Lots of Lavender & Heartfelt Blooms Card Swap Share

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Its Sunday, so that means it’s time for my Sunday Card Swap Share.  This week I’m sharing cards created by my team using the Lots of Lavender stamp set and the Heartfelt Blooms.  Both of these stamp sets feature some beautiful flowers and they’re both Sale-a-bration items that you can get FREE with a qualifying order.  I don’t know who created these acrds as there was no name attached, but they are all gorgeous.  Let’s take a closer look.

Stampin Up! Lots of Lavender stamp set, Stampin' Studio

Such a lovely color combination of Old Olive, Calypso Coral and Rich Razzleberry.

Stampin Up! Lots of Lavender stamp set, Stampin' Studio

How appropriate that we’ve got a card featuring the Lots of Lavender stamp set and we’ve got shades of lavender; Wisteria Wonder and Elegant Eggplant.

Stampin Up! Heartfelt Blooms stamp set, Stampin' Studio

Berry Burst and Pool Party look great together on this card featuring the Heartfelt Blooms stamp set.

Stampin Up! Heartfelt Blooms stamp set, Stampin' Studio

This time Berry Burst was paired with Crumb Cake for a stunning version.

Need a refresher on how to get your own Lots of Lavender or Heartfelt Blooms stamp set (or one of the other fabulous Sale-a-bration items)?

What is Sale-a-bration you ask?  Why it’s the biggest and best promotion of the year.  Get more of what you love for free!  During the annual Sale-a-bration event, we love free.  In fact, we love free so much we give you three different ways to earn free products: Shop, Host and Join!

Shop Sale-a-bration, Stampin' Studio

For every $50 you spend (before shipping and tax), you’ll receive a free Sale-A-Bration product of your choice for free from the Sale-a-bration catalog.  For anyone who has enjoyed Sale-A-Bration in the past, we have an exciting new announcement for this year: We now have a new reward level, giving you more flexibility and options for your free items.

Let’s break it down:

  • If you spend $50, you get to choose one free level 1 product.
  • If you spend $100, you get to choose one free level 2 product, OR, you can choose two level 1 items.
  • If you spend $150 ,you have the option to choose three level 1 items or one level 1 item and one level 2item.

How’s that for fabulous?!…but wait…there’s more….

Party & Earn Sale-a-bration, Stampin' Studio

You can earn host rewards that are bigger and better than the normal rewards!  When you host a qualifying party or book party or big order of your own, with at least $250 in sales you’ll earn an extra $25 in Stampin’ Rewards!

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These rewards can even be applied towards a Starter Kit, allowing you to also join and become a member of my team.

Sale-a-bration Join the Team , Stampin' Studio

In addition to hosting, you also need to know about the fantastic benefits of joining my team as a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator during Sale-A-Bration. Joining NOW, allows you to build your personalized starter kit.  You get to choose any products you want valued at $125 for just $99  as well as the choice of TWO additional stamp sets for their kit—any stamp set, any price. (Excludes bundles and Sale-A-Bration sets.) Plus, the kit ships for free!   That is a HUGE savings!  Think about it, there’s no obligation, and you  will get a 20% discount on all future purchase until the end of July (or beyond if you choose to continue).

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Brusho Crystal Colour: Spritz & Sprinkle Technique

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I’ve got another Brusho Crystal Colour technique for you today.  Yesterday I shared the Bubble Wrap technique, (you can check it out here) I call this one Spritz & Sprinkle.

Stampin' Up! Brusho Crystal Colour,, Happy Wishes stamp set, Stampin' Studio

I used Watercolor Paper and Basic Black Archival Ink and stamped the sentiments using the Happy Wishes stamp set.  Next, I applied Washi Tape 1/4″ from all four edges attaching the Watercolor Paper to my scrap paper.  This formed a “mask” around the edges of the Watercolor Paper where no color would be able to get to.  Next I used the Stampin’ Spritzer and sprayed water all over the Watercolor Paper making sure it was saturated.  I decided to use the red Brusho  and “sprinkled” it over the water.  The trick is to not use too mush powder because you don’t want the entire thing to turn red, you want variations in the color.  Next… be patient… you’ve got to allow time for the Watercolor Paper to dry.  This could take 5-15 minutes depending on how wet your Watercolor Paper was.

After my focal point was finished I added three Rhinestones to the lower right edge and mounted it on a piece of Basic Black cardstock.  The card base is Real Red and I used a fun fold I call Missing Middle, where the middle of the card is cut out but the whole thing is held together by attaching the focal point to the base with Stampin’ Dimensionals.

Stampin' Up! Brusho Crystal Colour,, Happy Wishes stamp set, Stampin' Studio

As I shared yesterday, every time you use the Brusho, you’re going to get different results.  These are how everyone’s cards turned out at my Brusho Techniques class the other night.  More Brusho techniques coming in the next few days.

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Brusho Crystal Colour Bubble Wrap Technique

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Earlier this week I held a techniques class featuring different ways to use the Brusho Crystal Colours.  Brusho is watercolor ink crystals (actually very fine powder) that you mix with water to make watercolor washes and designs.

Stampin' Up! Brusho Crystal Colour, Celebrate You Thinlits Dies, Stampin' Studio

Brusho Crystal Colours comes with five containers of colors.  We’ve got  red, orange yellow, green and blue.  There are a variety of ways you can use Brusho and we explored quite a few at my techniques class.  This first one uses Bubble Wrap (you know the packing bubble sheets that prevent your Amazon orders from getting crushed, yes, that stuff).  All you have to do for this technique is lay out your bubble wrap (on a protected surface) and sprinkle each of the colors in rows across the bubble wrap.  I did red, then orange, then yellow and green and finally blue.  Sprinkle quite a bit so you can actually see it on the bubble wrap.  Next, take a Stampin’ Spritzer and spritz water liberally all over the bubble warp starting at the red side and going towards the blue side.  This will allow the colors to gently blend with one another without creating a muddy color.  Once you’ve got it good and spritzed, lay your Watercolor Paper directly on the bubble wrap and press the paper into the wrap so that the Watercolor Paper picks up the Brusho colors.  Carefully peel the Watercolor Paper off and marvel and your uniquely designed background paper.

To finish this card off I layered the watercolor paper on Basic Black then Whisper White cardstock to give it a nice matted look and then attached it to a card base made of Island Indigo cardstock.  I die cut the “Celebrate You” out choice of Basic Black cardstock using the Celebrate You Thinlits Dies (a FREE Sale-a-bration with a $100 order).

One thing to keep in mind when working with Brusho is that even though you use the exact same technique each time, you will end up with varying results.  Check out the variety of finished cards everyone created at class.

Stampin' Up! Brusho Crystal Colour, Celebrate You Thinlits Dies, Stampin' Studio

I’ll be sharing the other cards and techniques  using Brusho Crystal Colours over the next week, so be sure to come on back.

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