Book Bunny

 

At still addINKtive this week we are showcasing Stampin Up Easter stamps.

You can make a new card but you can also share past Easter creations with us.

I made this card with my wonderful club ladies last week.

The hostess had asked to do an Easter card. She also loves to colour and was interested in learning more about SU wheels,  So this card was born.

I also thought I would show them how to make a magnetic bookmark using the two tags die.  So it’s a cute little gift as well.

Ingredients :

Stamps : Every egg wheel

Card : crumb cake, shimmery white, watercolour paper, pink pirouette, starfruit, primrose, print poetry dsp stack

Ink : stazon, crumb cake, primrose, starfruit, raspberry

Other : big shot, two tags die, vintage faceted button, bakers twine, scallop and circle punches,corner rounder, aqua pen, honeycomb ef, primrose ribbon, magnet strips

 

Please take a look at the Easter cards the rest of the design team have created.  They are all very beautiful!

And please share your Easter cards with us.

 

Kathy

Shopping and Crafting

 

Did you notice the cute fox on the right hand side of my blog?

Well that takes you to my very own Stampin Up store where you can buy supplies at any time of the day or night!  Yes, Stampin Up now has online ordering in Australia.  WooHoo!

You will still get all the same benefits and special offers as usual and it is really easy to do. And if you have been thinking about becoming a demonstrator you can sign up that way as well.  You can do both your crafting and shopping in your pyjamas now if you like!

And there was even more Stampin Up excitement today because we now have mds (my digital studio) too!

My Digital Studio is an intuitive digital design software featuring Stampin' Up!'s exclusive artwork, colours, and templates. Be your own digital designer and create an array of photobooks, cards, calendars, and more--which you can then print or save to DVD, e-mail, or upload to the Internet.

Learn more about My Digital Studio by clicking on the fox (actually my SU store).  There is even a 30 day free trial so you can see whether you like it before buying.  You’ve got nothing to lose!

I hope you’ll click on the fox, check out my store and download the free trial.

And let me know what you think of it all :)

 

Kathy

Kind Poppies

 

This week at still addINKtive we have a sketch and colour combo for you.

You may choose to do either colour, sketch or both!

 

Bronwyn designed a very pretty circular sketch which I have been inspired by but I have made mine a square card instead.

 

 

I haven’t used my copics for quite a while now and I was really having withdrawals!  So I thought I would use copics similar to the stampin up colours in the challenge and colour the poppies.  I love this stamp, it is so beautiful and lots of fun to colour. 

I also stamped the Kindness Matters butterfly onto vellum, coloured it from behind with a marker and cut it out.

Ingredients:

Stamps : Pleasant Poppies, Kindness Matters

Card : sahara sand, black, x-press it, vellum card

Ink : white, sahara sand, pip marker, copics

Other : pip satin ribbon (ret.), linen thread, vintage faceted button, white pen, big shot, fancy fan ef

 

Please take a look at what the rest of the design team have created this week and we’d love it if you would play along with our challenge too.

Kathy

Still Warm

 

This week at still addINKtive we have a great sketch and colour challenge.

You don’t have to combine the two challenges, you can take your pick, but I decided to use both.

 

 

Yes, I used my By the Seashore set again.  I have really enjoyed playing with it but I’ll give it a little rest now :)  We have had our hottest summer ever recorded in Tasmania this year.  We are now into Autumn and yet we are still getting temperatures in the 30’s which is very strange weather for us Hobartians!  A sign of global warming unfortunately. Anyway it still feels summery here and I thought I would make a beachy card.

I sponged some crumb cake at the bottom and some pool party and indigo at the top and sponged a little on the squares too.  I also used the splat stamp from French Foliage in crumb cake and added some pearls too to kind of make a shoreline.

I used naturals ivory card for the base and embossed it with the Delicate Designs folder.  I liked the added texture this gave the card and it reminded me of sand at the beach when it’s raining or when droplets of water make little indentations in it.  Although I’ve never seen rain leave as pretty a pattern as this I must admit :)

 

Ingredients :

Stamps : By the Seashore, Cheer and wishes (ret.)

Card : naturals ivory, white, crumb cake, first edition dsp

Ink : crumb cake, stazon, pool party, indigo, cherry

Other : big shot, delicate designs ef, pearls, square punch, decorative label punch

 

Please take a look at the wonderful creations at still addINKtive and we’d love it if you’d play along with us too.

 

kathy

By The Midnight Shore

This week at still addINKtive we are showcasing two stamp sets :  By The Seashore and By The Tide.
I also found a great sketch to inspire me at Pals Paper Arts this week. I love square sketches!



By The Seashore is my newest set and I absolutely love it!   There are just so many different ways of using it and so many different stamping techniques to try with it too.  It’s the kind of set I really enjoy playing with, although with all the endless possibilities it was hard for me to actually complete a card. I had all these stamping experiments strewn all over my desk and I had to make myself stop and just finish something.





The blue shell was one of those experiments that didn’t turn out how I intended but I was really happy with the result.  There were some beautiful cards on Splitcoast last week using a technique I hadn’t seen before.  They had used crumb cake, painted white craft ink over the image and then coloured over the top with markers once dry.  I thought I would try it on that shell but I had forgotten that they white embossed their image first.  I stamped in midnight muse and started painted the white ink over it with my aqua painter, well obviously the blue just started running into the white! (Duh!!)  But I realised it looked really effective anyway so I kept going with it.  So anyway I made a new discovery, watercolouring with white ink!  I’m not sure how useful that discovery will be, but at least it works on shells :)


Ingredients :
Stamps : By The Seashore. Vintage Verses
Card : crumb cake. white, print poetry dsp stack
Ink : midnight muse, white, crumb cake
Other : mat pack, gel pen, aquapainter :)


Please take a look at what the rest of the design team have created.  If you have one of these sets I hope you’ll make a new card with it or show us some that you’ve made previously.  Oh and if you don’t own By The Seashore – you definitely should! :)


Kathy

Thank You Nature

This week at still addINKtive we have a colour and sketch challenge.



You can choose to do both or just the sketch or just the colours.  We’re flexible like that :)

I stamped the bird onto watercolour paper with stazon and used my aqua painter to pick up some raspberry ink and colour the breast.  The rest of the bird was coloured the same way with crumb cake and then I went over the top of that with some wisteria for the feathers.

The sketch really called for a doily but amazingly I have none! I’ve resisted the doily craze so far :) There are doilies for the big shot, pre made ones and doily stamps.  There are also various circle stamps that could be used like a doily, but I don’t have any of those either! So I just went with the scallop trim edge and I also decided to add a sentiment in place of the ribbon. I have just bought some flower trim though and I cut one flower off and used some wisteria ink to dye it.


Ingredients :
Stamps : Nature walk, en francais, curly cute
Card : white, wisteria, basic grey, watercolour
Ink : stazon, white, wisteria, crumb cake, raspberry
Other : big shot, lacy brocade ef, stripes ef, scallop trim punch, festive paper piercing pack, flower trim, labels framelits


Please take a look at what the very talented design team at still addINKtive have created this week …. and please play along with us.


Kathy :)

Only One

 

This week at still addINKtive we are showcasing 3 Sale-a-bration sets : Madison Avenue, Feeling Sentimental and Vintage Verses.

I have used Vintage Verses.  The sentiments in this set are just beautiful!

One of my daughters teachers is unwell and hasn’t returned to work yet this year. We thought it would be nice to send her a card and I had originally thought of making a get well card or thinking of you but then I noticed  this sentiment and thought it would be perfect.  She is a very special teacher and we wanted to let her know how much she is appreciated and missed.

I decided to use the still addINKtive colour combo from a couple of weeks ago, pink pirouette, river rock and suede.

 

Ingredients :

Stamps : Vintage verses, Flowering flourishes

Card : white, suede, pink pirouette, river rock

Ink : river rock, suede

Other : corner rounder punch, white grosgrain, houndstooth ef, delicate designs ef, vintage faceted buttons, pearls, big shot, boho punch, shimmer mist champagne

 

Please take a look at what the rest of the design team have made this week and join us :)

Kathy