This weekend was all about stamping! What could be more fun? Well, for me, the only other thing that may beat out stamping is sailing, but that's next weekend :) This weekend I spent yesterday at an Holiday Catalogue Stamp a Stack event that my upline put on and then helped a fellow demonstrator with a class last night.
I signed up for an "Every Stamp Set Swap" so I've been busy creating my cards. The way the swap works is that you sign up to make full cards for a group of cards in the new Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue. Wanda Dodds does a great job in organizing this swap.
It is possible that if you were really energetic you could end up with a sample of every stamp set in the catalogue. I didn't go that far, but I did sign up for 11 categories so I have been busy making about 175 cards. I'm finally finished all of the cards today and they will go in the mail tomorrow. Phew!
I love these flowers - for this one I took 3 scallop circles and soaked them with a mixture of alcohol and shimmer paint to add some sparkle. Once they were wet I scrunched them up and attached them together with a brad. If you leave this scrunched it will dry that way and you have a beautiful flower. So easy!
I love this new stamp set - Fine Feathers. It was easy to make this look like a peacock feather. I took the Old Olive and the Island Indigo markers and just ran them across the marker. It's a little hard to see, but the colours look just like a peacock.
I wasn't so sure of this stamp set, but I really like the way it turned out. I added one of the stamps from Everything Eleanor as a background along with a few pearls and some paper piercing just to "pop" it up.
I'll share more of my swaps with you over the next few days and then will share the swaps I receive back in September when I get them in the mail.
Thanks for stopping by!
Happy Stamping.
Melva
I hope you will play along with us, It's going to be fun to see who wins that $150 in stampin up merchandise. Thanks for being a late night stamper!
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These are great projects. THank you for sharing.
ReplyDeleteWhat wonderful cards. I participated in Wanda's swap too and will be checking to see if I received one of your awesome cards. All 3 are great works of art. Thanks for sharing.
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