Exciting Day for Stampin' Up! Australia

It  is very exciting!!!  Stampin' Up!s very own Digital Software is here.  Try it out for a 30 day trial. Just pop over to my Website at www.janetteclark.stampinup.net and click on Products/shop now and you are away :)  It takes a little bit of time to download but it is worth it.  I am addicted already!!

The full version will be available for purchase for just $24.95 very soon so keep watching my website and this space for more info.

 Here is my first play at a scrapbook page.....it is a work in progress so when I have completed it I will share it with you all.

Happy stamping
Janette

March Birthdays

Hello Stampers,

The South Pacific ( Australia and New Zealand )  Stampin' Up! Convention is coming up soon in May so I have been busy starting my swaps and also doing a couple of my "Roomie" Gifts.  The Convention this year is in my home town of Brisbane but I am still staying in close to where all the action is so I don't miss out on anything :)  I love  Convention so simply can't wait till this years'.  I can't show you any of these yet as they are a secret!!  I will have lots of pics to share after Convention.

I still have to keep up to date with my family and friends' birthday cards so I thought I would share a couple of my March ones with you now.

I found inspiration for this one from Pinterest - great source of Stampin' Up! creations on this site.  I am loving it. It is a card by Virginia Kilmore and Desiree Spenst.  I have just adapted the embellishments for me.  This is a card for my sister's birthday and I used the Naturals White cardstock on Page 160 of the Annual Catalogue.  This has a slight fleck through it which gives it a bit more character.  I also used up some of my old retired DSPs both on the card and on the envelope flap.

This card is using the new Designer Builder Brads in the Seasonal Catalogue on Page 12 and I cut a small Itty Bitty Punch Pack circle from the Comfort Cafe Designer Series Paper for the centre of the Brad.  The flower is using Daydream Medallions Stamp Set and the Floral Frames Framelits.  The colours are Midnight Muse and Whisper White.    The greeting is from the  retired stamp set "A Word for You".  This card is for a good friend and neighbour's birthday next week. I hope she likes it.

Happy creating and TFL

Janette

Playing paper doll dress ups

I am loving the new "Dress Up" Framelit Dies ( #130101) in the new Seasonal Catalogue.  When I first saw them I thought what would you do with them???  So I bought them to see what I could do.  Here are 2 of my creations that I put together today.  I am now loving them :)

 This one is very simple using Sycamore Street DSP which you can get free with a $100.00 order only until 22 March so just a little over 3 weeks left.  Get in quick so you don't miss out. Pop in a comment if you live in Australia and would like to place your order and I'll get straight back to you.

Stamp Set:  Curly Cute
Ink:  Island Indigo
Cardstock: Summer Starfruit, Whisper White
Accessories:  Pearl Basic Jewels, Sycamore Street DSP, Lucky Limeade Everyday Enchantment Organdy ribbon (retired)

This second one is your "Little Black Dress" for that super special occasion.  Here my dress is dry embossed using the Manhattan Flower EF and placing the dress, after it has been cut out with the Framelit, in the right place for the pattern you are looking for.

Stamp Set:  A Little Greeting (Seasonal Catalogue)
Ink:  Basic Black
Cardstock: Summer Starfruit, Whisper White, Basic Black, Baja Breeze
Accessories:  Rhinestone Basic Jewels, Island Indigo Sycamore Street Satin Ribbon (sale-a-bration brochure), Flower Trim (Seasonal Catalogue), Manhattan Flower EF, Scallop Trim Border (Retired), 2.2 cm Scallop Circle Punch, 1.9 cm circle punch, Dress Up Framelits Dies.

Hope you get to play with this set and love it as much as I do.
TFL
Janette

Tulle, Tulle and more Tulle!!!

Hello Stampers,

I have been looking at all my Tulle recently...you know the ones that were in our last Holiday Catalogue??

I used the Cherry Cobbler in my Christmas decoration.

Well I really wanted to use it again so surfed my favourite crafting sites for inspiration.  On Pinterest I found Kimberley Van Diepen from Woodbridge, Virginia and I love Kimberley's designs. I fell in love with her mini mannequin using the Dress Framelits.  Check them out here.

I just had to make one or a few of these myself.  So here is my first attempt and as I don't have any wooden cotton reels but plenty of corks I decorated the champagne cork with Tulle and stuck the skewer into this. Works a treat :)

I stamped the top of the dress form with the flowers in the Vintage Vogue stamp set (retired) using the new Illuminate stamp pad and attached a couple of the little flowers from the Itty Bitty Punch Pack.  These are attached with a mini paper clip which is non Stampin' Up!  The flower on the waist is from the Vanilla Flower Trim in the new Seasonal Catalogue on Page 5.  Contact me here if you are in Australia and are simply dying to get your hands on these darling little flowers :)

Another use for the Tulle was in this Wedding card that I made for my stash.

I cut small circles of the Crumb Cake tulle and ran a gather stitch around the middle to give it a bit of added oomph!!  The DSP is from Summer Smooches and added a bit of gold glimmer paper behind the cake sentiment from the Love & Laughter stamp set (# 125477 C / 127512 W). The word "Love" is stamped onto the DSP with Versamark and embossed with Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder using the Simply Serif Mini Alphabet (#126360) on Page 147 of the Annual Catalogue. The background is the Honeycomb Embossing Folder.  The little mini heart on the cake is from the Owl Builder Punch.

I hope you like my creations and they give you inspiration to make some of your own :)

Happy stamping
Janette

Masking Embossing Folders Tutorial

As promised here is my Tutorial on Masking Embossing. This is a card I made for my brother's birthday....

The card base is Midnight Muse 21 cm x 14.8 cm ( normal half the A4 cardstock size ). I then cut another piece of Midnight Muse 10 cm x 14.3 cm and ran this through the Big Shot as shown

The sandwich consists of Multipurpose Platform with all TABS closed, no bottom plate, Embossing Folder (EF), top plate.  The Embossing Folder is made up like this...

I used the Houndstooth folder which, I think, is quite manly.  I placed the cardstock into the EF and I created a template using 2 x pieces of the backing board from the Glimmer Paper to place on the top of the EF.  I added a couple of spots of Dotto just to keep it in place.  You can make your template any shape you choose but it must be "chipboard" thickness ( 2 mm ).  So you can glue together a few layers of the backing card from your Designer Series Paper (DSP) - I usually do 3 or 4 layers - or use this card from the Glimmer Paper.  As each Big Shot is calibrated slightly differently do a test run first and adjust accordingly for your machine.  The end result is........

 

 Here is the finished card.   The greeting is from the free sale-a-bration stamp set "Patterned Occasions" stamped on whisper white , then Summer Starfruit, Midnight Muse embossed with Houndstooth again and Cherry Cobbler at the bottom. The cupcake stamp is coloured using the 2012-2014 In Color Stampin' Write Markers - Midnight Muse, Summer Starfruit and Raspberry Ripple.

and inside I used the greeting from the "Best Dad Ever" stamp set in the Annual Catalogue.

I hope you have lots of fun playing with this technique and create some wonderful designs

Happy creating

Janette

Rainy day card making

It is super wild weather outside this Australia Day weekend.....and so off to my craft room I go.  Lucky where I am situated there is no damage.  I am surrounded by lots of trees though that seem to be doing the "happy dance" as we really did need the rain :)

So I have played with a few of my new stamp sets from the sale-a-bration brochure and the up coming new Spring Catalogue available from Friday 1 February till 30 June 2013.

This first one is using the Vintage Verses stamp set and the Madison Avenue stamp set  from sale-a-bration and I am really loving this set....

Cardstock: More Mustard and Whisper White
Ink: Midnight Muse and Soft Suede
Stamp sets: Vintage Verses, Madison Avenue and the little heart from  Itty Bitties (coming soon in the new Catty)
Punches:  Itty Bitty Shapes Punch Pack
Accessories:  small  soda pop top and Natural trim ribbon  (also from the new Catty coming soon), Comfort Cafe DSP

I made this card to fit the new Medium Envelopes ( Crumb Cake # 107297 Page 160 of the Annual Catalogue)

This second card also using another favourite stamp set from sale-a-bration .....

Unknowingly it seems Soft Suede is my pick of colours this weekend :):) I love this stamping off technique.  I have used it before with my Motorbike stamp...great for a male card. The first bike is inked up well with Soft Suede then stamped off twice on a scrap piece of paper and then stamped on to the Whisper White.  The second bike is stamped off once and the third bike is full colour.  The last bike is full Chocolate Chip with no stamping off. It is also embossed with clear embossing powder to give it that "pop" effect.

Cardstock:  Whisper White and Soft Suede
Ink:  Soft Suede, Chocolate Chip and Versamark.
Stamp Set:  Feeling Sentimental
Accessories:  Linen thread, Chocolate Chip Brad and mini silver brad, Square Lattice Embossing Folder, Clear Embossing Powder

Hope you like them and TFL
Janette

It's sale-a-bration time!!!!

 

The party has started...... from 22 January till 22 March 2013 you can get lots of cool free stuff for every $100.00 spent. Click on the brochure above to see what you can get. If you would like a copy of the brochure just email me here and I will send one out in the post pronto.

Also if you have been thinking about becoming a demonstrator now is the time.  For still the great price of $169.00 you get $294.00 worth of products which is 25% more than usual. Click below to learn more

So start making your wish list now and email me to send in your order.

Happy stamping

Janette