Cards for the Troops - Mother's Day 2017

Do you like crafting for causes? I run a drive to make cards for our Troops about twice a year. It is time for us to make Mother's Day cards to get them in the mail by the end of March so they can go overseas to our deployed troops in time to send out to their mothers and wives for Mother's Day. Of course, they also need birthday cards, thinking of you ones, anniversary and birth and just about every other type of card. Even blank ones (inside) with no sentiment attached are appreciated. If this interests you and you would like to help, read more about the drive here:  Cards for Troops Drive 2017

Thank you for any help you can give our Troops.

Thoughts and Prayers

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The Thoughts and Prayers stamp set allows you to send some pretty special greetings. There are sensitive words in it for expressing sympathy, sending get well wishes, and letting them know you are thinking of them and praying for them. At card class today I taught stampers how to use the emboss resist and masking techniques. It was a fin class.

The card first posted relied only on white embossing and sponging with inks, but the second card included stamping over the top of the embossing and sponging.

I liked them both.

All supplies listed below are available for you to purchase from my SusanSalutations online store.

Supplies:

Cardstock –  Whisper White 9 x 14cm, Whisper White Thick cardstock base, Marina Mist  9.5 x 14.5

Ink & Daubers – Marina Mist, Versamark, Pool Party sponge dauber

Stamp Set – Thoughts and Prayers

Big Shot – Ovals framelits

Tools – Heat Tool

Accessories & Adhesives – White Embossing Powder, paper to catch powder, large Post-It notes, Washi Tape, soft tissues, Stampin’ Dimensionals, double-sided tape or liquid glue (Tombow), wooden skewer

Little Flowers Watercolour Card

Create a lovely and cheerful little flower card with none other than the Rose Wonder stamp set! The little flower in that stamp set makes a beautiful pattern when stamped repeatedly and coloured with an aqua painter.

All current supplies are listed below and are available for you to order from my SusanSalutations online store.

Supplies:

Cardstock – Watercolour paper 7x8cm, Mint Macaron Card Base, Peekaboo Peach mat 7.5 x 8.5, Designer Series Paper Sycamore Street  (retired) 9 x 15cm

Ink – Stazon Black, Daffodil Delight, Crushed Curry, Sweet Sugarplum, Rich Razzleberry, Tempting Turquoise, Pool Party, Peekaboo Peach, Tangerine Tango, Pink Pirouette, Rose Red

Stamp Set – Rose Wonder

Stamp Blocks – D, E

Accessories & Adhesives – Aqua Painter, Gold Wink of Stella, Peekaboo Peach Ruched Ribbon, Frosted Embellishments Sequins, Pick Up Stick, Fine tip glue pen, Glue Dots

Watercoloured Rose

What a lovely stamp set this is to work with, and there are so many options in it for sentiments - birthday, wedding, sympathy etc. It is a very useful set. AND it has its own framelits too. This time though. my class was using it to make a lovely water colour card with inks and an aqua pen. I showed them how to use different colours on their rose in my sample, and then everyone's cards came out different as everyone chose their own favourite colours to work with. I love that everyone can be so creative with Stampin' Up! supplies! All supplies for this card are listed below and are available at SusanSalutations. If you would like instructions, I am giving them away if you place an order this month.

Supplies:

Cardstock –  Shimmery White 9 x 11cm, Real Red card base, Basic Black 10 x 14

Ink – Stazon Black, Pink Pirouette, Melon Mamabo, Peekaboo Peach, Calypso Coral, Pear Pizzazz, Smokey Slate

Stamp Set – Rose Wonder

Stamp Blocks – D, F

Accessories & Adhesives – Aqua painter, water, Frosted Embellishment sequins, Pick Up Stick, Fine Tip glue pen

More New Sale-A-Bration Items are Coming!

Exciting news! Sale-A-Bration is getting even bigger! On February 21st, three NEW free items will become available when you order $90 worth of product (excluding postage costs as postage is not product 😃)!  Watch this space for pictures of the new items and remember to go to my SusanSalutations shop to place your order and earn FREE rewards for every $90 order you place!

It's also a wonderful time to become a member of Stampin' Up! During Sale-A-Bration, you can become a demonstrator for just $169 AUD and choose TWO additional stamp sets for your Starter Kit—any stamp set, any price! (Excludes project kits, bundles, and Sale-A-Bration sets.) Plus, the kit ships for free!

If you have any questions about Sale-A-Bration, Stampin' Up! items or about joining as a member, do email me at susanl_hl AT yahoo.com

Shimmery White Glimmer Paper Watercolouring

Did you know you can water colour on Shimmery White Glimmer paper? You can! Here I stamped my image from Helping Me Grow in Memento Black ink, then I used the Aqua Painter to add colour and shading in Daffodil Delight, Delightful Dijon, Watermelon Wonder and Cucumber Crush. It worked well! I flicked gold Wink of Stella on the watercoloured image then finished with a sentiment from Helping Me Grow and die cut from the Rose Garden Thinlit dies. It was a fun card to make and didn't take too much time!

Supplies:

Stamp Set: Helping Me Grow

Cardstock and Designer Series Paper: Shimmery White 9 x12.5cm, Whisper White scrap, Crumb Cake 10 x 14.5, Strip of designer series paper Fruit Stand 14.5 x 5cm, Thick Whisper White Card base and printer paper insert

Big Shot: Rose Garden Thinlit Dies

Inks: Daffodil Delight, Delightful Dijon, Cucumber Crush, Watermelon Wonder, Memento Black

Stampin’ Blocks &  Accessories: Stamp Blocks B,D,F; Paper towels, scratch paper, Aqua Painter, Water, Black marker, Corner rounder punch, Gold Wink of Stella, Flirty Flamingo ruched ribbon, Fast Fuse

All supplies are available from my SusanSalutations online Store :)

Customise your Notebooks with Fruit!

 

This little notebook used to be a school exercise book. Now it is a customised notebook, decorated with the Fruit Stand Suite  😎It was so easy and quick to do!

I am sure if you have ever been in school yourself or had children in school, you would have covered exercise books,, right? That's all I did with this. Well, I adapted my covering a little. As designer series paper isn't quite large enough to cover a whole book, I cut separate pieces for the front and back, and cut a strip that I scored down the middle to make a cover for the spine. I did add thin strips to the borders of the covers before putting my fruit piece on top. I did cut another piece form the lined designer series paper in the pack and made a 'window' to write on. It's kind of like making a card too, I think.

I added some shading to the striped piece with a Stamp 'n Write marker. I matched the colour to the colours in the designer series paper.

I hand-wrote the name for this book in black journaling pen. You could stamp it with an alphabet stamp if you wished.

I stamped apricots (peaches?) on top of the lined paper afterward to finish it off, and also because I love stamping 😄

Just think of the possibilities!! Happy Stampin'!

Supplies:

Stamps:Fresh Fruit
Designer Series Paper: Fruit Stand
Stampin' Write! markers: Peekaboo Peach, Basic Black
Inks: Peekabook Peach, Cucumber Crush, Memento Black
Adhesive: Tombow Multi liquid glue

See the Fruit Stand Suite  yourself at SusanSalutations

Bloomin' Love and Bloomin' Hearts Valentine

Valentine's Day is just around the corner! At my Tuesday class today, I helped some ladies make these pretty cards with the Bloomin' Hearts thinlit die and the Bloomin' Love stamp set.

We added double sided Tear 'n Tape to a piece of Whisper White cardstock then flipped it over and sponged it in Pink Pirouette, Soft Sky and So Saffron before die cutting it. The adhesive on the back was perfect for placing our hearts on the Smokey Slate background with no liquid glue to ooze out!

We punched some Petite Petal flowers out from Shimmery White paper, shaped them a bit and added some Candy Dots to them, tied a bow with white seam binding, then stamped the background in  Pink Pirouette.

We stamped the sentiment on Whisper White in Smokey Slate and punched it out with the Decorative Label Punch. It got popped up with Stampin' Dimensionals.

Happy Valentine's Day to some loved people! 💝

Become a Stampin' Up! Member!

Did you know Australian Sale-A-Bration time at Stampin' Up! is also a GREAT time to join Stampin' Up!? Not only do you get your discounted fully customisable kit, 20% discount on products, access to all kinds of exclusive information about crafting and/or building a business if you so wish (Note: You do NOT have to build a business to be a member), you ALSO get two free stamp sets of your choice! From anywhere in any of the current catalogues! You get loads more than I have mentioned, too. Join my team today or anytime before March 31st to receive these wonderful benefits. You can read more here: http://www.stampinup.net/esui…/…/susansalutations/promotions

Avant Garden

Oh I love this new stamp set ☺It is called Avant Garden and it is only available until the end of March! It is featured in the Sale-A-Bration catalogue released this month and guess what? You can get it for free! All you need to do is place a $90 product order and this entitles you to select a free Sale-A-Bration reward. Browse the new stampin' goodness at my SusanSalutations shop.

How did I make the pretty card pictured above? Well, I stamped the images first in Tempting Turquoise, Sweet Sugarplum, Peekaboo Peach, So Saffron, Blushing Bride, Mint Macaron and Smokey Slate. 

Then I took my small Affectionately Yours embossing folder and  embossed the image not once, but three times, moving the folder each time to cover a new area. 

The main image is layered on Tempting Turquoise and then on a card base of Daffodil Delight. 

I hope you like it!

(Do you know, the flower Avant Garden flower petals make great palm tree tops?? They do! Turn them upside down and stamp them in Garden Green on a Crumb Cake palm tree trunk to see what I mean! )

Oh So Succulent!

What do you love most in the new Occasions Catalogue? My fascination so far has been with the Oh So Succulent bundle (item no 145184) of stamps and framelits. You can make the little plants look so real! Of course, you can buy either the stamp set or the framelits instead of the bundle, but I could not resist buying the bundle. You get a 10% savings when you do that, so why not take advantage of the discount, right? You stamp on the ends of the petals to make them look like succulents:

Stampin' Up! is so good at coordinating their products and I love that. You can also get coordinating designer series paper (142778), cardstock (142780), and ribbon (142781) but you can of course use these items with other stamp sets and dies.

There is even a kit! (item no 143635) It's called Vertical Garden.  I think the project it makes is very pretty and you never have to water it:

 

You can see how to assemble the kit on the How to Make Paper Flowers page. There's even a little video showing how to make the Vertical Garden.

If you would like to see close ups of these beautiful stamps and dies, you can use the codes I typed after each item to look them up at my SusanSalutations shop (click on 'Shop Now to pen the shop). Remember to check out the Clearance Rack and the Holiday Catalogue Carryover items too, You might find a bargain 😊

Happy New Year 2017!

Happy New Year! I made this little card from one of the Sale-A-Bration reward stamp sets, Avant Garden, and another one called Delicate Details. The sentiment came form Teeny Tiny Sentiments (found in the main catalogue). I stamped my flower on Shimmer White cardstock then added some Sweet Sugarplum and Wild Wasabi ink with an aqua painter. When it was dry I ran over the flower with clear wink of Stella to give a shimmer. I stamped the background after I did the colouring. Then I mounted my white cardstock on Sweet Sugarplum, added some Emerald Envy ribbon, and chose a Crumb Cake card base.  I stamped the Delicate Detail on the cardbase before mounting my main image with Stampin' Dimensionals. The Delicate Details stamp was not long enough to go right across my card base so I just lined it up by eye (the stamp is photopolymer and therefore see-through) to make it go right across.

Click on Promotions at SusanSalutations to see the Sale-A-Bration specials and the new Occasions catalogue. And Happy New Year!

Extravaganza! 21st to 28th November ONLY!

Stampin' Up! is having an Extravaganza with loads of products discounted for a very short time! I don't want you to miss getting something you would like at a discounted price, so please do go to SusanSalutations and click on the Shop link. You'll see the Extravaganza link on the left. Some items are only available while stocks last so act now!