Sneaky peak shown on Facebook ......

In today's post

• Sneaky Peak ...... what was on my desk .......
• Short and Sweet
• Big Shot, Big deals, going soon.

SNEAKY PEAK ....... so what was on my desk?

A few days ago I posted a sneaky peak of something that was on my desk.

Did any of you guess what it was?

Heres the pictures I shared

I love being creative and love gift giving but I also love drinking tea.  Rooibos in awesome, English Breakfast, Raspberry and Echinacea, the list is endless, and I love that they come in gorgeous little bags.  

Problem:  But how to store them, so they look pretty but can be easily accessible?

Solution:  Stampin Up supplies to the rescue - use the scoreboard and your papers to build a caddy.

Simple

What a cute gift.  I found a similar one by Vicky, but her measurements were way to small for the brand of tea I wanted to store, so I set to work with my grid paper and worked out all my dimensions.

I then cut my card stock and scored.  Before finally getting to play with the new Moonlight Designer Series Paper Stack.  

I cut the panels to the right size.  Stamped the gorgeous image from the hostess set, Blooming with Hope and then got out my water colour pen.  

I love this tool, using this I can create great water - colours using my Classic ink pads.  Awesome.

So each panel is hand painted.  There are four on each box.  

 Lastly I created a handle on the lid using an Antique Brad, and then cut the letters using the oh so cute and totally must have-able, in fact, you can't live without, little letters framelits.  Aren't these just so adorable.  The letters were sponged in co-ordinating inks.

  

and what gift is complete without matching tag.

Having made one in Blackberry Bliss I was inspired to try

Hello Honey (from the Moonlight DSP Stack) and the Lost Lagoon card stock.

But if that wasn't enough,

How about Hello Honey card stock with Moonlight DSP and water coloured Butterflies from the Papillon Potpourri Set stamped in Tangello Twist.  Lush.  The box was cut to dispense the bags in along the longer side in this version.

Cute.  Aren't these adorable.  Yep Love em.

Talking of cute and adorable, how about something Short and Sweet.

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Remember the beautiful boat reflection ..........

Morning everyone ..........

yes, thats right the boat reflection I did a couple of weeks ago, and I asked what would you like to see it turned into .....

Here's the link if you missed the post  Reflection technique

At that stage the image had been stamped and coloured and water coloured but was a flat piece of paper ...... there were so many lovely suggestions and I thank you all for taking the time to stop by and leave your comments.

Anyway are you ready ...............

From this 

To this Easel reflection card

I used the lovely polka dots embossing folder to emboss the top of my card before turning it into an easel.  I stamped the bottom layer with lost lagoon and the gorgeous Gorgeous Grunge stamp set.

I matted and layered and distressed (vintage style) the edges of Tangello Twist and Lost Lagoon card stock

And stamped and cut with the Banners Framelits the gorgeous Flag.  

It says ......... "now go change the world" and is part of one of the sayings from the Something to Say stamp set.

I hope you all love it.  I love that the reflection is not flat and has the three dimensional feel that it would in real life.

Anyway thanks again for taking the time to stop by and huge huge thank you's for all your comments and support.  

As always hugs, 

Traveller reflection ....... what would you like to see this turned into?

Hi everyone.

I have been playing in the craft room again and am really adoring this wonderful set.  Its so versatile. But I particularly love the boat and the train.

I used the reflection technique again to create this gorgeous picture.  

At the moment it is just a flat uncut piece of card with the stamped image on it.

My question to you guys today is

WHAT KIND OF CARD WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE THIS TURNED INTO?

I would love it if you would leave you suggestions at the bottom of my post.

When I have a few I will pick one and turn this into that particular card.

Perhaps you have a special occasion that you need a card for .......... suggest how you would like it used and I may well send it to you.

Reflection technique recipe:

Boat from Traveller Stamp Set

Tangello Twist Stamp N Write Marker - to do the orange colouring with

Lost Lagoon Ink pad

Water Colour Pen

Black Stayzon Ink Pad

Stampa Ma Jig

to do this technique:

Stamp your first image onto your card base (Where you want the top image to be)

Next stamp the image onto your plastic sheet from the stampa ma jig.

Turn this image over and line up under your stamped image - ideally they should be touching at the point of reflection

Then rub the back of the plastic sheet evenly all over the image so that the ink is transferred to your card stock.

Using your Stamp n Write marker colour in the orange areas and blend with the blender pen.

Then using the Lost Lagoon ink pad, squeeze pad together before opening to create puddle of ink on lid.  Take you water colour pen, and pick up a little of the diluted ink at a time and create the sea.

Leave to dry.

When finished you will have a gorgeous reflection.

Have a great day.

So what are the last two Stampin UP 2014/16 In colours ..........

Here's another sneaky peaky into the lovely goodies you can expect to find in the new catalogue.

I can't begin to tell you how excited I am.  There is so much loveliness inside the covers of that book. Its probably one of the best reads Ive had in ages.  (Could also turn out to be the most costly, lol)

I wanted to do something a bit different with these two colours, so I did make a card, but I also made two ........ yes two, gift bags.

Anyway unveiling the final two colours in my individual colour showcase this week .........

Lost lagoon and Tangello Twist.

Aren't these just the cutest.  (I first saw these in 2013, by American Demo Twilla.)

I have adjusted the design and used framelits instead of a bigz die and voila, two matching bags to hold lovely little goodies.

I made rectangular bags to go in between the flowers.   The flowers were cut using the Floral framelits dies.  I used three in total.  The middle of the big flower is a scallop punch. 

The lovely embossing folder is in the new catalogue as well.  So are the teeny flowers inside the Petit Petals flowers on the card.  

I am just loving this colour combination, really reminds me of sunny days by the sea.

Anyway talking of colour, there are some amazing deals in this week's Weekly Deals, including Calypso Coral Chevron ribbon, Wisteria wonder ink pads and both gold and silver ink pads.

But don't forget these deals won't be around for long.