{Ink, Spritz and Stamp One Sheet Wonder Wednesday}

So pleased when a plan comes together!

I was watching a video tutorial by Jennifer Mcguire and it inspired me to have a go with a ink and spritzing technique.

I made these first four cards one evening as I was fiddling around in my craft room.  I used the retiring stamp set Birthday Blooms for the large floral image.

I loved the results so much I decided I wanted to film the process for you.  This time I used the Rose from Rose Wonder and some other stamps from Butterfly Basics.

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{One Sheet Wonder Wednesday - Blooms and Wishes Bookmarks}

Even more bookmarks!

I have used 2 retiring Sets, Bloom and Wishes and Butterfly basics.

Scroll down to see the list of all the items a colours I used.

Here is a sped up video with some pretty music.

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Tangerine Tango Classic Stampin' Pad [126946] £6.00	Grapefruit Grove Classic Stampin' Pad [147142] £7.00	Pear Pizzazz Classic Stampin' Pad [131180] £6.00	Whisper White A4 Card Stock [106549] £8.25
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{Masking Technique with Fine Tip Glue Pen}

Wow! What a week - I'm still recovering from last weekend's excitement, and adjusting to the products that are retiring from the current catalogue.
What do you think of the new in colours?

These are some of the samples I made for the display at Onstage in Telford.  They feature a really simple technique, made easy by the use of the Fine Tip Glue Pen.  You can choose your favourite stamps to have a go.

Sweet Sugarplum

Dapper Denim

Emerald Envy

Flirty Flamingo 

Peekaboo Peach 

Here is a video explaining the process...

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{April Challenge}

The next challenge is to create a card using this image as inspiration

NB Whatever you make will have to contain at least one Stampin' Up! product and you need to be a resident of the UK, France, Germany, Holland or Austria to be entered in the draw.

You can enter in several ways... either
Put a picture on your blog and then paste the link to the post in the comments below
or
Post a picture on Facebook and in the description put "Artful Stampin April Challenge" and notify me through my Artful Stampin Facebook Page.
or
Post a picture on Instagram with the hash tag "artfulstampinchallenge"
or
Email me a picture of what you create to paperandpearls @ talktalk.net

You have until midnight (GMT) on the 30th April 2016 to enter.  By entering you give me permission to show your pictures on my blog to inspire others.

Fellow Stampin' Up! demonstrators are welcome to join in, however, please be courteous and let me know as I won't be entering your name for the draw.

These are some cards and items made after being inspired by the picture

-{Jubilee Bunting}-

Hi all, sorry I have not got around to posting a video this last weekend.

I was away at a ladies conference in Swanwick in Derbyshire.  A few weeks ago a lady from church who is one of the organisers sidled up to me and asked if I would be willing to run a workshop.  

The conference was attended by approximately 200 ladies who were their for fun and fellowship, spiritual and physical food and to enjoy the lovely surroundings of the conference centre.  As the "Word for Women" conference were celebrating their 50th anniversary they though it would be nice to make some bunting.  

So, the ladies taking part were given 7 pennants, 7 white circles and 7 scalloped circles.  They could choose whatever word or phrase they wanted.  They all seemed to have a chilled and creative time... please comment below if you were there!

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{Dove of Peace stamp - Grungy style}

Ok, so this card was a bit of an experiment, so instead of filming the making of it I've had to explain the steps. I love how it turned out, and it was fun raiding my stash of stamps to find patterns for the background, they included... Everything Eleanor, Perpetual Birthday Calendar, Butterfly Basics, Kinda Eclectic, Gorgeous Grunge and Dove of Peace

This stamp is so pretty and lovely to work with.  If you love spending some time colouring in, you'll love the detail on it.  It's available on wood mount and has a lovely Bible verse sentiment on it too, I have actually cut the sentiment and the dove apart and mounted just the dove so I can use the two elements separately. 

I'm loving the new Fine Tip Glue Pen. It's great for adding a glossy accent to detailed stamps. It's going to be available from Sept 1st.  

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-{OSWW week 12 using Butterfly Basics}-

Welcome to another
One Sheet Wonder Wednesday
Week 12!

Today's make was taken from an idea I found on via Pinterest, I'm sure it's a fold that has been around a while, however if you would like the written instructions they can be found {here}

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~{Butterfly Basics Masculine Card Tutorial}~

Hi there, writing this very late at night, to the sound of dripping from my loft onto a bucket on the landing!  Hence I am a bit behind on blog posting and prepping for a card buffet tomorrow!

Anyway, here is a video tutorial on the card above. The photo is actually of the one I made, smudges and all!!! Just keeping it real!

I showed some of my team how to make this card at our team meeting this week, and someone asked regarding the post mark stamp..."Where's that stamp from?", I replied "New York" to which they said "No, what stamp set is it from?!", lol oops!  

This is another card using the large splatter stamp from Gorgeous Grunge

Ingredients:

Butterfly Basics and Gorgeous Grunge stamp sets.

Mossy Meadow, Hello Honey and Baked Brown Sugar

Very Vanilla and Naturals Ivory Card,

Tombow adhesive and  Stampin Trimmer.

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