by Jackie Bultje | Apr 12, 2017 | Birthday, color theory suite, Framelits, masculine cards, memory keeping, Project Life |
Hello stampers. I’m still super excited about all the new products we got to see and play with this past weekend at OnStage Toronto. One of my favourite suites was the Color Theory Suite that Alison Solven presented. I am sharing her samples here for you to enjoy. My product should be arriving today. That is definitely one of the big benefits of being a demonstrator, whether you do it to build a business, to earn a few extra dollars or just to get your own discount. You get to see and buy product before anyone else. So much fun. Here is the display board that shows you everything that is included in this fabulous suite.
I love that we also now will be offering Memories and More cards that can be used for memory keeping (aka Project Life or scrapbooking) AND for card making since it all coordinates so beautifully. There is a stamp for a sling-back lawn chair, but there is a framelit for a Muskoka (Canadian eh?) or Adirondack (for our American friends) chair. I love those chairs, in fact I will have two red ones arriving at my house soon.
Please do remember that the card samples featured here are to the best of my knowledge all the work of Alison Solven. Click here is a link to her blog. She has posted more of her samples there of course. We were so blessed to have her at OnStage Toronto all the way from New Westminster BC.
The sayings in this set are great and useful for both card making and memory keeping as well as home decor. Can’t wait to play with them. If you are a Stampin’Up! customer and need a little nudge to get your own discount all the time, this is it! You can get all this product as well as the Birthday Memories suite in your starter kit and on pre-orders beginning May 1, so take a moment and think about that awesome opportunity. I love sharing it since it so wonderfully changed my life is so many, many ways.
This emboss-resist technique works great with the snowflake images on this card. Did you know that glossy white cardstock is coming back to the annual catalog?
The following sample I am sharing uses the “paint chip” inspired paper included in the suite. Now we don’t have to go to the paint store any more to liberate paint chips.
One last sample…I guess I really do love snow flakes as most of the photos I took were from Alison’s snowflake cards!!
The last photo is not a very good one as it was taken in a dark room of the screen from the live feed from Amsterdam, but it does show a great scrapbook page. When purchasing product, you will save money and time by focusing on suites. Just like buying clothes, it makes sense to buy coordinating products because they work together so well. This makes it easy to make beautiful things and takes the work out of it. Just spread it all out on your work surface and the creativity will flow. Try it. You will be amazed.
Don’t forget to check out the retiring list, there are lots of great deals on there- anywhere from 15% to 50% off including items from the Occasions catalog. Click here to see your options, remember there are three categories to go through, there is a LOT of stuff. If you order online, please remember to use the current host code: S4M6VSZZ
Alison kindly sent me her pictures of her samples which are much nicer and also have her watermark on them. A lot of work goes into making the samples for OnStage because you have to come up with every idea totally on your own! If you pinned any of my pictures earlier that had my watermark on them, please delete them and repin these ones instead. Thanks for understanding. I am learning as I go!!
Thanks for checking out my blog. Happy stamping!!
Jackie
by Jackie Bultje | Mar 3, 2017 | Hello Lovely, Project Life |
Hello stampers! When I first discovered Project Life I was a little hesitant. I thought it was cheating. I was a “real” scrapbooker. However, when I talk to scrapbookers, the most recurring theme is that they are always lamenting the fact that they are “behind”. They have to catch up on so many years of documenting their photos. Well, Project Life to the rescue. I made my first album a few years ago after a Stampin’Up! incentive trip. I had taken my daughter Rachel on the Caribbean cruise with me and I was bound and determined to get an album made. Using Project Life I had the week long cruise with hundreds of pictures done in less than one week. What an amazing feeling that was. So I have to say that I am rather shocked that this trend has not taken off with my customers. I had one Project Life club that lasted a year but whenever I offered an event, there were very few takers. Maybe this is about to change.
We made this set of 18 cards (some are missing because there are two of every type of card in the kit, so you could definitely make more) at our team retreat last week Saturday. They only need to be stamped with a sentiment, accented with some linen thread and then put on either an early espresso or whisper white base. Some of the cards are 4 1/4″ square cards, others are regular 4 1/4″ by 5 1/2″ cards.
Here I used the 3″ x 4″ Project Life cards and matted them with 3 1/4″ x 4 3/4″ early espresso mats and mounted them on our whisper white note cards and envelopes. They look great with or without the linen thread accent. The words came from Feather Together for the first two cards. The card on the far right uses Paisleys and Posies.
The stitched framelits also work very well with adding a simple sentiment to these beautiful Project Life cards. The artwork really is stunning. The linen thread really adds to the natural beauty of these cards. Both cards use the stamp set Feather Together.
So now I thought you might enjoy some close-up shots of the the big group of cards shown in the first picture. Another added benefit of Project Life with Stampin’Up! is the great organizer box you get with your card kit. It works perfectly for holding all your card inserts, a journalling pen AND your completed cards. It really reduces the mess and keeps you organized.
The word “hope” comes from the stamp set Watercolour Words and the “so sorry” comes from Here for You. I stamped the words in early espresso. One of my customers, Sonja, suggested that the hope card would be perfect for Remembrance Day with the poppy on it. A great gift for one of our veterans.
The “just for you” in the square card above comes from Watercolor Words and the “I am much more me when I’m with you” comes from Layering Love.I really love the next two cards. With the collection you could make doubles of these as there are two of each design in it. The “begin each day with a grateful heart” would also look great in a framed piece in your craft room or anywhere in the house really! I would put the “hello lovely” in my bathroom where I would see it each morning and be reminded to love myself.
Are you getting impressed with the number and variety of cards you can make with this kit? I sure am. And there are still lots and lots of cards left. You could even use them for their intended use! Scrapbooking!!
The “you are too kind” saying is from the stamp set One Big Meaning. My ink pad could definitely use some re-inking here. Did you know that you can extend the life of your ink pads by re-inking regularly. I am convinced that we have the best ink pads in the industry. Of course, an added bonus is that our inks coordinate perfectly with our cardstock and patterned paper.
I have two more cards to share with you. One uses the stamp set Layering Love. The other one just combines three different Project Life cards. I cat a strip of the blue and white striped one and used oval framelits to cut the words out of another one. Once you start going through all these beautiful cards in the kit the possibilities are endless. I had so much fun playing with them and I hope you do too.
The last one “Life is Beautiful” is a fitting end to this blog post. I have just spent a week at a friend’s cottage on the shore of Lake Erie, and life has indeed been beautiful. I was able to share the beauty with my team of Stampin’Up! demonstrators and my new recruits too. I hope you send out the cards that you make and in doing so make life more beautiful for your friends and loved ones, that is after all why we do what we do. Everyone needs happy mail sometimes. Of course, you can also use these cards to make quick and easy scrapbook pages. Get those pictures off your camera and off your computer and into a book that the kids can look at and remember all the good memories they are making with you.
Next time I hope to continue the series on the tools of the trade and I will be talking about our amazing paper trimmer. Don’t forget about sale-a-bration, this is the last month to be able to get a free item with every $60 purchase.
