Colouring Ribbon Tutorial 11 March 2022

Hello and welcome to a new tutorial at last! I know, it's taken me ages to get back into the swing of things but I hope to have more newer tutorials soon and a bit more regularly too.

This Fabulous Friday at 5'o'clock (FFAF'ish!) shows you how you can change plain white ribbon into a colourful piece to be used on handmade cards and scrapbooking pages.   

 

In the past I have shown you all how I dye ribbons using rubbing alcohol mixed with reinkers then heat set with my heat gun. 

You'll find that tutorial here... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ad7QV46RLGg

These next photos show previously hand coloured ribbons and a finished card using them.  PLEASE NOTE: items used in this card are retired therefore no longer available to purchase but there are many other products available you can substitued what I've used to create with!

This time I'm using Stampin' Write markers which are dye based markers. 

Years ago I showed on an old blog how I did this however we no longer have that same width ribbon so I'm using the 1/4"/6.4mm wide crinkled white seam binding. If you have wider white ribbon, give it a go using it. I know some of us still have some that width though it's been retired by Stampin' Up! for some time now.

All you will need are the ribbon, a water brush or mini spritzer with water in it, a few colours of Stampin' Write markers that will blend well together.  A heat tool if you want to dry your ribbon faster as well. Yup, that simple.  Sit back and watch me blunder through my first video demo in ages.  Bare with me as I've new software as well so am also getting use to that too.

And here's a creation made using Basic White Note cards for the base & envelope, Basic White layer stamped using Blushing Bride, Gray Granite & Cinnamon Cider ink pads, Stampin'Write markers and stamp sets Artfully Layered & Hello Ladybug (sentiment stamp). 

Don't forget to decorate your envelopes & inside your cards!

til next time, remember,

happy stamping, colouring & creating!

Product List

Whisper White 1/4" (6.4 Mm) Crinkled Seam Binding Ribbon [151326] $13.00	Neutrals Stampin' Write Markers [147158] $52.50	Subtles Stampin' Write Markers [147156] $52.50
Basic White Note Cards & Envelopes [159232] $12.25	Blushing Bride Classic Stampin' Pad [147100] $13.00	Gray Granite Classic Stampin' Pad [147118] $13.00
Cinnamon Cider Classic Stampin' Pad [153114] $13.00	Hello Ladybug Photopolymer Stamp Set (English) [157693] $32.00	Artfully Layered Cling Stamp Set (English) [157752] $42.00
Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755] $7.00

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Fabulous Fridays @5'o'clock'ish, 14thMay2021!

 Welcome back to another Fabulous Fridays at 5'o'clock'ish, known as FF@F'ish to many!

I'm so sorry it's been such a long time since posting anything new, like I've mentioned before, life happens and it's been a long road to wellness and stability for me since last July.  I'm happy to say I've been working my way through many issues, one of the major ones being nearly loosing my life last year due to my dodgy heart.  I have the all clear from my cardiologist for 6 months now and the pacemaker clinic for 12 months. Yay no more visits to Blacktown Hospital for 12 months. That was one of my triggers to unhappiness and panic.  I've never had good experiences in that hospital and never want to end up there in emergency ever again.  Thank goodness for health insurance and my beautiful hubby's well paying employment!

Anyway, on with some show and tell with a little video tutorial to boot!

Stampin' Up!'s new annual catalogue is well and truly out there for all to see.  Have you seen it? No?  Well if you want to see it in PDF format, take yourself over to this link here and browse on your big computer screen, it's gorgeous!

 https://www.dropbox.com/s/46bvxvbe8zcaim1/2021_NewAC_21-22_en_SP.pdf?dl=0

 

Want to see Sara & Shelli take a tour through it?  Have a look at this clip here, it's nearly 20 minutes so you might want to grab a cuppa first! 

Aren't there some amazing new products!  As I type I am awaiting a delivery. I couldn't wait to share with you one particular product so I have made a tutorial video using supplies I have here already. I'm not showing  you on screen what brand I have used but I have attempted to use as close to the Stampin' Up! colours as I possibly can.  I hope you like this tutorial, it's one I've been doing for many years, even before Stampin' Up! came to Australia. It never gets old and it will always delight in it's results!   Let's go.....

Colouring in with the New Soft Pastels by Stampin' Up!

 

So I finished the card as you can see below.  A couple of other tips, brush a sponge dauber over the pastels to pick up the chalk and blend on for a nice soft background. I did this with the darker blue (Night of Navy shade) to get a soft background.  I then picked up some of the same colour with my blender pen and edged the whole piece of Fluid 100 water colour paper. I've layered on to Night of Navy cardstock that has been die cut out using the new Scalloped Contour Dies.  This die set can be purchased as a bundle with the Colour & Contour Stamp set for 10% off.   I coloured my pearls using the dark Night of Navy Blends alcohol ink marker too.  Little piece of White polka dot ribbon under the sentiment, done!  Please see the links within the list below of all products used.

 

Thank you for stopping by today. I hope to have a lot more ideas, tutorials and shares once my delivery has arrived.  It's nice to be back!  So until next time, remember

happy stamping, colouring & creating!

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  Product List

Soft Pastels Assortment [154585] $15.75	Blender Pens [102845] $21.00	Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper [149612] $15.75
Color & Contour Bundle (English) [158356] $88.00	Basic White A4 Thick Cardstock [159230] $14.25	Night Of Navy A4 Card Stock [106577] $15.25
Sponge Daubers [133773] $9.00	Night Of Navy Classic Stampin' Pad [147110] $13.00	Pearl Basic Jewels [144219] $8.75
Night Of Navy Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154891] $15.50	Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine [149653] $209.00	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] $6.00
Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755] $7.00	Whisper White 5/8" (1.6 Cm) Polka Dot Tulle Ribbon [146912] $13.00

Happy New year 2021!!!

 Welcome to 2021!

I trust you all had a lovely Christmas & new year.  It was a quiet one here in Sydney, Australia.  Covid19 has kept a lot of places either closed or restricted in their allowed attendee numbers.

We were able to visit my father & sister on Christmas day for lunch, as well as catch up with our son, Ben, DIL, Kat & grandson Aiden in the morning too.  We totally adored Aiden's reaction to us giving him and his parents new fishing rods.  You'd think that 5yr old was born with a fishing rod in his hands. He had it unpacked, put together and pretending to use it like a pro!

We had the Christmas we wanted, nice & quiet.  Hubby has time off this year so we are doing just day trips here & there finding new place to eat at. Though we've found the Tate's Hotel in Windsor which is about a 1/2 hour drive from us.  Been there twice now for lunch and my goodness, both times I've not been able to finish my meal. They give you huge portions.  Thank goodness for the new air fryer I bought hubby for his birthday mid December.  I brought home my left overs and bingo, 5 minutes and those chips were hot & crispy and my chicken parmi was nice and hot again without being dried out.  I totally recommend this air fryer. It does a lot more than those ones that just have the drawer that pulls out with a basket in them.

Here's a photo of the one I bought.  It has 3 shelves, a rotisserie and you can dehydrate foods in it too.  No need for heating first either, love it. The days of fried foods are now gone in the Hampson's Hovel!!!  It's by Kitchen Corture.

 

I got it from Harvey Norman online and it was delivered in 48hrs, fabulous!  I thought it would be huge on our kitchen bench but it takes up hardly any space at all!

 So, what's new with Stampin' Up!????  The Mini catalogue is now live as is the Sale-A-Bration flyer.  Remember, when you purchase $90AU or more you automatically get to choose a free item from the SAB flyer.  Who doesn't love freebies!

I have to say this new mini catalogue is so very beautiful.  Just the Fine Art & Love You Always Suites of products alone are enough to make a girl drool!  Check out pages 10 to 14 and 32 to 34 for all those gorgeously pretty products.  I've made a few creations using a few of the new items. I'll leave you with some photos!

 

I also absolutely love the new stamp & die bundle, Simply Succulents on page 39.  I've coloured them in this card below using Blends. And see that lovely textured background?  It's a new 3D embossing folder called Painted Texture from the Fine Art Bundle.  I've swiped Coastal Cabana onto one side of the folder before placing my white card stock in it and running it through the new Stampin Cut & Emboss machine.  Wonderful texture!!!

Til next time, remember,

happy stamping, colouring & creating!

TuTu Tuesday, 17th November 2020!

 Hello lovely people! 

Welcome to a new Tutu Tuesday. Whilst this isn't a tutorial as such, it is an unboxing of something I feel everyone will find very easy and satisfying to make.

Firstly though, can't forget a Tutu can we, and in a bit of a Christmas Colour theme too!

This is a Christmas themed Paper Pumpkin Kit, Joy to the World.  This kit is available only whilst stocks last.  You get enough in the kit to make 8 beautiful Christmas cards and it includes matching lined envelopes too!  You will see that it includes a polymer stamp set that you will have for many years of stamping too!

Let's watch!

 

 

Want to purchase this kit?  You will find it in my store right now! The only extra thing you will need is and acrylic block. You will need one approx 7.5cm square.

 

so, til next time, remember

happy stamping, colouring & creating!

Product List

Joy To The World Paper Pumpkin Kit (English) [155876] $37.00

Clear Block E [118484] $20.00

FF@5'o'clock, 13 November 2020!

 Welcome everyone

This week I'm sharing a few things from last weekend's Live OnStage At Home Stampin' Up! event.  We had such a wonderful time and got to order Product Purchase Premier items before the weekend was even over!  Needless to say I did order a few new products AND they were delivered in record time on Monday!  Only attendees could place orders so we were in for a real treat.  I've already christened a few of my products as you will see below.  The catalogue is going live 5th January 2021 so you won't be seeing a lot until we are closer to the release date. But we sure are allowed to share what we were able to buy early!

There were make & takes to create together online, prizes and loads of inspiration from creating to selling to encouragement & building up each other as well as our Stampin' Up! teams.  Prior to the event when we booked to attend we could also buy 'Swag"  That is merchandise no one else can purchase!  We got this fabulous tote bag, rainbow pens, pins we can swap with other demos if we wanted to, note books, stickers, limited edition grid paper made just for this event and we all received a beautiful stamp set called Enjoy the Moment which will be in the Mini catalogue coming 5th January. 

Thursday evening was opening night with all kinds of awards being presented.  And what wouldn't a Stampin' Up! event be with out some live entertainment to begin.  We were in for such a treat.  No other than Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo!  How blessed were we!  It was fabulous!  Sorry, we are not allowed to share anything live so you'll have to make do with this screen shot!

 

I created this lovely card whilst watching different presenters too. I used the stamp set we were sent in our swag boxes, Enjoy the Moment...

 

 

These next cards are the three 'make & takes' we made with pre-ordered new products that we ordered prior to the weekend. They will also be in the new mini catalogue! 

 

 

 

My PPP Order from the weekend (Product Purchase Premier) arrived so fast my head was spinning.  Only Onstage attendees can order these new products.  All other demos who didn't attend have to wait until next month to be able to pre-order anything from the new January 2021 to June 2021 mini catalogue. Customers can order from 5th January 20201.  Want to be able to order earlier?   Then why not join my Team, you can sign up here...

 

 

http://www.wirgie101.stampinup.net?dbwsdemoid=4018575

 

This next card I have created using a new stamp set that I feel is going to be really popular. It also has a matching set of dies too, Simply Succulents Stamps, Potted Succulents Dies and wait for it, a new amazing 3D embossing folder that resembles and is called Textured Paint. I love it!

 

 

I stamped my Coastal Cabana ink pad all over one side of this new embossing folder before I inserted whisper white card stock, ran it through my new Stampin' Cut N' Embossing machine. Fabulous effect.  I stamped the large succulents stamp, the pot and the small succulent stamp in Tuxedo Black Memento ink then hand coloured the images using an assortment of Stampin' Blends.  I have a few of these plants in my gardens so I think I've managed to get the colouring quite matching!  The small succulent stamp I stuck to my envelope.  We all know you just can't have naked envelopes!

 

So that's all for this week, I hope you like the look of what I've shared.  I know it's a little while away but believe me it's worth the wait.  This mini catalogue is so very very pretty. Are you a fan of florals?  Then don't miss getting this catalogue.   If you have placed a $60+ order with me in the last six months and want this catalogue along with the Sale-A-Bration catalogue, then let me know and I'll have them sent to you.  

(Australian residents only I'm sorry)

til next time, remember

happy stamping, colouring & creating!