Showing posts with label Stampin' Blends. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stampin' Blends. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 3, 2022

Welcome to the Family! 2022-2024 In Colors

Every year, Stampin’ Up! Introduces a set of five colors to compliment our standard color families and to stay current with color trends.  I must say that I’m in love with our new batch!  All of them make me happy and I think you’ll love them too.  


Before I make my card in my video, I show each of the five colors:  Sweet Sorbet, Parakeet Party, Tahitian Tide, Orchid Oasis and Starry Sky.  All of these colors are available in ink pads/refills, cardstock, 6” x 6” Designer Series Paper, Glimmer Paper, Stampin’ Blends, Stampin’ Write Markers, Metallic Woven Ribbon, Baker’s Twine Pack, and Matte Decorative Dots.  I also show you some of our other colors, both current and retired, so you can compare the new colors and get a feel of just how unique they are.  

Gather your supplies:

  • Cardstock:  Thick Basic White 8-1/2" x 5-1/2"; Basic White 4-1/4" x 5-1/2"; 6" x6" 2022-2024 In Color DSP 4" x 5-1/4"; Vellum 3" x 3"
  • Stamp Bundle: Happiness Abounds
  • Dies:  Stylish Shapes
  • Ink:  Memento Black, Tahitian Tide
  • Adhesive and Tools

Start by folding your card base in half and burnishing the fold.  Set this aside and grab the quarter size piece of Basic White.  Using Memento Black ink, stamp the flowers and leaves as shown.  Using Stampin’ Blends, color the flowers and leaves with the new colors, and Daffodil Delight.  Stamp the sentiment in Tahitian Tide.


Cut out the flowers and leaves with the dies on the Stampin’ Cut & Emboss machine.  Also cut a square (largest die) from Vellum and the sentiment using the Stylish Shapes Dies.








Now we are ready to assemble - start with the piece of Tahitian Tide DSP.  Position the velum and flowers on your card until you have an arrangement you’re happy with.  Once you like the arrangement, start adhering the flowers with Stampin’ Dimensionals.  Tuck in the leaves with Glue Dots.  Add this floral decorated vellum to the hard front, hiding your adhesive under the flowers.  Lastly, add the sentiment strip with more Dimensionals below the flowers.





Our new Annual Catalog was just released on May 3rd and I am super excited about not only the new In Colors, but so many other products.  This would be a perfect time to do two things:  1) Join my team (during the month of May, there is a fabulous joining bonus where you can get the new In Colors as a bonus) and 2) Host a class, demonstration or catalog party so you can earn many of the new products for free!  Contact me and let me help you join, host or even just give you the new catalog!

Karen


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Tuesday, February 22, 2022

Natural Tones Blends

The new Natural Tones Stampin' Blends are part of the recently introduced All Together Collection.  There are ten new colors - in shades perfect for coloring skin tones in our stamped images.  Also part of the collection is the Here Together Bundle and the All Together 6" Designer Series Paper.  I show everything in my video, but mainly, I focus on the Blends.  It's easy to see how you can use them to color people, but I focus on non-people images.  I also don't make a card in this video - I just show you how I've used these new colors to make eight different cards.

Let's start with the colors.  Below is the swatch I made showing all the colors starting with the darkest (100) up to the lightest (1000).  I love that they don't have names as I think that makes it easier to know they just fall into that range of numbers.  I've also swatched the existing Blends that could be used for skin tones as a comparison.  Cinnamon Cider is an in-color that will be retiring this spring when the new catalog comes out in May, so if you don't currently have it, you may miss out.


My first few cards focus on animals, the next logical choice for these colors.  I am thrilled with the results as there are so many more options for shading all of our cute critters!



As you can tell, I've ventured off into other things, like the Woody in the card above.  How cute is that little card on this masculine birthday card?  And did you notice the flowers with the birds?  They were done with the 1000 shade!  Looks like delicate cherry blossoms to me!  And the flowers below in all sepia tones look beautiful and give the card a vintage look.  One thing I learned when doing the shells is that you really need a deeper color for the outline stamp.  When I tried doing the large shell in Cinnamon Cider, it was just too light and I needed to stamp it in Early Espresso instead.


These new Blends have been very popular and some of them are in low inventory status, or even unavailable at this time.  I am hoping they will be fully stocked soon so you can get the entire collection of them at one time.  I've posted the links to all the parts of the collection below and even though I didn't feature much with the stamp set, dies or paper, I encourage you to check them out.  And don't forget about the great products you can get for FREE during Sale-a-bration only through February 28th!

Karen


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Christmas Cards in Unexpected Colorways

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