Something a bit different for you today it’s a technique called burned batik and makes the most beautiful backgrounds.

First onto a piece of Whisper White card I have stamped the circles in Versamark and clear embossed them.  Normally when you are embossing you stop when the image is glossy and raised, with this technique you continue to heat the embossing powder until it flattens out again.Don’t hold the heat gun too close or you will end up with burnt patches on your card.  You will know when it is heated enough because you will be able to see the images on the reverse of the card.

Then spritz the card with water it needs to form in puddles, use a sponge dauber and a variety of ink pads I have used Chocolate Chip, Rose Red and Taken with Teal.  Dab the sponge daubers over the wet card and the colour will bleed through, once you have an effect you are happy with leave to dry.

I’m back from my holiday in Malta now having had an amazing time, it will take me a day or 2 to catch up with my emails, thank you for being patient!

Happy Stampin’

Amanda

213 posts on this website and not a single scrapbook page………..How odd !

I do Scrapbook, I teach Scrapbooking classes, hold scrapbooking workshops, run and visit crops and yet I have singularly failed to share a page with you. I am going to rectify this today and through next week and show you a variety of pages and some more cards and 3D projects too!

So here goes, when I run a Stampin’ Up! home workshop for a group of scrappers we usually make a 6″ x 6″ page and this week I visited Anna and her friends and we made a chocolate lime page Yum!

I always take a 12″ x 12″ page to show them how they can step it up and this is the larger version.

Tomorrow I have some goodies and cards to show you from my team that I recieved yesterday at our Inspiring Inkin’ Stampin’ Up! team meeting.  We had lots of fun and I gave away so many prizes and awards the team is going from strength to strength, I am so lucky.  If you’d like to find out more about becoming a demonstrator in my team please do email me.

Happy Stampin’

Amanda

Thank you so much to everyone who voted for the Tadley Skate park, it won and now has funding of £50,000, please see previous post for more information.

I wanted to send a card to congratulate Jane and the team and since I had lots of thank you’s to send as well, I had a bit of a mammoth card making session………..Using my current favourite stamp set Circle Circus !

Here are 2 of the cards close up.

Stamps : Wonderful Words, Circle Circus
Inks: Chocolate Chip, Rose Red, Regal Rose
Cardstock: Rose Red, Regal Rose, Very Vanilla, Chocolate Chip

Happy Stampin’

Amanda

2 Projects to inspire you to enter my blog candy giveaway ( see 2 posts down) I love Circle Circus it is such a useful set and it’s wonderful that our punches match it.

This card also uses the mat pack and Crystal effects……..wow lovely stuff!

The note pad I made for the team day it was inspired by the lovely Emma a fellow SU! demo who shared with me a template for a note pad, I tweaked it to make this one.  You can see her original here. I have added an extra cover over the binding and the wonderful eyelet punch on the inside.

That’s all from me today, I have a busy workshop tonight and I’m teaching all day tomorrow so I’ll be back on Sunday with the prize draw, 8pm UK time.

Have a good weekend

Happy Stampin’

Amanda

So what exactly is Blog Candy……..? I was asked this several times on Sunday when I was busy talking to the visitors to the Papercraft show and telling them about my website.  So if you like them don’t know what it is I shall explain, basically it is a giveaway, or free products that someone on a blog or website like this gives you for making a comment on their post or linking to their website.

For my blog candy you have 2 ways to enter, leave a comment on my blog and tell me what your favourite product from the new catalogue is, or for 2 entries link this post on your blog or website and leave a comment too.

To leave a comment, look above to the title and to the right of the date is “comments” click on that link and it will take you to a screen where you can read what other people have said and you can add your own comments.  Remember to link your blog or website too, that will get you an extra entry into the draw.

So what am I giving away?  Well a fantastic new stamp set  Circle Circus

and the most useful accessory of them all, the mat pack and paper piercer.

And  a mixed A4 cardstock pack, you choose the colour family and an ink pad of your choice.

The draw will take place on Sunday evening at 8pm UK time. Good luck.

Happy Stampin’

Amanda

Some more lovely cards to show you today, from Stella, Jane and Vannessa.  Wonderful new stamps, this catalogue is fantastic!

Happy Stampin’

Amanda

Well I finally have some lovely new stamps in my hands, or inky mitts as the lovely Jenny calls them!

This is a card made for my hubby on our anniversary, again with the Sage Shadow, Chocolate Chip and Kraft combination, this time I stamped onto Very Vanilla card as well.

The new stamp set is called Circle Circus and it is wonderful from tiny weeny circles to really bold large circles, fabby!

Stamps : Circle Circus, Best Yet
Inks: Sage Shadow, Chocolate Chip
Cardstock: Sage Shadow, Kraft, Chocolate Chip, Very Vanilla
Accessories: Chocolate Chip Ribbon, 1 1/4″ and 1 3/8″ circle punch

If you would like to order a copy of the new catalogue please email me for payment details, but better still why not get one free? All of my club members get a free copy of each catalogue as it’s launched as do all my hostesses from the previous year at a special event just for them, so why not book a workshop during September or October and get your inky mitts on one!

Happy Stampin’

Amanda