This or That Thursday - On Stage Swaps

Hello on this very wet Thursday.  Today I have several cards to share with you. I received so many amazing cards that I don't think I will have enough time to show them all. I have picked several swaps for today very randomly.

This beautiful card above was made by Linda Bauwin. I love it!

 

The stunning birds card was from Simone in Paderborn, Germany. It is so fresh and beautiful.

This amazing card that has not 1 but 2 gorgeous tea bags in. Look at the work that was done on this one. Stunning! Sadly I don't have the demonstrators details. 😒
 

 

This beautifully bright card is a slider card. I have never been brave enough to try to make one but this has inspired me to give it a go one day. Isn't it beautiful. The flowers in the slider mechanism, spin beautifully. It was made and swapped by Christina Schuppan from Germany.

                         This fun bear card is another that I have no details for. I just love how cute he is.

 

This beautiful card was made by Sue McDonald of FrankieSueStampin. How gorgeous is that? I love the simplicity of this card with the monochrome of green and white.

 

The stunning card above was made and swapped by CherylDiana Taylor. Such a gorgeous card.

This stunning card above is so much more beautiful in real life. It's one of my favourite folds too! This was made by Anne-Sophie Angonnet from Bastia. Isn't it just beautiful?

 

For my last card today, I picked this gorgeous Pop-up slider card. This is so beautiful and another I have never dared to make but I've been inspired to try to make one. One day! 

This was made by Nadine Hoffman. It is so beautiful and so very clever.

 

 I have been so very lucky to have received all of these cards and 3D items that I cannot begin to thank everyone once again. I consider myself extremely very lucky. 

STAMPIN' UP! SALE!!!

 Stampin' Up! is holding a 4 day sale and it finishes on Friday 18th November at 10.59pm.

 

Create more by spending less during the Seasonal Sale! Between 15 and 18 November 10.59pm

 2022, select products from the 2022–2023 Annual Catalogue will be on sale with the following discounts:

 

    10% off all punches

    15% of all stamps (Host stamp sets are not included in this sale)

    20% off all dies

    20% off all embossing folders

    20% off all non-specialty and non-assortment Designer Series Paper

 

Isn't that a fantastic deal? Take time to quickly go through the catalogue online at https://www.stampinup.uk/categories/shop-products?dbwsdemoid=5001103

or if you have a catalogue, dust it off and why not treat yourself?

 You know that you deserve it. 😍😍

No Watercolour Wednesday Vienna On Stage swaps

 Hello again, today I have another fantastic selection of gorgeous swaps from On Stage in Vienna.     The first ones are for the Autumn or Fall time. I don't make many like these but I really do love them.

 

The one on the left was made by Melanie Ramsey and on the right is from Rolanda Patton. Look how the envelope is decorated too!

 

This cute gnome card was made by Laurence Pasquier. I just love it!

 

This stunning card above was made by Mme. Karine Simon and it contains a Mint tea bag included. 

It smells so delicious, I'm really going to enjoy it. It was made using the Tea Boutique cards and envelopes. Isn't it beautiful?

 The 2 book marks above are perfect. I love to receive a book mark to use in my catalogues so I am very pleased with both of these. The one on the left was made Scrappeuse avec Cindy and the one on the right is a magnetic one and was made by Melanie Ahrweiler.

This is a little 6" or 15cm ruler and Martina Schmitz has made this using the gorgeous black and white papers and one of the stamp sets is It Starts With Art. 

                                          Martina must have known that I needed a new ruler!

 My last 2 swaps for today are both 3D items. 

This gorgeous little blue and white wallet which includes a box on the inside (very clever) and contains a chocolate was made by Edith Skate. YUM!

The box on the right was a team swap this time and it was made by our lovely team-mate Danielle Ehren again (See yesterday's post). Danielle used some of the poppies again that she used for her card on yesterday's blog post called Painted Poppies. It is so very cute and contains a packet of Love Hearts sweets. 

That's it for today, please join me again tomorrow as I have so many more to share with you from these clever and creative demonstrators.

Technique Tuesday - On Stage Vienna

Hello again, firstly I must apologise for no post yesterday. We flew back from Vienna on Sunday evening and got home about 8pm I believe. Once a year we have the opportunity to get together with other Stampin' Up! Demonstrators. This happens in many places over the world and ours was in Vienna, Austria. It was an excellent weekend meeting up with old friends and some lovely new friends too. Many of us swap cards or 3D items using the Stampin' Up! products. It is so amazing to see how others can make something very different with the same products that we each have. 

This week, I will be sharing some of the swaps that I was lucky enough to receive.

 

 

This first card is from one of our team mates, Danielle Ehren of Bluebells at Midnight. 

It is absolutely stunning. Danielle used the gorgeous Painted Poppies stamp set.

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I just love a 3D item and this is no exception. A pencil attached to a stamped piece of card. So simple but such a great gift. This is from Elles de Lang using the Let's Set Sail stamp set.

 

This gorgeous little gift box is stunning. In simple monochromatic colours, it's brilliant. It was made by Barbara Gunia.

 

I am so grateful for all of my swaps from everyone. Whether they took 5 minutes or 5 hours, 

they are all just fabulous.

Fun Fold Friday....

 ... sadly ...wait who am I kidding... happily no post today as we're  having too much fun at OnStage Live in Vienna 😘 Today's project will be posted at a later date promise 😀 

This or That Thursday Framed Florets

 Wow Vienna is cetrainly a city of elegance and gold and sparkle ✨!! The architecture is simply stunning. The decorations are beautiful and so much gold and sparkle ... it's a stunning city to visit for sure. My cards for today reflect what we've seen today purely by luck!!! I made the cards last week using the elegant Framed Florets stamps and dies!!

My cards for today are simple and elegant. The colour palette helps by being simple as does keeping the layout simple.

So which do you think would work best for a very special person card A?...

Or B?...

I can't  decide so I'll just have to use both 😂

Watercolour Wednesday Framed Florets

 We made it! Vienna is just amazing 😃 Renound for it's architecture I've been inspired to create a background that looks a little like verdigris using a dry watercolour technique . Of course the framed florets dies had to be used. Their elegance definitely reflects the elgance of Viennese architecture. 

So to start I used a soft green coloured piece of cardstock called soft succulent and used an embossing folder to give it some texture. Next I took some white ink reinker and dropped it onto an acrylic block. I  added a drop of water. I then took a piece of sponge and spritzed it lightly with water. 

Now the fun begins I dabbed the damp sponge into the white ink and lightly swipped it all over the embossed cardstock . Be gentle and remember you can always add more but can't take it away!

The take the same colour ink pad as the cardstock,  soft succulent,  and dab a clean acrylic block onto the pad. Then using another sponge, or the other side of the same one , spritz it lightly with water. Dab it into the ink. Then gently pounce the sponge over the cardstock. 

Now it's time to use a dark green called evening evergreen in exactly  the same way 

 

Continue to use the light and dark green and white to build up the patina.  Once your happy set it aside to dry . Although you are using very little water the cardstock has had a lot of ink and water applied to  it after all.

Now it's time to think about how to decorate the gorgeous background. 

I stamped some of the flowers and  heat embossed them in gold embossing powder. I then used my wink of stella as a brush to colour the flowers using an ink pad. All you have to do is pat an acrylic block onto an ink pad, I used a pretty peachy orange called pale papaya. You then pick the colour up from the block using the brush and watercolour the flowers . They sparkle beautifully. 

Once the flowers were coloured and die cut I die cut another frame. I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment using gold embossing powder. I adhered the flowers to the frame and then used 3d foam to adhere the frame to the centre panel. 

 

Once the front was completed I stamped, coloured and die cut a swag then adhered it to a basic white cardstock mat and adhered it to the inside of the card. 

I was very happy with how this elegant card turned out. The colours are soft and gentle but a little different from the traditional Christmas colour palette.