AW35 Around the World colour combo challenge

The team at Around the World Challenge Blog have set you a colour challenge this time – to create a project using Blushing Bride, Chocolate Chip and Very Vanilla. The colours of Neapolitan ice cream!

I’ve been playing with texture paste a lot lately so had fun creating this card. I used the stencils from the Build a Banner kit to create the “hi” and my texture paste had added sparkle. To make it, I used cheap white glue, cheap white paint, cornflour and a whole lot of glitter. I discovered that you need a LOT of glitter when I slipped and accidentally tipped a good teaspoon into my little ramekin of paste.

There’s another texture paste card and (very simple) recipe in this blog post, here.

Now it’s your turn to have a go at this challenge. The colours go beautifully together so you should have lots of fun! All the details are here.

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Takeout Box hostess gift

This is a bit elaborate for a demonstration, so I prepared a lot of it at home in advance, but I really wanted to show my hostess and her guests the wonders of the Takeout boxes! These are perfect for packing up homemade biscuits and treats for Christmas gifts, and look so lovely when decorated.

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Visions of Santa dancing on vellum

By rights, I should be in Brussels at the European Stampin’ Up!® Convention, but unfortunately I and my team decided not to go this year, for various reasons. It’s probably a good thing, as this bug I’ve had has totally wiped me out, and Convention is exhausting. But I can’t help feeling a pang as I look at the clock and think “right now, I’d be swapping’... or “Shelli will be taking the stage about now...”

I have a lot to do today so will have to keep myself away from the computer, where I’ll be tempted to stalk other demonstrators for snippets of info!

So, back to business and today’s project. When creating a project for the Around the World Challenge, I actually made two cards. This was the first one but I wasn’t totally happy with it. In fact, I may yet still go back and tweak it. 

I really liked the idea of stamping the Santas on either side of the vellum so that the image was reversed. You can see from this image that I coloured on each side, too, as one Santa is paler than the other. This is the tweak I’m going to make as it’s not too late to go back and add more colour. 

My favourite thing about this card is the Kraft cardstock, which looks fab stamped with white snowflakes. 

I used the Apothecary Accents framelits dies to cut out the shape from the Kraft cardstock, and also to cut the same shape from a piece of Cherry Cobbler, which I used to line the inside of the front of the card to hide any adhesives. While I don’t normally line my cards, I don’t like to see anything like adhesives, brad backs etc inside! And I did create a Whisper White panel on the inside of this one, so that it shows through the vellum and enables you to see the main image better. 

Other sneaky techniques I used are on the embellishments. I coloured our Basic Rhinestones with my Cherry Cobbler Blendabilities so that they’re sparkly and red. And I dipped the end of the twine in some Crystal Effects to stop it unravelling and fraying. 

I do hope you’re warming to this Santa set. I haven’t had much positive feedback about it from my customers and team, but apparently it’s very popular. I went from hating it to loving it so maybe you can too! 

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Just Sayin' with wooden elements

Have you ordered these little Wooden Elements yet? You might want to consider adding them to your order as they’re very cute and fun. You get hearts, arrows, chevrons, speech bubbles, triangles, circles, banners and starbursts, four of each. I love them as they are so have just used them plain so far but you could ink them, cover them in paper, stamp on them… go wild!

And I’m still in love with the Just Sayin’ bundle, which I’ve used here with Retro Fresh washi tape (LOVE washi tape!). 

I earned all of these new items FREE as part of a demonstrator rewards programme which runs at various points in the year. Stampin’ Up!® is a very generous company and is always keen to keep its demonstrators happy! If you’d like to be a happy demonstrator, running a business – big or small – doing something you love, please get in touch to find out more about the fabulous Sale-a-Bration offer which runs until the end of March. It costs just £99 to join this fabulous company, and you’ll get everything you need to get started in your business, including £150 of craft products and a business pack... not to mention that you will be part of a team of lovely, supportive people!

Stamps: Just Sayin’
Cardstock: Coastal Cabana, Baked Brown Sugar, Very Vanilla
Ink: Tangerine Tango
Accessories: Word Bubbles Framelits, Wooden Elements, Retro Fresh Washi Tape