Creation Station Blog Hop - Stampin' Blends

 

 Hello and welcome,

My name is Vicki Boucher, and I am from Melbourne, Australia. This is the latest hop with the design team at Creation Station, if you have come from Yvonne's blog or you may have started with me. Please make sure you hop around and see everyone's amazing projects. I'll pop a link at the end of my blog.

The design team at Creation Station are presenting their projects with the theme Stampin' Blends. Stampin' Up! have a huge range of alcohol coloured markers and they are perfect for adding colour to line art images of people, nature and more. Plus there's a range of natural colours as well as Bronze and Ivory. Blending light and dark to give you depth and you can also remove colour by using the Colour Lifter.

Today's project I've made a Christmas card using the Reindeer Fun bundle (164044) which is located on page 27 of the Stampin' Up! 2024 Sept - Dec Mini Catalogue. I know I'm going to love this bundle. I've only used some of the images from the stamp set and the two reindeers together are so adorable. There's a variety of different dies from the Reindeer Fun Dies to use to decorate your Christmas cards, paper crafts and even scrapbooking. 

For the images of the reindeer, I used Basic Gray ink and stamped onto Basic White Cardstock, Basic Gray is a lot softer than Black ink and it blends in well with Smokey Slate Stampin' Blends. A helpful tip when colouring in the deer is to leave some white space such as the face and use the Colour Lifter to remove some of the gray, especially near the face and ears.

I coloured in the background panel under the white frame die-cut using Pool Party Stampin' Blends both light and dark. Then I added white snowflakes by stamping the images a number of times using Versamark ink, adding White Stampin' Emboss Powder and heat set with the Heat Tool. 

The torn strips of Basic White Cardstock are layered over one another and I added Stampin' Blend Pool Party to create a shadow to the snow.

I die-cut out the holly using Basic White cardstock and then coloured the holly using Pool Party and Petal Pink Stampin' Blends.

Thank you for visiting my blog today, I would so love to hear your thoughts on my project by leaving a comment below. Make sure you pop over to see Barb Pfeffer's Blog for lots of inspiration with her projects.

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Please email me if you would like a copy of the new Stampin' Up! 2024-2025 Annual Catalogue or Mini Catalogue, please contact me here.

Stampin' Up! 2024 Mini Catalogue coming soon.

If you live in Australia and don't have a demonstrator, you can purchase any of the Stampin' Up! products by shopping with me at my Stampin' Up! online store here.

Happy Stamping

Vicki Boucher