Quick post

Just a couple of quick ones today.  

A thank you card using a piece of the Project Life paper. 

And a birthday card for a friend using an old favourite of mine, A Rose is a Rose.   

The missing card

Becoming a little unreliable, aren't I?  I must say I am finding it a little hard to post here every week, especially as some weeks are less productive than others, and then you wonder whether it really is worth the effort.  Not sure how some people post every day, but enough of that.  

I finally found the last card we made at our class.  It was hiding out on the floor in my car, left behind after I had taken them to show someone who couldn't come.  

It uses one of the new in colours; Blackberry Bliss.  Don't you love that name.  And the colour is quite gorgeous too.  Combined with Crush Curry it looked quite good.  

Did you notice my little stamping blunder?  I didn't ink up the front of the wheel enough, but as my sample card was made late the night before our day I didn't have time to re-stamp.  And there is a new little flower punch too.  Cute

Saturday card class 2

Following on from Tuesday, the next card made on Saturday uses the Blended Bloom stamp, also given out at Convention to use with our Blendabilities pens. 

Those who attended on Saturday were given a choice of colouring the bloom with Calypso Coral Blendabilities, their own colouring tools or (as I have done - I am still working on my Blendabilities version), stamping the image three times on coloured cardstock and layering the different sizes together.  A little shading has been done around the different layers, and I quite like the way this has turned out,

Did you notice the little pearls on the happy birthday sentiment?  At Convention they showed us how you can colour the pearls with Blendabilities and the colour won't rub off.  And they look beautiful too.  The leaves are also from another new set; Kinda Eclectic, another Convention giveaway. 

Strangely I seem to have misplaced the last card.  Will have to have a good search for it and pop it on later.  

Saturday's card class

We had another card class last Saturday where there were lots of things to look at.  Of course there was the new catalogue to have a quick look through, the things we made at Convention, the swaps received and also some new products. 

And of course we had to make cards using the new products, didn't we?

This first one uses the Amazing Birthday stamp set - not really a set I would have chosen, but ... it's growing on me.  We were given this set at Convention to use on a make and take but I wasn't happy with the colours we used.

It's AMAZING what a little sparkle and the right colours can do.  

Our next card uses the Traveler stamp set.  This set was on my wish list the first time I saw it.  The detail that has been put into each stamp is really fine and they stamp beautifully.  

My original sample card was used for a birthday my son was going to, so this is actually one made the following day.  I had wanted to use the World Map stamp as background but as I don't own it yet, for the class we used the ledger image from The Open Sea.  I had also printed out some maps from the internet which I "aged up" using tea, but most chose to stamp the background.  I chose to use the tea stained map and created a slightly different version.  

 

More soon.

 

Convention Update 4

Just a few photos of some of the 3D items that people swapped at Convention.  Lots of interesting little boxes and packaging.  

And to finish off, a few shots of Melbourne.  
 

This was a lovely little laneway filled with interesting cafes and shops that reminded us of Diagon Alley from Harry Potter, and then we saw this oddly attired man in a top hat walking towards us, and I had to get a photo.

After all that walking, time to put my feet up

That's it, no more Convention stuff.

Convention Update 3

Really sorry, but I haven't been able to create anything lately to blog about, so thought I could show you a few more ideas we were shown at Convention.  

Outside of the main room where all these displays and boards of different ideas to create using Stampin' Up products.  

The one below are the samples shared by Donna Williams using the Blendabilities that will be available after July.  Blendabilities are new alcohol based markers for colouring.  They come in packs of three; one of the colours is an actual SU colour and the other two are different shades, either lighter or darker than the original colour which blend together perfectly.  We were fortunate enough to receive a set of these, but my colouring skills aren't that great, but I'm working on it. 

 I love those lanterns - not sure how often it would get used though.  (notice the new bling too?)

This board was the samples by Rachael Van Rij who was using new thinlit dies called Little Letters - an alphabet set with letters 1.9cm high.  Yes, it's on my wish list. 

 

And she showed us how to cut those letters out on the fold of the card

I really like the idea with the patterned paper behind the negative space of the letters.  Look out for one like that by me one day.