Pansy Punch Fun

The Pansy Punch is one of the products in the Stampin' Up! Weekly Deals this week so I decided to highlight a couple of ways I used the punch.

The card above was one of the cards featured in my Virtual Stamp Night Creations blog post. For this card I used the punch to highlight a particular spot of another stamp. This technique is called the spotlight technique and it is very easy to do. You stamp an image in one colour on two different pieces of card stock and then pick an area of the image to punch out of one of the stamped images. You then colour the image on the punched piece and adhere it to the whole image with a dimensional. So easy and so cool! I need to do this again. The stamp set I used on the card is the Butterfly Basics stamp set. I coloured the image on the punched out piece with my Blender Pens.

The card below was featured in my post titled Card Stock Only Challenge.

For this card I added some texture to the pansies by placing them on the Stampin Pierce Mat and going around the edges with the round end of my Paper Piercing Tool and then turning them over and pressing the round end of the Paper Piercing Tool in the middle to make the petals pop and adding lines to the middle of each petal. I repeated that a few times until I was happy with the look. I used a number of different products and techniques with this card and you can read more about it on the original post.

The Birthday Blossoms and Flower Shop stamp sets coordinate with the Pansy Punch. Presently I don't have either of these stamp sets, but I hope to change that soon.

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Fun week with family and friends

The Sheraton was invaded by excited Stampers yesterday. It was the last stop for the Stampin' Up! Open Houses hosted by Stampin' Up! Canada across Newfoundland this week. I was lucky enough to get to attend the event with family and friends at 3 different locations throughout the week. For many of my family and friends this was their first experience with Stampin' Up! and I was happy to share it with them. It's been a crazy, but fun, week!

The focus of these events was to introduce the Stampin' Up! 2015 Annual Catalogue. Each attendee was presented with a physical copy of the catalogue and given the chance to try out some of the product from the catalogue.

Every year Stampin' Up! introduces five new colours to their collection. These In-Colours are only available for two years. One of the activities at the Open Houses gave the attendees a chance to try out some of the product that is available in the new colours. In the Stampin' Up bag that each attendee received was a sheet for them to take to the In-Colour station and use to make themselves an In-Colour product sample guide. I loved this activity! Here's the completed sheet of one of my guests.

To complete the chart we used the 2015-2017 In Colour Cardstock and Classic Stampin' Pads, along with the Itty Bitty Accents punches, stamps from the Over the Rainbow stamp set and the 2015-2017 In Colour Stampin' Write Markers. 

It has been a great week getting to meet other stampers and getting to share Stampin' Up! with my family and friends. I'm looking forward to lots more stampin' fun together.

It was especially nice to meet Dale and Carrie from Stampin' Up! Canada, and Melody from the Stampin' Up! head office in Utah. I think they enjoyed their visit to Newfoundland and I hope they'll come back to visit again.

I love playing with new things

This is a card we made at the Stampin' Up Open House. To make it I got to try out a couple of tools that I hadn't used before. One of them is a new tool, one of them has been around for a while. In this post I'm going to tell you about the tool that's been around for a while.

I have heard about the Stamp-a-ma-jig for while and watched all kinds of videos featuring it but I had never actually seen it in person or tried it. I want one!

Stampin' Up! has three kinds of stamps - wood mount, clear mount, and photopolymer. This YouTube video from Stampin' Up! explains the three types of stamps.



I have tried, and own sets of, all three. My preference is photopolymer because they are see through and it is therefore easier to place them where you want to place them. I get very frustrated trying to place the wood mount and clear mount stamps in the right place, but the Stamp-a-ma-jig helps with this. Here's a video that explains how.



After playing with the Stamp-a-ma-jig at the open houses, it will definitely go on my next order, and it may even entice me to buy more wood mount and clear mount stamps.

The Fun Continues!

I love when people put their own creative touches on projects.  That's what I was trying to show in the above picture, but I really should have taken pictures showing the different sides of the bags to show all of the different creative touches. These are some of the creations from last night's Stampin' Up! Open House at the Glynmill Inn.

The bags were made using the new Gift Bag Punch board. They were stamped with stamps from the Bohemian Borders stamp set before being adhered together using Tear & Tape Adhesive. The little piece of Hello Honey card stock was embossed using the Big Shot and the Boho Chic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder (TEIF). One of the stamps from the I Think You're Great stamp set was stamped onto whisper white cardstock using Watermelon Wonder ink and then the 2" Circle Punch was used to punch the image out before adhering it to the embossed piece.

Notice the bag missing the string? I forgot to add it to my bag. It was interesting to see how everyone else used their string slightly different.

It was another fun filled night, and I had a special guest - my little granddaughter Lucy. She looks like she's amazed at all the great stuff Stampin' Up! has.

Fun at the First Stampin' Up! Open House

The Riverwood Inn banquet room was packed with excited stampers last night. It was so much fun!

I finally got to meet Kay, our fearless Newfoundland Stampin' Up! leader. I had meet her virtually through FaceBook and she has sent me a number of nice cards since I joined the Stampin' Up! group but it was nice to finally meet her in person.

It was nice to see Lola and Deidre, a couple of fellow demonstrators that I knew before they were demonstrators. They both have great groups of stampers to have fun with.

I also got to met Dale, from Stampin' Up ! Canada. I had received emails from him before but had never met him. Here's a funny true confession, because Dale is one of those gender neutral names (I personally know both males and females named Dale) I wasn't sure if Dale was male or female, until I met him at the event last night.

There was even a lady there from Stampin' Up! head office in Utah! This is her first trip to Canada and she came all the way to Newfoundland. I didn't get a chance to talk to her last night.

I was, however, talking to another really nice lady from the Stampin' Up! Canada head office but I've been wrecking my brain and I can't remember her name! She was super nice.

I was happy to have a few of my friends join me at the event and the photo above shows what we left with - a neat Stampin' Up! bag and three projects that we made at the event, using products from the new Annual Catalogue. The photo below shows our messy table and my friends busy hands at work.

The new Catalogue went live yesterday. Click on the words to download a PDF version of the Stampin' Up! 2015-2016 Annual Catalogue or browse through the categories at the Stampin' Up! online store.

One thing that I'm sad about, I missed posting to my blog yesterday! I had a mishap in the morning and did something to my foot. I spent the rest of the day in agony and pulled myself together enough to go to the event and hit the bed as soon as I got home from it. I was bummed that I didn't get a post done but life happens.

I finally went and had my foot looked at today. I wouldn't go yesterday because I was afraid I would end up missing the event last night, so I borrowed crutches and hobbled to the event. Tonight there is an event in Corner Brook and I will be sporting lovely new footwear, along with the crutches.

I'm looking forward to the event tonight. It should be another packed room full of happy stampers.

Simple, functional bookmark

I made these bookmarks tonight to give to my guests at Stampin' Up! Open Houses across Newfoundland this week. It's going to be a busy week!

At the events, guests will receive a copy of the 2015-2016 Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue. I heard that demonstrators often make bookmarks to give to their customers along with their catalogues, so I set of to research what these bookmarks might look like. I've seen some beautiful bookmarks during my research.

I've been debating with myself for weeks about the design of my bookmarks. Should I go for function or beauty? Should I feature the new In-Colours? Should I feature a new stamp set, maybe the RMHC stamp set? Should I use some punches, dies, layers?

I finally decided that I would make my bookmarks functional. The purpose of the bookmark is to mark pages and help you find your favourite things, so I decided to go with a "These are a few of my Favourite Things" theme.

I decided to make one side of the bookmark a wish list with space for customers to record their favourite things, along with the pages they are found on.

The other side of the bookmark contains my contact information so that they can easily contact me with any questions.

Using the word processing program on my printer, I played around with textboxes and placement until I had something that worked. I printed that on Whisper White Cardstock and then cut the bookmarks. They measure 2 x 8 1/2. Then I used the Tag Topper Scalloped Punch on the top and rounded the bottom edges using the Envelope Punch Board.

Stamps from two of my favourite stamp sets (Butterfly Basics and Lovely as a Tree) were used in the design of the bookmarks, and I also used one of my favourite techniques - sponging. I tied a 6 inch piece of my favourite colour lace to the top of the bookmark for the final touch.

The 2015-2016 will go live online tomorrow, so be sure to check it out. If you would like to have a paper copy of the catalogue, along with one of my bookmarks, let me know.