Alternate Whitewash Projects and Big Stampin' Up! News

While I have some BIG and IMPORTANT NEWS from Stampin' Up! to share with you today, I didn't want to go without sharing a couple of card samples with you. These are modified versions of the card I shared here, using the Whitewash Technique. I needed something a little less detailed than the Lovely Lattice stamp set for my Technique Night Classes to demonstrate the Whitewash technique, otherwise it would take the whole night to colour in the flowers. Instead of the retired Lovely Lattice stamp set, I got out the Humming Along Cling  Stamp Set from the Occasions Catalogue and made two versions of the card, using either the flower or the hummingbird as the image to use the technique on.

• I won't go into the details of the technique, since I already explained it in my previous post here. 
• Both cards feature a Crumb Cake base with a background layer embossed with the retired Country Floral 3D embossing folder. The hummingbird uses a Coastal Cabana background, while the flower uses a Petal Pink one.
• The main image is embossed in White Stampin' Emboss Powder on a Crumb Cake panel die cut with the Rectangle Stitched dies.
• The hummingbird is coloured with Mango Melody, Granny Apple Green, Bermuda Bay, Coastal Cabana, Lemon Lime Twist, and Shaded Spruce. The flower uses Mango Melody, Flirty Flamingo and Mossy Meadow. These are blended with a Blender Pen over the Craft White ink. See the instructions on my previous post here.
• The vellum rectangle is also die cut with a Rectangle Stitched die and the sentiment from Strong & Beautiful is heat embossed using White Stampin' Emboss Powder. Metallic Pearls finish off both designs.

The BIG NEWS from Stampin' Up! today involves a change in the company that supplies our dies and embossing folders, as well as our die cutting machine. Stampin' Up! will be changing that starting with the new Annual Catalogue, actually with our pre-orders, after using up current stock. We won't have a die cutting machine in the 2019 - 2020 Annual Catalogue. This is a temporary situation, until Stampin' Up! has secured a quality replacement but there is no time line on that. 

We will be using a different manufacturer for our dies and embossing folders and they will be slightly thinner, but still strong and high quality. Until we have a replacement die cutting machine to work with them, they will still work with all currently popular die cutting machines, but may require a shim to augment the thickness of the "sandwich" when it is rolled through the machine. It is likely only that a piece of cardstock is all that will be needed in that regard, although all machines have unique pressures.

The other news is that Stampin' Up! will be discontinuing it's Stampin' Trimmer and will not have a replacement in time for the new Annual Catalogue, although there is one in the works. But again there is not a timeline for it's introduction yet. Stampin' Up! will continue to carry the replacement blades until the inventory runs out. Right now there is a 3 package limit per customer/demonstrator. Starting April 15th, there will be a 6 package limit. Stampin' Up! has ordered an inventory that they would normally order for a 6 month period, but that will likely go quickly and they may be unorderable from time to time. Stampin' Up! will continue to get periodic shipments of blades from the manufacturer up until September, and then when they are gone, they are gone. So you'll want to stock up.

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This is going fast! The open cube is now sold out and not orderable until July 1st! If you want to order some of this, better do it soon!

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

Humming Along Cling Stamp Set [148758] $27.00	Humming Along Cling Bundle [150621] $57.50	Strong & Beautiful Cling Stamp Set [148732] $34.00	Vellum 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [101856] $12.25	Crumb Cake 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [120953] $11.50
Coastal Cabana 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [131297] $11.50	Petal Pink 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [146985] $11.50	Versamark Pad [102283] $12.25	Uninked Stampin’ Craft Pad & Whisper White Refill [147277] $13.00	White Stampin' Emboss Powder [109132] $6.75
Brights Stampin' Write Markers [147157] $40.00	Neutrals Stampin' Write Markers [147158] $40.00	Regals Stampin' Write Markers [147155] $40.00	2017-2019 In Color Stampin' Write Markers [144033] $20.00	Metallic Pearls [146282] $9.50
Aqua Painters [103954] $23.00	Blender Pens [102845] $16.25	Embossing Buddy [103083] $8.25	Heat Tool [129053] $41.00	Rectangle Stitched Framelits Dies [148551] $48.00
*Country Floral Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder [149698] $0.00	Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755] $5.50	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] $5.50	Glue Dots [103683] $7.25

*No longer available

Oops! Lovely Lattice with Whitewash Technique

Oops! I guess I've been a little distracted this past week. I've had my daughter and son-in-law and grandkids here all week, and I'm having just a little bit too much fun I guess, because I wanted to make another Mother's Day sample card for my Technique Night Class, featuring an interesting technique and I picked the Lovely Lattice stamp set, thinking it was in the Occasions Catalogue, when all along it was in the Sale-A-Bration Brochure, which is no longer current. I should have moved all my SAB stamp sets to my retired pile already, but between visiting my sister last week and having my grandkids here this week, it just hasn't happened yet. Still, the card, featuring the Whitewash Technique turned out so pretty, that I'm sure you'll forgive me. You can use this technique on any  outline stamp set that you can colour in.

• The background panel, in Petal Pink, has been embossed with the Country Floral Dynamic Embossing folder, which I haven't put away yet either but at least there's a good reason for that! (Don't ask me yet.)
• The Crumb Cake front panel, which has been die cut with one of the Rectangle Stitched Dies, has had the Lovely Lattice image heat embossed with White Stampin' Emboss Powder.
• The White Wash Technique involves first using an Aqua Painter to cover the painted areas with a wash of White Craft Ink. The Aqua Painter needs to be damp but not wet. This should be dried completely before the next step. You can hurry this along by using the Heat Tool.
• Using the Stampin' Write Markers, I added a line of Mossy Meadow for the leaves, or Flirty Flamingo or Petal Pink for the flowers, in the shadowed areas, where the petal or leaf starts or where they just peek out from beneath another petal or leaf. Then I use a Blender Pen and little flicking strokes to pull the ink from these lines out into the rest of the space. You can't spend a lot of time blending them because it will deteriorate the Crumb Cake cardstock, but, due to the Craft Ink base, it blends very easily and leaves a muted whitewashed look in the end.
• The front Crumb Cake layer is popped up on Stampin' Dimensionals.
• The sentiment is from the Strong & Beautiful stamp set, a sentiment set I highly recommend if you have women in your life - mothers, sisters, daughters, grandmothers, aunts, friends, etc. I embossed it in white on vellum and die cut the vellum with another of the Rectangle Stitched Dies.
• The last element was some of the Share What You Love Artisan Pearls!

Here's what I've been up to in the past few days:

Visiting Kangaroo Creek Farm with the kids - visiting with tame kangaroos, wallaroos, and wallabies.

Cedar, Kesten and their mom, (my daughter) Kris getting to hold a baby joey!

 Cedar and Kesten's first movie in a real theatre, How to Train Your Dragon 3. Up north, they have only seen movies in a community hall.













I spent some time last week with my two sisters, going over some heritage material from our family! Interesting and fun!

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

*Lovely Lattice Cling Stamp Set [149730] $0.00	Strong & Beautiful Cling Stamp Set [148732] $34.00	Vellum 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [101856] $12.25	Crumb Cake 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [120953] $11.50	Petal Pink 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [146985] $11.50
Versamark Pad [102283] $12.25	White Stampin' Emboss Powder [109132] $6.75	Uninked Stampin’ Craft Pad & Whisper White Refill [147277] $13.00	Neutrals Stampin' Write Markers [147158] $40.00	Brights Stampin' Write Markers [147157] $40.00
Subtles Stampin' Write Markers [147156] $40.00	Share What You Love Artisan Pearls [146927] $8.25	Aqua Painters [103954] $23.00	Blender Pens [102845] $16.25	Embossing Buddy [103083] $8.25
Heat Tool [129053] $41.00	*Country Floral Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder [149698] $0.00	Rectangle Stitched Framelits Dies [148551] $48.00	Big Shot [143263] $150.00	Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755] $5.50
SNAIL Permanent Adhesive [104332] $9.50	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] $5.50

*Currently unavailable