Tutu Tuesday & a Tutorial 15 March 2022!

 Welcome back and happy Tutu Tuesday!

How's this gorgeous little number! It's no secret that I love Tutus and there's nothing more fun finding great little numbers that make a many of you smile!

Having selected this little cutie and those gorgeous colours this week, I've created a tutorial using alcohol Blends and 100% Isopropyl & a heat gun onto vellum. Once I had filled the sheet and it was all dry, I added some very fine lines of glue and adhered gold gilding flakes. Glued onto a sheet of basic white card stock so you can really see the results and tada, what a gorgeous background!

PLEASE NOTE: ordinary Isocol does NOT work this technique, you need 100% isopropyl. I bought mine from Bunnings. It is the Diggers brand, 500ml bottle. It comes with a spray top however, as it's a large bottle, I transferred some into a smaller bottle using a pippet.  The air puffer I have I have had for many years. I do believe it's still on the market but you can also get something similar from your local chemist which I think is used for cleaning out ears.  Basically you need something you can easily pump quickly with your hand to blow the isopropyl around your page to help spread the Blends' ink!

 

https://youtu.be/sa0vy7y_RoE 

 

Here are the finished pieces after the video was completed. One more Thanks card and 2 pieces left to create more cards. I added a bit of Magenta Madness to this 2nd background, gorgeous!

 

 

 

So, til next time, remember

happy stamping, colouring & creating!!

 

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White Vellum A4 Card Stock [106584] $17.50	Bermuda Bay Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154878] $15.50	Daffodil Delight Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154883] $15.50
Granny Apple Green Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154885] $15.50	Water Painters [151298] $21.00	Heat Tool [129056] $50.00
Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755] $7.00	Gilded Leafing Embellishment [154560] $15.75	Paper Trimmer [152392] $44.00
Mini Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine [150673] $104.00	Amazing Thanks Dies (English) [157816] $47.00	Basic White A4 Thick Cardstock [159230] $14.25
Basic Black A4 Card Stock [121688] $15.25	Adhesive Sheets [152334] $17.50

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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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Wednesday 16 February 2022!

Well hello strangers!

Yes, I know, it's been a long long time since I've done any blogging.  I've been in a fog of non-creativity for ages but hope I'm coming out of it now.

I'm going to be doing a bit of a revamp of my blog soon and I hope to also have a new section that will have 'Items for Sale' in it.  Retired stamp sets, dies and such will be listed. Sorry, for sale within Australia only though at the moment. 

 I'll leave you with a few photos of creations done over the last few months. I've not been completely craft'less but yeah, it's taken me a while to get back in the swing of it.

Don't forget, you can use the host code for February for all orders under $250au!

'til next time, remember

happy stamping, colouring & creating!

 

Thursday, 11th November 2021, already!!!

Yes, it's been quite some time since I last posted.  Excuses?  Yes there's a fair few.  I've not been very well at all and so much has been going on here at Hampson's Hovel that it'd make your head spin! (no not covid, lupus and a severe skin infection and bit of mental health management too)  Isn't it wonderful how good you can feel with a good haircut and decent glasses too! Not to mention shedding kilos, at least 8 so far, possibly 10, I'll weigh my self next Monday.

We've had covid lockdowns, covid restrictions, building work started then stopped, front & backyards dug up during and then left due to the lockdowns. But finally we are starting to see our little property come back to 'average' coz there ain't no such thing as 'normal' these days around here.  I could share tons of photos. Maybe at the end of this. We had to document a lot of what was happening because quite a lot of our front & back yards were destroyed by the workmen and items from hubby's garden shed vanishing, like shovels, garden hose fittings and such. Not to mention them using his brand new wheel barrow and putting a ruddy great hole in it.  This has not made Herbie (nor Wirgie) happy campers.  We've got our front garden back and now have to be patient for the new trees to grow into hedges and sound barriers.  We've gotten so use to the traffic noise, to a point. But I now sleep with earbuds in coz it is never ending 24/7!!!

Soooooooo in the Stamping' Up! Crafting world, there have been so many new products with more on their way.  I did lose my creative mojo for a while there but it's back with a vengence and this last week or so has seen me make more cards than all of up to September this year included. Got to be happy with that!   Tonight kicks off our next Onstage@Home event.  My swag box arrived a few weeks ago and oh my goodness, this carry tote is one of the best ones I've ever received.  Want to see some of them? Why not visit my Stampin' Up! site here:-

https://wirgie101.stampinup.net/ 

OR my Pinterest board here:- 

https://www.pinterest.com.au/wirgie101/20212020-stampinup-by-wirgie-aka-virginia-hampson/

Here's a look at my Swag Box, courier delivered a few weeks ago no less, from Utah's head office in the USA!

REMEMBER: There is a great sale coming 16th to 18th November 2021 inclusive!  Mark your diaries, put a reminder on your mobile phone. You don't want to miss out on some of the fabulous savings you could make!!

  Till next time,

happy stamping, colouring and creating! 

Monday 20 September 2021, Lockdown Lament!

So here I am again, no blogging or creating since my last post either.

We are still in lockdown in much of Sydney. I've not seen my son and his little family  since early June nor my father and younger sister since then either.  The last time was when we all went to Adelaide for my niece's wedding in early June.

Since then, we've all been thrown into the bloody awful lockdown.  We had a couple of restrictions removed in the last few days but nothing much to party about so to speak.  Our 9pm to 5am curfew was lifted and some other restriction on our LGA (Local Government Area)  here in Blacktown was lifted too. HOWEVER we still can't go more than 5ks from home unless it's for work, going to a medical appointment or something urgent to do with family.  So yeah, we still are stuck at home.  Still have to only have one person go get groceries (I'm still loving Woolworths online!!!!)

Oh well, at least I am becoming a bit of a dab hand at running and attending online Zoom meetings and watching Facebook lives LOL.  I created this lovely canvas recently too.  Took me ages to hand colour all the butterflies then cut each one out individually but I got there in the end.  What do  you think?  I've used a retired designer series paper that was black and white, water colour pencils and lots of bling. Quite happy with it's outcome.

 

So that's all for now.  Remember, the Paper Pumpkin kit " Expressions In Colour" is available now at my online store but remember, it's only whilst stocks last.  It's the perfect extra kit to buy to go with all the beautiful supplies in the Expressions In Ink suite (pages 96 & 97 of the current annual catalogue). 

 

  

 

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Expressions In Ink Suite Collection (English) [155459] $130.75	Artistically Inked Cling Stamp Set [154542] $42.00
Artistically Inked Bundle (English) [155456] $92.50	Expressions In Ink Ephemera Pack [155465] $12.25

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