Sunday Suite - Hand Penned

So this is one of the new catalogue Top Sellers so far... the Hand Penned Suite... such a lovely floral suite to work with... beautiful but simples!

This will be one of my June co-ordinating Card & Paper Kits... so please don't hesitate to contact me to register your interest... 

Starting with the full Hand Penned Suite collection (aka the Buy It All in One Click)

Comprising of... the Hand Penned Petals bundle (with 10% off the sum of the parts...)

Which duly consists of... the Hand Penned Petals stamps... just think how beautifully these will work with the Stamped One Sheet Wonder technique...

And the Penned Flowers dies

The pretty Hand Penned papers... Click HERE for the sheet by sheet view

The fabulous Making Memories cards... for memory keeping, home decor and greeting cards too

And last but not least the Genial Gems...

And here are few projects using the Hand Penned Suite to please the eye... and inspire... 

And if there aren't enough for you to get the full idea... Google "Stampin Up Hand Penned"... or search on Pinterest, Instagram, Facebook etc... and you will find 100s of projects out there already!

Five on Friday - Beautiful Friendship

So way back then... was when I first got Beautiful Friendship out... with a Team Colour Challenge happening at the time... but gosh how things took over from that day!

So now high time I finally shared the finished cards... both here and back on the Team Challenge page! 

There were actually 6 cards created from this wreath.. but one went away in the post before I got a chance (aka remembered!) to photo... so only 5 finished cards to see in this post... but a "Where's Wally shot" below if you want to spot the 6th before it was finished!! Centre one if you are not sure....

And here are the insides as they needed a quick decoration so that I could write on them to send out with my customer thank you gifts at the time... although I am sure that I will have still failed to write on them... and added a written Sticky Note as I do....

Click here to see the details on what was used to create the stamped wreath one sheet wonder... and here to see more on the cutting up of the sheet...

Wednesday Wreath and WOW!

Something a bit different for you today.....

And WOW! I SO love this ... and I am SO SO happy to have inspired one of my lovely blog readers to give this a go! To such great effect...

So fellow Stampin' Up demonstrator, the lovely Gracemarie Balantic, shared this with me the other day... and seeing as she doesn't have a blog of her own ... and I reckoned it is far too good to not share... and luckily Gracemarie is happy to let me share it with all of you... here you go!

So a Stamped One Sheet Wonder wreath for Halloween... then cut down to create 6 cards in one swoop! See here for Gracemarie's original inspiration...

A few extra die cuts added to finish off one or two of the cards... but most just finished off with a strategically placed greeting....

And sorry I can't provide a products used list in this instance... but I do think that the real magic of this stamping technique is in using your own unique mix of stamps.... and just enjoying the true creativity of what you are doing...

Thank you so much for sharing Gracemarie... I love both the wreath as a home decor piece... and the cards...

And for the rest of you... what do you think? I would love to give Gracemarie the feedback I think she deserves... so a comment would be lovely....

Wednesday Wreath - Blossoms In Bloom in the blues Stamped One Sheet Wonder....

So this was the third of my Stamped One Sheet Wonder sheets created last week...

Another wreath on a 12x12 Whisper White sheet... resulting in a set of 7 cards...

Featuring Blossoms in Bloom ( flowers and leaves), Very Versailles (leaves and text), Sending Sunshine (leaf frond) and Waterfront (splodges)  along with Sending Sunshine and Ornate Thanks for the final greetings...

Using my favourite floral colour palette of blues &  greens with a touch of yellow... or Balmy Blue, Misty Moonlight, Granny Apple Green, Mossy Meadow, Pretty Peacock and Mango Melody... with Gray Granite for the textural background features... and splodges...

And I can't wait for my next delivery to arrive next week... as I have some lovely flowers and leaves in there! Can't wait to play again...

PS Thank you to my customers and fellow demonstrators who have shared their Stamped One Sheet Wonder cards with me... I am so happy to have inspired so many of you to give this technique a go... it is definitely worth it! Though beware the need to buy more flowers and leaves !!!

Stamped A4 One Sheet Wonder Cards set

Following on from the last 2 days post... this was actually the first sheet I stamped one sheet wonder style...

But I was surprised ... as I realised that I had filled everything in... rather than  leaving lots of white space as 'those of you that visit me regularly' would have assumed I would have done!

So I could call this the technique that continues to amaze (me!)

And a shot of what I used on this one... as totally different to yesterdays... Blossoms in Bloom for the main parts... leaves from Sending Sunshine again... and greetings from So Sentimental...

Note that I applied a darker Midnight Muse (with a dauber) to the centre of the large flowers image before stamping... which I forgot to show in the shot of what I used below...

Oh plus the Waterfront splats and Very Versailles text... 

Though I will admit that ... in the future... I would stamp any text after cutting up my panels... as that way I wouldn't have to use my panels in the direction of the text!

Though funnily enough I can cope with this text being upside down... as I don't think you can really tell! But I don't like it running up or down in direction aka on its side...

Stamped One Sheet Wonder Wreath Card set #2

Following on from yesterday's post... I have some more details for you on the Stamped Wreath One Sheet Wonder set of cards I created...

Firstly... here are the colours and  products I used...
And just in case they are too pale to see..Soft Sea Foam and Petal Pink ink pads at the top of the piles...

Relevant stamps laid on top of relevant ink pad...so hopefully this one picture paints a 1000 words! 

And these are the Grey Granite splodges I forgot in the original photo! And I had already tidied away... so 2 photos then!

Not got some (or all) of these stamps... then click on the name to add to your shopping cart and order... for Blossoms in Bloom, Healing Hugs, Sending Sunshine and Waterfront... or otherwise... just grab some flowers, leaves, splodges and textures stamps and have a go! You won't regret it....

So the wreath was produced on a Very Vanilla 12" Square piece of card.... 

Spot that I lightly sponged Gray Granite over all my bright Vanilla areas! (again very unlike me with my love of white space but I just went all out of the box!!!)

And an admittance.. I thought I was using Sahara Sand... but hey - I had the wrong ink pad out!

Then the square was cut into 3 x 4" wide strips...

The left and right being cut into 4" x 14.5cm panels (so two from each) For those of you working with US Letter sized cardstock - I'd suggest 4" x 5 1/4" for your standard card blanks- the matting from the card blank will just be slightly wider than mine)

And the central strip into 3 x 4" panels... sorry no photo!

 I then re-orientated some so that stamping the greeting made most sense..

And there you have them... 

Oh actually not quite! Couple of the panels got slightly amended... so bear with me! Some strategic stamping to the rescue...

First up.. the central square panel was a bit bare for my taste... 

 So more Sending Sunshine Mossy Meadow leaves to the top...

Then a couple more Blossoms in Bloom Cajun Craze with Mango Melody centred flowers... to top and right

 Finishing off with the Healing Hugs Mossy Meadow greeting...

That's much better... 

And then an inked & caught clear block edge when stampin the Mossy Meadow greeting...

 Quickly covered with another Cajun Craze with Mango Melody centred flower...

Phew... much better...