Stampin' Up! Australia: Claire Daly Independent Demonstrator Melbourne

Stampin Up Thinking of You Card: Quiet Meadow Bundle & Collage Stamping Technique

June 30, 2021

Hello friends. Today I have a 'thinking of you' card using the new Quiet Meadow bundle in the Stampin Up Australia 2021 Annual Catalogue. We will also be using a stamping technique called collage stamping.

"Collage" was originally a French word, derived from the word coller, meaning "to paste." The stamping interpretation of that is to combine a variety of themed stampings, balanced in both colour and composition. That's easy to do when you have multiple coordinating stamps in a set, like we do with the Stampin' Up! sets.

Here's a look at the complete card. The light has caught the Rose Gold Metallic Specialty Paper so it looks like two different colours, but it isn't. This paper is really pretty.

I started with a base of Crumb Cake cardstock. I have stamped one layer of the collage stamping in Crumb Cake ink. This is just basically layering the stamps to give the coverage and composition you want. I also used Early Espresso to add another layer on the collage, and carried that colour through to the stamping on the sentiment.

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Posted at 07:00 PM in 2021 Annual Catalogue, Dies, Grunge, Techniques, Thinking of You Cards | Permalink | Comments (1)

Stampin' Up! Geared Up Garage Masculine Birthday Card

June 27, 2019

Hey Stampers. Today I have a masculine birthday card for you, using the Geared Up Garage stamp set and coordinating Garage Gears dies, which carried over into the 2019 Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue. This one is a great card for all the car enthusiasts in your life as well.

My colour combination is Night of Navy, Call Me Clover and Smoky Slate. I have also used some Champagne Foil Sheets which I have randomly stamped with some Jet Black Stazon to make it 'dirty' a bit.

Given most of the elements were in the centre of the card, I did some background random stamping on the base card.

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Claire

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Garage Gears Dies

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Smoky Slate Classic Stampin' Pad

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Posted at 06:00 AM in 2019/20 Annual Catalogue, Birthday Cards, Bundles: Punches and dies with matching stamp sets., Dies, Grunge, Masculine Cards and Projects | Permalink | Comments (1)

'I am' - a traditional scrapbooking layout using (mostly) Stampin' Up! products.

August 27, 2018

Lately, scrapbooking has been loudly calling me again. I dabble / have dabbled in pocket pages, but my heart belongs to traditional 12 x 12 pages.

My eldest son snapped this photo of me earlier in the year, and it seemed the perfect photo to get a little grungy with inks and textures.

Here's the process (I should have used Gesso to seal the page which would have prevented the warping. I was out, so I went head, but will do that next time. It's flattened out fine now though). Bolded words refer to products which are linked to my online store at the end of the page.

My base cardstock is Smoky Slate 12x12 Stampin' Up! cardstock.. This one must have been left over from a couple of years ago as it is textured. We have the smooth now which would be fine to use too.
I pencilled in approximately where I wanted my picture to go, and then used Silver Embossing Paste with the Palette Knives and brick mask in the Pattern Party Decorative masks. I wasn't particularly worried to get it flat and didn't even fully cover the mask, as I wanted a grungy, random effect with the bricks.
I left that to completely dry, and then randomly applied Jet Black Stazon ink direct from the ink pad to dirty the brick texture up a bit.
My 5x7" photo is on a mat of Berry Burst A4 cardstock. I've used some of the Pick a Pattern Washi Tape (love the versatility of varying widths of tape in this 5 roll set) to frame the picture at the top and bottom.
I've stamped some of the great textures in Timeless Textures stamp set in various spots on my page (I used Memento Black stamped off once). This set is really versatile for scraobooking. Other embellishments are some Mint Macaron brads (from the Basics Brads set) and Berry Burst punched arrowheads from a retired punch.
My title was made using some letters in my stash, as I really wanted to pick up the blue in the photo and they were perfect.

Before I get onto my journaling, here are some close ups.

Then this one (which makes me want to jump into the screen and push that wash tape down properly!).

Here's a closer look at the Timeless Textures stamp set and the Pattern Party Decorative Masks.

This all about me page was just about random journalling about who I am, right now. That's not a number or a measurement. Everyone needs to do this kind of journaling. It's so good for the soul. Even if it's just scribbled onto the back of a cafe napkin, just for your eyes. I think all about me pages are one of my favourite types of pages. I used the very cool Swirly Frames stamo set (PERFECT for scrapbooking and great for cards too) for my circular journaling piece. My actual journaling was a compination of my own handwriting (using the Journalling Pens), with the occasional stamped (in Memento Black) word from the Thoughtful Banners stamp set.