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

Celebrate the Neutrals for Global Stampin Friends Blog Hop

 

Hello and welcome to this month's Global Stampin Friends international blog hop from Amanda Bates at The Craft Spa in the UK...

This month's theme is simply...  Neutrals... so I kept everything simple... so as to keep the colours as the main stage event...

So I have focused on the this year's NEW Neutrals... Gray Granite (new), Merry Merlot (new), Night of Navy (old!!!) and Mossy Meadow (returning In Color)

They aren't all new colours... but they were all new to the Neutrals collection... and I think these make this collection truly great ...  

As now... with the greens, blues and reds in the Neutrals... there is something for everything...  and so it is a brilliant collection to buy to start off your Stampin' Up! colour co-ordination journey.... 

And what better image to prove that these Neutrals now have something for every occasion... but a flourish with a leaf and flower or two... care of Flourishing Phrases... 

Which has been around a while... but is still a go to set for me for this flourish and the greetings... so I really hope it carries over to the New Annual Catalogue... but more on that come 15th April...

But whilst I was here... and as we now have 3 of these 4 colours in Stampin Blends alcohol marker pens...  I couldn't resist trying out my Stampin Blends in a slightly different way to the norm... as we tend to just use Memento Black when colouring in with Blends... 

But I have used our classic ink pads & marker pens for inking up here... and the Stampin Blends work a treat with them...  try it ... you won't be disappointed!

And for those of you that like the details... as this design maximises quantities from a piece of A4 cardstock... 

The card blank is 10.5cm Square (so 2 from A4)... with a 9.9cm panel (so 6 from A4)... and a 2 x 9.9cm greeting "band"... Or for those of you in the US... I would go 4 1/4" Square Card Blank... with a 4" panel ... with a 3/4" x 4" band

The edges of the band and mat are inked direct with Gray Granite around each of the 4 edges (care of a slight & gentle press of each card edge straight onto the ink pad) 

And now it is time to pass you onto the lovely Jan Musselman in the USA... Enjoy!

1. June Olsen

2. Tricia Butts

3. Amanda Farlinger

4. Libby Dyson

5. Amber Thompson

6. Anastasia Radloff

7. Jenn Curtis Charles 

8. Lisa Henderson

9. Amanda Bates (YOU ARE HERE)

10. Jan Musselman 

11. Angélique Stempelkeuken 

12. Kimberley Anne Morris  

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