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