Category: 2025-2027 IN COLOURS

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TUESDAY TECHNIQUES & TIPS

Today I have three cards to share with you. They were projects from the Creativity Now crafting event for demonstrators.

TIP: One of the great benefits of joining Stampin’ Up!, as a demonstrator, is the opportunity for exclusive events and early access to new products. So my tip is to join when you can and enjoy these and many more benefits.

These are the new products that were used for this event – Peaceful Garden Suite Collection.

TIP: Enjoy a 10% discount on Bundles and save yourself the challenge of entering lots of separate products codes by entering the single code for Suite Collections.

These are the three cards that were designed for the event. Demonstrators received measurements and instructions for each project.

TECHNIQUE: The strips of Designer Series Paper were torn at one end. To reveal the white edge you need to tear the paper towards you.

TECHNIQUE: After die cutting some twigs they then had some colour added using a Blending Brush to lightly transfer some of the Cloud Cover ink.

The second card features some Peaceful Garden Glimmer Paper, embossed Cloud Cover card, A panel of Designer Series Paper and a Basic White panel with a stamped greeting.

TECHNIQUE: By leaving a pocket under the DSP panel, a tag can be inserted. This gives you another place to write a message.

TIP: Add a strip of the DSP to the card insert and more to the back of the envelope.

Finally, I added some of the white Hues of Blue Flowers.

The final card was made from a piece of Designer Series Paper.

This card uses a length of Misty Moonlight Silver Edges Ribbon to wrap around and secure the card’s opening.

TIP: Turn a white tag into a pale blue by using Cloud Cover ink and a Blending Brush. Start adding colour by rotating the brush off the tag and slowly brushing across it.

TECHNIQUE: It is quite easy to create your own coordinating envelope to match the card.

Tomorrow I have my own card design to share with you.

Until then, happy stamping.

If you live in Australia, you can order any of the products I used to make this card by going to my online store. Just click on any of the images below. Some of the products are yet to be released so I’ll provide more details later.

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TUESDAY TECHNIQUE & TIPS

My project today features three techniques – masking, heat embossing and water colouring.

For this project I used the Beatiful Butterflies Stamp Set & Dies Bundle.

My first task was to die cut the two butterfly shapes, I planned to stamp, from a piece of Masking Paper.

TIP: It is so much easier to cut the shape on the centre ‘front’ of the paper (ensure the split that runs down the centre of the paper is used as the ‘back’). This will ensure that the cut shae will match your stamped image shape and that you will be able to peel away the backing paper more easily.

For the heat embossed images, I used Fluid 100 Water Colour Paper and lightly dusted it with the embossing ‘buddy’ from the Embossing Additions Tool Kit. Then I stamped the first image using Versamark and sprinkled WOW Black Embossing Powder before heat setting it.

I placed the matching Masking Paper butterfly shape over the first heat embossed image and then stamped three smaller butterfly shapes and repeated the process.

TIP: The WOW embossing powder leaves a clear and slightly raised outline. Avoid overheating the powder because it then flattens a little and loses its gloss.

After I finished heat embossing the masked images i took a water colour tool and applied colour to the butterflies.

To help select my colours for this project, I used the Stampin’ Up! Colour Coach. I spun the inner circle around to select an analogous colour scheme – Berry Burst, Petunia Pop, Fresh Freesia and Bubble Bath.

Once the watercoloured image was dry, I used the Everyday Arches Dies to cut the three layers you can see on the card front – the largest layer is from the Beautiful Bokeh DSP, the middle layer is Berry Burst card and then the Fluid 100 paper.

The two smaller layers were adhered together before I wrapped a length of Basic Black Baker’s Twine several times around them and tied a bow.

Then I added Stampin’ Dimensionals to the back of this double layer and positioned it on the DSP arch.

The card measures 5 1/4″x 12″. Iscored the card at 4″ and 8″ so that I would have a trifold card.

When the card front is opened out, you can then see the outer third panel.

For this panel I created a gift card pocket using the Fancy Borders Dies.

After cutting the Berry Burst edge, I cut a Basic White panel to use as a card insert. I stamped the small detailed butterfly on this panel before adhering it to the gift card pocket.

Whne the card is fully opened, you will see a second Basic White card insert and where the gift card pocket is.

The greeting is from the Beautiful Butterfly Stamp Set. It was stamped onto Basic White scrap before being die cut and added to the front of the card.

I adhered a die cut butterfly to the back of the envelope.

Finally, I coloured some Iridescent Faceted Gems with a dark Basic Black Stampin’ Blends Pen.

Tomorrow I will share any Stampin’ Up! updates and another butterfly card with you.

Until then , happy stamping and scrapbooking.

If you live in Australia, you can order any of the products I used to make this card by going to my online store. Just click on any of the images below.

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MONDAY IS FOR MEMORY KEEPING

I took a break last week, from posting projects, because I was doing some craft room cleaning. It was time to pack away the ‘last chance’ products that will soon be unavailable to purchase.

Then, when the new 2025-2026 Annual Catalogue went live I was able to order the other new products that I wasn’t able to order in the demonstrator preorder period. I am slowly organising all these new products and planning when I will feature these in my posts … so, stand by for some exciting new product shares and inspiration.

These week I am featuring a bundle that has been on my shelf unused for far too long – Beautiful Butterflies Bundle.

I am also featuring the Beautiful Bokeh 6″x 6″ Designer Series Paper pack.

I haven’t found the photos from my daughter’s fairy party yet but I was still able to prepare the scrapbooking layout that I would place them on. She is now 34 but but was 6 when we had that party.

Here is the layout.

I used a Berry Burst 12″x 12″ piece of card as the base.

Then I cut four Basic White photo mattes for 5″x 3″ photos. The mattes are a 1/4″ larger to allow for a thin white frame around the photos. the mattes were positioned equally in each corner of the base card.

I cut a 4″ panel from the Balmy BLue, Berry Burst, Calypso Coral and Daffodil Delight bokeh DSP sheets. Then I added Adhesive Sheets to the back of each of them. Finally, I used the detailed butterfly die to cut each one out.

After cutting four Basic White full butterfly shapes, I adhered the DSP butterflies to their white background.

Each of these four butterflies were partially adhered to the bottom corners of the photo mattes. This created a space for photos to be added later.

I filled the centre space with three more butterflies leaving an aesthetically pleasing odd number of butterflies on the page.

Although I haven’t yet given the page a title, it will have be something ‘fairies re like butterflies’.

A wonderful range of new products, in the new catalogue, are the flip flaps, memory protectors and albums for those of us who love our scrapbooking/memory keeping.

I hope these new scrapbooking products help you with all your memory keeping.

Tomorrow I have a technique based card to share with you.

Until then, happy stamping and scrapbooking.

If you live in Australia, you can order any of the products I used to make this card by going to my online store. Just click on any of the images below.

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