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Stampin Up’s Crafting Forever with Watercolour Pencils

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I created this card in the Spring for a card swap. I confess, I love card swaps! They are a great way to share your talent with others and to get ideas for creating cards. As a demonstrator, I  share card ideas with my customers. Card swaps allows me to have cards using stamp sets I may not have purchased ( and then after seeing an amazing card, I am tempted to add it to my wish list…sigh, such is the life of a craft-aholic)

For this card I used the Crafting Forever stamp set, Color Theory Designer Series pack and the new Watercolor Pencils. I love how the pencils glide easily on the paper and the blending

Check out this tutorial on how to put this card together:

Berry Burst card stock: cut at 8-1/2″ x 5-1/2″

Whisper White card stock cut 2 @ 5-1/4″ x 4″

Color Theory  Designer Series Paper Pack cut at5-1/2″ x 1-1/2″

Berry Burst Classic Stampin Pad

Basic Black Archival Stampin Pad

Touches of Texture stamp set

Rhinestones

Blender Pens

Aquapainter

 

 

 

Colour Play

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StampinUp’s 2017-2019 In Colours are a blend of rich, subtle and brights!

I decided to play with the Eastern Palace Suite and the new in-colours…

Fresh Fig

Berry Burst

Lemon Lime Twist

Powder Pink

Tranquil Tide

I created the medallions and flower cut outs by using the  Eastern  Medallions Thinlits Dies.

The greeting is from the Eastern Beauty Stamp set.  If purchased together as a bundle you save 10%!

The centre of the flowers are faceted gems and white perfect accents.

Check out pp.18-19 for the suite of stamps, DSP and accessories.

This suite is definitely in my TOP 5 from the Annual Catalogue.

 

 

For these cards I used:

Fresh Florals DSP for the background

Layering Circles for the Black scallop and white circle behind the greeting

Happy Birthday Thinlit Die for the greeting and of course a bit of bling:

Rhinestones!

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More than just cards…
 Not to be superstitious,today I decided to showcase some of my other talents:
Quilting…
These placemats were done with a friend of mine as a sample for a class:

These placemats were done as a group project with my friends from the Ladies’ Workshop, we are hoping they sell at our Craft Sale later in the year.

This block is called Indian Star:

And this one is called Double Bow tie, they are part of a Block of the Month club that I am doing with C & M Crafts n’ Stuff.



Knitting:
Then I went a little crazy making these scarves (I did these last,last weekend…) 


THEN…I attempted to knit socks this week. Uggh! What a crazy adventure THAT was!
I started, then I realized I was not following the pattern.Pulled it out, next go: the wool was slipping off the needles and I was losing stitches off one end of the needle faster than I could knit them at the other end. Pulled them out again.
I decided I would try different needles (bamboo) and different wool  (kroy sock wool), only to discover that they were TOO BIG for my feet! Yes, I took it out AGAIN! And there they sit, the wool and the needles waiting for me…calling out to try again! I look at them and say,” I will defeat you, just not today!” Keep you 
posted on whether I win or the sock wool wins!!

Whew! What a week! Well I hope you enjoy! 
Cheers, Roxy