Swap Cards from My Team

 To get everyone interacting and excited about stamping again, especially as we are getting closer to being able to hold in person classes again (maybe), I decided to organize a card swap for my downline. Not everyone took part but some did and I wanted to show you the beautiful cards that I received as part of the swap. You can see the card that I sent them HERE.

But first I want to explain why my photos have a kind of yellowish light to them, as hard as I tried to edit that out. Here in British Columbia, Canada, we are experiencing terrible forest fires and drought conditions and heat waves and the smoke is just clogging the atmosphere and giving the light a horrible, yellowy cast to it that is just so oppressive. We normally have a wonderful view from our house of Okanagan Lake and the cities of West Kelowna and Kelowna, but this is what it looked like today:

This light filtered in through the windows in broad daylight and made photo taking
a nightmare, so apologies to my downline and my readers ahead of time!

Here are the individual cards:

Susan Martin sent me this one. The thing I love about Susan is that she is always trying something new and this was a new technique involving Stampin' Blends on photo paper spritzed with alcohol. Very avant garde!

This beautiful sample was sent to me from Dianne Gough. It's a design that she CASEd from Susan Campfield in the US. It's a circle panel pull-out card that uses the Encircled in Friendship Bundle from the Annual Catalogue. It's such an elegant design, and I love that the artistry continues from the outside to the inside with a little hidden message! 

This next sample is from one of my newest downline, but you can see that she is not new to stamping and has mad design skills! Kim Findlater used the Seaside Seashells dies, and the Seashells 3D embossing folder along with some of the beautiful In Colour Shimmer Vellum to create this beauty. She also made a written tutorial to go along with it, so if you want a copy of that, let me know and I'll put you in touch with Kim!

From one of my newest downline, to one of my most faithful downline, who joined Stampin' Up! almost at the same time as I did, Doreen has made use of the beautiful Hand-Penned DSP, the Colour and Contour Bundle and the Layering Diorama Dies for her unique and beautiful card. Doreen is a meticulous stamper and often is called on to create hand stamped cards for her hubby's corporation, which means you have to be really good at it! I really love the font on the Colour and Contour sentiments, don't you?

The only demo from my Level 2 to take part, Carol Hamm sent me a card that the photo just doesn't do justice to! She created her own background using alcohol ink blending on vellum, using Stampin' Blends markers and paired it with the gorgeous shimmer vellum, which she embossed, and the Queen Anne's Lace stamp set to create this beauty.

So there are all the swap cards. I hope you enjoyed seeing them. Leave the stampers some love in the comments below. They don't often have their work published!

Tomorrow, Tuesday, Aug. 3 the 2021 July/Dec Mini Catalogue goes live and you can start to order from it! Anytime after 2 am PDT, you can log onto my Online Store and place an order! I will have the link to the catalogue posted at that time as well as a link to my new Suite Shares for this catalogue.

One More Sleep!!

This is also the last day for the DSP Promo that has been going on all during July! Go to my Online Store to take advantage of this opportunity to stock up at a reduction of 15% off!

If you live in Canada, and don't have a Stampin' Up! demonstrator, I'd love to be yours. I can help you with ideas, get you catalogues and provide you with Stampin' Up products. You can leave a message in the comments or contact me using any of the methods listed in the right side bar at the top of the page. You can shop with me from anywhere in Canada by clicking on the SHOP NOW button in the top menu or clicking on any of products below from my Online Store.

Product List

Encircled In Friendship Bundle (English) [155541] $64.75	Seaside Seashells Dies [156095] $46.00	Seashells 3 D Embossing Folder [154309] $12.25	2021–2023 In Color Shimmer Vellum [155616] $16.25	Hand Penned 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper [155499] $15.75
Color & Contour Bundle (English) [158356] $69.25	Layering Diorama Dies [155565] $39.00	Queen Anne's Lace Photopolymer Stamp Set (English) [158309] $23.00	Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine [149653] $163.00

More Layering Diorama Dies for As You See It Recipe Challenge

 It's TGIF everyone and one of the good things about every other Friday is that we get to play a brand new As You See It Challenge. This week it's a Recipe for a Happy Birthday and here is the challenge banner as cooked up by fellow Design Team member Joanne!

This week I've been playing with the Layering Diorama Dies, so I thought I'd continue using them for this challenge....that, and all my Design Team Members aced me on the gorgeous florals this time, so I did a 180 degees and designed a masculine birthday card.

• This time I only had 3 layers and the bottom was a Basic White panel that I blended with ink. I used a taped off horizon line to get it really straight and a piece of Post It Note die cut in a circle to mask where the setting sun should be, then sponged both the ocean and the sky before I realized that I was going to need some patterned paper somewhere on the card. So I had to replace my beautifully blended ocean with some Expressions in Ink Specialty Designer Series Paper. The greens blended with gold veins really actually works well for the ocean as the gold works as the reflected sunlight!
• The blended sky is a mix of Bumble Bee, Flirty Flamingo, Highland Heather and Night of Navy, applied with Blending Brushes. The sun, after the mask is removed, was filled in with a bit of Daffodil Delight.
• I used Night of Navy and Sahara Sand as the layers die cut with the Layering Diorama dies. I added die cuts of seaweed on the Sahara Sand using the Smooth Sailing dies and more Expressions in Ink DSP.
• On the Night of Navy I added a Lighthouse, stamped in Night of Navy then embossed with Clear Embossing Powder to fulfill the Heat Embossing element of the challenge. The sailboat on the back layer is also heat embossed with Clear Embossing Powder along with the sentiment from Timeless Tropical.

• The die cuts are the lighthouse, the sailboat, the sentiment label, the seaweed and the ship's wheel. The lighthouse and sailboat were also coloured in using Light Poppy Parade Stampin' Blends, Gray Granite Stampin' Blends and So Saffron Stampin' Blends.
• The ribbon or twine is a sailor's knot at the bottom, tied using White Baker's Twine and Linen Thread.

I hope you'll play along with us!

This is the last weekend to take advantage of this promotion:

I'd love to have you join my team! To purchase the starter kit for only $135 and get $206 worth of your own choice of any current Stampin' Up! products (regularly $165 worth) click HERE!

If you live in Canada, and don't have a Stampin' Up! demonstrator, I'd love to be yours. I can help you with ideas, get you catalogues and provide you with Stampin' Up products. You can leave a message in the comments or contact me using any of the methods listed in the right side bar at the top of the page. You can shop with me from anywhere in Canada by clicking on the SHOP NOW button in the top menu or clicking on any of products below from my Online Store.

Product List

Sailing Home Cling Stamp Set [149457] $33.00	Timeless Tropical Cling Stamp Set (English) [151497] $31.00	Expressions In Ink 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Specialty Designer Series Paper [155464] $20.00	Night Of Navy 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [100867] $12.00	Sahara Sand 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [121043] $12.00
Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [159276] $13.25	Night Of Navy Classic Stampin' Pad [147110] $10.25	Basics Embossing Powders [155554] $24.00	Bumblebee Classic Stampin' Pad [153116] $10.25	Flirty Flamingo Classic Stampin' Pad [147052] $10.25
Highland Heather Classic Stampin' Pad [147103] $10.25	Daffodil Delight Classic Stampin' Pad [147094] $10.25	Poppy Parade Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154958] $12.00	Gray Granite Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154886] $12.00	So Saffron Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154905] $12.00
Linen Thread [104199] $6.75	Baker's Twine Essentials Pack [155475] $15.00	Heat Tool (Us And Canada) [129053] $41.00	Blending Brushes [153611] $16.25	Smooth Sailing Dies [149576] $44.00
Layering Diorama Dies [155565] $39.00	Layering Circles Dies [151770] $48.00	Stampin' Seal [152813] $11.00	Mini Glue Dots [103683] $7.25	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] $5.50