golf card

Clean & simple  isn't usually my style, but you can't beat it for banging out impressive looking cards, quickly.

I CASEd this from a cute card on Pinterest & made it in minutes.  Buying card, papers & ribbons from the same Stampin' Up! collections (in this case, the 2014-16 In Colors) means you can do that without having to worry if stuff will 'go'.

 

BTW, the golf ball & hole are punched using the small circles from the Owl punch. And the flag is the tip of the Tree punch

 

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Free Blendabilities during Sale-a-Bration

 

This would be a great card to make for someone celebrating exam success. It uses the large Project Life Framelits die as a base. The smaller die fits almost perfectly over the card front, leaving just a thin pop of colour round the border.

 

I coloured the images using Blendabilities pens. They are alcohol based markers and so the ink blends without leaving harsh lines, unlike felt tip type markers. You get 3 pens in a pack, each one a lighter or darker shade of the same tone, which allows you to get the effects of light and shade you can see in the picture. Why, with only a little practice you'd think I'd been drawing Manga for years!!! (Although my 10 year old dryly assures me that, actually, you would not. Actually.)

 

You can earn packs of Blendabilities FREE during Stampin' Up!'s Sale-a-Bration promotion (til 31 March 2015). Spend £45 (excluding p&p) & choose a pack free.

 

You could make a very similar card to this one by buying the stamp set, 2 packs of Blendabilities, and some A4 whisper white card for £45.35, and choosing your 3rd pack of Blendabilities for free (consult the Sale-a-bration brochure for the product codes for the free blendies, as it's different to the one in the main catalogue)

 

(I'd also recommend buying the Memento ink pad if you don't already have it, as alcohol markers don't work well with all inks. And you'll need an acrylic stamping block to mount the stamps, as they are cling mount)

 

 

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Sale-a-bration: final week to get free stuff

Sniffle. Sale-a-bration ends 31 March 2014. 

And while the adorably dinky Banner punch (133519) is set to reappear in the 2014-15 catalogue in July, there are, as yet, no plans to bring back the coordinating Banner Blast stamp set (133554), used in the card above. So this week is your last chance to get your hands on it!

Same goes for the See Ya Later stamp set (133533). I've generally used elements of those stamps rather than whole individual stamps, as you can see in the card above (I don't know ANYONE who I could say "You don't look any older than you did last year" to and keep a straight face! And if I did, people would just assume I was being sarcastic, lol). 

Basic Gray & Real Red inks make for great masculine cards. And of course, the Stamp-a-ma-jig stamp positioner (101049) means you stamp right where you want to, every time. I couldn't have lined up the individual banner stamps without it.

To get free Sale-a-bration items like the Banner punch & stamp sets spend £45 in a single transaction with me before 31 March & choose a free item from the Sale-a-bration catalogue.

Well? What are you still doing here? Chop chop!