A Kind Word and water colouring

Hello my stamping friends

Yesterday I did some water colouring, it's always so relaxing, this is what I came up with teaming up Stampin' Up! A Kind Word stamp set with Regal Rose and Kraft card stock.

I coloured the image in using ink pads, Aqua painter and water colour paper.  I then cut it out leaving a narrow white boarder right around and attached it onto the embossed heart with Stampin' Up! Dimensionals

I embossed the heart with the Stampin' Up! Perfect Polka dots Embossing Folder.

 I used Regal Rose 5/8" Grosgrain ribbon for the bow and stamped the Happy Birthday from Teeny Tiny Sentiments which I punched out with the Medium Jewelry Tag Punch.

Here is a closeup of my water colouring.  {Click on image for a better look} ... I guess everyone has a different interpretation of which colours would suit a certain stamp, this is my version :)  ~ Can't live without that Blush Blossom Marker, {Tip: be sure to order your Blush Blossom Reinker so you will be able to reink your Marker when it dries out a little, the Blush Blossom Ink Pad, Reinker and Cardstock will all be discontinued after September 1st.  Most markers in the discontinued colours are going to be great to have for colour variation, shading and depth when colouring with the new colour pallete}

Speaking of discontinuing colours, be sure to order your favourites before they run out.  Stampin' Up! have advised that some of the colours and Papers are no longer available, please do not leave ordering until the last minute, as once stocks are exhausted you will not be able to get them ever again.

I hope you enjoyed my card, I am presently working on a the little kitten stamp from this same set and hope to have the card ready for showing you soon.

Have a great weekend wherever you are :) in this big wide world.

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Two Step Stampin' Promotion is starting today!

Hello all my wonderful stamping friends!! :)

Well I'm finally catching up, we're still up here in wonderful Cairns for a family reunion (Greg's side of the family) and we are all really enjoying the beautiful weather and lovely sunshine.  Greg has gone white water rafting :) with 8 other family members as I am writing this. I stayed back in our Villa with our three children and I do have to say that they are not very happy about this.... as they are deemed as not being "old enough" to  be part of such action packed fun.

We have chartered two fishing boats tomorrow do do some reef fishing. The following day it is already time for us to come home to enjoy one more week of school holidays.  So far we have been swimming, enjoying beautiful sunrises and sunsets, visiting local markets, walking in rain forests and swimming in little streams with waterfalls all around us, going on walks along the beach, enjoying yummy scrumptious food and catching up with Greg's family.

We saw a big tree snake (yes that was scary, he was black and fluorescent green) and was right next to our belongings on the rocks whilst we were swimming in the rain forrest.   He  did head up into a tree (I'll call him a he, as in the animal world it's always the males that have the prettiest colours lol) after he finally camouflaged himself amongst bright green leaves quite a few metres above we were able to get ourselves dressed.  There are so many beautiful butterflies, lots of tree frogs and so many exquisite birds and other wildlife all around us as well, this sure is one place I could visit much more often!

I do want to tell you about the present promotion, it's a Two Step stamping promotion.  You know ~ time to get out that stamp-a-ma-jig and have fun stamping a scene or creating beautiful flowers by stamping petals and leaves separately.

If you have a close look you will see which stamp sets are going to be discontinued when the new Idea Book and Catalogue is launched in September.  So this is a great time to receive a 20% discount on these sets.  This special is for the whole month of July.

I'll be home soon and can't wait to get my fingers inky and catch up with everyone again.
I have quite a few surprises up my sleeve :)  - am planning to hold a lot more classes soon and as I have been receiving a number of requests this last month for card kits by mail I will have these up and running hopefully in a few weeks.  I just have to plan the projects and work out how to add all these functions to my website.  More info on this soon.  In the meantime if you need to contact me you can email me anytime, and I can place orders even from up here in Far North Queensland.

TWO-STEP STAMPIN' PROMOTION Item  Page  Description  Regular Price  Sale Price  116386  39  Loads of Love  $39.95 $31.96  116342  42  Big Bold Birthday**  $53.95  $43.16  115860  78  A Rose is a Rose**  $66.95  $53.56  116332  86  Playful Petals**  $52.95  $42.36  115770  98  Cheep Talk  $47.95  $38.36  115946  115  Wonderful Favourites  $39.95  $31.96  119187  14*  Tiny Tags (wood-mount)  $38.95  $31.16  118592  14*  Tiny Tags (clear-mount)  $28.95  $23.16  119163  31*  Cottage Garden (wood-mount)  $32.95  $26.36  120003  31*  Cottage Garden (clear-mount)  $24.95  $19.96  *From 2010 Autumn-Winter Mini Catalogue **Retiring stamp sets!

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