The Red Haired Stamper: Butterfly

Had a lovely day stamping with my Club Ladies in May. We made four cards and they got a sneak peek at some of the new toys.

Here are two of the cards we made in May.:

A lovely vintage take using the stamp set "Blooming with Kindness"

Cardstock: Crumb Cake; Chocolate Chip; Very Vanilla

Inks: Crumbcake; Chocolate Chip

Stamps: French Script; Blooming with Kindness

Misc: Basic Pearls; Stampin' Sponges

The next card used the masking and sponging technique. You tear some scrap paper and stick it down on your cardstock base and then spong the open areas of the card. Before we took the mask off we then stamped the patterned trellis on the same area.

Punched and sponged the edges of the butterflies and flowers and adhered with glue dots and added lots of bling. Add whatever greeting you like and voila! Easy and quick card that looks like you put lots more effort into it than it required!

TIP: Use our Paper Piercing Tool to lift and place your diamonds, pearls and candy dots. They won't go flying!

Cardstock: Whisper White; Pool Party

Inks: Whisper White; Pool Party and Tempting Tourquoise (the trellis)

Stamps: Summer Silhouette (trellis); Blooming With Kindness (Greeting)

Misc: Stampin' Sponges; Elegant Butterfly Punch; Bitty Butterfly Punch; Petite Petals Punch; Rhinestone Basic Jewels. Paper Piercing Tool

My next round of Club Classes starts on June 14th. I would love to invite you to come and see what it is all about. RSVP on my website

You can commit to the Club for 12 months with a monthly order of $33 and enjoy all the benefits including earning FREE hostess benefits once during the commitment period and you get a Technique page each month to take home with you. Not sure the commitment is for you? How about just joining us for the class, we make 4 cards each month, and the cost is $15 or FREE with a $33 order places on the day.

If you don't live close to me and would like to be a part of the club I will make the cards for you each month and mail them out and you will enjoy the benefits of the club like hostess freebies and technique pages.

Contact me for all the information!

Sue

The Red Haired Stamper!

One of the new toys you can NOW purchase from the Lastest Seasonal Catalogue is...a HUGE beautiful butterfly. It's a background stamp size!

What I did for this card is to emboss the Swallowtail butterfly image with black embossing powder. Then I watercolured it in the same colour as the card base..making the darker part on the inside of the wing near the body. The body I used Basic Gray to colour. You don't have to worry about staying within the lines for this one as you are going to cut off all around it..so just use broad washes of colour and play! NO FEAR!!

...cut is out then attach it onto the card front which I had embossed with the beautiful

Fancy Fan Folder (#127751 $9.95)

LOVE this elegant background folder! Added a little bling, a ribbon and a little word stamp! DONE! Easy to recreate in every colour of the Stampin' Up! Family!!

My very talented friend Jo played with me in The Stamp Cave today...we had a blast! I finally got my LOVE banner finished! I'll besharing that too and lots of fetails about the upcoming Catalogue launch on February 9th! You won't want to miss that!!

See you tomorrow for Sketchy Friday!!

The Red Haired Stamper!