also get to play with new products in the form of Make and Takes. I'm always too busy talking and catching up with friends so I gathered together the pieces needed and decided to make my own versions at home. This is what I've done with the leafy laser cut piece I received. I've teamed it with some current and you might spy a sneak peek of a new stamp set being launched very soon.

The laser cut piece is delicate and so I decided to attach it to my card by overlaying a piece of vellum onto it before machine stitching both to the base card. The laser cut piece is held in place by the vellum.  It's so so pretty.  Our colour collections are changing too which is why you may have noticed many on the retiring list.  However it's time for some returning favourites like Mossy Meadow which you can just spy as a scallop circle matt layer and some awesome new colours for Stampin' Up! 

 

So you can see why I love my life as a demonstrator being able to share what I love about it with you.   It's always fun meeting up with other demonstrators to share swaps and tips and get an early sight and possession of the new Stampin Up catalogues.  One of the best things about these events is connecting with my team as we don't all live down the road from each other.

This is Telford with some of the team and some were in Utrecht in The Netherlands. 

Enjoy the hop lovely visitors and remember to check out the retiring list of products that will no longer be available at the end of May or sooner if they sell out.  Your wish list needs checking.....

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Thanks for stopping by and see you again soon.

Zoe x

Stampin' Up! Alaska Achiever's Blog Hop

I can't believe how quickly the months are passing, but then after the weather we've been having in the UK the sooner Spring arrives with some brighter, warmer days the better.  It does mean it's time for another Stampin' Up! Achiever's Blog Hop though and we're sharing Saleabration and Spring catalogue inspiration with you.  

I've been doing lots of sponge brayering with the Saleabration Springtime Foils designer series papers and thought I would share those. At my classes the ladies have loved seeing what you can do with these gorgeous papers. They are one sided, FREE, white embossed with silver gold and copper and FREE did I mention that with a qualifying order of £45 until the end of this month.

All you need to do is choose 3 coordinating colours and start brayering with the lighter colour first and slowly build up the colour and blending of one colour into the next. You can of course use 3 shades of one colour like green or blue to make a similar effect.  I then chose to use the Celebrate You dies also free with an order of £90.   I cut out the 'celebrate' and and stuck the coloured foil paper onto a piece of black card to make the word 'pop'.  I've added a couple more words from the Happy Celebrations stamp set and layered it onto a sweet sugar plum card base.  Other colours used are peekaboo peach and flirty flamingo.  These three colours along with dapper denim and emerald envy are our outgoing in colours so if any are your favourite stock up now before the rush especially on re inkers.

Now with the die cut word I created another card .

I took another piece of the Springtime Foils which is actually nearer in weight to card than paper and so is good for gift boxes and bags too. I die cut a label and again brayered colour onto it with sweet sugar plum.  I layered it onto a larger die cut in the same colour for tone on tone and added some silver thread, rhinestones and silver metallic edged ribbon.  A little spotty stamping with the mini background stamp from Stampin' Up! You're Inspiring to draw in all the colours.  By using the die cut and the stencil it created it leaves very little waste and you really get value from your card.

Saleabration will end soon which is always a little bit sad as we've all benefitted from free gifts, extras as hostesses and those who've taken the plunge to join our fantastic company have been rewarded with extra stamp sets. There's still time until 31st March to get some bonuses for you too so please do check out Stampin' Up! 's Saleabration deals.

Enjoy the rest of the hop by visiting others on the list below.

Thanks for visiting me.

Zoe Tant UK

Totally Techniques Blog Hop - die cut masking technique

Hi and welcome to July's Totally Techniques blog hop.  We're sharing our take on the die cut masking technique this month. It's a technique that is easy to do and you can have a lot of fun with it.  There's a great tutorial here that will help to get you started or you can follow the simple instructions below.

1. Using removable note sheets or removable 'sticky' tabs cut out the die cut of your choice.  I used the Stampin' Up! Large Letter dies.

2. Position the die cut pieces on your card layer making sure that they are secure, but still removable.

3. Spritz, stamp, smudge, sponge or whatever ink over the masks to build your design.  I used sponges, stamps Timeless Textures and Touches of Texture.  Colours used were Pink Pirouette, Crumb Cake, Soft Sky and Rose Red.

4. You can add extras like glitter dots with a fine tip glue pen at this stage, but before removing the masks make sure everything is dry so as not to smudge any glue or ink.  

5. Remove the masks to reveal the clean letters in the original card stock colour.  

As the Meerkats would say 'Simples'!!

To finish my card I add flowers which were stamped using the Touches of Texture smallest flower and then punched with the Sprinkles punch, an addition to my sentiment from Lovely Inside and Out and some additional flowers.  The design is matted onto Crumb Cake card which has been smudged around the edges with the same colour ink and then a Soft Sky card base.  

You're here in the UK with Zoe Tant, but please do go on a mini globe tour to see the designs with Die Cut Masking from my lovely demonstrator friends.  

All products can be bought in my online store HERE 

1. Nadine Weiner Germany
2. Shelagh Freemantle  Canada
3. Shannean Moncrieff   Australia
4. Zoe Tant  UK
5. Barbara Meyer Austria


Thanks for checking in...
Zx

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Moving Along with the Times Challenge - Fairies

Stampin' Up! Fairy Celebration for MAWTT DT entry

This fortnight team A design team are sharing cards featuring fairies.  They are popular with young and old and always make me think of one of my favourite lines

"All you need is faith, hope and a little bit of fairy dust"

If only life was that simple!  Olivia and I are big fans of Disney's Tinkerbell and these cute fairies from the Stampin' Up! Fairy Celebration set remind me of her.  So my DT card is very simply stamped onto water colour paper with permanent black ink and then I have used an aqua painter, water colour pencils and some ink from ink pad lids to colour the images.  Using inkfrom the lid of  a Pool Party ink pad I created a wash background and let the images do the rest of the talking.

You can also see a couple of sneak peeks from the upcoming annual catalogue as I've used a card base of Fresh Fig and also some new cute embellishments that sparkle and regular readers know I'm a bit of a bling fan!  The matting layer of card stock is embossed using Softly Falling embossing folder although I've used the de-bossed side and some ruched Sweet Sugar Plum ribbon.

Do take a look at the other DT cards over at MAWTT and please do join in our challenge using the link tool on the MAWTT blog.

Thanks for stopping by.

Zx

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Challenges 

Stamping Sensations - Anything Goes
Cards and More - Anything Goes
Crafty Sentiments Designs - Anything Goes