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Monthly Card Class
Make 5 projects featuring a variety of techniques and great Stampin' Up! products. Perfect for experienced and novice crafters! $30 - all supplies included RSVP by Thursday, 17 January Saturday, 19 January 1:00 - 3:30 PM Nancy's Stamping Studio 1801/151 Berkeley Street, Melbourne 3000 1 block E of Haymarket tram stop (19/59) and Flemington Rd/Peel St (58). Also 3 blocks W of Lincoln Sq./Swanston St - UniMelb tram stop. Contact for parking info.
Here's a quick card I put together recently.
It features an image and sentiment from Dandelion Wishes, laid over one of the two background imaged in Bokeh Dots. These backgrounds are made with the newer 'Distinktive" process, that gives added depth and dimension with one application of ink. I've often found that these stamps work best when the ink is applied with a sponge dauber, so that the very fine etching doesn't become oversaturated with ink. Here's some more information about Distinktive stamps:
Here are the products I used to make this card. Click on any image below to go to my Online Store and order.
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Last chance to RSVP for class
Monthly Card Class
Make 5 projects featuring a variety of techniques and great Stampin' Up! products. Perfect for experienced and novice crafters! $30 - all supplies included RSVP by Thursday, 17 January Saturday, 19 January 1:00 - 3:30 PM Nancy's Stamping Studio 1801/151 Berkeley Street, Melbourne 3000 1 block E of Haymarket tram stop (19/59) and Flemington Rd/Peel St (58). Also 3 blocks W of Lincoln Sq./Swanston St - UniMelb tram stop. Contact for parking info.
When a new catalogue comes out it's easy to get caught up in the excitement of new products. A year ago one of the hottest items in the Occasions Catalogue was the Petal Palette bundle. Happily, it carried over to the 2018-2019 Annual Catalogue! This weekend I decided to give it another visit.
I CASE'd the design from Lisa Walsh, but made a few changes. I hadn't really used the Chicken Wire Elements from the Holiday Catalogue, but think a piece works well here. In addition to embossing the Pool Party layer with the Garden Trellis Embossing Folder, I applied Blackberry Bliss ink to the side with the raised design and laid a piece of Blackberry Bliss cardstock on it, applying pressure to transfer the ink. That's right, the embossing folder became a stamp!
I stamped the images from Petal Palette in Memento Tuxedo Black ink and coloured them with Stampin' Blendabilities. The coordinating Petals and More Thinlits Dies made it easy to cut them out and pop them up with Stampin' Dimensionals. The sentiment is from the same set.
Here are the products I used to make this card. Click on any image below to go to my Online Store and order. Order Your Occasions Product Shares Soon!
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Don't miss this great way to sample products from the Occasions Catalogue... click on the form below for details. 
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The other day I showed you a hand-coloured card I made featuring the street scene from Mediterranean Moments. Today I'm back with a second card using the same scene. You might be wondering why I sometimes feature a series of cards using the same stamp set...simply because I have it out I do multiple projects with it! Sometime one attempt will spark an idea for another, or I think of a twist or tweak to what I'm doing. I like to show you them in a cluster so that you can see the versatility of our sets.
Like I said, same street scene, this time coloured with our Stampin' Blendabilities, a range of alcohol markers that make shading and blending so easy. I again mounted the image on an Old Olive mat, but this time paired it with a sentiment from Vertical Greetings on a Crumb Cake Note Card.
Sharp-eyed readers will note that on the previous card coloured with Watercolor Pencils and a Blender Pen I stamped the image in StazOn Jet Black Ink. On this card, I used Memento Tuxedo Black Ink. Do you know why? StazOn is a solvent-based ink, so it is colourfast when using a water-based colouring medium. Memento ink is water-based, and so it doesn't smudge when using alcohol ink markers. Opposites attract! Here are the products I used to make this card. Click on any image below to go to my Online Store and order. 
January Classes
Monthly Card Class
Make 5 projects featuring a variety of techniques and great Stampin' Up! products. Perfect for experienced and novice crafters! $30 - all supplies included RSVP at least 2 days before class so I can be sure to have enough materials prepared. Tuesday, 15 January RSVP deadline Sunday, 13 January & Saturday, 19 January RSVP deadline Thursday, 17 January 1:00 - 3:30 PM Nancy's Stamping Studio 1801/151 Berkeley Street, Melbourne 3000 1 block E of Haymarket tram stop (19/59) and Flemington Rd/Peel St (58). Also 3 blocks W of Lincoln Sq./Swanston St - UniMelb tram stop. Contact for parking info.
Over the holiday period I spent some time just sitting and colouring. I find it very relaxing, and love that I can turn my coloured images into cards, which I probably wouldn't do if I was using adult colouring books, right?
This card was inspired by a similar layout on a card I received through a Random Act of Kindness Facebook group. This group of card crafters signs up to send each other cards in a particular (or every) month. It's fun to see what shows up in the mailbox! The card I received used an image from the Peaceful Place set, but I don't own it (yet!). So I substituted this street scene from Mediterranean Moments.
I used the Watercolour Pencils and a Blender Pen to colour, then cut it out with the new Rectangle Stitched Framelits and matted it on Old Olive. A layer of Whisper White was stamped multiple times with the large rectangle from Swirly Frames in Old Olive and Smoky Slate, before everything was mounted on a Thick Whisper White card base.
Stop back next time to see another version of this scene! Here are the products I used to make this card. Click on any image below to go to my Online Store and order. January Classes
Monthly Card Class
Make 5 projects featuring a variety of techniques and great Stampin' Up! products. Perfect for experienced and novice crafters! $30 - all supplies included RSVP at least 2 days before class so I can be sure to have enough materials prepared. Tuesday, 15 January & Saturday, 19 January 1:00 - 3:30 PM Nancy's Stamping Studio 1801/151 Berkeley Street, Melbourne 3000 1 block E of Haymarket tram stop (19/59) and Flemington Rd/Peel St (58). Also 3 blocks W of Lincoln Sq./Swanston St - UniMelb tram stop. Contact for parking info. 
Get your Occasions & Sale-A-Bration Catalogues
You won't want to miss the great new products available now! Shop from the Occasions and Annual Catalogues and earn FREE products from the Sale-A-Bration brochure! If you're in Australia and not already working with a demonstrator, email me today to get your copy of each one.
There are some Designer Series Paper (DSP) stacks that I just fall in love with, and the Frosted Floral DSP from the soon-to-be-discontinued Holiday Catalogue is one of them. If you haven't gotten a personal look at this paper it's a shame, because each sheet has 2 sides of gorgeous shimmery colour that pictures just can't show.
This paper is available through January 2...you can order it through my online store!
I decided to use one sheet of this paper to make a set of 8 cards using a One Sheet Wonder template. What is a One Sheet Wonder? It's a set of instructions for cutting a sheet of patterned paper into various sized pieces and card layouts utilising those pieces.
I used a template made by Claudia Ausborn specifically for metric card measurements. If one Googles "One Sheet Wonder" one will find a gazillion templates for measurements in inches, but almost none in centimetres. Claudia posted this in Kylie Bertucci's Love It Chop It Workshop Facebook page, which I highly recommend if you're looking for great ideas to use your stash of DSP!
One of the things I like about this method of card making is that I still get to use my creative side...choosing what colours to mat/stamp in, which side of the DSP to use, what sentiment would be best, which ribbon or embellishments, etc. I got 8 cards from this cutting template...I could have gotten a 9th but I chose to use 2 pieces on one card.
Just taking a quick look at the papers in the swatch photo at the top, one might think that there would be an overwhelming purple and aqua theme...but with this sheet I used Night of Navy, Mossy Meadow and Merry Merlot for the card bases/ink/mats. The cards have a breezy but very rich feel.
I'm thinking that this would make a nice set of cards to give as a gift...what do you think? Local stampers...I'm thinking of offering a One Sheet Wonder workshop...let me know if you'd be interested!
Here are the products I used to make this card. Click on any image below to go to my Online Store and order.
I am sharing the projects we made during my Open House earlier this month. I designed or chose them to showcase some simple stamping techniques suitable for participants with any amount of crafting experience. With everything going on (shipment from America arriving and needing to be unpacked/put away) in the week leading up to the event, I unashamedly CASE'd (Copy and Share Everything) some designs by other demonstrators.
This card I designed myself! It uses a trio of gingerbread men from Cookie Cutter Christmas, and a sentiment from Star of Light. Punches, dimension and ribbon help dress up a super-simple design.
Here are the products I used to make this card. Click on any image below to go to my Online Store and order.
Get your Occasions & Sale-A-Bration Catalogues
You won't want to miss the great new products being introduced on 3 January 2019! Shop from the Occasions and Annual Catalogues and earn FREE products from the Sale-A-Bration brochure! If you're in Australia and not already working with a demonstrator, email me today to get your copy of each one.
January Events
Monthly Card Class - TBA
Sorry for the delay in publishing my schedule for the beginning of 2019 - we're still working out some family issues that may affect when I can hold class. Hoping to have this resolved within the week!
I am sharing the projects we made during my Open House earlier this month. I designed or chose them to showcase some simple stamping techniques suitable for participants with any amount of crafting experience. With everything going on (shipment from America arriving and needing to be unpacked/put away) in the week leading up to the event, I unashamedly CASE'd (Copy and Share Everything) some designs by other demonstrators.
This card I first made at a retreat in July hosted by my friend and fellow demonstrator Sarah Edwards. I really like the bright colours in the Designer Series Paper (DSP), and that while there are a lot of little elements to the card, it "reads" as clean-and-simple.
Here are the products I used to make this card. Click on any image below to go to my Online Store and order.
Occasions and Sale-A-Bration start soon!
You won't want to miss the great new products being introduced on 3 January 2019! Shop from the Occasions and Annual Catalogues and earn FREE products from the Sale-A-Bration brochure! If you're in Australia and not already working with a demonstrator, email me today to get your copy of each one.
January Events
Monthly Card Class - TBA
Sorry for the delay in publishing my schedule for the beginning of 2019 - we're still working out some family issues that may affect when I can hold class. Hoping to have this resolved within the week!
I am sharing the projects we made during my Open House earlier this month. I designed or chose them to showcase some simple stamping techniques suitable for participants with any amount of crafting experience. With everything going on (shipment from America arriving and needing to be unpacked/put away) in the week leading up to the event, I unashamedly CASE'd (Copy and Share Everything) some designs by other demonstrators.
This card I CASE'd from Nancy Ferb. Dandelion Wishes can be used in many ways to make beautiful cards. For this one we used one image and stamped it 3 times in 3 colours of ink: Pineapple Punch, Grapefruit Grove and Lovely Lipstick. Rhinestones add a pop of sparkles and the Grapefruit Grove twine ties it all together with the matching card base.
Here are the products I used to make this card. Click on any image below to go to my Online Store and order.
Occasions and Sale-A-Bration Catalogues start soon
You won't want to miss the great new products being introduced on 3 January 2019! Shop from the Occasions and Annual Catalogues and earn FREE products from the Sale-A-Bration brochure! If you're in Australia and not already working with a demonstrator, email me today to get your copy of each one.
January Events
Monthly Card Class - TBA
Sorry for the delay in publishing my schedule for the beginning of 2019 - we're still working out some family issues that may affect when I can hold class. Hoping to have this resolved within the week!
I am sharing the projects we made during my Open House earlier this month. I designed or chose them to showcase some simple stamping techniques suitable for participants with any amount of crafting experience. With everything going on (shipment from America arriving and needing to be unpacked/put away) in the week leading up to the event, I unashamedly CASE'd (Copy and Share Everything) some designs by other demonstrators.
This one was designed by Kim Fee. It uses the beautiful rose and leaf images as well as a sentiment from Healing Hugs, one of the DistInktive stamp sets that use very fine etching in the rubber to make really detailed images.
Here are the products I used to make this card. Click on any image below to go to my Online Store and order.
Click here for a list of retiring items, or shop directly in my Online Store!
Occasions and Sale-A-Bration start soon!
You won't want to miss the great new products being introduced on 3 January 2019! Shop from the Occasions and Annual Catalogues and earn FREE products from the Sale-A-Bration brochure! If you're in Australia and not already working with a demonstrator, email me today to get your copy of each one.
January Events
Monthly Card Class - TBA
Sorry for the delay in publishing my schedule for the beginning of 2019 - we're still working out some family issues that may affect when I can hold class. Hoping to have this resolved within the week!
Today I'm showing one of the projects we made at my Open House on Saturday, and with this post I'm participating in Kylie Bertucci's International Blog Highlight for December. I'd appreciate it if you'd click here and vote for my entry so I can participate in the Top 10 hop later this month.
Kylie's theme this month is "Gratitude and Thankfulness." I've made several of these Hershey's Nuggets gift packs to hand out this holiday season to show my appreciation to people who impact my family. The tag features the Dashing Deer stamp set and Detailed Deer Thinlits Dies. I've pulled the colours Sahara Sand, Merry Merlot and Copper from the Joyous Noel Specialty Designer Series Paper which is used to wrap the chocolates.
Here are the details for constructing your own gift packs:
Cardstock Tray: Merry Merlot cut to 2 ⅛" x 5", then scored on both long edges at ⅜" and folded up. Nugget Wrappers: cut DSP into 1" x 3" strips. For directions on wrapping see my tutorial for a similar pouch made from DSP here. Tag: Sahara Sand cut 2" x 4 ¼". Punch with Scalloped Tag Topper Punch. Stamp with sentiment in Merry Merlot. Affix die cut deer (the one pictured is cut from Copper Foil Sheets, but we also made gorgeous ones from the Copper colour in the Joyous Noel Glimmer Paper Pack). Assembly: Place wrapped chocolates in the cardstock tray. Slide it into the 2" x 8" (5.1 x 20.3 cm) Cellophane Bag. Tie Merry Merlot & Copper Ribbon once around neck of bag, then slide the tag onto one tail and tie a bow. Trim ends as desired. 
Here are the products I used to make this project. Click on any image below to go to my Online Store and order, and please don't forget to vote for me here.
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Meet NancyI've been paper-crafting since 2006, and an Independent Stampin' Up! demonstrator since 2010. I love sharing my craft with others, either through classes or by creating special cards and gifts that meet their needs. Join me in creating fun! Archives
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