A Touch of Ink for New at SU Blog Hop

                         

Welcome to our February NEW AT SU! Blog hop! We are a group of Stampin’ Up! demonstrators from around the world who are Hoppin’ with creative paper crafting ideas to share with you. Today we are showcasing the 2021 Sale-A-Bration Brochure to get you excited and brimming with ideas about how to use these great products that you can earn during the rest of this month! I am using the A Touch of Ink stamp set for my projects:

• I used a watercolour technique where I inked up the stamp then sprayed it with water and stamped it onto watercolour paper.
• I started with the filler or background step of the two step stamping process. I used quite a bit of water on it and after stamping, I used a Water Painter to spread the ink even further and blur the outline of the image a bit more.

• I used the Fluid 100 Watercolour paper for the images. The backgrounds were dried before the outline images were stamped. I also sprayed water on the inked stamps for the outline images, but not as much and I didn't spread the ink with a water painter for these. I dried them before starting a new colour.
• The flower image has a stem and leaves, but I just inked up the flower parts with Highland Heather for the background and Gorgeous Grape for the outline.
• The leaves are Soft Sea Foam for the background and Granny Apple Green for the outline.
• I stamped the hummingbird on a separate piece of watercolour paper, inking up different parts of the stamp with different colours straight from the ink pads for the background and spraying with water before stamping.
• The outline was Memento Tuxedo Black and then I touched it up with Stampin' Blends. I fussy cut the image and mounted it on Dimensionals.

• The butterfly is Crushed Curry for both background and outline.
• The embellishments are Gold Glitter Enamel Dots.

• The background designer series paper is from Forever Greenery DSP. 

I hope you enjoyed my project with the Touch of Ink stamp set, a Level One Reward in the 2021 Sale-a-Bration Brochure. Now please hop on over to Jeannette Gauthier's blog, Carterie Plus, to see what's new with SU as she shows you Berry Blessings, a Level Two reward:

Here's the list of bloggers in our New At SU February Blog Hop to help you keep on track:

February 2021 New at SU! Hop: Sale-a-Bration 

Creative Juice by Loni: Darling Donkeys

Tricia’s Stamping Creations: Approaching Perfection

Stamping Flair: Darling Donkeys

Chase & Main: A Touch of Ink

Sugar & Scraps: A Touch of Ink

Moore Fun Stamping: Oh So Ombre DSP

Gifted Hands, Ink!: Berry Blessings

As the Ink Dries: Berry Blessings

Stampin’ Scrapper: Berry Blessings

De Kijkkast: Corner Bouquet

Mamie & Papyrus: Berry Delightful DSP

24/7 Inkspiration: Flower & Field DSP

Stamping with the Copper Cropper: Darling Donkeys

Playing with Papercrafting: A Touch of Ink

Carterie Plus: Berry Blessings

StampinMak: Heal Your Heart

Lilypad Stamper: Paper Blooms DSP & Heal Your Heart

 

Please take a moment to comment at the bottom of this post and let me know how you liked my projects or ask me a question about the technique used. Don’t forget to scroll back up and keep hoppin’ with us! – Thank you!

Keep Creating!

Heather Cooper

Please contact your Stampin’ Up! demonstrator if you have any questions or to make a product purchase. If you do not have a demonstrator, I would be happy to answer any questions about products, or the techniques shown here. If you live in Canada, you can use the links below to order products from me or join my Papercraft Cats team.  

Product List

A Touch Of Ink Photopolymer Stamp Set (English) [155233] $0.00	Forever Greenery Designer Series Paper [152492] $15.75	Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper [149612] $12.25	Gorgeous Grape 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [146987] $12.00	Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [159276] $13.25
Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708] $8.25	Highland Heather Classic Stampin' Pad [147103] $10.25	Gorgeous Grape Classic Stampin' Pad [147099] $10.25	Soft Sea Foam Classic Stampin' Pad [147102] $10.25	Granny Apple Green Stampin' Pad [147095] $10.25
Crushed Curry Classic Stampin' Pad [147087] $10.25	Coastal Cabana Classic Stampin' Pad [147097] $10.25	Granny Apple Green Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154885] $12.00	Pool Party Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154894] $12.00	Highland Heather Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154887] $12.00
Gold Glitter Enamel Dots [152155] $11.00	Water Painters [151298] $16.25	Stampin' Spritzer [126185] $4.00	Timeless Label Punch [149516] $24.00	Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755] $5.50
Stampin' Seal [152813] $11.00	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] $5.50

Kinda Eclectic Farmer's Market for As You See It Challenges

I love a good Farmer's Market, don't you? I love looking at stall after stall of excellent locally grown produce. But even more I love looking at the crafts that people are selling! The creativity and the artistry are really inspiring! More than that though, is the social aspect of the market. For two of my daughters, who live in small towns, the weekly Farmer's Market is a real social affair.

A good percentage of the population will turn up to shop and to visit. Usually there are some good eats on site and a good time is had by all! Farmer's Markets are especially colourful and abundant in the fall when the harvest is on and I was thinking of that when I went to create my Design Team sample for As You See It Challenges today. As well as the sketch challenge from As You See It, I wanted to do a Colour Challenge from Pals Paper Arts:

The colours for this challenge, as you can see, are Delightful Dijon, Old Olive and Cajun Craze. These are not the easiest colour to find coordinating Designer Series Paper for, but I remembered the Old Olive Gingham design in the Farmer's Market Designer Paper and I took it from there:

• I used Sahara Sand as my neutral on the card base and the wood design paper to make the vertical element in the sketch.
• I wanted ribbon in one of those three colours but I had zip! So what do you do when you want ribbon in a colour it doesn't come in? You die some ribbon! I decided to make my ribbon Delightful Dijon, so I took some Whisper White cotton ribbon and spritzed it with a mixture of rubbing alcohol and about 30 drops of Delightful Dijon reinker. The Stampin' Up! Stampin' Spritzers are just what you need to do this. They are very inexpensive and they work beautifully. Whenever I use one I keep the mixture in the spritzer and mark the colour in permanent marker on the tube so I know what colour is in it. The spritzers are so cheap you can afford a lot of them. The alcohol allows the ribbon to dry quickly and you can speed that up with the low setting on the Heat Tool. You can use the high setting very carefully, but it is not recommended as it can melt some types of ribbon.
• I used the Kinda Eclectic Stamp Set for the leaves on the tag. I inked them up in Old Olive and then used Cajun Craze and Delightful Dijon Stampin' Write Markers to add some fall colours to them.
• The sentiment is from A Little Something stamp set from the Holiday catalogue and I used markers as well to ink it up.

Well, that brings to a close our first week of the Holiday Catalogue. I hope my posts have been helpful for you, but there will be many more samples as the weeks go on, so I hope you will come back often and check them out! Have a great weekend. I'm looking forward to attending our local Provincial Exhibition and just enjoying the atmosphere of a Fall Fair! I'll take some photos!

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

Kinda Eclectic Clear-Mount Stamp Set [135350]	Kinda Eclectic Wood-Mount Stamp Set [135347]	A Little Something Wood-Mount Stamp Set [139827]	A Little Something Clear-Mount Stamp Set [139830]	Farmers Market Designer Series Paper [138448]
Sahara Sand 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [121043]	Cajun Craze 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [119684]	Very Vanilla 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [101650]	Old Olive Classic Stampin' Pad [126953]	Old Olive Stampin' Write Marker [100079]
Regals Stampin' Write Markers [131262]	2015-2017 In Color Stampin' Write Markers [138333]	Delightful Dijon Classic Stampin' Ink Refill [138332]	Whisper White 1/4" Cotton Ribbon [134567]	Old Olive Baker's Twine [134579]
Regals Candy Dots [130932]	Note Tag Punch [135860]	Punch Corner Project Life [135346]	Stampin' Spritzer [126185]	Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755]
SNAIL Permanent Adhesive [104332]	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430]