Today Is All About You Card Using Beautiful Peacock Stamp Set

14 January 201823 February 2018 ~ Anna Krol ~ Leave a comment

Anna’ Stampin’ Cave – Today Is All About You Card Using Beautiful Peacock Stamp Set

Hello and thanks for stopping by today!

Today I’ve got for you lovely card using Beautiful Peacock Stamp Set. Did you know that during Sale-A-Bration you can earn this stamp set (and many other goodies) for FREE?! You can check all the details HERE –>

Today Is All About You card dimensions:

Night Of Navy cardstock: 11-6/8″ x 4-1/8″ scored in half at 5-7/8″ (29.7 x 10.5 cm scored in half at 14.8 cm)
Whisper White cardstock two panels: 5-1/2″ x 3-7/8″ (14.1 cm x 9.9 cm)
Pool Party cardstock: 2-7/8″ x 2-7/8″ (7.3 cm x 7.3 cm)
Whisper White cardstock piece for the stamping

Night of Navy and Melon Mambo (together with Cherry Cobbler) are the colours I use and like the least, from Stampin’ Up! colour families but it’s good to challenge yourself once in a while to do something differently. And this unusual for me colour combination comes from The Color Throwdown Challenge #475.

This card was pretty easy to put together. First, I prepared my base by cutting and scoring a piece of Night of Navy cardstock. Next, I stamped Watercolor Wash background stamp on one of my Whisper White panels in Night of Navy ink.

Tip: To get good, even stamped image with large background stamps use paper to stamp technique. Just put your stamp on your work surface, image facing up, ink it well, and press your cardstock to the inked image, face down. Use some scratch paper to rub over the top. Make sure you apply pressure around the corners too, so that it’s even. When it’s done just lift your cardstock. Perfectly stamped background every each time.

It’s especially helpful technique if you suffer some medical conditions, like arthritis or like me – I lost the feeling sensations in my arms and hands three years ago, after one of the MS relapses, and since it’s really for me to hold anything heavy. Or even ultimately heavy. This technique is a real …umm… ‘craft-saver’?! haha, you know what I mean.

Once I had my background out of the way I stamped the peacock in Night of Navy, Melon Mambo and Pool Party, on a piece of Whisper White cardstock. I’ve used Stamp-a-ma-jig to help line-up all the images. Next. I die-cut the image using the largest square from Stitched Shaped Framelits Dies (2-5/8″ x 2-5/8″ [6.6 cm x 6.6 cm]) and stamped my sentiment in Night of Navy.

I also stamped the body of the peacock separately, fussy cut it and added to the image with dimensionals. To jazz-it-up, I’ve added lots of shimmer with Clear Wink of Stella to this little guy. Three little pearls finish off the card.

I hope you like my little card. If you wish to purchase any of products I have used, simply click the images below to go directly to my online store and don’t forget to enter the hostess code for the month of January GK3G3AR3 to receive a gift from me.

Thank you for stopping by and have a blessed day

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Beautiful Peacock Photopolymer Stamp Set [147239] £0.00	Watercolor Wash Clear-Mount Background Stamp [139538] £13.00	Watercolor Wash Wood-Mount Background Stamp Set [138704] £18.00	Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies [145372] £27.00	Night Of Navy A4 Card Stock [106577] £7.25
Pool Party A4 Card Stock [124391] £7.25	Night Of Navy Classic Stampin’ Pad [126970] £6.00	Pool Party Classic Stampin’ Pad [126982] £6.00	Melon Mambo Classic Stampin’ Pad [126948] £6.00	Clear Wink Of Stella Glitter Brush [141897] £7.25
Pearl Basic Jewels [144219] £4.50	Stamp-A-Ma-Jig [101049] £11.00	Clear Block D [118485] £7.75	Clear Block F [118483] £15.50	Paper Snips Scissors [103579] £9.00
Big Shot [143263] £99.00

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Stampin’ Up! Spring Summer Catalogue Paper & Ribbon Shares

7 January 20187 January 2018 ~ Anna Krol ~ 1 Comment

Anna’ Stampin’ Cave – Spring Summer Catalogue Paper & Ribbon Shares

Shares are open to Austria, France, Germany, Netherlands & United Kingdom

Paper Shares

You will get 1/4 of each pack of Designer Series paper from Spring Summer 2018 Catalogue:

12 6×6″ sheets (2 of each design) of Sweet Soirée Specialty DSP
12 6×6″ sheets (2 of each design) of Painted With Love Specialty DSP
12 6×6″ sheets (1 of each design) of Picture Perfect Party DSP
12 6×6″ sheets (2 of each design) of Myths & Magic Specialty DSP
12 6×6″ sheets (2 of each design) of Petal Passion DSP
12 6×6″ sheets (2 of each design) of True Gentleman DSP
12 6×6″ sheets (1 of each design) of Tutti-Frutti DSP
6 6×6″ sheets (2 of each colour) of Myths & Magic Glimmer Paper

You will also receive a FREE gift from me: 12 6×6″ sheets of Sale-a-bration’s Bubbles & Fizz Designer Series Paper!!

That’s 102 sheets of paper!!

Ribbon Shares

You will get 2 yards of each type of ribbon from Spring Summer 2018 Catalogue:

2 yards of Berry Burst 3/8″ (1 cm) Metallic-Edge Ribbon
2 yards of Lemon Lime Twist 3/8″ (1 Cm) Mini Striped Ribbon
2 yards of Love Mini Tinsel Trim Combo Pack ( 1 yard of each colour)
2 yards of Night Of Navy 3/8″ (1 Cm) Corduroy Ribbon
2 yards of Silver Baker’s Twine
2 yards of Whisper White 1/4″ (6.4 Mm) Organza Ribbon

DSP Share – £25 including UK postage.

Ribbon Share – £10 including UK postage.

DSP & Ribbon Share – £33 including UK postage.

DSP and Ribbon Share – £36 including postage to Austria, France, Germany & The Netherlands

How to reserve your shares?

Fill out the form below to register. I will add you to the share list and send a PayPal invoice to you. Once payment has been made, I will order all shares and send them through.

Reserve your shares now:

The cut-off date for paper shares is 31 January 2018. I will tabulate all of the information and place the order that night based on how many groups of 4 I have. As soon as the paper is received, I will cut the paper, add labels and send it out to you.

Thank you for stopping by and have a blessed day

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26 November 201714 December 2017 ~ Anna Krol ~ Leave a comment

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New Adventure Card For GDP076 Case The Designer Challenge

Image ~ 4 March 201722 February 2018 ~ Anna Krol ~ 4 Comments

Anna’ Stampin’ Cave – New Adventure Card For GDP076 Case The Designer Challenge

Hello and welcome everyone! Today I’m back with my entry for Global Design Project. This week’s challenge is to CASE lovely and talented Kylie Bertucci. And oh, boy! What a brilliant card it is!

Phew, I did it! To be honest I really thought I won’t make it this week. Lately, I’m so exhausted it’s unbelievable. Living with MS alone isn’t easy, but working night shifts on top of that truly wreak a havoc in my body. And even though I only work two shifts per week, sometimes I am so drained I need to recover for a couple of days before I get back on track. Then I have to pick up on things at home that have to be done, spend some quality time with hubby and daughter…and by the time I’m ready to sit down and create, another week roll on…crazy vicious cycle isn’t it haha

But today I woke up with ‘this idea’ that I just had to turn it into a card. So I jumped out of bed, brew myself a cup of chicory coffee, done my Bible reading and sneaked straight into my ‘cave’. I’ve used a really fun technique called ‘layered embossing resist’.

New Adventure Card dimensions:

Daffodil Delight cardstock: 11-6/8″ x 4-1/8″ scored in half at 5-7/8″ (29.7 x 10.5 cm scored in half at 14.8 cm)
Whisper White cardstock: 5-7/8″ x 2-1/2″ (14.8 cm x 6.4 cm)
Pumpkin Pie cardstock: 2 strips 5-7/8″ long and 1/2″ wide approx (14.8 cm x 1.3 cm)
Soft Sky cardstock: 3-1/2″ x 1″ (9 cm x 2.6 cm)
Whisper White Baker’s Twine: 6″

The bright colour combination I’ve used is inspired by this month’s Colour Your World Challenge.

To create this fun background (and a focal point of my card) I decided to use the clusters of leaves from Perpetual Birthday Calendar Stamp Set.

For the first layer, I randomly stamped few clusters of leaves using Versamark ink on Whisper White panel and heat embossed them in clear. Once it’s done, I inked the panel using Soft Sky Ink Pad.

To create the second layer I stamped and heat embossed my leaves in clear again and sponged my panel in Tempting Turquoise. For the last layer, I stamped my leaves in Dapper Denim. Next, I used iron and regular copy paper to remove embossing from the panel.

I added strips of Pumpkin Pie cardstock under my panel and adhered it all to the card base.

The sentiment is from Wild About Flowers Stamp Set. I stamped it in Dapper Denim on a piece of Soft Sky cardstock and cut one of the ends diagonally creating and wrapped white baker’s twine around the other end. I adhered it to the card base with dimensionals.

So this is it from me for today. Very simple card and so different from my usual style, but I quite like it. And I hope you like it too.

As always, I really want to encourage you to visit the Global Design Project challenge blog to see other beautiful projects from all around the world. Just click on their logo below to visit the website

Thank you for stopping by and have a blessed day,

How-To: Partial Die-Cutting To Extend Your Square Dies

Image ~ 22 February 201722 February 2018 ~ Anna Krol ~ Leave a comment

Anna’ Stampin’ Cave – How-To: Partial Die-Cutting To Extend Your Square Dies

Couple of weeks ago I posted on my blog this lovely card and I had an enormous response, and questions on how I turned a square from Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies into the rectangle.

I hoped to post it earlier but as always life got in the way. But finally, I got around to show you how I did it. The technique is called partial die-cutting.

By no means, I didn’t invent this technique. It’s been around for a long time and is usually used to create pop-up elements or intricate borders.

To create a rectangle I took a piece of cardstock and my square die. I’ve used Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies, but you can use any thin square dies for this technique.

I placed the die, with the cutting edge down, on a piece of cardstock. I set the top plate of my cutting sandwich so that is only partially over the die. The portion that is under the top plate is the part that will get cut out. I run it through the Big Shot.

Now I lined up my die with this partially die-cut piece. It’s not difficult at all, as cutting edge of the die slip right into the grove.

And again I placed the top plate so that it’s only partially over the die. Just this time my partially die-cut piece and is on the side that won’t be cut. I run it through the Big Shot.

And voila, you have a stitched rectangle! But as I mentioned before you can use any thin square dies for this technique.

I hope you liked my short ‘how to’ post and that you’ll use this technique to stretch your dies.

Thank you for stopping by and have a blessed day,

Anna' Stampin' Cave

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