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Merry Christmas | Happy New Year
Thanks so much for your support in various ways throughout the year, I appreciate you from the bottom of my heart.
Wishing you a very Merry Christmas and a safe and Happy New Year!
May the year ahead be filled with good health, happiness, lots of crafting and blessings.
I will be having a break for Christmas Holidays from 23 December 2022 – 9 January 2023.
My online store will remain open throughout the festive period.
Please come back to visit here on 5 January to get your digital copy of the NEW Mini and Sale-A-Bration Catalogues!
There’s lots of exciting new things coming.
Happy Stamping,
Angela x
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Get your wish lists ready and head to my ONLINE STORE to shop or contact me for help with your order.
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Happy shopping!
Angela
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Water Colour Pencils Technique
Welcome to our Totally Techniques Blog Hop for November!
I’m Angela McFarlane from Gold Coast, Australia.
Each month our team chooses a different technique to feature and this month we will be showcasing the Water Colour Pencil Techniques.
There’s a lot of different ways to use our Stampin’Up! Water Colour Pencils and I’ve chosen to use them on traditional water colour paper. You can vary the shade depending on how much pencil you apply, hence they are fantastic for shading as well as adding lots of different colours to your stamped or die cut images.
Here’s a few tips to keep in mind:
- Don’t over sharpen your pencils
- You can mix colours together, there’s no rules! Get creative and have a play
- The top of the water painters unscrew in the opposite of normal direction.
At the end of my blog please ‘hop along’ to see all the different ideas our talented team have to share with you.
I used the brand new Dainty Delight Bundle for my card, this was available for pre-order as I was able to attend the Sydney Stampin’ Up! OnStage convention.
Step 1Stamp the desired images using Sahara Sand Ink on our Fluid 100 water colour paper.
When I started designing the card I had no idea what the finished product would be like so I stamped all the images that I thought I may use.
Step 2I used both packs of our water colour pencils and coloured all the images, varying the shading, mixing colours and a touch of colour on the stems.
The colour pencils in the photo are the ones I used.
Step 3I used the finest of the water painters to start blending my colours together. You can control the flow by blotting the painter, I didn’t have it too wet.
Some areas such as the stems, I kept dry, no water added at all and others I went over very lightly to soften the look
Step 4All of the coloured images were die cut.
Don’t you just love ❤️️ Stampin’Up!’s co-ordination!
Step 5For the background, I used the Fluid 100 water colour paper. The cloud was die cut and just held in place as a mask.
I applied Balmy Blue colour pencil directly to the widest water painter then brushed this over the paper adding more colour to the brush as needed.
I found it stained the brush a little but that’s ok. I washed it out and then repeated the process with the Granny Apple Green pencil for the lower part of the card front. I just played until I was happy with the result.
Step 6I die cut an image and added a splash of colour to it too, then arranged the rest of my die cuts on the card front.
The flowers were too pretty to cover up, so I didn’t overlap them much nor add ribbon or a large greeting.
The greeting is from the same stamp set and I hand cut it to show as much of the pretty flowers as possible. The greeting and sun are popped up on dimensionals.
This stamp set will be available on 5 January and will be $96.25 AUD for the bundle, this of course will earn you one Sale-A-Bration FREEBIE!!! Yippeee.
I hope you’ve enjoyed this technique and have a play using your water colour pencils in different ways.
Please click on the next link and have a look at what the rest of our talented team has created for this month’s hop and enjoy!
Product used to create this card
Thanks so much for visiting my blog. Have a wonderful and safe Christmas 🎄 🎅 and see you at the end of December.
Happy Stamping,
Angela
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Stamping with aMac October 2022 Craft Retreat
We had our very first three night retreat!
There was a choice of two or three nights and my crafters loved having an extra day night and day to enjoy!
Thanks so much to all of the wonderful crafters who were able to join us! We had a very creative and fun filled event where we shared ideas, hugs, fun, food, drinks and laughter.
To be honest, I’m exhausted but it was worth every minute to create a place for friends to connect and forget about the other ‘stuff’ that we have happening in life.
We had great weather other than the hail storm… but thank God no cars were damaged!
This was a very much needed, and welcome, weekend of fun for many at beautiful Bornhoffen PCYC in the Gold Coast hinterland.
Have a look at what we got up to…
Here’s a glimpse of the beautiful scenery which we are surrounded by at Bornhoffen…
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Now we are ready for a weekend of crafty fun!!!
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Thank you for sharing Jackie.
This Retreat we fundraised for You Have a Friend.
This is a local charity who are 100% not for profit, supporting the homeless, marginalised and single parents/children in the Coolangatta/Tweed district.
We raised an amazing total of $800
The prizes were donated by Stampin’ Up!, Jackie McGee, Jan Howly, Belinda Seaton, Robyn Cavuoto, Marnie P and myself.
Apologies if I missed someone and thank you so much to all of the contributors of the prizes!
There were so many prizes to choose from!!!
I also collected donation cards which I’ll drop of to their Op Shop and they can either donate them or sell them to raise more funds.
My amazing Dazzling Divas Team member Jan Howley, generously created some projects to add to the fundraiser and raised $164, which is included in the tally above.
Thank you Jan.
You are awesome!
I always like to surprise my crafters with little pllow gifts in cute packaging. Here’s what I did for this retreat…
Here’s a few photos of our happy Crafters!
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The Stampin’ Up! mug was a bonus gift to my team members who attended.
Our awesome Dazzling Divas team member Robyn made these special gifts for all of our team who attended.
Thank you Robyn, you are a gem!
How cool is this!!!
One of our crafters was so excited about the retreat that she went the extra mile and found some AMAZING special craft shoes!
Now that’s dedication to ‘card making’…
Here’s just some of the wonderful meals we had. There is always plenty of good food and so many crafters tell me they’ll have to diet after the retreat!
Stamping with aMac Craft Retreat October 2022Breakfast...PXL_20221030_004828966Morning tea...Stamping with aMac Craft Retreat October 2022Dinner...Stamping with aMac Craft Retreat October 2022Dessert...Stamping with aMac Craft Retreat October 2022Dessert...PXL_20221030_030350999Dessert...I had many helpers behind the scenes and with the set up and clean up!
Thank you Laura and Jackie for designing and prepping the bonus make and take projects.
Thank you Maree, Adriana, Elaine and Robyn for behind the scenes prep too!
Thanks Robyn for transporting a heaps of stuff and helping to set up along with Teresa.
Thanks Karen for selling the Raffle tickets.
Thank you so much to ALL of you helping with pack up and clean up!
So much was going on, special shout out for extra help to Anita, Deb, Janet, Denise, Leanne, Robyn, Annette M – you went above and beyond!
Here are some of the thank you gifts I received.
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Save the date for the next retreat which will be happening in 9-12 March 2023… stay tuned for details
Happy stamping,
Angela
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Happy stamping,
Angela
