~{Sponge, Spritz and Stamp}~

Sponge, Spritz and Stamp

That's what I'm calling the following technique!

I wanted to create a pretty background to show off these stamps, and had great fun in the process!

• Using a sponge and 3 inkpad colours of your choice, cover a sheet of very Vanilla Cardstock.
• Fill a Spritzer bottle with water, and spray the entire sheet with an even covering of water, use a heat tool to dry if you can't wait (turn the card upside down and heat if it starts to curl).
• Stamp the card with whatever stamps and colours you would like.
• Stamp some with Versamark, add embossing powder (I used white)and heat.

Floral Birthday

Gave this card to my friend today, so I can put it on here! I love making a sheet of my own "patterned paper" and then using it in different ways to create different cards.

Baby Blossom Love!

I fell in love with this stamp set the moment I saw it in the catalogue, and when I booked my party with Claire (now my upline) I knew I was going to order it.

It's so shabby chic, Kath Kidston style, classic, pretty and girly.

Used a piece of Designer Paper from the pack you could earn as a hostess and a stamp from a set from the level 2 Hostess section as well as the Baby Blossom stamps.

Please see the labels below for the different colours and stamps sets used.

Green House garden and more...

These are some of the other things we made last night.  I showed the ladies how to do the two step stamping, and they all oooed and aaahed over how to use the Stampamajig! 

Stamps

Greenhouse Garden, Four Frames and Lexicon of Love (retired)

Card

Very Vanilla and Old Olive

Paper

Designer Series Paper - Melon Mambo

Inks

Old Olive

Regal Rose

Ribbon

Very Vanilla Satin

Tools

Decorative Label Punch

Other

Dimensionals and Martha Stewart Leaf punch

We also made a personalised notebook.  Used the Fun Flowers die to cut the flowers, sponged the edges with basic black and "cupped" the circle with the end of a pencil and stuck it on with 2 dimensionals.  The ladies had great fun with the Stampin wheel to make a background which I then cut up for them to use.

Stamps

Baroque border

Card

Very Vanilla and Basic Black

Die

Fun Flowers

Inks

Riding Hood Red

Basic Black

Other

Quickutz Sophisticate letters, EK Success Swirl punch and Fiskars Threading Water punch.

It's arrived and I've played!

My lovely Starter Kit arrived on Tuesday, I just had to capture the moment, so here are some pictures...

I swapped some of the recommended stamp sets for ones that I thought would be more useful for me, and also choose some different coloured ink pads.  The kit is fantastic value for money even if you wanted to save money on some crafty goodies.  Click here for more info on how to get it.

Initial thoughts about some of the products.

My first reaction to the Very Vanilla card stock was that it is to light weight for making a card base.  After a discussion with my fab upline Claire, she explained that the Very Vanilla and Whisper White card was for stamping on and then sticking onto the coloured card. I have to admit the stamped images on that card looks superb.  Apparently if you like to colour with Copics the colours do not bleed as they sometimes do with other card. 

Here is one of the card's we'll be making at classes this month

Stamps

Greenhouse Garden, So Many Thanks and Baby Blossoms

Card

Very Vanilla and Basic Black

Inks

Basic Black

Regal Rose

Ribbon

Very Vanilla Satin