Eclipse Technique for a Fall Birthday Card

If you're like me, you've been seeing the eclipse technique all over the internet lately and been slightly mesmerized by it. It reminds me of Layering Inset techniques, where you die cut a gazillion of the same piece and glue them together before inserting them back into the space from where the originals were die cut! But that takes a lot of time, patience, glue and precision. With this technique, you get the same result with half the effort.

Take a look at this sample I did using images from Colorful Seasons and Gourd Goodness stamp sets and the Large Letters Framelits.

• This card also used the Babywipe Technique for stamping the multicoloured leaf images from Colorful Seasons and Gourd Goodness.
• The sentiment is from the Birthday Delivery stamp set, stamped in Rich Razzleberry.
• The background is Painted Autumn Designer Series Paper.

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There are some exciting promotions coming up with Stampin' Up! in October! In fact, it's one of the best Octobers I can remember. First, there is a Designer Series Paper deal coming up, where you can buy 3 packs of DSP and get another pack free from a selection of current DSPs. Then to celebrate World Card Making Day on October 7, Stampin' Up! will be offering 10 days of 15% off selected stamp sets and Notecards, as well as a great deal on adhesives!! Finally, there is the Merry Patterns Host Promotion that continues through to the end of October! I will give you more info closer to the beginning of the promotions!! Just wanted you to be aware that they were coming! Plus there is another BIG SURPRISE coming that I can't tell you about just yet, but will let you know about in October!

Click on the links below to take you to my On-Line Store, where you can read about, look at, and purchase if you wish, the products used to make this card today.

Product List

Colorful Seasons Photopolymer Stamp Set [143726]	Gourd Goodness Photopolymer Stamp Set [144785]	Birthday Delivery Photopolymer Stamp Set [143660]	Painted Autumn Designer Series Paper [144613]	Pumpkin Pie 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [105117]
Very Vanilla 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [101650]	Basic Black 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [121045]	Pear Pizzazz Classic Stampin' Ink Refill [131160]	Pumpkin Pie Classic Stampin' Ink Refill [105229]	Rich Razzleberry Classic Stampin' Ink Refill [115664]
Rich Razzlebberry Classic Stampin' Pad [126950]	Old Olive 1/8" Sheer Ribbon [144171]	Fresh Fig 1/8" Sheer Ribbon [144174]	Large Letters Framelits Dies [141712]	Big Shot [143263]
Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755]	Fast Fuse Adhesive [129026]	Mini Stampin' Dimensionals [144108]

Birthday Delivery for As You See It Challenges

This is a bit of a tough couple of weeks for Stampin' Up! Demonstrators! First there is the disappearing inventory, as retiring products really start to disappear and we have to keep our eye on the discontinued list to keep ahead of what is still available. Then we have to weed out all our retired products, but that leaves us with only a little to work with until our own order of new products come in! I'm always short of Designer Series Paper and ribbon and embellishments at this time of year because all of last year's DSP retires and I'm left with only what I could get in the pre-order, which is limited! It makes you creative though! Oh, well, only a week to go before my new stuff arrives!!

It's time for another As You See It Challenge and this time around it's a sketch challenge. It's obviously a sketch I loved because I came up with no less than 3 different designs for it. It was hard to decide which would be the official Design Team sample but with a little advice from the rest of the team, I decided to go with the fox design from the Birthday Delivery stamp set!

Here is Amanda's sketch:

and here are the other two cards I came up with:

I didn't care as much for the flowery one that uses Birthday Blossoms, a stamp set that's a couple of years old already, but I really liked the wood grains and textures from the card that uses the Wood Textures Designer Series Paper and the High Tide stamp set, but I think that the fox card just has more pop to it, so I'm using that one!

• The background is from the Birthday Memories Designer Series Paper and it is included in a 10% off bundle that includes the Birthday Delivery stamp set, the Birthday Friends Framelits and the Designer Series Paper. This is because, for the first time, the framelits actually coordinate with some of the images in the DSP and you can use the framelits to die cut them right out of the paper!! How cool is that? 
• Even though I could have die cut the fox right out of the paper, I chose to stamp him and watercolour him myself, using a blender pen and the ink pads.
• The banner itself was formed using a 2" x 5" strip of Dapper Denim and punching one end with the Banner Triple Punch.

• This card has Delightful Daisy Designer Series Paper in the background and a Daffodil Delight banner, made the same way as the one above. I added some retired Pool Party ribbon to dress it up though.
• I stamped the sentiment first so I could fit the images around it. I stamped the full blossom first, then stamped another on a post it note and punched it out with the Pansy Punch to use as a mask before I stamped the other blossom and the leaves. They are stamped in Wisteria Wonder and Old Olive. A little splatter is added with the stamp from Timeless Textures.

• For this one I used the Colour Theory Designer Series Paper Stack for the background and the Wood Textures Designer Series Paper Stack for the banner and the main image panel. I used the High Tide stamp set for the images.
• The Burlap Ribbon provides some texture.

There is a new promotion for the month of June. Host a Stampin' Up! party of some kind and you could win an extra $40 in Stampin' Rewards for qualifying orders. You can do a regular stamping party where you invite friends to your house and we can do some creative projects together and you will earn benefits when they order, or we could do a catalogue party, where you distribute catalogues to your friends and they submit orders, or we could do a Facebook Party, where you invite your friends to join me online on Facebook for a couple of hours for some fun interaction, games and information, with ordering incentives and you will get the rewards from all the orders placed that night. Call me to book a time in June now!  Here's how the benefits are calculated:

Click on the links below to take you to my On-Line Store, where you can read about, look at, and purchase if you wish, the products used to make this card today.

Product List

Birthday Delivery Photopolymer Stamp Set [143660]	Birthday Delivery Photopolymer Bundle [145294]	Birthday Memories Designer Series Paper [144118]	Crumb Cake 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [120953]	Cajun Craze 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [119684]
Early Espresso 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [119686]	Very Vanilla 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [101650]	Cajun Craze Classic Stampin' Pad [126965]	Crumb Cake Classic Stampin' Pad [126975]	Sahara Sand Classic Stampin' Pad [126976]
Dapper Denim Classic Stampin' Pad [141394]	Real Red Classic Stampin' Pad [126949]	Flirty Flamingo Classic Stampin' Pad [141397]	Blender Pens [102845]	Banner Triple Punch [138292]
Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755]	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430]	Fast Fuse Adhesive [129026]