Cinema Saturday #22

Doesn't this card just scream Singin' In The Rain!?!

No? No it doesn't... but that is the movie that inspired it, for this weeks Cinema Saturday challenge. As much as I wanted this card to represent the singing and dancing, I just couldn't see a way to make it happen. And you know I am a sucker for costumes, right? Well, I was inspired by this costume:

Our additional recquirement this week was to include something related to water. If I had gone the singin' and dancin' route it would have been drops of Crystal Effects, but I didn't so I had to think of something else... and the jewelry worn with this dress has pearls so there's my water element. You could also say the clear beads and rhinestone brad fit that too (especially the "drop" shaped ones...). The sentiment reflects the singin' and dancin' though, so it's kinda in there!

All supplies by Stampin' Up!
Cardstock: Whisper White, Regal Rose, vellum cardstock, brushed silver
Stamp Sets: Happy Everything, Fine Lace, Leaves a la Carte
Inks: Whisper White, Encore silver
Accessories: Pretties Kit, Fairytale Ribbon Originals, clear embossing powder, dimensionals, mini glue dots
Show watched while creating: Singin' In The Rain

Leaves With A Flourish

I promise this will be the last Carte Postale card I share with you for a while - I hope you're not sick of it! I think I am going to have to hide it again so I will actually use some other sets. This is a card I have been demonstrating lately, it's a reincarnation of this card, however the above card features masking, In Color markers/blender pen markers and of course one of the bundles from the Free Wheelin' special that ends tomorrow. If I've inspired you with all my Carte Postale cards, or any of the other bundles catch your eye, get your order to me quickly so you don't miss out!

All supplies by Stampin' Up!
Cardstock: Purely Pomegranate, Whisper White, Soft Sky
Stamp Sets: Carte Postale, Leaves a la Carte, Frames With A Flourish
Ink: River Rock, Purely Pomegranate, Basic Gray, VersaMark
Accessories: Pretties Kit, Purely Pomegranate blender pen marker, Soft Sky blender pen marker, River Rock blender pen marker, dimensionals

Pretty Postale

September is drawing to a close, which means there are not many days left to take advantage of Stmapin' Up!s Free Wheelin' special. This card again uses one of the bundles available from the special, Carte Postale. I think every time I use it I can't help mentioning it is one of my favourite sets, though I tend to use colours that traditionally fit it's "vintage" style. When I started makin gthis card I felt it was high time I used some brighter, prettier colours - so teaming it with some Pretties Kit accessories seemed a natural progression. The main feature of this card uses a square aluminium edged tag. I stamped directly onto this with the 'Carte Postale" stamp using my Stamp-a-ma-jig to position it (which was a little awkward given the raised edge of the tag). I didn't even need to mask the words on the stamp as these went onto the aluminium edge and any ink was easy to wipe off. And yes, I know it's another green & purple card but at least I did mix it up a bit and swap out the Bayou for Teal!

All supplies by Stampin' Up!
Cardstock: Almost Amethyst, Taken with Teal, vellum cardstock
Stamp sets: Carte Postale, Leaves a la carte
Inks: Taken With Teal, Soft Sky, Whisper White
Accessories: White Aluminium Square Tags, Pretties Kit, Soft Sky double-stitched ribbon, Sage Shadow marker, Almost Amethyst marker, Soft Sky "marker" (blender pen + refill), dimensionals
Show watched while creating: House

SU! September Promotion

During September Stampin' Up! are offering free wheels with 6 selected stamp sets. The wheels on offer are coordinating jumbo wheels, so it really is a great deal - you can read more about it at the SU! website. I love the wheels, particularly the jumbo ones because you can have a card front covered in no time. The other day I posted a card using the Merry Merry bundle over on the Elite Challenges blog, and on KW challenge card used stamps from the Bodacious Bouquet bundle, but today I am going to share a couple of cards using one of the other bundles. This is probably my favourite bundle of the lot, as Carte Postale is one of my fave sets and Leaves a la Carte works so well with it. I started off with a very simple card, using the current Elite Challenges colour challenge as inspirationI knew before I started these cards I was going to make two basically the same, so I took an A6 piece of Certainly Celery, wheeled over it with Leaves a la Carte using Certainly Celery ink, then cut it in half length ways and used one piece on this card (with a little trimming off it's length).
For this second card I trimmed the Celery piece a little smaller than in the first card and layered it on Night of Navy before attaching it to the card front. The other main difference in this second card is I used more than just a sentiment from Carte Postale. The bird and flowers were stamped on vellum cardstock, the flower stamped three times using Blue Bayou ink and the bird twice using Not Quite Navy. I stamped on vellum as I wanted one bird to be flying in the opposite direction and this is probably the simplest way to do that. The flowers were coloured using blender pens on the back of the image.

If you'd like to order any of these bundles don't forget to use the special code as listed on the SU site

All supplies by Stampin' Up!
Cardstock: Soft Sky, Certainly Celery, Blue Bayou, Whisper White, Not Quite Navy, vellum cardstock, So Saffron
Stamp Sets: Carte Postale, Leaves a la Carte
Inks: Certainly Celery, Old Olive, Blue Bayou, Not Quite Navy
Accessories: Old Olive 5/8" grosgrain, Rich Regals brads, mini glue dots

Beate's Sketch #53

I whipped this quick card up last night as a response to Beate's WSC #53. When I got started on it I didn't take a close enough look at the sketch to remember it very well but it is still rather close. For something different I decided not to have a circle or flower accent and went with the Fleur de lis from Carte Postale.

All supplies by Stampin' Up!

Cardstock: Naturals Ivory, Soft Sky, Chocolate Chip, Blue Bayou, Real Red
Stamp set: Carte Postale, Leaves a la Carte
Ink: Chocolate Chip, Blue Bayou
Accessories: Fire Square Rhinestone Brads, dimensionals

Again with the Chocolate and Teal!

On Saturday I was in Sydney to attend Sydney Regional training put on by Stampin' Up! I squeezed in some time to make some swaps and this is the first design I did, reprising the colour combination of one of my Christmas cards with a bit of a tweak. The flower and sentiment are from the Carte Postal set, the leaves along the left edge are from the matching Leaves a la Carte wheel (both available in the Summer mini which starts on December 1st). The background is an old favourite - French Script. I swapped metallics, changing the gold I used in this Christmas card to copper.

I had such a great time at regionals. Between all the members of Angela's downline (and downlines of those downlines), and those I know through online groups etc, everywhere I turned there was a familiar face or name. We also had some creative time and focused on the business side of things. If you'd like to hear more about the benefits of being a Stampin' Up! demonstrator, contact me and I'd be happy to answer any questions you have.