Wishing You an Amazing Christmas...

So whilst I was creating yesterday's card... this idea popped into my head too...

Proving that Everything Amazing is what it says on the tin!! For all year round occasions...

Hope you find this useful in creating a strong festive message this year!

And yes the large greeting stamp is inked up in Versamark then Mossy Meadow... and then embossed with Clear embossing powder...

And be sure to see yesterdays post on how to create poinsettias with your Magnolia Lane papers

Merry ... but retiring soon... Monday...

Back to retiring products that you don't want to merry-miss!!

I have had such enormous use of these stamps & dies that I think a special round-up post is in order... Be warned... lots of projects coming... and these are just a small selection!

First up... Joyful Nativity... at only £15... and projects not just for Christmas...

Second up Holly Jolly Greetings...  and note that both the Wood Mount and Clear Mount stamps are reduced... down to £21.25 & £14.40 respectively... and remember the co-ordinating dies, Christmas Greetings ... peace, merry & jolly... 

Christmas Magic Bells

Brighter use of the gorgeous Christmas Greetings frame this time...

Coupled with a trio of Pretty Pines die cut pine boughs and shiny golden Christmas Magic bells care of my Wink of Stella

Sorry for quick post but a bit of a family emergency requiring medical attention... what a year it has been for those! 

Acrylic Block Background Stamping & Sleigh Ride

Just realised I haven't shared this card... a stunner in the flesh...and simple enough to make...

Take one acrylic block ( you know the ones that you mount your stamps onto) ...

Dab Mint Macaron ink pad on bottom third...

Dab Night of Navy inkpad on top two-thirds...

Lightly spritz with water and stamp...

Add die cut word, die cut glimmer trees and a couple of stamped greetings...

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20% off stamps... and Sleigh Ride & Baby Wipe Swoosh Technique

This card was another firm favourite amongst the class - especially with the Winter Wonderland embellishments being at 15% this week on Weekly Deals...

But before I tell you more about the card... STOP PRESS!

20% OFF SELECT STAMPS FROM TILL 20TH NOVEMBER... link here - please note that the prices on the first screen are the catalogue price ie before the 20% discount... there are some GREAT BUYS on here...

BUT also... AUTUMN WINTER CATALOGUE RETIRING LIST PUBLISHED... go here for my 2nd blog post today with all the details...

And here are a couple of photos of the flyer... discounted prices shown...

Want a quick visual of the discounted stamps in action... check out the Stampin Up! Pinterest board...

Right back to the card... Simple & stunning in the flesh ... and so much fun creating the background...

A bit of Baby Wipe Swoosh technique...

Grab a Baby Wipe and an ink pad...

Press the top of the closed ink pad so that ink transfers onto the inside of the lid...

Open up the ink pad and dab your baby wipe onto the lid to pick up the ink...

Swoosh your baby wipe across your piece of card... 

Swoosh & build up colour & texture until you are happy...

But wait... I wasn't finished with the baby wipes quite yet! Another instalment on its way...

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Woodland & Softly Falling embossing

 

Just found another card I made using 2 of the christmas embossing folders... Woodland and Softly Falling...

Silver/smoky Slate and Real Red colour theme this time...

Still loving my Christmas Greetings Thinlits dies and Holly Jolly Greetings stamps...

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Is Santa Here yet?

Quick little share today. Just a concept really...

How do you know when Santa has been down the chimney... 

When he is looking out of your window of course!!

Or ...maybe peeking out of the window instead... What about a photo of the kids or all the family on your Christmas cards...

Santa is cut out from the circular image in the Antique Tags hostess stamp set... Want the hostess sets but don't want to have a Stampin' Up! party or order £150+ yourself (or between you and your friends)... then see the details of my Rewards Club.... get the hostess stamps at your own pace... Though do bear in mind that the 2 Christmas ones are only around for 3 more months....

And the net curtains are from the Paper Lace Doilies...just one snipped up into 3 parts...with a bit left over!

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Woodland Embossing and Heat & Stick Training makes

We had our big team Quarterly Team Training event today - and I was asked to demo some of my earlier shared makes using the Woodland embossing folder and Heat & Stick powder. A real technique based demo if there ever was...

 

So me being me had to remake a set so that the colours actually all co-ordinated! 

And then Julie decided that everyone could make them...and everyone did! What an honour! Think they all liked them  - once some got over their fear of such dark ink on an embossing folder!! And every card was fab....

So here is the set of 5 cards - with some individual photos too...

Unfocused photo above so you can hopefully see how sparkly this one is!

I mainly used the combination of Night & Navy, Smoky Slate and Whisper White - but then I was told that we had gold foil in the training kit - so a quick last minute "goldify" later - and here you have them... though I could not bring myself to put a blue tree on the bottom centre card - so that one went Crumb Cake...

And do check out the glittery Snowflake Elements - they are so gorgeous - whether you use clear Versamark - or Whisper White craft ink - plus Heat & Stick/Dazzling Diamonds - or gold glitter. Think you will be seeing more of those....

This colour combination also defined the colours I used for my swap card (shared yesterday) - as I had to share the Dazzling Diamonds Tile technique too - and that seemed to be the most effective way to get a 6th card using Heat & Stick into everyones' hands

Jolly Peaceful Pines through the Window

A quick and simple card for you today.

Doubled up die cut Hearth & Home Window Frame in white plus Sahara Sand frames. Those decorative lines produced by this die are SO SO handy! Snippity snip on the lines and away you go...l

Mossy Meadow sponged tree (over a Soft Sky sponged background) using a Peaceful Pines die cut template I made

Let the ink dry! Swoosh with embossing buddy...oops I forgot these 2 steps for my sample.... So please don't look too closely...

Over-stamp with Dotty tree from Peaceful Pines in Versamark...

Tip Heat & Stick powder over. Heat with heat gun to activate the glue...

Tip Dazzling Diamonds over. Heat with heat gun to set glitter into the glue...

Die cut Gold Glimmer paper JOLLY using Christmas Greetings dies...

Stamp and die cut Mossy meadow boughs  (with pine cones over- coloured using Early Espresso marker pen and then coloured in using Tip Top Taupe) using Festive Fireplace stamps and Festive Fireside dies

Stamp and die cut Basic Black planter using Festive Fireplace stamps and Hearth & Home dies

Assemble all parts