Handstamped by Rachel: 2024

Wednesday 1 May 2024

Colour Creations Blog Hop Week 1 - Peach Pie Daisies

Happy New Catalogue Day!

Today's the day that the 2024-2025 Stampin' Up! Catalogue goes live to customers.

A new catalogue year means a beautiful new graphic for our blog hops too. Isn't our Cathy amazing! She's the host of our blog hops and provides our new graphics.

The first colour we are featuring is one of our new In Colours, Peach Pie. We are covering all of the new In Colours first before moving on to the remainder of the Stampin' Up! colours.

This month Stampin' Up! have an amazing joining offer. Join the Stampin' Up! team in May and you will receive the following In Colour Kit in addition to the usual joining kit. Contact me for more details.

I've combined a new colour with an existing stamp set and bundle, Cheerful Daisies.

I cut the Daisy Die from Fluid 100 Watercolour Paper and coloured with ink and Water Painters. The ink colours are Peach Pie, Pecan Pie, Lost Lagoon and Pretty Peacock.

The background of the card is Basic White embossed with the new Eyelet 3D Embossing Folder. I coloured the center of the embossed piece with a Blending Brush and Lost Lagoon ink.

The Birthday Wishes greeting is from another new product, Simply Said stamp set. I cut the greeting using the Unbounded Love Dies. I coloured the center section of the greeting die with more Lost Lagoon ink and a Blending Brush.

If you don't already have a copy of our beautiful new catalogue and don't have a demonstrator, please contact me and I will get one to you.

Now it's time to see what my very clever stamping friend Kathryn Ruddick has to share with us. Make sure you visit all of the stops on our blog hop for lots of Peach Pie inspiration.

If you encounter any issues with the links in our blog hop please head to Cathy's blog as she has a complete list of tonight's participants.

Happy stamping,

Rachel

Wednesday 24 April 2024

Colour Creations Blog Hop Week 50! Tahitian Tide Trucks

Hello stamping friends, welcome to the last week of this year's Colour Creations Blog Hops. Don't get too distressed we will be back with a new year of blog hops NEXT WEEK!

The final colour we are featuring is Tahitian Tide, which is one of the retiring In Colours.

For tonight's cards I have used the Construction Zone stamp set.

The machines and present are stamped in Memento Black Ink and coloured with Blends in Tahitian Tide, Parakeet Party and Orchid Oasis.

The zig zag strip down the left side of each card was cut with the Basic Borders Dies and all of the circles and the greeting banners were cut with the Stylish Shapes Dies.

Super quick, but hopefully super cute too and lots of discontinued items to say good bye to :( If you have any questions please contact me.

Now it's time to see more Tahitian Tide creations from the lovely and super talented Sharon Davern

If you encounter any issues with the links in our hop please head to Cathy Proctor's blog as she is the wonderfully amazing host of our hops and has a complete list of tonight's participants.

Thanks for visiting,

Rachel

Product List

Tahitian Tide A4 Cardstock

[159262]

$17.50

Tahitian Tide Stampin' Blends Combo Pack

[159221]

$17.50

Tahitian Tide Classic Stampin' Pad

[159210]

$15.75

Parakeet Party Stampin' Blends Combo Pack

[159220]

$17.50

Parakeet Party Classic Stampin' Pad

[159208]

$15.75

Orchid Oasis Stampin' Blends Combo Pack

[159223]

$17.50

Basic White A4 Cardstock

[159228]

$18.50

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad

[132708]

$11.50

2022–2024 In Color™ 6" X 6" (15.2 X 15.2 Cm) Designer Series Paper

[159253]

$21.00

Metal Plate 3 D Embossing Folder

[160766]

$17.50

Sketched Plaid Cling Stamp Set

[161424]

$35.00

Stylish Shapes Dies

[159183]

$53.00

Basic Borders Dies

[155558]

$51.00

Add All to Cart

Wednesday 17 April 2024

Colour Creations Blog Hop week 49 - Sweet Sorbet Layered Beauty Three Ways

We only have two weeks left of this year's Colour Creations Blog Hops. This week we are featuring Sweet Sorbet which is one of the 2022-2024 In Colours, which unfortunately means that it is retiring at the end of April.

For tonight's cards I combined this retiring colour with one of the new bundles from the up coming 2024-2025 Catalogue. The bundle is called Layers of Beauty and includes a stamp set, dies and a set of 5 masks.

I made three cards with this bundle using different colouring techniques. For the first card I stamped the outline in Memento Black Ink and coloured using the masks and Blending Brushes. The 5 masks were really easy to use as they are numbered and have a notch in one side to make it easy position them correctly. The colours I used were Sweet Sorbet, Flirty Flamingo, Old Olive, Granny Apple Green and Daffodil Delight. I used only Sweet Sorbet on the roses but added to the intensity of the colour with each of the masks.

The 5 masks were really easy to use as they are numbered and have a notch in one side to make it easy position them correctly.

The colours I used were Sweet Sorbet, Flirty Flamingo, Old Olive, Granny Apple Green and Daffodil Delight. I used only Sweet Sorbet on the roses but added to the intensity of the colour with each of the masks.

For the next card I stamped the outline in Memento Black ink on Basic Black card stock. I coloured the image with my Blends Markers in Sweet Sorbet, Old Olive, Petal Pink and Daffodil Delight.

The background papers for each card are from the 2022-2024 In Colour DSP Pack.

For the third card I stamped the outline image on Fluid 100 Watercolour Paper in Stazon Ink. I coloured the image with a Water Painter and Stampin' Up! ink in Sweet Sorbet, Old Olive, Petal Pink and Daffodil Delight.

The greetings were stamped in Sweet Sorbet and are from the Go To Greetings. This stamp set is another that is retiring at the end of April. I will miss this set, it's one I use a heap. It has lots of greetings in different sizes.

I cut out the three images with the coordinating dies. They were mounted on a card front with a Sweet Sorbet card base.

Here are the three different cards together, masking, watercolouring and Blends Markers.

Now it's time for the next hop in our blog hop, my wonderful stamping friend Christine Blain.

If you encounter any problems with the links in our hop please head to Cathy Proctor's blog as she is the amazing host of our blog hops and has a complete list of tonight's participants.

Come back next Wednesday when we will be featuring our last colour for this year, Tahitian Tide.