Hello stampers! It’s been a while since I have talked about the fantastic inspiration you can derive from Tutorial Bundles. I am a part of the International Create With Us tutorial bundle team. Each month we create a tutorial with 15 separate projects. Most often it is cards, but every once in a great while it is 3D items like boxes, bags or home decor items. These tutorials are sold for $20US or they are free with a $60 purchase.
Tutorial Bundles
This is the tutorial bundle sneak peek for February. The theme is Fancy Flora.
Our International Create With Us Tutorial Team
We have talented demonstrators from around the world on our team. This means that you get lots of different styles and a broad assortment of projects for each theme. What does this mean for you? It means that you get inspired to really use your stuff. Tutorials help you change from collector to creator! Trust me, it is truly amazing what happens when you make a few cards without having to think. Your own ideas will also start flowing and it will fill you with such a good feeling to have several cards made with one suite.
Where to Find Tutorials?
Sometimes it can be hard to find things on a blog. You can find my tutorials on the top of my blog on the home page under PDF Tutorials. Here is a link to make it even easier. I also belong to two other Tutorial Bundle teams. One of these teams is called the Demo Design Dream Team. These tutorials are $15US. The other is called Bundle Bonus Group and they are also $15US. All are free with an online order from me, so that is pretty awesome. You get a free tutorial with each $60 purchase and you can let me know which one you want if you have a preference.
A Beautiful Example!
Would you like to see a beautiful example of one of the cards in our tutorial bundle? This one is from Yvonne Spikmans, a fellow Dutch demonstrator.
Thanks for stopping by my blog today. Remember also, if you are a member of my Beyond Pampered Team either in Canada or in Europe, you get ALL of these tutorials for free as a team perk. If you want to join my team either for your own discount or to start a business, click here for my Canadian team and here for my European team. Today is Monday February 27, so that means there are only two more days to take advantage of the fantastic opportunity of the value added starter kit. I hope you do!!
Happy Friday stampers! I have a great Watercolour World card that is a great way to end your week. This is a background stamp that is fun to personalize with the À la Carte Alphabet dies. I have seen many people use either a person’s name or Happy BDay but I thought it would be fun to choose numbers for the year.
Watercolour World Card
I love Tahitian Tide combined with Parakeet Party, so that is what I used for this Watercolour World Card. The background stamp was inked up first in Tahitian Tide. I used the Stamparatus so that I could stamp multiple times to get just the right shade. To add both depth and interest, I sponged the edges of the world with Starry Sky. The Stamparatus is perfect for being able to stamp multiple times in the exact same spot to get that shading just right. Have I told you how much I love this tool?
Finishing Touch
The Watercolour World stamp doesn’t need much to finish it off but I thought that this Basics Borders die would be the perfect touch. It provides a nice contrast to the Parakeet Party numbers and coordinates with the inked image. Perfect colour coordination is the nicest feature that Stampin’Up! offers. Don’t you agree?
The last secret ingredient to your success with this card is our adhesive sheets. Just cut off a small part and put it behind the Parakeet Party Cardstock. When you die cut the numbers you have instant stickers! This is much easier than adding liquid adhesive to these skinny numbers. Be sure to get them before saleabration ends! You may as well get some free products with your purchase. Click here to see your options!
Video Tutorial
On February 28 you will be able to see the video tutorial on this card. Happy stamping and thanks so much for joining me today. If you subscribe to my channel, then you will be notified when this video goes live.
Hello stampers and happy Wednesday to you. Sweet Citrus is just such a fun bundle to work with. Did you know that it has a hybrid embossing folder? That means that it can cut and emboss at the same time. It’s even more special than that! You can also stamp your image first, then cut and emboss at the same time for incredible results. I had SO much fun playing with this Sweet Citrus bundle.
Sweet Citrus Hybrid Embossing Folder Cards
Let’s take a look at a bunch of cards that I have made in the last little while. I even have more than one video tutorial using it, that’s how much I loved it!!
The card on the top left with all the different citrus is a private video on my Prime Time group. If you want to join this group, you can read out it here.
The detail in the Sweet Citrus suite is just incredible. You can almost taste the lemon!!
Video Tutorial
It’s a bit over the top to share two videos in one blog post, but now you are getting all things citrus in one fell swoop!! I hope this brings a fresh foretaste of spring into your day. Here in the Netherlands the daffodils are blooming and spring is in the air!
More Inspiration from the Web
I was browsing online looking for an Easter Bunny card for one of my team members when I came across this amazing gift card holder. Guess what? It also uses the Sweet Citrus bundle so be sure to check it out and be blown away. Click here and thank me later.
Thanks for joining me today. Just a gentle reminder that saleabration is almost over, so be sure to get your freebies while you can! Live in Europe? Shop with me here or join my team for your own discount! To see all the offerings in Canada, just click here. Have a super day!!
Hello stampers. I am super excited to announce this Stamping Extravaganza in Chatham on March 29. Five demonstrators are offering classes at three different time slots during the day and you can choose which one to attend. There will be lots of inspiration for you as well as we are planning to set up display tables with our projects using current products. So…plan to take your camera so you can take photos of your favourites.
Stamping Extravaganza Classes
These classes are by Caroline VanRoestel-Seward. At 2pm she is teaching an Irresistable Blooms class. At 7pm you can do the Nature’s Prints class with Caroline.
Claudette Meriano is teaching this fun stamping technique class with Artistically Inked. The top two photos are for inspiration and bottom left is the photo of the cards that you will be making with Claudette at 7pm.
Below you will find my cards. At 10am will be the Garden Birdhouses class. At 2pm a Sympathy Class and at 7pm it’s Legendary Ride. All classes are $40 and include some great products as well as the cards.
Kylee MacCutcheon is teaching a class featuring the Easter Bunny stamp set. The cards featured are just for inspiration. She is still working on her samples so I will share them later!
Yvonne Macfadyen will be teaching cards using the Two Tone Flora stamp set. You can see her samples below. Classes will be at 2pm and 7pm.
How to Pay and Register
This is the part that I am not yet so good at. The best way for a demonstrator to accept payment for classes is via etransfer because no fees are deducted the way they are for PayPal. If you are interested in one of these classes please message me at [email protected], this is also where you can etransfer me if you want to sign up for one of my classes.
This event is taking place on Wednesday March 29 at Grace Christian Reformed Church at 255 Tweedsmuir Ave West. Classes are at 10am, 2pm and 7pm. All you need to do is bring your own adhesive kit and scissors. I really hope that you can join us. Please share this blog post with your friends because we want to make this an epic event! COVID has really sucked the life out of social events and it is high time to reclaim the stamping fun and fellowship that we have missed.
Hello stampers and happy Monday to you. Today I have some fabulous Garden Birdhouse cards with Blends. Blends always make me happy because they just colour beautifully. Trust me, even people who dislike colouring fall in love with our Blends. The colour just goes on so smoothly with such rich depths and they really do blend so beautifully. I’ve combined the Garden Birdhouses stamp with the free saleabration set Beautifully Happy. Someone in the stamping world combined those two stamps and I was very impressed with the result.
A Little Tip for the Crumb Cake Garden Birdhouses Cards
If you look carefully at the Crumb Cake cards, you will see some white on the garden birdhouses. I used our Chalk Marker on them and afterwards I was super disappointed to find that they are no longer in our offering. Thankfully you can get this look another way. Simply use your Blender Pen with some white craft ink. I keep one Blender Pen just for use with white craft ink. The white on Crumb Cake is such a soft look for a gender neutral baby card.
