Regional Training 2013 - Swaps!

Good evening!  I am writing this after a very tiring but fun weekend!  On Saturday I was in Telford for Stampin' Up!s regional training day, where 300 demonstrators from all over the country gathered to see lots of new products and craft demonstrations, listen to inspirational talks from some really talented demonstrators, and hear some exciting announcements! It was also a great social event and I got to spend time with other members of my team Julie's Jems as well as chat to demos from other teams.

A fun part of Stampin' Up! events is the swapping!  I made 60 Petite Purses to swap for other demonstrators projects.  I made these using the Polka Dot Parade designer papers with coordinating card stock and made labels from the Ciao Baby stamp set.  They looked so colourful all together - like a rainbow!

And in exchange I got some really beautiful things back - lots of ideas and inspiration for my next projects! Thanks to everyone who swapped with me - I'll be checking out your blogs and pages gradually over the next few days.

I had a great time at training and it's got me looking forward even more to Convention in November!  Can't wait!

Kylie x

Happy Birthday Butterfly

Another Beautiful Butterfly card, and using up some scraps of the retired sale-a-bration papers Everyday Enchantment.

Products used:

Stamps: Petite Pairs

Ink: Pool Party, Crumb Cake (for edges)

Papers: Everyday Enchantment (SAB)

Card stock: Calypso Coral, Pool Party, Very Vanilla

Equipment: Beautiful Butterflies Die,  Perfect Dots Embossing Folder, Itty Bitty Punches, Circle Punches

Other: Calypso Coral Bakers Twine, Pearls

Get Well Card # 1

My grandma-in-law hasn't been very well recently  and we wanted to send her some get well wishes.  I made this card using the pretty Everything Eleanor stamp set. 

In an attempt to make a bit more effort with this one I decided to try out a technique I've never tried before - masking! It didn't work out perfectly but was a decent first attempt. You can see the green flourish looks like it's behind the blue plaque - this involved stamping the plaque onto scap paper and cutting it out and using the cut-out to cover the actual stamped image while stamping over the top with the flourish. Sorry that's a really rubbish explanation - I needed pictures really!

I also used the spritzer tool to add a speckle of Marina Mist ink over the card and embellished it with  pearls.

Products used

Stamps: Everything Eleanor, Sincere Salutations

Inks: Marina Mist, Pretty in Pink, Lucky Limeade, Basic Grey

Card stock: Whisper White, Marina Mist, Pretty in Pink, Basic Grey

Embellishments: Stick on pearls, Lucky Limeade Bakers Twine

Equipment: Scallop Edge Border Punch