Month: May 2018

 

Today I did my very first YouTube LIVE. I am interested in your comments on YouTube LIVE vs. Facebook Live. Check it out below. I am loving the new colours introduced into the lines. While I was a bit sad to see Elegant Eggplant and Perfect Plum go I am LOVING the new Highland Heather and Gorgeous Grape ( it really is gorgeous!).

I may have mislead you in some of the names of the cards, so I will leave you with a chart of the revamp at the end of the blog post

Here are a few of the cards I featured in the video:

Painted Glass & Graceful Glass Designer Vellum (Graceful Glass Suite)

Detailed with Love (Delightfully Detailed Suite)

Love What you Do (Share What You Love Suite)

Rooted In Nature ( Nature’s Poem Suite)

Friday June 1, 2018 the catalog will go live in my Online Shop. Be sure to pop by and check it out.

If you would like a hard copy of the catalog AND you do not have a demonstrator AND you live in Canada, contact me and I can send one out to you.

 

Here are the newest colors to join Stampin’ Up’s core color family:

These are the NEW 2018-2020 in color collection as well as the 2017-2019 in colors that were introduced last year

 

You will notice that there are some colors say ‘returning’. These are previous in colors that have been added to the core color collection.

I will have a card to share featuring two of the returning colours, stay tuned. Until then, create and share.

Creatively Yours,

Roxane

Today is a bittersweet day for me. The last day to order from the 2017-2018 catalog. It feels a little bit like I need to make some new years resolutions. I will only buy one thing from the new catalog. Nope, can’t do it.

As a demonstrator we get the chance to pre-order from a selected few items from the upcoming catalog…being released Friday June 1! What a great way to start the weekend. Sit back grab a cup of tea and do a bit of online shopping, wish list making and a bit of dreaming. I will post the link to the online catalog on Friday.

For now, I hope to inspire you with these two cards that feature some retiring products:

Pop of Inspiration was created using the Pop of Paradise stamp set and two ink colours Emerald Envy (retiring) and Lemon Lime Twist (in color 2017-2019). The inspirational quote is from Just Add Text stamp set and Tuxedo Black Memento Ink. If you look really close you may see the glitter & clear epoxy shapes. I thought it would give the illusion of dew drops on the leaves.

This card went together quickly. I cut the Emerald Envy card base 8 -1/2″ x 5-1/2 and the Whisper White mat at 4″ x 5-1/4″. I stamped and stamped off the leaves using the two leaf stamps in the set and the two ink colors around the perimeter of the card front. Then I inked up the greeting with the Tuxedo Black, added the bling and it’s done. Super sweet and super cute!

 

Thoughtful Inspiration  was created with the Touches of Texture stamp set and Always Artichoke (retiring) and Rose Red (retiring).

For this design I stamped the lace on either side of the Very Vanilla card front and the flowers using the Tuxedo Black ink. I painted the flowers with Rose Red and the leaves with Always Artichoke, using my aqua painter. I finished off the card with the greeting in the centre and mounted in on top of an Always Artichoke card base cut at 11-1/2″ x 4-1/4″. I added Glitter Enamel dots for the bling! Sweet and Simple.

I hope these cards inspire you to create one of your own.

Interested in ordering products to create your own creations? Click here to hop on over to my online shop.

Be sure to tune in to my You Tube channel on Thursday May 31 @ 11 am for some inspiration and a sneak peak at the new products.

 

Here are the alternate cards you will see in my posted video.

Back in September I received this kit and was so impressed with the stamps, the greetings and the foiled leaves! I loved that they had cards and little treat boxes. I was travelling to visit my Mom ( in Newfoundland), and had about a 3 hour wait in the Toronto Airport! What better way to wait for my plane than to play with my newest PP kit! I even had someone watching me create the mini cards. I gave her one and she was so excited, she took it over to her friends to tell them!

Before I left I decided that I would record my alternate project video, then while away I could work on the editing and posting. I uploaded the content to my computer only to find out that I had pressed record when I was setting up the supplies to create the card, then hit record again when I was making the card. Yep, you guessed it, my video consisted of me prepping for the video! AGHH!  I was in Newfoundland, without any extra materials, so I was unable to post the video.

After I got home I had all these other wonderful card/video ideas, and pushed this one to the side. Well, the nagging feeling of having this video got the better of me and I re-recorded what I could, edited it and here it is to share with you! Enjoy, I would love to hear if you have made alternate cards with this kit.

If  you would like to create the alternate cards, here is a list of supplies:

Soft Suede Cardstock #115318

Crushed Curry Cardstock #131199

Very Vanilla Cardstock #101650

Calypso Coral Cardstock #122925

Cajun Craze Cardstock #119684

Crumb Cake Cardstock #120953

Petal Burst Textured Impressions Embossing Folder #141493

I was really on a roll with this kit creating, here are a few more cards I made. I hope that I inspired you to create something new with your Paper Pumpkin kit.

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YES, I want to try Paper Pumpkin!!!!

Wow!! This card technique has gone viral along with the string art technique!

Well you know what they say about curiosity and the cat? I think today I am a cat.

I tried out the Impossible Card, not as impossible as I thought. The first time I saw it was on Maymay Made it and she redirected it to Trimcraft and Mixed Up Crafts

Here is my version of this card using up some of our retiring items:

I decided that with Father’s Day coming up that I could use up some of my True Gentleman Suite items. Once I had the template down, it went together fairly quickly, the trickiest part is cutting the “L” shaped DSP and deciding on the greeting! I hope you will give it a try. Leave me a comment below if you would like me to feature this technique in one of my future video.

String Art Technique

As an early childhood educator, we were taught that it is the process not the product. I have introduced string art to my young students for a number of years ( if I tell you how many years, you might guess how old I am. LOL).

I saw this technique first introduced to me on Facebook  in one of those suggested posts. Imagine that! Facebook suggesting something crafty in my feed. Well I watched the video and was instantly taken, we have been playing with string for years! I never thought to use it in my card making. So, off I trotted down to my craft studio, to see what I could do to recreate this technique. Here is the end result:

This card was created using Brusho. Yellow, Gamboge and Brilliant Red. I used Flirty Flamingo to mat the flowers and the greeting is from the Eastern Beauty stamp set.

This card was created using Classic Stampin’ Ink. So Saffron, Blushing Bride and Calypso Coral. I used Calypso Coral to mat the flowers and the greeting is from the Eastern Beauty stamp set.

 

Be sure to leave me a comment to share which technique is your favourite!

Creatively Yours,

Roxane

I went a little crazy creating these backgrounds. The plus side is now I have lots of birthday cards!!!

Bokeh: ( pronunced BOH- kay or BOH-ke as defined by Merrim-Webster Dictionary ” the blurred quality or effect seen in the out-of-focus portion of a photograph taken with a narrow depth of field”. The origin of the word is Japanese. boke; meaning blur or haziness.

I created this video to share the technique and my twist on the idea. Enjoy

Supplies you will need to complete the project shown in the video:

Happy Birthday Gorgeous Stamp set (Photopolymer #143662

Happy Birthday Thinlits #143700

Pool Party card stock #122924

Dapper Denim card stock #141414

Whisper White card stock #100730

Island Indigo Classic Stampin Pad #126986

Dapper Denim Classic Stampin Pad #141394

Pool Party Classic Stampin Pad #126982

Craft Stampin’ Ink- White #145406

Tangerine Tango Classic Stampin Pad #126946

Stamping sponges #141337

tutti-fruitti adhesive backed sequins #145609

I hope you get a chance to try out this technique, it’s addictive.

Creatively Yours,

Roxane