Okay, so bling is now a tired and overused word, but I think it suits the card and it rhymes which makes me happy. LOL.

This is a card I made today, I wanted something monochromatic and I knew I definitely wanted my flower to be blue, I absolutely adore stamping blue flowers and I find them such a lovely change to reds/pinks. In the end though I ended up making a sparkly flower which now mostly covers the stamped blue flower.

All images copyright Stampin’ Up! 1990-2007

To make this card I started with some Confetti White cardstock (hence the flecks you see in the photo) and stamped across the bottom of the card using the trio of flowers from the Looks Like Spring stamp set using Ballet Blue inkpad. I then stamped the harlequin background from the same stamp set again using Ballet Blue on Confetti White, this was then adhered to some Ballet Blue cardstock then adhered to the centre of the card. The large flower was then stamped with Ballet Blue onto Confetti White, layered onto some Ballet Blue cardstock and adhered to the top right hand-side of the card as shown in the photo.

To make the sparkly flower I stamped the flower using the Whisper White inkpad onto some Ballet Blue cardstock and then poured some Heat & Stick Powder over the top. I poured off the excess Heat & Stick and then gave the flower a blast with the heat gun to melt the Heat & Stick Powder. When the Heat & Stick powder melted I then poured some Dazzling Diamonds Glitter over the top then emptied the excess glitter back into the container. A short burst of the heat gun on the flower then secured the glitter. I really enjoy using Heat & Stick powder with Glitter because it gives me a different effect than glitter glue. With glitter glue you get a slightly raised effect and it can be difficult to control, whereas with the heat & stick powder you get a glitter effect that looks like it’s been printed on the card – a bit like buying a Hallmark card. The other benefit of using Heat & Stick Powder with Glitter rather than glitter glue is that the glitter follows the exact pattern of the stamped image whereas with glitter glue it can cover any intricate designs.

Back to the instructions. When the flower was finished I cut it out using some very sharp scissors. The trick to nice cutting is to hold the scissors straight and then move the paper/cardstock around rather than moving your scissors to follow the pattern – this ensures good cutting out every time. The sparkly flower was then adhered slightly off-set on top of the stamped blue flower. For a centre on the flower I punched out a flower from the matching punch which is called Spring Bouquet(*), added a diamond-shaped brad for a centre then adhered it to the sparkly flower using double-sided foam tape.

To finish off I tied some matching blue grosgrain ribbon to the side of the card and that’s it! Sounds like a lengthy process but it wasn’t really. If you’d like more information on this card or would like to purchase any of the products used, please contact me on: angelasargeant@gmail.com. In the meantime, here’s a list of the products I’ve used:

All products used by Stampin’ Up!

Looks Like Spring stamp set
Spring Bouquet punch (this punch matches one of the Looks Like Spring stamp exactly, so when you stamp the trio of flowers you can punch them out)
Confetti White cardstock
Ballet Blue cardstock
Ballet Blue inkpad (dye)
Whisper White inkpad (Craft, i.e. pigment)
Bluebird grosgrain ribbon
Vintage Brads (silver diamond)
SNAIL Adhesive
Heat & Stick Powder
Dazzling Diamonds Glitter
Heat Gun
Stampin’ Dimensionals (double-sided foam tape)

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I won’t bore you all to death as to why I’ve not been blogging as often as I usually do but I hope that this card I made the other day pleases you.

I made this card as a thank you for the principal at my children’s school so I hope she likes it.

I wanted something elegant so I started my thought process with the background and the ‘thank you’ stamp. The background is ‘Floral’ background stamp by Stampin’ Up! and is stamped onto Mellow Moss cardstock using the matching inkpad. The word ‘thank you’ is stamped in Versamark and then heat embossed with gold embossing powder. I adhered some Ribbon Originals (Prep School) ribbon to the background and then another length of ribbon on top of that to provide a base to ground my main image on. This was then layered onto some brushed gold cardstock to highlight the gold ‘thank you’. The main image is one of the roses from the ‘Wild Rose’ stamp set, this was stamped in Rose Red ink and then overstamped with the second stamp (the outline) in Bravo Burgundy, I then coloured the centre of the rose with some Mellow Moss chalk (Stampin’ Pastels). The rose was then cut out and adhered onto a frame which I stamped with Bravo Burgundy ink onto Very Vanilla cardstock. To make the card ‘pop’ a bit, both the flower and the frame are adhered using double-sided foam mount (Stampin’ Dimensionals).

All products used in this card are by Stampin’ Up! Images copyright to Stampin’ Up! 1990-2007.

If you’d like more information on this card or are interested in purchasing any Stampin’ Up! products, please contact me on angelasargeant@gmail.com

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Hi everyone. Yes, yes, I’m feeling extremely guilty – I’ve gone from posting at least twice a week to nothing for a whole month. I’m still here, but I’ve been working on some cards for magazines so unfortunately I can’t show those as yet. I’ve also been busy working on my Stampin’ Up! business which is growing stronger and stronger everyday. That, along with family life has kept me away from my blog.

Anyway, I just had to pop in and let you all know about the super Stampin’ Up! promotion this month.

For September only, if you join Stampin’ Up! as an Independent Demonstrator, you will receive a free box of Hodgepodge Hardware valued at $52.95 – you can choose from Pewter, Antique Brass or Aged Copper. This is a fantastic deal in addition to an already heavily discounted Starter Kit. If you have ever thought about joining Stampin’ Up! then e-mail me on angelasargeant@gmail for more information. I will be more than happy to mail you a free information pack. If you’d like to read a little bit more about me and Stampin’ Up! then click on the link above that says “Business Opportunity” or click here.

In the meantime, here’s a 6×6 scrapbooking layout I did recently (sorry to those who have seen this at my workshops – I promise to have something new uploaded very very soon).

(Please ignore the ‘white patch’ – I realised after I uploaded this photo that I had the school name showing which I figure isn’t a good thing to be showing on the internet where anyone can see it.)

This layout was done using the new Scribble This stamp set along with the Office Accoutrement stamp set. To make this layout I stamped the swirl from ‘Scribble This’ randomly around a piece of 6×6″ Certainly Celery cardstock using Certainly Celery inkpad. The photo was layered onto a piece of Elegant Eggplant cardstock. The “memo” is the Memo stamp from Office Accoutrement and has been stamped in Brocade Blue then trimmed down as this layout is a small one for a brag book. The memo was then mounted onto some Brocade Blue cardstock which was punched with the new Stampin’ Up! Spiral Punch to give it a ‘notebook’ feel. The flower on the memo is also from the Office Accoutrement stamp set and was stamped with the Almost Amethyst inkpad onto some scrap white cardstock then trimmed around leaving a very thin border. I added a pewter brad to the centre of the flower then attached it to the layout with some double-sided foam mount (Stampin’ Dimensionals). Those brackets at the top of the layout are made using the Round Tab Punch (yes really! email me if you’d like instructions on how to do this). The “Important Message” stamp is also from the Office Accoutrement stamp set and was stamped with Elegant Eggplant onto white cardstock then the edges of the cardstock were dragged over the inkpad to give some definition. Lastly the words “sassy”, “unique” and “beautiful” are from the Expressive Flexible Phrases stamp set and were stamped in Almost Amethyst, Brocade Blue and Elegant Eggplant respectively and trimmed around to leave a little bit of a border.

As I said, this is brag book size (6″x6″) – the pages being small are much quicker to create than a 12″x12″ layout and can be easily constructed as a great Christmas present for that special someone.

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