Inkspiration for Stamping and Scrapbooking

Rub On fun

Just having more fun decorating items with the rub-ons.

These ones are from the Sale-A-Bration brochure, which means they are free with a $70 order. There are 4 sheets in this package, not 2 as in the catalogue. The sheets vary in colour, Chocolate, Olive, White and Black.

I used the Chocolate ones on this candle set that has been sitting around for awhile. The tags are also incorporating rub-ons. The funky ribbon actually came with the candle jar but it matches the chocolate perfectly.

Remember this is the last week of Sale-A-Bration, so if you haven't taken advantage of this offer yet, you still have time. If you don't have a demonstrator of your own, and you are in Canada, I would be happy to help you out.

Happy stampin' and blessings! - Ann

More cards from last night's party

You saw the Embrace Life card - the ladies last night loved it!

Here's another card they stamped:

Does it look familiar? If you were visiting here last week, you'll have seen the card the Stamp Club made. If you missed it, you can check it out here.

This card is a 4 1/4 x 4 1/4, so it will fit in a regular sized envelope.

This is a layer of Sahara Sand, Pretty in Pink and Very Vanilla. I love how the Sahara Sand looks green with green colours - try it with Always Artichoke to see what I mean, and it can take on hues of gray with other pairings, like this one.

I last minute changed my mind and let them play with the rhinestone brads for this card - really looked great!

I'll be back soon with more of last night's cards to show you. You can ask for a card kit if you'd like to make these yourself, or if you are in an area that neighbours Elmira (under 1 hour to drive from Elmira), I'd be happy to do this class in your home - just gather up 6 or so friends and get ready for a great night of stampin' fun!

Happy stampin' and blessings,

Ann

Sale-A-Bration Fusion

As promised, here are more cards from Stamp Club.

There actually isn't any stamping on this card, but what a wow it is.

These are the Sale-A-Bration rub-ons, Love and Happiness. After we applied the rub-ons, and we all either used the green or the white sheet, so each card is a little different as we each clipped a piece of flourish, we attached the felt fusion flowers and the rhinetone brads. Fast and funky - gotta love it!

This card was inspired by several on SCS.

The third card didn't use rub-ons; instead we played with the set that co-ordinates with the rub-ons, Friendship Blooms.

  This card was inspired by one made by Glenda Mollet, who was inspired by Josee Smuck. Both of those cards were a 6 x 6 piece of cardstock folded in half to make a 3 x 6 card.

This card is 5.25 x 5.25, so it started with a 10.5 x 5.25 piece of Sahara Sand cardstock onto which I layered the Soft Sky. The top half of the vanilla piece is stamped with the leaf stamp from the Friendship Blooms set. The lower right uses a greeting from All Holidays.

The focal point is done by stamping the flower once onto vanilla and once onto Soft Sky with celery ink and then trimming each flower out. They are attached each other with a "sugar-coated" brad. That means I put a glue dot on the brad and then dipped it into glitter. The girls had a tough time deciding whether to use the cleery or the light blue glitter from the Fine Cosmo collection. The green looked really green on top of a gold brad and the blue looked more blue when it was applied to a silver brad. The leaves are totally inspired by Patty Bennet. Alll you do is fold a scrap of cardstock in half, run it through the paper crimper, hand cut a leaf shape and open it up again.

I love both of these cards, though they are very different - what do you think?

Are you wishing you could have been part of the fun? You can - I'd be happy to get another club going!

Ready, Set, Stamp!

You all know that the Sale-A-Bration stamp sets are die cut, right? Here's your reminder, if you forgot. It is so easy to just get to stamping with these! The rubber is already perforated, so you just punch out the stamps and mount them on the rubber. Add the stickers and you are ready to stamp! Gotta like that - AND the sets in the minis are like that too!

So you can see in the photo that I am mounting the Sale-A-Bration set called Friendship Blooms. I used this set already - if you missed it, here's a card I did for a swap, using craft ink to stamp on darker colours and to emboss.

Here's the card I made with the set today:

  This card is totally a copy of one I saw on Stamper's Showcase by Twila Mooneyham, except she used the Airart tool to spritz the card with ink and I used a background stamp to create a similar effect.

I loved the card - it's simple and pretty - so it  is going in the Occasions class next weekend.

Here is another card for next weekend's class. This one uses the Lots of Sayings set, along with a Hostess set. Isn't the monochromatic feel to this card kind of dreamy? The flower centre is accented with some of the new Lilac cosmo glitter.

Just a reminder: At the class we'll stamp 10 cards altogether, 5 each of 2 designs. Sounds like a lot, but the designs are simple, and you are production line stamping when you start doing more than 1. Believe me, you can stamp 2 of the same card almost as quickly as 1. The class starts at 1 pm on Saturday, February 23rd. If you can't join us in person, but would like to participate, you can:

1. Get the kit version -all pieces are pre-cut and pre-stamped, all embellishments are supplied, along with a photo and instructions. You put it together at home.

2. Round up 4 or 5 friends and I'll bring the class to your diningroom table.

Click here to see the other cards. Happy stampin' and blessings, Ann

Guest Artist - Friendship Blooms

This whimsical beauty is created by Lisa Jewer. Lisa's a long-standing member of my team of SU! demonstrators, in fact, she was the first to sign up under me, just a couple of weeks after I signed on. And she is a wonderful friend!

Lisa made this card for a swap featuring Sale-A-Bration sets. Demonstrators will often organize swaps so that we have LOTS of ideas and samples to show our customers.

The card starts with a Soft Sky cardfront background stamped with the flourish from Friendship Blooms set in Blue Bayou. She stamped on the vellum with Groovy Guava ink before cutting it out - it adds a lovely lightness to the card, don't you think? The vellum flower floats over a similar flower stamped on Whisper White. The jumbo brad keeps the vellum flower there without the use of adhesives that usually show through vellum.

Lisa LOVES punches and used her small circle punches to punch out the guava flowers. Double stitched ribbon and patterned paper in Blue Bayou contrast the orange tones of the Groovy Guava.

Thanks, Lisa, for allowing me to share your cheery card.

Stay tuned later this week for another guest artist.

Remember that you can get the set featured in this card FREE through SU!'s Sale-A-Bration promotion, which starts on FRIDAY!

Customers: With every $70 you spend, you may choose a free set from the SAB brochure. Call or email me anytime to place your order.

Hostesses: For every $400 spent at your party, you may choose a free set from the SAB brochure. I still have a few openings left during SAB, so let's look at a calendar together.

Potential Recruits: If you've ever thought about being a Stampin' Up! demonstrator, NOW is the time to do it. I'd love to talk to you about the possibilities of owning your own SU! business. Starting your business during SAB means that you get to add a set of your choice from the main catalogue to your custom starter kit. Let me tell you more - just email me for info!

Ready to Sale-A-Brate!

Isn't this set pretty??? It's called Friendship Blooms.

It's fun and whimsical. There's also a co-ordinating rub-on set available.

The greeting reads:

Your friendship makes my heart happy.

How sweet is that?

What I really like about this greeting is that the mixture of fonts and the offsetting of the lines makes it easy to centre.

I am basically a lazy stamper. I'll use my Stamp-a-ma-jig when I have to, but if I can get away with eyeballing, I eyeball. This card is all eyeballed. The vertical line on the right is one stamp with 3 flowers in a row, so stamping just twice was a cinch. I love the new Berry Bliss patterned paper, so those are the colours that inspired this card. I used Regal Rose Craft ink to stamp on the Close to Cocoa cardstock. The focal piece is Regal Rose cs stamped with Close to Cocoa ink for the sentiment and the flourishes. For the larger flower, I stamped on Close to Cocoa cs with Regal Rose craft and heat embossed with Irridescent Ice embossing powder - because I love glitter, even when it isn't Christmas! I punched the small flowers and the corner pieces from Purely Pomegranate and doodled with the white gel pen for a little pop.

Now here's what you need to know:

YOU can get THIS SET for FREE!!! AND there are others to choose from too! And there are Rub-Ons too this year! That's the GREAT thing about Sale-A-Bration - something for everyone! To see the Sale-A-Bration brochure, click here. Just let me know if you'd like a paper copy.

Customers: YOU receive a free Sale-A-Bration set for every $70 you spend. You've got a long wish list with the new catalogue out so this is a FABULOUS time to start to peck at it!

Hostesses: YOU receive a free Sale-A-Bration set when you host a Stampin' Up! party that has sales of $400. For every $400 spent at your party (pre-tax & shipping), you'll get a set. That's in addition to all the other great stuff hostesses earn!

Recruits: You receive for FREE any set of your choice, up to $60.95, from the main catalogue to add to your kit when you sign up during Sale-A-Bration.

I'll be posting more Sale-A-Bration sets in the next little while - Sale-A-Bration runs from February 1st to March 17th. I'd love to help you get the sets you'd like, so contact me!