by Jackie Bultje | Apr 12, 2021 | aqua painters, Beauty of Friendship, masculine cards |
Hello stampers and happy Monday to you. Today I am thrilled to share with you a sneak peek of the Beauty of Friendship stamp set. This is definitely one of my favourite stamp sets from the new annual catalog. As demonstrators we get early access to the new products so you could also get this in a starter kit or you can wait until May 4, 2021. Let’s take a look shall we?
Beauty of Friendship
We had a Stampin’Up! virtual event on Saturday and a version of this card was demonstrated. I forgot to take a screen shot so I don’t remember who the creator was or even if I came close to her design. Regardless, I thought it was brilliant and love how the bottom green part folds around the card and opens up to create a diorama view.
After I had the card finished I decided to add a watercolour sentiment to coordinate with the pretty birds. It really is all in the details isn’t it?
Full details on how to make this card will be in the May Demo Design Dream Team tutorial which you can get for free when you order online from me OR if you join Prime Time With The Pampered Stamper OR my demonstrator training group Training With The Pampered Stamper.
Beauty of Friendship Bundle
Here are two pictures showing you the stamp set and the dies as well as the beautiful coordinating paper called Beauty of the Earth.
A Fun Perk
One of the perks that I like most of being a demonstrator is that I get my hands on brand new product before anyone else. The discount is also pretty fabulous. For the life of me I cannot imagine why anyone would choose to pay full price for their stamping supplies. It simply isn’t necessary. Let me help you get a continual discount on your products!
If you don’t want to wait and you live in Canada, you can just click here to get your starter kit.
Thanks!
I’m so glad you stopped by today. It always makes me happy when people find my work valuable. Thanks for joining me today and have a super day!!
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by Jackie Bultje | Apr 27, 2020 | aqua painters, Clubhouse, Country Club, Do The Impossible, masculine cards |
Hello stampers and happy Monday to you. I am late with this blog post but I had to say goodbye to Rachel this morning and that was hard! Today I am combining Country Club paper with Do the Impossible stamp set for some quick and easy masculine cards.
Retiring List
Each year we are excited to see what the new catalog will bring, but that also means that there will be a lengthy retiring list of products. If you are new to StampinUp! you are probably wondering what the heck this even means. It means that Stampin’Up! is constantly trying to keep its offerings fresh, both in colour and style. Certain products are “retired”, that means they will no longer be available for purchase. Once the list is posted, these items are only available while supplies last. Today I am going to show you a few of my favourites that I think you should really have.
Country Club Suite
This card was made using strips of Country Club paper that are 5 1/2″ long. You can overlap them to emphasize one pattern over another. What a great way to use up your scraps! #loveitchopit
Do you know what the biggest surprise with this card was? The gold element just popped out of the delicate framelit with absolutely no poking at all! Yes, you can give this card to someone who doesn’t golf at all, it’s just a great, attractive card.
Do you see the image in this card? It is NOT a stamp. It is the paper with lots of images that you can colour. I used the rectangle stitched framelits to cut it out.
Do The Impossible
This is another great stamp set that is perfectly suited for colouring. It also pairs very well with the country club paper. I stamped the image in memento black on shimmery white paper and coloured it with Blends.
This last card with Do The Impossible also uses shimmery white cardstock but I used an aqua painter and blueberry bushel ink to do a watercolour wash across the top giving the impression of a lake in the background.
Better Late than Never
It is now ten pm, so I am going to wrap up this blog post with no further niceties. Be sure to read my newsletter for some fun stuff happening on Wednesday or read about it on my business Facebook page. If you want to see my favourite Country Club card ever, check out this blog post from a while back. Guess what? I just see that I have never blogged about this amazing card so I will share it with you on Wednesday. Sleep well my friends!
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by Jackie Bultje | Feb 26, 2020 | aqua painters, Birthday, colour wash, masculine cards, Tropical Oasis |
Hello stampers and happy Thursday to you. Today I want to share with you a very simple colouring technique, colour washing with aqua painters. I used this technique yesterday on one of my Tropical Oasis cards and I will share with you a few valuable tips and tricks to enhance this technique.
Tips and Tricks for Colour Washing with Aqua Painters
Totally by accident I found a very important tip for colour washing with aqua painters, but I will share a few more here with you as well.
- Use thick whisper white cardstock instead of regular cardstock. The thickness of the cardstock will allow deeper grooves from the embossing with the dies and this allows for lovely variation of colour.
- Use an acrylic block pressed into your ink pad of choice as your “ink pad” for picking up the colour for your aqua painter.
- Hold the aqua painter on a bit of an angle as you brush the colour on to get better and more consistent colour coverage.
- Play with different colours or even use more than one colour on your die cut cardstock. You might be surprised that the colour you first chose is not the best one. That is what happened to me with my pineapple topper. Originally I used granny apple green because I loved the pop of fresh colour. Turns out that garden green looked a LOT better.
- If you are colour washing a background then your best choice is either shimmery white cardstock or Fluid 100 Watercolour paper.
Compare the Difference
Last night during my Facebook Live I didn’t have the pineapple topper that I needed on hand, so I had to improvise. Caroline had accidentally cut a white topper in the morning at coffee ad a card so I used that and did a colour wash with it using garden green. It looked fabulous, so I thought I would share it with you here.
Do you see how the granny apple green topper now seems to lack depth and reality when you compare it to the garden green colour washed one? Great things happen when you are forced to improvise and experiment. This is also a great trick to remember when you are all out of a certain colour of cardstock.
Palm Trees and Tropical Prints
These last two cards really don’t have anything to do with colour washing but I wanted to share them with you anyways. Again, it is interesting to see the change in the card that happens simply by switching up the patterned paper. It is the same sheet of paper, just turned over!
You would choose which paper to use based on your recipient. Does he or she wear subdued, classic Hawaiian shirts or vibrant and boisterous ones?
Clean Vintage Card
There were lot of improvising opportunities last night! I was missing a pineapple topper in garden green that was supposed to be the bush under my palm trees so this is the card that ended up being created! I loved the clean and simple vintage look and it also shows you how to use a partial label die with the woodie. This was also the only sentiment that I had not yet used in the Tropical Oasis stamp set.
Answering Your Questions
I just wanted to address something here since I know that many of my readers are fellow demonstrators. As most of you know, I love to share what I do freely, however I do have only so many hours in a day. So please don’t be offended if I cannot take the time to explain to you how I run my classes or events. About a year ago I started a private Facebook group just to address those needs. It is available to anyone in the world and it is super affordable, only $5 a month in your own currency payable through PayPal or etransfer. I do weekly live videos and also share other files and great information there. We have a wonderful tribe of people on this group and that is where you can go if you want to learn business tips and training from me. Thanks for understanding!
Looking Back
Do you ever look back on your work from the past? I love to go back to some of my old blog posts to see what I made a year or two ago. If you are like me, your cards are kind of like your babies. You really, really get attached to them and they hold special memories. Check out this blog post for some lovely cards and a heartwarming story too. Don’t let the attachment and affection you have for your cards prevent you from giving them away! Just take a picture of them and know that they will be going to a very good home and spreading love around the world.
Facebook Live
Every Tuesday I do a Facebook live video showing the three cards that we made at coffee and a card that morning. If you missed the one from yesterday you can see it here. If you like it, please share so your friends can see it too. Thanks so much for joining me today and have a super day.
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