Mix It Up Monday: Beautiful Peacock

I’m tapping into the purple trend for today’s Mix It Up Monday project, with an all-purple combination from my In Color charts. 

This is another birthday present for another of my lovely Hostess Club ladies. She loves bright colours and also is growing in her crafting confidence so I hope she’ll find some inspiration in the contents. 

I’ve used Beautiful Peacock, a lovely and versatile Sale-a-Bration stamp set. Do you have it yet?

Mix It Up Monday: Where's the peacock?

It’s Mix It Up Monday again and I’ve used the Sale-a-Bration stamp set Beautiful Peacock… although you won’t find a peacock on this card! I used the curved stamp that can be used as the tail or leaves to create a lovely two-tone green wreath, dotted with tiny flowers in Elegant Eggplant and Fresh Fig. 

The colour combination is, as always, taken from my In Color charts and is quite timely as purples are making a big comeback this year, according to my analysis. I’ve written an article on this topic for my Facebook page, taking a look at some of the big trends we can expect to see in papercrafting this year.  Please take a look – you don’t have to be a Facebook member to view but, if you are, why not give my page a Like while you’re there?

Beautiful Peacock - available from tomorrow

Welcome back! I hope you had a good and relaxing break. I ended the Christmas holiday with a fun evening to thank some of my club members for their loyalty over the year. Unfortunately, due to various festive bugs, only three people could make it in the end, but we had a lovely evening crafting and completing challenges.

For this challenge, I gave them all the elements to create the above card, with all the necessary stamps mounted on blocks ready to use. The only difference to a usual Make & Take was that there was no demonstration and no card to copy! The challenge was to make a card as close as possible to mine.

And I have to say, I was REALLY impressed! These are the cards the ladies produced. They all stamped the peacock in the same colours and Karen’s, on the right, is almost identical to my version. I forgot to award a prize, which is probably as well as Karen does have something of a reputation for winning everything!

This cute stamp set is available FREE with a £45 order when Sale-a-Bration (SAB) begins tomorrow. It’s the most wonderful time of the year to be involved in Stampin’ Up!® so please pop back tomorrow for links to the SAB brochure and an explanation of how it works.