COMMENTS CLOSED – See August 5th for winner :o)
Anyway. AUGUST 1st! it means a few things. Firstly, it is the day that the Heidi Swapp tour went on sale. Yes. I signed up. I’m not good at sitting in class and listening to instruction, but I figure by Chrsitmas I’ll have earnt myself (or saved up for, more like it) a girls weekend away, so that’s what it is about for me.
Secondly today will be marked as the day that I finally figured out how to create corners with the Fiskar’s Threading Water punch, thanks to Andrea showing me this video on YouTube. Finally.
And Thirdly it’s the day that the Stampin’ Up! Spring Mini Catalog is released. There is a lot of colour, a lot of Christmas and a lot of exciting product that runs along the same lines as the scrapbooking trends. gorgeous flowers, birds, owls, swirls, flourishes etc.. and more scrapbookey type stuff such as rub-ons and patterned papers. And one thing I noticed is that the stamps from this catalog are diecut. You don’t have to cut them out. I’m a details girl, I liked that.
I played with the Summer Picnic Designer Series paper. And I’ll admit. I just played. I didn’t have any journaling in my head, I just sat and cut and pasted. And I used leaves again. And used the sewing machine. Great news. I found the sewing machine when I moved scrapping rooms, it was actually right where I left it, I just unburied it. I used a quote from a Stampin’ Up set and I sat back when I was done and thought that process was cool fun. I might do that again.
A few explanations of things I did along the way.
I used American Crafts Thickers for the title. They were plain chipboard. I don’t usually paint my chipboard anymore. I rub ink on them. So much quicker and easier.
And while I was playing it occured to me that I wanted to use scallops, because that is what I do these days. A lot. And that scallops are really only half circles. So I stamped these out of the Sweet Serendipity set and then covered half up with a photo.
Here’s the finished layout. And that sewing in the top there? Dunno where I was going with that – I nearly unpicked it and then decided that I hadn’t read a rule in any scrapbookign rule books that says “Thou Shalt not sew random half circles on layouts just because thy found thy sewing machine” so I left it there.
Just a close up. So you can see the quote.
And so we get to the really exciting part – over the next 3 or 4 days i’ll have some giveaways. Today I’m giving away the stamp set from the Spring Catalog that I used in this layout. (Well one of them).
So here we are. A Stampin’ Up! Sweet Seredipity stamp set is up for grabs, I’ll include a mini catalog too, and all you have to do is leave me a comment on this post….. (there is that circle I used for my scallop)
If you are a Stampin Up demonstrator, feel free to leave me a comment with a way of getting in touch with you and I’ll post your name and details on my next blog post too. For now I just want to point out janine Rutherford’s Stampin’ Up! blog. I purchased my very first SU punch from Janine so if anyone wants anything she may be the lady to call…..
Oh and while we are in the giveaway mood, check out Trina’s blog as well. She also has some Stmapin up creations and a giveaway…
Leaving you with a closeup and a materials list… have a good weekend everyone, I’ll try and update over the weekend with another giveaway…
laters
Materials:
Patterned Paper: Stampin’ Up Spring Picnic.
Chiboard Letters: American Crafts Thickers
Ink: Stampin’ Up!
Sewing: My Long Lost but now found, works just like new sewing machine.
Stamps: Quote & half circles: Sweet Serendipity SU.
Stamps: Date: “It’s a date” Stampin Up!
Stamps: Stem” Mixed Bouquet” Stampin’ Up!
Silver Bookplate: Stampin Up!
Silver Brads: Stampin’ Up!
Stampin Up Demonstrators:
Janine Rutherford – Auckland
Delys Cram
Linda – Aussie :o)
Sarah Gough – Wellington
Debbie B – Auckland
Michelle Habib– New Plymouth.
Tracee
Louise Spiden– Australia
Trudi Hopkinson– New Plymouth
Brenda
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