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Saturday, 17 March 2018

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.

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

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Whisper White 12" X 12" Card Stock

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Pattern Party Decorative Masks

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Brusho Crystal Colour

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Embossing Paste

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Goodies for the card.

Courtenay

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Tuesday, 13 March 2018

Window box thinking of you greeting card

Make a card, send a card!
Sometimes it’s nice to get mail just because. What’s the main reason you give cards?

About Greeting Cards – General Facts
• Americans purchase approximately 6.5 billion greeting cards each year. Annual retail sales of greeting cards are estimated between $7 and $8 billion.

• The most popular Everyday card-sending occasion by far is Birthday, followed by a number of secondary occasions that include Sympathy, Thank You, Wedding, Thinking of You, Get Well, New Baby and Congratulations.

• The most popular Seasonal cards are Christmas cards, with some 1.6 billion units purchased (including boxed cards). This is followed by cards for Valentine’s Day (145 million units, not including classroom valentines), Mother’s Day (133 million units), Father’s Day (90 million units), Graduation (67 million units), Easter (57 million units), Halloween (21 million units), Thanksgiving (15 million units) and St. Patrick's Day (7 million units).

• Women purchase an estimated 80% of all greeting cards. Women spend more time choosing a card than men, and are more likely to buy several cards at once.

• Seven out of 10 card buyers surveyed consider greeting cards “absolutely” or “almost” essential to them. Eight out of 10 of these buyers expect their purchases to remain the same going forward. Of the balance, twice as many card buyers say they will "increase" their purchasing as say they will "decrease" their purchasing in the coming year.

• Younger card buyers and those who are more technology savvy are currently the ones most engaged in buying paper greeting cards online.

• Most people now acknowledge many more birthdays than ever before because of Facebook, but they aren’t necessarily sending fewer cards as a result.

• The tradition of giving greeting cards as a meaningful expression of personal affection for another person is still being deeply ingrained in today’s youth, and this tradition will likely continue as they become adults and become responsible for managing their own important relationships.

mmmm Interesting

Product List
Just before I go there's new goodies available today till the end of March for SaleABration - see the PDF HERE

Courtenay
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Wednesday, 7 March 2018

Amazing Celebrations Baby Boy Card

Something exciting - a new baby - being a midwife all new babies are super special but when they belong to a friend (that swore she was never having kids) there is something extra squishy and cute about them.

This little guy was 4 weeks early and born the day after another friend had her bubba - poles apart they were in size with one being a squidgy 2.4kg whilst the other was a whopping 5.1kg!

I pulled out some new and some old for this one.

Shopping List - you also need your trimmer and adhesives.

Courtenay
Do you live in Australia and would you like to become a Demonstrator, earn discounts, great rewards and get to craft with Stampin' Up! products before their release? If so click here to join my team - more information here.
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