Showing posts with label #PinkiesTeam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #PinkiesTeam. Show all posts
I am part of Michelle Last's team of Stampin' Up! demonstrators called the Pinkies. We stay connected with each other through various Facebook groups with regular engagement posts and creative challenges.
Our current creative challenge theme is Clean And Simple #23 - here is the the card I have shared.
I think this card may be a little too much for this theme as it does have a layer and ribbon but I thought I'd enter anyway for fun.
We have two creative challenges a month and I am honoured to now be in my second year as the Pinkies Creative Challenge Coordinator.
It's a lot of fun coming up with different themes, creating the graphics but most of all, I love seeing the wealth of talent within our team. There is so much inspiration!
I always enjoy designing and making swaps and the best thing about these swaps, is that we got to swap in person. Check this out!!
My upline, the Pinkies team leader Michelle Last arranged our first team get together since the Coronavirus pandemic started. It was so lovely to see everyone on Sunday however, it was bittersweet as there were lots of the team missing. Still, it was a great first step into crafting as a group again and there were many precautions in place to keep each other safe.
Pinkies Creative Challenge #05 - CASE Your Favourite Designer
Tuesday, January 12, 2021 United Kingdom
I love being part of the Michelle Lasts Pinkies team of Stampin' Up! demonstrators. I was honoured when Michelle asked me to be the Challenge Coordinator for the Pinkies Facebook group last year.
We now have two challenges that take place every month and to keep it fresh, the theme is different every time.
We are already on challenge #05 - Case Your Favourite Designer.
I'll admit I've been looking forward to this one. I always aim to create and share original card designs so it was a bit of a treat to choose a beautiful card, recreate it and make it my own.
One of my favourite designers is Teneale Williams and the card I've shown below is not the first card I have CASED of hers.
Teneale's photography is simply stunning - I always recognise her cards through her papercrafting style and her photography.
I love the items in the background, which usually coordinate with some of the colours in her card - I couldn't help but wonder if she has transferred all of her ribbon to these wooden or if she puts them together for every card she creates. If you are reading this Teneale, I'd love to know!
I love being part of the Michelle Lasts Pinkies team of Stampin' Up! demonstrators. I was honoured when Michelle asked me to be the Challenge Coordinator for the Pinkies Facebook group last year.
We now have two challenges that take place every month and to keep it fresh, the theme is different every time.
We are already on challenge #05 - Case Your Favourite Designer.
I'll admit I've been looking forward to this one. I always aim to create and share original card designs so it was a bit of a treat to choose a beautiful card, recreate it and make it my own.
One of my favourite designers is Teneale Williams and the card I've shown below is not the first card I have CASED of hers.
Teneale's photography is simply stunning - I always recognise her cards through her papercrafting style and her photography.
I love the items in the background, which usually coordinate with some of the colours in her card - I couldn't help but wonder if she has transferred all of her ribbon to these wooden or if she puts them together for every card she creates. If you are reading this Teneale, I'd love to know!
For my card, I've used same layout, stamp set, embossing older and embellishment placement as Teneale. I have however changed up a lot of the elements to match my personal crafting style.
Instead of using Calypso Coral, I've used Highland Heather and Gorgeous Grape to stamp the flowers. I 'stamped off' with Highland Heather to get two different shades. This meant I had three shades of purple, which was needed for the 3 step stamping.
Teneale selected Mint Macaron for the leaves and I have used Soft Sea Foam, simply because I felt it worked better with the purple tones.
In place of the Champagne Rhinestones I have used the Gilded Gems in gold. I haven't been able to put these down recently!
I also chose a different sentiment as I need a birthday card for my Aunty. I heat embossed the sentiment in gold so it tied in with the Gilded Gems.
I used the same embossing folder, the Tasteful Textile embossing folder
I didn't have the same stamp set that Teneale used so I had to think outside the box a little to achieve the diagonal stripe on the left hand side. After some failed experiments and further deliberating, I decided to take a piece of Highland Heather DSP from the Subtles 6" x 6" Designer Series Paper and cut it on an angle. I'm really pleased with the outcome.
I really encourage you to check out Teneale's blog here. Her work is simply outstanding.
I hope you've enjoyed viewing my version of Teneale's card, I really enjoyed creating this project, especially as I got to use the amazing All Things Fabulous stamp set and Fabulous Florals dies again.
If you have the time, I'd love to know who your favourite designer is? Let me know by leaving a comment below.
Two weeks ago I spent a lovely three days in Birmingham with my fellow Stampin' Up! demonstrator friends. We spent the first day in the Bullring shopping centre and the next 2 days at a venue just across the road from Selfridges. My upline Michelle Last organised 2 days of crafty fun for us all which included a lovely project, 6 make and takes and a range of classes. It was such a good weekend and I can't wait to go again next year
There were 43 of us and as always, we all made swaps. I decided to make notebooks again and I was very happy with these. I felt this was a big improvement from the notebooks I made the previous year, take a look here to see them.
I made 9 of each colour way, which left me a few spare. Keep on reading to find out how to get how to get your hands on one of these.
These are my favourite and they were made using Blushing Bride cardstock, Blushing Bride ink and Sweet Sugarplum ink.
I used Mint Macaron cardstock and also Mint Macaron ink and Island Indigo ink for these.
Whilst these flowers are a shade of Rich Razzleberry, I chose to use Perfect Plum cardstock, Perfect Plum ink and Blushing Bride ink.
My second favourite - these were made using Island Indigo cardstock, Island Indigo ink and Crumb Cake ink
And finally, for these I used the new Sweet Sugarplum cardstock, Sweet Sugarplum ink and Perfect Plum ink.
I will be giving away one of these notebooks in a week's time. All you need to do is leave a comment and subscribe to receive my blog notifications. I will then pick a winner at random and will post the notebook to you, anywhere in the world. Good luck x
Stampin' Up! held their UK event called Onstage Local in Telford at the weekend, over 380 demos attended and it was truly an amazing day! We got to see the new catalogue and get an idea of what products were retiring. To see the retirement list, scroll down to the end of this post.
If you are a new follower or a new crafter, let me tell you all about what swaps are. Swaps are hand crafted card fronts or 3D items that you make multiples of to swap with others. The objective for this event was to use current product and showcase these in a design that others can use as inspiration or as samples to show to customers or take to events. At the same time you get to meet and mingle with lots of demos. Its such fun but its not compulsory! You get exactly what you put in, so if you make 100 swaps, you will come home with 100 swaps.
On the Friday before Onstage I attended an event in a hotel that was arranged by my upline Michelle Last. It was a lovely afternoon crafting, playing games and catching up with old friends and making new ones. For this event I made 25 of these swaps, one for all 24 demos attending and 1 for me to keep.
Most of the products I have used in this project are now retiring and I will be very sad to see the Timeless Elegance DSP go.... BUT I knew that would happen as all DSP retires every year. I know I have used it in my of my projects lately, one reason was to use up what I had left but the other reason was simply because I love it so much.
I'm actually quite excited to use the new DSP coming out and come up with some new designs! I am sure you will like to see something new from me too!
I really hope everyone liked my swaps. When I got home after a long drive on Saturday evening, I spent an hour looking through the swaps I received. My husband was after the chocolate that was contained in some of them but I am leaving them where they are at the moment as I am thinking of doing my first Youtube video to show all the swaps I received over the two events. Would you like to see them? Scroll down and leave a comment if you would like to see the swaps I received.
In this photo I've tried to capture the glitter effect of the butterfly and sentiment but as usual its so hard to capture in a photograph. You can just about see the glitter on the butterfly in this photo. To achieve this look I have used the Wink of Stella glitter pen in clear on the Sahara Sand cardstock after I die cut the butterfly. For the sentiment I used my brayer to stain the wooden sentiment with Basic Black Archival Ink, allowed it to dry and then added glitter, again using the Wink of Stella glitter pen in clear. The whole effect is very sparkly. I also added glitter to the edges of the cardstock, for this I used the Wink of Stella Glitter pen in gold around the edge of the Basic Black cardstock
The retiring products from the 2015-16 Annual Catalogue and Spring Summer Catalogue are now live and showing in my online shop!
Every year products are retired in order to make way for brand new shiny products. I will be selling my retired products in June so if you are interested in seeing what I've got, please leave a comment or subscribe to my blog.
Now, if I could give you once piece of advice, it would be to have a look through the retiring items straight away and place an order for anything that you have had on your wishlist. Its important you do this as soon as you can as they can sell out very quickly and they are not manufacturing anymore of these items.
Last year I was going to order some transfer (adhesive) sheets and I waited a day and they were gone. Needless to say I have used the sheets I had left over very sparingly and when I run out I will be very sad as they are fab to use with intricate die cuts.
To go to my online shop and view the products click here, or click on one of the buttons below.
If you have any questions about the retiring list or how I made these swaps, leave me a comment or contact me directly using the social media icons.
When we all get together, we always make swaps. Usually we all make a card or 3D project using Stampin' Up! products, we would make enough for each person attending (we have 47 attending today). We then would spend 30 minutes or so swapping our makes with each other and talking about what each other has made. Its great as you get inspired with new ideas and techniques and we also then have samples of stamp sets or designer series papers that we might not own ourselves that we can show to our friends and customers.
For this event Michelle wanted us to try something different. What we had to do was put our name against stamp sets Michelle had chosen from the Spring Summer or Sale-a-Bration catalogues. There were 6 slots under each stamp set and I chose the Birthday Blooms stamp set. Our task was to make 6 swaps using our chosen stamp set and other Stampin' Up! current products of our choice. We then had 5 cards to swap with the others in the same group and one to keep for ourselves. I can't wait to see what everyone has made!
There are so many wonderful cards on Pinterest using this stamp set (click here to have a look) and I could have easily CASED one (copy and share everything) but I wanted to come up with something original.
Now I'm not the greatest colourer in (okay I know that's not a word!) and I definitely am not the best fussy cutter so I spent a couple of evenings in my craft room this weekend thinking of ways 'outside the box' on how to use this stamp set in a way that might not have been done before. By using just black and white in my project, this stamp set suddenly has a whole different look. What do you think?
This photograph really doesn't show just how sparkly the centre of the card is, so I'll describe to you how I made this section.
The oval is made up of three different layers. The bottom layer is vellum cardstock and I've used the clear Wink of Stella glitter pen to colour in the vellum for a sparkly but subtle finish. The next layer is an oval piece of window sheet with the flower stamped from the Birthday Blooms stamp set in black Staz On ink. I used my embossing buddy on the window sheet first so that the stamp didn't slip when it touched the window sheet. Stamping on the window sheet allows you to flip the image over to create a mirror image of the flower. The final layer was an oval border cut from basic black cardstock. I used two of the ovals in my big shot machine, to hold them in position I simply placed a post it note over the dies. I then used my clear wink of stella pen to give the border a glitterly finish.
If you want to check out what we are up to today, download the Periscope App on your smart phone or tablet and search for Michelle Last. Michelle is doing a live broadcast at 12:30pm!
Also, make sure you click here to subscribe to my blog updates as I'll be posting pictures from today including the five swaps I received.
Today, I am spending the day with the lovely Pinkies. My upline Michelle Last is holding our quarterly regional training in Croughton and I am really looking forward to catching up with everyone and getting stuck into some crafting. I don't know what projects we will be making, so I am looking forward to the surprise!
As usual, we have made swaps to exchange with each other. There are lots of benefits to making and receiving card swaps and 3D swaps; you can discover new ways to use stamp sets, fall in love with stamp sets you've never looked twice at before, look at the effect techniques you've not tried before
and use the swaps as samples at your events. I simply love to receive swaps as it feels a little bit like Christmas - its exciting and you never know what you are going to get. I always try and think of something different to make so you will find my swaps have really varied from project to project. Last weekend I decided to make these swaps - 3D chocolate party favours!
I started off making a gold version then quickly decided that I needed to make a silver version too.
Most people are drawn to either Gold or Silver - I would love to know which is your favourite?
As you can see, each party favour contains a Ferrero Rocher chocolate. A little bit of fast fuse adhesive is strong enough to hold the chocolate in place.
If you have ever been a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator or perhaps part of a large craft group, you will have heard of cards swaps. It's something us Stampin' Up! Demonstrators like to do when we get together to learn new techniques or get new inspiration from each others work.
I wanted to show you my latest card swap today - a card front in Perfect Plum.
Swaps are where you make approximately 50 card fronts or tiny gift boxes and swap them with other Stampin' Up! Demonstrators for an alternative craft project. Not only do you get to mingle and talk crafts with other people, you also end up with 50 beautiful handmade items to take home!
I absolutely love swaps! I have a box full of about 100 from 3 different events and I have a good look through these when I am having a creative block.
A few weeks ago I spent the day with fellow Stampin' Up! Demonstrators. After swapping and mingling we spent the rest of the day crafting, eating lovely cake and having a good natter.
Days like this are one of the best things about being a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator, you suddenly start meeting lots of people who all love crafting and who are more than willing to help and support each other.
We made this wonderful flip book and basket that Michelle Last designed and I hope to show you these very soon!
You can make a card like this by using the Kinda Eclectic Stamp Set, the new Note Tag Punch from the Spring/Summer Catalogue and the You Made My Day Stamp Set from Sale-a-Bration.
I have listed below the supplies needed to make this card, in fact, if you buy all of the items you would earn the You Made My Day stamp set for free!
I have listed below the supplies needed to make this card, in fact, if you buy all of the items you would earn the You Made My Day stamp set for free!
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