Mix It Up Monday: Botanicals for You

It’s Mix It Up Monday and time for another colour combination from my In Color charts. 

I’ve just made this project, totally CASEd from the Sale-a-Bration brochure, but with all-new colours to fit in with today’s combo. And because I make mistakes so that you don’t have to, my top tip for today is: use a totally different Stampin’ Scrub to clean your Blackberry Bliss-inked stamps, so that it doesn’t contaminate your delicate Soft Sky stamping. That’ll be why there’s a die-cut flower at the top right!

Before I go, a reminder: today is the last day to earn the following Sale-a-Bration items: 

• Sky is the Limit stamp set
• Perfectly Artistic Designer Series Paper
• Hello stamp set

If you wish to earn any of the above FREE with a £45 order, please place your order TODAY by clicking here. Tomorrow we have three exciting new products to earn!

Botanicals For You Clear-Mount Stamp Set [141237] £0.00	Botanical Builder Framelits Dies [140625] £30.00	Cucumber Crush A4 Cardstock [138342] £6.50	Card Stock A4 Soft Sky [131292] £6.50
Whisper White A4 Card Stock [106549] £7.25	Blackberry Bliss Classic Stampin' Pad [133642] £6.00	Rich Razzlebberry Classic Stampin' Pad [126950] £6.00	Soft Sky Classic Stampin' Pad [131181] £6.00
Cucumber Crush Classic Stampin' Pad [138324] £6.00	Brights Candy Dots [130931] £5.50

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Sale-a-Bration retro pop-up card

I wanted to make a card with a retro vibe, so searched “retro colour combinations” on the internet. I came up with something like this: Pool Party, Delightful Dijon and Watermelon Wonder. It’s a combination that could have come straight from my In Color charts and, to be honest, it’s such a good one that I wish I had thought of it. 

Circle punches are perfect for creating a retro vibe, so out they came, too. And eventually, with a bit of playing around, I came up with this card. Pretty clean and simple, but there’s more…

Open it up and you have this fabulous pop-up greeting, which I absolutely love. It’s so simple to create with the new Party Pop-Up Thinlits Dies. Check out the Stampin’ Up! video below.

Behind the pop-out greeting is some retired paper (it wasn’t retired when I made the card!) which helps the greeting to stand out even more.

If you’d like to see a demonstration of these dies, do get in touch to book a party... but hurry – my calendar is filling fast!

Party Pop-Up Thinlits Dies [140620] £27.00	Flowering Fields Clear-Mount Stamp Set [141303] £0.00	Botanicals For You Clear-Mount Stamp Set [141237] £0.00	2015-2017 In Color Stampin' Write Markers [138333] £13.50
Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708] £5.50	Whisper White A4 Card Stock [106549] £7.25	Whisper White A4 Thick Cardstock [140490] £6.50	Delightful Dijon A4 Cardstock [138345] £6.50
Pool Party A4 Card Stock [124391] £6.50	Watermelon Wonder A4 Cardstock [138341] £6.50

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Mix It Up Monday: Botanical Blooms bundle One-Sheet wonder

It’s Mix It Up Monday again and time for another colour combination from my In Color charts.

I bet you thought I’d done a runner, didn’t you? Apologies for the long absence, I’ve been a little busy with Christmas which, coupled with the husband and I still feeling quite under the weather, has meant stamping and blogging has been put on the backburner. 

But I hope you had a good Christmas and, if in the UK, are enjoying the extended break. 

I’ve just had a fun session playing with new products with the intention of creating one card for Mix It Up Monday… which rapidly turned into four projects! That’s because this stamp set, Botanical Blooms, lends itself perfectly to the one-sheet wonder technique and, once I got started, I realised (to my surprise) just how much I liked this particular colour combination. 

For the uninitiated, a one-sheet wonder is where you stamp randomly all over a sheet of cardstock, then cut it up to make multiple projects. You’ll find lots of one-sheet wonder ideas on the web but I’m sure you can also make up your own, just as I did for these projects.

I began by cutting down the cardstock to 11in x 6in and creating a gift bag using the Gift Bag Punch Board, which is rapidly becoming my new favourite toy. Instead of punching the holes in the top to tie it closed, I punched two “half-holes” in the sides, to act as notches for some jute twine. 

I finished off by embellishing with some of the gorgeous flowers you can create using the co-ordinating Botanical Builder Framelits Dies.  No more fussy-cutting - yay!

Now to use the leftover pieces… and I soon rustled up the simple project, shown next to the bag, based on the sample in the Sale-a-Bration brochure. 

Next came this clean and simple Thank You card. Well, it’s clean now but it was never simple as I had a bit of an accident when I creased my lovely white cardstock with a very dirty bone folder. So, instead of a lovely white card base, I ended up cutting it down and mounting it onto a Mint Macaron one instead… and covering up some stray ink smudges with not-so-random flowers. 

Finally I made this Blushing Bride number with my largest piece of stamped cardstock and a simple greeting. I even have a piece of stamped cardstock left over but I ran out of steam so will have to save that for another day. Hope you like the projects and are inspire to create your own one-sheet wonder! 

Gift Bag Punch Board [135862] £18.00	Botanical Blooms Photopolymer Bundle [140819] £46.75	Botanicals For You Clear-Mount Stamp Set [141237] £0.00	Deco Labels Framelits Die [130102] £22.00	One Big Meaning Clear-Mount Stamp Set [139420] £17.00
Mint Macaron A4 Cardstock [138344] £6.50	Watermelon Wonder A4 Cardstock [138341] £6.50	Card Stock A4 Blushing Bride [131287] £6.50	Whisper White A4 Thick Cardstock [140490] £6.50	Whisper White A4 Card Stock [106549] £7.25
Mint Macaron Classic Stampin' Pad [138326] £6.00	Watermelon Wonder Classic Stampin' Pad [138323] £6.00	Island Indigo Classic Stampin' Pad [126986] £6.00	Blushing Bride Classic Stampin' Pad [131172] £6.00	White 1-1/4" (3.2 Cm) Jute Ribbon [137904] £8.25
Pearl Basic Jewels Embellishments [119247] £4.50	Home For Christmas Enamel Dots [140536] £3.75

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