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TIME FOR SOME FINE ART

Hello and welcome. Thank you for popping by and seeing what I have created for you today.

While I’m waiting for my delivery of brand, new and exciting products from the soon to be available 2021-2022 Annual Catalogue from Stampin’ Up!®, I am revisiting some of the products I have from the January to June Mini Catalogue.

It seems like ages since I used the Fine Art Floral Suite, so I made two cards to share today.

I love the texture the Stampin’ Up!® artists created when they painted the floral canvases that were used for the Fine Art Floral Designer Series Paper. The colours are rich and vibrant.

I used my Treasured Tags Pick a Punch to make the Merry Merlot background for the birthday die cut greeting. If you haven’t seen the Floral Gallery Dies before, there are are two sizes of the scalloped label dies. The one I used here is the longest one. You can click on the image to go to my online store.

FLORAL GALLERY DIES

This is the second card.

I am so pleased that both the ribbons I used for these cards are carrying over into the new catalogue – Gray Granite 1/4″ Shimmer Ribbon and 1-1/2″ Metallic Mesh Ribbon.

ART GALLERY PHOTOPOLYMER STAMP SET

The greetings/sentiments in the Art Gallery Stamp Set are so versatile – they cover just about every occasion.

I enjoy having a variety of cards on hand and this stamp set helps make that possible.

I hope you like today’s projects.

Happy stamping.

If you live in Australia, you can order any of the products I used to make this card by going to my online store. Just click on any of the images below.

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Paper Snips
[103579]
$17.00
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DOUBLE TROUBLE

Hello to my stamping friends – welcome and thanks for popping by.

Today I’m sharing another first time project. As I wander through Facebook groups and Pinterest, I am amazed at the number of card styles and fancy folds that I am yet to try.

THis project is a DOUBLE DISPLAY CARD.

It was time to use some of the paper from the 2020-2021 Annual Catalogue. I chose the WHALE OF A TIME 6″x 6″ DSP for this card. The card base uses Pretty Peacock card stock. I also used Blackberry Bliss panels.

For the front and insert pieces I cut the DSP and then fussy cut lots of the turtles to have them ‘swim’ in the scenes.

The birthday greeting and coordinating die are from the FINE ART FLORAL BUNDLE. The greeting was stamped in Pretty Peacock onto Pool Party card stock.

The ribbon is from the PLAYING WITH PATTERNS RIBBON COMBO PACK and is secured on the back of the card under a panel of Pretty Peacock and Basic White card – a perfect place to write a birthday message.

I adhered some of the SEQUINS FOR EVERYTHING on the front of the card.

When the bow is untied and the card opened out you can see all the decorated panels.

The best way to view the card is when it is open and standing – that’s when you can see all the interesting pop out panels.

A closer look and you can see that my fussy cutting is getting so much better!

This card certianly involved a few more steps and some careful measuring to get all the elements just right, but it was well worth the effort.

Happy stamping!

If you live in Australia, you can order any of the products I used to make this card by going to my online store. Just click on any of the images below.

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Paper Snips
[103579]
$17.00
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MY FIRST GILT CARD

Hello to all my inky fingered friends – thanks for popping by.

There are two very special new products in the FINE ART FLORAL SUITE – GILDED LEAFING and HEAT & STICK POWDER.

FINE ART FLORAL SUITE COLLECTION
GILDED LEAFING
FINE ART FLORAL SUITE COLLECTION
HEAT & STICK POWDER

WARNING – When you open the jar of gilded leafing make sure you have a larger container ready to store it in because it pressed quite tightly in the original jar and boy, does it want more space!

I bought a 1″ wide brush to use to press in and then brush away the excess gilded leafing into the sticky powder.

Royal & Langnickel Zen Series 73 Paintbrush Wash Size 1 | Officeworks

I was really pleased with the final result and surprised that it wasn’t messier to work with.

I gilded the outer edges of a piece of Basic White card stock. After I stamped the Night of Navy flower, I stamped the second part of the image using Versamark and then sprinkled the Heat & Stick Powder onto it. After using the heat tool and the ‘melting’ the powder, I was able to press the gilded leafing onto the flower.

Isn’t this piece of the FINE ART FLORAL DSP gorgeous?

I think this would make a perfect card to give to someone who has done something special for you – the sentiment says it all – ‘You Are Lovely’.

Who would you send this card to?

Happy stamping.

These are the products I used to make this card. If you live in Australia and want to order any of these products just click on the SHOP NOW icon.

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Heat Tool
[129056]
$50.00
Paper Snips
[103579]
$17.00