Lollipop card

OK so summer is hiding but here's a little something to give you that summery feeling...

Products used:

Stamps: Sweet Cake

Inks: Calypso Coral (sponged on edges), Lucky Limeade

Card stock: Poppy Parade, Daffodil Delight

Other: Daffodil Delight Taffeta Ribbon, Scallop Circle Punch, Corner Punch

Leeds Regional Training - name badge

As a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator I get the chance to attend training events - which are a fantastic opportunity to meet lots of other Demonstrators, share ideas, learn lots and generally give my motivation levels a bit of a boost!

Last weekend was the regional training event at Weetwood Hall in Leeds.  75 demonstrators attended and it was a really fun day.  I came away full of new ideas, a box full of projects I swapped with other demonstrators, and some free goodies!

We were asked to bring some things with us to the training.  The first was a handmade name badge!

I wanted to use some of my newest goodies to create mine - and I thought the Sweet Cake stamp would be perfect with a ready made space for my name.  I realised I had the exact font they use for the sentiments in the Sweet Cake stamp set, so printed out my name onto cardstock.

Stamps: Sweet Cake

Inks: Pool Party, Real Red

Card stock: Pool Party, Real Red, Whisper White

Equipment: Framelits dies, Perfect Dots embossing folder, Word Window punch

Accessories: Rhinestone Brads, Real Red Satin Ribbon, Dazzling Diamonds glitter, Crystal Effects

Sweet Cake

The second of my Summer Mini projects uses the very very gorgeous Sweet Cake stamp set.  It's so retro and yummy. I have a feeling I'll be using this a lot, but for this project I wanted to try something new.

I had seen some examples online of a technique involving embossing with clear powder in several layers to give a cracked glass effect.  But this stamp reminded me of the vintage signs you see everywhere so I wondered if I could use the same technique to make it look like a vintage metal sign.

I inked up the stamp with the marker pens (it takes a little while to colour it in so you need to breathe on it to re-moisten just before stamping!). Then I aged the card using sponge daubers and marker pens round the edges - it is supposed to look like rusty metal! 

Next I dabbed Versamark ink all over it covered with clear embossing powder and heated to melt.  Once completely dry I repeated with another layer of embossing powder, and a third.  I could scratch and crack the surface a bit then.

I mounted the 'sign' onto very vanilla which I had scored on the diagonal using the new Simply Scored scoring tool.  It's hard to see how well it turned out from the pictures but I was very pleased with the results!!

Stamps: Sweet Cake

Cardstock: Very Vanilla, So Saffron

Inks/Markers: Wisteria Wonder, So Saffron, Regal Rose, Pink Pirouette, (for the edges: Crumb Cake, Cajun Craze)

Equipment: Clear Embossing Powder, Simply Scored

Others: Brads