Honey Bee bundle meets Pigment Sprinkles

Another outing for the Honey Bee bundle... this time a project CASEd from Sandra Budde, a Stampin’ Up!® demonstrator based in Germany.

For my version, I added an extra bee and, to ring the changes a little, I created my background using Pigment Sprinkles. These are extremely fun and ideal if you like playing around with techniques – but not if you don’t like messy projects!

Cover your work surface and beyond when using pigment sprinkles as this stuff gets everywhere!

Painted Poppies Week: Monochromatic Poppies

It’s the last day of Painted Poppies Week here at All Things Stampy but I’m sure this won’t be the last you see of this lovely stamp set!

These four fun cards were quick and easy to make – and I love how you can tailor the design to almost any of our lovely colours.

I borrowed the idea from Lynn Dunn, but simplified her design slightly to use Label Me Bold instead of embossing – I really have to be in the mood for embossing!

My colours are Crushed Curry, Gorgeous Grape (but with Highland Heather stamping), Flirty Flamingo and Coastal Cabana. Which one is your favourite?

Some colours will swamp your poppy heads, which is why I used Highland Heather instead of Gorgeous Grape. If you don't have a paler ink, you can stamp off onto scrap paper first, then this will give you a lighter shade.

Painted Poppies Week: Simple to Stepped-up

I haven't posted a #simplestamping project for a while, so here you are... with a stepped-up calendar version thrown in for good measure.

This calendar card was one of my Cuppa & Card projects in January. It was a rash decision to make something so time-consuming within our one-hour session, but I had some calendar tabs to use up.

However, just in case I had more people turn up than calendar tabs, I had the second #simplestamping card ready to go. Same design as the calendar, just stuck onto a notecard instead. Cunning, eh?

Get the trendy white-on-black look of embossing without the tools, the faff and the time by using the new Label Me Bold stamp set. I love it!

Sale-a-Bration Week: The Gang's All Meer

How cute are these little meerkats? So far it has been the most popular Sale-a-Bration stamp set with my customers. Is it on your Sale-a-Bration wish list?

I teamed it with a strip of Country Club Designer Series paper - you get a few small sheets of this in the mini DSP sampler you get free when you sign up as a demonstrator during Sale-a-Bration.

The background is pretty old-school - just a cactus stamped in Sahara Sand on the same coloured cardstock. If an idea works, why not recycle it?

The greeting is from Label Me Bold – a must-have stamp set in my opinion!

For this project, I dug out my Stampin' Blends alcohol markers; shades of Crumb Cake, Ivory and Bronze give you lots of variety to make each meerkat an individual.

One pack of Designer Series Paper, one card design, two looks

Using the same basic card design and most of the same elements, I created two very different looks here to celebrate the male and female members of my Stampin' Up!® team. Yes, men can be demonstrators, too!

I decided to let the Designer Series Paper do the talking and pulled out the paper sampler that you can earn FREE as part of your Starter Kit if you join during Sale-a-Bration.

The feminine cards use the Best Dressed Designer Series Paper, while the masculine card uses the Country Club Designer Series Paper, with a little die-cut polar bear as its accent. This is from the Snow Globe Scenes Dies, which have carried over from the Autumn/Winter catalogue.




Neither of these paper packs were on my radar so it’s great to have just a little taste of them to play with and to show to customers.

Other than the polar bear, all the other dies are from the Painted Labels Dies from the Peaceful Poppies Suite. The "from me" sentiment and stars are from Label Me Bold, one of those stamp sets which looks a little uninspiring on first glance but turns out to be really useful.

By fussy-cutting elements from Designer Series Paper, you don’t always need the co-ordinating stamp set. This allows you to experiment with styles outside of your comfort zone.