Stampin' Up! Weekly Deals - Sheltering Tree

As you know Stampin' Up! have weekly deals that offer a limited time discount on selected products. This week is no exception, but hosts the fabulous Sheltering Tree stamp set.  It is such a beautiful group of stamps that can be used all year as the tree lends itself to every season of the year depending upon how you use it.  There are, somewhat early, signs of spring around us with the blossom and snowdrops appearing.  Can you remember the last time you saw daffodils in January.....?  Hence I've turned my tree into an early blossom tree.  Along with paper from the Love Blossoms 6" x 6" stack in the Stampin' Up! spring catalogue, a doily and some embossing using the Softly Falling and  Large Polka Dot embossing folders.  You can use the banner punch in reverse by sliding a strip of card 1.5cm wide into the punch from above to just banner punch the end of your sentiment strip.  Here the sentiment is from Teeny Tiny Wishes.

You might remember I made a bit of a stunning (if I say so myself) birthday card for my Mum with this set. You can see the full details in my stampin up post, but here are a couple of pics for more inspiration.  You can also see a winter version in my Christmas card club post.

 

I love for you to have this stamp set in your collection and it is always nice to get a bargain so please do choose me as your demonstrator and shop in my Stampin Up online shop.

Happy Birthday Mum!

 Stampin' Up! Sheltering Tree joins forces with Awesomely Artistic!

For those of you who have followed my blog for sometime, you'll be familiar with my mentions of Pollyanna, a lovely story and wonderful film about a young girl.  In the film she talks of finding something everyday to be glad about.  Well I'm glad for several reasons today not least as it's my wonderful Mum's birthday.  Happy Birthday Mum!

Stampin' Up! Sheltering Tree & Awesomely Artistic for a special birthday card

 I'm also glad as I've brought back to life a stamp set that a friend was ready to throw away.  She managed to lose half of her Stampin' Up! UK Sheltering Tree set and decided that without the blossom part and swing etc it was useless, but me being the Magpie that I am rescued it from her to show that it was still useful.  I used it first on my last post with a wintery scene for a Christmas card which was easy with a bare tree, but today I've matched it with another stamp set, Awesomely Artistic, to give the bare tree life with leaves! 

A touch of vellum under my sentiment banner from Endless Birthday Wishes continues the theme of delicate and soft and the grass and flower heads were in this part of Sheltering Tree.  A ruler and marvellous marker allows you to add faux stitching in shades of pink pirouette and rose red and lots of tiny pearls for those that my Mum has freely given in the form of wisdom throughout my life. 

You can add butterflies, but I'm sorry these were made with the ever so popular Beautiful Wings Embosslit that Stampin' Up! did, but has sadly now retired.  

Mine and my daughter's pearls of wisdom are now passing back to my Mum as we teach her to use the internet and so this post has had to wait until today as she does now peek at Stamping Scene! 

Hope you have a wonderful day Mum!

Hugs

Zx

Christmas Card Club - Let it Snow on a Sheltering Tree

You know it's a bad day for taking pictures when it's raining, cloudy and the battery is flat in your camera!  However I've managed to get a picture of my card for Christine's challenge in our fortnightly Christmas card club.  'Let it snow' was the challenge and I've used a part of the Sheltering Tree Stampin' Up! set  and to create the sound along the ground one stamp from Work of Art.

I used a brayer to add different shades of blue to some whisper white card stock and then stamped the tree silhouette twice allowing some shadowing with the craft white.  I've cut an aperture in my card base and added a layer of vellum before adding my picture behind.  On the vellum I heat embossed with white craft ink some of the snow using another stamp from Sheltering Tree.

My sentiment is from the Alphabet Rotary stamp which is versatile obviously because you make it say what you want.  Some Everyday Chic Designer washi tape adds a touch of silver with silver foil card to add a banner and a frame for my scene using two oval frame lit dies together to create the frame.

Don't forget to pop by the other members of our Christmas Card Club and let's hope the sunshine is back soon.

Zx

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