Going going ... retirement list

This month our Stampin' Up team have been Farewelling stamps and products from the 2010-2011 Idea Book and Catalogue. A few of us swapped cards with the challenge to use as many retiring products as you can. Here are 4 that I received:

Debra has used Fresh cuts stampset, Occassional greetings and Marina Mist Satin ribbon. 

 Karen has used Great Friend stampset, Sunny Garden DSP, The Designer Label punch, photo corners punch and the Certainly Celery striped grosgrain ribbon.

 Linda has used: The BlueBerry Crisp DSP, Razzle Dazzle stampset and Occasional greetings, Marina Mist satin ribbon, and the also retiring Designer label punch.

 Nerida (stamping joy) used two retiring stampsets: Friends 24/7 and sense of Time AND the Designer label punch. Then because I love this stampset I made another card to celebrate August retirement month.

This card uses The Sense of Time stampset in Pacific Point and black embossing powder.

Now if you are wanting to order any thing from the retirement list just send me an email to nerida_carter@hotmail.com and we will place your order asap.

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The retirement products are going very fast from the wharehouse and the the latest update from Stampin' Up tells me the following items are now no longer available to order:

Garden Whimsy Stamp set [wood-mount] -

(If you are looking for this one I have a "gently-used" set that I will be selling off on 1 September.)

Choo Choo Stamp Set [wood-mount]

Sanded Background Stamp [wood-mount]

Full Calendar Stamp [wood-mount]

Bashful Blue 12" x 12" Card Stock

Rich Razzleberry 12" x 12" Card Stock

Early Espresso 12" x 12" Card Stock

Chocolate Chip 12" x 12" Card Stock

Night of Navy 12" x 12" Card Stock

Marina Mist 12" x 12" Card Stock

Crumb Cake 12" x 12" Card Stock

Antique Brass Jumbo Eyelets

Metallic Eyelets

Pewter Jumbo Eyelets

Photo Corners Punch

Spiral Punch

Star Punch

Small Oval Punch

Say Goodbye... 2010 Idea book Caty

The Stampin' Up 2010-2011 Idea Book and Catalogue finishes at the end of August and to that means that the Retirement list is available.

There are some exciting Bargain priced products on the list.

But these bargains are only available until 31 August or till stocks run out.

The jumbo eyelets and the spiral punch are already out of stock!!!

Bargains like these:

40% off Gifted stampset (page21)

40% off Jolly Holiday Designer series paper

25% off many other products

Email me nerida_carter@hotmail.com or give me a call to place your order, as items on this list have begun to run out already.

Last 4 days of the Spring mini catalogue ....

I have that sense of time is running out, days slipping by, a sad but sweet farewell is in the air...
Just reminding you that at the end of this month we say good bye to all the gorgous products in the Stampin' up Spring mini ....

Did you love the oval scallop punch? and Flower brads?The white stazon ink?The too die for Parisian breeze textured cover weight papers that ooh, la la french tole pattern?Forest friends with Bambi, thumper, wise old owl and the tree?The real red, Old Olive, baja breeze and chocolate chip of Ski slope papers? Great friend butterflies flitting across a field of grass... perhaps never to be seen again?
I will be placing an order at the end of the week... is there anything you've forgotten or wished for?
Phone through (4329 2999) or email me (nerida_carter@hotmail.com) if you have to have anything from the Spring mini before Summer arrives.

Time for another Elite challenge sketch?

I quite enjoy a challenge ... I am not the competetive type, I just like to set a problem and solve it in a creative way. Sometimes I succeed and others well it's a matter of opinion.

This technique is known as collage - where you use several stamps and layer them on top of one another, in a pleasing way. I wanted to use the soft subtles colour family (for inspiration) on this one. Though, ended up using only Perfect plum, a dash of So saffron and Pink pirouette from the in-colours with black and white as my neutrals.

Now what was the challenge?

To make a card using the same design as the card on page 12 of the mini spring catalogue.

I have used the sense of time stampset (from page 16 of the spring caty).

The main part of this sketch is that cute cut out circle for the ribbon to tie into and the little brad/flower above it. At first the brad looked like this: Not very exciting so I added some Crystal effects and superfine glitter and gave it a sparkly centre.
I trimmed the ribbon and used small saffron brads to hold down the cardstock. They seem to suit the mechanical workings of the clock and the little flower brad looks a bit like a cog?
The sentiment is timeless: Learn, Live and hope ... for tomorrow.

Father's day Card - Sense of Time.

Tomorrow is father's day. I started this card on Tuesday night and finally completed it on Saturday morning... Really, it started out a very simple embossed image of the clock face from the sense of time stampset. I decided to put it on a layer of crimped almost artichoke cardstock. Which I then wiped over with my chocolate chip ink pad which gives it that lovely rusted corrogated iron look. Some might call it a textural layer ... Next I wanted to put some "metal" on there for my heavy metal loving friends. (aka: blokes). That's the pewter jumbo eyelet on the right handside.


The sentiment: to my Wonderful father is from "wonderful favourites" stampset. It is a very versatile stampset for all your different family, (including inlaws, step-, cousins, grand, and favourite friend greetings. This one is not really a father's day card. It could just as easily be a birthday card for dad in a few months time. This was stamped on vellum with whisper white craft ink and layered again over the crimped "corrogated" cardstock. I embellished a bit further with my matt pack to make a row of holes above and below the sahara sand cardstock layer.

Then stamped and cut out the watch-cog image and placed it on dimensionals at the bottom. To finish it off I got out the crystal effects and covered the small "seconds-dial" at the bottom of the clock with it (to simulate glass) and the cogs at the bottom.

To make this card you will need:
Stampset: Sense of time (spring mini catalogue) ($39.95)
Wonderful Favourites (set of 23 stamps on page 115 of the IB&C) ($39.95)
Cardstock: Close to cocoa, sahara sand, almost artichoke, chocolate chip, vellum.
Ink: VersaMark, chocolate chip, whisper white craft.
Tools and accessories: jumbo eyelet, crop-a-dile, silver embossing powder, heat gun, crimping tool, matt pack and awl, Crystal effects and corner rounder.

Definitely a male card, or perhaps retirement card...

Here is another male card with the sense of time stampset... I just love the wood blocks and rubber stamping - it is all about a sense of time ... and occasion.

Here I am again, with the same stampset as yesterday, still embossing but on one layer of chocolate chip cardstock, no sponging - I was going for the clean and elegant.
Here is a close up of the clock with silver embossing.

Dont you just love that embossed look? This card is definitely a masculine card.

What says masculine? The Metalic silver embossing, black and kraft coloured patterned paper, with sahara sand, close to cocoa and chocolate chip cardstock. The ribbon is wide double stitched grosgrain with two small silver brads around the sentiment.

The sentiment reads:
"An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth" - I need that kind of wealth.

I was rich with it once, but it tends to elude me ... the last time I remember having that sense of time going slowly and pleasantly, it was quarter to three on a Tuesday afternoon, and I had to leave my half drunk glass of champagne, my waiting cup of coffee and cake and race to pick up my daughter from school...

I have only used the two stamps of the four in this set. Keeping it simple with the patterned monochromatic DSP from the Urban garden paper pack on a close to cocoa background.

Male card - sense of time

This set is just so versatile: male cards, vintage looks, embossing and scrapbooking pages are just waiting to be created all inspired by this one set of stamps and I haven't even used the words and quote on this card. I have embossed the clock face on whisper white cardstock using versamark and clear embossing powder. Stamped the cogs over the top in close to cocoa and sponged with creamy caramel ink. The pumpkin pie coloured layer has been run through the crimper (for that corrugated iron look). I resisted sponging it, but perhaps I should have? The next layer is chocolate chip with white embossing of the cogs stamp and a jumbo pewter eyelet with two ribbons knotted in the corner.Materials:
Stampsets: sense of time, A little birthday cheer.
Cardstock: whisper white, pumpkin pie, chocolate chip, close to cocoa.
Ink: versamark, white craft, creamy caramel, close to cocoa, pumpkin pie.
Tools and accessories: embossing powder clear and white, crimper, pewter jumbo eyelet, crop-a-dile, kraft tafetta ribbon, chocolate chip grosgrain ribbon.

Sense of time - embossing resist

Its wet raining and very grey outside, I had plans of going out, but the traffic and wet roads has put me off the idea.
Well, that means more time to share my latest creations with you...This is the lovely stampset: Sense of time. It lends itself beautifully to experimenting with embossing, sponging, and collage effects. I have stamped all of these clock faces with versamark and clear embossing powder onto whisper white cardstock. then used my sponge daubers in a variety of coloured inks to give a kind of vintage clock face look. On the first ones I used pink pirouette with creamy caramel and close to cocoa ink. The next two have centres of kiwi kiss, with creamy caramel and close to cocoa. These two are a mixture of the above and to blend the colours I spritzed them lightly with water to let the colours blend on the paper, blotting them dry with paper towel. I sponged the edges with choc chip ink for some extra definition. Once finished I over stamped with the background stamp Tres Chic. It gives a collage effect and I like how the word family and inspiration runs across each face ... creating family time.

An unhurried sense of Time for another bookmark...

"An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth" - Bonnie Friedman.
A thought provoking quote, I think, for someone who likes to read ...
This is another bookmark or pagekeeper. It would make a lovely gift don't you think.
I have used a brand new stampset from stampin' up called: Sense of Time.
This was made up very quickly so the stamping is quite simple in close to cocoa, chocolate chip and swiped around the edges with my creamy caramel ink pad.This is the other side: I have stamped the smaller clock onto a very vanilla circle, layered it with a scallop circle (in kiwi kiss) and attached it to the book mark with a silver brad.
There are four stamps in this set - I've only used two of them, so I will have to make up a card to show you the other ones.
I can see this will be a great set for scrapbooking both vintage style and for anything relating to time: play time, family time, school time, learning the time, time for me, male pages and cards, grandfathers, baby time ...I have edged the bookmark with a strip of kiwi kiss cardstock using the eyelet border punch.
So many stamps and so little time...
On Saturday 1st of August the new mini catalogue is available to view on the stampin' up customer's website. Look for it tomorrow -
And, if you would like a hardcopy of the new mini please email me with your address and phone number (if I dont already have it) and I will post, or deliver one to your door.
Email me at: nerida_carter@hotmail.com