Quick tip and Project Life Hello December digital download

Well I am sorry that I have not been keeping up with posting I will try harder/

1st you may have seen or heard of Chameleon pens. That change tone from pale to dark in one pen. Well you can do exactly the same with both your Stamp and Write ,markers and your Blendabilities pens.

So
Take a Stamp and Write marker and your stamp and write blender pen
or
The darkest or medium shade of any of the blendabilities sets and the blendability colour lifter pen

Remove the lids from both

Hold the coloured pen straight up with the tip up. Position the blender pen or colour lifter pen tip down onto the coloured pen tip count to 5. Start colouring with your pen. You will notice that the colour changes fro almost no colour to full colour strength. If you want a shorter colour change count to 3 or longer count to 7 etc.

The above was coloured with Darkest Cherry Cobbler and darkest Pumpkin Pie Blendabilities with the above technique.

This week I have also been catching up on Scrapping some of my old pics and I just had to use the Stampin' Up! project life Hello December Download.

I also used the Basic Rhinestones from The Basic Rhinestone and pearls download.

So thats it for today

Hopefully catch up with posting soon

Very very busy week

Well I am in the middle of sorting out my craftroom. In an effort to get a craftroom suitable for creating tutorial videos.

In the meantime I managed to get a few items created. So in the last 10 days I have been very busy.

1st we spent a day in Llandudno watching the Tour of Britain and I created this Digital Project Life layout using Project Life Everyday Adventure Digital download

Then I spent most of the next few days, sorting out craft stuff, and feeling quite stressed about how I  am going to get everything packed ready for the upheaval of getting the room ready to be painted and then get new furniture in.

So was quite pleased to spend time at Met madams which gave me a little bit of crafting time, where I was able to try out my new Gift Box Punch Board. Which I am totally enamored with. Its ace and this cute stack took less than 20 minutes.

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I also bought the paper peircing templates that go with the Oval framlits. Now I must admit I hate paper peircing, and have never enjoyed it. I always ended up with less than sucessful results and it always took too long. After trying the templates, I was amazed at how easy it was and I was really happy with the results.

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I have also been working towards the start of classes in Northwich, Cheshire and full details will soon be on my class pages.

So thats it for this post. I hope to be catching up with you later this week

Bye Bye for now

Tracey

Finnibair style digital canvas inspired by Angel Holt

Well I quite often trawl through you tube for ideas and inspiration. anyway I found a lady called Angela Holt and this amazing video

You tube Finnibair inspired canvas by Angel Holt

So anyway my Mum is an avid non crafter,although she is actually a very good artist, but when I sat her down to watch this she was inspired to start doing a version of this. As was my sister and myself. As I was printing of some vintage images for my Mum, I thought could I do something similar digitally with Stampin' Up! downloads.  I did not use My Digital Studio I used another digital editing program . as you can use Stampin' Up!s digital downloads with your favorite softwear


So heres is my 1st one all items used are Stampin' Up! downloads. A list of all downloads will be at the bottom.

First Edition Designer Series Paper - Digital Download 124408
Bright Blooms - Digital Download 130876
Autumn Elements Stamp Brush Set - Digital Download 127172
Delicate Doilies Stamp Brush Set - Digital Download 124226
Delicate Adornments - Digital Download 132265
Basic Pearls And Rhinestones - Digital Download 124330
Botanical Gazette Designer Series Paper - Digital Download 122169
Happy Watercolor Stamp Brush Set - Digital Download 137078

Then thinking of a photo of my Daughter and Niece I wondered if I could do something similar  with that

Whilst playing I started to develop an Indian goddess theme and went with it . this time I used 


Venetian Romance Designer Series Paper - Digital Download 134735
Bright Blooms - Digital Download 130876
Autumn Elements Stamp Brush Set - Digital Download 127172
Delicate Doilies Stamp Brush Set - Digital Download 124226
Serene Silhouettes - Digital Download 133015
Basic Pearls And Rhinestones - Digital Download 124330
Everyday Adventure Digital Project Life Cards - Digital Download 137345

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Just click on the image to be taken straight to the item in my shop.
Anyway thats if tor now . hope to catch up with you later in the week.

Stampin' Up! Autumn/Winter catty Samples

I've been playing with goodies from the Winter catalogue which will be available to order from the 28th Aug, The 1st card features the Four feathers stamp set and dies which will be available as a bundle I love these. The paper used is from
Gold Soiree Specialty Designer Series Paper available now! 

The second card features the Holiday Home Stamp set (which is truly amazing and can be used for Christmas , Halloween, new home cards and I just adore it. It also has a die set and they will also be available as a bundle. The papers used are from the All
is calm DSP pack and I so love the colours, Lost Lagoon, Pear Pizzazz, Smoky Slate, Soft Sky, Whisper White. The greeting used is from the Wonderous wreath stamp set, yet another great bundle of Stamps and dies, which I will be playing with later this week,

Anyone who buys the Holiday home Stamps and dies bundle from me at www,stampandscraptips.stampinup.net and the All is Calm paper pack in September will receive free instructions to Make 3 cards and 2 3d projects.

The third card also features All is Calm paper pack, plus yet another great bundle, The festival of trees stamp set and the Tree punch . If you buy this bundle and papers you will also receive instructions for 3 cards and 2 3d projects.

To request an Autumn Winter catalog please e mail me at stampandscrap@mail.com with Autumn/winter in the subject.

There are 6 amazing bundle offers in the Autumn winter catty and I love all of them. plus the stamp sets are just to die for. Can't wait to share more with you

Why I buy both the real stamp or paper and the digital stamp or paper

A customer recently asked why I buy both the real stamps and paper and the same digital stamps and paper.

Now unfortunatly I am not at home and could not do real hybrid crafting as I only have my computer available.

That is reason one.
When I only have my computer to play with  I can plan with my digital kits. Try out lots of options before finalising design without wasting a scrap of paper. Then create the  actual card with my real supplies.
Plus when the real papers are no longer available I still have them to print.

I have created a card front  and matching wrapping paper to show why having both the real supplies and the digital supplies enables you to be even more creative

So starting with the planning  I tried out loads of colourways, papers , border depths , before finalising my design. I plan to print off all the background layers . Then stamp and watercolour the top layer. The The papers I used were the Watercolor wonder papers , which I adore but are now retired , but as I have the digital ones I can still use them.  The middle paper was in the real "Watercolor wonder" DSP pack  although I decided to rescale (just because I could) but then I used another piece and altered the transparency for the back piece.  Which I think goes very well.

Now you may ask why do we need the real stamps and paper.  Well in relation to the stamps its really easy, there are loads of techniques that you can do with the real stamps that you can't do with digital stamps. Stamping and embossing . you can get special paper that you can do this with , but then you are limited to that paper, and there are techniques you can't do with that paper.

As yet I have not heard of anyone using angelina fibers with a digital stamp, or pressing it into uTEE etc. So I always have to have the real stamp. But then why have the digital.

If you have the digital stamp you have options to change the image. make it smaller , larger , thinner, fatter. So you can create your own matching backgrounds, wrapping paper , tags. I even make my own tissue tape to match the stamps.   All you need is a printer (inkjet) a peice of freezer paper, or the backing sheet from a sheet of labels , tissue paper and some different widths of old fashioned double sided tape.

1st you decide what size your tissue tape will be . You need to have doublesided tape the same width.
then you design your tissue tape. You can make tissue tape as long as your tissue paper. You will need to have more freezer paper sheets. Using doublesided tape you put them together to make a sheet as long as you need, making sure that you get tape right up to the edges. You will also need a clear space by your printer the same size.

You will have to create a custom file that length in your design softwear but, you can print lots of different tapes side by side to the width of your paper.

If any of your tape designs have words in them you will need to mirror that design.

Then you lay out your sheet of tissue on a flat surface near your computer. Print onto the shiny side of the freezer paper and then lay this on top of your tissue , hold steady with one hand while pressing all over with the other. Remove freezer paper. Turn tissue over apply doublesided tape in line with your printed tape. Trim along the edges of the tape.

So thats why I have the digital and the real stamps and papers.

Products used

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So bye for now
Tracey

Undefined Stamp Carving Kit and Elegant Butterly Punch

So today I finally sat down with my Undefined Stamp Carving kit. Which I have had for a while

Because I can't draw to save my life, I was a bit intimidated by this . However I was determined to do something with it today!!!

So I was thinking what stamp would I like, and I got to thinking in the Papillion Pot Pourrie stamp set there is a shadow stamp for the Itty Bitty Butterfly which I have used to do Kiss stamping techniques, but I have on occassion wanted a Elegant Butterfly shadow stamp. I also love making more use of what you have and kiss stamping is a great technique for getting more out of your stamp sets.  So I punched out an Elegant Butterfly stuck it to the undefined stamp block with Snail and then carved round it, so I now have a shadow stamp for the Elegant butterfly.

So to test it out I created these two cards

Both cards I used kiss stamping on. Kiss stamping is where you have one stamp and press it onto another stamp (you need one shadow style stamp to receive the pattern and one more intricate pattern stamp you can ink up both stamps or either stamp for this technique)

The Thank you card  I inked up my Elegant butterfly stamp with ink then kissed with Hexagons from the "Six sided sampler"  stamp set.  I lined up one edge with the centre of the body and then reversed to stamp the other side.  Then used my piercing tool to create the flight trails and antenna used the Thank You stamps from the "Work of Art" Stamp set colours Hello Honey , Tangelo Twist and, it was supposed to be Lost Lagoon but its lived up to its name I can't find it anywhere so used Island indigo instead . Finished the bodies with rhinestone strips from Basic Rhinestones.

The second card I kissed onto the clean Elegant butterfly  shadow stamp that I had carved with more of the hexagons from the same set. Lining up an edge with the center of the butterfly again and reversing again.  This time I used Blackberry bliss, Tangelo Twist and Pear Pizzaz  inkpad. I stamped the antenna using the antenna stamp from Papillon Pot Pourrie and made the flight trails with a superfine Liner pen.  The Your goodness makes me grateful stamp is from the "Something to Say" Stamp set.

So thats it folks . Everything except the superfine liner I have used for the two cards above is available to but from my shop just click on the links below. or BROWSE MY SHOP

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