Do you love colour but struggle to put them together for your craft projects? Or may you are simply looking for some new ways to combine your favourite Stampin’ Up!® colours?
Help is at hand! Today I have some great colour ideas for you, including 30 new colour combinations for the five new Stampin’ Up!® In Colors™.
While I love all the bright and pretty designs in the current (and upcoming) Stampin’ Up!® catalogue, I do sometimes long for something a bit murkier. And Beautiful Gallery Designer Series Paper fits the bill perfectly, with designs based on old paintings and artistic details. You’ll find full 6"x6" sheets with a self-contained design, as well as old-world patterns and some painterly effects too.
Over the Easter holiday I was short of time and inspiration so turned to THREE tried and tested card designs so I could give them a new spin using Beautiful Gallery Designer Series Paper.
This versatile new Stampin’ Up!® stamp set is called Blooming Phrases (165523) and it goes live in the Online Exclusives collection on 6th May.
For this latest Stampin’ Up!® release, many of my favourite products – like this Cheers & Sips bundle – are in the Online Exclusives. And so, for the first time ever, I will be using an Online Exclusives bundle and coordinating Designer Series Paper at my Summer Craft Day here in Derbyshire.
I was crafting with this gorgeous new stamp and die set at the weekend, and made three pretty projects to give you a sneak peek of what’s to come.
This time I want to show you how I combined two more Stampin’ Up!® stamp sets; Musical Jamboree (163616) and Under The Moon (163531), two fabulous sets which are both retiring very soon.
I think these sets go together beautifully as that wolf dog is clearly howling at the moon.
Sometimes you see two Stampin’ Up!® products which are just meant to go together - even if they aren’t advertised as such.
One is a bundle you may have overlooked – Wildflower Designs (163334) – while the other is an Online Exclusive called Elements of Text (164774).
I used these wonderful Stampin’ Up!® stamp sets in a class last week to make two cards in very different colour themes. Then I came home and pulled both stamp sets out again to make a very special birthday card for an incredible lady.
Let’s take a closer look at these Wildflower Designs and Elements of Text cards.
Storybook Garden Patch is such a lovely Stampin’ Up!® bundle because it can be used for so many different occasions. It’s ideal for gardeners, for masculine cards, and for much more.
At my Spring Craft Day last weekend, we used it with the (now retired) Sale-a-Bration Designer Series Paper Bloom Impressions as that helped to keep costs down; savings which I could pass on to my guests.
You’ve already seen three of the projects; two of them here and another of them here.
Today I want to show you some of the remaining projects from the day.
So it was timely that the fabulous Instagram account Stampin’ Through the Catalog has been focusing on the Storybook Garden Patch stamp set (164663) lately.
I was flattered that they shared two of my previous designs in their Instagram Stories, and was inspired by one of their newest projects to make this card.
I am showcasing another overlooked Stampin’ Up!® product this week: Everyday Happiness Designer Series Paper and Sticker Sheet.
This lovely paper can be found in the latest Stampin’ Up!® Scrapbooking Brochure, which is currently only available to view online. Because the scrapbooking line is relatively new to Stampin’ Up!®, there is no paper copy of the brochure, although this is set to change with the release of the next Stampin’ Up!® Annual Catalogue in May, when the products will be included.
Everyday Happiness Designer Series Paper (166632) is perfect for craft classes too because you get four of each design. This is one of the reasons I chose it for this month’s WI Craft Crew class; plus it goes brilliantly with Storybook Garden Patch (bundle 164667), my chosen stamp and die bundle.