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Friday 2 August 2013

Morning Meadow in Regals - and news from Stampin' Up!

One of my favourite card styles at the moment is the front panel with an aperture and you may recognise the layout of today's creation - I made similar ones here and here. Framelits are brilliant for making the apertures and they make it easy to add a frame too, but for speed you can't beat the good old punch! Come and see:


The 2 1/2" circle punch is one of my most-used punches and it makes short work of this style of card. I inked my Morning Meadow flower image up with markers and stamped through a mask before placing the aperture panel over the top. TIP: When punching the aperture panel, layer the card stock with a same-sized piece of thin paper and punch through both together - you can use the thin paper as the mask for stamping/sponging and your image will be in exactly the right place.


The large flower from the Morning Meadow set contrasts beautifully with the smaller one and, once stamped, it punches out so quickly and easily with the new Pansy punch. (The new Stampin' Up catalogue features lots of stamp sets that coordinate with punches or framelits and there's a handy 15% discount when you buy both together.) I centred the flower with the new love of my life - a candy dot. I adore the Stampin' Up ones - they are brilliant quality (and it shows), they come in all the colour families, they're self-adhesive, and they can also be used as a brad by adding to a brad base.

Here's what you'll need to make this card
Stamps: Morning Meadow, Wetlands (sentiment)
Ink: Elegant Eggplant and Garden Green markers
Card stock: Whisper White, Daffodil Delight core'dinations
Other:  Pansy and 2 1/2" circle punches, Garden Green candy dot, stamp-a-majig
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STOP PRESS! New releases and a special offer!
1. If you own the Stampin' Trimmer you're likely to be a big fan of its large cutting area, its ability to cut and score a card base in seconds without fiddling about taking blades in and out, its cutting guard that locks into place giving a really accurate straight cut every time, its portability... oh I could go on and on! Well, now you can set that fabulous trimmer can work even harder with the launch of the new Rotary Addition:


You just whisk the cutting guard out of the trimmer and replace it with the Rotary add-on guard, turn the cutting mat and tada! - you have a rotary cutter! There are also several gorgeous decorative blades available including my personal favourite, the perforating cartridge.
You can see the new items on pages 176-177 of the annual catalogue.

2. A new 'Best of' Stamp set has been released! Best of Shelli is the latest in the 25th anniversary celebration series and is available until March 2014. It comes in cling mount only at £13.95.



3.  Why not bag yourself a free pack of designer paper? During the month of August, you'll get a free pack of designer paper when you buy three packs. (This applies to the regular packs not the speciality papers or the stacks.) Check out all the gorgeous designs on pages 151, 153 and 154 of the annual catalogue.


Talking of availability, this will be my last post for a week or two as I make myself more available to my family. Thank you as always for visiting me here and for your support, and I'll be back soon. I'll leave you with the words of my small nephew, who had entertainingly missed the point: "Bye alligator!"

Hugs,

11 comments:

  1. Thanks for all your creativity each week and keeping us entertained by snippets of your family. Enjoy your family time together and see you back again soon!

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  2. WOW that's a stunner of a card Vicky.
    PS: Your "here and here" links are not linked . .. just saying!

    Hugs
    Sarn xxx

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  3. Fabulous card Vicky. Love that style and I really love that stamp set too. Fabulous colour combo too.

    Enjoy spending more time with your family.

    Kat xx

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  4. Very pretty Vicky,beautiful colour combination(and thank you for that tip!)
    I hope you have a fabby bit of free time with your lovely family,see you soon,Nessa xxx

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  5. Lovely card Vicky, love the colour combo. Enjoy the time with your family I'll miss your inspiration:)
    Val x

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  6. Enjoy your well-earned break, Vicky. I will try one of these aperture cards soon, hope it turns out as beautiful as this one.

    Louise xx

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  7. Beautiful and elegant Vicky, I love these colours.

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  8. A beautiful card Vicky, and enjoy your well earned break Hope all is well with the family

    Bev x

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  9. What a lovely card, thank you for sharing...
    Many many greetings from Germany,
    Heike
    PS: Will we see us in Manchester?

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  10. I hope you and your family are having a wonderful time. I am missing you and hope you will be back soon!

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I'd love to know what you think. Do leave me a comment - it always makes my day! Vicky x


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