Stampin' Up! Australia: Claire Daly Independent Demonstrator Melbourne

Coming soon / sneak peek: Stampin' Up! Tulip Builder Punch and Timeless Tulips Bundle

December 09, 2019

If you love tulips like me, you will love a new bundle coming in the 2020 January to June mini catalogue, called Timeless Tulips Bundle.

Tulips are one of my favourite flowers, and living in an area of Australia where we have quite a cool winter, means I can plant them in pots for a lovely early spring display. I love going to the Tesselaar bulb stand at the Melbourne International Flower and Garden show and choosing my bulbs each year. This bulb grower isn't far from me in the Yarra Valley, and each year they put on a Tulip Festival in September .

Here are some tulips from my patio garden.

I was excited to see the Timeless Tulips bundle in the new catalogue which starts on January 3rd. It's a great stamp set with a coordinating punch and is a a great price for a bundle too!

Here's the card we made with the bundle as one of our make and takes at OnStage in Sydney in November. These ones were done in Rococo Rose. I'm looking forward to experimenting with lots of different colour combinations for my tulips.

For the inside of the card, I stamped a couple more of the tulips in the bottom right hand corner.

I'm looking forward to bringing you LOTS more creative ideas with this fabulous bundle as we launch our 2020 Stampin' Up! January to June mini catalogue.

Don't forget the Holiday Catalogue ends on 2nd January. Lots of products won't be carrying over and are now on sale in the Year End Closeout Sale. Bundles which are carrying over won't have the 10% bundle price after 2nd Jan. All the details HERE.

Don't forget the December Host Code for a free gift mid January.

If you are new to Stampin' Up! or looking for a new active demonstrator, I'd love to help you out from anywhere in Australia. Check out what I offer HERE, and request your new 2020 catalogues HERE.

Thanks for stopping by today. See you tomorrow.

Claire

Posted at 05:50 PM in 2020 January to June Stampin Up Mini Catalogue, Bundles: Punches and dies with matching stamp sets., Garden, flower and plant inspired cards., Get Well Cards, Punches | Permalink | Comments (0)

Art With Heart Team May Blog Hop: New Catalogue Preview

May 23, 2019

Welcome to the May blog hop for the lovely Art With Heart team girls. Tonight the Art with Heart team are sharing creative products using supplies from the upcoming 2019 - 2020 Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue. If you would like a copy of the brand new annual catalogue, contact any of the girls on the blog hop and we will get in touch with you.

My projects feature a beautiful new Designer Paper called Mosaic Mood. This paper pack didn't immediately jump out at me in the catalogue, but then we received a pack as an all attendee give away on the last day of Onstage. Once opening the pack, the beautiful colours jumped right out at me, as did the clear embossed parts which add beautiful texture and interest. It's a really pretty 12 x 12 paper pack.

I have used the paper to make two cards for some friends that needed a virtual hug recently. There are lots of beautiful floral mosaic images to cut from the paper, and I used those as the feature of my cards.

For some added interest on this first card, I embossed one of the layers with the Subtle embossing folder, which gives a beautiful textured but subtle effect. I also did some very light stamping on the base card (the leaf image is from Healing Hugs stamp set). My greeting on this card is from a set carrying over into the new 2019 Annual Catalogue, called Flourishing Phrases. The inside sentiment says 'with warmth and caring from me'. The greeting on the front of the card fit's nicely in one of the stitched circles from the Stitched Shapes die set. This is one of my most used die sets because it has ovals, squares and circles in the one pack.

As you can see, there's a range of beautiful colours in this paper. The catalogue tells me that the coordinating colours are: Blushing Bride. Crushed Curry, Garden Green, Mint Macaron, Soft Suede, Terracotta Tile, Very Vanilla and Whisper White. I adapted that a little and used the following colours to give my cards a soft pastel look:

I haven't used So Saffron in what feels like forever, but I think it works really well with this new Mosaic Mood Designer Series Paper. The greeting I have used on this card is from Healing Hugs, another set carrying over to the 2019 Annual Catalogue.

I've used the Stitched Rectangle Dies, and the Stitched Labels dies for the layers of my greeting. I do like my stitched dies, and any interesting shapes I can use for stamping greetings or layering. This large stitched label is one of my favourite dies.

I hope you like my preview of this gorgeous new DSP, Mosaic Mood. If you don't have your own 2019 Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue yet, click the contact me button, or catalogues button right at the top of the page to give me your details and I will get one out to you.

Now it's time to keep on hopping and see what my lovely team members have been creating to show you the new products. Next up is Catherine Proctor who always blows me away by her creativity!

If you get lost anywhere, here is a full list of team members who are participating in this months blog hop:

Thanks again for stopping by today. Have a fabulous day,

Claire

Product List

Posted at 08:03 PM in 2019/20 Annual Catalogue, Art with Heart Team, Art with Heat Blog Hops, Designer Series Paper, Get Well Cards, Stitched Framelits, Sympathy Cards | Permalink | Comments (9)

Stampin' Up! Distinktive Stamps: Healing Hugs from 2018 Annual Catalogue

June 18, 2018

Hello crafters.

Today I have one of the new stamp sets from the 2018 Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue to showcase. It's called Healing Hugs.

This is a great set to add to your collection for several reasons:

As well as the gorgeous floral image, it has 4 really great usable sentiments for get well cards. The one I have used above is something I always seem to be saying to friends when they are unwell, so I was pleased to see it in a stamp set.
This stamp set is one of our Distinktive range of stamps. These stamps are manufactured in a way that created the texture and dimension in just one stamping. I love that as it saves me time and still gives a realistic WOW effect.
It's really reasonable prices. Just $37 for the clear mount version.

You can find Healing Hugs HERE In My Online Stampin' Up! store (or on page 110 in the paper copy of the 2018 Annual Catalogue).

It's definitely a set I would recommend from the new catalogue.

OTHER NEW PRODUCTS / TIPS & TRICKS

Here's a few other things to note about this card:

I have used pre-coloured note-cards to speed up my creating. The Delightfully Detailed cards have 4 different watercolour look bases (2 designs in Mint Macaron and 2 Designs in Blackberry Bliss) and you get 5 of each in a pack (link at end of post).
The laser cut paper (my second layer) has been hugely popular among demonstrators to create an easy extra WOW! It's super easy to add colour to coordinate with any project as well. I just used my sponge brayer to colour it Soft Sea Foam (one of my FAVE new colours).
I added a little bit of extra texture with a simple scrap of ribbon under the flower. I keep my scraps of embellishments in a bowl as you never know when they are going to be handy.

You can check out all the products I have used today in the links at the end of my post.

Today's colour combination: