Christmas Extravaganza UPDATE

Stampin’ Up! have just announced that you now have a choice of 2 punches for the Christmas Extravaganza: the Scallop Square or Boho Blossom Punch . Jut remember that all you need to do is treat yourself (or someone else) to $85 worth of goodies from the LIST, and you can get one of the following punches for FREE ($30.95 value!).

ENJOY!

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CASE a card

My lovely Upline (the one who signed me up to Stampin Up) sent me THIS card from one of their team meetings. Since she lives in Sydney, its a little hard for me to get there. I loved it for two reasons……1) it uses my 2 of my favourite products from the Spring Mini Catalogue (Great friend stamp set and the Scallop Oval punch) and 2) Marelle always makes beautiful cards.
I wanted to use as many of the items from the Spring Mini before they end on November 30, and this card got my juices going. Not that I didn’t love the colours she used, I was just in a mood to use blue. My original thoughts for this card was to use Baja Breeze, but it was too light when I got to the last butterfly……SO, I have used Not Quite Navy Instead.

To get this effect, ink the butterfly image and stamp it towards the top of the card. Then without re-inking your stamp again, stamp another butterfly image slightly lower thann the last one, and then again once more without re-inking. My suggestion, if you want to make this card, it to use a dark colour as this gives the best result.

To make the stitching, all you need to do it use the Stampin Up Mat Pack. It has a template to make a straight line of holes with a paper piercer. Then all you do it take your white gel pen a connect the dots. Faux stitching at its easiest!

For the greeting I stamped the whole image in Baja Breeze ink then used my Not Quite Navy marker to re-colour the ‘Best Wishes’ section. You can re-colour any image that is lighter than the marker colour you want to use.

Thanks MARELLE for a lovely Card 🙂

Supplies:
Cardstock: Whisper White, Sahara Sand, Basic Grey, Not Quite Navy
Ink: Not Quite Navy, baja Breeze, Sahara Sand
Stamp Set: Great Friend, Oval all
Punches: Scallop Oval, Large Oval Punch
Other: Sponge Daubers, Not Quite Navy Markers, Dimensionals, White Gel Pen

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