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Have you every made a One Sheet Wonder?  Well last Sunday night I held a team training for my team – The Crafty Bears – via Facebook.  I had set us all some homework – stamp up a sheet of Whisper White or Very Vanilla with our chosen stamps then cut the card stock up and create some cards.  This technique is called a One Sheet Wonder.

I had the set Love and Affection on my desk so I decided to use this and the In Colors for my homework.  Here’s the sheet all stamped up:

I’ve used four of the new In Colors – Peekaboo Peach, Flirty Flamingo. Sweet Sugarplum and Emerald Envy.

I still need to draw up a template for these cards so I can recreate them – I’ll try and post the template this week.  I was able to create six cards from this one sheet.

 

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I thought it was time to show you some more of my OnStage Samples – these two cards use the Playful Palette DSP Stack and feature four of the five new In Colors – Emerald Envy, Sweet Sugarplum, Flirty Flamingo and Peekaboo Peach.

The first card is creating using the ‘starburst’ technique and uses eight different designs of the paper.  There are 48 sheets in a DSP stack – tweleve double sided designs and you get four of each design.  One side is multi coloured and the other side is one of the above colours and Very Vanilla – there is also a Basic Black and Very Vanilla design.

To create this card I cut a piece of copy paper 5″ x 2 3/4″ and then I like to place my ‘triangles’ on top and have a play with the layout before adhering them down for good.  The washi tape covers the edge of the paper and gives a nice finish.  I have been using the Tags and Labels Framelits heaps lately for cutting out and matting my sentiments – you don’t have to worry about stamping the sentiment straight 🙂

This second card uses three strips of DSP that are about 1 3/4″ wide.  I then cut the ‘Sweetheart’ from the bottom of the strip, mixed and matched them around then adhered the strip down and adhered the heart with dimensionals.  Another punch that could also be used would be the Elegant Butterfly.

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It was so lovely receiving ‘snail mail’ for our birthday.  If you are yet to have your birthday and would love to receive a handmade card from me please email me your birth date and postal address.

 

 

This last card is from the lovely Shannon West who started the ‘I’m Bringing Birthdays Back’.  Shannon is the Demonstrator Training Manager at Stampin’ Up!  It was her birthday earlier in May and she received over 940 cards from demonstrators around the world.  Thank you Shannon for my card and the lovely words inside.

I’ll be back tomorrow with the cards Phil received.

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It’s a big day in the Stampin’ Up! calendar – our new 2016-2017 Annual Catalogue has finally arrived 🙂  There are SO many yummy new stamps and products in this catalogue.  If you haven’t got your hands on a copy yet please contact me and I’ll get one to you.

Back in April I was asked to present at our local OnStage Event run by Stampin’ Up! for demonstrators from around New Zealand.  It was a real privilege and I really enjoyed the challenge of speaking to 160+ ladies – it was great fun.  As part of my presentation – on the new 2016-2018 In Colors and the Playful Palette Suite (pg 118) – I made a number of samples to showcase the new colours.  So over the coming days I will show them to you plus some other samples using new stamp sets.

First up we have a card using the new In Colors – Peekaboo Peach, Flirty Flamingo, Sweet Sugarplum, Emerald Envy and Dapper Denim

 The stamp set here is called Painter’s Palette

The next two cards use 1″ squares of the new Playful Palette DSP Stack – 9 on the front and 3 inside.

 

 There are 12 double-side designs in the paper stack so each card showcases one side of the paper

Don’t forget to checking back tomorrow to see more samples.