Petal Palette with Tutti Frutti Cards & Envelopes...

Time for another bright and cheerful creation to ward off the cold spell around here today... and to celebrate the final completion of the years accounts and tax return submission that has taken my attention for the past week! Phew...

So back to the Colour INKspiration first January CI25 colour challenge of Lemon Lime Twist, Night of Navy and Whisper White

Featuring the lovely flowers & leaves from Petal Palette... a fabulous stamp and die bundle...

On one of the lovely card blanks in the Sale A Bration Tutti Frutti Cards & Envelopes pack... (that can be yours for free) 

With a small piece of one of the Tutti Frutti papers... which have a fabulous range of colours on the "plain side". Great 6x6 pack to have in stock... even if you aren't a fruit fancier... 

Big greeting care of Thankful Thoughts..

Set on the largest Stitched Shapes square and a Night of Navy mat... 

And finished off with a bow using the lovely Silver 3/8" Metallic Edge Ribbon... which (as an aside) is another fantastic ribbon to colour with your Stampin Blends...

Simple, bright and cheery little card...

Petal Palette for Colour INKspiration Challenge #C125

So a New Year brings a new intent and some changes to ways of working... So I have decided to do as many a good Stampin Up! demo does... and start to enter a few creative challenges during 2018...

So first up... a colour challenge... care of the Colour INKspiration Facebook group... Tricia Raineri chose this yummy & summery inspiration pic for #CI25. And we could also other neutrals such as Basic Black, Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, Sahara Sand or metallics in the challenge project.

I can't tell you how happy I was working with this combination... light, bright, summery and right up my blues and greens street.... love it! So much so... that I couldn't stop with just the one project that I entered for the challenge... so more to come...

But for today... my entry to the Challenge... a small Bridge U Fold card as per this Tutorial I shared last year... though I only used the one box section/insert for the birdie perch.... so that was scored at 1.5cm from each side from a 11.5cm x 2.5cm high panel...

Featuring mainly Petal Palette... a lovely stamp and die bundle...

Along with Tutti Frutti papers... which have a fabulous range of colours on the "plain side". Great 6x6 pack to have in stock...

Stamped greeting from Picture Perfect Birthday... a greeting that I just can't stop using...

And finished off with a doubled die cut greeting from the fantastic Sale A Bration promotion die set, Celebrate You (yours for free with a £90 order) and which is, for the first time, a Sale A Bration  item that will continue for sale into the new Annual Catalogue come 1st June so long may it reign!

And some details for you...

I didn't colour in many of the flowers and leaves as I preferred the lightness of the marker duo inked flower images... but where I needed them... I used the Lemon Lime Twist watercolor pencil found exclusively in the Lots of Happy card kit... and just a Blender Pen and Night of Navy ink pad 

The long leaf spray was inked in Lemon Lime Twist... and "marker thumped" with Old Olive to produce some texture/veining... and then fussy cut! The other images being die cut using the Petals & More dies...

Come back tomorrow for another bright and summery card to lighten your day... which I think we all need with all that white stuff tumbling down outside round here....

Introducing... our new Spring Summer Product Suites...

Time to show you the new Product Suites that we now have care of the BRAND NEW Spring Summer (aka Occasions) catalogue... and what better way to "show you in the click of an eye" than a Display Board for each ... with all the relevant products laid out...

Want to see more now... if you click on the display board or title then you will be taken straight to the product line in the Online Store so you can all the relevant products laid out on the screen before you...

And if you now fancy a selection of all of the below to have and to hold... without paying out a fortune! And if you live in the UK... Then please feel free to join my Product Share(s) service and/or order the Paper Swatch books... click here for more details...

Though I will be coming back to each of these product lines with more information and samples over the next week or so... so please keep visiting!

Petal Passion

Petal Passion Designer Series Paper features hand-watercoloured black and white floral designs. You can customise to any colour scheme by adding any colour with your favourite techniques (stamping, watercolouring, sponging, spritzing).

The Petal Passion suite features stamp, paper, and tool coordination; you will have so many creative options layering and combining different die-cut pieces with the stamp set, Designer Series Paper and Memories & More cards.

Myths & Magic

The Myths & Magic Suite is bright, bang on trend and simply magical... featuring mermaids, unicorns, knights and dragons... for boys and girls and the young at heart

Picture Perfect Party

Light, bright with photographic images & Stampin Spots to get the party going... and keep it going...

Sweet Soiree

Sweet Soirée is a large suite featuring a huge selection of coordinating products, so no matter what project you are working on from wedding, baby, or birthday—there is something in this suite for you.

The Cake Soirée Stamp Set includes bold and line-art cake images, several flowers, and calligraphy greetings which are inspired by the floral cake trend–your projects will look current and fresh. 

Painted With Love

Hearts teamed with pinks and golds... for those we love... and for the teen girls. Definitely the loudest squeals in the On Stage room for this one!

True Gentleman

Classic style for the men in our life... with a co-ordinating punch too...

Tutti Frutti

Tutti-Frutti Classic Stampin’ Spots include a four-pack of ink spots (Daffodil Delight, Lemon Lime Twist, Real Red, Soft Suede), and are an easy and inexpensive way to get four colours of ink.

Stamp images are sized larger than the punch sizes so the stamped fruits are easy to punch—no need to worry about perfect alignment.

Thank you Stampin Up! for producing these wonderful boards so that we can take in the catalogue at a glance when we are at the On Stage events... I for one can take these in so much better than the catalogue pages....

And I do also have to admit that we demos don't look at these silently!! Not at all!! More like... how many oohs and aahs ...and (very) loud squeals... can you hear in a room at one time... priceless!!