Balloon Adventures & Balloon Pop Up dies...

Showcasing another soon to be retiring (sadly) stamp set, Balloon Adventures with the co-ordinating Balloon Pop Up dies... along with a paper pattern from Succulent Garden papers that set the colour scheme...

Now this DL card is simple enough in style... but the combination of steps in a particular order made it somewhat more difficult to put together (and explain!) than first envisaged... so I congratulate all of you that finished it in its entirety! And it still looked fabulous by those that just achieved the front shaker card element...

In fact I even made another inside for follow up classes... but I will have to share that another day as I now realise that I haven't photographed that yet!

And a story for you... I picked up this particular piece of paper from the Succulent Garden  pack... and being honest... I couldn't cope with the concept of using it! Too much going on - even though such a small pattern... 

Then I realised that it was a perfect backdrop  - and colourway - to a shaker card that I had also promised for this months' classes using the Sprinkles Embellishments (which are half price now folks! Just £2.50 a pack)... and so here you have it...

It seriously looks to be FULL of Sprinkles! Perfect...

All of these items are reduced... and retiring... so please check them out ... I am sure you will not be disappointed! I for one particularly love the stamps and dies... and I am really gutted to be seeing them go...

Oh and a quick roll call of these products as I have a spare few minutes and really believe in these items for a quick go to but WOW card!... though maybe not this extended version!... 

Click on the photo or highlighted title to go straight to the item in my Online Store...

Balloon Pop Up Dies £21 (were £30)

Balloon Adventures Stamps £19.20 (were £24)

Sprinkles Embellishments £2.50 (were £5)

Succulent Garden Papers £7 (were £10)

And I also used Window Sheets, Foam Adhesive Strips and Tear & Tape Adhesive to make a simpler job of the Shaker Card element on the front... 

Dragonfly Dreams...the Bee...

Need a quick idea to use those free Sale A Bration papers, Inside the Lines... well here are 5... ranging from very little colouring to colouring most of the panel! With a few out-takes (otherwise known as THE OOPS!!)

Top left you have seen before... click here for the how to details...

Then we have the Gold Aqua-winked one... amazing how subtle the Gold Wink of Stella pen can be... click here for the Aqua winking lowdown... but Oops #1... this was supposed to be a 3x3 grid!!!

Then we have the Thanks one... this one went to plan... same as the original one linked above but more coloured in... and do spot the gorgeous die cut bumble-bee... wish I had taken a close up photo... as it does seriously look like it is in flight...

Then the With an Extra Greeting panel one...  and Oops #2... do wait for your watercoloured panel to be dry before cutting with your trimmer into the 4 squares... that bottom left bit was wrecked...

And finally the Pink One... and Oops #3... if you stamp your greeting in Melon Mambo...do pick up your Melon Mambo watercolor pencil to do the colouring... not Rich Razzleberry...

Cupcakes & Carousels Pop & Twist Card for Fancy Fold Friday

Gosh I thought I had shared these Cupcakes and Carousels makes ages ago... apologies girls!

This card fold will seem familiar as I re-made the card for classes using Cupcakes & Carousels as some of my ladies did not want to make a Valentine card  using the Sending in Love papers- so this was an easy alternative as just a different 6x6 paper stack...

And for those of you thinking out loud.... yes I re-made this one before I worked out the 6 panel version... tutorial for that one here ... a remake now would definitely have more panels...

Love the simplicity of the front of this card.... so easy care of the fantastic Cupcakes & Carousels embellishment pack- of which I used the beautiful greeting frame, the bow, the bakers twines and the sequins here... along with the Balloon Bouquet Punch for my balloons

Other Stampin' Up! Products Used

Balloon Adventures

Sale A Bration Any Occasion (Yours for free with a £45 order)

Really great card ready to pop someone's name and/or age on when I need to quickly send a birthday card... 

Loving the Glimmer paper coming 21st February

Oh what a beautiful sight the new Glimmer Paper Pack is... 12 sheets of 6"x 6" gorgeousness! 4 sheets each in Bermuda Bay, Mint Macaron and Sweet Sugarplum...

Yours for free with a £45 order...

We were lucky enough to see, fondle and be blown away by it at training this week... thanks Julie... 

This is the gorgeous card that Julie designed   

But having stuck my glitter pieces together neatly - I just couldn't cover them up with the white die-cut part - so I went for double balloons instead... and lots of shine!!!

And a tip from the lovely Kate Martin for sticking the bits together... turn them onto the wrong side (glitter side down in this case) and stick together with tape. Perfect fit under the die-cut balloon and stuck solidly enough to use as I have...  I then applied the 3D dimensionals to the solid piece as you can see!

Hope you can see some of the shininess!! This is definitely a product you really have to see in the flesh to fully appreciate... but in the meantime...trust me!!

Balloon Pop Up Dies

Just popping on to share a card (and a tip) we made at Stampin' Up! On Stage back in November using the Balloon Pop Up dies... Some of you won't recognise it immediately as I used the other side of the papers and stamped differently so as to reduce the number of colours going on...!

Just a die cut and some stamping of the balloons...and you have a card to impress...

And a quick tip for the European demos who made the same sample... the card balance works better if you trim down the Crushed Curry A5 card blank we were provided with... as the rest of the parts were sized to suit an American standard (fatter and shorter) card blank!

Here is the full set of Balloon Pop Up dies for you....

And here are the co-ordinating Balloon Adventures stamps... some great greetings in this set... 

And here is the full bundle with 10% off the set...

Happy New - Balloon Adventures- Year!

Just popping on to wish you all a VERY Happy New Year...and I hope that 2017 will be your best year yet!

I started out the day with big plans for my 2017 New Year card... but then I spent hours looking for everything I needed to make this somewhat-more-simple card... it is amazing where things can get to when you do the annual Christmas-clear-it-all-away thing!

So I now cannot wait till I can get everything back in its usual allocated space next week!!

Back to the card... which is VERY sparkly in the flesh...

My first use of the Spring Summer catalogue new Balloon Pop Up Thinlits dies and the co-ordinating Balloon Adventures stamp set... for which there are more details and a video here...

Though I have used the pop up part flat... and I could not resist cutting all the balloon parts out from the pop up die cut shape (as shown below) so that my number balloons could take centrestage... 

Silver Glimmer die cut Large Numbers and bow, Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer background , white embossed large greeting... all popped onto a Whisper White mat and then onto a Basic Black DL card blank ( ie 21cm/8 1/4" Square scored in half at 10.5cm/4 1/8")

New Dies coming your way....

Continuing my series of sharing new products coming your way when the new Spring Summer (aka Occasions) catalogue is released on 4th January...

Time for a trio of new dies... Click on the small icons to launch the product videos for the full details

First up... Balloon Pop Up Thinlits dies and the co-ordinating stamp set, Balloon Adventures

Second... Stylish Stems Framelits dies and the co-ordinating stamp set, Special Reason

And lastly for today... So Detailed Thinlits dies and the co-ordinating stamp set, So In Love

And do remember ... these are all bundled items with 10% off the individual part prices if you buy the whole stamp & dies bundle