Mini Monday... You are My True North...

Simply stamped and die cut using the Sailing Home stamps and coordinating dies...

Set on a Narrow Notecard... with the matching envelope decorated too...

And finished off with a touch of Light Smoky Slate Stampin Blends colouring on the compass image... Subtles folder embossing of the die cut wheel...

And spot the 3D Foam Adhesive Strips bent around the back of the wheel... perfect glue system for the job!

Just says what you need it to say... when you need it to say it!! Without making a big fuss!

But oops... Narrow Notecards with Envelopes not available to purchase anymore! But you can always make them instead...

And Subtles embossing folder not available to purchase at the moment... awaiting an update from Stampin' Up! as to when they will be back in stock...

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If you are ordering today... please add the Host Code shown below to earn yourself a gift... For orders over £150 you should claim your own Stampin Host Rewards... you will still get a separate gift from me... 

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Maritime Monday ...

Sharing some more maritime makes... care of my favourite Sailaway Suite...

Click on the arrow below to go to the flick through video of the Come Sailaway Memories and More cards... so perfect for cards and home decor projects... as well as memory keeping...

And/Or Click on the arrow below to see the flick through video of the Come Sail Away papers.... 

Or Just click here to go straight to all the suite products in the Online Store...

Amanda's Quick Links

Just click on the relevant pictures below for On Line Store, Catalogues and/or more information... 

If you are ordering today... please add the Host Code shown below to earn yourself a gift... For orders over £150 you should claim your own Stampin Host Rewards... you will still get a separate gift from me... 

Product Shares

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Happy Fathers Day.... Sailing Home

So a few tweaks happened to this Sailing Home Bridge U Fold card along the way...

Yachts on acetate... as described in Saturday's post here...  SO SO much better...

Sandy land mass on horizon and lighthouse... looks so much better than more Old Olive green in the original... and done as my husband is a fair weather sailor... so this Waterfront scene is definitely in sunny Greece, Turkey or Croatia! And not the wonderful but wet Lake District... So it has to be sand...

Happy Fathers Day label from Geared Up Garage... as it was there... though personally this is a bit large for the card for me... but it says what it needed to say! And I did do a bit of colouring with my Smoky Slate and Night of Navy Stampin Blends...

Base panel from embossed Balmy Blue too... speeded up the process in class... and looks nearly as good...

Simple Saturday Sailing Home card with Waterfront Background Scene Tutorial

Sharing a DL sized Sailing Home card for the sailors today.... 

And here are the step by steps with photos for how I produced the background scene using the fabulous Waterfront stamp set and a bit of ink...

This is also how I created the background scene on the Sailing Home Bridge U Fold card I shared here... for which I had a lot of people contact me for a tutorial... and for which you can find the card tutorial here...

And to finish that card... you just need to change the background scene to this Waterfront version for which I have shared the step by steps below... although if you haven't got Waterfront you could use the masking version described here...

Photo Tutorial for creating the Waterfront Background scene...

Sponge or brayer Balmy Blue all over...

Add Old Olive grasses (Enjoy Life)
NOTE that this step is not required on the Sailing Home Bridge U Fold card version...

Add Old Olive (Waterfront) mountain.... do not re-ink

Stamp shadow mountain to right and up a bit... then re-ink...

Repeat off to right...

Repeat off to left

Repeat behind/ in gaps with Gray Granite...

Stamp partial (Waterfront) fir trees in Shaded Spruce on horizon ( ie do not ink whole tree... just "short"part of top/fir part)

Without reinking, turn tree stamp over and stamp reflected trees... TIP... moving the stamp slightly up and to the left seemed to work best wrt positioning ... where for "up" I mean... using less of the inked stamp height than you do for the original trees

I forgot both of these tips when stamping this panel "at speed" as just for Tutorial photographic purposes!

Repeat across the width...with trees getting taller as you go... 

Partially ink up the Waterfront single line stamp using Sahara Sand... and stamp along the horizon to form the sandy shore... ie place the straightest edge of the line stamp onto the edge of your ink pad...

And voila... your scene is set...

Global Stampin Friends Blog Hop - New & Carrying Over

Hello and welcome to The Craft Spa in the UK...

So today's Global Stamping Friends one off Extraordinary Blog Hop is a little bit of this... and a little bit of that!

With NEW 2019-20 Catalogue spoilers too...

Hop on round to see some favourites carrying over, some On Stage swaps ... and definitely some new products coming our way in the new 2019 -2020 Annual Catalogue...

So I have Something Old and Something New for you today... and... going from the demo reaction in the On Stage room at Telford, UK last weekend...

I think this new DistINKtive Sailing Home stamp set is going to be very very popular... and even better...

There is a whole co-ordinating Come Sail Away suite... so here is the On Stage Display board featuring the suite... isn't it a stunner!

And even better... there is a co-ordinating Come Sail Away Memories & More pack too... which is just stunning! Can't wait to make some Memories pages and some easy cards using this one (and maybe some not so easy too!!)

Lovely set of co-ordinating Smooth Sailing dies...

Gorgeous Come Sail Away papers... 

Check out the new High Seas 3D embossing folder... (though note that I used the current but retiring Seaside embossing folder on my card today!)

And the lovely Sail Away Trinkets embellishments...

Gorgeous Night of Navy / Sahara Sand Thick Bakers Twine.. 

And so... back to the card...

My first Sailing Home card just had to be a Bridge U Fold card...  and so did my second version shared here... much happier with my yachts on the second version...

I have a Class in The Mail too... More details to follow ... so please click here to contact me to register your interest... and I will  be back to you soon! Available from June 2019... includes prepped for kits for 2 each of this Bridge U Fold card and 3 cleaner and simpler cards too... Cost £92 for a full suite pack basis (with free postage) OR £72.50 for a half Suite pack basis (with no embossing folder - add £9.25 if you would like one too) Both include 12 pieces of A4 card (2 each x 6 co-ordinating colours)

Edited to Add: By popular request! For everyone including fellow demonstrators - and for those of you outside Europe for whom I cannot supply product/Classes in the Mail as per SU! guidelines...  

Click here for the Bridge U Fold Card tutorial... (though this time I used Waterfront to create my little background scene... much quicker!!)  

And click here for the Waterfront background scene tutorial... There you go!

And oh ... have you spotted the new (and ever so useful!!!) Timeless Label punch shape... which is really easy to "make smaller" using a post it note... so I could have had any of these 3 choices for my greeting! Original shape in the middle!

And so it is now time to pass you onto the lovely Kimberley Morris in Colorado Springs, USA... just click on the arrow below to go straight to her post...

Or here is the full Roll Call if you prefer to hop around that way

Blog Hop Roll Call

1. Amanda Farlinger

2. Amber Thompson

3. Vicky Wright

4. Lisa Ann Bernard

5. Jenn Curtis Charles

6. Tricia Butts

7. Marieke Bart

8. Amanda Bates ( YOU ARE HERE)

9. Kimberley Anne Morris

10. Lisa Henderson