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2017 CLASSES PLANNED …

Well … at least the first six months are!

I have been enjoying the OCCASIONS and SALE-A-BRATIONS CATALOGUES and playing with the new products so much that I have used these as the focus for planning STAMPIN’ TIME CLASSES for the first half of 2017.

The WHAT’S ON AT STAMPIN’ TIME page has been updated and the calendar has all the relevant dates and details. There is also some news about my plans for 2017 …

The first event is my OCCASIONS and SALE-A-BRATION CATALOGUES LAUNCH … on the 15th January 2017.

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FAREWELL …

December 10, 2016

It is always sad to say farewell to a friend from work and I will miss Felicity … especially from my card class.

So when I was asked to make her farewell card, for her faculty colleagues at the school we all teach at, I was very excited.

The design brief had three elements – peacocks, purples and teals … I knew straight away that I wanted to use the PAISLIES & POSIES stamp set … and watercolouring.

I was so pleased with the end result … and she liked it very much.

mmm … most satisfying!

It is lots of fun looking for ways to use our stamp sets and tools in different ways … making them so versatile!

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WEATHER TOGETHER …

December 4, 2016

Stampin’ Up! has a WEATHER TOGETHER stamp set and UMBRELLA WEATHER framelits die set in the 2016-2017 Annual Catalogue.

There are lots of cards and project ideas available to use as project inspiration – from the catalogue itself, Google images, Pinterest … and these are all a great place to start.

After that, I begin to think about how I can use these in other creative ways … here are my projects …

Top left card … totally CASEd from the catalogue [p.55]

Bottom right card … inspired by Breast Cancer Awareness …

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Using the umbrella frame stamp in a different way … upside down to collect raindrops …

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… I haven’t made a Magic Slider Card in a long time …. time to reveal …

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… a brighter side to the raindrops before.

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So, after ‘typically’ uses of the stamps, what else can you do?

Try turning things around …

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Before this card was made, the original idea came from television – Charlie and the Chocoloate Factory was being advertised as a film to be screened in the next week or so. I had been playing with this round stamped shape and realised that it was just like an EVERLASTING GOBBSTOPPER …so this was the first project …

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Please note that the background was created using an inked acrylic block as demonstrated by Rich at On Stage Live.