Flashback Friday Stampin’ Up! Gingerbread card.

 🎥 Flashback Friday! 🎄✨

Let’s rewind to this cute creation featuring the Gingerbread Man Bundle — run, run, as fast as you can, because this one is too sweet to miss!

 

This adorable set lets you create cookie-shaped cards, tags, and festive accents with mix-and-match faces, accessories, and candies. It’s perfect for adding a little personality (and a lot of charm!) to your Christmas crafting. 🍪💚

https://www.youtube.com/live/t87WVPXbXa4?si=YeVEYDWLuyO3Gw8m

✨ Hot tip: This bundle is now in the Last Chance section — grab the stamps and dies separately to save even more!

https://tinyurl.com/ClearanceRackSU 

A Holly Jolly Wishes Christmas Card with Stampin' Up! Hooray It's Thursday!

Ok would you look at that it is Thursday again! This week I have a couple of new and exciting things to share - The Mini Catalogue has started with all the new Christmas goodies in it - that's a big win right? BUT to make it better Saleabration has also started. 

I will link the new catalogues below but first I want to share my first Christmas card for the season using the Holly Jolly Wishes and the Sparkle of the Season stamp sets.

The DSP I have used is from the Saleabration Catalogue and it is FREE with a $90 AU spend. It is called Peaceful Prints and comes in 12 x 12 inch size.

Now if your wondering where the 'embossing folder' for the snowflakes is from - it is one of the new masks we have in that Mini Catalogue. I used our Cut and Emboss machine teamed with our silicone matt to use the mask to emboss the cardstock. 

You are in luck I also made a video so if you would like to see how I did it you can click the video below to check it out.

Created By	Courtenay Heuston
Featured Bundle	Holly Jolly Wishes Stamp set (Mini Catalogue Pg. 29)
Base	Evening Evergreen	¼ sheet A4 cardstock
DSP Base	Peaceful Prints (FREE SAB Aug – Sept)	10.1 x 14.5
Front Panel	Basic White	7.5 x 12 cm
Inside Panel	Basic White	10 cm x 14.4
Trim	Open Weave Ribbon	Evening Evergreen
Ink	Real Red	Sentiment
Sentiment	Basic White	Small amount to fit
Tools	Sparkle of the Season Stitched so Sweetly Dies Decorative Masks Silicone Matt Cut and Emboss Machine	Stamp Set - Mini Annual Catalogue Adoring Designs - Mini
Envelope	Basic White	Stamp to decorate

Hints and Tips for this card:

Best adhesives	Dimensionals plus Tombow 0r Tear & Tape
Tips	·        To use the mask as a dry embossing tool. 1.       Use plates 1, 4 and one of the clear number 3 plates 2.       Make your ‘sandwich’ with 1, 4, Silicone Matt, cardstock then plate 3 3.       Roll the ‘sandwich’ through the Cut and Emboss machine – it will be firm. 4.       Check out and admire your embossed cardstock. ·        To finish the card: o    Adhere DSP to card front o    Add a bow to your embossed cardstock prior to adhering it to your card front. o    Stamp, die cut and adhere sentiment with dimensionals. o    Decorate and adhere inside panel of card.
Finishing touches	·        Stamp the back panel and envelope.

Want to see what's inside the new Mini Catalogue or Saleabration Catalogue? Click the picture below to take you to the PDF.

Until next time - remember you can get your paper craft supplies in Australia without even leaving home through my Stampin' Up! Store front by clicking on the picture below. 

Courtenay 

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Stampin' Up! Color Your Season Limited Release

Demo perk alert - pre-order - yay I have this beautiful limited release bundle already in my hot little hands and its seen ink!
So what's in the deal I hear you ask? August sees a limited release of Blended Seasons stamp set, Stitched Season Framelits and a second assortment of watercolour pencils to customers in all Stampin' Up! Markets. Demonstrators can get it now on pre-order (including those that sign up this month - check out that Promotion below).

 

 

 

The new watercolour pencils are divine and have

10 pencils in Stampin' Up! colours. Acid free, lignin free.

Balmy Blue, Cajun Craze, Cherry Cobbler, Coastal Cabana, Crushed Curry, Flirty Flamingo, Garden Green, Gorgeous Grape, Granny Apple Green, Night of Navy. I am very glad to add so many more green pencils to my collection.

   

First I white embossed the largest flower image in the set on a piece of Crumb Cake cut to 9cm x 13.5cm. I pulled the white pencil from our original watercolour pencil set and coloured in my embossed stamp.

You can use white ink if you don't have the first watercolour pencil set for a similar look. Once all white I then added the colour straight over the top. Oh you don't need to be especially neat with this step and depending on the intensity of flower you are after add more or less colour.

 



This one is the Crushed Curry flowers, framed with a Crushed Curry piece cut to 9.5cm x 14cm. The sentiment I stamped using my Stamparatus first in Garden Green then Versamak so I could pop some clear embossing powder on it and make it really stand out. (I have done this before without the Stamparatus but this was heaps easier - see this post HERE)

 

This colour combination was made using the Gorgeous Grape pencil as the pencil and frame colour.

 

Available in the Online Store August 1st 2018

 

Watercolour Pencils Assortment 2

149014 $21.75 AUD | $26.25 NZD

 

BUNDLE -Blended Seasons (save 10%)

BLENDED SEASONS STAMP SET + STITCHED SEASONS FRAMELITS DIES

Wood-mount • 149893 $134 AUD | $162 NZD | Clear-mount • 149894 $113 AUD | $136 NZD 

 

These items can be ordered as part of your starter kit, In Australia the kit is $169 for $235 worth of product - includes FREE postage, a great deal all by itself. Currently the deal is even sweeter with anyone joining in July getting a FREE family of inkpads on top of their fully customisable kit, an extra $117 worth of goodies!

 

Courtenay

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Stampin' Up! Background Technique - SBTD March Blog Hop

 

Welcome to the March Stampers By the Dozen Blog Hop. This month we are looking at background techniques. so you will see this common theme as you follow the hop through the links below. I recently went away scrapping and had a ball with my friends. We go away yearly at least and this is the time I get most of my 12x12 scrap pages done.

 

A little background on this scrap page - my daughter has been doing drama classes for the last 5 years at The Mad Cow Theatre Company. This year she had a main role in a piece called 'The Watch'. The photo was taken by the event photographer from side stage.

So how does this fit into our theme - I used coloured embossing paste as my background on the page. I also added some sewing - it looks a bit like a frame if you ask me and I will admit most pages this getaway had sewing on them!

      

The embossing paste was coloured on my Teflon mat - nothing sticks to this baby including dried embossing paste -  using our Brushos. Wow they blended nicely into the paste but initially I started smearing it over my stencil before it was completely blended for a bit of variety.

 



 

I overestimated my 'need' when I took the paste from the jar as it goes a long way so had a fair wack of left over. I used all my stencils in the pack to make some card fronts with the excess. Because I had already mixed the paste with the powder and it was all one consistent colour I got my finger tapping and sprinkled more Brusho on my project. I pushed it about a bit and love how my bricks now have dark lines on them for a little more colour variation.

 



Thank you for popping past please hop on over to see what Tashana has to share with us by clicking on the 'next' button below.

 

Karie Beglau   

Judi Anderson  

Susan Simpson

Tricia Butts  

Lyndsay LaRae Carara  

Courtenay Heuston  You are HERE

Tashana Lundy

Carly Middleton                 

Sharleen Luciano    

Vicky Thompson 

Anastasia Radloff

 

 For the Scrap Page I used these pieces plus some goodies from my stash and bits I made on my laser cutting machine.

Basic Black 12" X 12" Card Stock

[124267]

Whisper White 12" X 12" Card Stock

[124302]

Pattern Party Decorative Masks

[144103]

Brusho Crystal Colour

[144101]

Embossing Paste

[141979]

 Goodies for the card. 

Pattern Party Decorative Masks

[144103]

Brusho Crystal Colour

[144101]

Embossing Paste

[141979]

Birthday Wit Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[145753]

Super Duper Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[142874]

Basic Black Solid Baker's Twine

[141682]

Dapper Denim A4 Cardstock

[141419]

Whisper White A4 Card Stock

[106549]

Basic Black A4 Card Stock

[121688]

Silver Foil Sheets

[132178]

Basic Black Archival Stampin’ Pad

[140931]

Dapper Denim Classic Stampin' Pad

[141394]

Silver Metallic Thread

[138402]

Courtenay

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Click the picture to see what's carrying over from the Holiday Catalogue in Australia?

 

Watercolor Christmas Tree Card SBTD 9/2017

 
Welcome back my friends am I glad to have you here and join me for another SBTD Blog Hop. The theme for today’s hop is 'Trees, Branches and or Leaves'  I jumped straight to Christmas trees because I am trying to increase my Christmas stash so I am organized this year.

I am still loving the Watercolor Christmas Stampin' Up! Set - that large script Christmas wishes stamp would have to be my favourite in the set but the 3 random trees are todays 'lets say focus'.

Can you see the shiny text - I do love embossing and this stamp looks perfect embossed - ink your stamp with Versamark then Garden Green, stamp it then sprinkle with clear Emboss powder, heat and voila shiny green text!

Here is a second card that matches the first as I had a load of trees that I cut to 'play' with so wanting to use them I came up with this one.

The small tree squares were stamped and coloured on Shimmer paper then cut out using the Stitched Framelits. The Garden Green square on the Oh Joy card was also 'Winked' with Wink of Stella.

Thanks for popping past I hope you like my cards today - please visit Tanisha's Blog and see what she has been up to with the Color Theory Suite - some great goodies I'm sure!

 

1.      Rachel Pine
2.      Karie Beglau
3.      Judi Anderson
4.      Susan Simpson
5.      Tricia Butts
6.      Lyndsay LaRae Carara
7.      Courtenay Heuston YOU ARE HERE
8.      Tashana Lundy
9.      Carly Middleton
10.  Sharleen Luciano
11.  Vicky Thompson
12.  AnastasiaRadloff

I have a picture tutorial on how to do the Embossed colour font HERE if you need some instructions.
If you would like to see some other cards I made using this set  there is a Hop post HERE.

 My supplies list for these cards.

Watercolor Christmas Wood-Mount Stamp Set

[144835]

Silver Glimmer Paper

[135314]

Whisper White A4 Card Stock

[106549]

Whisper White A4 Thick Cardstock

[140490]

Garden Green A4 Card Stock

[108605]

Shimmery White A4 Card Stock

[121717]

Basic Black Archival Stampin’ Pad

[140931]

Garden Green Classic Stampin' Pad

[126973]

Versamark Pad

[102283]

Clear Stampin' Emboss Powder

[109130]

Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies

[145372]

Layering Squares Framelits Dies

[141708]

Aqua Painters

[103954]

Heat Tool

[129056]

Courtenay
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